Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR) designs, develops, manufactures and markets optical subsystems and related technologies for high-speed data centers around the world. The company today announced a new training course to provide knowledge of the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. Finisar’s Medusa Labs will teach the networking protocol, highlighting the latest advancements in FCoE architecture and instrumentation.

Finisar is the first company to offer both training courses and analysis tools based on the FCoE standard. Students will get hands-on training, as well as experience analyzing Fibre Channel traces with Finisar’s 10Gpbs Xgig analyzer.

The company is addressing the growing number of data centers using the FCoE protocol, increasing the number of storage professionals who will require knowledge and training of the system.

“Because today’s storage environments are increasingly complex, network professionals must be proficient in a variety of storage protocols,” Dave Buse, general manager of Network Tools at Finisar stated

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