- Fiber determines cable length:
2gb/sec: longwave, 9 micron, singlemode: 10km
shortwave, 50 micron, multimode: 300m
shortwave, 62.5 micron, multimode: 150m
copper: 30m
- multiwave fibre can carry > wavelength at a time>
- machines connect to the fabric via GBICs and fibre
- fabric switches incorporate management software
- RAID systems and tapes attach directly to the SAN
- SAN backup solutions have high capacity: 389 Terabytes, anyone?
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