Fibre Channel (FC)

A high-speed, serial, storage and networking interface that offers higher performance and greater capacity and cabling distance. FC offers increased flexibility and scalability for system configurations and simplified cabling. FC is a host interface that is a channel-network hybrid using an active, intelligent interconnection scheme (topology) to connect devices over a serial bus. The storage management software uses this connection between the host (where it is installed) and each controller in the storage subsystem to communicate with the controllers.