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To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (18335)	10/1/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Craig, I also did not understand the comment: "The next wave [in I/O] will be switched fabrics. They should replace buses." I think they could only be referring to servers with a lot of processors. The big advantage to an FC switch of course - at least from the Silkworm-CERN test is that it adds no latency to the system. I suppose you could move it upstream into the server, in the place of a bus - but why would you want to? You only need scaling at that point if you have a large number of processors, but I guess you could also cluster I/O devices at that point. The FC people really need to jump on this - and from past posts here they seem to be aware of it. If the switch and adapter speeds/latencies can get better, I think the market will more readily accept an FC solution rather than a proprietary solution. If memory serves me correctly, the solution mentioned in paragraph 9, sounds like the solution from Tandem, which was acquired by Compaq. George