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List of terms
management data router (MDR)
Collects surveillance data from multiple Nortel Multiservice Switch nodes and distributes it to multiple Nortel Multiservice Data Manager network operation centers.
management information base (MIB)
A database containing configuration and status information relating to a specific managed object or objects. Provides a description of all the components and variables within a component that a network management system can access. It provides the way of naming each of these components and variables. MIB is a concept defined in network management standards such as SNMP.
manual CLR alarm
A CLR alarm issued in response to manual intervention, rather than in response to the system detecting that the associated fault condition no longer exists.
manual path
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marker protocol
A protocol that is used by link aggregation to transfer a conversation from one logical link to another without misordering cells.
maximum burst size (MBS)
One of a set of traffic characterization values used to define traffic characteristics through the traffic descriptor types. MBS defines the length in cells of a traffic burst relative to the peak cell rate (PCR), which it cannot exceed, and the sustainable cell rate (SCR), which it can exceed but only for the time period defined by BT.
maximum transmission unit (MTU)
1The size (in bytes) of the largest datagram that a router or interface can transmit.
2The size of the largest frame that a link can transmit.
MBR
See multicast border router (MBR) (page 83).
MBS
See maximum burst size (MBS) (page 79).
Nortel Multiservice Switch 7400/15000/20000
Terminology
PCR7.2 and up March 2006
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