Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)–accredited standards committee. It started use primarily in the supercomputer field, but has become the standard connection type for storage area networks (SAN) in enterprise storage. Despite its name, Fibre Channel signaling can run on both twisted pair copper wire and fiber-optic cables.Fibre Channel products are available at 1 Gbit/s, 2 Gbit/s, 4 Gbit/s, 8 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and 20 Gbit/s. Products based on the 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbit/s standards should be interoperable, and backward compatible. The 10 Gbit/s standard (and 20 Gbit/s derivative), however, is not backward compatible with any of the slower speed devices, as it differs considerably on FC1 level (64b/66b encoding instead of 8b/10b encoding). 10Gb and 20Gb Fibre Channel is primarily deployed as a high-speed "stacking" interconnect to link multiple switches.

SFP+ SR, SFP+ LR, SFP+ LRM, SFP+ ER Ordering information:

Part No.	Data Rate	Wavelength	Source	Distance	DDM	Application
						GbE/ 10GbE	SDH/ SONET	1/2/4/8/ 10G FC	FTTx
ELOP-8596-02	8G/10G	850nm	VCSEL	300m
ELOP-1396-2M	8G/10G	1310nm	FP	220m
ELOP-1396-02	8G/10G	1310nm	FP	2km
ELOP-1396-10	8G/10G	1310nm	DFB	10km
ELOP-1396-20	8G/10G	1310nm	DFB	20km
ELOP-1596-40	8G/10G	1550nm	DFB	40km

* - Throughput for duplex connections