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To: FR1 who wrote (28516)	7/6/1998 12:31:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Franz - For whatever reason, the industry has adopted the British spelling - Fibre for this technology. The basic configuration is fibre-channel arbitrated loop (FCAL) which allows gigabit per second (100 MByte per second) transmission at distances up to 10 KM (10,000 meters). SCSI, by comparison can go 3 meters (single ended) or 6 meters (differential) at 80 MByte per second rates. So FCAL gives a big edge for large distributed disk farms and a slight edge in absolute bandwidth. But FCAL is a lot more expensive than SCSI, harder to install, and is also pretty new so there will still be some shakeout in how it is finally implemented. For most users I would recommend sticking with SCSI for at least another year, when FCAL and direct Fibre device costs will start to drop. This is bleeding edge technology at the moment.