Chapter 48: Abbreviations
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Abbrev'n
Definition
MTA
Multimedia Terminal Adaptor
MTBF
Mean time between failures
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
MPLS
MultiProtocol Label Switching
ND
Neighbor Discovery
NGAA
Next Generation Access Architecture
NIC
Network interface card
NLRI
Network Layer Reachability Information
NMAccess Network management access
NMS
Network management system
NOC
Network Operations Center
NPU
Network Processing Unit
NSAP
Network Service Access Point
NSEL
NSAP Selector
NSI
Network Side Interface
NSSA
Not-So-Stubby Area
NTP
Network Time Protocol
Abbrev'n
Definition
NTSC
National Television Systems Committee
NVRAM
Non-volatile random access memory
OAMP
Operation administration maintenance
provisioning
OEM
Original equipment manufacturer
OID
Object ID
OOB
Out-of-Band
OOS
Out of service
OSI
Open System Interconnection
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
OSS
Operations Support Systems
OSSI
Operations Support System Interface
PAL
Phase alternating line
PAM
Passive Optical Network Access Module
PBR
Policy Based Routing
PCM
Pulse code modulation
PDRI
IPv6 Prefix Delegation and Route Injection
PDU
Protocol data unit