Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...

What is FCIP, and what is it used for? Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP, is a tunnelling protocol used to connect Fibre Channel (FC) switches over an IP network, enabling interconnection of remote ...

LOS ANGELES—I’m sure you’ve heard about how everything is going IP e.g., Internet of everything. Even live (real-time) video signals are going IP. Sure, SMPTE 2022 has been around for a while and gee, ...

Broadcom has launched its first Fibre Channel Gen7 storage switches, which allow array-server connectivity at 64Gbps, which is double the performance of Gen6. The new switches – the Brocade G720 and ...

Netgear has announced that its M4300 series switches are now officially Crestron certified. Crestron provides a rigid certification program to ensure customers encounter a high level of ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

The What: Netgear has added the new M4500 series 100-Gigabit Network Switches to its managed switch line. In addition, it has also added 16-, 24-, and 48-port 10-gigabit models to its M4300 line of ...