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Byline: Mamta03 Sales of Fibre Channel switches rose in the fourth quarter, fueled mostly by demand for higher-priced, higher-featured products, according to a recent report published by DellOro Group.

com QLogic Corp (Nasdaq: QLGC), a supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, announced on Monday (26 March) that QLogic SANbox switches and SANblade HBAs are now shipping in the second generation HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) 1000 Small Business SAN Kit from technology solutions provider HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ).

The Sphereon 4400 and Sphereon 4700 are scalable, feature-rich and easy-to-manage 4-Gbps Fibre Channel fabric switches.

By Jason Stamper Two key networking and storage connectivity organizations, the Fibre Channel Association (FCA) and the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC) have agreed to merge, Computerwire has learned.

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, fourth quarter 2008 Fibre Channel Storage Networking Market sales were about even with the prior quarter levels.

Its product portfolio includes Fibre Channel HBAs, blade-server-embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs and iSCSI routers.

Today, Fibre Channel is the predominant interface for building SANs by using Fibre Channel protocol (FCP) for open systems environments and FICON for mainframe environments.

Despite the growing acceptance of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) as the preferred method for consolidating stored data, many organizations still are struggling to find an affordable way to connect stranded islands of workgroup and departmental servers.