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Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Procedures Manual
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Glossary
The terms in the glossary relate to the switch and Fibre Channel
connections. Many of these terms are used in this manual.
A
8b/10b Encoding An encoding scheme that converts each 8 bit byte into 10 bits. Used to
balance ones and zeros in high speed transports.
Address Identifier A 24-bit value or 8-bit value used to identify the source or destination
of a frame.
Advanced
Performance
Monitoring
A Brocade product that provides error and performance information
to the administrator and end user for use in storage management.
AL_PA Arbitrated Loop Physical Address; a unique 8-bit value assigned
during loop initialization to a port in an arbitrated loop.
Alias Address
Identifier
An address identifier recognized by a port in addition to its standard
identifier. An alias address identifier may be shared by multiple
ports.
Alias AL_PA An AL_PA value recognized by an L_Port in addition to the AL_PA
assigned to the port. See also AL_PA.
Alias Server A fabric software facility that supports multicast group management.
ANSI American National Standards Institute; the governing body for Fibre
Channel standards in the U.S.A.