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Byte and Switch

Networking vendor Brocade Communications Systems on Tuesday introduced a switch and converged network adapters that support Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) at Storage Networking World in Orlando. It is the latest in a series of moves by a variety of networking, storage, and data center vendors to provide a migration path to a 10-Gigabit Ethernet unified network infrastructure that many believe will become the foundation for next-generation data centers.

But that won’t happen soon, Brocade acknowledges. “We believe we are extremely early and that adoption of this technology might not be as quick as we had hoped,” says Marty Lans, senior director of product marketing at Brocade. “There are many forces working against it right now.”

Being able to provide network and storage down the same pipe can bring benefits in automation, the ability to deliver and in terms of energy efficiency. Anything we can do to reduce the cost of the adoption, bring more choice to the end users in terms of choice and innovation has to be a good thing.

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