FC Layers

Fibre Channel have Mainly five layers :

1. FC0 : Speeds and feeds. (Physical layer)
2. FC1 : 8b/10b encoding.
3. FC2 : Data delivery.
4. FC3 : Common services.
5. FC4 : Upper level protocals (Uper layers protocals mapping).

 FC0 :

  

Single mode Fibre and multi mode Fibre :

 FC0 Connector Distances :

FC0 Cable Connections :

FC Cable Components :

FC 1 :

FC 2 :

FC 2 Exchange Sequence Frame Management :

FC 2 frame format :

FC 2 CLASS OF SERVICE (COS) :

FC2 common class of service :

FC2 Flow Control :

FC 2 Buffer to Buffer Flow Control :

FC2 BB and end2end Flow control :

FC2 flow control cont..:

FC2 Control flow Summary :

FC 3  Layer COmmon services :

FC 4 Upper level protoval (ULP) Mapping :

FIBRE CHANNEL PROTOCAL MAPPINGS :

SUMMARY :)