Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking.
Both offer similar features and protocol support, apart from the ability to use block-level fibre channel.
Modern radio, optic fibre channels and cell phone systems are unaffected.
Fibre Channel switches can be divided into two classes.
In 2004 support for storage area networks based on Fibre Channel technology was introduced.
In large data centers, Fibre Channel is often used.
As for the future, it is clear that most storage vendors are lining up behind fibre channel over Ethernet.
It provides an anormous data transfer rate of 10Gb/s among the connected entities using fibre channels.
Fibre Channel switches may be deployed one at a time or in larger multi-switch configurations.
Both of these organizations serve the storage industry as the primary technical and marketing resource for Fibre Channel.
