SANs Today Increasing port count Multi-vendor Edge and Core switches Server Server Increasing port count Multi-vendor Edge and Core switches Remote connectivity Migration to 2 gig Storage Virtualization Edge Switches Core Switch FC Tunnel Remote SAN WAN MAN LAN ATM DWDM GigE Storage Storage
SANs Tomorrow Multiple SAN Infrastructure Fibre Channel GbE InfiniBand FC SAN FC SAN MAN/WAN Multiple SAN Infrastructure Fibre Channel GbE InfiniBand Inter - SAN Connectivity 10 Gb iSCSI SAN InfiniBand Cluster/SAN WAN GbE/ATM/SONET
Three Technologies Will Coexist Fibre channel High end SANs Infiniband Backplane replacement and server networks iSCSI FC - FC WAN bridge iSCSI - FC conversion Low end SANs WAN
SAN Speed convergence 10 Gbit 2.5 Gb InfiniBand Ethernet 10 Mb 100 Mb 1 Gb 0.25 Gb 1Gb 2Gb Fibre Channel