HP P4459A manual Glossary

Glossary

This glossary contains terms and acronyms that may be found in this documentation.

AL_PA

Arbitrated Loop Physical Address. The low-order byte of a 3-byte Fibre Channel Source/Destination ID field that defines an address hierarchy. This is also called a Loop ID. See D_ID or S_ID.

AL_PD

A destination AL_PA.

AL_PS

A source AL_PA.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute, the organization that coordinates voluntary standards for programming languages, telecommunications, properties of disk and tape media, and more, in the United States.

Arbitrated Loop

A Fibre Channel standard defining a loop topology where up to 126 devices communicate with one another using an arbitrated access protocol.

Arbitration

The process of selecting one respondent from a collection of several candidates that request service concurrently.

Area

See Fibre Channel Address.

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