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Agilent Stands Firm on Fibre Channel: Page 3 of 4

“The market’s moving towards Gigabit Ethernet and IP for storage,” says Jungjohann.

Elliott counters that, according to IDC estimates, by 2005 only 15 percent to 17 percent of all storage networking ports will be connected via IP. “That means the majority of the market will be Fibre Channel, and Agilent is aggressively pushing Fibre Channel forward to meet the needs of the existing market,” he says.

Despite this position, Agilent is paying heed to the iSCSI camp, albeit not openly, perhaps for fear of alienating its FC customers. It has an undisclosed investment in SAN Valley Systems Inc., a company building technology that bridges FC to IP networks.

— Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com

Want to know more? The big cheeses of the storage networking industry will be discussing iSCSI in a session at StorageNet, Byte and Switch’s annual conference, being held in New York City, October 2-5, 2001. Check it out at StorageNet2001.