¯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