FCoE Forwarder

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.

Context Categories:

Network Fibre Channel

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