What is the current status of Fibre Channel over Ethernet standards?
The Ethernet piece is being worked on by the IEEE, and this piece includes the different enhancements to this premium type of Ethernet, which supports Quality of Service, which supports the lower latency and supports other enhancements, as well. These are pretty well established. Then there’s the Fibre Channel pieces, which are still being finalized and should be up for vote anytime now. Some of those pieces have been voted on, some are about to be voted on. I would say the standards are pretty far along, pretty far solidified. Some finalization needs to be done, but then, as with any standard, once the standard is approved, there is a lag time, a latency period between when everything is approved voted on and actual adoption appears. So there are early products in the market, there are early proof-of-concepts, the early technology demonstrators. So there are early capabilities out there for those who want to kick the tires, to try things out and see where they fit, for those who like
