Reminds me of the Token Ring days. Using a switching infrastructure removes the collision delays of Ethernet. If it's that critical, bump it up to Gigabit or 10Gb and the benefits of Fibre disappear. Plus, most of the 4Gb Fibre vendors are running iFCP so packets go through the TCP stack anyway.
-Dave Walton On Jan 9, 2008 6:05 PM, Gary Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 have assumed the technology had been replaced by something newer, faster, 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 > _______________________________________ 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
