ATM Abbreviations Dictionary

A
Aal atm adapter Layer ATM Adaptation Layer
Available Bit Rate (Available Bit Rate)
ACR attenuation crosstalk Ratio
ADPCM adaptive Differential PCM
ADSL Asymmetric Digital loop asypolicric Digital Subscriber Line
Ami atm Management Interface
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
ANS Advanced Networks and Services
ANSI American National Standard Institute
APON passive optical fiber network
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ automatically resends the Request Automatic Repeat Request
AS self-made System Autonomous System
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit (Chip)
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ATD Asynchronous Time Division multiplexing Asynchronous Time Division
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B
BBS Bulletin Board System
BER bit error rate
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BICMOS bipolar CMOS
BIP-8 Bit Interleaved Parity-8
B-ISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BMI Bus-Memory Interface
BOOTP Boot Protocol BOOTstrapping Protocol
BRI single ISDN basic rate
BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server Broadcast/Unknown Server
C
CAC Connection Admission Control
CATV public antenna TV
CBDS connectionless broadband data service
CBR Continuous Bit Rate (Continuous Bit Rate)
CCITT international telephone and telegraph Advisory Committee
CD Carrier Detect
CDB Configuration Database
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access (Division) Multiple Access
CDPD Cellular Digital grouping Data Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDV Cell Delay change Cell Delay Variation
CEC Common Equipment Card
CERNET
Classless InterDomain Routing
CLIP Classical IP
CLP cell loss priority
CMIS/CMIP the Common Management Information Service/Protocol
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Cmot cmis/CMIP on TCP/IP
CNOM Network Operation and Management professional Committee of Network Operation and Management
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPAN Comprehensive Perl archieve Network
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer
CR Carriage Return
CS Convergence sub-layer Convergence Sublayer
CSDN Circuit Switching Data Network
CSMA/CD Carrier Multi-Channel Access/conflict Detection Carrier Sense Multi-Access/Collision Detection
D
DAC Dual Attach Concentrator
DAS Dual Attach Station
DCD Data Carrier Detect
Digital Circuit-terminating Equipment
DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol
DIME Direct Memory execution Direct Memory Execute
Distributed Management Environment
DNS Domain Name System
DPI printable points Per Inch Dot Per Inch
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual-Bus Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DS-3 Digital Standard 3
DSMA Digital listening multi-Access Digital Sense Multiple Access
DSP Digital Signal Processing
DTE Data Terminal device Data Terminal Equipment
DTR Data Terminal Ready
DVMRP Distance Vector multi-object path Protocol Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
E
ECL silicon dual-pole Type
ECSRN East China South Region network
EGP external Gateway Protocol Exterior Gateway Protocol
EIA/TIA Electronic Industrial Association and the Telecommunication Industrial Association
EMA Ethernet network Adapter
E-mail: Electronic mail
EPD discard group data packets in advance
F
FAQ: Frequently Answer Question
FCS Fast Circuit Switching
FDDI Optical Fiber Distributed Data Interface
OFDM Multiplexing Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEC Forward Error Correction
FEMA Fast Ethernet Media Adapter
FEXT remote Crosstalk
FITL Optical Fiber Loop
Fma fddi Nic FDDI Media Adapter
FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter-repeater Link
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTTC optical Fiber To The building group Fiber To The Curb
FTTH optical Fiber To The Home
G
GCRA General Cell Rate Algorithm Generic Cell Rate Algorithm
GGP Gateway-Gateway Protocol
Global Systems for Mobile communications
H
HEC Header Error Control
HCS Header validation Sequence Header Check Sequence
High-Level Data Link Control
HDTV Digital High Definition TV High Definition TeleVision
Coaxial Hybrid Fiber Coax
HIPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface High Performance Parallel Interface
HOL head Blocking
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Hub
I
IAB Internet Architecture Board
IAP Internet Access Provider
ICCB Internet Control and Configuration Board
ICMP Internet Control Information Protocol Internet Control Message Protocol
ICP Internet Content Provider
Switch between ICX parts Inter-Cartridge Exchange
IDP inter-network Datagram Protocol Internetwork datasync Protocol
IDU Interface Data Unit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Special Task Group Internet Engineering Task Force
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGP Internal Gateway Protocol Interior Gateway Protocol
IISP intermittent switch signaling protocol
ILMI transitional Local Area Management Interface (?)
IMP Interface Information Processor Interface Message Processor
IMTS improved Mobile phone System Emproved Mobile Telephone System
IP Internet Protocol
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRTF Internet Research Special Task Group Internet Research Task Force
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
Or International Standard Organization)
ISP Internet Service Provider Internet Service Proveder
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunications Union
J
JPEG image expert Joint team Joint Photographic Experts Group
L
L2 forwarding of L2F
L2 tunnel protocol of L2TP
LAN Local Area Network
Lane lan simulation LAN Emulation
LAP Link Access Procedure
LCP Link Control Protocol
LE_ARP LAN simulation address translation protocol
Lec lan simulation Client LAN Emulation Client
Lecs lan simulation Configuration Service LAN Emulation Configure Service
LED Light Emitting Diode
Les lan simulation Server LAN Emulation Server
LF Line Feed
LI length indication
LIM plug-in board
LLC Logical Link Control
M
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MACA avoids conflicting Multi-Channel Access (Protocol)
(The basis of the IEEE Wireless LAN Standard) Multiple Access with Access Avoidance
MAU Medium Access Unit
MIB Management Information Base
MIC Media interface connector
Modem
Message Of The Day Of MOTD
Nmmpoa Client
MPEG activity image Expert Group Motion Picture Experts Group
MRFCS multi-rate Fast Circuit Switching Multirate Fast Circuit Switching
MPOA Multi-Protocol Over ATM
Mps mpoa Server
MRCS multi-rate Circuit Switching Multirate Circuit Switching
MSC Mobile exchange Center Mobile Switching Center
MTBF average Time Between two failures Media Time Between Faults
Media Time of Repair
MTP Mail Transfer Protocol
MTSO Mobile phone exchange station Mobile Telephone Switching Office
Mean Time required for MTTD Fault Diagnosis Media Time to Diagnose
MTU Maximum transmission Unit Maximum Transfer Unit
N
NAP Network Access Point
NCA Network Computing Structure Network Computing Architecture
NCFC China's National Computer Network Facility,
The National Computing and Network Facility of China, also known as Zhongguancun Network, in China
NCP Network Control Protocol
NCP Network Core Protocol
NEXT near-end Crosstalk
NFS Network File System
Next node routing protocol of NHRP
NHRP Server
NIC Null-Attach Concentrator
NIC Network Interface Card
NIC Network Information Center Network Information Centre
NIM Network Interface Module
NISDN Narrowband ISDN Narrowband Integrited Services Digital Network
NLAM network layer address management
NNI Network-Network Interface
NOMS Network operations and Management seminars Network Operation and Management Symposium
NREN (US) National Research and Education Network
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NSF (USA) National Congress Science Foundation
NVRAM Non-volatile RAM
NVT Network Virtual Terminal
O
OAM Operation And Maintenance
ODBC Open Database Connection
ORB Object REquest proxy Object REquest Broker
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSPF Open Shortest Path First (Protocol)
P
Private Branch eXchange
PCM Pulse coding Modulation Pulse Code Modulation
PCN Personal Communication Network
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PCS Personal Communication Service (Personal Communications Service)
PDH quasi-synchronous digital Series
Personal Digital Assistant for PDA
PDN Public Data Network
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PER group error rate packet error rate
PEM Port Expansion Module
PIR group insertion rate packet insertion rate
PI/SO Primary In/Secondary Out
PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLR group loss rate packet loss rate
(Dependent sub-layer) Physical Medium Dependent
POH channel overhead
PON passive optical fiber network
POP Post Office Protocol
PO/SI Primary Out/Secondary In
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
Partial discarding of group data packets by using PPD: Partial Packet Discard
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
The number of pages Per Minute that can be printed by the PRM. Page Per Minute
PRM Protocol Reference Model
PRN Packet Wireless Network Packet Radio Network
PSN group Switch Node Packet Switch Node
PSDN group exchange data network
PSTN Public Telephone Exchange Network Public Switched Telephone Network
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit includes PVPC and PVCC) Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVPC permanent virtual path connection
PVCC permanent virtual channel connection
PVP Permanent Virtual Path
Q
QoS Quality of Service
R
RADIUS remote authorization dial-up Internet User Service
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS remote access server
Request for Comments
RFT Request for Technology
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RMON Remote Network Management
Router
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RSVP resource reuse Protocol
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (for Appletalk)
RTP receiving and sending ports
Round-Trip Sample Round Trip Sample
Remaining Time tags of RTS
S
SAP Service Access Point
SAP Service ANNOUNCEMENT Protocol Service Advertising Protocol
SAR Segmentation and restructuring (child layer) Segmentation and Reassembly
SAS Single Attached Station
SC Stick and Click connector
SCR Signal Crosstalk Ratio
SCR continuous Cell Rate Sustained Cell Rate
SCS Exchange Control Software
SDH Synchronous Digital series Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDLC synchronous Data link Control (Protocol) Advanced Data Communication Control Procedure
SDTV standard digital TV
SDU Service Data Unit
Simple Internet Protocol enhanced by SIPP
SLIP Serial Line IP Serial Line Interface Protocol
SMDS exchange multi-megabits Data Service Switched Multimegabit Data Services
SMF Single-mode optical Fiber Single-mode Fiber
SMI Structure of Management InformationMIB Structure)
SMT site Management Station Management
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA System Network Architecture
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR Signal-Noise ratio
SOH overhead
SONET Synchronous Optical fiber Network Synchronous Optical Network
SPE Synchronous Payload Envelope
SPP ordered grouping Protocol
In XNS, it is equivalent to TCP) Sequential Packet Protocol
SRTS synchronization residual Time Label Method
SSCS business specific part convergence child Layer
SSI Server contains Server Side Include
ST Stick and Turn connector ctor
STM Synchronous transmission Mode Synchronous Transfer Mode
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
STS Synchronous Transmission Signal Synchronous Transport Signal
SVC switching Virtual Circuit Switched Virtual Circuit
Switch
T
TAC Technical Maintenance Center
TAST Time allocation voice plug-in technology Time Assignment by Speech Interpolation
TC transfer aggregation (child layer) Transmission Convergence
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TFTP File Transfer protocol Trivial File Transfer protocol
TIP Terminal Interface Processor
TP Twisted Pair wire (Twisted Pair)
TSAP Transport Layer Service Access Point Transport Service Access Point
TTL Time To Live
TTR Timed Token Rotation
U
UBR Undefined Bit Rate
UEM Universal Ethernet Module
UDP User Datagram Protocol User datasync Protocol
UI Unix International
UNI User-Network Interface
UPC uses Parameter Control Usage Parameter Control
URL unified Resource positioning: Universal Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Program
V
VAN Value-Added Network
VBR Variable Bit Rate
VCC Virtual Channel Connection
VCI virtual channel identifier
V-D vector-Distance Algorithm)
Also called the Bellman-Ford algorithm) vector-distance
VLAN Virtual LAN
Ultra-large-scale IC
VOD on-Demand image Video on Demand
VPC Virtual Path Connection
Virtual path identifier of VPI
VPN Virtual Private Network
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VTP virtual tunnel protocol
W
WAN Wide Area Network
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WDMA Wavelength Division multi-Access Wavelength Division Multiple Access
WRB Web Request proxy Web Request Broker
WWW World Wide Web
X
XNS Xerox Network System