ATTO Technology 1500D/E, 1550D/E operation manual Introduction

Term	Definition
LUN	Logical Unit Number: a SCSI identifier of a device
NAS	Network Attached Storage: storage elements connected to a network to provide
	file access services to computer systems; an NAS Storage Element includes an
	engine to implement the file services and one or more devices to store data;
	NAS elements may be attached to any type of network; an NAS host system
	uses a file system device driver to access data and NAS systems interpret these
	commands to execute the necessary internal file and device I/O operations
SCSI	Small Computer Systems Interface: a processor-independent standard for
	system-level interface between a computer and intelligent devices including hard
	disks, floppy disks, CD-ROM, printers, scanners, etc.
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol: a standard for monitoring and managing
	systems and devices in a network; data is defined by a MIB; functions supported
	include the request and retrieval of data
Tape Window	A fixed-size parameter indicating the maximum data length that can be written to
	a tape in one Data Mover action; once the tape window is reached, the Data
	Mover will pause until writes occur and the tape window becomes available.
TCP/IP	Abbreviation for the basic communication protocols used on the Internet
	including Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Internet Protocol (IP), File
	Transfer Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Telnet.

Introduction