12 Facts About Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data.

Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks in commercial data centers.

Fibre Channel Protocol is a protocol that transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks.

Fibre Channel can be used to transport data from storage systems that use solid-state flash memory storage medium by transporting NVMe protocol commands.

Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards, an American National Standards Institute -accredited standards committee.

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Fibre Channel started in 1988, with ANSI standard approval in 1994, to merge the benefits of multiple physical layer implementations including SCSI, HIPPI and ESCON.

Fibre Channel was designed as a serial interface to overcome limitations of the SCSI and HIPPI physical-layer parallel-signal copper wire interfaces.

Fibre Channel was the first serial storage transport to achieve gigabit speeds where it saw wide adoption, and its success grew with each successive speed.

Fibre Channel has seen active development since its inception, with numerous speed improvements on a variety of underlying transport media.

Two major characteristics of Fibre Channel networks are in-order delivery and lossless delivery of raw block data.

Fibre Channel has not used 8 or 16 lane modules used in 400GbE and has no plans to use these expensive and complex modules.

Goal of Fibre Channel is to create a storage area network to connect servers to storage.