Fibre Channel Components

Introduction

This chapter gives an overview the different components that exist for Fibre Channel. It does not describe full functional products such as interfaces, storage devices and such. For those, please look at products.

Fibre Channel components can be categorised in the following groups:

• FC-0/FC-1 Chips
• FC-2 Chips
• Optical and electrical drivers
• Electrical/Optical cable converters (DB-9/SC)
• Optical Link Cards (OLC) & Gigabaud Link Modules (GLM)
• Crystal Oscillators
• Cables

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