Appendix C: ADSL Acronyms
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| CHAP | |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DMT | Discrete |
| DSLAM | Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
| IETF RFC | Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments |
| IPCP | Internet Protocol Control Protocol |
| IPoA | IP over ATM |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector | |
| MPoA | Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| PAC | PPTP Access Concentrator |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
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