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FICON (for FIbre CONnectivity) is an IBM proprietary high speed network protocol and is ONLY compatible with supported IBM mainframe platforms. FICON was the replacement for ESCON, but for a few years was only really implimented in mainframe tape drives.
FC (for Fibre Channel) is a non proprietary high speed network protocol used in storage area networks (SANs) to connect together servers, disk arrays and tape libraries, usually via SAN switches such as made by Brocade. FC can carry ethernet and other protocols.
FC networks are usually a mix of Windows, Linux and UNIX, but because the bottom layers of the FICON protocol (including the connectors) are FC compatible, a customer can route FICON over his FC infrastructure of switches & cables.
FICON (for FIbre CONnectivity) is an IBM proprietary high speed network protocol and is ONLY compatible with supported IBM mainframe platforms. FICON was the replacement for ESCON, but for a few years was only really implimented in mainframe tape drives.
FC (for Fibre Channel) is a non proprietary high speed network protocol used in storage area networks (SANs) to connect together servers, disk arrays and tape libraries, usually via SAN switches such as made by Brocade. FC can carry ethernet and other protocols.
FC networks are usually a mix of Windows, Linux and UNIX, but because the bottom layers of the FICON protocol (including the connectors) are FC compatible, a customer can route FICON over his FC infrastructure of switches & cables.
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