1152700• Issue 1 • February 2001 • Preface
LAN | Local Area Network |
LEC | Local Exchange Carrier |
LTE | Line Terminating Equipment |
msec | millisecond |
NDC | Network Data Collection |
NE | Network Element |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NMIC | Network Management Interface Card |
NMS | Network Management System |
NNI | Network to Network Interface |
NPC | Network Parameter Control |
OAM&P | Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning |
OS | Operations System |
PCR | Peak Cell Rate |
PEIM | Protection EIM |
PTE | Path Terminating Equipment |
PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit |
QoS | Quality of Service |
RIC | Ring Interface Card |
SAM | Service Access Multiplexer |
SC | Shelf Controller card |
SCR | Sustained Cell Rate |
SDH | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
SEPIC | Shelf ExPansion Interface Card |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SONET | Synchronous Optical NETwork |
SPE | Synchronous Payload Envelope |
SRTS | Synchronous Residual Time Stamp (patent 5260978 Bell Comm. Research) |
STM | Synchronous Transport Mode |
STN | Service Transport Node |
STS | Synchronous Transport Signal |
Concatenated | |
SVC | Switched Virtual Circuit |
T1 | Digital Signal Level 1 |
T1 TMUX Multi 1 A 16 DS1 port card that converts digital signals into ATM streams | |
T3 | Digital Signal Level 3 |
T3 CES | Three port Digital Subscriber line card providing Circuit Emulation |
| Service at a data rate of 45Mbps |
T3 CRS | Three port Digital Subscriber line card providing Cell Relay Service at a |
| data rate of 45Mbps |
T3 TMUX Multi 1 A single DS3 port line card providing individual DS1 channel multiplexing
TC | Transmission Convergence |
TCA | Threshold Crossing Alert |
TDM | Time Division Multiplexer |
TEIM | Terminating Electrical Interface Module |
TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
TID | Target Identifier |
TMN | Telecommunication Management Network |
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