Panasonic 1200N manual Atm-Nic, Atm-Ta

Glossary

ATM Address

Defined in the UNI Specification as 3 formats, each having 20 bytes in length including country, area and end-system identifiers.

ATM Layer Link

A section of an ATM Layer connection between two adjacent active ATM Layer entities (ATM-entities).

ATM Link

A virtual path link (VPL) or a virtual channel link (VCL).

ATM-NIC

ATM Network Interface Card: Electronic circuitry connecting a workstation to a network.Usually a card that fits into one of the expansion slots inside a personal computer.It works with the network software and computer operating system to transmit and receive messages on the network.

ATM Peer-to-Peer Connection

A virtual channel connection (VCC) or a virtual path connection (VPC).

ATM Switch

A generic term usually referring to an ATM switching system rather than a switching element. ATM switches are generally hardware based, self-routing, and high speed (up to Gbit/s).

ATM-TA

ATM Terminal Adapter: The terminal adapter is a protocol converter (little black box) that adapts PCs, workstations and other equipment to the peculiar world of ISDN.

ATM Traffic Descriptor

A generic list of traffic parameters that can be used to capture the intrinsic traffic characteristics of a requested ATM connection.

ATM User-User Connection

An association established by the ATM Layer to support communication between two or more ATM service users (i.e., between two or more next higher entities or between two or more ATM-entities). The communications over an ATM Layer connection may be either bidirectional or unidirectional. The same Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) issued for both directions of a connection at an interface.

B-8	Centillion 1200N ATM Switch User Manual
	NTP 297-8103-903