1. SANs Today Increasing port count Multi-vendor Edge and Core switches
Server
Server
Increasing port count
Multi-vendor
Edge and Core switches
Remote connectivity
Migration to 2 gig
Storage Virtualization
Edge Switches
Core Switch FC
Tunnel
Remote
SAN
WAN
MAN
LAN
ATM
DWDM
GigE
Storage
Storage

2. SANs Tomorrow Multiple SAN Infrastructure Fibre Channel GbE InfiniBand
FC SAN
FC SAN
MAN/WAN
Multiple SAN Infrastructure
Fibre Channel
GbE
InfiniBand
Inter - SAN Connectivity
10 Gb
iSCSI
SAN
InfiniBand
Cluster/SAN
WAN
GbE/ATM/SONET

3. Three Technologies Will Coexist
Fibre channel
High end SANs
Infiniband
Backplane replacement and server networks
iSCSI
FC - FC WAN bridge
iSCSI - FC conversion
Low end SANs
WAN

4. SAN Speed convergence 10 Gbit 2.5 Gb InfiniBand Ethernet
10 Mb 100 Mb 1 Gb
0.25 Gb 1Gb 2Gb
Fibre Channel