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The success of Ethernet and Fibre Channel as the dominant interconnection mediums of choice has led to the proliferation of different types of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) cards for servers to handle different types of traffic.
Continue on to this white paper to learn about how I/O consolidation is helping out with this by giving the ability of a switch or host adapter to use the same physical infrastructure to carry different types of traffic with different traffic characteristics and requirements!