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To: jad who wrote (17916)	9/2/1998 12:42:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

jad, Thanks for the link. Ancor is mentioned in both the technical and manufacturing section of the article. The details of using FC for movie production are given. George D.

To: jad who wrote (17916)	9/2/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

HPCwire news this week: Fore acquired the GE startup Berkeley Networks for $250M. They expect to have GE/ATM interfaces early next year. The fibre channel community has formed a work group to try to promote FC as a clustering technology: fcloop.org George D.

To: jad who wrote (17916)	9/2/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Greg Hull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

To all: The link supplied by JAD included the following: rtcgroup.com The higher-power lasers are most often accompanied with handshaking control circuitry (required for safety purposes), which low-power lasers do not generally have; thus, there is incompatibility. Also, lasers operating at different wavelengths cannot generally be used in a given application. The designer must also choose fiber optimized to the operating laser's wavelength. Future use of opticalwavelength-division multiplexers (DWMs), relatively new devices that are fast being applied throughout the long-haul elecommunications network, may ultimately address the aforementioned power and wavelength constraints. Does anyone here have a feel for the applicability of DWDM and erbium doped fiber amplifiers to FC fabrics and switches? I'm guessing that throughput on the fiber would increase as well as the distance between devices and the switch. Could FC switches handle the 16, 40, 80 or 96 channels talked about for telecommunications? Would additional wavelengths on the fiber require a faster backplane or faster ASICs? As usual, I'm all questions and no answers. Anybody out there have a feel for this? Greg