AT&T DEFINITY 555-230-223 - Manual (Page 161)

Glossary
BRI Basic Rate Interface
Bridge A router that connects two or more networks and forwards
packets among them. Usually, bridges operate at the physical
network level. For example, an Ethernet bridge connects two
physical Ethernet cables and forwards from one cable to the
other exactly those packets that are not local. Bridges differ
from repeaters because bridges store and forward complete
packets while repeaters forward electrical signals.
See
brouter.
Brouter Bridge/Router. In local area networking, a device that
combines the dynamic routing capability of an internetwork
router with the ability of a bridge to interconnect dissimilar
LANs. It has the ability to route one or more protocols and
bridge all other traffic. The DEFINITY LAN Gateway
application links ISDN and TCP/IP at both a physical and
addressing level.
See bridge and router.
Client For the DEFINITY LAN Gateway, a computer that is a
consumer of ASAI service.
IP Internet Protocol
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
Link See ASAI link.
MCC Multi-Cabinet Carrier
Router Any machine responsible for making decisions about which of
several paths network (or Internet) traffic will follow. At the
lowest level, a physical network bridge is a router because it
chooses whether to pass packets from one physical wire to
another. Within a long haul network, each individual packet
switch is a router because it chooses routes for individual
packets. In the Internet, each IP gateway is a router because
it uses IP destination addresses to choose routes.
See
brouter.
SCC Single Cabinet Carrier
Telnet The TCP/IP protocol governing the exchange of character-
oriented terminal data. Also, the process by which a person
using one computer can sign on to a computer in another city,
state, or country. With Telnet, a user can work from a PC as
if it were a terminal attached to another machine by a hard-
wired line.
GL-2 Issue 1 January 1996