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Glossary
Request Rate The rate at which requests arrive at a servicing entity. See also Service
Rate.
Resilience A fabric's ability to adapt to or tolerate a failure of a component
within the fabric.
Resilient Core/Edge Two or more switches acting as a core to interconnect multiple edge
Topology switches. Nodes attach to the edge switches.
Responder The N_Port with which an exchange originator wants to
communicate.
Retimer A circuit that uses an independent clock to generate outbound
signals.
Return Loss The ratio (expressed in dB) of incident power to reflected power,
when a component or assembly is introduced into a link or system.
Can refer to optical power or to electrical power in a specified
frequency range.
RLS Read Link Status.
Root Account A login used for debugging purposes and is not intended for
customer use.
Route As applies to a fabric, the communication path between two switches.
May also apply to the specific path taken by an individual frame,
from source to destination. See also SFP.
Routing The assignment of frames to specific switch ports, according to frame
destination.
RS-232 Port
A port that conforms to a set of EIA (Electrical Industries Association)
standards. Used to connect DTE and DCE devices for communication
between computers, terminals, and modems. See also DCE Port and
DTE Port.
RSCN Registered state change notification. A switch function that allows
notification of fabric changes to be sent from the switch to specified
nodes.
RTWR Reliable transport with response. Might appear as a task in
command output.
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