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What is sans Fibre Channel?
storage area network
A Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) is a specialized, high-speed network that attaches servers and storage devices. With a SAN, you can create an any-to-any connection across the network with interconnected elements such as routers, gateways, and switches.
What does a Fibre channel switch do?
A Fibre Channel switch is a networking device that is compatible with the FC protocol and designed for use in a dedicated storage area network (SAN). An FC switch inspects a data packet header, determines the computing devices of origin and destination and forwards the packet to the intended system.
What is a Fibre Channel port?
A Fibre Channel port is a port on the storage system that connects it to hosts, switches, or another storage system either directly or through a switch. Fibre Channel ports are also referred to as I/O ports.
Is Fiber Channel still used?
Fibre Channel, also known as FC, is a high-speed network technology used to connect computer data storage to servers. It is frequently seen in use in commercial data centers. It handles high-performance disk storage for applications on many corporate networks, and it supports data backups, clustering and replication.
Is fiber or Ethernet faster?
Fibre Channel is more reliable than Ethernet in terms of lossless protocol. Fibre Channel SFP can provide in-order and lossless delivery of raw block data while Ethernet SFP can’t. Transmission Speed of Fibre Channel vs Ethernet SFP: Fibre channel supports a transmission speed of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 128 Gbps.
Is Fibre Channel still used?
8G fibre channel is also still in use and the interface cards are still available for 8G FC. 1600 MBps full duplex throughput is available in 8G fibre channel. 10G fibre channel version was developed for FCoE to make full use of the 10 Gbps ethernet networks.