Will You Still Love Me When I Turn 64GFC?
Fibre Channel’s speed roadmap defines a well-understood technological trend: the need to double the bit rate in the channel without doubling the required bandwidth. In order to do this, PAM4 (pulse-amplitude modulation, with four levels [...]
Protocol Analysis Expert Q&A
Protocol Analysis Expert Q&A A few weeks ago, the FCIA hosted a live webcast on Protocol Analysis for High-Speed Fibre Channel Fabrics in the Data Center. For those of us within the FCIA, we [...]
FCIA Panel Discuss Expanding the Power of Flash with FC-NVMe
Flash is really fast, and performance-hungry applications must be able to access it wherever it is located. Luckily, NVMe can take advantage of flash throughout a computer system. However, accessing flash over a network can [...]
Data Center Systems Awarded Patent for Optical Fiber Polarity Tester
DALLAS (Sept. 25) Data Center Systems (DCS) is pleased to announce it was recently awarded a patent for its optical fiber polarity tester. Originally developed in 2016, the apparatus is used to test bundles [...]
A Q&A on Fibre Channel Interoperability
Got questions about Fibre Channel (FC) interoperability? You’re not alone. At our recent FCIA webcast “Fibre Channel Interoperability” we received many great questions as our experts discussed the many dimensions of FC interoperability. If you [...]
Save Your SAN (& Sanity): Protocol Analysis for High-Speed Fibre Channel Fabrics
The driving force behind adopting new tools and processes in test and measurement practices is the desire to understand, predict, and mitigate the impact of Sick but not Dead (SBND) conditions in datacenter fabrics. The [...]
