Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...

Fibre Channel overview Jun 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput ...

However, Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking. It’s certainly not the high growth market it once was but the market has maintained about a $2 billion run rate over the past few years.

Fibre Channel is the king of enterprise storage-area-network technologies. ISCSI, however, is the heir apparent. When it comes to new SANs, add-ons to existing systems or departmental-level ...

Fibre Channel uses the Gigabit Ethernet physical layer and IBM's 8B/10B encoding method, where each byte is transmitted as 10 bits. Fibre Channel provides both connection-oriented and ...

Fibre Channel’s long reliable history of 1GFC, 2GFC, 4GFC, 8GFC and 16GFC used in most storage network communications, has been complemented by Gen 6 Fibre Channel.

Fibre Channel started out as a way to move data between CPUs and storage systems without the overhead associated with Ethernet, and without the cable distance and device limitations associated with ...

Fibre Channel storage arrays can be composed of hard disk drives, solid state drives, or a combination of the two. More and more storage arrays are beginning to be equipped with 16 Gigabit Fibre ...

Fibre Channel is still a young technology, but it's already being eclipsed by a handful of alternatives. Although most are still in development, a few are showing up in the market and all have ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again. This 10-year-old server and storage ...

Traditionally, high-performance networked storage meant block storage and required building a Fibre Channel SAN. Indeed, when storage and data center architects developed distributed storage and ...

FCoE is designed to combine the predictability of Fibre Channel with ethernet, and it’s already available with 40G bps. However, FCOE hasn’t caught on widely, Schoeb said.