4GLOSSARY

ILMI

Interim Local Management Interface. The ATM Forum standard for incorporating network management into ATM networks. ILMI can be used as a monitor for transfers between a router and an ATM switch, reporting CRC error rates and performance dips.

IP

Internet Protocol. A network-layer protocol that contains addressing and control information to allow packets to be routed over dissimilar networks.

KB

Kilobytes. 1024 bytes.

LANE

LAN Emulation. A software driver that operates below the host Link Level protocol as if it were the MAC layer of an Ethernet interface. The driver provides broadcast/multicast addressing and other LAN-like functions to convince the host network protocols that they are talking to a real Ethernet interface.

LLC

Logical Link Control. The upper of the two sublayers of the Data Link Layer of the OSI Reference Model that defines the transmission of data between two stations.

MAC

Media Access Control. That part of the ISO model that describes how devices share access to a network. Ethernet, token ring, and FDDI are MAC layer specifications.

Mbps

Megabits (1024 x 1024 bits) per second.

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