At our recent live FCIA webinar, “Fibre Channel Data Center Interconnects: 64GFC and More,” attendees gave the presentation by Gene Cannella (Adtran), David Rodgers (EXFO) and Andy Adams (Adtran) a 4.9 rating! The detailed session provided an in-depth look at Fibre Channel Extension via Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) and Optical Transport Network (OTN), explaining [...]
64Gbps Adoption Accelerating SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 20, 2024 — As the supply-constraint-driven enterprise server and storage inventory levels have started to normalize, the demand for Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) – which provide the mission-critical networking for these devices – has rebounded strongly. During the first calendar quarter of 2024, the Fibre Channel [...]
Fibre Channel (FC) is the premier transport for storage within and across datacenters, known for its reliability, resilience, and high-speed connectivity. Yet the capabilities available to provide security protections within a Fibre Channel network are neither well known nor well understood. In reality, in a Fibre Channel network both servers and storage systems provide many [...]
The week-long event attended by over 10 Companies focused on 64GFC, Fabric Notifications and FC-NVMe MINNEAPOLIS - March 7, 2024 - PRLog -- As another affirmation of the continued innovation of the Fibre Channel (FC) standard and reinforcing its status as the industry's most reliable and robust storage networking transport protocol, the Fibre Channel Industry [...]
Experts from the FCIA recently took a deep dive into the FC-NVMe protocol at our live webcast, “NVMe over FC: Deep Dive in Protocol, Architecture and Use Cases.” It was a fascinating technical discussion that attendees gave a 5-star rating. If you missed it, you can watch it on-demand on the FCIA YouTube Channel or [...]
The majority of today’s SAN infrastructures leverage the traditional SCSI/FCP protocol. The relatively new NVMe®/FC protocol has become ubiquitous in enterprise storage offerings, delivering multiple advantages, including high performance, low tail latency, and precision error recovery that can run on the same FC SAN infrastructure. Details on NVMe/FC will be the topic of our next [...]
Our recent FCIA webcast “128GFC: A Preview of the New Fibre Channel Speed” with FCIA experts, Dean Wallace, Mark Jones, and Kiran Ranabhor was a big hit with our audience, earning a 4.9 rating on a 1-5 scale. During the live event, our presenters dove into details on the 128GFC standard FC-PI-8 (physical), 128GFC standard [...]
128GFC is the latest and fastest Fibre Channel speed. Recently ratified by the T11 Fibre Channel standards committee, this new speed takes Fibre Channel further into the future! On June 21, 2023, the FCIA will host a live webcast, “128GFC: A Preview of the New Fibre Channel Speed.” The latest generation of Fibre Channel (128GFC) has [...]
At our recent FCIA webcast “Benefits of FC-NVMe for Containerized ML Models,” it was quite clear that NVMe over Fibre Channel reduces the training time for container Machine Learning/Deep Learning workloads, and the robust reliability, performance and full offload of Fibre Channel (FC) make it an ideal choice for AI/ML. The live session generated several [...]
FCIA Also Announces INCITS T11 has Completed the 128GFC Single-Lane Fibre Channel Performance Specification MINNEAPOLIS - March 6, 2023 - PRLog -- Supporting continued advancement of the purpose-built, data center proven network infrastructure for storage, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced its 2023 Board of Directors. The 2023 FCIA Board of Directors includes [...]
