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To: Patrick Sharkey who wrote (20626)	2/7/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: Ken Richard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

George, KJ, Douglas, (Craig?), Techno et al: Can you corroborate asic's post from Yahoo! regarding the "technical" reasons? <<<<<<< From what I gather from sardines post on SI is Brocade was not mentioned in the EMC press release is because of political factors. Exactly what is meant by "political" I can not say but what is being rumored is Brocade has burned some bridges with a few OEM's and potential customers thus opening the door for Ancor. A second reason is technical,what most everyone on both boards miss is Ancor is the only Fibre Channel fabric switch out there. Brocade/EMC and Gadzooks are only switches. A fabric switch will allow a user to build very large switch fabrics with low latency, with a plain switch the user is limited to the number of switch's they can cascade together. Fabric switches will give the fabric fault tolerance while the cascaded switch has a single point of failure. All the drive manufacturer's are moving to public loop. Ancor is the only one that has public loop everyone else has priver loop. Ancor's MKII is very price competitive also. >>>>>>