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 |
Compact Disc, | |
Champion I/O Bridge | |
CLI | |
CMIC | Champion Memory and I/O |
| Controller |
CSB5 | Champion South Bridge |
DDR | double data rate |
double data | |
| dynamic RAM |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration |
| Protocol |
DTP | dynamic trunk protocol |
EEPROM | electrically erasable programmable |
| |
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 | |
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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