The term FICON represents the architecture as defined by the InterNational Committee of
Information Technology Standards (INCITS), and published as ANSI standards. FICON also
represents the names of the z900 server features: FICON Express and FICON. Throughout
this section we will use the term FICON to refer to the FICON Express and FICON features,
except when the function being described is applicable to FICON Express only.
3.4.1 Description
FICON provides all the strengths of ESCON while increasing the link data rate from 20 MBps
all the way up to 2 Gbps with the FICON Express features. The FICON im ...
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