FICON – Fibre Channel Connection. This is IBM’s name for Fibre Channel and its replacement for ESCON as a mainframe connection hardware+software cabling system to link a mainframe host to peripheral storage devices. It uses Fibre Channel switches and directors to build a networking fabric, with rates of 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16[1] Gbps at up to 100 km distances.
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