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Appendix A. Standards and protocol compliance
IBM is committed to providing products that comply with industry standards and
protocols.
Standards
The IBM 2109 Model F16 switch is compliant with the following standards:
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v SCSI Enclosure Services, Rev 8a
v EA/TIA RS-232 Serial Port specification
v Gigabit Interface Converter Definition Document, Sun, and so on
v IEEE 802.3 for Ethernet
Protocol compliance
The 2109 Model F16 complies with the following standards and protocols.
Support for Fibre Channel ports
All ports on the 2109 Model F16 are universal ports and support F_port
(point-to-point), FL_port (loop), and E_port (switch-to-switch) port connections.
Fibre Channel class operation
The 2109 Model F16 supports Fibre Channel Classes 2, 3, and F operations on all
ports.
Auto-configuration
All ports support E_ports to allow for cascading switches to form larger fabrics.
E_ports are auto-configuring. Linking ports from any two switches automatically
configure an E_port connection to form the fabric. The 2109 Model F16 supports a
trunking option that binds up to four ports together as a high-performance trunk
group. In this trunking configuration, inter-switch data transfers can occur at an
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Fibre Channel ANSI Specifications
– FC-PH, version 4.3 (Fibre Channel Physical)
– FC-PH-2, version 7.4 (Fibre Channel Physical, Enhanced) for Multicast and
Broadcast functions
– FC-PH-3, version 9.4
– FC-SW-2, version 4.4 (Fibre Channel Switched Fabric)
– FC-FG Revision 3.5 (Fabric Generic Requirements)
– FC-AL, version 4.5 (Arbitrated Loop)
– FC-AL-2, version 5.7 (Arbitrated Loop Extensions)
– FC-FLA, version 2.7 (Fabric Loop Attach)
– FC-GS-2, version 5.3 (Generic Services)
– FC-GS-3, version 6.42 or later (Generic Services)
– FC-PLDA, version 2.1 (Private Loop Direct Attach)
– FC-Tape Fibre Channel Tape (FC-Tape)
– FCP-2Rev4 (Fibre Channel Protocol)
– FC-FS Revision 0.2 or later
– FC-IP
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