Key technology pillar used in the ASE product. - Refers to the ability of the ASE to compress all ingress traffic using a LZ1 based compression algorithm. - As part of the processing within the ASE, ingress traffic (either Ethernet or Fibre Channel) is encapsulated using Generic Framing Procedure normalizing to Ethernet. Hence the term "Ether". - As an optional operation, all traffic can compressed, hence the term "Pack". Pack also refers to the notion of filling wide area bandwidth as effici...