Glossary
The terms in the glossary relate to the switch and Fibre Channel connections. Many of these terms are used in this manual.
A
8b/10b Encoding An encoding scheme that converts each 8 bit byte into 10 bits. Used to balance ones and zeros in high speed transports.
Address Identifier A
Advanced A Brocade product that provides error and performance information Performance to the administrator and end user for use in storage management.
Monitoring
AL_PA Arbitrated Loop Physical Address; a unique
Alias Address An address identifier recognized by a port in addition to its standard
Identifier identifier. An alias address identifier may be shared by multiple ports.
Alias AL_PA An AL_PA value recognized by an L_Port in addition to the AL_PA assigned to the port. See also AL_PA.
Alias Server A fabric software facility that supports multicast group management.
ANSI American National Standards Institute; the governing body for Fibre Channel standards in the U.S.A.
Departmental Switch Model
