The Fibre Channel is a medium over which the communication is provided. Basically used for the communication over a network it has lots of applications in the networking field. This communication medium was started way back in the year of the 1988. The other communication media presently include the following ones: The optical cable channels, air – sounds unfamiliar, but a medium for the wireless carriers and many other communication media like the cooper wires etc. This Fibre Channel was developed to simplify the usage of the other communication methods such as the HIPPI communication system. The HIPPI stands for the name of the High Performance Parallel Interface. This HIPPI was an ANSI standard specification for the purpose of the high-speed communication system. This HIPPI channel used a cable that had a capacity of about 32 bits or 64 bits. The transfer capacity of this cable was around 100 Mega Bytes per second to about 200 Mega Bytes per second.

This is used for the channel in the super computer for the purpose of the communication that is popularly known as the point to point. The point to point communication method has the switch that regulates the flow of data over the network. This switch is known as the crosspoint switch. This HIPPI is used as a high speed LAN. It had a massive 50 pair cable and huge or very large connectors but at the same time it also had a limited cable length. Hence for this reason the Fibre Channel was introduced and used. The primary interest or the main reason was that to simplifying the connections that were made and to have an increment in the length; but at the same time to oppose the speeds that may increase.

The similar concept was also used to broaden the focus involved in it to address the issues of the SCSI disk storage systems. This concept provided the much needed requirement of the higher speed and much far larger number of the devices that could be connected.

The name Fibre Channel comes from the name of the optical cables that are made from the fiber. This is the serial bus of the computer which is intended to be connected to the storage devices of the high speed storage systems. The main purpose of this type of communication medium that is the Fibre Channel was primarily in the field of the supercomputers. But the Fibre Channel momentarily gained and carved out a niche as a standard means or medium of the communication channel. The Fibre Channel has also become the standard in the connection type for the networks of the type storage area networks; that are widely used in the enterprise storage systems or the many corporate environments.

The forms of the communication medium can also be combined on Fibre Channel such as the signaling that is used on the fiber optic cables and the twisted copper pair; even if the name does not specify anything with the copper wires or so. Also there are existent three major topologies that are as follows: Point to point (FC-P2P), Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and the Switched Fabric (FC-SW). The Fibre Channel is also a have the layered protocols that are mentioned below: FC 0, FC 1, FC 2, FC 3 and the FC 4 etc. The products these days that are available for the Fibre Channels are about 1 to 4 Giga bits per second. The ratified speed of the Fibre Channel is also about the 4 to 10 Giga Bits per second.

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