GS4000 Quick Start Guide, Revision 3
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Acronyms
General Acronyms
ABR Available Bit Rate
AC Access Concentrator
ACK ACKnowledge
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ALG Application Level Gateway
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Autonomous System
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUX Auxiliary
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BGP4 Border Gateway Protocol - version 4
BGP4+ Multiprotocol Extensions for Border Gateway Protocol - version 4
bit/s bits per second * “bps” is also used as another notation for “bit/s”.
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BRI Basic Rate Interface
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIR Committed Information Rate
CP multi layer Control Processor
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
DA Destination Address
DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Diff-serv Differentiated Services
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DNS Domain Name System
DR Designated Router
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
E-Mail Electronic Mail
ES End System
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FDB Filtering DataBase
FR Frame Relay
FTTH Fiber To The Home
GBIC GigaBit Interface Converter
GFR Guaranteed Frame Rate
HDLC High level Data Link Control
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICMPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol version 6
ID Identifier
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
IETF the Internet Engineering Task Force
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
LAN Local Area Network