Tag Archives: FCoE

Fibre Channel Credits vs. FCoE’s “Pause”

Anyone who comes from a Fibre Channel background likely has a pretty good understanding of Buffer to Buffer (B2B) Credits.  The Fibre Channel network is designed so that all capacity within the system is carefully distributed and not oversubscribed.  This … Continue reading

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What will FCoE mean for the Cisco MDS?

Cisco has already announced the new Supervisor-2B which advertises support for FCoE on the Cisco MDS.  But what does that mean exactly?  I don’t know for sure, because there really isn’t much information on Cisco to document the FCoE capabilities … Continue reading

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