Glossary

router

A device that connects LANs by dynamically routing data according to destination and

 

available routes.

RS-449

An Electronic Industries Association's standard for a general-purpose, 37-position,

 

DCE/DTE interface.

RTS

Request to Send. A signal from the DTE to the device, indicating that the DTE has data to

 

send. V.24 circuit 105.

RXD

Received Data. Pin 3 of the EIA-232 interface that is used by the DTE to receive data from

 

the modem. Conversely, the modem uses Pin 3 to transmit data to the DTE.

SDSL

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line. A technique for the use of an existing twisted-pair line

 

that permits high bandwidth, bidirectional transmission.

SES

Severely Errored Seconds. Usually defined as a second during which a specific number of

 

CRC errors was exceeded, or an OOF or other critical error occurred.

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol. Protocol for open networking management.

T1

A term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit a DS1 formatted digital signal at

 

1.544 Mbps. It is used primarily in North America.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The dominant protocol suite in the

 

worldwide Internet, TCP allows a process on one machine to send data to a process on

 

another machine using the IP. TCP can be used as a full-duplex or one-way simplex

 

connection.

TDM

Time Division Multiplexer. A device that enables the simultaneous transmission of multiple

 

independent data streams into a single high-speed data stream by simultaneously sampling

 

the independent data streams and combining these samples to form the high-speed

 

stream.

Telnet

Virtual terminal protocol in the Internet suite of protocols. Allows the user of one host

 

computer to log into a remote host computer and interact as a normal terminal user for that

 

host.

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol. A standard TCP/IP protocol that allows simple file transfer to

 

and from a remote system without directory or file listing. TFTP is used where FTP is not

 

available.

transceiver

A circuit capable of acting as both a transmitter and a receiver.

transmitter

A circuit capable of generating, modulating, and sending a signal for communication,

 

control, and other purposes.

TXD

Transmit Data. Pin 2 of the EIA-232 interface that is used by the DTE to transmit data to the

 

modem. Conversely, the modem uses Pin 2 to receive data from the DTE.

UNIX

An operating system developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories and since used as the basis of

 

similar operating systems.

V.35

An ITU-T standard for a high-speed, 34-position, DCE/DTE interface.

WAN

Wide Area Network. A network that spans a large geographic area.

X.21

An ITU-T standard for a high-speed, 15-position, DCE/DTE interface.

Yellow Alarm

An outgoing signal transmitted when a DS1 or DS3 terminal has determined that it has lost

 

the incoming signal.

GL-4

February 2001

8784-A2-GB20-30

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