B_Port Bridge Port
CIFS Common Internet File System
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
D_ID Destination ID
DAS Direct Attached Storage
E_Port Expansion Port
EOF End-of-Frame
F_Port Fabric Port
FCAL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FC-FE Fibre Channel Frame Encapsulation
FCIP Fibre Channel over TCP/IP
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI
FL Fabric Loop
FL_Port Fabric Loop Port
HBA Host Bus Adapter
I/O Input/Output
iFCP Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISL Inter-Switch Link
iSNS Internet Storage Name Service
JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks
LAN Local Area Network
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
N_Port Node Port
NAS Network Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
NFS Network File System
NIC Network Interface Card
NL Node Loop
NL_Port Node Loop Port
S_ID Source ID
SAM SCSI-3 Architecture Model
SAN Storage Area Network
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association
SOF Start-of-Frame
TOE TCP Offload Engine
TOS Type of Service
ULP Upper Layer Protocol
VE_Port Virtual Expansion Port
VF Virtual Fabric
VISL Virtual Inter-Switch Link
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
WWN Worldwide Name
