Abbreviations

A  
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer 5
ABR Area Border Routers
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AF Assured Forwarding
APS Automatic Protection Switching
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARSVP Aggregate RSVP
AS Autonomous System
ASBR AS Boundary Routers
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
   
B  
BA Behavior Aggregate
BA Bandwidth Allocator
BC Bandwidth Constraints
BDI Backward Defect Indication
BDR Backup Designated Router
BE Best Effort
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BK Background
BM Bandwidth Manager
BP Provider Bridge
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Units
   
C  
CAC Connection Admission Control
CBS Committed Burst Size
CE Congestion Experienced
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIST Common and Internal Spanning Tree
CL Controlled Load
CS Class Selectors
CSPF Constraint-based Shortest Path First
CST Common Spanning Tree
CT Class Type
CV Connectivity Verification
C-VLAN Customer VLAN
CWR Congestion Window Reduced
   
D  
DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
DBR Dynamic Bandwidth Report
DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
DEI Drop Eligible Indicator
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DNS Domain Name System
DR Designated Router
DRR Deficit Round Robin
DS DiffServ
DSBM Designated SBM
DSCP DiffServ Code Point
DS-TE DiffServ – Traffic Engineering
DWDM Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
   
E  
EBS Excess Burst Size
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