Timeline
Azul Technology developed early implementation and applied for a patent in October 2003.
The FCoE standardization activity started in April 2007. The FCoE technology was defined as part of the INCITS T11 FC-BB-5 standard that was forwarded to ANSI for publication in June 2009. The FC-BB-5 standard was published in May 2010 as ANSI/INCITS 462-2010.
An early implementor was Nuova Systems, a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, which announced a switch in April 2008. Brocade Communications Systems also announced support in 2008. After the Late-2000s financial crisis, however, any new technology had a hard time getting established.
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