Finisar Corp. has announced the industry's first comprehensive 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) test solution designed specifically for development and testing of advanced storage systems. The Xgig 8 Gb/s FC ...

Fibre Channel over IP is a proposed IETF standard for linking Fibre Channel fabrics over TCP/IP network links. The protocol can be used as an alternative to connecting storage-area networks via dense ...

“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 – ...

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 ...

While 1/2Gbit Fibre Channels have foundapplications in SAN, the Fibre Channel industryis turning its eyes to 10Gbit networks. What will this evolution belike and how will it affect the type of ...

Although Fibre Channel is seeing single-digit growth rates, Ethernet for storage is exploding Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing ...

In the past 10 years, Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs) have progressed a great deal, particularly in their data throughput capabilities. Most data communications functions take place on ...

Included in that list was a stealth company set up by Cisco and destined to be acquired by its parent. The FCoE technology has been in development by leading networking and storage companies for about ...

There’s been some buzz lately about a new storage networking protocol called Fibre Channel over Ethernet, a.k.a. FCoE. The major network vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, and QLogic are all on ...

Accelerating design and development of next-gen storage devices, the 1736 module embarks as the industry’s only dual-purpose SAN tester and protocol analyzer for 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel. The module ...