Nortel 15000 Terminology page 12

ASBR
See autonomous system boundary router (ASBR) (page
ASCII
See American standard code for information interchange (ASCII) (page
ASIC
See application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (page
ASM
See address space manager (ASM) (page
ASN.1
See abstract syntax notation 1 (ASN.1) (page
ASPEN
See voice gateway control protocol (VGCP) (page
ASR
See actual shaping rate (ASR) (page
AS weight policy
See autonomous system weight policy (page
associated signaling
Uses one dedicated path between nodes as the signaling link.
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
A technology that provides access to a network by multiplexing user
information into fixed-length units called cells. ATM forms the basis for
broadband networks.
ATM
See asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) (page
ATM accounting
Collects usage information in the form of cell counts for ATM connections. The
service provider can use this information to bill customers or for test purposes,
statistics, network engineering, and planning.
ATM adaptation layer (AAL)
The standards layer that allows multiple applications to convert data to and
from a set of ATM cells. AAL translates higher layer services into the size and
format of an ATM cell.
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