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LOSSARY
7600 Card
A 36-port ATM/Ethernet interface card in the CELLplex 7000 chassis.
Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM)
A transfer method used for LAN and WAN. ATM carries voice, video,
and data at speeds up to 2.2 Gbps and can integrate geographically
distant disparate networks. Also called cell relay.
ATM Adaptation
Layer (AAL)
A set of protocols that translate user higher-layer protocols into ATM
format.
ATM Forum
A consortium of vendors, carriers, and users formed to expedite
industry agreement on ATM interfaces.
ATM Layer
The part of the BISDN protocol stack that handles most of the ATM
routing and processing.
ATM Member
An alias given to an ATM address on a specific port in order to avoid
typing in the ATM address 20 octets long.
AU ID
Unique number assigned to the 7600 Card. May be found through the
Administration Console Menus of the LinkSwitch.
backbone
The main segment of a campus network, to which are attached
department networks, or ribs.
Broadcast and
Unknown Server
(BUS)
The Broadcast and Unknown Server handles data sent by a LEC to the
broadcast MAC address, all multicast traffic, and initial unicast frames
which are sent by a LEC before the data direct ATM address has been
resolved.
broadcasting
A common method of information transmission in which every port on
the network receives the packet being sent, though only the port with
the proper address passes it on to the user.
bridge
Device connecting between two networks which filters and forwards
data between the networks according to their destination address.
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