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Glossary
This glossary contains terms and acronyms that may be found in this documentation.
AL_PA
Arbitrated Loop Physical Address. The low-order byte of a 3-byte Fibre Channel
Source/Destination ID field that defines an address hierarchy. This is also called a
Loop ID. See D_ID or S_ID.
AL_PD
A destination AL_PA.
AL_PS
A source AL_PA.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute, the organization that coordinates voluntary
standards for programming languages, telecommunications, properties of disk and
tape media, and more, in the United States.
Arbitrated Loop
A Fibre Channel standard defining a loop topology where up to 126 devices
communicate with one another using an arbitrated access protocol.
Arbitration
The process of selecting one respondent from a collection of several candidates that
request service concurrently.
Area
See Fibre Channel Address.