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MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Multinet4 Multi-Port Serial Server
& Managed Switch
Chapter 1: Glossary
Glossary
This glossary contains brief explanations of acronyms and other terms used in this manual.
Term
3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES). A more secure version of the
DES standard in which data is encrypted three times.
802.1p An IEEE standard that provides Quality of Service (QoS) at the layer 2
level.
AES Advanced Encryption Standard. A NIST-standard cryptographic cipher
that uses a block length of 128 bits and key lengths of 128, 192 or 256
bit.
ANSI American National Standards Institute.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol. Enables discovery of a device's MAC
address when only its IP address is known.
AS Autonomous System. A set of routers under a single technical
administration with an apparently coherent interior routing plan.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
BPV Bipolar violation.
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Units. Message units that carry the Spanning
Tree Protocol information.
CBT Core Based Trees. One of the communications protocols of the
Internet Protocol Suite. Builds and maintains a shared delivery tree for
a multicast group.
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