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Fibre Channel Related Entries Web Links New/Updated Information Note: Many topics at this site are reduced versions of the text in "The Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications." Search results will not be as extensive as a search of the book's CD-ROM. Fibre Channel is a gigabit interconnect technology for data center and SANs (Storage Area Networks). It is designed primarily to interconnect peripherals, mass storage systems, imaging and archiving systems, mainframes, supercomputers, engineering workstations, and other high-speed devices. Fibre Channel has features of a network, but it is not a network in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a high-speed switching system that uses fiber-optic cable to interconnect computing devices in a relatively local environment, such as a laboratory or a campus environment, as shown in Figure F-7. ANCHOR HERE: Figure 7 (see book) This topic continues in "The Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications" with a discussion of the following:
RFC 2625 (IP and ARP over Fibre Channel, June 1999) specifies how IP and ARP are encapsulated over Fibre Channel and describes a mechanism for IP address resolution. The IETF IP Storage (ips) Working Group is developing protocols for encapsulating SCSI and Fibre Channel in an IP-based transport or transports. The Working Group's Web site is at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ips-charter.html Emerging technologies that compete with Fibre Channel are covered in "Switch Fabrics and Bus Design." Copyright (c) 2001 Tom Sheldon and Big Sur Multimedia.
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