Appendix C Acronyms And Abbreviations - NETGEAR M4300 User Manual

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

In most cases, acronyms and abbreviations are defined on first use in this document. Acronyms

and abbreviations are also defined in the following table.

Table 228. Acronyms and Abbreviations

Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbps (12.5 MBps) with auto-negotiation

Gbps Ethernet over twisted pair a 1 Gbps (125 Mbps)

Or IEEE 802.3an. A standard by the IEEE 802.3 committee to provide 10 Gigabits per

second (Gbps) (1,250 Megabit per Second (Mbps)) Ethernet connections over

conventional shielded or unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables.

IEEE 802.1x Authentication Protocol Standard

Access Control Entry

Access Control List

Application Programming Interface

Address Resolution Protocol

Audio Video Broadcast, Audio Video Bridging

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

Border Gateway Protocol

The software image (typically a .stk file), which is intended to download and run on the

target NETGEAR ProSafe Managed device.

Board Support Package

Cisco Discovery Protocol

Control Element

Command Line Interface

Class of Service. An indication of how an upper-layer protocol requires a lower-layer

protocol to treat its messages. A CoS definition comprises a virtual route number and a

transmission priority field (ToS)

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