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http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=23180

The future is one standard of connectivity for servers and storage in the data center combined with high speed networks, courtesy of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol and10Gb/s Enhanced Ethernet.

Now, in the testing stage in selected enterprise sites before they will appear in OEM products in a year from now, the vendor’s new LightPulse LP21000 family of converged network adapters combines network and storage traffic under one cabling and switching infrastructure or fabric.

“It is the same drivers and management tools; so it is a seamless extension of Fibre Channel over Ethernet if you will,” stated Joe Gervais, senior marketing director at Emulex.

The result will be reduced data center complexity, management costs and power consumption, he stated.

Very cool, check out this article talking about Emulex’s LightPulse LP21000 Fibre Channel over Ethernet cards, they do sound cool. It will be interesting to see what the response is to Fibre Channel over Ethernet, I can certainly see the benefit of convergence of network and storage. We’ll have to see, do check it out.

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