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Glossary
This glossary contains terms and acronyms that may be found in this documentation.
AL_PA
Arbitrated Loop Physical Address. The
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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