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Btag

Beginning Tag: A one octet field of the CPCS_PDU used in conjunction with the Etag octet to form an association between the beginning of message and end of message.

B-TE

Broadband Terminal Equipment: An equipment category for B-ISDN which includes terminal adapters and terminals.

BUS

Broadcast and Unknown Server: This server handles data sent by an LE Client to the broadcast MAC address ('FFFFFFFFFFFF'), all multicast traffic, and initial unicast frames which are sent by a LAN Emulation Client.

BW

Bandwidth: A numerical measurement of throughput of a system or network.

C

CAC

Connection Admission Control: Connection Admission Control is defined as the set of actions taken by the network during the call set- up phase (or during call re- negotiation phase) in order to determine whether a connection request can be accepted or should be rejected (or whether a request for re-allocation can be accommodated).

Call

A call is an association between two or more users or between a user and a network entity that is established by the use of network capabilities. This association may have zero or more connections.

CAS

Channel Associated Signaling: A form of circuit state signaling in which the circuit state is indicated by one or more bits of signaling status sent repetitively and associated with that specific circuit.

CBDS

Connectionless Broadband Data Service: A connectionless service similar to Bellcore's SMDS defined by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

Centillion 1200N ATM Switch User Manual

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