I am doing some research on the shift from Gbit Ethernet to PCI Express or Infiniband in the backplane of server blades and ATCA-based comms systems and would like to hear what systems engineers see as the main trade offs. Please call or email me with your thoughts. Thanks Rick Merritt Editor at large EE Times www.eet.com rbmerrit@xxxxxxx Tel: 408.370.9618 Cell: 408.930.7372 See my blog on interconnects at: http://interconnects.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu