Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) is a gateway-to-gateway network protocol standard, officially ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force, which provides Fibre Channel fabric functionality to fibre channel devices over an IP network. Currently the most common comes in 1 Gbit/s, 2 Gbit/s, 4 Gbit/s, 8 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s variants.
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