Motorola SVG2500 manual Term Definition LCP, Led, Lns, Mib

17 GLOSSARY
TERM	DEFINITION
LCP	Link Control Protocol establishes, configures, and tests data link
	connections used by PPP.
Latency	The time required for a signal to pass through a device. It is often
	expressed in a quantity of symbols.
LED	light-emitting diode
LNS	An L2TP network server is a termination point for L2TP tunnels
	where PPP frames are processed and passed to higher layer
	protocols. LNS can operate on any platform that terminates PPP.
	The LNS handles the server side of the L2TP protocol. L2TP
	relies only on the single media over which L2TP tunnels arrive.
	The LNS can have a single LAN or WAN interface, but can
	terminate calls arriving at any of the LAC’s full range of PPP
	interfaces (asynchronous, synchronous, ISDN, V.120, etc.).
	The LNS initiates outgoing calls and receives incoming calls. LNS
	is analogous to a home gateway in L2F technology.
loopback	A test that loops the transmit signal to the receive signal.
	Usually, the loopback test is initiated on a network device. The
	test is used to verify a path or to measure the quality of a signal
	on that path.
M

TERM	DEFINITION
MAC address	The Media Access Control address is a unique, 48-bit value
	permanently saved in ROM at the factory to identify each
	Ethernet network device. It is expressed as a sequence of 12
	hexadecimal digits printed on a Label on the Bottom of the
	SVG2500. You need to provide the HFC MAC address to the
	Internet Service provider. Also called an Ethernet address,
	physical address, hardware address, or NIC address.
MB	One megabyte; equals 1,024 x 1,024 bytes, 1,024 kilobytes, or
	about 8 million bits.
Mbps	Million bits per second (megabits per second). A rate of data
	transfer.
media	The various physical environments through which signals pass;
	for example, coaxial, unshielded twisted-pair (UTP), or fiber-optic
	cable.
MIB	A management information base is a unique hierarchical
	structure of software objects used by the SNMP manager and
	agent to configure, monitor, or test a device.

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