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| Expect 16GFC by 2011 - says FCIA............................. | ||
| Editor:- October 20, 2009 - the
Fibre Channel Industry
Association announced its has completed the technical work on
16Gb/s
Fibre Channel (16GFC) - which provides a natural value migration from 8GFC. Product roll-outs are anticipated in 2011 according to FCIA Chairman - Skip Jones. Editor's comments:- I first published a directory of Fibre-channel adapters way back in 1994. The first FC connected storage array product listed in that was the SPARCstorageArray from Sun Microsystems. It's reassuring that users in the FC market can anticipate another level of performance evolution - but FC is no longer a growth market. So this could be the last post for FC - just as 15K RPM was the end of the road for hard disks. For dispersed systems ethernet based storage (NAS) long ago became the dominant network storage connect - while for local use and higher performance InfiniBand and PCIe have taken hold in distinct functional pockets. | ||
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| storage history Fibre-channel - 1999 Fibre-channel - 2000 Fibre-channel - 2001 Fibre-channel - 2002 Fibre-channel - 2003 Fibre-channel - 2004 Fibre-channel - 2005 Fibre-channel - 2006 |
