BelAir100SN User Guide
Definitions and Acronyms
May 31, 2010
Confidential
Document Number BDTM11001-A01 Released
OUI
Organizationally Unique Identifier (first 3 bytes of a MAC address)
PVID
Port VLAN identifier
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
QoS
Quality of Service
RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. An Internet protocol (RFC 2138)
for carrying dial-in users' authentication information and configuration
information between a shared, centralized authentication server (the RADIUS
server) and a network access server (the RADIUS client) that needs to
authenticate the users of its network access ports
RTS
Request to Send
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SNTP
Simple Network Time Protocol
SSH
Secure Shell
SSID
Service Set Identifier (also referred to as Network Name or Id). A unique
identifier used to identify a radio network and which stations must use to be
able to communicate with each other or to an access point
SSL
Secure Socket Layer
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, an optional IEEE 802.11 function that offers
frame transmission privacy. Like WEP, it is based on RC4 encryption. It
generates new encryption keys for every 10 kilobytes of data transmitted.
TU
Wireless Time Unit, as defined in IEEE 802.11, a measure of time equal to
1024 microseconds
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy, an optional IEEE 802.11 function that offers frame
transmission privacy. The Wired Equivalent Privacy generates secret shared
encryption keys that both source and destination stations can use to alter frame
bits to avoid disclosure to eavesdroppers.
WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access
