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RSS channel fiberEtherChannel Between a Cisco Catalyst Switch That Runs Cisco IOS and a Workstation or Server Configuration Example
White Paper One can use EtherChannel to interconnect LAN switches, routers, servers, and clients via Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) wiring or single-mode and multimode fiber. EtherChannel allows multiple physical Ethernet links to... [10 Jul 2008]
Understanding EtherChannel Load Balancing and Redundancy on Catalyst Switches
White Paper Fast EtherChannel can be used to interconnect LAN switches, routers, servers, and clients via Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) wiring or single-mode and multimode fiber. Fast EtherChannel allows multiple physical Fast... [10 Jul 2008]
HP Storageworks Enterprise Virtual Array Configuration Guide For Mysap Business Suite
White Paper The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) disk subsystem is the latest HP storage offering based on full fiber-channel technology and the complete virtualization of physical disks. These... [03 Jul 2008]
Fibre Channel Fiber Cabling
White Paper This paper will discuss the Fibre Channel standards for fiber cables at both 1Gb and 2Gb speeds, and also some discussion of departures from standard. Items discussed will be cable types, plug types,... [03 Jul 2008]
Scaling Bandwidth and Services Using Channel Bonding
White Paper DSL technologies are now able to provide beyond 50 Mbps of bandwidth, and fiber-to-the home initiatives offer even greater bandwidth potential for both video and data services. CableLabs, through its member cable... [30 Jun 2008]
CIENA's CN 2000 Provides High Performance, Low Cost SRDF Extension for Business Continuance
White Paper FPL implemented CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution which extends up to 16 Fibre Channel (FC), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), ESCON, and FICONTM applications across any SONET/SDH, WDM, or Dark Fiber... [10 Apr 2008]
Fibre Channel over SONET/SDH
White Paper This white paper is an introduction to Cisco Systems optical and storage product offerings, with a focus on the new SL-Series Fiber Channel/FICON over SONET/SDH interface card for the Cisco ONS 15454,... [10 Apr 2008]
Cisco MDS 9000 Family FCIP WAN Deployment Guidelines
White Paper FCIP, a transparent Fiber Channel tunneling protocol over TCP/IP, considered for a variety of applications across a variety of network transports and topologies. When considering various transports of... [10 Apr 2008]
Storage Networking over a Metro Network
White Paper This paper focuses on the transport of Fiber Channel/FICON, as this is currently the fastest-growing protocol for SAN. This white paper outlines the motivation behind storage networking. The paper... [10 Apr 2008]
Understanding the Alternatives for Extending Storage-Area Networks
White Paper The most popular protocols for SANs include Fibre Channel, Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON), and IBM Fiber Connection (FICON). To accommodate the vast amounts of data needed throughout enterprises,... [10 Apr 2008]
Look for Power Tradeoffs in 10GBASE-T Ethernet
White Paper However, the increased signal-processing requirements imposed by the 10GBASE-T channel mean that an early-generation 10GBASE-T Physical Transceiver (PHY) consumes significantly more power than a mature 1000BASE-T... [28 Mar 2008]
How Cisco Migrated to a SAN Environment in Small European Data Center
White Paper In early 2003, the team started planning a migration from individual SAN islands based on smaller Fiber Channel switches to a single shared SAN service based on the larger Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer... [05 Mar 2008]
Nortel Network Case Study: NTT Communications
White Paper NTT Communications chose Nortel's Optical Metro 3000 solution to offer fiber channel leased line services. NTT Communications, a group company of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, provides... [11 Jan 2008]
What is SAN?
White Paper In some senses these technologies can simply be thought of as natural evolutions from today's network systems - e.g.faster access across fiber to a storage array. This revolution has been catalyzed by the advent of high... [10 Jul 2007]
AIX Performance With NFS, iSCSI, and FCP Using an Oracle Database on NetApp Storage
White Paper The focus of this paper is technical, and the reader should be comfortable with AIX system administration, Oracle10g Database administration, network connectivity, Fiber Channel administration and NetApp... [11 May 2007]
