“Fibre Channel is dead.” That was the controversial conclusion of one participant in a heated debate at an industry conference back in 2000. Industry vendors were investigating a new protocol – ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Storage Area Network Fundamentals” (ISBN 158705065X ) published courtesy of Cisco Press. With the growing popularity of storage area networks (SANs), ...

Fiber deep means bringing fiber deeper into the network, and thus closer to the customers, than it is in a non fiber deep architecture. Fiber deep solves a lot of the problems mentioned above by ...

Fiber optic networks provide the connectivity ubiquitous to modern society, enabling financial transactions, business ...

WEST HAVEN — Virtually all residential and business addresses in West Haven now have access to ultra-high-speed broadband internet, following the completion of an open-access fiber network. UTOPIA ...

While it’s a fact that most storage is still attached directly to the server that accesses it, is also true that storage continues to move at a steady pace onto the network. In all but the smallest IT ...