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Packet Capture Tool (PCAP)

A data packet capture tool that captures ingress and egress (E-modules only) packets on selected I/O ports. You can analyze captured packets for troubleshooting purposes.

packet loss

Expressed as a percentage of packets dropped over a specified interval. Keep packet loss to a minimum to deliver effective IP telephony and IP video services.

Packet over SONET (PoS)

A technology that carries IP packets directly over Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) for metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN) without a data-link facility.

packet transmission opportunities (PTO)

Used to assign weights to the eight egress queues. The switch assigns additional PTOs to high priority queues so time sensitive transmissions forward with minimum latency.

Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)

A procedure used by Point-to-Point Protocol

(PPP)servers to validate a connection request. The PAP is the simplest method of enabling security on PPP links. During link establishment, the peer (caller) sends its peer ID and password to the authenticator. If the ID and password match the values stored by the Authenticator, the connection proceeds.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

Terminology

NN46205-102 01.01 Standard

30 May 2008

Copyright © 2008 Nortel Networks

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Nortel Networks 8600 Packet Capture Tool Pcap, Packet loss, Packet over Sonet PoS, Packet transmission opportunities PTO

8600 specifications

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