[Eric Soulard]

Hi,

You can find 10GbE board for the mac at Small Tree. For Windows, Intel is making boards. In fact Small tree uses the Intel chip. For a 10 GbE switch, HP has interesting products (around 3 000 dollars).

Small Tree is also working on a new network protocol for storage called Blaze. It has been presented during the Apple WWDC. This should allow 10 GbE to be used for heavy video streams (around 300 MB/s per station). All the solution should be available end of third quarter of this year.

Question: Why install a fibre channel san when a technology using well known network configuration is arriving? San software editors such as ADIC are announcing that they are ready to make their move to this technology.

Eric