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To: joe who wrote (788)	10/31/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

joe You mentioned 3 com. I have been following the evolution of SANs and on Monday 3COM will become the first networker to be selling a SAN lineup......... News in advance: 3Com to Jump Into Storage Market INTERNETWEEK - Wednesday, October 28, 1998, 9:30 a.m. ET. Reflecting the growing interest in storage area networks (SANs), 3Com Corp. on Monday will take the wraps off a series of products and services geared to supporting the burgeoning data storage market. 3Com is the first networking vendor to attempt to stake a claim in the SAN marketplace--which until now has been the domain of storage and server vendors. The supplier said its experience with LAN and WAN development, and the components needed to mesh LANs and WANs with SANs, will help it woo customers in a hotly competitive market. SANs--100-megabyte-per-second Fibre Channel networks whose sole purpose is to lash storage devices in a loop separate from the data network--are being eyed by an increasing number of IT managers as a solution to their escalating data storage requirements. The 3Com SAN approach, dubbed StorageConnect, consists of three components, centered around products, a compatibility program, and sales and support. The line of products will initially include a host bus adapter, a line of hubs and switches and a network management suite that will dovetail with 3Com's Transcend software application. The adapters, hubs and switches will be manufactured by a third party, whose identity 3Com declined to disclose. The compatibility program will include storage devices and apps that have been tested by 3Com to determine interoperability and thus guarantee performance, according to Joe Ammirato, director of marketing for 3Com's advanced products division........ and more....... techweb.com Perhaps the others will move into this space? Also on Monday digital video will get a boost when C-cube brings out a consumer MPEG2 codec. techweb.com C-Cube aims MPEG-2 codec at consumer-PC space Junko Yoshida Milpitas, Calif. - Betting that the big trend for consumer PCs in 1999 will be DVD-quality video-recording capability, C-Cube Microsystems is launching DVxplore, a single-chip consumer MPEG-2 codec. The chip will let PC users record and edit DVD-quality video stored to a rewritable DVD or hard drive.......................................... Note that it this ability too ....One feature in DVxplore's favor is its DV25-to-MPEG transcoding ability; the feature is particularly important when a consumer connects a DV camcorder to a PC for video editing (see related story, page 20).