Glossary - Paradyne 3150 Operator's Manual

ACCULINK
ACO
Activ
adapter
address
agent (SNMP)
AIS
AMI
ANSI
application
ASCII
ASCII terminal/printer
asynchronous data
authenticationFailure trap
AUX port
Auxiliary Backplane
AWG
bandwidth
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Glossary

A product family and a registered trademark.
Alarm Cut-off command. A command for carrier-mounted CSUs that forces a
deactivation of the alarm relay on the 3000 Series Carrier.
Active configuration area. The configuration option set that is currently active for
the device. Before a configuration option set becomes active, you must save the set
to the Active configuration area.
Hardware that provides some transitional function between two or more devices.
A symbol (usually numeric) that identifies the interface attached to a network.
A software program housed within a device to provide SNMP functionality. Each
agent stores management information and responds to the manager's request for
this information.
Alarm Indication Signal. A signal transmitted instead of the normal signal to
maintain transmission continuity and to indicate to the receiving device that a
transmission fault exists.
Alternate Mark Inversion. A line coding technique used to accommodate the ones
density requirements of T1 lines.
American National Standards Institute. An organization devoted to the development
of voluntary standards.
The use to which a device is put.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit code which
establishes compatibility between data services.
Devices that can be attached, either locally or remotely, to the CSU to display or
print alarm messages.
Data transmission that is synchronized by a transmission start bit at the beginning
of a character (five to eight bits) and one or more stop bits at the end.
An SNMP trap that indicates that the device has received an SNMP protocol
message that has not passed the active security measures.
The auxiliary communications port on the CSU.
An 8-slot backplane that fits over one half of the open section of the 3000 Series
Carrier. This is a passive assembly that provides interconnect capability between
3151 CSUs and 3161 CSUs and provides all interface connectors.
American Wire Gauge. An indication of wire size.
The range of frequencies that a circuit can pass. The greater the bandwidth, the
more information that can be sent in a given amount of time.
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