HP 2100 ER manual Glossary

Glossary

AF

ANSI An acronym for the American National Standards Institute, the coordinating organization for voluntary standards in the United States.

Arbitrated loop topology Fibre Channel topology that provides a low-cost solution to attach multiple communicating ports in a loop without switches.

Asynchronous SCSI signals are transmitted one at a time down the SCSI communication path.

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

C

CDB An acronym for the Command Descriptor Block.

CRC An acronym for Cyclic Redundancy Check. An error- correcting code used in Fibre Channel.

D

Differential SCSI A SCSI implementation that allows a cable length of up to 25 meters.

Fabric Fibre Channel-defined interconnection methodology that supports high-speed data routing in Fibre Channel networks.

FC-ALAn acronym for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop topology.

FC-SWAn acronym for Fibre Channel Switched topology. The highest performance Fibre Channel fabric, providing a choice of multiple path routings between pairs of F-ports.

FDDI An acronym for the Fibre Distributed Data Interface. ANSI’s architecture for a Metropolitan Area Network; a network based on the use of optical fibre cable to transmit data at 100 MBsc

Fibre Bridge Bi-directional connectivity for data transfers between Fibre and SCSI.

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