FICON (Fibre Connection) is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel (FC) protocol...

The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber...

operational. See FICON project Tom-Tom Two RF-84K and B-36 wingtip coupling experiment, did not become operational. See FICON project FICON F-84E and GRB-36D...

either carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderjet in the bomber's bomb bay (the FICON project), or attached to the bomber's wingtips (Project Tom-Tom). One configuration...

under three related projects following the cancellation: MX-106 "Tip Tow", FICON, and "Tom-Tom." During World War II, American bombers such as the Boeing...

is a protocol that transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks. FICON is a protocol that transports ESCON commands, used by IBM mainframe computers...

consequently, the project was cancelled.[citation needed] More successful was the FICON project, involving a modified B-36 (called a GRB-36D "mothership") and the...

from the ANG in 1972. Several modified Thunderflashes were used in the FICON project. The Thunderstreak suffered from the same poor takeoff performance...

after its release in 2002. Brocade added mainframe customers with FICON and FICON CUP support on the SilkWorm 12000. In 2004, the BLOOM II improved on...

added 4 Gigabit FICON and FCP support to the System z9 for faster I/O to storage devices. IBM also added a lower cost 2-port 4 Gbit FICON/FCP I/O adapter...