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Intel Announces Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet

Posted by kdawson on from the geting-our-roughage dept.

sofar writes "Intel has just announced and released source code for their Open-FCoE project, which creates a transport allowing native Fibre Channel frames to travel over ordinary ethernet cables to any Linux system. This extremely interesting development will mean that data centers can lower costs and maintenance by reducing the amount of Fibre Channel equipment and cabling while still enjoying its benefits and performance. The new standard is backed by Cisco, Sun, IBM, EMC, Emulex, and a variety of others working in the storage field. The timing of this announcement comes as no surprise given the uptake of 10-Gb Ethernet in the data center."

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  1. Fiber channel by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fiber channel
    In ye olde patch panel
    Beats fiber thin
    On your chinny-chin-chin
    Burma Shave

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  2. 10GE is a heck of a lot cheaper by afidel · · Score: 5, Informative

    As long as a server is within the distance limit of copper, 10GE is about 3-4x cheaper then even 2Gb FC. We've also had a heck of a lot more stability out of our 6500 series switches then we have out of our 9140's and the 9500's are extremely expensive if you have a need for under 3 cards worth of ports.

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  3. Re:Bumper cars. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh this should be interesting. Fibre over a collision-and hold-off architecture. They have this newfanged technology. It's called switched Ethernet! It's amazing! With switched Ethernet, you get no collisions!

    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:0D:03:01:04
                        inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
                        inet6 addr: fe80::000:00f0:0043:0084/64 Scope:Link
                        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
                        RX packets:1781638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                        TX packets:1651683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                        RX bytes:803882935 (766.6 MiB) TX bytes:333706343 (318.2 MiB)
                        Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800


    (address details fudged only)
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  4. Re:I'm more interested in AoE by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should give it a snappier name like Serial ATA Networking, or SATAN. Lots of interesting logo possibilities in that, and it'll be funny watching 'technology evangelist' types stutter, sweat and mumble when they give PowerPoint presentations to born again potential customers.

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