Acronyms

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Acronyms

Acronyms

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A
AAA	Authentication, authorization, and accounting
abr	Available bit rate
ACL	Access control list
ATM	Asynchronous transfer mode

B
BAC	Cisco Broadband Access Center

C
cbr	committed bit rate
CCO	Cisco Connection Online
Cisco IOS	Cisco Internetwork Operating System
CLI	Command-line interface
COM	Common Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPE	Customer premises equioment

D
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DHCP	Dynamic host configuration protocol
DN	Distinguished name
DNS	Domain name system
DSL	Digital subscriber line

E

F
FE/GE	Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet
FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP	File transfer protocol

G
GCP	Gateway control protocol

H
HTML	HyperText Markup Language
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol

I
IAD	Integrate access device
IDL	Interface definition language
IE2100	Intelligent Engine 2100
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IMA	Inverse Multiplexing over ATM
IOS	See Cisco IOS
IPSec	Internetwork Protocol Security

J

K

L
L2TP	Layer 2 tunneling protocol
LAC	Layer 2 access concentrator
LNS	Layer 2 network server

M
MGCP	Media gateway control protocol

N
NAS	Network access server
NAT	Network address translation

O
OSS	Operation support systems

P
PPP	Point-to-point protocol
PPPoA	PPP over ATM
PPPoE	PPP over Ethernet
PPPoX	PPP over either ATM or Ethernet
PTA	PPP termination and aggregation
PVC	Permanent virtual circuit

Q
QoS	Quality of Service

R
RADIUS	Remote authentication dial-in user service
RBE	Routed bridge encapsulation
RDN	Relative distinguished name

S
SAM	Security Accounts Manager or Subscriber Access Manager
SGCP	Simple gateway control protocol
SNMP	Simple network management protocol
STM	Service template manager

T
T1	Trunk level 1
TFTP	Trivial file transfer protocol

U
ubr	Unspecified bit rate

V
vbr-nrt	Variable bit rate non-real time
vbr-rt	Variable bit rate real time
VCI	Virtual channel identifier
VLAN	Virtual local area network
VoIP	Voice over IP
VoIPoATM	Voice over IP over ATM
VoIP over Ethernet	Voice over IP over Ethernet
VoIPoPPP	Voice over IP over PPP
VPI	Virtual path identifier
VPDN	Virtual private dial-up network
VPN	Virtual private network