An IBM channel architecture introduced in 1998.

FICON (for Fiber Connectivity) is a high speed input/output (I/O) interface for mainframe computer connections to storage devices.

FIbre CONnections. An eserver zSeries 900 channel that implements the ANSI FCS 2 transport. Each FICON channel can handle over 4,000 I/O operations per second, equivalent to eight ESCON channels. The FICON channel link speed is 100MBps full duplex, compared with 17MBps simplex with ESCON links. Announced May 1998.

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