Nokia M1112 manual Encapsulation

Glossary

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

A network element which multiplexes the traffic coming from the high-speed subscriber lines and forwards this traffic to the ATM net- work.

encapsulation

Wrapping of data in a protocol header.

Ethernet

LAN specification IEEE 802.3.

host

Computer system on a network.

Integrated services digital network

Integrated services network that provides digital connections between user-network interfaces. ISDN provides or supports a range of differ- ent telecommunications services, for example a variety of telephony and data services.

IP network

Data communications network based on the Internet Protocol.

ISDN filter

A device used for separating the ISDN signal from ADSL data signals in the digital subscriber line.

MAC address

Ethernet address.

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