[markhahn]

the question is really: does it have anything vendor-specific, interop-breakers?

FC seems to work nicely in a single-vendor stack, or at least among specific sets of big-name vendors. that's OK for the "enterprise" market, where prices are expected to be high, and where some integrator is getting a handsome profit for making sure the vendors match.

besides consumer, the original non-enterprise market was HPC, and we want no vendor lock-in. hyperscale is really just HPC-for-VM-hosting - more or less culturally compatible.

besides these vendor/price/interop reasons, FC has never done a good job of keeping up. 100/200/400/800 Gb is getting to be common, and is FC there?

resolving congestion is not unique to FC. even IB has more, probably better solutions, but these days, datacenter ethernet is pretty powerful.

[UltraSane]

FC speeds have really lagged. 64Gbps is available but not widely used and 128Gbps was introduced in 2023. But since by definition 100% of FC bandwidth can only be used for storage it has been adequate.

https://fibrechannel.org/preview-the-new-fibre-channel-speed...