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A glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology. To learn more about the SNIA Dictionary click here.

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channel

1. The electrical circuits that sense or cause the state changes in recording media and convert between those state changes and electrical signals that can be interpreted as data bits.

2. Synonym for I/O interconnect.

The term channel has other meanings in other branches of computer technology. The definitions given here are commonly used when discussing storage and networking. See device channel, I/O interconnect, host I/O bus.

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