Where and How???

[murabi]

This is a rather general question but can someone tell me where and how is Fibre Channel best used?

[rsissons]

In the contest of Storage Area Networking, Fibre Channel is used to connect servers to storage arrays. The fibre channel protocol itself is optimised for carrying block data and can carry a number of protocols at the applcation level. For SAN this is SCSI but other protocols, such as IP are available. It can be used in 3 topologies, point to point, arbitrated loop or switched. The following url gives an introduction to Cisco's use of Fibre Channel for SAN.

[silvertuscani]

What URL?

[efrahim]

Try this

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/index.html

[silvertuscani]

Thank you :)