FCIA & FCIA-J span the Pacific.The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ) and its sister association, the Fibre Channel Industry Association-Japan (FCIA-J), recently announced that its members have ratified the extension of the Fibre Channel roadmap to include 8Gbs Fibre Channel (8GFC GFC Geelong Football Club (Australia) GFC GMD (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense) Fire Control GFC Georgia Forestry Commission GFC Generic Flow Control GFC Grace Fellowship Church GFC Gaelic Football Club ) for copper backplanes and copper cable storage device interconnects. Fibre Channel is the major technology used in disk drives, drive controllers, intra-cabinet and short distance inter-cabinet storage area networking (SAN) applications. The vote supports the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. INCITS INCITS INternational Committee for Information Technology Standards T11 Technical Committee development of the 8Gbs Fibre Channel electrical (copper) interface in its FC-PI-4 standard and ensures that Fibre Channel continues to provide the highest performance available for storage interconnects. The FCIA is a nonprofit international organization of manufacturers, systems integrators, developers, systems vendors, industry professionals and end users. With 80 member companies and FCIA affiliates in the United States and Japan, FCIA is committed to delivering a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure to support a wide array of industry applications within the mass storage and IT-based arenas. FCIA working groups focus on specific aspects of the technology, targeting both vertical and horizontal markets including storage, video, networking and SAN management. For more information on FCIA, please visit their website: www.fibrechannel.org Or, to contact the FCIA, e-mail at info@fibrechannel.org or call 1-415-561-6270. RELATED ARTICLE: FCIA Principal Members Agere Systems Agilent Broadcom Corporation Brocade Communications Cisco CNT (Carbon NanoTube) See nanotube. EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Finisar Corporation Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. I-TECH IBM JNI McDATA Corporation PMC-Sierra Seagate Technology Sun Microsystems Xyratex International |
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