8 Glossary
Table 8-1 Abbreviations
Abbreviations Full Characteristics
ACL Access Control List
APS Automatic Protect Switch
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BFD Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BPDU Bridge PDU
CAN Controller-area Network
CAPEX Capital Expenditures
CDN Content Distribution Network
CDR Call Detail Record
CE Carrier Ethernet
CV Connectivity Verification
DoS Denial of Service
DPI Deep Packet Inspection
DVMRP Distance vector Multicast Routing Protocol
EAPS Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching
ECMP Equal Cost of Multi-path
ESRP Ethernet standby Routing Protocol
FFD Fast Failure Detection
FRR Fast Reroute
GPS Global Position System
GR Graceful restart
H-VPLS Hierarchical Virtual Private Lan Service
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
ISIS Intermediate System-Intermediate System
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LSP Label Switch Path
MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching
MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
NE Network Element