The Fibre Channel Interface is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) serial interface. The FC-AL interface was created to answer the need for a pluggable disc drive that offers both hot pluggability and loop resiliency, at an economical cost. The interface has the capability of transferring data up 100 Mbytes per second, and 200 Mbytes per second dual port. It can operate over copper and fibre optic cabling at distances up to 10 kilometers. The Fibre Channel interface is ideal for storage, video, graphic, and mass data-transfer applications. Fibre Channel also sup-ports up to 126 devices on a signal node, which is ideal for large Raid subsystems.