GLOSSARY
The Glossary defines technical terms and abbreviations used in this manual.
| Access Provider | See Service Provider. |
| Access Rate | The transmission speed, in bits per second, of the |
| physical access circuit between the end user and |
| the network. |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. A method |
| of transmitting at different downstream and |
| upstream speeds. |
| Alarm | Any valid change of state from its normal condition |
| detected at an alarm point. |
| Asymmetric |
|
| Transmission | Transmission which sends data at different rates in |
| each direction. |
| AWG | American Wire Gauge. |
ADSL Terminal Unit at the service provider site. | |
ADSL Terminal Unit at the remote site. | |
| Bandwidth | Used to describe the capacity or amount of traffic |
| (data, voice, or video) a certain communications line |
| is capable of accommodating. |
| BER | Bit Error Rate. The ratio of received bits that are |
| in error. |
| Binder Group | A group of 25 or 50 pairs of wires. |
| Bit | In a binary system, the smallest unit of information. |
| It is represented as a zero or a one. |
| Bridge | A |
| filters or forwards traffic based or MAC addresses. |
| Bridged | A pair of wires connected in parallel across a single |
| line to form a "T" Tap configuration. |
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