12 Glossary
ATE
Automatic Test Equipment
BMCA
Best Master Clock Algorithm
BSW
British Standard Whitworth
CET / CEST
Central European Time / Central European Summer Time
DNS
Domain Name System
DNS-SD
DNS Service Discovery
E2E
End-To-End
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GPS
Global Positioning System
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS
HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
IED
Intelligent Electronic Device
IP
Internet Protocol
MAC address
Media Access Control address
mDNS
Multicast DNS (Domain Name System)
MIB
Management Information Base
NTP
Network Time Protocol
P2P
Peer-To-Peer
PoE
Power over Ethernet (according to IEEE 802.3af)
PTP
Precision Time Protocol
RFC
Request for comment
SCP
Secure Copy
SELV
Safety Extra Low Voltage
SLAAC
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SSH
Secure Shell
TAI
International Atomic Time
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UT1
Universal Time No. 1. Variant of the Universal Time (UT) used as reference time
for the Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
UTC
Universal Time Coordinated
XML
Extensible Markup Language
XSD
XML Schema Definition
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