FC-3: Common Services

FC-3 has been in its conceptual phase since 1988; in currently available products, FC-3 is empty. The following functions are being discussed for FC-3:

Image Striping manages several paths between multiport end devices. Striping could distribute the frames of an exchange over several ports and thus increase the throughput between the two devices.

Image Multipathing combines several paths between two multiport end devices to form a logical path group. Failure or overloading of a path can be hidden from the higher protocol layers.

Compressing ...

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