H3C network technology acronyms
Transcript of H3C network technology acronyms
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H3C network technology acronyms
# A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
6PE IPv6 Provider Edge
A Return
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer 5
ABR Area Border Router
AC Attachment Circuit
AC Access Category
AC Access Controller
ACA Acquire Change Authorization
ACCM Async-Control-Character-Map
ACFC Address-and-Control-Field-Compression
ACFP Application Control Forwarding Protocol
ACL Access Control List
ACS Auto-Configuration Server
ACSEI ACFP Client and Server Exchange Information
AD Active Directory
ADM ATM Direct Mapping
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AF Assured Forwarding
AFI Authority and Format Identifier
AFI Address Family Identifier
AFT Address Family Translation
AFTR Address Family Transition Router
AH Authentication Header
AIFSN Arbitration Inter Frame Spacing Number
AIS Alarm Indication Signal
AIW APPN Implementers Workshop
ALG Application Level Gateway
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AM Analog Modem
AMB Active Main Board
AMD Answering Machine Detection
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
A-MPDU Aggregated MAC Protocol Data Unit
ANI Adaptive Noise Immunity
ANSI American National Standard Institute
AP Access Point
APD Avalanche Photo Diode
APP Application Protocol
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
AS Autonomous System
ASBR Autonomous System Boundary Router
ASM Any-Source Multicast
ASPF Application Specific Packet Filter
ASPF Advanced Stateful Packet Filter
AT AppleTalk
ATD Attribute Discovery
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM Auto Teller Machine
AU Administration Unit
AUG Administrative Unit Group
AUG Administration Unit Group
AU-PTR Administration Unit Pointer
AVF Active Virtual Forwarder
AVF Appointed VLAN-x Forwarder
AVP Attribute Value Pair
B Return
B4 Basic Bridging BroadBand
B8ZS Bipolar 8-zero substitution
BAS Broadband Access Server
BB_Credit Buffer-to-Buffer Credit
BC Bandwidth Constraint
BC Boundary Clock
BCB Backbone Core Bridge
BDI Backward Defect Indication
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BDR Backup Designated Router
BE Best Effort
BEB Backbone Edge Bridge
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BERT Bit Error Rate Test
BFD Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BID Bundle Identifier
BIDIR-PIM Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast
BIMS Branch Intelligent Management System
BIP Bit-Interleaved Parity
B-MAC Backbone MAC
BMC Best Master Clock
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
BOP Bit-Oriented protocol
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
bps bits per second
BQ Bandwidth Queuing
BRI Basic Rate Interface
BSB Blockade State Block
BSM Bootstrap Message
BSMF Bootstrap Message Fragment
BSR Bootstrap Router
BSS Basic Service Set
BSV BRI S/T Voice
BT BitTorrent
B-VLAN Backbone VLAN
C Return
C/S Client/Server
CA Certificate Authority
CAC Connect Admission Control
CAMS Comprehensive Access Management Server
CAPWAP Controlling and Provisioning of Wireless Access Point
CAR Committed Access Rate
CB Customer Bridge
CBC Cipher Block Chaining
CBQ Class Based Queuing
CBR Constant Bit Rate
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CBS Committed Burst Size
C-BSR Candidate-BSR
CBT Core-Based Tree
CBWFQ Class Based Weighted Fair Queuing
CC Call Control
CC Control Channel
CC Continuity Check
CCC Circuit Cross Connect
CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone
CCM Continuity Check Message
CCMP CTR with CBC-MAC Protocol
C-DCC Circular DCC
CDCP S-Channel Discovery and Configuration Protocol
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol
CDR Call Detail Records
CDV Cell Delay Variation
CE Customer Edge
CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet
CEM Circuit Emulation
CEM Class Circuit Emulation Class
CESOPSN Circuit Emulation Services over PSN
CF Compact Flash
CFB Call Forwarding–Busy
CFD Connectivity Fault Detection
CFI Canonical Format Indicator
CFM Connectivity Fault Management
CFU Call Forwarding–Unconditional
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CID Calling Identity Delivery
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIR ALLOW Committed Information Rate ALLOW
CIST Common and Internal Spanning Tree
CLI Calling Line Identification
CLI Command Line Interface
CLNP Connection-Less Network Protocol
CLP Cell Loss Priority
CLV Code-Length-Value
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CMC Call Management Center
CN Common Name
CNG Comfortable Noise Generation
CO Central Office
COPS Common Open Policy Service
CoS Class of Service
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPOS Channelized POS
CPS Certification Practice Statement
CPTone Call Progress Tone
CQ Custom Queuing
CR Constraint-based Routing
CRBT Caller Ring Back Tone
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Code
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC4 Cyclic Redundancy Check 4
CRL Certificate Revocation List
CRLDP Constraint-based Routed Label Distribution Protocol
CRLSP Constraint-based Routed Label Switched Paths
C-RP Candidate-RP
CS Class Selector
CS-ACELP Conjugate-Structure Algebraic-Code-Excited Linear-Prediction
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect
CSNP Complete SNP
CSNP Complete Sequence Number PDU
CSPF Constraint-based Shortest Path First
CST Common Spanning Tree
CSU Channel Service Unit
CT Class Type
CTR Counter mode
CUG Closed User Group
CV Connectivity Verification
CVLAN Customer VLAN
CWMP CPE WAN Management Protocol
D Return
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DAD Duplicate Address Detection
DAR Deeper Application Recognition
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DCBX Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol
DCC Dial Control Center
DCD Data Carrier Detection
DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE Data Center Ethernet
DCF Distributed Coordination Function
DD Database Description
DDN Digital Data Network
DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DDR Dial-on-Demand Routing
DE Discard Eligibility
DED Designated Edge Device
DER Distinguished Encoding Rules
DES Data Encryption Standard
DF Designated Forwarder
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
DH Diffie-Hellman
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHCPv6 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
DID Direct Inward Dialing
DID Device ID
DiffServ Differentiated Service
DIS Designated IS
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DLDP Device Link Detection Protocol
DLSw Data Link Switching
DM Delay Measurement
DM Diagnostic and Monitoring
DMC Device Management Controller
DMM Delay Measurement Message
DMR Delay Measurement Reply
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DN Distinguished Name
DNAT Destination Network Address Translation
DNAT Destination NAT
DND Do Not Disturb
DNS Domain Name System
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DoD Downstream On Demand
DO-EO Delayed Offer to Early Offer
DoS Denial of Service
DPD Dead Peer Detection
DR Designated Router
DRB Designated Routing Bridge
DS Differentiated Services
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DS-Lite Dual Stack Lite
DSP Domain Specific Part
DS-TE DiffServ-aware TE
DSU Data Service Unit
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTIM Delivery Traffic Indication Message
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DU Downstream Unsolicited
DUID DHCP Unique Identifier
DUID-LL DUID Based on Link-layer Address
D-V Distance Vector
DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
DVPN Dynamic Virtual Private Network
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
E Return
E2ETC End-to-End Transparent Clock
EAA Embedded Automation Architecture
EACL Enhanced ACL
EAD Endpoint Admission Defense
EAIS Ethernet Alarm Indication Signal
EAN Ethernet Access Node
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAPOL Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN
EAPOR EAP over RADIUS
EAP-TLS EAP-Transport Layer Security
EAP-TLS Extensible Authentication Protocol -Transport Layer Security
EBS Excess Burst Size
EC Echo cancellation
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ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
ECM Error Correction Mode
ECMP Equal-Cost Multipath
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
ECP Edge Control Protocol
E-CPOS Enhanced CPOS
ECT Equal Cost Tree
ECWmax Exponent form of CWmax
ECWmin Exponent form of CWmin
ED Edge Device
EDCA Enhanced Distributed Channel Access
EF Expedited Forwarding
EFM Ethernet First Mile
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EM Event Monitor
ENDC EVI Neighbor Discovery Client
End-Of-RIB End of Routing-Information-Base
ENDP EVI Neighbor Discovery Protocol
ENDS EVI Neighbor Discovery Server
ENUM Telephone Number Mapping
EoA Ethernet over ATM
EOAM Ethernet Operation, Administration and Maintenance
EoPW Ethernet over Pseudo Wire
ER Explicit Route
ER Edge Relay
ERT Export Route-target
ES End System
ESF Extended Super Frame
ESN Extended Sequence Number
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
ESS Exchange Switch Support
ETS Enhanced Transmission Selection
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EUI Extended Unique Identifier
EUI-64 64-bit Extended Unique Identifier
EVB Edge Virtual Bridging
EVFP Exchange Virtual Fabrics Parameter
EVI Ethernet Virtualization Interconnect
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F Return
FA Foreign-AC
FAS Frame Alignment Signal
FC Fibre Channel
FCF FCoE Forwarder
FCM Fast Connect Modem
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FDB Forwarding Database
FDL Facilities Data Link
FE Fast Ethernet
FEAC Far End and Control Signal
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class
FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
FEP Front End Processor
FF Fixed-Filter
FFD Fast Failure Detection
FIB Forwarding Information Base
FIFO First In First Out
FIP FCoE Initialization Protocol
FIP Snooping FCoE Initialization Protocol Snooping
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FLOGI Fabric Login
FNG Fault Notification Generator
FoIP Fax over IP
FPMA Fabric Provided MAC Address
FQ Fair Queuing
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FR Frame Relay
FRR Fast Reroute
FRTP Frame Relay Traffic Policing
FRTS Frame Relay Traffic Shaping
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
FS Forced Switch
FSC Frame Synchronization Control
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSPF Fabric Shortest Path First
FT Fault Tolerance
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FTN FEC to NHLFE map
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FXO Foreign Exchange Office
FXS Foreign Exchange Station
G Return
G.SHDSL Single-pair High-speed DSL Defined in ITU-T Standard G.991.2
GARP Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GI Guard Interval
GK GateKeeper
GM Grandmaster Clock
GNS Get Nearest Server
GPS Global Positioning System
GR Graceful Restart
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GTC Generic Token Card
GTK Group Temporal Key
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol
GTP-U GPRS Tunneling Protocol User
GTP-V0 GPRS Tunneling Protocol V0
GTS Generic Traffic Shaping
GTSM Generalized TTL Security Mechanism
GVRP GARP VLAN Registration Protocol
GW Gateway
H Return
HA Home-AC
HABP HW Bypass Protocol
HBA Host Bus Adapter
HDB3 High-density bipolar 3
HDLC High-level Data Link Control
HDSL High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HGMP HW Group Management Protocol
HGMPv2 HW Group Management Protocol version 2
HLC Higher Layer Compatibility
HMAC Hash-based Message Authentication Code
HO-DSP High Order Part of DSP
HoPE Hierarchy of PE
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HoVPN Hierarchy of VPN
HQoS Hierarchical Quality of Service
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
HTTPS HTTP Security
H-VPLS Hierarchical VPLS
HWTACACS HW Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
I Return
IA Identity Association
IACTP Inter Access Controller Tunneling Protocol
IAD Integrated Access Device
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IBGP Internal BGP
IBGP Internal Border Gateway Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICMPv4 Internet Control Message Protocol version 4
ICMPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6
ICP IMA Control Protocol
ICPIF Calculated Planning Impairment Factor
I-DEI Backbone Service Instance Drop Eligibility Indicator
IDI Initial Domain Identifier
IDN Integrated Digital Network
IDP Initial Domain Part
IDS Intrusion Detection System
IE Information Element
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGMP Snooping Internet Group Management Protocol Snooping
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol
IIH IS-to-IS hello
IIS Internet Information Services
IKE Internet Key Exchange
IKEv2 Internet Key Exchange version 2
ILM Incoming Label Map
ILS Internet Locator Service
IM Instant Messaging
IMA Inverse Multiplexing for ATM
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iMC Intelligent Management Center
IME Input Method Editor
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identification Number
InARP Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
IntServ Integrated Service
IP Internet protocol
IPC Inter-process Communication
I-PCP Backbone Service Instance Priority Code Point
IPE Image Package Envelope
IPHC IP Header Compression
IPng IP Next Generation
IPoA IP Over ATM
IPoEoA IP Over Ethernet Over ATM
IPS Intrusion Prevention System
IPsec IP Security
IPTA IP Terminal Access
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IPv6 MBGP IPv6 Multicast BGP
IPv6 PIM Protocol Independent Multicast for IPv6
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRDP ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
IRF Intelligent Resilient Framework
IS Intermediate System
ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
ISATAP Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
I-SID Backbone Service Instance Identifier
IS-IS Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISPF Incremental Shortest Path First
ISSU In-Service Software Upgrade
IST Internal Spanning Tree
ITSP Internet Telephone Service Provider
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication
IV Initialization Vector
IVR Interactive Voice Response
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K Return
KA Keep-alive
L Return
L2F Layer 2 Forwarding
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
L2VPN Layer 2 Virtual Private Network
L3VPN Layer 3 Virtual Private Network
LAC L2TP Access Concentrator
LAC Location Area Code
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LACPDU Link Aggregation Control Protocol Data Unit
LAN Local Area Network
LAPB Link Access Procedure, Balanced
LB Label Base
LB Load Balance
LBM Loopback Message
LBR Loopback Reply
LC Logic Channel
LCFO Loop Current Feed Open
LCI Logic Channel Identifier
LCP Link Control Protocol
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDP Label Distribution Protocol
LDP ID LDP Identifier
LER Label Edge Router
LFA Loss of Frame Align
LFI Link Fragmentation and Interleaving
LFIB Label Forwarding Information Base
LGS Loop-start & Ground-start Signaling
LI Leap Indicator
LID Link Identification
LLB Line Loopback
LLC Logical Link Control
LLC Lower Layer Compatibility
LLC Link Local Signaling
LLC2 Logical Link Control Type 2
LLDP Link Layer Discovery Protocol
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LLDPDU Link Layer Discovery Protocol Data Unit
LLDP-MED Link Layer Discovery Protocol Media Endpoint Discovery
LLQ Low Latency Queuing
LM Loss Measurement
LMI Local Management Interface
LMM Loss Measurement Message
LMR Loss Measurement Reply
LNS L2TP Network Server
LO Label-block Offset
LOCV Loss of Connectivity Verification defect
LOS Loss of Signal
LPU Line Processing Unit
LQC Link Quality Control
LQR Link Quality Reports
LR Label Range
LR Line Rate
LSA Link State Acknowledgment
LSA Link State Advertisement
LSAck Link State Acknowledgment
LSDB Link State DataBase
LSP Label Switched Path
LSP Link State Packet
LSP Link State PDU
LSPDU Link State Protocol Data Unit
LSR Label Switching Router
LSR Link State Record
LSR Link State Request
LSU Link State Update
LT Linktrace
LTM Linktrace Message
LTR Linktrace Reply
LVF Listening Virtual Forwarder
M Return
M flag Managed Address Configuration Flag
MA Maintenance Association
MAC Message Authentication Code
MAC Media Access Control
MAD Multi-Active Detection
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MAM Maximum Allocation Model
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAP Mesh Access Point
MaxBC Maximum Number of Bandwidth Constraints
MBGP Multicast BGP
MBS Maximum Burst Size
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCE Multi-VPN-instance Customer Edge
MCS Modulation and Coding Scheme
MCU Multipoint Control Unit
MD Maintenance Domain
MD Multicast Domain
MD5 Message-Digest 5
MDC Multitenant Devices Context
MDI Medium Dependent Interface
MDL Maintenance Data Link
MDMF Multiple Data Message Format
MDT Multicast Distribution Tree
MED Multi-Exit Discriminator
MEP Maintenance association End Point
MFAS Multiframe FAS
MFC Multi-Frequency Compelled
MFF MAC-Forced Forwarding
MFR Multilink Frame Relay
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol
MIB Management Information Base
MIC Message Integrity Check
MIP Maintenance association Intermediate Point
MKD Mesh Key Distributor
MLD Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol
MLD Snooping Multicast Listener Discovery Snooping
MLSP Mobile Link Switch Protocol
MNC Mobile Network Code
MoH Music on Hold
MOS Mean Opinion Scores
MOTD Message of The Day
MP Merge Point
MP Maintenance Point
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MP_REACH_NLRI Multiprotocol Reachable NLRI
MP_UNREACH_NLRI Multiprotocol Unreachable NLRI
MP-BGP Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol
MPDU MAC Protocol Data Unit
MPE Middle-level PE
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPLS TE Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering
MPLS-TP MPLS Transport Profile
MPoFR Multilink PPP Over Frame Relay
MPP Mesh Portal Point
MPU Main Processing Unit
MQC Modular QoS Configuration
MQC Modular QoS Command
MR Mobile Radio
MR Merge Request
MRM Mesh Routing Management
MRP Multiple Registration Protocol
MRPDU MRP Protocol Data Unit
MRRA Merge Request Resource Allocation
MRU Maximum Receive Unit
MS Manual Switch
MSCHAP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
MSDP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol
MSDU MAC Service Data Unit
MSK Multicast Session Key
MSOH Multiplex Section Overhead
MSS Maximum Segment Size
MST Multiple Spanning Tree
MSTI Multiple Spanning Tree Instance
MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
MT Multicast Tunnel
MTR Multi-Topology Routing
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MTU-s Multi-Tenant Unit switch
MU Mobile Unit
MVRP Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol
MWI Message Waiting Indication
N Return
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NA Neighbor Advertisement
NAPT Network Address Port Translation
NAPT-PT Network Address Port Translation-Protocol Translation
NAS Network Access Server
NAT Network Address Translation
NAT-PT Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation
NBMA Non-Broadcast Multi-Access
NBT NetBIOS over TCP/IP
NCP Network Control Protocol
ND Neighbor Discovery
NDA NetStream Data Analyzer
NDE NetStream Data Exporter
NDP Neighbor Discovery Protocol
NET Network Entity Title
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
NETCONF Network Configuration Protocol
NFAS non–FAS
NHLFE Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry
NI National ISDN
NIB Nexthop Information Base
NIC Network Interface Card
NII Network International Identifier
NIST National Institute of Standard and Technology
NIT Not Initial Terminal
NLB Network Load Balancing
NLBS Network Load Balancing Services
NLPID Network Layer Protocol Identifier
NLRI Network Layer Reachability Information
NM Network Management
NMFAS Non-Multiframe FAS
NMS Network Management System
NMS Network Management Server
NMS Network Management Station
NNI Network-to-Network Interface
NPDU Network Protocol Data Unit
NPE Network Provider Edge
NPV N_Port Virtualization
NQA Network Quality Analyzer
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nrt-VBR non-real-time Variable Bit Rate
NRZ NonReturn to zero
NRZI NonReturn to Zero Inverted
NS Neighbor Solicitation
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NSC NetStream Collector
N-SEL NSAP Selector
NSF Non-Standard Facilities
NSR Nonstop Routing
NSSA Not-So-Stubby Area
NTDP Neighbor Topology Discover Protocol
NTE Named Telephone Event
NTL Need to Know
NTP Network Time Protocol
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
O Return
O Flag Other Stateful Configuration Flag
OAA Open Application Architecture
OAM CC OAM Continuity Check
OAMPDU Operation, Administration and Maintenance Protocol Data Unit
OAMPDU OAM Protocol Data Units
OAP Open Application Platform
OC Optical Carrier
OC Ordinary Clock
ODF Optical Distribution Frame
OID Object Identifier
OOB Out-of-Band
OOF Out of Frame
ORF Outbound Route Filtering
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OU Organization Unit
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
P Return
P device Provider Device
P2MP Point-to-MultiPoint
P2P PW to PW
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P2P Peer-to-Peer
P2P Point-to-Point
P2PTC Peer-to-Peer Transparent Clock
PAD Packet Assembly/Disassembly
PADT PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate
PAGP Port Aggregation Protocol
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAM Port to Application Map
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PAT Port Address Translation
PBAR Port Based Application Recognition
PBB Provider Backbone Bridge
PBBN Provider Backbone Bridge Network
PBN Provider Bridge Network
PBO Power Backoff
PBR Policy-based Routing
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PCB Protocol Control Block
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PD Prefix Delegation
PD Powered Device
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDP Policy Decision Point
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PE Provider Edge
PE-agg PE Aggregation
PEAP Protected EAP
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PEAP-GTC Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Microsoft Generic Token Card
PEAP-MSCHAPv2 Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol v2
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
PEM Power Entry Module
PEP Policy Enforcement Point
PFC Priority-based Flow Control
PFC Protocol-Field-Compression
PFS Perfect Forward Secrecy
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PHB Per-hop Behavior
PHP Penultimate Hop Popping
PI Power Interface
PIC Prefix Independent Convergence
PIM Protocol Independent Multicast
PIM-DM Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode
PIM-SM Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode
PIM-SSM Protocol Independent Multicast Source-Specific Multicast
PIN Personal Identification Number
PIR Peak Information Rate
PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PLAR Private Line Auto Ring-down
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PLR Point of Local Repair
PMK Pairwise Master Key
PMTU Path MTU
PN Packet Number
PoE Power over Ethernet
POH Path Overhead
POP3 Post Office Protocol, version 3
POS Point of Sale
POST Power-On Self-Test
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoA PPP Over ATM
PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PPPoEoA PPPoE Over ATM
PPPoFR PPP Over Frame Relay
PPR Periodical Performance Report
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PPVID Port and Protocol VLAN ID
PQ Priority Queuing
PQL Priority Queue List
PRBS Pseudo Random Bit Sequence
PRF Pseudo-Random Function
PRI Primary Rate Interface
PRL Preferred Roaming List
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PS Protection Switching
PSB Path State Block
PSC Protection State Coordination
PSD Power Spectral Density
PSE Power Sourcing Equipment
PSK Pre-Shared Key
PSN Packet Switched Network
PSNP Partial SNP
PSNP Partial Sequence Number PDU
PSST Principal Switch Selection Timer
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTK Pairwise Transient Key
PTP Precision Time Protocol
PTY Pseudo-Terminals
PUK PIN Unlocking Key
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVC PQ PVC Priority Queuing
PVID Port Vlan ID
PVP Permanent Virtual Path
PVST Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
PW Pseudowire
PW-ACH PW Associated Channel Header
PWE3 Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge
PXE Preboot eXecution Environment
Q Return
QoS Quality of Service
QPPB QoS Policy Propagation Through the Border Gateway Protocol
R Return
RA Router Alert
RA Registration Authority
RA Router Advertisement
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RAGG Route-Aggregation
RAI Remote Alarm Indication
RALM RADIUS Authenticated Login Using MAC-address
RAS Registration, Admission, and Status
RB Routing Bridge
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RBAC Role Based Access Control
RCA Release Change Authorization
RD Route Distinguisher
RD Routing Domain
RDI Remote Defect Indication
RDM Russian Dolls Model
Recommendation Enhanced Transmission Selection Recommendation Configuration
RED Random Early Detection
RF Ping Radio Frequency Ping
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RIB Routing Information Base
RIB Route Information Base
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RIP-2 Routing Information Protocol version 2
RIPng RIP next generation
RLSN Remote Link Status Notification
RMON Remote Network Monitoring
ROA Recognized Operating Agency
RP Rendezvous Point
RPA Rendezvous Point Address
RPF Reverse Path Forwarding
RPL Rendezvous Point Link
RPR Resilient Packet Ring
RP-Set Rendezvous Point Set
RPT Rendezvous Point Tree
RR Router Renumber
RR Receiver Ready
RR Route Reflector
RR Reflective Relay
RRI Reverse Route Injection
RRPP Rapid Ring Protection Protocol
RRPPDU Rapid Ring Protection Protocol Data Unit
RS Router Solicitation
RSB Reservation State Block
RS-DCC Resource-Shared DCC
RSH Remote Shell
RSN Robust Security Network
RSNA Robust Security Network Association
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RSOH Regenerator Section Overhead
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication
RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
RTC Remote Terminal Connection
RTCP Real-time Transport Control Protocol
RTE Route Table Entry
RTM Real-Time Event Manager
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
RTPQ Real-time Transport Protocol Priority Queuing
RTS Request to Send
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
RTT Round Trip Time
RTT Round-trip Time
rt-VBR Real-time Variable Bit Rate
RU Rack Unit
S Return
S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SA Suppress-Advertisement
SA Source Active
SA Security Association
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
SAFI Subsequent Address Family Identifier
SAII Source Attachment Individual Identifier
SAN Storage Area Networks
SAP Service Advertising Protocol
SAR-PDU Segmentation and Reassembly Protocol Data Unit
SATOP Structure-Agnostic TDM over Packet
SAVI Source Address Validation
SB Service Bridge
SBM Subnetwork Bandwidth Management
SCCP Skinny Client Control Protocol
SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
SCFF Single Choke Fairness Frame
SCR Sustainable Cell Rate
SD Signal Degrade
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
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SDMF Single Data Message Format
SDP Session Description Protocol
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDU Service Data Unit
SE Shared-Explicit
SEF Severely Errored Frame
SF Super Frame
SF Signal Fail
SFC Stage Fabric Configuration Update
sFlow Sampled Flow
SFM Source-Filtered Multicast
SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable
SFP+ SFP Plus
SFTP Secure FTP
SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIPS SIP secure
SIP-T SIP for Telephones
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLAAC Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
SLC Service Logic Control
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMB Standby Main Board
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SN Serial Number
SNA System Network Architecture
SNAP Subnetwork Access Protocol
SNAT Source Network Address Translation
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNP Sequence Number PDUs
SNPA Subnetwork Point of Attachment
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNTP Simple NTP
SNTP Simple Network Transfer Protocol
SOH Section Overhead
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SoO Site of Origin
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SP Service Provider
SP Strict Priority
SPBM Shortest Path Bridging MAC Mode
SPCS Stored Program Control Switching System
SPE Superstratum PE or Service Provider-end PE
SPF Shortest Path First
SPI Security Parameter Index
SPID Service Profile Identification
SPT Shortest Path Tree
SQL Structured Query Language
SR/TLB Source-route Translational Bridging
SRB Source-Route Bridging
Srefresh Summary Refresh
SRPU Switching and Routing Processing Unit
srTCM single rate TCM
SRTP Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
SSA SIP Stack Adapt
SSH Secure Shell
SSID Service Set Identifier
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSM Source-Specific Multicast
SSM Synchronization Status Marker
SSP Switch-to-Switch Protocol
ST Shared Tree
STAC-LZS STAC Lempel-Ziv Standard
Stelnet Secure Telnet
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
STR Switch Trace Route
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
SVC Static Virtual Circuit
SVP SpectraLink Voice Priority
Syslog System Log
T Return
TA Terminal Adapter
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
TACL Temporary Access Control List
TAI International Atomic Time
TAII Target Attachment Individual Identifier
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TC Topology Checksum
TC Transparent Clock
TC Traffic Class
TCI Tag Control Information
Tcl Tool Command Language
TCN BPDU Topology Change Notification BPDU
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TE Traffic Engineering
TEC Thermoelectric Cooler
TEDB TE DataBase
TFC Traffic Flow Confidentiality
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLP Transport Layer Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
TLS Transparent LAN Service
TLV Type/Length/Value
ToS Type of Service
TP Topology Protection
TP Traffic Policing
TPC Transmit Power Control
TPDU Transport Protocol Data Unit
TPID Tag Protocol Identifier
TPMR Two-Port MAC Relay
TRILL TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
TRIP Triggered RIP
trTCM two-rate TCM
TS Time Slot
TS Traffic Shaping
TST Test
TTL Time to Live
TTLS Tunneled Transport Layer Security
TTY True Type Terminal
TU Time Unit
TU Tributary Unit
TUG Tributary Unit Group
TXOPLimit Transmission Opportunity Limit
U Return
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U/L Universal/Local
UA User Agent
UA Unnumbered Acknowledge
UAC User Agent Client
U-APSD Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery
UAS User Agent Server
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate
UDLD Uni-directional Link Direction
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UFC Update Fabric Configuration
UIM User Identity Module
UNI User Network Interface
UPE Underlayer PE or User-end PE
UPE User facing-Provider Edge
UPE Underlayer PE
URL Uniform Resource Locator
uRPF Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding
USB Universal Serial Bus
USK Unicast Session Key
USM User-Based Security Model
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UTM Unified Threat Management
V Return
VA Virtual Access
VAD Voice Activity Detection
VAM VPN Address Management
VBD Voice Band Data
VC Virtual Container
VC Virtual Circuit
VCC Virtual Circuit Connection
VCCV Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCN Virtual Circuit Number
VCPM Voice Co-processing Module
VCT Virtual Cable Test
VCX Voice Core Exchange
VD Virtual Device
VDP VSI Discovery and Configuration Protocol
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VDSL Very High-rate Digital Subscriber Line
VE Virtual Ethernet
VE-Bridge Virtual Ethernet Bridge
VF Owner Virtual Forwarder Owner
VFC Virtual Fiber Channel
VJ TCP/IP V. Jacobson Compressing TCP/IP
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VMM Virtual Machine Management
VN Version Number
VNC Virtual Network Computing
VoD Video on Demand
VoFR Voice Over Frame Relay
VoIP Voice over IP
VP Virtual Path
VPC Virtual Path Connection
VPDN Virtual Private Dial-up Network
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service
VPM Voice Processing Module
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRF Virtual Routing and Forwarding
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
VSAN Virtual Storage Area Network
VSI Virtual Station Interface
VSI Virtual Switch Instance
VSIP Virtual Service IP
VT Virtual Template
VTP VLAN Trunking Protocol
VTY Virtual Type Terminal
W Return
WAI WLAN Authentication Infrastructure
WAN Wide Area Network
WAPI WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure
WDS Wireless Distribution System
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing
WIDS Wireless Intrusion Detection System
WiNet Wisdom Network
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WINS Windows Internet Naming Service
WIPS Wireless Intrusion Prevention System
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLAN RRM WLAN Radio Resource Management
WMM Wi-Fi Multimedia
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPAD Web Proxy Auto-Discovery
WPI WLAN Privacy Infrastructure
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection
WRR Weighted Round Robin
WWN World Wide Name
X Return
X2T X.25 to TCP Switch
XFP 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable
XML Extensible Markup Language
XOT X.25 Over TCP
XSD XML Schema Document
XSD XML Schema Definition
Z Return
ZBR Zone Border Router