Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage are
Fibre Channel director with SFP+ modules and LC optical fiber connectors with Optical Multimode 3 (OM3) fiber (aqua)
Dual port 8 Gb FC host bus adapter card
Dual port 16 Gb FC host bus adapter card
In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other network and storage devices. The terms are primarily used
Fibre Channel
…communicates over the network, not necessarily a hardware port. This port is usually implemented in a device such as disk storage, a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) network connection on a server or a Fibre Channel switch. Point-to-point (see FC-FS-3). Two devices are connected directly to each other using Node…
Fibre Channel host bus adapter (a 64-bit PCI-X card)[clarification needed]
SCSI host adapter (a 16-bit ISA card)
Fibre Channel host bus adapter