2 September 2010

Network Dictionary – Fancy Ethernet

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.

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Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

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  1. [...] 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 [...]

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