Why Fibre Channel?

• Reliable Communication

  • Removes the performance barriers of legacy LANs.
  • Support for other, typically "non-network" protocols, such as SCSI.

• Low-latency message passing

• High bandwidth transfer

  • Connection and connectionless data delivery.
  • sustain data transfer rates at 90 Mbps
  • variable length (0-2 KB) frames.
  • Highly effective for protocol frames of less than 100 bytes, as well as bulk data transfer

• Scalable networks.

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