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Front-end Design of the
Hitachi Freedom Storage
™
Lightning 9900
™
V Series
CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON
®
or FICON
™
H o s t
Connectivity and Scalability
The Lightning 9900
™
V Series supports both Fibre Channel for open systems and
ESCON
®
or FICON
™
for IBM
®
S/390
®
- and zOS
™
- compatible platforms as shown in
Figure 12.
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Figure 12 – Fibre
Channel and ESCON or
FICON adapter boards
connect to open systems
and mainframe
computers.