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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (18540)	10/13/1998 2:05:00 AM
From: Kerry Lee	Respond to of 29386

OT: INRANGE Article: informationweek.com October 12, 1998 Inrange Streamlines Mainframe Communication Technology requires fewer fiber-optic lines for high-speed connections By Martin J. Garvey Inrange Technologies Corp. this week will ship technology to let mainframe customers read and write data between data centers with much less cabling, increasing efficiency and reducing costs of legacy systems. The Director Multiple Interface Facility port card brings switching capabilities to dedicated fiber-optic lines between geographically separated mainframes. Customers can snap the DMIF card into the Inrange CD/9000 Channel Director that's already between the cabling and the mainframe and manages the Escon high-speed mainframe interconnect technology. Each DMIF interface supports four director port addresses, effectively converting one line into four and reducing the number of fiber-optic connections needed. The interfaces move data at 25 Mbps. Each address requires two fiber-optic lines on each side of a connection. When the DMIF interface is combined with Inrange's Wave Division multiplexer, one fiber-optic line can replace 32 existing lines. The Wave Division multiplexer uses eight different signal inputs, pushing more information through a single pipe, expanding the capacity of the DMIF from four channels to 32. The technology cuts costs significantly because each fiber-optic line rents for $3,000 per month, says Paul Williams, a product marketing manager for Inrange, formerly General Signal Networks. A large customer could spend $1 million on these connections. The DMIF card and the Wave Division multiplexer start at less than $250,000. Williams says customers can also increase the amount of traffic that goes across existing fiber, adding applications that previously weren't critical enough to share between sites.

To: KJ. Moy who wrote (18540)	10/13/1998 7:33:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Respond to of 29386

KJ, I think the general consensus is that this is the best Ancor press release to date. On the mainframe topic, are existing storage devices SCSI with some sort of ESCON interface? If so, they must want to move to Fibre Channel because of the increased performance, simplified cabling, and increased distance capability. I printed and reviewed Mercury's SANergy information from their web site. Wow! That's the missing link for shared file access in the NT, Mac, and UNIX worlds. Now if they only supported NetWare. I sure hate to give Bill Gates (and Ed Schultz) any more of my money. <g> Craig