[c-nsp] FCoE or FCIP over MPLS possible?

[Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr]

Hello,

We had a glimpse of hope with a Brocade's project STARLIFTER, long dead
now. It was supposed to address this particular issue.

After it was buried, we were told to look at FCIP or iSCSI, just like you
said.

This was in 2013.

Best regards.




2014-03-19 13:48 GMT+01:00 Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>:

> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 01:39:06 PM Youssef Bengelloun-
> Zahr wrote:
>
> > We have been working on the same problem but with a
> > different vendor.
> >
> > So far, no real clues on how to transport reliably FCoE
> > over WAN (MPLS in our case).
> >
> > I'm interested in any feedbacks you guys might have.
>
> We looked at this back in 2009. Basically, it was a no-go
> then. You could only reliably transport FCIP or iSCSI
> because that can run in asynchronous mode.
>
> FCoE or FC required DWDM infrastructure over short spans.
>
> Of course, that was 2009. We were a transport service
> provider, not a data centre player. So I haven't looked at
> this since.
>
> Mark.
>



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Youssef BENGELLOUN-ZAHR