“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

Today the Serial Attached SCSI expanders inside those JBODS or RAID systems allow you to extend the SCSI bus outside the boxes, daisy chaining them to hundreds of additional storage devices over an ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

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 ...

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. today is introducing a CMOS four-channel serializer/deserializer (serdes) transceiver for 10Gbit Ethernet and 10Gbit Fibre Channel applications. Mindspeed, the Internet ...

Fibre Channel has gained enormous popularity in recent years as the foundation for storage-area networks (SANs). Vendors such as Emulex and QLogic have ridden this technology to rank among the fastest ...