Dell PowerVault 51F Dell PowerVault 56F 16-Port Fibre Channel Switch Inst - Page 161

The following list defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms used in Del™l user documents. ampere(s) alternating current service with notification of delivery or nondelivery between the two N_Ports. Class-3 service provides a connectionless service without notification of delivery between N_Ports. The transmission and routing of Class-3 frames is the same as for Class-2 frames. A fabric software facility that supports multicast group management. The FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) is a standard defined on top of the FC-PH standard. It defines the arbitration on a loop where several FC nodes share a common medium. centimeter(s) An SNMP community is a relationship between an SNMP agent and a set of SNMP managers that defines authentication, access control, and proxy characteristics. configuration management American National Standards Institute central memory basic input/output system communication management interface Celsius Central processing unit content addressable memories compact disc In Class-2 service, the fabric and destination N_Port provide connectionless Credit, applied to a switch, is a numeric value that represents the maximum number of receive buffers provided by an F_Port or FL_Port to its attached N_Port or NL_Port respectively such that the N_Port or NL_Port may transmit frames without over-running the F_Port or NL_Port. support.dell.com Glossary 1