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To: BillyG who wrote (38774)	2/2/1999 5:19:00 PM
From: Steve Reinhardt	Respond to of 50808

That is a good question. The system business Divicom is in may or may not help CUBE to get its chip business. Steve

To: BillyG who wrote (38774)	2/2/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Kinda like saying, why should Dell by chips from Intel which is a PC box competitor? Intel sells chips & mother board designs to a number of PC box MFG's. Cube sells chips and Divicom sells a settop box board design to a number of settop box manufacuturers. Cube sells DVD chips and a board design to a number(?) of DVD player MFG's. Cube sells VCD chips and a board design to a number(?) of VCD player MFG's. Well, at least they say they do...

To: BillyG who wrote (38774)	2/2/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Not directly related to CUBE, but related to digital video...... FC moving into the digital newsroom...... biz.yahoo.com t Panasonic Broadcast & Digital Systems Company (PBDSC) has selected Prisa's gigabit-per second Fibre Channel network solution for its DVCPRO News Automation (DNA(TM)) digital video server system. FC SAN market data....Last time I saw numbers like this ,that made my head rattle, was the MPEG market....but worth looking at. Dataquest analyst Tom Lahive writing in the Jan. InfoStor OEM revenue by SAN component type ($millions) YEAR 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ~CAGR Hubs 54 89 190 349 490 75% Switches 65 158 376 654 982 97% Directors 252 257 270 281 286 3% Total 371 504 836 1284 1758 47% Source: Dataquest [Tom Lahive]/ InfoStor Jan. 99 FC and digital video seem to work well together........ "here is a special report in the January issue of Lightwave entitled Broadcast companies embrace Fibre Channel over fiber by Stephen Hardy, Editor in Chief. I tried to find it on their web site light-wave.com but I could not find the January issue. Here are a few snippets that caught my eye: "Yet, there are signs that SANs have found a home in at least one application area: broadcast television and motion picture production. Production houses may prove the breakout application that propels Fibre Channel SANs into widespread use" "Until recently, production houses worked exclusively with videotape ... The quality of the tape deteriorated each time it was copied..." "So what we've been looking for, for a couple years, is a system that allows all of us to work on the same central storage, and have the speed that we needed. And, hence, Fibre Channel fit that need" "Whereas most houses record programs on videotape, then digitize the tape, Premier runs its video signals directly from the cameras within its inhouse sound stage into its storage facilities." "It's just gotten out of control. It's all about memory or storage, says Smith. The ability of the company's FC network to accommodate large data files has allowed Premier to use data storage as a competitive advantage. ... we almost basically just rent them out storage. So that's why your storage [need] continuously increases" Hubs versus switches "One area of contention that has appeared early in FC applications is the question of whether to base a user's new network on a hub or switch. ... We wish we had a switch, to be honest, admits Andrews. The hub is fine, but it's still software arbitration as to who gets to write to what, which is not the best way to do it. It works, but it's not ideal. A switch is a better way to go and we know that." "Most people will purchase a hub over a switch, reports Narmore. We would recommend [a switch] for the larger networks, but understand a switch is like $50,000. So you're talking about a huge, huge price increase. Transoft's in-house expertise centers on networking software, so it acquires its FC hardware from OEMs. It currently offers a 7-port hub for $1995, and a 10-port optical hub for $3995. But while a 4-port fabric switch starts at $18,000, the most commonly used switch, a 16-port unit, costs $50,000." "Smith paid the extra money for a switch at Premier Communications after starting his FC experience with a hub. In addition to offering network efficiencies, the switch offers more flexibility by allowing systems to be dropped or added to the network easily" "I mean, it's come to be expected in the post-production industry that you have some sort of FC connection." The BIG guys joined the FC BOD...... Fibre Channel Association Annual Summit Focuses on End User Issues; FCA Adds New Directors from CISCO, 3Com, HP, Sun, and Seagate Just some things that I've read recently(some are excerpts from SI posts) and at least related to Digital video for those that want to track more figures and possibilities.