Q&A: Why do we need FCoE?  Posted on July 06, 2007   —In April,
a number of vendors proposed the Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) standard, which will enable users to run Fibre Channel
SAN traffic over standard Ethernet LANs. Products based on the
standard aren't expected until at least 2009, but the proposed
standard has already generated a lot of controversy. Proponents
cite the need for a unified, or converged, Ethernet pipe, while
detractors argue that FCoE is little more than an attempt on the
part of Fibre Channel vendors to stall adoption of iSCSI (which
also allows storage traffic to run over Ethernet).  As
background for an article on FCoE that will run in the August
print issue of InfoStor, we caught up with Taufik Ma, vice
president of marketing in Emulex's Intelligent Network Products
group. Emulex was one of the original developers behind the FCoE
standard and is a strong proponent. Here are a few snippets from
that conversation:  InfoStor: Between Fibre Channel and iSCSI,
users would seem to h