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oversubscription
09 Feb 2007
WORD - Oversubscription, in a SAN (storage area network) switching environment, is the practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port to optimize switch use. Each SAN port can support a particular communication ...
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intelligent switch
21 Oct 2004
WORD - An intelligent switch is a high-level storage area network (SAN) routing switch that provides features such as storage virtualization, quality of service (QoS), remote mirroring, data sharing, protocol conversion, and ...
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SAN routing
28 Jun 2004
WORD - SAN (storage area network) routing is a technology used for interconnecting SAN islands (separately designated logical portions of a storage area network) within a larger network. The technology allows communication between ...
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switch-on-a-chip
01 Feb 2003
WORD - SOC also stands for system-on-a-chip.
A switch-on-a-chip (SOC) is a network - typically a storage network - switch (a device that channels incoming data flow from any of multiple input ports to the output port appropriate ...
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switching fabric
07 May 2001
WORD - Switching fabric is the combination of hardware and software that moves data coming in to a network node out by the correct port (door) to the next node in the network. The term suggests that the near synonym, switch, tends ...
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logical unit number
19 Oct 2000
WORD - The logical unit described here is different than the logical unit of IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
A logical unit number (LUN) is a unique identifier used on a SCSI bus that enables it to differentiate ...
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