Today, the appellation host bus adapter (HBA) is a lot of generally acclimated to accredit to a Fibre Channel interface card. Fibre Channel HBAs are accessible for all above accessible systems, computer architectures, and buses, including PCI and SBus (obsolete today). Anniversary HBA has a altered World Wide Name (WWN), which is agnate to an Ethernet MAC abode in that it uses an OUI assigned by the IEEE. However, WWNs are best (8 bytes). There are two types of WWNs on a HBA; a bulge WWN (WWNN), which is aggregate by all ports on a host bus adapter, and a anchorage WWN (WWPN), which is altered to anniversary port. There are HBA models of altered speeds: 1Gbit/s, 2Gbit/s, 4Gbit/s, 8Gbit/s, 10Gbit/s and 20Gbit/s.
The above Fibre Channel HBA manufacturers are QLogic and Emulex. As of mid-2009, these vendors aggregate about 90% of the market.12 Other manufacturers cover Agilent, ATTO, Brocade, and LSI.
HBA is aswell accepted to be interpreted as High Bandwidth Adapter in cases of Fibre Channel controllers.
The above Fibre Channel HBA manufacturers are QLogic and Emulex. As of mid-2009, these vendors aggregate about 90% of the market.12 Other manufacturers cover Agilent, ATTO, Brocade, and LSI.
HBA is aswell accepted to be interpreted as High Bandwidth Adapter in cases of Fibre Channel controllers.
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