distance

June 9, 2014

NETWORKING

How Does a Cisco Aironet AP2700 Perform Under Stress?

1 min read

There's been some speculation about the performance of the AP2700--just how good could our latest AP fly under stress? We were talking with Blake Krone and Sam Clements...

September 12, 2013

DATA CENTER

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part IV: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

4 min read

In the past articles we’ve talked about doing distance extension for SANs, focusing first on building the physical elements that are required, before moving on to how Fibre Channel can be extended using buffer credits. In this article we’re going to talk about how it is best to think of extending Fibre Channel over Ethernet […]

September 10, 2013

DATA CENTER

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part III – Fibre Channel

5 min read

In Napkin Dialogues fashion, we learn about how Fibre Channel is used in long-distance situations.

September 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part II – Physical Layer

9 min read

In the second part of the FibreChannel and FCoE distance series, we learn about how the physical layer is critical for understanding storage distances before we ever get to the protocol.

September 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Storage Distance by Protocol – FC, FCoE, and FCIP, Part I

7 min read

Understand how distance intersects with the choice of Fibre Channel, FCoE, FCIP, and iSCSI storage protocols.