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FCoE to drive network adapter market

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CALIFORNIA, USA: Fibre Channel over Ethernet, or FCoE, is forecast to be a major growth contributor to both fibre channel host bus adapte (HBA market) and Ethernet network adapter market, says Dell’Oro Group.

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Seamus Crehan, VP, Dell’Oro Group, says: “Despite setbacks from budget cuts caused by the economic downturn, we expect that fibre channel over Ethernet will drive growth in both the HBA and Ethernet network adapter markets."

“Although there are some hurdles, such as user inertia, to be overcome, we believe the value proposition of a single converged fabric is too compelling. We expect that FCoE adoption will first occur at the server access layer of the network with converged network adapters connecting mostly to blade and top-of-rack switches,” added Crehan.

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