Cisco wants to see 10G Ethernet become the one and only I/O connection between servers and the network, does it? And it would prefer if all connections would be boiled down to a single link, if possible. Setting aside the obvious problem with that -- a single point of failure -- this idea seems geared to offer an upgrade path away from Fibre Channel, allowing users to keep their Fibre Channel traffic by encapsulating it in Ethernet, i.e. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
One I/O to plug the data center into the network
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 1:43pm
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