A serial I/O interconnect capable of supporting multiple protocols.
Protocols supported include FCP, FICON, and IP.
Fibre Channel (FC) supports switched, point-to-point, and Arbitrated Loop topologies with a variety of copper and optical links running at speeds from 1 Gb/s to 128 Gb/s. The committee standardizing Fibre Channel is the INCITS Fibre Channel (T11) Technical Committee.
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Fibre Channel