| AAA |
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting |
| ACL |
Access Control List |
| ADSL |
Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
| AF |
Assured Forwarding |
| AFI |
Address Family Identifier |
| ARP |
Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASM |
Any-Source Multicast |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BGP4 |
Border Gateway Protocol 4 |
| BIDIR-PIM |
Bi-directional Protocol Independent Multicast |
| BITS |
Building Integrated Timing Sources |
| BR |
Border router |
| CBWFQ |
Class Based Weighted Fair Queuing |
| CE |
Customer Edge |
| CLI |
Command Line Interface |
| CoS |
Class of Service |
| DiffServ |
Differentiated Services |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DNS |
Domain Name System/Service/Server |
| DoS |
Denial of Service |
| DR |
Designated Router |
| DSCP |
Differentiated Service Code Point |
| DSLAM |
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
| DVMRP |
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol |
| DWDM |
Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing |
| EF |
Expedited Forwarding |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| ERP |
Enterprise Resource Planning |
| EVC |
Ethernet Virtual Connection |
| EVP |
Ethernet Virtual Private Line |
| FBF |
Filtering Based Forwarding |
| FIB |
Forwarding Information Base |
| FRR |
Fast Reroute |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GBIC |
GigaBit İnterface Converter |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| ICMPv6 |
Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 |
| IEEE |
International Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEEE 802.1 |
Architecture, management, switching |
| IEEE 802.1d |
MAC layer bridges |
| IEEE 802.1q |
Virtual LANs |
| IEEE 802.1p |
Quality-of-Service & Multicast support |
| IEEE 802.1d |
The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) |
| IEEE 802.1s/w |
Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) / Rapid STP |
| IEEE 802.3 |
CSMA/CD (Ethernet) standards |
| IEEE 802.3u |
Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX, 100Base-FX) |
| IEEE 802.3x |
Full-duplex Ethernet over LAN |
| IEEE 802.3z |
Gigabit Ethernet over fiber (1000Base-X) |
| IEEE 802.3ab |
Gigabit Ethernet over copper (1000Base-T) |
| IEEE 802.3ad |
Aggregation of multiple link segments (LAG) |
| IEEE 802.3ae |
10 Gbit/s Ethernet |
| IETF |
The Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IGMP |
Internet Group Management Protocol |
| IGP |
Interior Gateway Protocol |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPCP |
IP Control Protocol |
