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Appendix A Acronyms

Table A-1 List of Acronyms (continued)

		Acronym	Expansion
		OSI	Open System Interconnection
		OSM	Optical Services Module
		OSPF	open shortest path first
		PAE	port access entity
		PAgP	Port Aggregation Protocol
		PBD	packet buffer daughterboard
		PBR	policy-based routing
		PC	Personal Computer (formerly PCMCIA)
		PCM	pulse code modulation
		PCR	peak cell rate
		PDP	policy decision point
		PDU	protocol data unit
		PEP	policy enforcement point
		PFC	Policy Feature Card
		PGM	Pragmatic General Multicast
		PHY	physical sublayer
		PIB	policy information base
		PIM	protocol independent multicast
		PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
		ppsec	packets per second
		PRID	Policy Rule Identifiers
		PVLANs	private VLANs
		PVST+	Per-VLAN Spanning Tree+
		QDM	QoS device manager
		QM	QoS manager
		QM-SP	SP QoS manager
		QoS	quality of service
		Q-in-Q	802.1Q in 802.1Q
		RACL	router interface access control list
		RADIUS	Remote Access Dial-In User Service
		RAM	random-access memory
		RCP	Remote Copy Protocol
		RF	Redundancy Facility
		RGMP	Router-Ports Group Management Protocol
		RIB	routing information base
		RIF	Routing Information Field
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