A |
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AAA |
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting |
AAL5 |
ATM Adaptation Layer 5 |
AC |
Access Controller |
ACL |
Access Control List |
AF |
Assured Forwarding |
ANSI |
American National Standard Institute |
AP |
Access Point |
ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
ASBR |
Autonomous System Boundary Router |
ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
B |
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BE |
Best-Effort |
BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
BGP4 |
BGP Version 4 |
C |
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CAR |
Committed Access Rate |
CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
CE |
Customer Edge |
CHAP |
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
CoS |
Class of Service |
CPU |
Center Processing Unit |
CR-LDP |
Constrained Route - Label Distribution Protocol |
D |
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DAA |
Destination Address Accounting |
DC |
Direct Current |
DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DNS |
Domain Name Server |
DS |
Differentiated Services |
E |
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EACL |
Enhanced Access Control List |
EF |
Expedited Forwarding |
EMC |
ElectroMagnetic Compatibility |
F |
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FE |
Fast Ethernet |
FEC |
Forwarding Equivalence Class |
FIB |
Forward Information Base |
FIFO |
First In First Out |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
G |
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GE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
GRE |
Generic Routing Encapsulation |
GTS |
Generic Traffic Shaping |
H |
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HA |
High availablity |
HTTP |
Hypertext Transport Protocol |
I |
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ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
IDC |
Internet Data Center |
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
IGMP |
Internet Group Management Protocol |
IGP |
Interior Gateway Protocol |
IP |
Internet Protocol |
IPoA |
IP Over ATM |
IPTN |
IP Telephony Network |
IPTV |
Internet Protocol Television |
IPv4 |
IP version 4 |
IPv6 |
IP version 6 |
IPX |
Internet Packet Exchange |
IS-IS |
Intermedia System-Intermedia System; |
ISP |
Interim inter-switch Signaling Protocol |
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
L |
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LAN |
Local Area Network |
LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
LCP |
Link Control Protocol |
LDP |
Label Distribution Protocol |
LER |
Label switching Edge Router |
LPU |
Line Processing Unit |
LSP |
Label Switched Path |
LSR |
Label Switch Router |
M |
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MAC |
Media Access Control |
MBGP |
Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol |
MD5 |
Message Digest 5 |
MIB |
Management Information Base |
MPLS |
Multi-protocol Label Switch; |
MSDP |
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol |
MSTP |
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol |
MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
MTTR |
Mean Time To Repair |
MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
N |
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NLS |
Network Layer Signaling |
NP |
Network Processor |
NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
NVRAM |
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory |
O |
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OSPF |
Open Shortest Path First |
P |
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PAP |
Password Authentication Protocol |
PE |
Provider Edge |
PFE |
Packet Forwarding Engine |
PIC |
Physical Interface Card |
PIM-DM |
Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode |
PIM-SM |
Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode |
POP |
Point Of Presence |
PQ |
Priority Queue |
PT |
Protocol Transfer |
PVC |
Permanent Virtual Channel |
Q |
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QoE |
Quality of Experience |
QoS |
Quality of Service |
R |
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RADIUS |
Remote Authentication Dial in User Service |
RAM |
Random-Access Memory |
RED |
Random Early Detection |
RFC |
Request for Comments |
RH |
Relative Humidity |
RIP |
Routing Information Protocol |
ROM |
Read Only Memory |
RP |
Rendezvous Point |
RSVP |
Resource Reservation Protocol |
RSVP-TE |
RSVP-Traffic Engineering |
S |
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SAP |
Service Advertising Protocol |
SCSR |
Self-Contained Standing Routing |
SDH |
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
SDRAM |
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
SNAP |
SubNet Attachment Point |
SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
SONET |
Synchronous Optical Network |
SP |
Strict Priority |
SPI4 |
SDH Physical Interface |
SSH |
Secure Shell |
SVC |
Switching Virtual Connection |
T |
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TCP |
Transfer Control Protocol |
TE |
Traffic Engineering |
TFTP |
Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
TM |
Traffic Manager |
ToS |
Type of Service |
TP |
Topology and Protection packet |
U |
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UBR |
Unspecified Bit Rate |
UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
UNI |
User Network Interface |
UTP |
Unshielded Twisted Pair |
V |
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VBR-NRT |
Non-Real Time Variable Bit Rate |
VBR-RT |
Real Time Variable Bit Rate |
VC |
Virtual Circuit |
VCI |
Virtual Channel Identifier |
VDC |
Variable Dispersion Compensator |
VLAN |
Virtual Local Area Network |
VLL |
Virtual Leased Line |
VPI |
Virtual Path Identifier |
VPLS |
Virtual Private LAN Service |
VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
VRP |
Versatile Routing Platform |
VRRP |
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol |
W |
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
WFQ |
Weighted Fair Queuing |
WRED |
Weighted Random Early Detection |
WRR |
Weighted Round Robin |