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DA
Destination Address: Information sent in the forward direction indicating the address of the called station or customer.
DA
Destination MAC Address: A six octet value uniquely identifying an endpoint and which is sent in IEEE LAN frame headers to indicate frame destination.
Data Connections
Data VCCs connect the LECs to each other and to the Broadcast and Unknown Server. These carry Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 or IEEE 802.5 data frames as well as flush messages.
DCC
Data Country Code: This specifies the country in which an address is registered. The codes are given in ISO 3166. The length of this field is two octets. The digits of the data country code are encoded in Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) syntax. The codes will be left justified and padded on the right with the hexadecimal value "F" to fill the two octets.
DCE
Data Communication Equipment: A generic definition of computing equipment that attaches to a network via a DTE.
Default Node Representation
A single value for each nodal state parameter giving the presumed value between any entry or exit to the logical node and the nucleus.
Demultiplexing
A function performed by a layer entity that identifies and separates SDUs from a single connection to more than one connection.
DES
Destination End Station: An ATM termination point which is the destination for
ATM messages of a connection and is used as a reference point for ABR services.
See SES.
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