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Fibre Channel
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ALSO CALLED: Fiber Channel and Fibre
DEFINITION: Fibre Channel is a technology for transmitting data between computer devices at data rates of up to 4 Gbps (and 10 Gbps in the near future). Fibre Channel is especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared storage devices and for interconnecting storage controllers
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SANbloc™ 2Gb JBOD
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SOFTWARE DEMO:The SANbloc 2Gb JBOD is end-to-end 2Gb Fibre Channel. 2Gb Fibre Channel, the latest generation of Fibre Channel network interface technology, offers greatly accelerated performance in network storage environments. Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
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SANbloc™ 2Gb RAID
| sponsored by Adaptec, Inc.
SOFTWARE DEMO:The 2Gb SANbloc RAID is designed for maximum availability, with redundant, hot-swappable RAID controllers with dual host ports, power supplies, power connections, advanced cooling modules, port bypass circuitry and environmental monitoring. Posted: 14 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
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FIBRE CHANNEL DEFINITION (continued): … and drives. Since Fibre Channel is three times as fast, it has begun to replace the Small Computer System Interface ( SCSI) as the transmission interface between servers and clustered storage devices. Fibre channel is more flexible; devices can be as far as ten kilometers (about six miles) apart if optical fiber is used as the physical medium. Optical fiber is not required for shorter distances, however, because Fibre Channel also works using coaxial cable … Fibre Channel definition sponsored by SearchStorage.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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