Paradyne 8310 MVLt - Manual (Page 101)

GL-1 8000-A2-GB26-10 January 1999
Glossary
A 10-Mbps Ethernet LAN that works on twisted-pair wiring.
A symbol (usually numeric) that identifies the interface attached to a network.
A software program housed within a device to provide SNMP functionality. Each agent
stores management information and responds to the manager’s request for this
information.
Access Node. Also known as DSLAM.
Address Resolution Protocol. Part of the TCP/IP suite, ARP dynamically links an IP
address with a physical hardware address.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The standard for data transmission
over telephone lines. A 7-bit code establishes compatibility between data services. The
ASCII code consists of 32 control characters (nondisplayed) and 96 displayed characters.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A high-speed, low-delay, connection-oriented switching and
multiplexing technique using 53-byte cells to transmit different types of data
simultaneously.
An authentication server can either be a RADIUS server or an XTACACS server and can
be used to confirm an end-user system’s access location.
A common bus at the rear of a nest or chassis that provides communications and power to
circuit card slots.
The range of frequencies that can be passed by a transmission medium, or the range of
electrical frequencies a device is capable of handling.
Bit Error Rate. The number of bits in error over a given period compared to the number of
bits transmitted successfully.
Bootstrap Protocol. Described in RFCs 951 and 1084, it is used for booting diskless
nodes.
Bits per second. Bits per second. Indicates the speed at which bits are transmitted across
a data connection.
A method of transmission. The simultaneous transmission to two or more communicating
devices.
Bridge Virtual Interface on a Cisco router.
A sequence of successive bits (usually eight) handled as a unit in data transmission.
Carrierless Amplitude Modulation and Phase Modulation. A transmission technology for
implementing a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). The transmit and receive signals are
modulated into two wide-frequency bands using passband modulation techniques.
CO. The PSTN facility that houses one or more switches serving local telephone
subscribers.
A device that receives a specific service, such as database management, from a server.
An identification used by an SNMP manager to grant an SNMP server access rights to
MIB.
10BaseT
address
agent (SNMP)
AN
ARP
ASCII
ATM
authentication server
backplane
bandwidth
BER
BootP
bps
broadcast
BVI
byte
CAP
central office
client
community name