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Glossary (continued)
Glossary-3
Application Response Time
The time required to establish a session with an application protocol, measured in
milliseconds. Surveyor tracks average time, the shortest time, and the longest time
required for connections to a protocol over the monitored network segment.
AVVID
Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data. Cisco’s architecture for support-
ing integrated multimedia communications.
Burst
For transmission from Surveyor, a flood of frames sent at the maximum speed of
the network.
Burst Error
A counter that records events where the reporting Ring Station encounters signal
transition or signal error on the Token Ring physical medium.
Burst Gap
For transmission from Surveyor, a pause between a set of packets sent at the maxi-
mum network speed and another set of packets sent at the maximum network speed.
Capture
The processing of receiving frames from the network and storing them in the Sur-
veyor capture buffer.
Capture Buffer
The DRAM memory in analyzer cards (or system memory on an NDIS host) that
stores packets captured from the network.
Capture File
File used to store frames captured from the network. A capture file must be given a
name with an extension of .cap. Captured frames are not automatically stored in a
file - the contents of the capture buffer must be saved using the Save or Save As
options.
Capture Filter
A set of conditions that determine the frames to be captured and how the captured
frames are counted. The capture filter consists of programming-like statements that
set variables and specify conditions and actions for the capture of frames.
Capture Filter Window
A window for defining capture filters.