Fibre Channel Primer

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4 PHYSICAL AND SIGNALING LAYER 23
Physical Interface and Media: FC-0 24
Transmission Protocol: FC-1 27
Framing and Signaling Protocol: FC-2 29
5 UPPER LAYERS 33
Common Services: FC-3 33
ULP Mapping: FC-4 34
6 CLASSES OF SERVICE AND TOPOLOGIES 35
Classes of Service 38
Topologies 43
Point-to-Point, Dedicated-Bandwidth Topology 44
Loop Shared-Bandwidth Topology 45
Switched Scaled-Bandwidth Topology 47
Summary 48
7 FIBRE CHANNEL SERVICES 49
Login Server 50
Fabric/Switch Controller 50
Name Server 50
Management Server 51
Time Server 51
Alias Server 51
Quality of Service Server 52
Class 6 Multicast Server 52
8 SUMMARY 53
GLOSSARY 57