Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Fibre Channel and Internet Protocol

      Fibre Channel (FC)

4  Widely used protocol for high speed communication to the storage device

4  Provides a serial data transmission that operates over copper wire and/or optical fiber
4  Latest version of the FC interface ‘16FC’ allows transmission of data up to 16 Gb/s

      Internet Protocol (IP)

4  Traditionally used to transfer host-to-host traffic

4  Provide opportunity to leverage existing IP based network for storage communication

Ø  Examples: iSCSI and FCIP protocols

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