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To: George Gilder who wrote (1295)	4/20/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

<< I think that the storage area formats will be inherited from the net, rather than from the supercomputer center. In other words, the SANs will ultimately be based on WDM lambdas and IP rather than on fiber channel protocols. >> even within intranets?

To: George Gilder who wrote (1295)	4/21/1999 7:16:00 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

George Could you please explain Digital Fountain technology. Is this an area emc would continue to work in and grow or would it replace their storage/software systems. thanks John

To: George Gilder who wrote (1295)	4/21/1999 7:38:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 5853

George, re: Fountain, you can add my request for additional information to John Carragher's. >I think that the storage area formats will be inherited from the net, rather than from the supercomputer center. In other words, the SANs will ultimately be based on WDM lambdas and IP rather than on fiber channel protocols.< The nut to crack here, in many cases, is that the mainframe folks (and all that that implies) are the one's who have to be sold, where a great percentage of existing super-repositories are concerned. At least that has been my experience in dealing with image retrieval and display systems on several quantitative strata, and some recent e-commerce initiatives surrounding same. Any further enlightenment in this regard would be appreciated. Frank

To: George Gilder who wrote (1295)	4/22/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 5853

Hello George, You stated, > In other words, the SANs will ultimately be based on WDM lambdas > and IP rather than on fiber channel protocols. What's facinating is that as equipment starts to automatically perform discovery and negotiate protocols (Jini) they could go to WDM lambdas and a raw streaming protocol if they wanted to. This would allow them to "learn" if they are on the only boxes on the fiber and go directly to a protocol not even requiring IP headers ... This is very much like the communications between a single vendors boxes over copper or fiber today ... they can use their own protocols within their own clouds ... directly over the medium. I'll have to look into Digital Fountain ... this sounds impressive ... Scott C. Lemon