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1. General Information
1.1 Document Purpose
This installation guide is designed to let user quickly get necessary installation
information about hardware as well as software so that the field installation can
be well done through this first aid.
1.2 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
The following table lists definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations that are only
suitable to this document.
Term
Description
API
Application Programming Interface
Backbone
Any data network (e.g. industrial Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, etc.) within
a facility interfacing to the plants network.
Backbone Router
An entity in the ISA100.11a network with routing capability which
serves as an interface between the radio network and the
backbone network.
BBR
Backbone Router
Blacklisted channel
A channel on which transmission is prohibited.
Broadcast
Transmission intended for all the devices in an ISA100.11a network
(used for advertisements with all devices including the BBR, or for
receive links for field devices only).
CCA backoffs
The count of transmissions on an RF channel that were aborted due
to CCA.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
Channels
Divisions of radio frequencies supported in a wireless network.
Contract
An agreement between the system manager and a device in the
network involving the allocation of network resources by the
system manager to support a particular communication need of
that device.
Device role
Device capabilities that will be accepted by the Security Manager.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – a method to automatically
configure the IP settings of a host connected in a LAN.