THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY July 10, 2002 iFCP ______________ TODAY'S SPONSOR: The .tv Corporation
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TCP provides congestion control as well as error detection and recovery services. iFCP merges existing SCSI and Fibre Channel networks into the Internet. iFCP can either replace or be used in conjunction with existing Fibre Channel protocols, such as FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP). iFCP addresses some problems that FCIP does not. For example, FCIP is a tunneling protocol that simply encapsulates Fibre Channel data and forwards it over a TCP/IP network as an extension of the existing Fibre Channel network. However, FCIP is only equipped to work within the Fibre Channel environment, while the storage industry trend is increasingly towards the Internet-based storage area network. Because iFCP gateways can either replace or complement existing Fibre Channel fabrics, iFCP can be used to facilitate migration from a Fibre Channel SAN to an IP SAN or a hybrid network. RELATED TERMS: Fibre Channel http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212114,00.html SAN http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212937,00.html TCP/IP http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214173,00.html SCSI http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci212949,00.html Fibre Channel over IP http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci750990,00.html tunneling http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213230,00.html gateway http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212176,00.html ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: The IETF 's IP Storage Working Group describes its charter in developing iFCP. http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ips-charter.html SearchStorage provides a Technical Tip article, "FCIP v. iFCP." http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid5_gci790308,00.html iSCSI Storage explains the differences in "IP Storage: A review of iSCSI, FCIP, and iFCP." http://www.iscsistorage.com/ipstorage.htm ______________________ WHATIS DISCUSSION FORUM | Challenge #8: Domain name dilemma Challenges are another learning tool where you (the reader) try to solve various real-life IT problems. 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