Paradyne 3161-B3, 3165-A2 Glossary, 1in8 Test Series Carrier Acami allocation method, Application

Glossary

1in8 Test

3000 Series Carrier

ACAMI allocation method

ACCULINK

ACO

Activ

adapter address agent (SNMP)

aggregate

AIS

AMI

ANSI

application

ASCII

ASCII terminal/printer

asynchronous data

authenticationFailure trap

AUX port

A test pattern consisting of a one (1) followed by seven zeros (on the network only).

A rack-mounted device containing 17 slots in which to place circuit cards.

Alternate Channel Alternate Mark Inversion. A method of allocating DS0 channels as a group, so that every alternate DS0 channel does not carry data, but instead transmits and receives all ones.

A product family and a registered trademark of Paradyne.

Alarm Cut-off command. A command for carrier-mounted DSU/CSUs that forces a deactivation of the alarm relay on the 3000 Series Carrier.

Active configuration area. The configuration option set that is currently active for the device. Before a configuration option set becomes active, you must save the set to the Active configuration area.

Hardware that provides some transitional function between two or more devices.

A symbol (usually numeric) that identifies the interface attached to a network.

A software program housed within a device to provide SNMP functionality. Each agent stores management information and responds to the manager’s request for this information.

A single bit stream that combines two or more bit streams.

Alarm Indication Signal. An all ones signal transmitted to maintain transmission continuity and to indicate to the receiving terminal that a transmission fault exists at either the transmitting terminal or upstream of the transmitting signal. Sometimes referred to as Blue Alarm.

Alternate Mark Inversion. A line coding technique used to accommodate the ones density requirements of E1 or T1 lines.

American National Standards Institute. A member of ISO, ANSI accredits and implements standards.

The use to which a device is put.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The standard for data transmission over telephone lines. A 7-bit code establishes compatibility between data services. The ASCII code consists of 32 control characters (nondisplayed) and 96 displayed characters.

A device that can be attached, either locally or remotely, to a DSU/CSU to display or print alarm messages.

Data that is formatted so it is synchronized by a transmission start bit at the beginning of a character and one or more stop bits at the end.

An SNMP trap that indicates that the device has received an SNMP protocol message that has not been properly authenticated.

The auxiliary communications port on the DSU/CSU.

3160-A2-GB21-90 February 2001 GL-1