Sunrise telecom XTT 5000, User Manual

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Glossary
L
LAN: Local Area Network
LLC: LLC (Logical Link Control) IEEE Public Listing; upper sublayer of the OSI data
link layer.
M
M: Megabits per second; a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per
second. As there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per
second (8 Mbit/s) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes per second.
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MPLS: Multi Protocol Label Switching; provides a unified data-carrying service for
both circuit-based clients and packet-switching clients providing datagram
service model; carries Ethernet frames.
P
PRBS: Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence; test pattern
R
RFC 1349: Type of Service in the RFC for Internet Protocol Suite
RFC2474: RFC for the Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the
IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
RX: Receive
S
SFP: Small form-factor plugable optical transceiver, for rates up to but not including
10G.
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol; signalling protocol, used for setting up and tearing
down multimedia communication sessions.
SN: Sequence Number; Sunrise Tag
SNAP: Subnetwork Access Protocol; allows multiplexing of additional protocols on
IEEE 802.2 LLC networks.
STAG: Sunrise Tag
T
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet
protocol suite. It manages the individual conversations between web servers
and web clients.
TPID: Tag Protocol Identifier; part of a VLAN tag.
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