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To: Ken Richard who wrote (20627)	2/7/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 29386

Re asic_1 technicals Ken, <<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.>> To elucidate further, ANCR fabric switches can effect "Multi-staging." See their white paper on cascading vs multi-stage cross-connects: ancor.com Excerpt: <<Multi-stage makes it easy to configure systems with no single point of failure, since each I/O switch is linked to multiple cross-connect switches. Redundant data paths mean that even in the unlikely event of a total switch outage, the network as a whole continues to function at normal or near-normal capacity.>> Again, asic_1 is correct, and another competitive advantage in enterprise-wide FC deployment goes to ANCR. Douglas