Panasonic 15000 User Manual
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List of terms
Nortel Multiservice Switch 7400/15000/20000
Terminology
NN10600-005 7.2S1 Standard
PCR7.2 and up March 2006
Copyright © 2006, Nortel
Nortel Confidential
adjacency
A relationship formed between selected neighboring routers for the purpose
of exchanging routing information. Not every pair of neighboring routers
becomes adjacent.
adjacent network identifier (ANID)
A numeric identifier assigned to an adjacent network that is directly connected
to this network through at least one X.25 or X.75 gateway.
ADPCM
See
adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) (page 7)
ADTF
See
allowed cell rate decrease time factor (ADTF) (page 9)
advertisement scope
See
Advisor
A Multiservice Data Manager toolset.
agent
Network management software components that are contained in managed
entities such as routers, concentrators, and host computers. These
components monitor the operation of the managed entity by maintaining a
collection of objects in the management information base (MIB).
Agents communicate with corresponding managers.
aggregate policy
An internetworking policy through which the border gateway protocol (BGP)
combines the characteristics of different routes and advertises this
combination as a single route. Aggregation reduces the data that a BGP
speaker stores and exchanges with another BGP speaker.
AINI
See
ATM inter-network interface (AINI) (page 13)
.
AIR
See
allowed information rate (AIR) (page 9)
.
AIS
See