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Fiber Channel

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Fiber Channel?

Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed network technology primarily used for connecting computer data storage to servers. It's commonly used in storage area networks (SANs) in enterprise environments due to its high bandwidth, low latency, and reliability.

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What other technologies are related to Fiber Channel?

Fiber Channel Competitor Technologies

iSCSI is an alternative protocol for storage networking that competes with Fiber Channel.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 12% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

NFS is a network file system protocol which competes with Fiber Channel for data storage transport.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 3% (604) of relevant job posts

FCoE is an alternative transport to Fiber Channel in the data center.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 10% (150) of relevant job posts

CIFS/SMB is a network file system protocol which competes with Fiber Channel for data storage transport.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 5% (280) of relevant job posts

NAS competes with SAN, which Fiber Channel supports.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 3% (569) of relevant job posts

Fiber Channel Complementary Technologies

VMWare Data Center Virtualization technology

Virtualization benefits from the high performance of Fiber Channel SANs.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 92% (90) of relevant job posts

Host Bus Adapters / Converged Network Adapters are required for Fiber Channel connectivity.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 95% (55) of relevant job posts

Fiber Channel is often used as a transport for SANs.

mentioned alongside Fiber Channel in 31% (94) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Fiber Channel?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Fiber Channel

Orgs mentioning Fiber Channel

Engineer

0% (1.3k) job posts

124 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (373) job posts

142 organizations

Network Engineer

0% (124) job posts

55 organizations

Infrastructure Engineer

0% (99) job posts

50 organizations

Datacenter Administrator

0% (70) job posts

6 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Fiber Channel?

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Industry

Matching Teams

Matching People

Scientific and Technical Services

Information

Marvell Technology

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Scientific and Technical Services

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