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To: rudedog who wrote (38905)	12/6/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

rudedog: But this time DELL does not want to be out in the cold and is "working closely" with Intel. It will be interesting to see how Intel behaves when it feels real heat and what will happen to DELL.

To: rudedog who wrote (38905)	12/6/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Windseye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Rude, The article says IBM's switch solution will cruise at approx. 2 gig/sec, compared to Intel's 2.5. Do you have independent info supporting 25 gig/sec? Thanks, Doug

To: rudedog who wrote (38905)	12/6/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Dog, It sounds like you got this one wrong. It looks like the Intel proposal is for a 2.5 Giga Byte per second transfer rate- not 2.5Gbits/sec. Intel three weeks ago introduced another proposed technology, Next Generation I/O. Like Future I/O, NGIO is a switched-fabric architecture with an open spec and with systems due out in the second half of 2000. NGIO connections would run at a rate of 2.5 Gbps per link. About 35 hardware vendors have endorsed the technology, including Dell Computer, Hitachi Ltd., Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systeme AG, NEC Corp. and Sun Microsystems. Several software manufacturers, such as Microsoft and Novell, and several Linux developers also have endorsed NGIO. HP and Compaq say they are still evaluating the technology.