Fibre Channel is an exciting technology that is proving to fulfill the needs of the computer industry on many fronts. It supports up to 16 million devices at high speeds over a wide distance. It is flexible in that it supports multiple protocols such as SCSI and IP over the same physical medium and is equally well suited to applications having different I/O requirements. Fibre Channel is unique in that it brings channel and network architecture together. Fibre Channel has strong industry acceptance and is well supported by major network and storage vendors alike.