Talk:Converged network adapter

Issues

Besides the obvious punctuation errors, there are some issues with this. It seems close to a marketing blurb, using the present tense and mostly presents products without any history. The idea of combining a storage adapter (HBA) with a network interface (NIC) has been around for a long time. They were at one time for example called CNIC (pronounced "scenic", get it?) when they supported iSCSI and one Gigabit Ethernet about eight years ago. Just because a new batch of marketing folks have coined a new neologism does not mean we should ignore other instances of the same concept. And just because marketing folks love to acronymize, does not make this a proper name, so the convention would be to use lower case, e.g. Converged network adapter. Alas, the redirect is already there, which means we need administrator intervention to move. In the meanwhile the article needs help. W Nowicki (talk) 19:08, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi W Nowicki, I can understand your concerns and I intend to change the article shortly. The reason why this now seems a summary of sales-brochures is because for quite a while it was a little questionalble if there would come broad support for the technique and there was the risk that there would only be a very limited number of CNA's available on the market and then made by companies that aren't anything big on the NIC or LPM (chipset/ADIC) market (eg Brocade: they do make switches for FC and after buying Foundry Networks) also in the high-end ethernet switch market (L2, L3 and L4-7 switches) but they weren't know as a company that delivered chipsets to the large server vendors like HP, IBM and Dell. But the growing support from the storage market (EQL, NetApp, EMC) and in the end of 2K9 the entrance of Broadcom allowed a breakthrough of the technique FCoE: a problem is a bit where to put this information (under FCoE article or under CNA article) and I do need to find proper public sources (I do have an internal Dell article, but I can't quote from it as it is strictly internal).

So I limited it so far to this list which is -at least imho- under Wiki Q standards but I hope to extend article with similar info as above but then with proper sources. Tonkie (talk) 19:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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