There are still applications where Fiber Channel is king. It gives you a level of determinism you simply can't get from Ethernet. That can be important to some transaction processing and data acquisition systems.
Yes, you should be able to use a 4Gb SFP in place of a 2Gb, provided everything else is equal (both have same wavelength and drive the same type of fiber). Gary Thompson (telecom nerd) 1995 E320 On 1/9/08, Alex Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 11:42 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody on here know anything about Fibre channel? > > > > Wow, Fibre Channel is still around? Last I heard about it was at a place I > used to work where some engineers were involved in a top-secret project to > build some kind of FC switch with an embedded TCP stack and web server for > remote administration---a big deal in the late '90s! The company closed its > doors a few years later, so I figure my NDA has long since expired. I'm out > of the loop now on SAN stuff, but since this was about 10 years ago, I would > have assumed the technology had been replaced by something newer, faster, > etc. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
