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Fibre Channel -- Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

A high-speed data-transfer technology, designed for higher performance than SCSI. FC-AL is an ANSI standard that supports delivery transfer rates of up to 100MBytes/sec, with up to 126 devices on a single loop. Over single mode fiber, connections can be several kilometers in length. The Library of Congress is building an Enterprise Storage Network based on this technology, to support effective and reliable access to large volumes of digital content with associated services for backing up, restoring, and archiving data.

For more information about Fibre Channel and FC-AL, see:

• Fibre Channel Loop Community, an international organization for corporations supplying products and services related to the Fibre Channel technology.
• Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop: New Data-Transfer Power for Storage Subsystems (UNISYS White Paper). This paper describes the FC-AL technology, which is a subset of the Fibre Channel standard, and its advantages and implementation for storage systems.

framework

Assemblage of title or "home" pages that present an American Memory collection and provide context. Can include finding aid(s), bibliographic records, background information (such as scope and content notes or bibliographies), and special "programs" that introduce the collection. This is an LC usage of the word introduced by Carl Fleischhauer (see Frameworks and Finding Aids: Organizing Digital Archival Collections.

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