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User’s Manual of XGSW-28040

NTP

NTP is an acronym for Network Time Protocol, a network protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems.

NTP uses UDP (datagrams) as transport layer.

O

OAM

OAM is an acronym for Operation Administration and Maintenance.

It is a protocol described in ITU-T Y.1731 used to implement carrier ethernet functionality. MEP functionality like CC

and RDI is based on this.

Optional TLVs.

A LLDP frame contains multiple TLVs

For some TLVs it is configurable if the switch shall include the TLV in the LLDP frame. These TLVs are known as

optional TLVs. If an optional TLVs is disabled the corresponding information is not included in the LLDP frame.

OUI

OUI is the organizationally unique identifier. An OUI address is a globally unique identifier assigned to a vendor by

IEEE. You can determine which vendor a device belongs to according to the OUI address which forms the first 24 bits

of a MAC address.

P

PCP

PCP is an acronym for Priority Code Point. It is a 3-bit field storing the priority level for the 802.1Q frame. It is also

known as User Priority.

PD

PD is an acronym for Powered Device. In a PoE> system the power is delivered from a PSE ( power sourcing

equipment ) to a remote device. The remote device is called a PD.

PHY

PHY is an abbreviation for Physical Interface Transceiver and is the device that implement the Ethernet physical layer

(IEEE-802.3).

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