HP StorageWorks HSG80 ACS Solution Software V8.8 for HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide (AA-RV1FA-TE, March 2005)

Glossary
245HSG80 ACS Solution Software V8.8 for HP-UX Installation and Configuration Guide
FCC Federal Communications Commission. The federal agency responsible
for establishing standards and approving electronic devices within the
United States.
FCC Class A This certification label is on electronic devices that can only be used in
a commercial environment within the United States.
FCC Class B This certification label is on electronic devices that can be used in
either a home or a commercial environment within the United States.
FCP The mapping of SCSI-3 operations to Fibre Channel.
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface. An ANSI standard for 100 megabaud
transmission over fiber optic cable.
FD SCSI The fast, narrow, differential SCSI bus with an 8-bit data transfer rate
of 10 MB/s. See also FWD SCSI and SCSI.
fiber A fiber or optical strand. Spelled fibre in Fibre Channel.
fiber optic cable A transmission medium designed to transmit digital signals in the form
of pulses of light. Fiber optic cable is noted for its properties of
electrical isolation and resistance to electrostatic contamination.
Fibre Channel A high speed, high-bandwidth serial protocol for channels and
networks that interconnect over twisted pair wires, coaxial cable or
fiber optic cable. The Fibre Channel Switched (FC-SW) (fabric) offers
up to 16 million ports with cable lengths of up to 10 kilometers. The
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) topology offers speeds of up
to 100 Mbytes/seconds and up to 127 nodes, all connected in serial. In
contrast to SCSI technology, Fibre Channel does not require ID
switches or terminators. The FC-AL loop may be connected to a Fibre
Channel fabric for connection to other nodes.
fibre channel
topology
An interconnection scheme that allows multiple Fibre Channel ports to
communicate with each other. For example, point-to-point, Arbitrated
Loop, and switched fabric are all Fibre Channel topologies.
FL_Port A port in a fabric where N_Port or an NL_Port may be connected.
flush The act of writing dirty data from cache to a storage media.
FMU Fault management utility.
forced errors A data bit indicating a corresponding logical data block contains
unrecoverable data.
frame An invisible unit used to transfer information in Fibre Channel.