What Fibre Channel over Ethernet products are currently available?
What’s out there today are some early converged adapters that speak FCoE. There are some early switches. There are even some systems from a storage standpoint that support FCoE for basic interoperability-type testing. So, some of the basic building block pieces are there. What’s missing is a more robust ecosystem where you have multiple switches from multiple vendors all working together, routers from different vendors working with each other, as well as routers from different vendors working with different vendors’ enhanced Ethernet products, their regular Ethernet products, their regular Fibre Channel products, their long distance products. What’s missing are robust adapters that speak both Fibre Channel, as well as regular Ethernet on a converged adapter to support mixed workloads. What’s really missing are storage systems on a broad basis that can speak FCoE, in addition to speaking native Fiber Channel, in addition to traditional iSCSI over Ethernet, as well as NAS. That combined
