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Appendix d acronyms – Cabletron Systems 9A100 User Manual

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APPENDIX D ACRONYMS

A

B

AAL

ATM Adaptation Layer

AAL1

ATM Adaptation Layer Type 1

AAL2

ATM Adapter Layer Type 2

AAL3/4

ATM Adapter Layer Type 3/4

AAL5

ATM Adapter Layer Type 5

AALM

ATM Adaptation Layer Mux

ABR

Available Bit Rate

AFI

Authority and Format Identifier

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

A

V

CR

Available Cell Rate

BE

Bridged Ethernet

BER

Bit Error Ratio (Rate)

B-ICI

Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface

B-ISDN

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network