Fibre Channel Buses Hardware

Fibre Channel Buses Hardware

Fibre Channel

A set of standards developed by ANSI. Fibre Channel (FC) is intended to provide a practical and inexpensive means of rapidly "transferring data between workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, desktop computers, storage devices, displays and other peripherals", according to the Fibre Channel Association (FCA). FC's speed of data transmission is due not only to the fundamental nature of the transmission system, but also to the fact that FC is a serial link technology. In other words, FC is a new I/O (input/output) interface over which data is streamed in serial fashion across an established link.

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- The pages aren't updated any more but there is a lot here. General information, and specifications.
- Provides information about the FC protocol (FC Basics), fabric architecture and topology design (Configuration Toolkit), and performance (Library).
- Need to solve the storage and access puzzle? This technology puts the pieces together.
- List of manufacturers with EISA interfaces.
- For Fibre Channel proponents and IT managers eager to deploy the new connectivity technology, 1998 looks like the year.
- Article by Terry Costlow at EETimes.com.
- A preview of Fibre Channel performance.
- List of manufacturers for PCI/PMC bus.
- Site of TC T11, which standardizes Fibre Channel, HIPPI and IPI interfaces for mass storage peripherals, networks and other high-performance applications.
- List of manufacturers for S-bus.
- Fibre Channel is a computer communications protocol designed to meet the many requirements related to the ever increasing demand for high performance information transfer.
- List of manufactures for GigaRing Channel.

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