ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide
Glossary-2
PTI Payload Type Identifier
PVC Permanent Virtual Connection
QoS
Quality of Service
RFC
Request for Comment
Rx
Receive
SAR
Segmentation and Reassembly
SCR
Sustained Cell Rate
SDH
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SEAL
Simple and Efficient Adaptation
Layer (AAL 5)
SMF Single Mode Fiber
SNMP Simple Network Management
Protocol
SONET
Synchronous Optical Network
STM
Synchronous Transfer Mode
STM -n
Synchronous Transfer Mode
[level]
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
STS Synchronous Transport Signal
SUNI Subscriber User-to-Network
Interface
SVC
Switched Virtual Connection
T1
1.544-Mbit/sec communications
circuit divided into 24
64-KByte channels
T3 45-Mbit/sec communications
circuit divided in to 28-T1 Lines
TC Transmission Convergence
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
Tx
Transmit
UDP
UNIX Datagram Protocol (UNIX
transport protocol) or User
Datagram Protocol
UME UNI Management Entity
UNI User-to-Network Interface
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
UU User-User identification field
VBR
Variable Bit Rate
VC
Virtual Channel
VCC
Virtual Channel Connections
VCI
Virtual Channel Identifier
VPC
Virtual Path Connections (set of
VCC)
VPI
Virtual Path Identifier