Infiniband is another technology to explore, though I have not worked on infiniband but attended a presentation by top spin which sounded very interesting. They do support RAC and are partners with oracle. http://www.topspin.com/solutions/distributed_oracle.html -NS ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Uwe Weber Sent: Tue 5/23/2006 12:13 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RAC interconnect Hello all, I am looking into alternatives to ethernet for a RAC interconnect. Does anybody of you have experiences with another technology for the interconnect and would like to share them? Regards, uwe -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l