Absolutely, because we believe that approach will enable customers to leverage existing infrastructure which may or may not be from IBM, and that only through the adoption of standards can you truly lower cost. Truth be told, I think you'll find different answers at IBM depending on who you talk to. But let me give you a customer perspective and tell you what we're doing from a product perspective. There are two parts to an FCoE solution. There is a lossless Ethernet transport and there is supporting the Fibre Channel protocols on top of that. Those Fibre Channel protocols could either be basic NPIV or it could be full director class switching. We have been supporting lossless Ethernet transport ever since we got into the top-of-rack business, which was late 2008. Starting in the first half of 2012 we will start to enable customers of our lossless Ethernet top-of-rack switches to break out Fibre Channel and connect to their favorite Brocade or Cisco Fibre Channel.
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