Glossary - Adaptec 5ANA-940 User Manual

This glossary is divided into two sections: Acronyms and Glossary of
Terms.
Acronyms
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
ANSI American National Standards
Institute
API
Application Programming
Interface
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
ASIC Application Specific Integrated
Circuit
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B-ISDN
Broadband Integrated Services
Digital Network
BEPCR Best Effort Peak Cell Rate
CBR Continuous Bit Rate (voice and
video)
CCITT Consultative Committee for
International Telegraph and
Telephone
CL Convergence Sublayer
CLP
Cell Loss Priority
DMA
Direct Memory Access
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read
Only Memory
ESI End Station Identifier
ETSI European Telecommunications
Standards Institute
GUI Graphical User Interface
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
IETF RFC Internet Engineering Task Force
Request for Comment

Glossary

ILMI
Interim Local Management
Interface
IP Internet Protocol
IPX Internet Packet Exchange
(Novell)
Integrated Services Digital
ISDN
Network
ISO International Standards
Organization
LAN
Local Area Network
LATA
Local Access and Transport Area
LED
Light Emitting Diode
LIS
Logical IP Subnetwork
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MBS Maximum Burst Size
MIB Management Information Base
MMF Multimode Fiber
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
NIC Network Interface Card
NMS Network Management Systems
NNI Network-to-Network Interface
OAM Operations And Maintenance
P-NNI Private Network to Node
Interface
PCI Peripheral Component
Interconnect
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PDU Protocol Data Units
PHY PHYsical Layer
PMD Physical (layer) Media
Dependent
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