Addendum: SUMMARY: Fibre Channel maximum length

[Nagy Ákos <anagy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

		Hi again!

	Many thanks to John Francini [mailto:francini@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

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