User’s Manual of WGSW-20160HP
NTP
NTP is an acronym for
N
etwork
T
ime
P
rotocol, a network protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems.
NTP uses UDP (datagrams) as transport layer.
O
OAM
OAM is an acronym for
O
peration
A
dministration and
M
aintenance.
It is a protocol described in ITU-T Y.1731 used to implement carrier ethernet functionality. MEP functionality like CC
and RDI is based on this.
Optional TLVs.
A LLDP frame contains multiple TLVs
For some TLVs it is configurable if the switch shall include the TLV in the LLDP frame. These TLVs are known as
optional TLVs. If an optional TLVs is disabled the corresponding information is not included in the LLDP frame.
OUI
OUI is the organizationally unique identifier. An OUI address is a globally unique identifier assigned to a vendor by
IEEE. You can determine which vendor a device belongs to according to the OUI address which forms the first 24 bits
of a MAC address.
P
PCP
PCP is an acronym for Priority Code Point. It is a 3-bit field storing the priority level for the 802.1Q frame. It is also
PD
PD is an acronym for
P
owered
D
evice. In a PoE> system the power is delivered from a PSE ( power sourcing
equipment ) to a remote device. The remote device is called a PD.
PHY
PHY is an abbreviation for Physical Interface Transceiver and is the device that implement the Ethernet physical layer
(IEEE-802.3).
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