Fibre Channel Protocol

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With development started in 1980 and ANSI standard approval in 1994, Fibre Channel is the mature solution for one and two gigabit communications. Fibre Channel is a popular solution for IT professionals who need reliable, popular information storage and delivery at gigabit speeds. It is usually implemented at the hardware level.

Fibre Channel has many interoperability options and challenges. It was the first high-speed networking topology available for the storage market. It made failover/redundancy possible on a large scale. FSP, or SCSI over Fibre Channel, leverages the industry accepted SCSI protocol for storage applications.

Fibre Channel is selected for several reasons including the following:

• Solutions Leadership - Fibre Channel is the defacto standard for implementing Storage Area Networks (SANs) and provides versatile connectivity with scalable performance.
• Multiple Topologies - Dedicated point-to-point, shared loops, and scaled switched topologies meet application requirements.
• Built-in Flow Control - Fibre Channel's credit-based flow control delivers data as fast as the destination buffer is able to receive it.
• High Efficiency - Fibre Channel has very little transmission overhead.

To learn more about Fibre Channel, visit the following website:

  www.t11.org