Fibre Channel in the Future
...speeds of 4Gbit/sec and 12Gbit/sec to support fabric’s environments are in development. The governing bodies for Fibre channel include Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Its technology is firmly entrenched in San (Storage Area Network) solutions and is beginning to emerge in Nas (Network Area Storage) solutions Fibre Channel is based on serial data transfer architecture. It transfers data one bit at a time and is only concerned with the delivery of data. Transferring data via a serial architecture over Single Mode fibre optic cable allows it to carry data to further distances with virtually no signal loss. Single-mode fibre makes real time off site disaster recovery possible. Multimode fibre is used for short distances and further enhances data throughput. FC can be al...