Title : 
Overview and status of Fibre Channel
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Ancor Commun. Inc., Minnetonka, MN, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Fibre Channel provides affordable, high-speed interconnection for data communications. It is a technology that is broadly sponsored by industry and is coming to the marketplace in 1994. This paper presents an overview of the Fibre Channel set of ANSI standards and an update on Fibre Channel related activities.<>
         
        
            Keywords : 
standards; system buses; ANSI standards; Fibre Channel; data communications; high-speed interconnection; Copper; Fabrics; Image storage; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Transceivers; Transport protocols; Workstations;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA, USA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-8186-5380-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282942