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Glossary A F ANSI An acronym for the American National Standards Institute, the coordinating organization for voluntary standards in the United States. Arbitrated loop topology Fibre Channel topology that provides a low-cost solution to attach multiple communicating ports in a loop without switches. Asynchronous SCSI signals are transmitted one at a time down the SCSI communication path. ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode C CDB An acronym for the Command Descriptor Block. CRC An acronym for Cyclic Redundancy Check. An errorcorrecting code used in Fibre Channel. Fabric Fibre Channel-defined interconnection methodology that supports high-speed data routing in Fibre Channel networks. FC-AL An acronym for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop topology. FC-SW An acronym for Fibre Channel Switched topology. The highest performance Fibre Channel fabric, providing a choice of multiple path routings between pairs of F-ports. FDDI An acronym for the Fibre Distributed Data Interface. ANSI's architecture for a Metropolitan Area Network; a network based on the use of optical fibre cable to transmit data at 100 MBsc Fibre Bridge Bi-directional connectivity for data transfers between Fibre and SCSI. D Differential SCSI A SCSI implementation that allows a cable length of up to 25 meters. Glossary Glos-1

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Glossary
Glos-1
Glossary
A
ANSI
An acronym for the
American National Standards
Institute, the coordinating
organization for voluntary
standards in the United States.
Arbitrated loop topology
Fibre
Channel topology that provides a
low-cost solution to attach multiple
communicating ports in a loop
without switches.
Asynchronous
SCSI signals are
transmitted one at a time down the
SCSI communication path.
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer
Mode
C
CDB
An acronym for the
Command Descriptor Block.
CRC
An acronym for Cyclic
Redundancy Check. An error-
correcting code used in Fibre
Channel.
D
Differential SCSI
A SCSI
implementation that allows a cable
length of up to 25 meters.
F
Fabric
Fibre Channel-defined
interconnection methodology that
supports high-speed data routing
in Fibre Channel networks.
FC-AL
An acronym for Fibre
Channel Arbitrated Loop topology.
FC-SW
An acronym for Fibre
Channel Switched topology. The
highest performance Fibre
Channel fabric, providing a choice
of multiple path routings between
pairs of F-ports.
FDDI
An acronym for the Fibre
Distributed Data Interface. ANSI
’
s
architecture for a Metropolitan
Area Network; a network based on
the use of optical fibre cable to
transmit data at 100 MBsc
Fibre Bridge
Bi-directional
connectivity for data transfers
between Fibre and SCSI.