Introduction to Storage Networking
Storage Networking Applications
Avionics Applications
• Commercial and military avionics:
– Avionic command and control
– Instrumentation and signal processing
– Avionic simulation
• Key benefits of SAN:
– High-speed I/O bus
– High availability
• Fibre Channel Avionics Environment (FC-AE)
protocol is being developed to enable these
applications:
– For real-time I/O as well as storage applications
Avionics is a technically specialized but significant market for Fibre Channel:
Applications for Fibre Channel include real-time command-and-control
systems, instrumentation and signal processing in aircrafts. For
example, data from an aircraft’s sensors must be simultaneously
displayed for the pilots, fed into banks of processors that control fly-by-
wire systems, and recorded in the aircraft’s “black box.”
Fibre Channel provides increased throughput and reliability, and offers
more flexible topologies than the I/O buses typically used in aircraft
today.
Complex avionic simulation applications also benefit from SANs.
The Fibre Channel Avionics Environment (FC-AE) protocol is being
designed for use in real-time aircraft control systems.