Overview of Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited standards committee.

"Fibre Channel." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 15 July 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

More Information on Fibre Channel-Based Shared Storage

Fibre channel is a fast but relatively expensive system for transferring information between different devices in a shared network. It requires special fiber-optic cabling instead of common Category-5 Ethernet cable. Since most networks are already using Ethernet cabling, implementing fibre channel is a large investment for most companies. The alternative to fibre channel shared storage is a properly designed Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet shared storage solutions.

Small Tree focuses on providing the performance companies need from their networks without the need for fibre channel. Small Tree carefully analyzes a company's network performance requirements to deliver Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based solutions that meets their work flow requirements with a substantial cost savings for our customers.

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