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Glossary-6 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
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-CT Fibre Channel common transport.
FC-FG Fibre Channel generic requirements.
FC-GS Fibre Channel generic services.
FC-GS-2 Fibre Channel generic services, second generation.
FC-GS-3 Fibre Channel Generic Services, third generation.
FC_IP Fibre Channel-Over-IP.
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.
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol. Mapping of protocols onto the Fibre Channel standard protocols. For example,
SCSI FCP maps SCSI-3 onto Fibre Channel.
FCS See Fibre Channel Standard.
FCS switch Relates to the Brocade Secure Fabric OS feature. One or more designated switches that store and
manage security parameters and configuration data for all switches in the fabric. They also act as a set
of backup switches to the primary FCS switch. See also “primary FCS switch”.
FC-SW-2 The second-generation Fibre Channel Switch Fabric standard defined by ANSI. Specifies tools and
algorithms for the interconnection and initialization of Fibre Channel switches to create a multiswitch
Fibre Channel fabric.
FDMI Fabric-Device Management Interface. FDMI is a database service provided by the fabric for Nx_Ports.
The primary use is by HBA devices that register information about themselves and their ports.
FFFFF5 Well-known Fibre Channel address for a Class 6 multicast server.
FFFFF6 Well-known Fibre Channel address for a clock synchronization server.
FFFFF7 Well-known Fibre Channel address for a security key distribution server.
FFFFF8 Well-known Fibre Channel address for an alias server.
FFFFF9 Well-known Fibre Channel address for a QoS facilitator.
FFFFFA Well-known Fibre Channel address for a management server.
FFFFFB Well-known Fibre Channel address for a time server.
FFFFFC Well-known Fibre Channel address for a directory server.