Cisco Systems MGX 8230 manual Monarch chip set, StrataView Plus

A

ABR

G L O S S A R Y

Available Bit Rate is a Class of Service defined for ATM connections by the ATM Forum. Devices using ABR are guaranteed no more than a certain rate of throughput. This rate dynamically changes and the current value is relayed to the sending device by way of Resource Management (RM) cells.

B

BCC

BPX switch

The switch control card in the BPX is the Broadband Control Card, which has a 68040 processor.

The Broadband Packet Exchange (BPX) is Cisco’s high-end ATM switch developed for the service provider market. The BPX 8600 series switch is a carrier-quality switch, with trunk and CPU hot-standby redundancy.

BXM	The Broadband Switch Module (BXM) cards are ATM port cards for the BPX switch that use
	the Monarch chip set.

C

Cell bus

CiscoView

The cell bus in the MGX 8230 is the way that the service modules exchange data with the switching fabric on the PXM.

GUI-based device-management software application that provides dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information for Cisco internetworking products, such as the MGX 8230, or IGX switch or BPX switch.

Cisco WAN Manager	The Cisco WAN Manager (CWM) is the network management application for the Cisco wide
	area switches, such as the BPX switch or the IGX switch. CWM was previously known as
	StrataView Plus.
Class of Service (CoS)	A buffer or queue which serves connections with similar QoS requirements.
Buffer
Class of Service (CoS)	A component of a Service Class Template that contains Class of Service Buffer configurations
Buffer Descriptor Template	indexed by CosB number. Note: A Qbin is a platform-specific (BXM in this case) instance of
	the more general Class of Service Buffer (or CosB).

	Cisco MGX 8230 Edge Concentrator Installation and Configuration
Release 1.1.31, Part Number 78-11215-03 Rev. B0, May 2001		GL-1