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Fibre Channel SAN (FC-SAN) |
Ethernet SAN (E-SAN |
InfiniBand SAN (IBA-SAN) |
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Current Generation Bandwidth |
100MBps Fibre Channel 200MBps Fibre Channel 400MBps Fibre Channel |
Gigabit Ethernet |
To be released in phases starting in 2002 1 – Replacement for PCI bus 2 – Used for server clustering interconnections 3 - SANs |
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Next Generation Bandwidth |
1GBps Fibre Channel |
10 Gigabit Ethernet |
2.5GBps (1X) 10GBps (4X) 30GBps (12X) |
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Switch Types |
Fibre Channel |
Ethernet |
InfiniBand |
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10 Kilometers |
Virtually unlimited distance via WAN technologies |
1000m per link |