Glossary - Interphase RAS Communications Controller 5536 User Manual

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802.2 IEEE
layer of the OSI model. LLC frames carry user information between
the nodes on a network and define the transmission of a frame between
two stations. These standards are common across the various lower
level standards within the Data Link and the Physical layers.
802.3 IEEE
Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection) network access method
used by Ethernet networks.
802.5 IEEE
and frame priority.
Adapter
nects an end station to the network medium (for example, twisted pair,
coaxial, fiber).
Advanced program-to-program communication
AIS (Alarm Indication Signal)
Alive or Blue signal.
AMI (Alternate Mark Inversion)
data as electrical signals on a link.
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
which coordinates, develops, and publishes standards used in the
United States.
APPC
eral facility characterizing the LU 6.2 architecture and its various
implementations in products. 2. Sometimes used to refer to the LU 6.2
architecture and its product implementations as a whole, or to an LU
6.2 product feature in particular, such as an APPC application pro-
gramming interface.
5536 PRI RAS Communications Controller Users Guide
See BRI (Basic Rate
See PRI (Primary Rate
See PRI (Primary Rate
Standards that govern the LLC within the Data Link
Standards that govern the use of the CSMA/CD (Carrier
Standards that govern the use of the token ring indicator
A device, usually a user interface card, that physically con-
Advanced Program-to-Program Communications.The gen-

Glossary

Interface).
Interface).
Interface).
PRI alarm, also known as Keep
A method of digitally encoding
See APPC.
An organization
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