Chapter 6 acronyms, Acronym list, Chapter 6 acronyms -1 – CANOGA PERKINS 9135G SNMP Managed Gigabit Ethernet Switch User Manual

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Chapter 6
Acronyms

Acronym List
AC

=

Alternating

Current

API

=

Application

Programming

Interface

ASCII

=

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

=

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATM

=

Asynchronous

Transfer

Mode

ATM/FDDI

=

Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Fiber Distributed Data Interface

AUI (connector)

=

Autonomous Unit Interface

Aut

=

Auto

Negotiate

BOOTP

=

Boot Protocol (a TCP/IP protocol)

bps

=

bits

per

second

CHS GND

=

Chassis Ground

Col

=

Collision

COM

=

Communication (usually referring to communications port)

COM

=

Common terminal (when referring to relays and switches)

CPU

=

Central

Processing

Unit

CTS

=

Clear

To

Send

dB

=

Decibel

DC

=

Direct

Current

DCE

=

Data

Communications

Equipment

DIP

=

Dual

Inline

Package

DSR

=

Data

Signal

Ready

DRAM

=

Dynamic

Random

Access

Memory

DTE

=

Data

Terminal

Equipment

DTR

=

Data

Terminal

Ready

EAS

=

Edge

Access

Switch

EIA (connector)

=

Electronic Industries Association

EPROM

=

Electrical/Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

FC

=

Face Contact (as referred to fiber optic connectors)

FDDI

=

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDX

=

Full-duplex

Fdb

=

Forwarding

database

FL

=

Fault

Locating

FX

=

Foreign

Exchange

GND

=

Ground (as in earth ground)

GUI

=

Graphical

User

Interface

HDX

=

Half-duplex

HTML

=

Hyper

Text

Markup

Language

HTTP

=

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IEEE

=

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IP

=

Internet

Protocol

Java

=

Programming language from Sun Microsystems

KB

=

Kilobyte

(≈1000 bytes)

LED

=

Light

Emitting

Diode

LAN

=

Local

Area

Network

LLE

=

Link

Loss

Echo

LLF

=

Link

Loss

Forwarding

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