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To: trendmastr who wrote (17248)	7/20/1998 9:06:00 PM
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To "gamproff's" point- repost from 10/97: << COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1997--QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC - news) and Ancor Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:ANCR) have joined forces to showcase the ability of Fibre Channel to support remote-storage and clustering communications without impacting host-software compatibility or performance. At COMDEX the two companies will demonstrate public loop interoperability using QLogic's industry leading QLA2100 64-bit PCI-to-Fibre Channel host adapter, and Ancor's GigWorks MKII Fibre Channel switch. The products have already been successfully demonstrated at the Networld Interop trade show earlier this month, and will be demonstrated again at Fall COMDEX on Nov. 17-21, 1997 in the FCLC suite, room N250. The QLA2100 interfaces with the Ancor switch through a Fibre Channel public loop using an FL-port connection. This configuration enables the QLA2100 to concurrently communicate with both local and remote Fibre Channel devices through a Fibre Channel fabric. All communications occur at a sustained Fibre Channel data transfer rate of up to 100 Mbytes/sec. ''This demonstration further illustrates the cost-effective viability of Fibre Channel today,'' said Larry Fortmuller, vice president and general manager of QLogic's Computer Systems Group. ''Our high-performance QLA2100 adapter board is an ideal choice for high-performance, high-bandwidth Fibre Channel fabric applications.'' ''This demonstration shows real-world application solutions running transparently through our GigWorks MKII switch,'' said Ken Hendrickson, Ancor chairman and chief executive. ''By demonstrating interoperability with products such as QLogic's Fibre Channel adapter, we are showing that Fibre Channel switch technology is not just a laboratory concept, but a robust, cost-effective reality.'' ''The QLogic QLA2100 is one of the highest performing Fibre Channel public loop host adapters we have tested to date,'' added Hendrickson. QLogic is the winner of an American Electronics Association 1997 Innovation in Technology Award for pioneering the industry's first fully integrated single-chip Fibre Channel controller, the ISP2100. Targeted at high-performance storage and clustering applications, the ISP2100 supports all service classes and combines a 64-bit PCI host interface (fully backward compatible with 32-bit PCI systems), RISC processor, Fibre Channel protocol engine, dedicated transmit and receive frame buffers, and 100 Mbytes/sec Fibre Channel serial transceivers into an integrated, single-chip design. The QLA2100 integrates the ISP2100 chip onto a PCI half-size card which sustains data rates in excess of 95 Mbytes/sec and I/O execution rates approaching 10,000 I/Os per second. The on-board intelligence enables entire I/O operations to be completed without host-system intervention (no more than one host interrupt is generated per completed I/O), substantially reducing host-CPU utilization. The QLA2100 supports software drivers for all major operating systems and is fully compliant with the I20 specification. Related QLogic products have already been publicly demonstrated running the Microsoft Wolfpack clustering solution for Windows NT. The QLA2100 began production shipments in August of this year. About QLogic Corporation QLogic Corp. is a leading designer and supplier of semiconductor and board-level I/O products. The company's products provide high-performance interface connections for computer systems and their attached data storage peripherals, such as hard disk and tape drives, CD-ROM drives and RAID subsystems. QLogic provides I/O technology solutions by designing and marketing single-chip controller and adapter board products for both sides of the computer/peripheral device interlink, or ''bus''. Historically, the company has targeted the high-performance sector of the I/O market, focusing primarily on the SCSI standard. The company is utilizing its I/O expertise to develop products for emerging I/O standards such as Fibre Channel, which is experiencing early industry acceptance as a higher performance solution that maintains signal integrity while allowing for increased connectivity between a computer system and its data storage peripherals.>> tm