Panasonic 1200N manual Bnc, Bom, Bpdu, Bpp

B Glossary

BNC

Bayonet-Neill-Concelman: A bayonet-locking connector for slim coaxial cables, like those used with Ethernet.

BOM

Beginning of Message: An indicator contained in the first cell of an ATM segmented packet.

Border Node

A logical node that is in a specified peer group, and has at least one link that crosses the peer group boundary.

BP

Back Pressure: Propagation effects in a communications network of hop-by-hop flow control to upstream nodes.

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit: A message type used by bridges to exchange management and control information.

BPP

Bridge Port Pair (Source Routing Descriptor): Frame header information identifying a bridge/LAN pair of a Source route segment.

Broadband

A generic term referring to any network, traffic type or device providing or requiring a large amount of bandwidth. A service or system requiring transmission channels capable of supporting rates greater than the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) primary rate.

Broadband Access

An ISDN access capable of supporting one or more broadband services.

Broadcast

Data transmission to all addresses or functions.

BT

Burst Tolerance: BT applies to ATM connections supporting VBR services and is the limit parameter of the GCRA.

B-12	Centillion 1200N ATM Switch User Manual
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