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Glossary-10 Brocade SilkWorm 4100 Hardware Reference Manual
Publication Number: 53-0000563-02
FC router A platform running the Brocade Fibre Channel Routing Service or FC-to-FC routing (for instance, the
SilkWorm Fabric AP7420) that enables two or more fabrics to share resources (such hosts or storage
devices) without merging those fabrics. The platform could simultaneously be used as an FC router and
as an FCIP tunnel or iSCSI gateway.
FC-0 Lowest layer of Fibre Channel transport. Represents physical media.
FC-1 Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains the 8b/10b encoding scheme.
FC-2 Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles framing and protocol, frame format, sequence/exchange
management, and ordered set usage.
FC-3 Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains common services used by multiple N_Ports in a node.
FC-4 Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles standards and profiles for mapping upper-level protocols
such as SCSI and IP onto the Fibre Channel Protocol.
FC-AL-3 The Fibre Channel arbitrated-loop standard defined by ANSI. Defined on top of the FC-PH standards.
FC-AV Fibre Channel audio visual.
FCC Federal Communications Commission.
FC-CT Fibre Channel common transport.
FC-FG Fibre Channel generic requirements.
FC-FLA The Fibre Channel fabric loop-attach standard defined by ANSI.
FC-FS Fibre Channel framing and signaling.
FC-GS Fibre Channel generic services.
FC-GS-2 Fibre Channel generic services, second generation.
FC-GS-3 Fibre Channel Generic Services, third generation.
FCIP Fibre Channel over IP.
FC-NAT Fibre Channel network address translation.
FC-PH The Fibre Channel physical and signaling standard for FC-0, FC-1, and FC-2 layers of the Fibre
Channel Protocol. Indicates signaling used for cable plants, media types, and transmission speeds.
FC-PH-2 Fibre Channel Physical Interface, second generation.
FC-PH-3 Fibre Channel Physical Interface, third generation.
FC-PI Fibre Channel Physical Interface standard, defined by ANSI.
FC-PLDA The Fibre Channel Private Loop Direct Attach standard defined by ANSI. Applies to the operation of
peripheral devices on a private loop.