FCoE Forwarder
[Network]
[Fibre Channel]
An element of a Fibre Channel Switch with one or more lossless Ethernet MACs, each coupled with an FCoE Controller.
An FCoE Forwarder (FCF) forwards FCoE frames based on the D_ID of the encapsulated Fibre Channel frames. An FCoE Forwarder may contain one or more Lossless Ethernet bridging elements and may contain a Fibre Channel Fabric interface.