[Luis Espinoza]

Ethernet is enough. I setup a network with 13 edition desktop (combined new and old iMacs, Macpros) using Gigabit Ethernet with a Cisco switch. All the macs have network users and sharing a SAN through AFP, it is about 40 people editing in different hours and ALL edit on the shared SAN. For the old mac, is faster editing on the share SAN than local disk, and the network has one peak of 113MB/s (around 900Mbits/s), the rest of traffic is below 50% of the bandwidth. No jumbo packets and in case of need it, I can use the second interface to balance the load, by now is not necessary. Any user can close the project then login in another mac and continue working with the same project. Is not possible to open the same project by different users at the same time, but the users split their project and at the end join it. FCP has many problems with the especial permissions on the SAN (is not the network, because is only FCP the problem)