Project 1871 - Information technology - Fibre Channel - Backbone

Project 1871 - Information technology - Fibre Channel - Backbone - 5 (FC-BB-5)

This project proposal recommends the development of a set of additional and enhanced mechanisms,
services, and protocols to connect Fibre Channel entities over selected non-Fibre Channel
protocol infrastructures.

Enhancements to Ethernet protocols, such as the Pause mechanism defined in IEEE 802.3-2005,
make possible to define a direct mapping of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). This mapping provides
several technological benefits over the currently defined Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) mapping
and gives a significant business advantage to Fibre Channel over competing technologies, such as
iSCSI, because it provides seamless compatibility with existing storage, drivers, and management
tools. The FCoE mapping allows Fibre Channel to be used in Ethernet based I/O consolidated environments
and will be especially useful in both the Data Center and Metro Ethernet environments.

Included within the scope of this project are functions such as:

a) A direct mapping of Fibre Channel over selected full duplex IEEE 802.3 networks; and
b) Any other item as deemed necessary during the development.