Glossary
Alcatel-Lucent 7342 ISAM FTTU ONT R04.05.06 July 2008 GL-5
3FE 51892 AAAA TCZZA Edition 01 ONT Product Information Manual
CLI Command Line Interface
A workstation access method interface that uses CLI commands to
communicate to any network element in the 7342 ISAM FTTU network.
CO Central Office
Telephone switching center that connects subscribers within a telephone
network.
CODEC Coder Decoder
CoS Class of Service
a method of managing traffic in a network by grouping similar types of
traffic together and treating each type as a class with its own level of service
priority.
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
Customer-owned telecommunications equipment at customer premises used
to terminate or process information from the public network
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPU Central Processing Unit
The part of a computer that performs the logic computational and
decision-making functions
CSA Carrier Serving Area
A type of trunk-loop architecture that typically includes a T1 carrier, a
cluster of subscribers, and a serving area
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
A data communications mode in a shared medium in which access
contention problems are solved by denying access to one of the contenders
CTAG Correlation Tag
C-VLAN Customer VLAN
DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
The capacity of subdividing large high-capacity network transmission
resources among multiple applications almost instantaneously and providing
each application only the share of bandwidth each application requires
dBm Decibel referenced to one millivolt across 75 ohms
DCE Data Circuit Terminating Equipment