AIS
--alarm indication signal. In a T1 transmission, an all-ones signal transmitted in lieu of the normal signal to maintain transmission continuity and to indicate to the receiving terminal that there is a transmission fault that is located either at or upstream from the transmitting terminal.
MIB
--Management Information Base. Database of network management information that is used and maintained by a network management protocol such as SNMP. The value of a MIB object can be changed or retrieved using SNMP commands, usually through a network management system (NMS).
NMS
--network management system. An application or suite of applications designed to monitor networks using SNMP.
OAM
--Operation, Administration, and Maintenance. OAM cells provide a virtual-circuit-level loopback in which a router responds to the cells, demonstrating that the circuit is up and the router is operational.
PVC
--permanent virtual circuit. Virtual circuit that is permanently established. In ATM terminology, PVC also stands for permanent virtual connection.
RDI
--remote defect indication. In ATM, when the physical layer detects loss of signal or cell synchronization, RDI cells are used to report a virtual path connection/virtual channel connection (VPC/VCC) failure. RDI cells are sent upstream by a VPC/VCC endpoint to notify the source VPC/VCC endpoint of the downstream failure.
SNMP
--Simple Network Management Protocol. An application-layer protocol that provides a message format for communication between SNMP managers and agents and is used almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. SNMP provides a means to monitor and control network devices and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security.
SNMP
trap
--Message from an SNMP agent alerting the SNMP manager to a condition on the network.