Beta Draft Confidential
Acronyms
ATM Services Configuration Guide for CBX 3500, CBX 500, GX 550, and B-STDX 9000 Acronyms-3
Acronyms
This guide uses the following acronyms:
Acronym Description
AAL Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Adaptation Layer
ABR available bit rate
ACR allowed cell rate
AESA ATM End System Address
AFI authority and format identifier
AIS alarm indication signal
APS Automatic Protection Switching
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASE Autonomous System External
ASBR autonomous system border router
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASR Application Specific Route
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATMoMPLS ATM over MPLS
Bc committed burst size
BCM backward congestion message
Be excess burst size
BECN backward explicit congestion notification
BER bit error rate
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BHLI Broadband Higher Level Information
BI backward indicator
B-ICI B-ISDN Inter-Carrier Interface
BIO Base Input/Output
CAC Call Admission Control