Glossary
LED | Light Emitting Diode. A light or status indicator that glows in response to the presence of a |
| certain condition (e.g., an alarm). |
LLB | Line LoopBack. A test in which the received signal on the network interface is looped back |
| to the network without change. |
loopback | A diagnostic procedure that sends a test message back to its origination point. Used to |
| test various portions of a data link in order to isolate an equipment or data line problem. |
LOS | Loss of Signal. The T1 line condition where there are no pulses. |
LTU | Line Termination Unit. The control unit on the network end of a link. (The NTU is on the |
| customer premises end.) |
MCC | Management Communications Controller. The DSLAM circuit card used to configure and |
| monitor the DSLAM. |
MIB | Management Information Base. A database of managed objects used by SNMP to provide |
| network management information and device control. |
MIB II | MIB Release 2. The current |
M/SDSL | Multirate SDSL. |
MTSO | Mobile Telephone Switching Office. A generic name for the main cellular switching center |
| which supports multiple base stations. |
NMS | Network Management System. A computer system used for monitoring and controlling |
| network devices. |
NTU | Network Termination Unit. The unit on the customer premises end of a link. (The LTU is on |
| the network end.) |
OOF | Out Of Frame. An error condition in which frame synchronization bits are in error. |
reset | A reinitialization of the device that occurs at |
RLB | Repeater LoopBack. Loops the signal being sent to the network back to the DTE |
| Drop/Insert and data ports after it has passed through the framing circuitry of the device. |
router | A device that connects LANs by dynamically routing data according to destination and |
| available routes. |
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 |
| the modem. Conversely, the modem uses Pin 3 to transmit data to the DTE. |
SDSL | Symmetrical 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. |
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 |
| connection. |
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. |
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