Fibre Channel

Definition

Fibre channel is a highly-reliable, gigabit interconnect technology that allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI and IP protocols.

It provides interconnect systems for multiple topologies that can scale to a total system bandwidth on the order of a terabit per second. (The standardized spelling is "fibre channel" but often misspelled as "fiber channel.")

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