Abbreviations and acronyms

AIX

IBM open operating system

AMD

Manufacturer of personal

 

computing microprocessors

ANSI

American National Standards

 

Institute

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ATI

World's largest supplier of 3D

 

graphics and multimedia

 

technology

BACS

Broadcom Advanced Control Suite

BASP

Broadcom Advanced Services

 

Program

BBI

Browser Based Interface

BGPv4

Border Gateway Protocol version 4

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BSMP

blade system management

 

processor

CD-ROM

Compact Disc, read-only-memory

CIOB-X2

Champion I/O Bridge

CLI

Command-line interface

CMIC

Champion Memory and I/O

 

Controller

CSB5

Champion South Bridge

DDR

double data rate

DDR-SDRAM

double data rate-synchronous

 

dynamic RAM

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration

 

Protocol

DTP

dynamic trunk protocol

EEPROM

electrically erasable programmable

 

read-only memory

EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway

 

Routing Protocol

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

FDD

Floppy Disk Drives

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GBIC

Gigabit Interface Converter

GEA

Gigabit Ethernet Aggregation

HA

High Availability

HSRP

Hot Standby Router Protocol

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol over

 

Secure Socket Layer

I2C

Inter-IC

IBM

International Business Machines

 

Corporation

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated Drive Electronics

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic

 

Engineering

IEEE 801.1w

Rapid Spanning Tree

IEEE 802.1D

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

IEEE 802.1p

Differentiated Service Code Point

IEEE 802.1Q

Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)

IEEE 802.1s

Multiple Spanning Tree

IEEE 802.3

Link Aggregation Control

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP

Internet Group Management

 

Protocol

IMB

Inter Module Buses

IMB2

Inter Module Buses2

IOS

Internetwork Operating Software

ISMP

integrated system management

 

processor

ITSO

International Technical Support

 

Organization

LACP

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

LC

 

MAC

Media Access Control Address

MIB

Management Information Base

MISTP

Multiple Instance Spanning Tree

 

Protocol

MMF

multimode fiber

MRST

 

MST

Multiple Spanning Tree

MSTP

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit

NIC

network interface card

NMS

Nortel network management server

OEM

original equipment manufacturer

OSPFv2

Open Shortest Path First version 2

PHY

physical layer transceiver

POST

Power On Self Test

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