Storage area networks are about to get a whole lot faster as the various components necessary to put together a 4-Gbps Fibre Channel SAN finally hits the market. Fibre Channel SANs currently run at 2 ...

Aimed at the optical links existing in host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and RAID modules, the TXN31015 and TXN31115 optical transceivers support the 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel specification. The ...

There's a project underway to change some back end infrastructure between two datacenters, and a third party is now providing a managed fibre channel backhaul between the them. I tried utilising them ...

Storage networking vendors announced 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches as early as 2011. When the FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) announced in late 2013 that the INCITS T11 standards ...

Fibre Channel for storage-area networks is getting faster, with Emulex and QLogic Wednesday airing plans to support the 8Gbps Channel standard. With Emulex and QLogic last week airing plans for 8Gbps ...