BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
Bridge | A router that connects two or more networks and forwards |
| packets among them. Usually, bridges operate at the physical |
| network level. For example, an Ethernet bridge connects two |
| physical Ethernet cables and forwards from one cable to the |
| other exactly those packets that are not local. Bridges differ |
| from repeaters because bridges store and forward complete |
| packets while repeaters forward electrical signals. See |
| brouter. |
Brouter | Bridge/Router. In local area networking, a device that |
| combines the dynamic routing capability of an internetwork |
| router with the ability of a bridge to interconnect dissimilar |
| LANs. It has the ability to route one or more protocols and |
| bridge all other traffic. The DEFINITY LAN Gateway |
| application links ISDN and TCP/IP at both a physical and |
| addressing level. See bridge and router. |
Client | For the DEFINITY LAN Gateway, a computer that is a |
| consumer of ASAI service. |
IP | Internet Protocol |
LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
Link | See ASAI link. |
MCC | |
Router | Any machine responsible for making decisions about which of |
| several paths network (or Internet) traffic will follow. At the |
| lowest level, a physical network bridge is a router because it |
| chooses whether to pass packets from one physical wire to |
| another. Within a long haul network, each individual packet |
| switch is a router because it chooses routes for individual |
| packets. In the Internet, each IP gateway is a router because |
| it uses IP destination addresses to choose routes. See |
| brouter. |
SCC | Single Cabinet Carrier |
Telnet | The TCP/IP protocol governing the exchange of character- |
| oriented terminal data. Also, the process by which a person |
| using one computer can sign on to a computer in another city, |
| state, or country. With Telnet, a user can work from a PC as |
| if it were a terminal attached to another machine by a hard- |
| wired line. |