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547 Glossary
FC-1 Middle layer of the Fibre Channel physical and signaling interface
(FC-PH) standard, defining the 8B/10B encoding/decoding and
transmission protocol.
FC-2
The Fibre Channel layer that specifies the signaling protocol, rules,
and mechanisms required to transfer data blocks. The FC-2 layer is
very complex and provides different classes of service, packetization,
sequencing, error detection, segmentation, and reassembly of trans-
mitted data (D).
FC-3 The Fibre Channel layer that provides a set of services common
across multiple node ports (N_Ports) of a Fibre Channel node. The
services are not commonly used and are essentially reserved for Fibre
Channel architecture expansion (D).
FC-4 The Fibre Channel layer that provides mapping of Fibre Channel
capabilities to upper level protocols (ULP), including Internet proto-
col (IP) and small computer system interface (SCSI) (D).
FCA
See Fibre Channel Association .
FC adapter Fibre Channel adapter. See host bus adapter .
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
FCC-IOC
See Fibre Channel I/O controller .
FCFE
See Fibre Channel fabric element .
FCFE-MIB
See Fibre Channel fabric element management information base .
FCIA
See Fibre Channel Industry Association .
FC IP
See Fibre Channel IP address .
FCMGMT
See Fibre Channel management framework integration .
FC-PH
See Fibre Channel physical and signaling interface .
feature key
A unique key to enable additional product features. This key is
entered into the Configure Feature Key dialog box in the Element Manager
application to activate optional hardware and software features.
Upon pur-
chasing a new feature, IBM will provide the feature key to the cus-
tomer.