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List of Acronyms

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AAL ATM Adaptation Layer

ABR Available Bit Rate

AFI Authority and Format Identifier

ANS ATM Name Service

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMARP ATM Address Resolution Protocol

B-ISDN Broadband ISDN

BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server

CBR Constant Bit-Rate

CD Cell Delay

CDV Cell Delay Variation

CLIP Classical IP and ARP over ATM

CLR Cell-Loss Ratio

CMI Cluster Member Identifier

CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer

CSMA-CD Carrier Sense, Multiple Access

with Collision Detection

DCC Data Country Codes

DD Device Driver

DSP Domain Specific Part

EARTH EAsy IP multicast Routing THrough

ATM clouds

ELAN Emulated LAN

ESI End-System Identifier

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FIFO First In, First Out

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FYI For Your Information

GPL General Public License

HO-DSP High Order DSP

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

ICD International Code Designator

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ID Indentifier

IDI Initial Domain Identifier

IDMR Inter-Domain Multicast Routing

IDT Integrated Device Technologies, Inc.

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

ILMI Interim Local Management Interface

INET InterNET

ION Internetworking Over NMBA networks

IP Internet Protocol

IPC Inter Process Communication

IPMR IP Multicast Router

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

LAN Local Area Network

LANE LAN Emulation

LEC LANE Client

LECS LAN Emulation Configuration Server

LES LAN Emulation Server

LIS Logical IP Subnet

LLC Logical Link Control

LUNI LANE User-Network Interface

LXR Linux Cross Reference

MAC Medium Access Control

MARP Multicast Address Resolution Protocol

MARS Multicast Address Resolution Server

MBS Maximum Burst Size

MCS Multicast Server

MLIS Multicast LIS

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

NBMA Non-Broadcast, Multi-Access

NFS Network File System

NHRP Next Hop Resolution Protocol

NIC Network Interface Card

NIS Network Information Services

NSAP Network Service Access Point

OS Operating System

P-NNI Private Network-Network Interface

P-NNI Private Network-Node Interface

PC Personal Computer

PCR Peak Cell Rate

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PIC Physical Interface Card, see NIC

PVCC Permanent Virtual Channel Connection

PVPC Permanent Virtual Path Connection

RARP Reverse ARP

RFC Request For Comments

RTP Real-time Transport Protocol

SAP Service Access Point

SAR egmentation And Re-assembly

SCR Sustainable Cell Rate

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SDU Service Data Unit

SEL selector byte

SNAP SubNetwork Attachment Point

SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork

SP Service Provider

SU Service User

SVCC Switched VCC

SVPC Switched VPC

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

UBR Unspecified Bit-Rate

UNI User-Network Interface

URL Universal Resource Locator

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

VBR Variable Bit-Rate

VCC Virtual Channel Connection

VCI Virtual Channel Identifier

VCL Virtual Channel Link

VENUS Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service

VPI Virtual Path Identifier

VPL Virtual Path Link


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Simon Oosthoek
Wed Jul 9 17:11:08 CEST 1997