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May 18, 2004 The Need For SpeedStorage Vendors Toy With 4 Gb/s As Lead-In To 10 Gb/s SANby Bob Zimmerman with Thomas Powell, Stephan Wenninger |
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Executive Summary
Complementing the growth of data to saturate the capacity available, SAN bandwidth and raw transfer speed have increased to deliver that data to demanding applications. Right now, the state of the art is 2 gigabits per second (Gb/s) per line on Fibre Channel (FC) SANs. It appears that the industry will deliver 4 Gb/s this year with hints of 8 Gb/s in 2005 though it's not clear why, because 10Gbs will also be introduced this year. With users just now absorbing 2 Gb/s, and 10 Gb/s technology headed initially for the interswitch market, 4 Gb/s will be a technology looking for a raison d'être through 2004.1
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