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Glossary (continued)

Application Response Time

The time required to establish a session with an application protocol, measured in milliseconds. Surveyor tracks average time, the shortest time, and the longest time required for connections to a protocol over the monitored network segment.

AVVID

Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data. Cisco’s architecture for support- ing integrated multimedia communications.

Burst

For transmission from Surveyor, a flood of frames sent at the maximum speed of the network.

Burst Error

A counter that records events where the reporting Ring Station encounters signal transition or signal error on the Token Ring physical medium.

Burst Gap

For transmission from Surveyor, a pause between a set of packets sent at the maxi- mum network speed and another set of packets sent at the maximum network speed.

Capture

The processing of receiving frames from the network and storing them in the Sur- veyor capture buffer.

Capture Buffer

The DRAM memory in analyzer cards (or system memory on an NDIS host) that stores packets captured from the network.

Capture File

File used to store frames captured from the network. A capture file must be given a name with an extension of .cap. Captured frames are not automatically stored in a file - the contents of the capture buffer must be saved using the Save or Save As options.

Capture Filter

A set of conditions that determine the frames to be captured and how the captured frames are counted. The capture filter consists of programming-like statements that set variables and specify conditions and actions for the capture of frames.

Capture Filter Window

A window for defining capture filters.

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