Fibre Channel Technology:
Paraphrasing FCIA: "Fibre Channel, a highly-reliable, One and Two Gigabit Interconnect Technology (the fastest interface on this planet) allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI, IP and a wide range of other protocols to meet the needs of the data center in server-to-storage and server-to-server networking.
Fibre Channel - The easiest, most reliable solution for information storage and retrieval..."
"Fibre Channel can be configured Point-to-Point, via a Switched
Topology or in an Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) with or without a Hub, which can
connect up to 127 nodes. Fibre Channel supports Transmission Rates of 133,
266 and 531 Mbps and 1.06, 2.12 and 4.25
Gbps in each direction and uses the same FC-0 physical layer as
Gigabit Ethernet. Using IBM's 8B/10B encoding method, each byte of data is
transmitted as 10 bits."
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Web Development, Gill Boyd & Team - Posted 04/17/2003; Updated 05/23/2003