Glossary - Paradyne 3350 User Manual

ACCULINK
Activ
adapter
address
agent (SNMP)
aggregate
AIS
AMI
application
ASCII
ASCII terminal/printer
asynchronous data
authenticationFailure trap
AUX port
AWG
bandwidth
BES
bipolar signal
bit
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Glossary

An AT&T product family and a registered trademark.
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.
A single bit stream that combines two or more bit streams.
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 E1 lines.
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 E1 NTU 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 been properly authenticated.
The auxiliary communications port on the E1 NTU.
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.
Bursty Errored Seconds. Seconds with more than one, but less that 805 CRC errors.
A signal in which successive "ones" (marks, pulses) are of alternating, positive and
negative polarity, and in which a "zero" (space, no pulse) is of zero amplitude.
Binary digit. The smallest unit of information, representing a choice between a one
or a zero (sometimes called mark or space).
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