McDATA 3000 manual Eport, Electrostatic discharge, Ethernet, Fport, Fabric, Fault tolerant, Loop

Glossary

E_port	E_port is an expansion port on a switch that is used to connect to
	another switch via its E_port.
	There are three "basic" types of fibre channel ports; N_port, F_port,
	and E_port.
	See F_port or N_port for more information.
electrostatic discharge	Static electricity that builds up due to movement. Also, the static
	electricity that exists in the air that will discharge on to electronic
	equipment.
ESD	See electrostatic discharge.
Ethernet	A local area network used for connecting computers, printers,
	workstations, terminals, servers and other networking equipment
	within the same building or campus. Ethernet operates over twisted
	wire and over coaxial cable at speeds up to 10, 100, or 1000 million
	bps.
F_port	F_ports are fabric ports that connect single devices to the fabric in a
	point-to-point topology. F_ports attach to N_ports.
	See N_port or E_port.
Fabric	One or more Fibre Channel switches in a networked topology.
fault tolerant	By using a method of remote mirroring, the UltraNet Edge 3000
	system ensures that even in the event of a power failure, a disk crash
	or a major user error, data isn’t lost and the system can keep running.
FC-AL	See Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop.
Fibre Channel	An ANSI standard capable of achieving high speed data transfers
	between attached mainframes, workstations, servers, desktop
	computers, and storage devices. It is a serial data channel capable of
	data transfer rates up to 2 Gigabits per second.
Fibre Channel - Arbitrated	A Fibre Channel application for Storage Area Networks (SANs),
Loop	that supports high-speed access to storage arrays over loops as long
	as 10 kilometers over a single Fibre Channel link, non-amplified, at
	data rates as high as 100 Mbps.Logically, FC-AL operates as a full
	duplex, point-to-point, serial data channel. FC-AL is "arbitrated" by
	virtue of the fact that access to the storage system is arbitrated on the
	basis of level of privilege, with fractional bandwidth supported.

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