Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

Santa Clara, CA—Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC), a leading communications protocol expert company, announces the availability of its 4 Gbps Fibre Channel expert analysis system, the ...

Fibre Channel has gained enormous popularity in recent years as the foundation for storage-area networks (SANs). Vendors such as Emulex and QLogic have ridden this technology to rank among the fastest ...

I'm re-building my home lab storage machine at the moment and one thing I've never tinkered with before is Fibre Channel and FCoE so I thought it might be worth looking into to see if I can get some ...

Ten Gigabit Ethernet — the latest and fastest version of the ubiquitous data networking protocol — is also coming to the networks that link storage arrays to each other and to servers. Questions yet ...

Targeting military applications, the FC-75000 dual-channel Fibre Channel network interface controllers (NICs) operate at speeds up to 2 Gb/s and are conduction cooled for use at temperatures from ...