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To: George Dawson who wrote (17455)	7/27/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Lhn5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Craig, I doubt that ANCR management is unhappy with you as much as they 'feel your pain'. My impression is that you should not hesitate to call them and discuss all these issues. I thinnk yuo would be recieved well and it may help all of us. If you are not received appropriately, that would tell us somehting too.

To: George Dawson who wrote (17455)	7/28/1998 1:36:00 AM
From: janski	Respond to of 29386

"I think the most straightforward way to do this is to send a switch to CERN. Let them test it with the latest high performance adapters and post the results like they did with the Silkworm." Yes, Why are they not willing to have the results posted?

To: George Dawson who wrote (17455)	7/28/1998 7:23:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Respond to of 29386

George, I agree with you that a MKII should be sent to CERN, or some other independent testing lab, and Ancor should let the results be published. If the switch is as good as we think it is, it should be able to stand up to the rigors of testing. If there are some shortcomings, this would expose them, and they could be improved. I probably didn't explain this very well, but one concern I had when I visited Ancor was that their main conference room didn't have any equipment to speak of. There were a couple of switches, but they were crude, prototype ones. I was expecting a brand new MKII, hooked to a bunch of devices that were showing what it could do. (There were new MKII's elsewhere in the building, but not in the conference room.) I agree that direct competition with the other GE startups may not be wise, but a bridge device of some sort will be necessary to support legacy systems. The problem is that there may not be enough volume to pay for the development costs. Even so, if Ancor produced such a device, it would demonstrate that they had the capability in-house to develop GE products. I agree that Ancor should have an advantage when the market starts needing big switches. I just wish the market would get here quickly. <g> Craig