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ML250 Fibre Channel Architecture & Instrumentation - Click here for detail description


ML250 is an introduction to the technical fundamentals of the Fibre Channel (FC) architecture. It is intended for anyone requiring an introduction to FC architecture including: Design Engineers, Field Application Engineers, Test Engineers and Technical Marketing professionals.

Course Objective
Students develop a working knowledge of Fibre Channel protocol and behavior through lecture and protocol analyzer exercises.

Prerequisites
Previous experience with SCSI technology is helpful, but not required.

Course Format
This course is a combination of lecture and lab protocol analysis exercises. Protocol analysis is interspersed throughout the 4-day course to reinforce the concepts discussed in the lecture portion of the class.

Course Outline
  • Introduction to Fibre Channel SANs
  • Hardware Elements of Fibre Channel
  • FC-0 Fibre Channel Physical Layer
  • FC-1 Fibre Channel Signaling Layer8b/10b Encoding and Ordered Sets
  • FC-1 Fibre Channel Framing
  • FC Frame Structure
  • Exchange Management & Flow Control
  • Behavior in a Fibre Channel Fabric
  • Naming, Addressing & Initialization
  • Error Detection & Recovery
  • Behavior on a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
  • FC-4 Upper Layer Protocol
  • Mapping SCSI to Fibre Channel
  • 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel