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Cisco 7401ASR Installation and Configuration Guide
OL-5419-01 B0
Preface Terms and Acronyms
Terms and Acronyms
To fully understand the content of this user guide, you should be familiar wit h the fol lowing t erms a nd
acronyms:
•Cache—Memory with fast access and small capacity used to temporarily store recently accessed
data; found either incorporated into the processor or near it.
•DCE—data communications equipment
•DMA—direct memory access
•DTE—data terminal equipment
•EPROM—erasable programmable read-only memory
•EEPROM—electrically erasable programmable read-only mem ory