ATTO Technology 2200R/D, 3200R, 2100R manual Fibre Channel Technology, References

ATTO Technology, Inc. ATTO FibreBridge Installation & Operation Manual

Fibre Channel Technology

Fibre Channel is a serial communications interface designed for the transfer of large amounts of data between a variety of hardware systems over long distances. It is becoming a key technology for applications that require shared, high bandwidth access to storage.

Fibre Channel provides a logical point-to point serial channel for the transfer of data between a buffer at a source device and a buffer at a destination device. It moves buffer contents from one port to another, without regard to the format or meaning of the data. In this way, Fibre Channel allows different upper level protocols such as SCSI-3 to run over Fibre Channel hardware.

The Fibre Channel architecture is structured as a hierarchical set of protocol layers. Defined within these layers are the rules for signal interfaces, serial encoding and decoding, error control, frame format and communications protocols. Fibre Channel provides a range of implementation possibilities and purposely isolates the transmission medium from the control protocol so that each implementation may use a technology best suited to the application environment.

References:

ATTO FibreBridge Software User Manual

ATTO BridgeTools™ Installation and Operation Manual

ANSI – Fibre Channel FC-PH

ANSI – Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC_AL

ANSI – Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI FCP

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