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high speed serial interface

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high speed serial interface

(hardware, communications)

(HSSI) A serial port which supports serial transmit speeds of up to 52 megabits per second. It is typically used for leased lines such as DS3 (44.736 Mbps) and E3 (34 Mbps) and for Wide Area Network devices such as routers.

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(While there is nothing that limits SANs to Fibre Channel, the fact remains that virtually nothing else is used today.) Moreover, the Fibre Channel physical interface work at 1GHz has become the basis for all the new high speed serial interfaces, including InfiniBand, Gigabit Ethernet, and Serial ATA.

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