"Customers not so fond of start-ups have a few options to route around Woven. You can wait for 10Gig E costs to come down. Or you can hope that Fibre Channel over IP/Ethernet standards evolve quicker than planned."

Indeed. Or, we can wait for Cisco to buy them. In about, what- June?!!?

Gary

Harry Quackenboss?

Given its a 144 port switch, it probably uses a 24-port switch ASIC. Fulcrum has a 24-port 10GE switch ASIC. Broadcom has a 20-port ASIC.

The Fulcrum ASIC is also used in Force 10's 24-port 10GE switch.

but what happens at the server end of the ethernet cable?

I thought real 90 meter ethernet doing 10G was out of spec for PCI, and therefore there are no NICs that can do it. It's a power thing, aparently. PCI has power limitations that 10G NIC manufactures can't meet? Has this changed?