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Fibre Channel Infrastructure Application Matrix

 

Market
Connection
Length
Metro [Optical] 
ISL
>= 5km
Multi Building (campus)[Optical]
ISL
300m - 5km
Single Buildinig (Local) [Optical]
ISL
30m - 5km
Datacenter or Rack[Optical]
ISL/SEL/BEL
0m - 100m
Datacenter or Rack [Copper]
ISL/SEL/BEL
0m - 15m
Backplane [Copper]
IDL
0.6m

ISL = Inter Switch Link
SEL= SAN Edge Link
BEL = Back End Link
IDL = Inter Device Link

Fibre Channel RoadMap v11

 


†Equivalent Line Rate: FCoE rates listed are equivalent data rates for serial stream methodologies. However, final output speed may be generated with aggregated methodologies.
‡Dates: Future dates estimated