Gigabit Fiber Card compatibility

Could someone tell me if the following configuration will work?
Gigabit Fiber NIC card in server connecting to a Gigabit Switch (Cisco Catalyst-6513 w/ WS-X6516-GBIC module) which connects to the primary 10/100 Switch.
Thanks.

Yes, that will work, but make sure you have the same flavour of Gigabit fiber in the NIC and the GBIC. Usually for a server NIC it will be 1000BaseSX.
Kevin Dorrell
Luxembourg

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