On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chris Wilson wrote:

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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