Thanks, Rob.  That was my understanding.  So I wonder why he's driving at
GigE speed on a
road with a "Bridge Out Ahead" sign on it.

brooks@cuebid.zko.dec.nospam (Rob Brooks) wrote on 05/24/2004 12:15:55 PM:

> norm.raphael@metso.com writes:
>
> > Is SCS over FC announced/supported?
>
> No.
>
> --
>
> Rob Brooks    VMS Engineering -- I/O Exec Group
brooks!cuebid.zko.dec.com

"Mark Caccavone" <mcaccavone@manfinancial.com> wrote in message
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:Temporarily we are going to use
:an existing Gigabit circuit to control the cluster traffic , before
:going to Fibre Channel.

<norm.raphael@metso.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks, Rob.  That was my understanding.  So I wonder why he's driving at
> GigE speed on a
> road with a "Bridge Out Ahead" sign on it.
>

I guess what Mark is getting at is; he has to move off FDDI (as BT or his
telco are decommissioning it), so for a while he will use existing
Gb/Ethernet circuits he has in place (supplementing his FDDI rings).

But probably he does not really want to share the existing Gb/Ethernet
circuits with whatever he already had on there, I guess after that he will
look to have the telco to convert the FDDI to Gb/Ethernet over DWDM links
(which he is confusingly referring to as fibre channel).

I suspect Mark has didn't mean to infer he had planned to use any future
release of SCS over FC.

Just my interpretation of it anyway...

Alex