A FCoE Community: Welcome to our community for developers, engineers and resellers interested in FCoE technology innovation.

Recently JDSU served as the technical lead for the SC09 demonstration sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance in November and was responsible for both designing the network architecture and managing the variety of test metrics used to verify compliance and interoperability.  JDSU also served as the sole testing tool provider at the third FCoE plugfest held November 16-20 by the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA).

Interoperability is essential to successfully deploying FCoE technology in the field and building a robust tools and equipment ecosystem.  In order to verify interoperability, engineers need comprehensive testing tools that enable them to observe equipment behavior under real-world operating conditions.  Since the Data Center Bridging (DCB) and FCoE specifications are still evolving, these tools must be specifically designed to progress with the standards in order to enable early developers to conduct functional testing at each of the various protocol draft stages.  Developers also need to be able to verify performance at all protocols layers – including Priority Flow Control (PFC) response time, a key factor in enabling lossless Ethernet and FCoE – as well as ensure that the latency of the FCoE network is in alignment with native Fibre Channel requirements.

See our media alert on the JDSU news site for more details about our presence at these events!