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SFF
SFP
SID
SilkWorm
Single mode
S-Link Service
SLAP
SLP
SMDS
SMF
SMI
SNMP
SNS
SOF
Software-enforced zoning
SoIP
SONET
Special character
SPOF
Brocade SAN Glossary
Small Form Factor. An industry term for a smaller transceiver.
Small Form Factor Pluggable. A transceiver used on 2Gbit/sec switches
that replaces the GBIC.
Source ID with three fields: Domain ID (DD), Area ID (AA), and AL_PA (PP).
SID/DID traffic prioritization is a licensed feature introduced in Fabric OS
6.0 that allows you to categorize the traffic flow into high, medium, or low
priority. Requires an Adaptive Networking license on every switch in the
path between a given configured device pair. See also QoS.
A former brand name for the Brocade family of switches and directors.
A fiber optic cabling specification that provides up to 10 km and > 50 km
distances between devices.
Facilities used between an N_Port and the Fabric, or between two N_Ports
for login, sequence/exchange management, and maintaining connections.
Switch Link Authentication Protocol.
Channel switches that uses digital certificates to authenticate switch ports.
Service Location Protocol. Allows computers and other devices to find
services in a LAN without prior configuration.
Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A good protocol for interconnecting
LANs, however, with less error-checking capability than Frame Relay.
Single Mode Fiber. See LWL.
Structure of Management Information. A notation for setting or retrieving
SNMP management variables.
Simple Network Management Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol designed for
management of networks over TCP/IP, using agents and stations.
Simple Name Server. A switch service that stores names, addresses, and
attributes for up to 15 minutes and provides them as required to other
devices in the fabric.
Start Of Frame. A group of ordered sets that marks the beginning of a frame
and indicates the class of service the frame will use.
A method of zoning in which members are defined using both WWNs and
domain, port; prevents hosts from discovering unauthorized target devices.
SCSI over IP.
Synchronous Optical Network. A standard for optical networks providing
building blocks and flexible payload mappings.
A special 10-bit character that does not have a corresponding 8-bit value but
is still considered valid. The special character is used to indicate that a
particular transmission word is an ordered set. This is the only type of
character to have five 1s or 0s in a row.
Single Point Of Failure. Any component in a SAN whose malfunction could
bring down the entire SAN.
An authentication method for Fibre
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