Glossary

C

CSU/DSU

Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit isolates your network from your exchange carrier’s network.

 

It also receives the timing, low-level framing information, and data passed from the termination point.

 

CSU/DSUs are specific to the general circuit type.

Customer

A user of an ISP or an enterprise. The provider offers the customer MPLS VPN service. The enterprise

 

provides the customer remote user access to various sites. In the case of ISPs, MPLS BPN provides a

 

scalable wholesale access/open access solution.

D

DAP

Data Source

DHCP

DHCP Client

DHCP Proxy Client

Dial Use

Digital Channel

DNIS

Driver Manager

Directory Access Protocol is a heavyweight protocol that runs over a full OSI stack and requires a significant amount of computing resources to run.

Sets of data and their associated environments which include operating system, DBMS, and network platforms used to access the DBMS that an application wants to access.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol—a protocol that describes the service of providing and managing IP addresses to clients on a network.

The IOS DHCP client used to generate requests for host addresses and subnets for non-PPP clients.

The IOS DHCP client used to request an address for a PPP user from a DHCP server.

Dial Use is an end-system or router attached to an on-demand PSTN or ISDN, which is either the initiator or recipient of a call.

Digital Channel is a circuit-switched communication path that is intended to carry digital information in each direction.

Dialed Number Information String is an indication to the receiver of a call as to what phone number the caller used to reach it.

A special library that manages communication between applications and drivers. Applications call ODBC API functions in the driver managers which load and call one or more drivers on behalf of the applications.

E

EAP

Extensible Authentication Protocol is a framework for a family of PPP authentication protocols,

 

including cleartext, challenge/response, and arbitrary dialog sequences.

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3.5 specifications

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