Fibre specification
Distance between the machines and a fiber device can go up to 500 m (10 km long wave).
Throughput of one fiber connection is 100 MB/s (65 MB/s long distance)
- 5 times of the SCSI performance
- fiber channel MUX 50 MB/s
Connectivity for devices can go up to 125 devices
- fibre channel MUX can have 4 SCSI connections
- with a MUX 4 times as many drives as with SCSI
- fibre channel cards are available for HSC and PCI
No Network needed for backup
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