Fibre channel interface
Connectors
Overview | Features
Overview
High speed serial interconnect technology and is an
alternative to SCSI.
Advantages include greater speed and flexibility over longer distances |
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Features
- In development since 1988 by ANSI (American National Standards Institute).
- Extend to 30m on copper and up to 10km on fibre optic lines.
- Designed to run any protocol and can knot servers, storage systems and other network
elements into high speed protocol independent "fabrics".
- Works with SCSI, IP, ATM, FDDI, high performance parallel and others.
- Promises speed of up to 100Mbit/s.
- Already commonly used to attach storage subsystems to RISC-based machines such as those
from IBM and Sun.
Malcolm, A. (1997, Oct 6)
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