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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a network protocol that encapsulates Fibre Channel frames within Ethernet packets, enabling the convergence of storage and data networking onto a single Ethernet infrastructure. This allows for efficient data transfer and reduces the complexity of managing separate networks for storage and general data traffic. FCoE typically operates over a lossless Ethernet network, which ensures that data integrity is maintained during transmission. It is commonly used in data centers to optimize storage area networks (SANs) and improve overall network performance.

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