In the networking case, Ethernet is less expensive than competing technologies such as Infiniband and even Fibre Channel.
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Net, Fibre Channel is high ROI, legacy Ethernet is low investment and converged products (recently introduced) are the growth engine.
Intel picks up the 10Gb cards and Emulex picks up the Fibre channel cards that go into the NextIO box.
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The new array can now also use 2.5-in solid-state drives (SSDs) along with traditional SAS, SATA and Fibre Channel drives.
While Fibre Channel storage networking technology offers up to 16 Gbps data rates low cost, high speed Ethernet connectivity is raising its head.
In a traditional data center, data storage devices and servers have been connected via Fibre Channel and Infiniband cables that can only move data over short distances.
Established competitor Juniper has been making advances for almost a year with its new software, and Brocade just announced increasing throughput in a revived fibre channel business.
From rugged portable drives to ultra-fast rack-mount arrays, G-Technology's USB, FireWire, eSATA, SAS and Fibre Channel storage solutions support virtually all levels of AV production and can be found in post-production facilities worldwide.
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PCIe is becoming popular for flash memory storage devices since it offers much faster data rates than traditional SATA , SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces, which flash memory storage devices can make use of.
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Dell still intends to offer customers Fibre Channel switches from Brocade, which has been a networking equipment partner for more than 10 years, and offer Juniper systems for security applications as well as Aruba equipment for wireless networks.
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The RackMac mini Xserver supports one half-length, x16 (x4 mode), PCIe 2.0 card to enable the use of professional video capture cards, 8Gb Fibre Channel cards, 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards, and RAID controller cards with a racked Mac mini all in 1U rack space.
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Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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The company's product line features a range of high-performance, cost-effective, and reliable desktop and rackmount RAID storage solutions ranging from two- and four-drive and SSD RAID units, to 8- and 16-drive solutions with advanced RAID controllers, to 16-drive, 16-port, 8Gb Fibre Channel shared storage systems that are expandable to 384 TB.
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As the equipment at either end of the fibre becomes more sophisticated, the number of channels, and the capacity of each channel, increase, even though the fibre itself is unchanged.
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