OEM MANUAL:K6602771
1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Revision: 2 / Date: 2002.12.19
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L_Port
A port connectable with FC-AL. (In Node, it is NL_Port.
In Fabric,it is FL_Port)
Circuit
It is built by two arbitrary ports on FC-AL. Transmission of
a frame is possible only among 2 ports which built the
circuit.
Node
The device which has a Fiber Channel Interface.
Fabric
An entity that interconnects various N_Ports attached to
it and is capable of routing frames by using only the D_ID
information in a frame header.
Frame
An indivisible unit of information used by Signaling
Protocol.
Data Frame
A frame containing information meant for FC-4/ULP(SCSI)
or the Link application.
Sequence
A set of one or more Data Frames with a common identifier
transmitted unidirectionally from one N_Port to another
N_Port.
Exchange
The basic mechanism which transfers information
consisting of one or more related non-concurrent
Sequences which may flow in the same or opposite
directions.