The 8800 switch has 24 ports for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and eight Fiber Channel ports. Richard Villars of IDC explains why iSCSI users shy away from Fiber Channel.
Converged voice, video and data networks, over the past three years, have grown from bleeding-edge technology into a potentially money-saving business tool. A variety of organizations across the country are now running critical voice traffic across their data backbones, or subscribing to videoconferencing services from a number of national carriers.