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Posted by stephen on June 30, 2007, 8:05 am
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> Hi group, I have a general understanding question. We have a SAN and
> we need to extend it to a second location via a 1GB WAN-Ethernet
> circuit. All my research brought back to use the FCIP feature of the
> McData or MDS900 switches and then route the traffic via IP. I dont
> like this idea beacause of all the issues with overhead and buffer
> tweaking that need occur to proper run that architecture.
if you have a metro Gigabit link it may support F/channel directly.
A lot of metro DWDM can be set to support either - eg the Adva FSP2000s
which are used by various carriers for this in the UK.
same may be true for some SDH kit.
>
> Isnt it possible to kind of bridge the FC traffic over the ethernet
> without using IP? The speed of the FC and the ethernet WAN is the
> same.
>
> I found also there is a FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) specs in
> the works, but this will take some more time to be established.
>
> Am I thinking in the wrong direction, or are there maybe devices on
> the market which allows me to do what I have described?
>
> Dark fibre is no option in that place, otherwise we would have used
> that for FC transport.
>
> Thanks, Greetings, Jo
>
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