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A-4 Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface, an 800 Mbits/s interface to
supercomputer networks (formerly known as high speed channel)
developed by ANSI.
Host The computer system in which a SCSI host adapter is installed. It uses
the SCSI host adapter to transfer information to and from devices
attached to the SCSI bus.
Host Adapter A circuit board or integrated circuit that provides a SCSI bus connection
or Fibre Channel link to the computer system.
IP Internet Protocol.
IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface.
ISA Industry Standard Architecture. A type of computer bus used in most
PCs. It allows devices to send and receive data up to 16 bits at a time.
Kbyte Kilobyte. A measure of computer storage equal to 1024 bytes.
LCT Logical Configuration Table.
Link_Control_
Facility
A termination card that handles the logical and physical control of the FC
link for each mode of use.
LLC Logical Link Control.
Local Bus A way to connect peripherals directly to computer memory. It bypasses
the slower ISA and EISA buses. PCI is a local bus standard.
Login Server An entity within the FC fabric that receives and responds to login
requests.
L_Port A FC port that supports the arbitrated loop topology.
LUN Logical Unit Number. An identifier, zero to seven, for a logical unit.
Mbyte Megabyte. A measure of computer storage equal to 1024 kilobytes.
MFA Message Frame Address.
Multicast Refers to delivering a single transmission to multiple destination N_Ports.
NIC Network Interface Card.
N_Port “Node” port, a FC defined hardware entity at the node end of a link.