FCoE adapter revenue is expected to increase, on average, by more than 200 percent annually and reach nearly $400 million in 2013, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group. "FCoE port shipments are expected to increase by an average of 300 percent annually, reaching nearly 2 million ports shipped during the same timeframe," Seamus Crehan, vice president of Dell'Oro Group, said in a statement.
Qlogic executives also touted the ability of their CNAs to off load all FCoE processing from sever processors, letting the server CPUs focus on applications and Virtual Machines. "Customers can get record levels of performance on highly virtualized systems and it is all going through a single 10 GigE pipe," said Alleso.
Competitor Emulex today announced that its LightPulse 8-Gbps Fibre Channel CIOv Expansion Card has been optimized for use with IBM's new BladeCenter HS22 Blades. The card will let customers increase the throughput on their blade servers, increasing performance and cutting power consumption, the company said.
Enterprise IT managers who use Fibre Channel for their storage networks now have two options for boosting performance -- upgrading from 4-Gbps FC to 8-Gbps FC or moving towards a unified fabric approach with 10 GigE FCoE. But it will probably take years before FCoE gains much market share, said John Spencer, a senior manager for product marketing in the Host Solutions Group at QLogic. "I think will see 10 GigE gain acceptance over the next five years, but I still expect to see 8-Gig FC sell at higher rate." Qlogic plans to support both markets, he said.
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