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Fibre Channel, an ANSI standard, is a serial computer bus intended for connecting high speed storage devices to computers. It started for use primarily in the supercomputer field, but has become the standard connection type for storage area networks in enterprise storage. Despite its name, Fibre Channel signaling can run on both twisted-pair copper wire and fiber optic cables. The most prominent Fibre Channel standard is Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL).

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