Glossary

• 10GBASE-T: A standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over twisted pair cabling.

• 10GE: 10 Gigabit Ethernet, see also IEEE 802.3.

• 802.1: An IEEE standard for LAN Bridging & Management.

• 802.1Q: An IEEE standard for bridges, VLANs, STP, Priorities.

• 802.3: The Ethernet standard.

• ACL: Access Control List, a filtering mechanism implemented by switches and routers.

• aka: also known as.

• AQM: Active Queue Management, a traffic management technique.

• B2B: Buffer-to-Buffer, as in Buffer-to-Buffer credits for FC, a technique to not lose frames.

• BCN: Backward Congestion Notification, a congestion management algorithm.

• Blade Servers: Computer servers with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space.

• CAM: ...

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