I/O+ Boards; Gbic; Figure 4-4 Sbus+ I/O Board With 100 Mb/Sec Fibre Channel - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 6500 Reference Manual

4.5

I/O+ Boards

Enterprise 6500/5500/4500 systems support three types of I/O+ boards: SBus+ I/O
board with 100 MB/sec Fibre Channel, Graphics+ I/O board with 100 MB/sec Fibre
Channel, and PCI+ I/O board. Each board has three LEDs that provide board status
codes (
4.5.1

GBIC

Each SBus+ and Graphics+ I/O board provides mounting for two GBIC interfaces. A
GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter) is a hot-pluggable unit that converts any of the
standard Fibre Channel connectors and signaling technologies. The GBIC Fibre
Channel referred to in this manual is 100 Mbytes/second.
FIGURE 4-4
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through
FIGURE 4-4 FIGURE 4-6
SBus+ I/O Board with 100 MB/sec Fibre Channel
).
GBIC