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An alarm bell might ring with some of you thinking about your cabling passing through a switch? Fear not. Being passive pass through, the Plexxi Switch’s LightRail still functions when a device turns off or fails. You still can pass traffic through a device that is offline. With 24 fiber cores per link per switch, you many and varied number of paths to move data affinities around to isolate a switch to be replaced.Today Emulex announced general availability of its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNA) and OneCommand Manager software.Today’s announcement includes the general availability of three different adapters, a 10GbE NIC with TCP/IP offload, a 10Gb iSCSI adapter with full iSCSI offload and full TCP/IP offload, and a 10GB HBA converged network adapter (CNA) supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) that includes full TCP/IP offload.With the UCNAs, Emulex is taking a different approach than it has in the Fibre Channel 10GB HBA marketplace. By offering three different adapters from the same product family, Emulex hopes to address three different markets, all currently at different places in the product maturity cycle. For those looking for 10GB HBA adapters with full TCP/IP offload,to the FCoE “personality”. The iSCSI and FCoE versions of the adapter available today have a higher price than the basic 10Gb adapter. For those who decide they want either iSCSI or FCoE in the future, an upgrade to iSCSI or FCoE from the basic 10Gb model will be available for an additional charge