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To: George Dawson who wrote (3915)	11/30/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Paul Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Anyone going to the Wash DC conference (Dec 2 and 3) on Govt Video Technology where AXC will presenting? for more info call 1-800-294-7605

To: George Dawson who wrote (3915)	12/2/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Hi George, Good to see you around these parts. Anyway, I wasn't aware of any specific problems with tape drives and fibre channel networks. Can you elaborate? As you know, among the early adopters of fibre channel networks were the folks in broadcasting. FOX, Warner Brothers, CNN, and LNN are just some of early adopters who are hanging SCSI tape drives and libraries like DST from their FC networks. I am not aware that there are any system integration problems that are out of the ordinary. Thanks. Gus P.S. Currently, at 20 MB/sec, DST is not as fast as the fastest disk drives which have sustained throughput of about 28-30 MB/sec. But AXC uses a helical scan recording format that has been proven to scale all the way up to 256 MB/sec (Toshiba's 1/2 inch D6 in the prototype stage) which is way too fast for even the most demanding non-classified applications. Because tape drives go into systems that are used differently from disk drives -- backup, nearline access, HSM -- DST was designed to provide just enough speed and lots of capacity -- currently 330 GB on its way to 660 GB in a cartridge.