Lee,
Fibre Channel is a gigabit interconnect architecture specification that allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI and IP protocols. It provides definition for interconnect systems for multiple topologies that can scale to a total system bandwidth on the order of a terabit per second. Switches, hubs, storage systems, storage devices, and adapters are among the products that are on the market today from a variety of vendors.
Fibre Channel is structured with independent layers. The five layers of Fibre Channel define the physical media and transmission rates, encoding scheme, framing protocol and flow control, common services, and the upper-level protocol interfaces.
Primary disk drive companies that support fibre channel have been Seagate, Quantum, and Western-Digital. There is a Fibre Channel Association at fibrechannel.com which can give you all the info you would ever want on FCA.
Best,
Stitch |
