ANSI INCITS 296 : 1997 : R2002

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
   2.1 Approved references
   2.2 Other References
3 Definitions and conventions
   3.1 Definitions
   3.2 Editorial conventions
   3.3 Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
4 I/O interface overview
   4.1 Channel-path elements
   4.2 Channel-path configurations
   4.3 Information formats
   4.4 Protocols
5 SBCON physical layer definition
   5.1 Physical interface
   5.2 Multimode physical layer
   5.3 Single-mode physical layer
   5.4 Bit-error-rate thresholding
6 Transmission code
   6.1 Notation conventions
   6.2 8B/10B transmission code
   6.3 Special character combinations
7 Link transmission and reception characteristics
   7.1 Synchronization
   7.2 Idle character
   7.3 Ordered-set reception
   7.4 Sequence transmission and reception
8 Frame structure
   8.1 Link header
   8.2 Information field
   8.3 Link trailer
   8.4 Frame transmission and reception
   8.5 Link-interval duration
   8.6 Connection-recovery-interval duration
9 Link-level-control functions
   9.1 Link-control frames
   9.2 Functions and protocols for device frames
10 Link-level-facility and dynamic-switch-port states and
   protocols
   10.1 Initialization
   10.2 Link-incident reporting
   10.3 Offline procedures
   10.4 Connection recovery
   10.5 Link failure
   10.6 Link abort
   10.7 Connection
   10.8 Link-level-facility states
   10.9 Dynamic-switch-port states
   10.10 Link timeout
   10.11 Link-busy condition
11 Link and dynamic-switch-port error conditions
   11.1 Link errors
   11.2 Dynamic-switch-port errors
12 Device-frame format
   12.1 Device-header
   12.2 Device-information block
   12.3 Device-frame delimiters
13 Device-level functions and protocols
   13.1 Device-level operations
   13.2 Device-level controls
   13.3 Error handling at the device level
   13.4 Resetting event
   13.5 Special functions
14 Recovery actions for link-level and device-level
   errors
   14.1 Link-level recovery
   14.2 Device-level recovery
   14.3 Dynamic-switch-port recovery
15 Specific I/O-device commands
   15.1 Basic sense command
   15.2 No-operation control command
   15.3 Read-configuration-data command
   15.4 Read-IPL command
   15.5 Read-node-identifier command
   15.6 Sense-ID command
   15.7 Set-interface-identifier command
16 I/O device self-description
   16.1 Node descriptor
   16.2 Node-qualifier
   16.3 Node-element-descriptor
   16.4 Specific-node-element-qualifier
   16.5 General-node-element-qualifier
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Status combinations
Annex B (informative) Self-description model supplementary
        Information
Annex C (informative) Frame formats

Specifies an input/output (I/O) and interconnection architecture. SBCON specifies fiber optic links, switched point-to-point topology, and I/O protocols for high bandwidth, high performance and long distance information exchange.