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Glossary

Service Rate

The rate at which an entity can service requests.

See also request rate.

SFF

Small Form Factor.

SFP Cable

The latest innovation in high-speed copper cabling for Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. It
incorporates the SFP module directly onto the cable assembly, eliminating the need for a
separate SFP copper module and an HSSDC2 cable assembly.

SFP

Small form factor pluggable. A transceiver used on 2 Gbps switches that replaces the GBIC.
Refers to the LC-form factor transceiver.

See also GBIC.

SID/DID

Source identifier/Destination identifier. S_ID is a 3-byte field in the frame header that is used
to indicate the address identifier of the N_Port from which the frame was sent.

Single Mode

The fiber optic cabling standard that, when used in conjunction with a 1300 nm laser light, can
transfer data up to 10 km between devices. When used in conjunction with a 1550 nm laser
light, single mode cabling can transfer data over 10 km.

See also multimode, LWL, ELWL, and XLWL.

SI

Sequence Initiative.

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol. An internet management protocol that uses either IP
for network-level functions and UDP for transport-level functions, or TCP/IP for both. Can be
made available over other protocols, such as UDP/IP, because it does not rely on the
underlying communication protocols.

See also Community (SNMP).

SNMPv1

The original SNMP, now labeled v1.