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To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (17807)	8/26/1998 10:43:00 AM
From: Fang Li	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

What happened today? It seems that everyone finished their selling yesterday.

To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (17807)	8/26/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: Greg Hull	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

Craig, My impression of the difference between a channel protocol and a network protocol is that there is no contention for media access in a channel protocol. Is my understanding correct? One of the liabilities of ethernet is that it is non-deterministic, unlike say 802.4. For this reason ethernet has never been considered reliable enough for process control (petroleum refineries, etc.) However, it is now being proposed in conjunction with a switched ethernet network. I've been led to believe that switched ethernet allows deterministic media access. I have not read the article in NWFusion that you and George have been discussing, but it seems to a casual observer (me) that with ethernet spreading like kudzu or killer bees into new areas that GE could take over the SAN in short order. How is a SAN with a GE switch inferior to a SAN with an FC switch? Greg