Glossary
Alcatel-Lucent 7342 ISAM FTTU ONT R04.05.06 July 2008 GL-3
3FE 51892 AAAA TCZZA Edition 01 ONT Product Information Manual
ALTS-N ADSL Line Termination Shelf, version N
The ASAM shelf that provides mounting locations and slide-in rails for unit
insertion into backplane-mounted connectors. The ALTS-N is only used in
the ETSI market.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
A nonprofit, nongovernmental body supported by over 1000 trade
organizations, professional societies, and companies; ANSI was established
for the creation of voluntary industry standards.
APC American Power Conversion
APS Automatic Protection Switching
The capability of a transmission system to detect a failure on a working
facility and switch to a protection facility to recover the traffic, thus
increasing overall system availability
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
A protocol within TCP/IP that maps IP addresses to Ethernet
MAC addresses. TCP/IP requires ARP for use with Ethernet
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Coding method used to convert letters, numbers, punctuation, and control
codes into digital form
AU Automatically Out-of-Service
An alarm signal that indicates that the unit failed and is automatically taken
out-of-service
AUMA Automatically and Manually Out-of-Service
An alarm signal that indicates that the unit failed and the user has manually
(administratively) taken it out of service.
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWG is a standard measuring gauge for non-ferrous conductors.
BAC Buffer Acceptance Control
BATA Battery A
BATB Battery B
BATRET Battery Return
BER Bit Error Rate
Measure of transmission quality expressed as the percentage of received bits
in error compared to the total number of bits received.
BITS Building Integrated Timing Supply
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