Vixel 9000 Series Installation & Configuration Guide APPENDIX F Glossary
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Open An Arbitrated Loop protocol used to establish a loop
circuit.
Protocol A data transmission convention which may include timing,
control, formatting, error detection with correction and
data representation.
SC Duplex
Connector
Standard Fibre Channel terminating connector for fiber
(short-wave and long-wave). Used to plug into transceiver
and Host Bus Adapter.
SCSI Small Computer System Interface. Standard interface for
storage modules.
Shortwave Refers to wavelength or frequency in the spectrum of light.
Specified under Fibre Channel as 780- 860 nm it is the
operating range of short wavelength lasers. The maximum
distance for shortwave is 500 meters.
Single Mode
Fiber
An optional wave guide in which typical core/cladding sizes
are 9/125 microns.
SFP Small Form-Factor Pluggable. These transceivers are fully
compliant with the Gigabit Ethernet standard and occupy
less than half the board space of the existing GBIC
products.
Stealth-3 Mode A switch mode that assigns addresses to ports based on the
chosen port setting.
Topology The logical and/or physical arrangement of stations on a
network. Fibre Channel topologies include point-to-point,
Arbitrated Loop, and switched fabric.
Transceiver A device that converts one form of signaling to another for
both transmission and reception. SFPs and GBICs are
transceivers.
WWPN World Wide N_Port_Name. See Member.
Zone A list of one or more Members.
Zone Set A list of one or more Zones. Multiple-switch configurations
can merge Zone Sets.
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