Alcatel-Lucent 1643 AMS User's Operation Manual page 715

Glossary
Virtual Container (VC)
Container with a path overhead.
VLAN
Virtual LAN
VPN
Virtual Privat Network
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W Wait to Restore Time (WRT)
The time to wait before switching back after a failure has cleared in a revertive
protection scheme. This time can be between 0 and 15 minutes, in increments of one
minute.
WAN
Wide Area Network
Wander
Long term variations of amplitude frequency components (below 10 Hz) of a digital
signal from their ideal position in time. Wander can result in buffer problems at a
receiver.
WaveStar® Integrated Transport Management Subnetwork Controller (ITM-SC)
Manager for SDH network elements in a subnetwork. Also called an Element
Management System.
WaveStar® Network Management System (NMS)
Manager for SDH network elements in a network. Formerly known as DACScan-T.
WDM
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
Information as displayed on the screen will appear in the same way on printed output.
Wideband Communications
Voice, data, and/or video communication at digital rates from 64 kbit/s to 2 Mbit/s.
Windows
Graphical User Interface on PC systems.
Working
Label attached to a physical entity. Inthe case of revertive switching the working line or
unit is the entity that carry service under normal operation. In the case of non-revertive
switching this label has no particular meaning.
WS
WorkStation
WSF
Work Station Facility
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