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Re: is there a market for this?

  • From: Matthew James Gering
  • Date: Tue Jul 22 06:21:25 1997

>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