On Fri 26 Mar, 1999, Will Harper willh@infi.net wrote:

I also contend that SAN does NOT NECESSARILY imply FiberChannel. In fact, I see near-time SAN technology taking the route of 1000BaseT, because studies indicate that more (normal, read "small") data I/O's can be moved, much more cheaply, over Gigabit than over 100-base FiberChannel.

This made me confused - Gb-ether (on fiber) is based on the lower levels of the Fibre Channel (note spelling of Fibre - someone let an English chappy into the protocol definition committee). So to say what was said is to miss a small, but important, technical detail.

-- End of excerpt from Will Harper