McDATA 3000 manual Glossary

Glossary

bandwidth	The width of a communications channel measured in Hertz - cycles
	per second. In digital communications, bandwidth is measured in
	bits per second (bps).
BB_Credit	Buffer to Buffer Credit, a flow control method that maintains
	counters for outstanding frames between two connected Fibre
	Channel hops.
Broadcast and Unknown	A LAN emulation component that receives all broadcast and
Server	multicast MAC packets as well as MAC packets with an unknown
	ATM address and transmits these messages to every member of an
	emulated LAN.
BUS	See Broadcast and Unknown Server.
bus number	A bus number is assigned to every physical trunk or link that
	connects two UltraNet Edge 3000. Routing software on the UltraNet
	Edge 3000 uses the bus number to determine the trunks or links that
	should be used to transfer data across the network.
CBR	ATM Constant Bit Rate
CRC	Abbreviation of Cyclic Redundancy Check, a common technique
	for detecting data transmission errors. A number of file and block
	transfer protocols use CRC in addition to checksum.
data migration	The movement of data from one storage subsystem to another.
Device Extension	See FC/SCSI Tape Pipelining.

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