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FCIA T11 Liaison Report June 7, 2007. Skip Jones FCIA Chairman QLogic Corporation. Marketing Team. Marketing calls & Meetings Calls: Scheduled for every two weeks (roughly) on Tuesdays at 10 AM PST Next Marketing Team calls & meetings: June 19 telecon July 3 telecon July 17 telecon
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FCIA T11 Liaison ReportJune 7, 2007 Skip Jones FCIA Chairman QLogic Corporation
Marketing Team • Marketing calls & Meetings • Calls: Scheduled for every two weeks (roughly) on Tuesdays at 10 AM PST • Next Marketing Team calls & meetings: • June 19 telecon • July 3 telecon • July 17 telecon • August 8 F2F with dial-in option • NEW! Tel: 1-480-629-1624 • NEW! Passcode: 11169287
FCAWG/SNIA • SNIA’s Strategic Alliance webpage • FCoE Update • FC track at SNW Europe • SNIA SSIF/FCIA discussion
FCoE • FCIA will be putting together a Marketing Plan around these activities working with the T11 organization • FCIA starting-up FCoE Committee for all things marketing regarding FCoE – look for concall announcement • Other Progress to date: • Developed a FCIA Positioning Statement • FCIA/FCAWG contributed to an SNIA FCoE Article to be distributed this month the SNIA Europe Storage Networking Times • Identified key bullet points around FCIA/FCoE and added to FCIA Roadmap preso • FCIA representative on FCoE panel at SNIA Storage Developers Conference
FC Roadmap Presentation • Still getting Rave Reviews In Europe! • SNIA Europe Academy • May - Craig Skelton (Emulex) presented in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo & Moscow • Both content & presentation continued to rate highly throughout the series • In Copenhagen, our content was #1 of the day • In Oslo, our presentation was #1 of the day • HP Conference this Month
Events: SNIA’s Storage Developer Conf. • Sept. 10 - 13 • Dolce Hayes Mansion, San Jose, CA • Co-marketing agreement with SNIA • Benefits: • 2 Free Conference passes • $400 discount • Web links • Logo on materials • Table option: are we interested?
Events: SNW Fall • October 15 - 18 • Dallas, TX • Theme / demo discussion • Need to Know Who’s Interested in Participating!
8GFC Marketing Plan Discussion • Timing: • 3Q07: Finalizing messaging & positioning • 4Q07: Press release, contributed articles • 1H08: Plugfest • 2H08: Product demonstrations
8GFC Marketing Collateral: need volunteers • Whitepaper • Messaging Deck and talking points • Contributed articles • Supporting press releases (standards communities)
Roadmap Forum - 5/4/7 Concall • Next speeds 16GFC (base2) and ISL 40GFC (base10) • Serial or parallel • If feasible, serial preferred for 16GFC (parallel for 40GFC) • Fibre cable economics mandate 4 or more lanes to be cost effective • Multi-lane solutions must be integrated for PCB layout issues • Same backward compatibility requirements as always • Similar variants as 8G • Core market least costly <100m • 10Km for long-haul niche • Something in the middle? • Backplane likely, disk unknown (will there even be 8GFC disk?) • Technology leveraging • 16GFC • 10G remains primary highest base speed going forward • 25G work by IEEE is WDM; questionable reuse for 16GFC • Nothing obvious yet! • 40GFC • HSSG 4x10G 40GE proposals obvious choice to leverage • Unclear how HSSG will resolve 100GE only vs 40 and 100GE battle
NEXT Joint T11.2/FCIA Roadmap ConcallJuly 26, 20079:00AM PDTDial-In: 303-262-0519 Passcode: 1169287 Skip Jones FCIA Roadmap Chairman QLogic Corporation
FCIA T11 Liaison ReportJune 7, 2007 Skip Jones FCIA Chairman QLogic Corporation