Converged Network Adapter XL7

a converged network adapter Cana also called a converged network interface controller CNIC is a computer input / output device that combines the functionality of a host bus adapter BA with a network interface controller and I see in other words it converges access to respectively a storage area network and a general-purpose computer network some products were marketed around 2005 with the term CNIC which combine disk C storage functionality with Gigabit Ethernet later products used the marketing term converged network adapter Khanna combining Fibre Channel over Ethernet with 10 Gigabit Ethernet for example brocade communications systems offers two types of COS with PCI Express generation 2.0 interfaces the only difference between the two models are the number of interfaces on the cards 1 or 2 the two-port model will allow connection to two different switches to create a redundant config