Glossary

OcNOS-SP : Glossary

Glossary

Access Control List (ACL)

acknowledgment (ACK)

address resolution

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

administrative distance

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Agent Extensibility (AgentX)

aggregate route

alarm indication signal (AIS)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)

area border router (ABR)

authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)

Authentication Header (AH)

Automatic Protection Switching (APS)

autonomous system (AS)

autonomous system border router (ASBR)

backbone core bridge (BCB)

backbone edge bridge (BEB)

backbone VLAN (B-VLAN)

Bellman-Ford algorithm

BGP confederation

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

bit error rate (BER)

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

bridge protocol data unit (BPDU)

Carrier Ethernet

circuit switching

Class of Service (CoS)

classful IP addressing

Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)

client/server architecture

collision domain

command-line interface (CLI)

committed information rate (CIR)

common and internal spanning tree (CIST)

common spanning tree (CST)

connection-oriented

Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)

Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF)

Content Addressable Memory (CAM)

Continuity Check Message (CCM)

count-to-infinity

customer edge (CE)

customer VLAN (C-VLAN)

Data Center Bridging (DCB)

Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange (DCBX)

data communications equipment (DCE)

Data Encryption Standard (DES)

data link layer

data terminal equipment (DTE)

default gateway

Differentiated Services (DiffServ)

Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)

Diffie–Hellman

Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)

Dijkstra algorithm

distance-vector routing

distribution layer

Domain Name Service (DNS)

dynamic address

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

dynamic routing

Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)

end-of-row switch

Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)

equal-cost multipath (ECMP)

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)

Ethernet Linear Protection Switching (ELPS)

Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI)

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS)

Ethernet to the First Mile (EFM)

Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC)

Explicit Route Object (ERO)

Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)

FEC-to-NHLFE (FTN) map

filtering database

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

forwarding equivalence class (FEC)

Forwarding Information Base (FIB)

GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP)

GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)

Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)

generic routing encapsulation (GRE)

graceful restart

hash message authentication code (HMAC)

high availability

I-SID (Service Instance Identifier)

Incoming Label Map (ILM)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)

internal spanning tree (IST)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

Internet Key Exchange (IKE or IKEv2)

Internet Protocol (IP)

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)

Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)

IPv6 Provider Edge (6PE)

keepalive message

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

label edge router (LER)

label switch router (LSR)

label-switched path (LSP)

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

link aggregation

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

link-state advertisement (LSA)

link-state database (LSDB)

link-state routing

Linktrace Message (LTM)

Local Area Network (LAN)

logical link control (LLC)

Maintenance Association (MA)

Maintenance association End Point (MEP)

Maintenance Domain (MD)

Maintenance domain Intermediate Point (MIP)

Management Information Base (MIB)

Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)

Media Access Control (MAC)

Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)

Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG)

Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Multi-Protocol Label Switching - Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)

multicast group

Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)

Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP)

Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP)

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)

multiple spanning-tree (MST) region

multiple spanning-tree instance (MSTI)

Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP)

name resolution

Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)

NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol)

network address translation (NAT)

network administrator

network design model

Network Element (NE)

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

network segment

Network Services Module (NSM)

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (NHLFE)

Not-So-Stubby-Area (NSSA)

Open Network Foundation (ONF)

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model

Open vSwitch (OVS)

Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)

packet switching

paravirtualized

path computation element (PCE)

path-vector routing

penultimate hop popping (PHP)

ping (packet internet groper)

policy-based routing (PBR)

Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)

private VLAN (PVLAN)

protocol data unit (PDU)

Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)

Provider Backbone Bridge-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)

Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB)

Provider Bridging (PB)

provider edge (PE)

pseudowire (PW)

QEMU (Quick EMUlator)

Quality of Service (QoS)

Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN)

radio access network (RAN)

Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (RPVST+)

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

remote monitoring (RMON)

Request for Comments (RFC)

Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)

Resource Reservation Protocol—Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)

reverse path forwarding (RPF)

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)

route flap damping

route redistribution

route reflection

route summarization

Routing Information Base (RIB)

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

routing protocol

Secure Shell (SSH)

segment routing

service VLAN (S-VLAN)

shortest path first (SPF)

shortest path tree (SPT)

shortest-path routing

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

spanning tree algorithm

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

subsequent address family identifier (SAFI)

Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE)

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus (TACACS+)

time to live (TTL)

Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch

topology change notification (TCN)

traffic engineering (TE)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

transport layer

type of service (ToS)

type-length-value (TLV)

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

User-to-Network Interface (UNI)

Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB)

Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)

virtual machine (VM)

virtual private LAN service (VPLS)

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)

virtual router (VR)

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)

virtual switch instance (VSI)

vNIC (Virtual Network Interface Card)

VPN routing and forwarding

vSwitch (Virtual Switch)

weighted fair queuing (WFQ)

weighted random early detection (WRED)

weighted round-robin queuing (WRR)

white box switch

wide area network (WAN)