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Cisco BPX 8600 Series Installation and Configuration
Release 9.3.0, Part Number 78-10674-01 Rev. D0, July 2001
ARM (Alarm Relay
Module)
An alarm front card for the IGX switch.
ASM (Alarm/Status
Monitor Cards)
An alarm front card and back card set for the BPX switch.
ATM
(Asynchronous
Transfer Mode)
Data transmission that uses a very flexible method of carrying information, including voice, data,
multimedia, and video between devices on a local or wide area network using 53-byte cells on virtual
circuits. The 53 byte cell consists of data and a small header. (See also cell relay.)
ATM Edge LSR
A label switching router that is connected to the ATM-LSR cloud through LC-ATM interfaces. The ATM
edge LSR adds labels to unlabeled packets and strips labels from labeled packets.
ATM-LSR
An ATM-LSR is a MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) router in which packets are forwarded by
switching cells rather than frames, and all packet interfaces are MPLS (Label) Controller-ATM interfaces.
A label switching router with a number of LC-ATM intefaces. The router forwards the cells from these
interfaces using labels carried in theVPI and/or VCI field.
ATM Switched
Virtual Circuits
(SVCs)
A member of the INS product family that uses ATM SVC Server Shelves and software to enhance a
Cisco WAN switching network with ATM switched virtual circuits.
ATM SVC Server
Shelf
An adjunct processor used in the INS ATM SVC application to enhance traditional Cisco WAN
switching networks with ATM switched virtual circuits. The ATM SVC Server Shelf is co-located with
and connected to a BPX switch.
auxiliary port
An RS-232 port on the front panel of the SCC card used for connecting a printer or an out-dial modem.
This port is a one-way, outgoing port.
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