The world's demand for digital storage is insatiable. IDC forecasts that the networked storage market, which consists of network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs), will grow from $9 billion in 2000 to $35 billion in 2004 . Storage networking therefore offers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a significant business opportunity and enterprise users cost/performance benefits, especially if storage products can use existing IP fabric instead of requiring costly new Fibre Channel infrastructure. The continuous availability of faster, compatible switched Ethernet solutions offers a collision-free, high-performance infrastructure for IP-based storage networking solutions.