What happens to Fibre Channel with the advent of InfiniBand ?
Think of Fibre Channel as a super subset set of InfiniBand Fibre Channel is a storage area networking technology. For connections to the drive, Fibre Channel will make sense for the next several years. Drive vendors will likely adopt InfiniBand interfaces once the technology is cost effective. However, this is several years away. • Is PCI being replaced by InfiniBand in 2005? We see InfiniBand dominating the data center by that time. Yes. PCI will be a legacy only connection, similar to ISA 3 years ago in servers. • If you have a PCI bus on the server does it slow down this architecture? InfiniBand connection to the Server’s memory subsystem through PCI is not as efficient as direct connection. However, InfiniBand enables several key features within the fabric that will greatly increase the I/O subsystem when compared to I/O cards built around a PCI only system. • When will you have a Plugfest? The InfiniBand Trade Association has sanctioned a Compliance and Interoperability working gr
