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9 February 1993 Fiber channel services
Kumar Malavalli
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Abstract
There exists an increasing need, in the user environment, for a computer interconnect scheme with higher speed, higher performance and longer reach than the presently available alternatives. There is also a great demand for a multidirectional networking to provide high bandwidth on demand, high distribution capability, random access and high transport flexibility. The users expect low access delay, low transfer delay, high data integrity and a definable quality of service from their networks. All these requirements, however, have to be met with the preservation of the existing software in which a lot of user investment has already been made. In answer to the demands, there has been an emergence of a new network to interconnect heterogeneous systems at very high cost performance ratio. This new network is based on Fiber Channel Standard, blessed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
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Kumar Malavalli "Fiber channel services", Proc. SPIE 1784, High-Speed Fiber Networks and Channels II, (9 February 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.141066
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KEYWORDS
Switching

Standards development

Data storage

Visualization

Computer networks

Data communications

Switches

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