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To: Kerry Lee who wrote (18126)	9/21/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Craig Stevenson	Respond to of 29386

Kerry, I read the same article a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to post it. The enhancement of the PCI bus is indeed a key part of Fibre Channel's future. (It helps Gigabit Ethernet too.) I/O bottlenecks in the PCI bus severely limit the throughput capability of modern servers. The interesting point to me is that only gigabit adapters would require more bandwidth than is currently available, and the two most likely candidates would be Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. It seems clear to me that SOMETHING is pushing the envelope, and I think it is a combination of Gigabit Ethernet on the LAN side, and Fibre Channel on the SAN side. This reminds me of the old video card bandwidth battles. The ISA bus was fine until computers got faster, and more horsepower was placed on the video card itself. Then, the VESA Local Bus came along to speed up video transfers. After that it was PCI, and then AGP. I can see the same type of thing happening now with PCI-X. The difference this time is that video isn't pushing the envelope. It's DATA! Data from Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Once the server bottlenecks have been addressed, we should see rapidly increasing adoption of gigabit protocols. Craig