Installation guide

PCI-SB StarFabric PCI Interface Card Installation Guide G-13
Serial Port(s)
An I/O port that supports only serial data transmission. It must convert data
from the parallel port format of the system bus to a serial data stream, and
back again.
SCSI
Acronym for Small Computer System Interface. SCSI is an American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) interface between the computer and
peripheral controllers. Many UNIX operating system workstations and Apple
Macintosh systems use the SCSI interface.
Source
The originator node of a data transmission in the Switch Fabric. The source
node sends a data transmission to a destination or target node.
Static Addressing
A name or a number that identifies a network device and remains unchanged
even if the physical configuration of the network changes. For example, in a
StarFabric Switch Fabric, every node or device has a Fabric Identification
(FID) number. In a legacy PCI environment where static addressing is used,
these FID numbers are assigned at power-up and remain unchanged even if
certain devices become unavailable because of broken links.
Switch
A node that receives a frame from one node and forwards it to another node
in the switch fabric based on address information
Switch Fabric
Refers to the switched-serial interconnect using the StarProtocol to transmit
data frames. This includes switches and edge nodes, and the links that con-
nect them together in the Switch Fabric.