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Glossary
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An alarm front card for the IGX switch.
ARM (Alarm Relay
Module)
An alarm front card and back card set for the BPX switch.
ASM (Alarm/Status
Monitor Cards)
Data transmission that uses a very flexible method of carrying information, including voice, data,
ATM
(Asynchronous multimedia, and video between devices on a local or wide area network using 53-byte cells on virtual
Transfer Mode)
circuits. The 53 byte cell consists of data and a small header. (See also cell relay.)
A label switching router that is connected to the ATM-LSR cloud through LC-ATM interfaces. The ATM
ATM Edge LSR
edge LSR adds labels to unlabeled packets and strips labels from labeled packets.
An ATM-LSR is a MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) router in which packets are forwarded by
ATM-LSR
switching cells rather than frames, and all packet interfaces are MPLS (Label) Controller-ATM interfaces.
A label switching router with a number of LC-ATM intefaces. The router forwards the cells from these
interfaces using labels carried in theVPI and/or VCI field.
A member of the INS product family that uses ATM SVC Server Shelves and software to enhance a
ATM Switched
Virtual Circuits Cisco WAN switching network with ATM switched virtual circuits.
(SVCs)
ATM SVC Server An adjunct processor used in the INS ATM SVC application to enhance traditional Cisco WAN
Shelf switching networks with ATM switched virtual circuits. The ATM SVC Server Shelf is co-located with
and connected to a BPX switch.
An RS-232 port on the front panel of the SCC card used for connecting a printer or an out-dial modem.
auxiliary port
This port is a one-way, outgoing port.
Cisco BPX 8600 Series Installation and Configuration
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Release 9.3.0, Part Number 78-10674-01 Rev. D0, July 2001