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To: DownSouth who wrote (413)	11/4/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

Fibre Channel devices speed adoption of SANs From InfoWorld... Fibre Channel devices speed adoption of SANs By Stephen Lawson and David Pendery InfoWorld Electric Posted at 7:01 AM PT, Nov 2, 1998 Networking, storage, and system vendors this month will converge on enterprise data centers to make storage simpler and more scalable. Storage area networks (SANs) will take a big step into the mainstream this week when 3Com announces a set of products for linking servers to enterprise storage devices. Additionally, start-up Crag Technologies will be launched next week and will specialize in SAN hardware and software. Also, Hewlett-Packard and Seagate Technology next week will announce a partnership to extend Fibre Channel, the technology underlying SANs, to four times its current speed. SANs are designed to let users freely connect any storage device to any server via a shared infrastructure. Traditional server-to-storage links have not easily allowed this. HP and Seagate are developing disk drives, hubs, switches, disk arrays, and controllers that will offer 2Gbps Fibre Channel throughput, according to a source close to the project. Later products will support 4Gbps throughput, the source said. FULL TEXT @ infoworld.com