McDATA ULTRANETTM EDGE STORAGE ROUTER 3000 User Manual page 415

bandwidth
BB_Credit
Broadcast and Unknown
Server
BUS
bus number
CBR
CRC
data migration
Device Extension
The width of a communications channel measured in Hertz - cycles
per second. In digital communications, bandwidth is measured in
bits per second (bps).
Buffer to Buffer Credit, a flow control method that maintains
counters for outstanding frames between two connected Fibre
Channel hops.
A LAN emulation component that receives all broadcast and
multicast MAC packets as well as MAC packets with an unknown
ATM address and transmits these messages to every member of an
emulated LAN.
See Broadcast and Unknown Server.
A bus number is assigned to every physical trunk or link that
connects two UltraNet Edge 3000. Routing software on the UltraNet
Edge 3000 uses the bus number to determine the trunks or links that
should be used to transfer data across the network.
ATM Constant Bit Rate
Abbreviation of Cyclic Redundancy Check, a common technique
for detecting data transmission errors. A number of file and block
transfer protocols use CRC in addition to checksum.
The movement of data from one storage subsystem to another.
FC/SCSI
See Tape Pipelining.
Glossary
Glossary
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