FCoE as a Standard Is Official

On June 3rd 2009, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 Technical Committee completed its work and unanimously approved a final standard for FCoE.

As a result, the T11 Technical Committee plenary session approved forwarding the FC-BB-5 standard to INCITS for further processing as an ANSI standard.

FC-BB-5 defines mappings for transporting Fibre Channel over different network technologies. FC-BB-5 defines four distinct Fibre Channel mappings: FC over TCP/IP, FC over GFPT, FC over MPLS, and FC over Ethernet. The FC over ATM and FC over SONET backbone mappings are not specified in FC-BB-5. As such, FC-BB-5 is not a complete replacement of FC-BB-3 (i.e., see FC-BB-3 for the specification of the FC over ATM and FC over SONET backbone mappings).

To read the standard on PDF (180 pages)