Glossary
Management Information Base (MIB)
An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of database objects that contains information about a specific device.
Multicast Switching
A process whereby the switch filters incoming multicast frames for services for which no attached host has registered, or forwards them to all ports contained within the designated multicast VLAN group.
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
NTP provides the mechanisms to synchronize time across the network. The time servers operate in a
Management of the network from a station not attached to the network.
Port Authentication
See IEEE 802.1x.
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
A telephone exchange local to a particular organisation who use, rather than provide, telephone services.
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service.
Port Mirroring
A method whereby data on a target port is mirrored to a monitor port for troubleshooting with a logic analyzer or RMON probe. This allows data on the target port to be studied unobstructively.
Port Trunk
Defines a network link aggregation and trunking method which specifies how to create a single
Private VLANs
Private VLANs provide