Appendix . Glossary

The term quality of service (QoS) broadly refers to a network’s capacity to provide better service to selected network traffic for various technologies, including IP routed networks, Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet, 802.1 networks, SONET, and so on. The majority of terms in this glossary refer to IP QoS. For further listings, refer to the following website:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ita/index.htm

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A method of protecting traffic in which a protection channel exists for each working traffic channel. For optical systems, the protection channel fibers can be routed over a path separate from the working fibers. The traffic signal is bridged to both the working and protection transmitters so the protection signal ...

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