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Network hardware
Related to any equipment that facilitates the use of a computer network.
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WORM
Network hardware; Networking storage
An acronym for Write Once Read Many times, a class of optical recording systems that allow recording and adding data but not altering recorded data
fibre channel (FC)
Network hardware; Networking storage
An interface standard for connecting computers to mass storage devices such as disk drives and tape libraries.
gigabit interface converter (GBIC)
Network hardware; Networking storage
An interface module which converts the light stream from a fibre channel cable into electronic signals for use by a network interface card.
host bus adapter (HBA)
Network hardware; Networking storage
An interface card which plugs into the computer's bus and connects it to the network.
just a bunch of disks (JBOD)
Network hardware; Networking storage
A non-RAID drive architecture which is supplied with preintegrated disk drives.
linear Tape-open technology (LTO)
Network hardware; Networking storage
An open format technology developed jointly by HP, IBM, and Seagate.
network attached storage (NAS)
Network hardware; Networking storage
Mass storage systems which have an integral network connection such as ethernet or fibre-channel.
Sub-categories
- Fiber optic network (155)
- Firewall & VPN (2012)
- Modems (1093)
- Network cards (0)
- Network hubs (9)
- Network switches (25)
- Networking storage (665)
- Routers (54)
- Wireless networking (7452)