3.2. Storage Networking
Storage networks have tended to use their own network protocols, transports, and media in order to attain higher performance to and from storage that would be possible over Ethernet and LANs. Technologies such as Fibre Channel were tuned for larger-sized packet transmission and for more reliable transmission, because unlike Ethernet on WANs you could count on a Fibre Channel network being reliable. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Fibre Channel would run as its own separate network to large storage devices, often controlled by and supporting hosts (servers mostly, but computers generally) that were connected to one another over Ethernet. In storage network parlance, Fibre Channel is "in-band" communications and Ethernet is ...
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