Re: is there a market for this?

["Matthew James Gering" <mgering () ricochet net>]

> 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