EMC Connectrix B Series Hardware Reference Manual page 85

Circuit
Class 1 Service
Class 2 Service
Class 3 Service
Class 4 service
Class 6 service
Class F Service
Class of Service
CLI
Client
Comma
CMA
EMC Connectrix B Series DS-8B3 and DS-16B3 Hardware Reference Manual
An established communication path between two ports. Consists of
two virtual circuits capable of transmitting in opposite directions. See
also Link.
The class of frame-switching service that provides a dedicated
connection between two communicating ports (also called
connection- oriented service), with acknowledgment of delivery or
nondelivery of frames.
A connectionless class of frame switching service that includes
acknowledgment of delivery or nondelivery of frames.
A connectionless frame switching service that does not include
acknowledgment of delivery or nondelivery of frames. Can be used
to provide a multicast connection between the originator and
recipients, with acknowledgment of delivery or nondelivery of
frames.
A connection-oriented service that allows fractional parts of the
bandwidth to be used in a virtual circuit.
A connection-oriented multicast service geared toward video
broadcasts between a central server and clients.
The class of frame switching service for a direct connection between
two switches, allowing communication of control traffic between the
E_Ports, with notification of delivery or nondelivery of data.
A specified set of delivery characteristics and attributes for frame
delivery.
Command line interface. Interface that depends entirely on the use of
commands, such as through Telnet or SNMP, and does not involve a
graphical user interface.
An entity that, using its common transport (CT), makes requests of a
server.
A unique pattern (either 1100000 or 0011111) used in 8b/10b encoding
to specify character alignment within a data stream. See also K28.5.
Central memory architecture. An architecture centralizing memory
usage in switches.
Glossary
g-5