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ESCON (Enterprise
Systems Connection) is a data
connection created by IBM, and is
commonly used to
connect their mainframe computers to
peripheral devices...
- ESA/390
added fiber optics channels,
known as
Enterprise Systems Connection (
ESCON) channels, to the
parallel (Bus and Tag)
channels of ESA/370.
Despite the...
- It is a FC
layer 4
protocol used to map both IBM's
antecedent (either
ESCON or
parallel Bus and Tag) channel-to-control-unit
cabling infrastructure...
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commands over
Fibre Channel networks.
FICON is a
protocol that
transports ESCON commands, used by IBM
mainframe computers, over
Fibre Channel.
Fibre Channel...
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Parallel ATA (PATA) Bus and Tag DSSI
HIPPI Serial ATA (SATA) SCSI
Parallel SAS
ESCON Fibre Channel SSA
SATAe PCI
Express (via AHCI or NVMe
logical device interface)...
- to
store 580 TB per tape cartridge.
Historical interfaces include also
ESCON,
parallel port, IDE, Pertec. Some
modern designs are
still developed to...
- a
mapping of SCSI over
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE)
ESCON over
Fibre Channel (FICON), used by
mainframe computers HyperSCSI, mapping...
- also used with System/370. With the
introduction of serial,
fiber optic ESCON in the 1990s Bus and Tag
channels were re-christened "parallel channels"...
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protocol functionality. The
director term
itself is
derived from
legacy ESCON Directors such as the IBM 9032-005. List of
Fibre Channel switches Host...
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Protocols used by
channel I/O to
communicate with
peripheral devices include ESCON and
newer FICON.
Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapters Host
controller interface...
