Hitachi 9900 manual About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

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Figure 13 – A 2Gbit/sec Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components.

About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 13, has four Interface Processors for management of connectivity to the host. Each port supports a transfer rate of 2Gbit/sec (gigabits/second) in conformance with the Fibre Channel standard. An optional eight-port Fibre Channel Interface Board is also available.

With the Lightning 9900 V Series industry-leading implementation of “virtual” Fibre Channel ports, each interface card is equivalent to multiple interface cards in competitive systems. Each interface card also contains Oracle® checksum dedicated hardware logic.

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