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To: DownSouth who wrote (3478)7/6/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 54805
 
DownSouth,

Thanks for highlighting the true spelling of "fibre" in the term "Fibre Channel." But FC is, indeed, just as much (if not more so) an optical standard as it is for some variants of the standard that define its use over copper channels.

Due to its maturity at this stage, and the extensive ANSI work that was done in the fibre channel development stages, many of FC's components have also been re-used as the basic building blocks for other fiber- and copper- based transports, as well, such as Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

Regards, Frank Coluccio



To: DownSouth who wrote (3478)7/6/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 54805
 
DS, the best explanation I've seen of why fibre channel's spelling is fibre is because the media used to transmit the protocol can be either copper or fiber optics (or anything else that's fast enough, I suppose). The standards group that named it wanted to get the message out that it wasn't restricted to the use of fiber optic cable only.

Tony


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