Wall: Because I haven't been anywhere on this planet where people haven't been interested in getting behind iSCSI, and are working on products. There really aren't a lot of alternatives out there. And there are real products available now. So it's not like a dream or a concept. There seems to be universal support for this, it's related to technology that exists today that's pervasive across the planet in Ethernet so it's just a matter of time... But today, iSCSI does not have the capability of Fibre Channel and it will not for the foreseeable future.
Byte and Switch: In terms of what?
Wall: As far as bandwidth today, and even when it achieves the bandwidth perhaps in the 10-Gig timeframe, you have to look at robustness of the environment from a software feature set firmware, software, the application environment. These are things that have been in development for a decade now with Fibre Channel and are well integrated into the fabric no pun intended [ed. note: none taken] of all large enterprise customers. And to displace that is a nontrivial undertaking.
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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