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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1250)	4/16/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5853

Hello Joe, > Communications using IP over WDM seems like a big winner to me. Yep ... and I even think that point to point communications will improve to use even better protocols (between same-vendor gear) directly over lambda. And then once we break loose of this silly "packet" orientation and realize that "object routing" is the future we will have even bigger gains! > I also think Fibre Channel will be important. It seems like > corporate networks were the hotbed for generating economic winners > in technology, but now the challenges dealt with in the video > networks have embraced/crowned Fibre Channel as the champion for > moving and managing big files intelligently and with low latency > (and economies of scale in video networks with the advent of > Digital TV should grow rapidly). I followed both Fibre Channel and SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) for a while and was much more impressed with SSA. IBM has been shipping it for quite sometime now ... The thing that I'm not sure about Fibre Channel is who are the players to follow, and when will it become widely adopted? It seems that the big money is made when the end-user/consumer play occurs ... and the average-Joe buys in ... not just corporations. It seems that USB and FireWire are picking up ... I know that Fibre Channel is being used ... but not in the home. For video, it seems that 1394 (Firewire) has a bigger following ... I'm not sure where the money is in Fibre Channel yet ... Scott C. Lemon