Fibre Channel Primer

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PHYSICAL AND
SIGNALING LAYER
Fibre Channel is structured with independent layers. The five layers
of Fibre Channel, shown in Figure 4.1, define the physical media and
transmission rates, encoding scheme, framing protocol and flow
control, common services, and the upper-layer protocol interfaces.
In this chapter, we describe the Fibre Channel Physical (FC-PH)
standard, which consists of the three lower layers, FC-0, FC-1, and
FC-2. The upper layers are discussed in Chapter 5.
Figure 4.1 Fibre Channel layers
Chapter 4