Fibre Channel Industry Association Elects Board of Directors

Supporting continued advancement of the purpose-built, data center proven network infrastructure for storage, the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) announced its 2016-17 board of directors.

“With their strong backgrounds in technology roles, the directors of the FCIA Board provide valuable insight and assistance in promoting the continued growth of FC for use in 2017 and beyond,” said Mark Jones, president and COB, FCIA. “FC is known by data center professionals for its high bandwidth, low latency and extreme reliability and we will continue to be a focal point of information, standards and education to maintain that trust in the industry.”

The members of the 2016/2017 FCIA board of directors are:

FCIA Officers:

• Chairman and president: Mark Jones, Broadcom Limited

   •   Treasurer: Greg McSorley, Amphen
   •   Secretary: J Metz, Cisco
Members at Large:
   •   Marketing Chair: Rupin Mohan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
   •   Craig Carlson, Cavium
   •   Kevin Ehringer, DCS
   •   Jay Neer, Molex
   •   Steven Wilson, Brocade

In 2016, FCIA launched several new initiatives that extends FC’s position as a reliable and robust storage networking solution, including:
   •   First public demonstration of NVM Express over Fabrics using Gen 6 32Gb FC at the 2016 Flash Memory Summit
   •   A Plugfest held during the week of June 20th, 2016 at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) with 11 companies participating
   •   The release of an updated FC roadmap, showing the historic speeds and feeds of FC and the future speeds up to Tb FC (TFC).
   •   Continued development of Gen 6 FC, an industry standard networking protocol that enables SANs of up to 128Gb FC
   •   A proposed 64Gb FC specification that is set to double data bandwidth over existing Gen 6 32Gb FC and 128Gb FC. When completed, it will come in a single-lane serial variant that will support up to a 12,800MB/s data rate and a four-lane parallel variant (256Gb FC) that will support up to a 51,200 MB/s data rate.