Fibre Channel and SAN Terms & Concepts

What is Fibre Channel?

Fibre Channel (FC) is a transport protocol commonly used in storage networks. A common misunderstanding is that FC and fiber optic infrastructure such as host bus adaptor cards and fiber optic cables are the one-in-the-same. This is incorrect. FC is a protocol, like TCP/IP, and can be used over fiber optic cables or over copper. FC is commonly used to transport ...