Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute. The new FCoE specification is designed to let organizations transmit Storage Area Network traffic over Ethernet networks, which would give organizations more flexible options for deploying and managing existing SANs. Because the proposal for the Fiber Channel over Ethernet specification has the support of industry leading vendors, there’s a good chance this standard will survive.
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New Network Standard Could Converge Fiber, Ethernet
Posted by: Chris Maxcer April 6, 2007 11:39 AMLeading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute. The new FCoE specification is designed to let organizations transmit Storage Area Network traffic over Ethernet networks, which would give organizations more flexible options for deploying and managing existing SANs. Because the proposal for the Fiber Channel over Ethernet specification has the support of industry leading vendors, there’s a good chance this standard will survive.