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GLOSSARY
CHAPTER 1: GLOSSARY
Station Cache
A database maintained by the Ethernet bridge that tracks MAC
addresses of stations on the network and the ports associated with
them.
Syslog
A protocol for sending event messages over an IP network to remote
servers called "event message collectors."
T1/E1
T1 is a widely-used T-carrier telecommunications standard capable of
transmitting 1.544 Mbits/second. The T1 designation is used in North
America. The analogous system outside of North America is called E1.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol.
TLS
Transport Layer Security.
UDP
User Datagram Protocol. One of the communications protocols of the
Internet Protocol Suite. Replaces TCP when a reliable delivery is not
required.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
VID
VLAN Identifier.
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network. A logical subgroup within a local area
network that is created with software rather than by physically
manipulating cables.
WAN
Wide Area Network.
WFQ
Weighted Fair Queueing. A packet scheduling technique that enables
several data flows to use the same link.
X.509
An X.509 certificate is a message that contains an entity's credentials.
Information such as the entity's name, organization, and contact
information are included.
XML
eXtensible Markup Language
XON/XOFF
A software flow control protocol in which a receiver sends an XOFF
character to a transmitter to signal that it is unable to receive data
and an XON character to signal that it is able to receive data.
Term
Definition