SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), a non-profit international organization of manufacturers, systems integrators and vendors, today announced that it successfully completed its FCoE Plugfest the week of September 15th at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL). Industry leading Fibre Channel vendors collaborated to ensure interoperability for upcoming FCoE products and solutions.
Sponsored by the FCIA, the Plugfest was open to all Fibre Channel vendors and provided a forum for testing interoperability between different vendor's FCoE products. Participating companies included Absolute Analysis, Amphenol, Brocade(r), Cisco Systems, Emulex, Finisar Corp, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel Corp, LSI, Mellanox Technologies, Molex, NetApp, QLogic Corporation, and Spirent Communications.
"The FCoE Plugfest proved to be successful with all of the FCoE initiators being able to communicate across the FCoE fabrics of multiple participating companies to both FCoE and Fibre Channel targets. Fibre Channel vendors had an opportunity to explore and achieve interoperability across many different configurations. Today, the industry is well on its way to stable multi-vendor interoperable FCoE-based solutions," said Bill Martin, FCoE Plugfest Chair.
"It was rewarding to see industry leading Fibre Channel vendors come together to test their FCoE products under the FCIA sponsored Plugfest," said Skip Jones, chairman FCIA. "The participation of these companies underscores the significant commitment and strong momentum leading to the rapid deployment of FCoE products and solutions."
Member companies are in product development and gearing to deliver FCoE solutions over the coming months.
About FCIA
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a non-profit international organization whose sole purpose is to act as the independent technology and marketing voice of the Fibre Channel industry. We are committed to helping member organizations promote and position Fibre Channel, and to providing a focal point for Fibre Channel information, standards advocacy, and education.
FCIA members include manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals, and end users. Our member-led working groups and committees focus on creating and championing the Fibre Channel technology roadmaps, targeting applications that include data storage, video, networking, and storage area network (SAN) management. For more info, go to http://www.fibrechannel.org
About the UNH-IOL
Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interoperability and conformance-based testing through 19 technology-based groups, called consortiums. Test solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, and point-to-point and multi-system scenarios. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at: www.iol.unh.edu.
The UNH-IOL also runs the Fibre Channel Consortium, a separate association of companies building new products and interested in testing them on an ongoing basis.
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