What is FCIP, and what is it used for? Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP, is a tunnelling protocol used to connect Fibre Channel (FC) switches over an IP network, enabling interconnection of remote ...

A high-speed transport technology used to build storage area networks (SANs). Although Fibre Channel can be used as a general-purpose network carrying ATM, IP and other protocols, it has been ...

The 8000 series converged network adapters (CNAs) from QLogic Corporation aren’t just new network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). Instead, they’re the first CNAs to allow the Fibre ...

In response to market demands for reliability and low latency that is favorable with Fibre Channel (FC), QNAP Systems plans to incorporate FC SAN services into its application scope, making QNAP NAS a ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month we are going to look at how Fibre Channel and Ethernet can be used together in the ...

Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has faced a fundamental choice between two technologies: the established, but pricey FC (Fibre Channel) and the more affordable but ...

I’m not sure if you have noticed, but slowly over the last year or so storage vendors have begun changing over their top tier offerings from Fibre Channel (FC) drives to either Serial Attached SCSI ...

With an increasing demand for lower latency and higher application performance, the storage industry has been moving toward NVMe and NVMeoF solutions. And it could significantly impact Fibre Channel.

The need for more Fibre Channel (FC) bandwidth continues unabated, driven by server and storage virtualization, and data replication. To meet these new demands, 8Gb/sec FC switches and host bus ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the keys to moving large files on a network is to move the data in large blocks without a ...