Network Dictionary - Fancy Ethernet
17 July, 2008 by Greg Ferro Print Posting
Fancy Ethernet - generalised term used to describe Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE). Also used for Cisco’s trademarked and proprietary superset known as Data Centre Ethernet (DCE).
Largely used because saying “Converged Enhanced Ethernet” five times really fast will cause spit to come out of your mouth. Equally saying Cee-Eee-Eee is wussy, and DCE is confusing with several dozen other marketing terms.
Thus in the meeting “with the Fancy Ethernet with can deploy a zero loss, low latency Ethernet fabric for our data centre”. Works much nicer.
[...] confidence that all those folks with millions invested in Brocade FC switches are going to buy Fancy Ethernet from Brocade. Who, of course, with their years of switching experience, are going produce a quality [...]