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To: Lhn5 who wrote (20908)	2/27/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: PAR	Respond to of 29386

>> Who makes a 64 port FC switch? Brocade?

To: Lhn5 who wrote (20908)	2/27/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

Larry, Ancor makes a 64 port switch: ancor.com The one they are advertising here is the previous quarter speed switch. Notice that even in the older switch, the switched backplane allows for maximum throughput. I think that the MKII technical specs page used to comment about a 64 port switch, but I didn't save any of the older versions. I have an advertising pamphlet from the 1998 shareholders' meeting entitled "GigWorks MKII Fibre Channel Switch" that states: "Multi-stage scalability to 192 fabric ports with a 16 port switch and 3,072 ports with a 64 port switch". All of this certainly doesn't mean that EMC couldn't make its own 64 port switch or put more of a competitor's ASICs in the same cabinet. George D.