With fibre channel, the job of a router is much different than with IP networks. ADIC Pathlight 5000 channel routers translate fibre channel frames to frames of another transport, such as SCSI. Aside from a switch, the router is perhaps the most important piece of your SAN infrastructure. The most popular fibre channel switches and routers are covered shortly. This makes some switch port connections unable to see connections to other switch ports. With zoning, you can apply the same[…]
