Appendix B: Acronyms
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Appendix B: Acronyms
Acronym Definition
AAA Authentication, Authorization, and
Accounting
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
ARA AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
AT M Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AURP Appletalk Update-based Routing Protocol
Bc Committed Burst Size
Be Excess Burst Size
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BERT Bit Error Rate Tester
BFE Blacker Front End
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BRI Basic Rate Interface
BSC Binary Synchronous Communications
BSTUN Block Serial Tunnel
CCITT Consultative Committee for International
Telegraph & Telephone
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol