“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 – ...

Today the Serial Attached SCSI expanders inside those JBODS or RAID systems allow you to extend the SCSI bus outside the boxes, daisy chaining them to hundreds of additional storage devices over an ...

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), ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

The FC-75162 Fibre Channel network access controller PMC card targets data management in laboratory, avionics maintenance, and testing and simulation applications. The dual-channel air-cooled card is ...

Fiber deep means bringing fiber deeper into the network, and thus closer to the customers, than it is in a non fiber deep architecture. Fiber deep solves a lot of the problems mentioned above by ...