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M
In network management, a network device that can be managed by a network management protocol.
managed object
See MIB.
Management
Information Base
Maximum total data throughput allowed on a given virtual circuit. The maximum rate, which cannot
maximum rate
exceed the media rate, represents the highest data throughput the virtual circuit will ever deliver,
measured in bps or cells per second.
Management Information Base. A collection of objects that can be accessed through a network
MIB
management protocol, such as SNMP or Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP).
multimode fiber. Optical fiber that supports the propagation of multiple frequencies of light. See also
MMF
SMF.
Process by which the characteristics of electric signals are transformed to represent information.
modulation
Types of modulation include AM, FM, and PAM. See also AM, FM, and PAM.
Single packets copied by the network and sent to a specific subset of network addresses. Compare with
multicast
broadcast and unicast.
See MMF.
multimode fiber
Equipment that enables several data streams to be sent over a single physical line. A device for
multiplexer
combining several channels to be carried by one line or fiber. See also chassis and DSLAM.
N
Network Address Translation. Mechanism for reducing the need for globally unique IP addresses.
NAT
NAT allows an organization with addresses that are not globally unique to connect to the Internet by
translating those addresses into globally routable address space.
Network Equipment Building Systems. An extensive set of performance, quality, environmental and
NEBS
safety requirements developed by Bellcore (now Telcordia).
Collection of computers, printers, routers, switches, and other devices that can communicate with
network
each other over some transmission medium.
See NAT.
Network Address
Translation
A network element is generally a combination hardware and software system that is designed
network element
primarily to perform a telecommunications service function.
See NEBS.
Network Equipment
Building Systems
Generic term used to describe systems or actions that help maintain, characterize, or troubleshoot
network
a network.
management
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