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To: Technocrat who wrote (19821)	12/19/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

Xiotec's entry into SANs has an embedded switch. They are located in MN. They wouldn't need the enclosure, just the innards. So who do they get it from????? Xiotech accomplishes this by com- bining standard storage components and advanced clustering technology. The vendor last week released RediCopy online backup software for its Magnitude storage system, which shipped this fall; the hardware includes 64 UltraSCSI disk drives, a RAID controller, and a Fibre Channel switch. When users and systems are online, copies of active data are moved at speeds of up to 1 Gbyte per minute; the switch then moves the copies to a free server for backups to take place.

To: Technocrat who wrote (19821)	12/19/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: nic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Here is a wild stab for discussion, putting together your statement that "GSN is basically eight serial HiPPI lines tied together" with SGI's 800Mb/s figure, their talk of GSN as an "evolving" standard, the Ancor OEM, and Ancor's unique in-order delivery feature that permits multiple FC links to be bundled for higher throughput: Could it be that SGI now intends to implement GSN using bundled FC links instead of Hippi? How far along is the GSN standardization process - would it permit such an FC implementation? Given that FC allows for encapsulation of foreign protocols (such as Hippi?), this looks feasible to me. If this is indeed what's happening, it would be virtually guaranteed that they'd have to use "our" switches... Or am I way off base here? - nic