
280 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
Although the bandwidth on most shortwave Fibre Channel networks installed
today is underused, there are applications that perform high-volume sequential
I/Os, which can flood Fibre Channel ports. Remember that although a disk
system might only have one, two, or four back-end 2 Gbps FC-AL loops, the
system might be able to feed a lot of data onto the network from cache.
9.8.2 FCIP compression and FCIP-WA
Results can vary significantly from site to site when deploying FCIP compression
and FCIP-WA.
FCIP compression
Cisco implements hardware compression in the MDS 9216i and on the MPS ...