Fibre Channel for Mass Storage

This chapter discusses:

• Functional levels of Fibre Channel

  - FC-0 Level ” Physical

  - FC-1 Level ” Encode/Decode

  - FC-2 Level ” Framing protocol/Flow control

  - FC-3 Level ” Common services

  - FC-4 Level ” Protocol mapping

• Upper Level Protocols

• Physical components

• Classes of service