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Network Dictionary — Fancy Ethernet

July 17, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment 

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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  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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