Objective | Schedule | Sponsor Briefing #25

Photonics Briefing - #25
SANs Meet Optical Networks
May 22, 2002
9am to 4:30pm

Burlington Marriot
Burlington, MA

Although the Optical Networks business is experiencing a down turn, the
Storage Area Networks (SAN) business is enjoying healthy growth . Driven by
the need after 9-11 for increased security and backup, companies are
re-evaluating their remote storage needs. Another driver is just the
exponential growth in the need for storage capacity and decrease in storage
costs.

This Executive Photonics Briefing will focus on the market size and growth
for different components, subsystems, and systems, types of protocols being
used, architectures and the physical media that ties all these pieces
together. Tentative topics to be covered include:

• Overview of the Optical Space
  
• SAN Market Analysis
  
• SAN Technology Overview
  
• Financial Analysis
  
• Optical Fiber Technology for short-reach SAN applications
  
• OFS Fitel
  
• ISCSI Status
  
• Infiniband Status
  
• Gigabit Ethernet