GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter)

An acronym for "Gigabit Interface Converter". A GBIC is astandard for transceivers commonly used with Gigabit Ethernetand Fibre Channel. By offering a standard, hot swappableelectrical interface, one gigabit ethernet port can support a widerange of physical media from copper to long-wave single-modeoptical fiber at lengths of hundreds of kilometers.

An acronym for GigaBit Interface Converter, an interface module which converts the light stream from a fibre channel cable into electronic signals for use by a network interface card