Patent ID: 7633955

Claim:
A system comprising: a switch fabric enabled to transfer data via cells; a network module coupled to the switch fabric; a fibre channel module coupled to the switch fabric and comprising a plurality of queues to communicate data with the switch fabric, a plurality of fibre channel ports, and control logic coupled to the queues; and wherein the control logic is enabled to operate each of the queues to manage information transfer for a respective one of a plurality of reliable communication channels, the reliable communication channels being compatible with a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocol, to operate each of the reliable communication channels to provide retransmission of data not received and retransmission of data received out of sequence, the retransmissions being from a sender to a receiver and in response to the receiver conveying to the sender that a sequence number has been received out of sequence, to determine a selected one of the fibre channel ports in response to an identification transferred via the network module and the switch fabric, and to manage communication of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)-compatible data between a plurality of the queues and the selected one of the fibre channel ports.