408 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
Another example of storage consolidation is to implement a single IBM
TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) cluster across multiple SAN fabrics.
14.2 SAN extension with iFCP
Fibre Channel distances have been traditionally limited to either local fiber runs,
using 9 micron long wave Fibre Channel, or high-quality wide area networks
(WANs) such as SONET and SDH in combination with coarse wavelength
division multiplexing (CWDM) or dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)
multiplexers.
The advent of Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) has meant that
applications that can tolerate the high latencies of IP networks can now make
Fibre Channel connections across standard cor ...