Switched FC-AL: An Arbitrated Loop Attachment for Fibre Channel Switches.
Vishal Sinha, David Hung-Chang Du · 2000
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) is a loop architecture. It can support any combination of hosts and storage devices, up to a maximum of 127 nodes. With 100 Mbytes/sec bandwidth, the loop structure enables rapid exchange of data between the devices.