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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

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 ...

Leading networking vendors yesterday presented a new standards proposal for using the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet networks in order to attach the majority of lower-level data center servers ...

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems ...

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 ...

Although Fibre Channel has been around for a while, it's just now starting to be accepted within the enterprise. As such, there are still many IT pros who don't understand Fibre Channel. In this ...