ADC Release 3.1 - Manual (Page 16)

1152700 • Issue 1 • February 2001 • Preface
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© 2000, ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
LAN Local Area Network
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LTE Line Terminating Equipment
msec millisecond
NDC Network Data Collection
NE Network Element
NIC Network Interface Card
NMIC Network Management Interface Card
NMS Network Management System
NNI Network to Network Interface
NPC Network Parameter Control
OAM&P Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning
OS Operations System
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PEIM Protection EIM
PTE Path Terminating Equipment
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
QoS Quality of Service
RIC Ring Interface Card
SAM Service Access Multiplexer
SC Shelf Controller card
SCR Sustained Cell Rate
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SEPIC Shelf ExPansion Interface Card
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
SPE Synchronous Payload Envelope
SRTS Synchronous Residual Time Stamp (patent 5260978 Bell Comm. Research)
STM Synchronous Transport Mode
STN Service Transport Node
STS Synchronous Transport Signal
STS-3c Concatenated STS-3 signal (one payload)
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
T1 Digital Signal Level 1
T1 TMUX Multi 1 A 16 DS1 port card that converts digital signals into ATM streams
T3 Digital Signal Level 3
T3 CES Three port Digital Subscriber line card providing Circuit Emulation
Service at a data rate of 45Mbps
T3 CRS Three port Digital Subscriber line card providing Cell Relay Service at a
data rate of 45Mbps
T3 TMUX Multi 1 A single DS3 port line card providing individual DS1 channel multiplexing
TC Transmission Convergence
TCA Threshold Crossing Alert
TDM Time Division Multiplexer
TEIM Terminating Electrical Interface Module
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TID Target Identifier
TMN Telecommunication Management Network