US networking equipment supplier Emulex is participating in the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) plugfest with its recently launched LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). The plugfest will take place at the UNH-IOL, where cable and data centre operators and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) device vendors will have the opportunity to test the recently ratified 16GFC standard in a neutral, multi-vendor environment. Backwards-compliant with previous FC standards, 16GFC protects existing storage infrastructure investments. Interoperability testing of FCoE devices will also be performed at the plugfest. Emulex's 16GFC adapters deliver over one million IOPS on a single port, enabling I/O for high density cloud and virtualised data centres. The LPe16000 HBAs are based on the Emulex Engine 201 I/O Controller, the quad-port converged fabric controller that supports 16GFC and up to 40Gb Ethernet-based network convergence.