FC-1
Middle level of the FC-PH standard, de鏗乶ing the 8B/10B
encoding/decoding and transmission protocol.
Highest level of FC-PH, de鏗乶ing the rules for signaling protocol and
describing transfer of the frame, sequence, and exchanges.
The hierarchical level in the FC standard that provides common services,
such as striping de鏗乶ition.
The hierarchical level in the FC standard that speci鏗乪s the mapping of
Upper Layer Protocols (ULPs) to levels below.
Federal Communications Commission.
Fibre Channel Protocol.
Fiber Distributed Data Interface. ANSI option for a Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN); a network based on the use of optical 鏗乥er cable to
transmit data at 100 Mbits/s.
Fibre Channel is the general name of an integrated set of standards
being developed by the Americal National Standards Institute (ANSI)
which de鏗乶es new protocols for 鏗俥xible information transfer.
The common FC-4 level protocol for all services, transparent to the fabric
type or topology.
A named collection of information stored on a disk.
Software that is permanently stored in ROM. Therefore, it can be
accessed during boot time.
鈥淔abric鈥?port, the access point of the fabric for physically connecting the
user鈥檚 N_Port.
An F_Port that contains arbitrated loop functions.
A linear set of transmitted bits that de鏗乶e a basic transport element.
Hardware Abstraction Layer.
A disk made of metal and permanently sealed into a drive cartridge. A
hard disk can store very large amounts of information.
FC-2
FC-3
FC-4
FCC
FCP
FDDI
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Service
Protocol (FSP)
File
Firmware
F_Port
FL_Port
Frame
HAL
Hard Disk
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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