Exhibit 24


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Calvin G. Nelson and Lee B. Lewis,
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full powers of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities to execute a Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be
filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the registration the
resale of 4,905,556 shares of Common Stock of Ancor Communications, Incorporated
to be issued in connection with the conversion of shares of Series B Preferred
Stock and the exercise of certain outstanding warrants, and any and all
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power
and authority to do and perform to all intents and purposes as he might or could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

Dated:   May 23, 1997


/s/  Stephen C. O'Hara                        /s/  Gerald M. Bestler
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Stephen C. O'Hara                             Gerald M. Bestler


/s/  Dale C. Showers                          /s/  Thomas F. Hunt, Jr.
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Dale C. Showers                               Thomas F. Hunt, Jr.


/s/  Lee B. Lewis                             /s/  Calvin G. Nelson
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Lee B. Lewis                                  Calvin G. Nelson