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Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Bringing Your Critical Systems Together

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Ethernet
Fiber Channel
SONET/SDH

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is designed to converge what has been two separate networks, storage and data, into a single architecture on the edge of the network.

The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are involved in developing standards for FCoE. However, many equipment manufacturers are not waiting for the standards to be completed, but are releasing pre-standard implementations.

Beyond the details of connectivity (such as addressing, encapsulation, discovery and forwarding), is the challenge to achieve the performance and reliability of storage networks in the FCoE environment. Reliable transport, flow control and congestion management are required to meet the challenge.

Test and Validate:

• Interoperability with existing FC equipment
• Lossless transport delivery at line rate
• Priority-based flow control, congestion management and enhanced transmission selection required to deliver performance and reliability

Anue Systems gives you confidence that your goals will be met through the power of objective, verifiable, repeatable network test results.  Use the only system that has all the elements you need to test FCoE.

• Flexibility to test standards-based or proprietary implementations
• Full line-rate 10 GB performance
• Native Fibre Channel interfaces (FC1, FC2, FC4, FC8, FC10)
• Storage protocol support (FC, FCoE, FCIP, iSCSI, CIFS)
• Fibre Channel frame sizes
• Native Ethernet interfaces (supports 1GigE and 10GigE)
• Target impairments based on Ethertype, FCoE, FIP and FC header fields
• Ethernet flow control