Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000 Service Manual page 332

Ethernet
FC-AL
FIFO
flash PROM
Gbyte
GUI
I/O
JTAG
Kbyte
Leaf
LED
MBps
Mbps
Mbyte
MHz
MII
Network
NG-DIMM
Node
Glossary-2 Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Blade 2000 Service Manual • January 2002
A type of local area network that enables real-time communication between
network devices, connected directly together through cables. A widely
implemented network from which the IEEE 802.3 standard for contention
networks was developed, Ethernet uses a bus topology (configuration) and
relies on the form of access known as CSMA/CD to regulate traffic on the main
communication line. Network nodes are connected by coaxial cable (in either
of two varieties) or by twisted-pair wiring.
See also 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T.
Fiber channel arbitrated loop
First-in, first-out
A type of programmable read-only memory (PROM) that can be
reprogrammed by a voltage pulse. See also PROM.
Gigabyte, 10 9 bytes
Graphical user interface
Input/output
An interface from the BootBus Controller that enables testing of the ASICs on
the motherboard.
Kilobyte, 10 3 bytes
Any node (location in a tree structure) that is farthest from the primary node.
Light-emitting diode
Megabyte per second
Megabit per second
Megabyte, one million bytes
Megahertz
Media independent interface
A configuration of data processing devices and software connected together for
information exchange.
Next generation dual inline memory module
An addressable point on a network. Each node in a Sun network has a different
name. A node can connect a computing system, a terminal, or various other
peripheral devices to the network.
ns Nanosecond, 10 -9 seconds