Glossary of Acronyms

AAAA authentication, authorization, accounting, and allocation

ABR available bit rate

ACL access control list

AF assured forwarding

AH authentication header

API application programming interface

AR acceptance review

ARCP asynchronous remote copy

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

AS autonomous system

ATM asynchronous transfer mode

AToM ATM monitoring

BE best effort

BER bit error rate

BGPv4 Border Gateway Protocol version 4

BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

BUS broadcast/multicast server

CA certificate authority

CAC call admission control

CAD computer-aided design/computer-aided drawing

CBC cipher block chaining

CBQ class-based queuing

CBR constant bit rate

CD compact disk

CDN content-delivery network

CDR critical design review ...

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