Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE

Broadcom's first processor for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80% faster than any other FCoE component, reports PCWorld.

The card passed qualification tests with the EMC E-Lab, Cisco, Dell and Demartek, a specialist in testing network and storage.

A Demartek white paper says the cards deliver data rates up to 1.7 million input/output operations per second (IOPs), according to EETimes.

PR Newswire says enterprise data centres demand 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) bandwidth and FCoE connectivity to support server virtualisation, consolidation and convergence.

Broadcom's FCoE-based converged network solutions allow IT professionals to unite data and storage networks on a common 10GbE fabric, while significantly reducing the cost of power, cooling and cabling, says ITProPortal.