[11134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Tue Jul 22 06:19:12 1997
From: "Matthew James Gering" <mgering@ricochet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 02:51:01 -0700
>On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>> handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
>> serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
>> reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying
to
>> push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)
Well that gives one a lot of confidence in their product, doesn't it ;-).
Tandem's SAN adapters operate at 900Mbps full duplex per node on a single
standard half-size PCI card, so I expect they are sorely mistaken.
Tandem ServerNet PCI Adapter (SPA)
http://www.tandem.com/prod_des/sntpcipd/sntpcipd.htm
Tandem ServerNet (SAN) Architecture
http://www.tandem.com/prod_des/srvnetpd/srvnetpd.htm
Matt
