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Keywords: mainframe, optic, mbaud, terabit, fibre

See: Fibre Channel. Fiber optics: Thin glass filaments within a jacket that optically transmits images or signals in the form of light around corners and over distances with extremely low losses.

hometheaterbuilder.com

An industry-standard specification for computer channel communications over fiber optics and offering transmission speeds from 132 Mbaud to 1062 Mbaud and transmission distances from 1 to 10 km.

tycoelectronics.com

a highly-reliable, gigabit interconnect technology (using either optical or a copper cable) allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI and IP protocols. It provides interconnect systems for multiple topologies that can scale to a total system bandwidth on the order of a terabit per second.

pegasus-afs.com

a high-speed fiber-optic technology for storage networks

iec.org

Used in a network, fiber channel is a high-speed data transfer technology that allows for transfer speeds up to 2Gbps.

dell.com

Type of transmission path used as an internal computer channel or network medium; it works with existing interfaces. It transfers data at a rate up to 1 GB per second.

mbstech.net

A high-speed networking standard for disks whose underlying medium is fiber optics.

clock.org

A form of high-speed fiber optic transmission designed primarily for communications between mainframe computers, and between mainframe computers and high-speed peripherals such as disk drives. Sometimes used for general-purpose networking.

rapicom.net

A serial data transfer architecture developed by a consortium of computer and mass storage device manufacturers and now being standardized by ANSI. The most prominent Fibre Channel standard is Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL).

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Keywords: connectivity