32 User Guide
Acronyms and Abbreviations
BP Bypass
BWDM Bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexing
CDR Clock and Data Recovery
CDRB Clock and Data Recovery Bypass
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
dB Decibel
dBm Decibels relative to 1 mW of power (0 dBm equals 1 mW)
DS Digital Signal
ESCON Enterprise Systems Connection
FC Fibre Channel
FEC Forward Error Correction
FDDI Fiber-Distributed Data Interface
Gbps Gigabits per second
GigE Gigabit Ethernet
km Kilometer
LB Loopback
LBCK Loopback
LED Light emitting diode
LLCF Link Loss Carry Forward
LLR Link Loss Return
Mbps Megabits per second
MSA Multi-Source Agreement
nm Nanometer
OC Optical Carrier
PWR Power
RX Receive
SD Signal Detect
SFP Small Form-Factor Pluggable
TDM Time-Division Multiplexing
TX Transmit