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ESCON

ESCON (Enterprise Systems Connection) is a data connection created by IBM, and is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as disk storage, tape drives and IBM 3270 display controllers. ESCON is an optical fiber, half-duplex, serial interface. It originally operated at a rate of 10 MB/s, which was later increased to…

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ESCON

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples17
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

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see also · 13
ESCON → DASD, Direct, DMX, EMC Symmetrix, Enterprise Storage Server, Hewlett Packard Enterprise XP, Hitachi Data Systems LightningIBM, IBM Storage DS8000Sun StorageTek, Most, Shark, Storage, SVA, VMAX
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ESCON → optical fiber

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ibm fiber could switching channel also enterprise storage serial systems data mainframe peripheral optical interface mb distance system mainframes links

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ESCONis aoptical fiber0.90text
disk storageinstance ofand is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices0.80text
tape drivesinstance ofand is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices0.80text
IBM 3270 display controllersinstance ofand is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices0.80text
ESCONsee alsoDirect0.60section
ESCONsee alsoDASD0.60section
ESCONsee alsoMost0.60section
ESCONsee alsoEMC Symmetrix0.60section
ESCONsee alsoDMX0.60section
ESCONsee alsoVMAX0.60section
ESCONsee alsoHewlett Packard Enterprise XP0.60section
ESCONsee alsoStorage0.60section

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