Addendum: SUMMARY: Fibre Channel maximum length

From: Nagy Ákos <anagy_at_eastron.hu>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 19:00:08 +0200

                Hi again!

        Many thanks to John Francini [mailto:francini_at_zk3.dec.com] for
        the following.

> Suppose you had a hypothetical situation of an Alpha system (with FC
> HBA) at one site, and one or more HSG80-based storage servers at
> another, with, say, 5km between them. You'd connect the HSG80 to a
> FC switch at the first site, and the HBA to a switch at the second
> site, and there'd be a long-wave switch-to-switch link between them.
>
> Here's the key: Just set up the switch with a mix of short-wave GBICS
> (to connect to the HSGs and HBAs) and long-wave GBICs (to
> interconnect between sites). There's no requirement that all the
> GBICs on a given switch be the same type; they can be mixed and
> matched as needs dictate.

        Yes, this can be a solution, which I didn't think of.
        Regards,

                                                        Nagyak

        P.s.: I only can agree with the statement: "This list is GREAT!"
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