FC-SONET Fibre Channel Synchronous Optical Network. A gateway that resides at the end
of an inter-site link and encapsulates Fibre Channel frames into SONET packets
before transmitting the frames over the network.
FC-SP Fibre Channel Security Protocol. A security protocol that protects in-transit data.
FC-to-ATM Fibre Channel to Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
FC-to-IP Fibre Channel to Internet Protocol.
FDISC Fabric discovery.
Fibre Channel A serial data transport infrastructure and protocol used to implement SANs. See
also http://www.fibrechannel.org/ and http://www.t11.org/.
FIP FCoE Initialization Protocol.
FLOGI Fabric login.
FOS Fabric Operating System.
FPMA Fabric Provided MAC Addressing.
FRU Field-replaceable unit.
GbE Gigabit Ethernet. An Ethernet standard for transmitting data at 1 Gb/s.
GBIC Gigabit interface converter. A hardware module that connects fiber optic cables
to a device and converts electrical signals to optical signals.
Gb/s Gigabits per second.
GLM Gigabit link module. A 1 Gb/s fiber optic transceiver.
GPS General-purpose server.
HA High availability. The relative ability of a system to operate continuously,
regardless of the type of failure.
HACMP/ES High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing/Enhanced Scalability.
HAFM High Availability Fabric Manager. A software tool used to configure and manage
fabrics.
HBA Host bus adapter. A hardware device that connects the host server to the fabric.
heterogeneous A mixed environment that incorporates different operating systems, protocols,
architectures, and equipment from different vendors or product families.
high availability See HA.
HLDM Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager.
hop An interswitch link between a pair of Fibre Channel switches.
host bus adapter See HBA.
HotCAT Hot Code Activation Technology. An M-series switch feature that provides
nondisruptive code activation.
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