Getting Started Guide
Glossary
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- 6BONE
- IPv6 backbone
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- AAA
- Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
- AAAA
- 'quad A' 128-bit IPv6 address
- AAL
- ATM Adaptation Layer
- ABR
- Available Bit Rate
- ACK
- ACKnowledgement
- ACM
- Association of Computing Machinery
- AII
- Active Input Interface
- AIS
- Alarm Indication Signal
- ANL
- Argonne National Laboratory
- AOI
- Active Output Interface
- AOU
- Acronym OverUsage
- API
- Application Program Interface
- ARP
- Address Resolution Protocol
- AS
- Autonomous System
- ASCI
- Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ATE
- ATM Terminating Equipment
- ATM
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode, not Automatic Teller Machine
- AUP
- Acceptable Use Policy
- AVSSCS
- Audio-Visual Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
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- B-HLI
- Broadband High Layer Information
- B-ICI
- Broadband Intercarrier Interface
- B-ISDN
- Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
- B-ISSI
- Broadband Inter-Switching System Interface
- B-LLI
- Broadband Low Layer Information
- BAN
- Basement Area Network
- BDP
- Bandwidth Delay Product: The product of round trip time and the estimated minimal bandwidth between two machines. TCP buffer sizes should be set to this optimal number to achieve maximum throughput.
- BECN
- Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
- BER
- Basic Encoding Rules
- BGP
- Border Gateway Protocol
- BIND
- Berkeley Internet Name Domain
- BIP
- Bit Interleaved Parity
- BIPV
- Bit Interleaved Parity Violation
- BIS
- Border Intermediate System
- BISDN
- Broadband ISDN (ccf)
- BOM
- Beginning of Message
- BSD
- Berkeley Software Distribution
- BSS
- Broadband Switching System
- BUS
- Broadcast and Unknown Server
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- CAC
- Connection Admission Control
- CAIDA
- Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, at UCSD
- CBR
- Constant Bit Rate
- CCIE
- Cisco Certified Internetworking Engineer
- CCSO
- Computing and Communications Services Office
- CDV
- Cell Delay Variation
- CEI
- Connection Endpoint Identifier
- CES
- Circuit Emulation Service
- CIDR
- Classless InterDomain Routing
- CIR
- Committed Information Rate
- CISC
- Complex Instruction Set Computer
- CLP
- Cell Loss Priority
- CLR
- Cell Loss Ratio
- CMIP
- Common Management Information Protocol
- CMISE
- Common Management Information Service Element
- CNAME
- Canonical Name
- CNR
- Complex Node Representation
- CORBA
- Common Object Request-Broker Architecture
- CPCS
- Common Part Convergence Sublayer
- CPE
- Customer Premise Equipment
- CPI
- Common Part Indicator
- CRF
- Connection Related Function
- CRS
- Cell Relay Service
- CS
- Convergence Sublayer
- CTD
- Cell Transfer Delay
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- DAST
- NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team, at NCSA
- DCE
- Distributed Computing Environment
- DF
- Don't Fragment (IP header flag)
- DHCP
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS
- Domain Name Service
- DOE
- Department of Energy
- DS-3
- 45 Mbit/sec bandwidth
- DSX
- Digital Signal Cross-Connect
- DUROC
- Dynamically-Updated Request Online Coallocator
- DVMRP
- Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
- DXI
- Data Exchange Interface
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- EDFG
- Edge Device Functional Group
- EFCI
- Explicit Forward Congestion Indication
- EGRP
- Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol
- ELAN
- Emulated LAN
- EOM
- End of Message
- EPRCA
- Enhanced Proportional Rate Control Algorithm
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- FCVC
- Flow Controlled Virtual Circuit
- FDDI
- Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- FEA
- Functional Entity Action
- FEBE
- Far End Block Error
- FECN
- Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
- FG
- Functional Group
- FIN
- FINish flag (TCP header)
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- FUNI
- Frame-based User-to-Network Interface
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- GASS
- Globus Access to Secondary Storage
- GCRA
- Generic Cell Rate Algorithm
- GEM
- Globus Executable Management
- GFC
- Generic Flow Control
- GIGAPOP
- A point where a number of institutions connect
- GNU
- Gnu's Not Unix
- GRAM
- Globus Resource Allocation Manager
- GSI
- Globus Security Infrastructure
- GSN
- Gigabyte System Network (HIPPI-6400)
- GUSTO
- Globus Ubiquitous Supercomputing Testbed Organization
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- HBFG
- Host Behavior Functional Group
- HBM
- HeartBeat Monitor
- HEC
- Header Error Control
- HIPPI
- HIgh Performance Parallel Interface
- HIPPI-6400
- HIPPI, 6400 Mbit/sec
- HIPPI-800
- HIPPI, 800 Mbit/sec
- HPIIS
- High Performance International Internet Services
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
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- IASG
- Internetwork Address Sub-Group
- IBSG
- Internetwork Broadcast Sub-Group
- IBUFG
- Internetwork Broadcast/Unknown Functional Group
- ICFG
- IASG Coordination Function Group
- ICMP
- Internet Control Message Protocol
- IDU
- Interface Data Unit
- IE
- Information Element
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IESG
- Internet Engineering Steering Group
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IGRP
- Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
- IISP
- Interim Inter-Switch Signaling Protocol aka. P-NNI Phase 0
- ILMI
- Interim Local Management Interface
- IP
- Internet Protocol
- IPERF
- A TCP and UDP bandwidth testing tool, similar in function to the traditional ttcp tool, but nicer.
- IPV4
- Internet Protocol, version 4, the current standard
- IPV6
- Internet Protocol, version 6
- ISDN
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISP
- Internet Service Provider
- IXP
- InterExchange Point (or NAP)
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- LAN
- Local Area Network
- LANE
- LAN Emulation
- LCD
- Loss of Cell Delineation
- LCT
- Last Compliance Time
- LE
- LAN Emulation
- LEC
- LAN Emulation Client
- LECS
- LAN Emulation Configuration Server
- LES
- LAN Emulation Server
- LGN
- Logical Group Node
- LIS
- Logical IP Subnet
- LISP
- LISt Processor
- LOF
- Loss of Frame
- LOP
- Loss of Pointer
- LOS
- Loss of Signal
- LTE
- Line Terminating Equipment
- LUNI
- LANE UNI
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- MAE
- Metropolitan Area Ethernet
- MAN
- Metropolitan Area Network
- MARS
- Multicast Address Resolution Service
- MBGP
- Multiprotocol BGP
- MBONE
- Multicast backbone
- MBS
- Maximum Burst Size
- MCR
- Minimum Cell Rate
- MDS
- Metacomputing Directory Service
- MIB
- Management Information Base
- MID
- Message IDentifier
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- MOAT
- NLANR Measurement and Operations Analysis Team, at SDSC
- MOO
- MUD Object Oriented
- MPI
- Message Passing Interface
- MPOA
- Multiprotocol Over ATM
- MTU
- Maximum Transmission Unit
- MUD
- Multi-User Domain (or Dungeon)
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- NANO
- North American Network Operators Group
- NAP
- Network Access Point (or IXP)
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NBMA
- Non-Broadcast Multiple Access
- NCNE
- NLANR National Center for Network Engineering, at PSC
- NCSA
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications or National Computational Science Alliance
- NEXT
- Near End Crosstalk
- NEXUS
- The Globus Multithreaded Communication Library
- NHRP
- Next Hop Routing Protocol
- NIC
- Network Information Center
- NIU
- Network Interface Unit
- NLANR
- National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (www.nlanr.net)
- NLPID
- Network Layer Protocol Identifier
- NNI
- Network Node Interface
- NOC
- Network Operations Center
- NPACI
- National PACI
- NSAP
- Network Layer Service Access Point
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- NSP
- Network Service Provider
- NT
- New Technology (ironic name)
- NTG
- National Technology Grid
- NTP
- Network Time Protocol
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- OAM
- Operations and Management
- OC
- Optical Carrier
- OC-12
- 622 Mbit/sec bandwidth (the current vBNS backbone speed)
- OC-192
- 10 Gbit/sec bandwidth
- OC-3
- 155 Mbit/sec bandwidth
- OC-48
- 2.4 Gbit/sec bandwidth
- OCD
- out-of-cell Delineation
- OSF
- Open Software Foundation
- OSI
- Open Systems Interconnection (network model)
- OSPF
- Open Shortest Path First
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- PACI
- Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
- PATH MTU
- minimum MTU of the entire path between two hosts
- PAWS
- Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers
- PCR
- Peak Cell Rate
- PDU
- Protocol Data Unit
- PGL
- Peer Group Leader
- PIM
- Protocol Independent Multicast
- PL-OU
- Physical Layer Overhead Unit
- PLCP
- Physical Layer Convergence Procedure/Protocol
- PMD
- Physical Media Dependent
- PMP
- Point to Multipoint
- PNNI
- Private Network Node Interface or Private Network-to-Network Interface
- POH
- Path Overhead
- POI
- Path Overhead Indicator
- POP
- Post Office Protocol
- POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface
- POTS
- Plain Old Telephone System
- PPP
- Point to Point Protocol
- PSTN
- Public Switched Telephone Network
- PTE
- Path Terminating Equipment
- PTI
- Payload Type Identifier
- PTSE
- PNNI Topology State Element
- PTSP
- PNNI Topology State Packet
- PVC
- Permanent Virtual Circuit
- PVP
- Permanent Virtual Path
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- QOS
- Quality of Service
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- RARP
- Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
- RCDD
- Registered Communications Data Designer
- RDI
- Remote Defect Indicator
- RED
- Random Early Detection
- RFC
- Request For Comment
- RIO
- Remote I/O
- RIP
- Routing Information Protocol
- RISC
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer
- RPC
- Remote Procedure Call
- RSFG
- Route Server Functional Group
- RSL
- Resource Specification Language
- RSVP
- resource ReSerVation Protocol
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- SAAL
- Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer
- SAR
- Segmentation and Reassembly
- SC'98
- Super Computing 98
- SC98
- Super Computing 98
- SCC
- Super Computing Center
- SCR
- Sustainable Cell Rate
- SDH
- Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
- SDR
- Session Directory (R?)
- SDU
- Service Data Unit
- SEAL
- Simple and Efficient Adaptation Layer
- SECB
- Severely Errored Cell Block
- SIR
- Sustained Information Rate
- SLIP
- Serial Line IP
- SMDS
- Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transport Protocol
- SNAB
- Simple Network Acronym Boy
- SNAP
- SubNetwork Attachment Point
- SNDCF
- Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Function
- SNMP
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- SNPP
- Simple Network Paging Protocol
- SONET
- Synchronous Optical NETwork
- SRTS
- Synchronous Residual Time Stamp
- SSCF
- Service Specific Coordination Function
- SSCOP
- Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol
- SSCS
- Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
- SSL
- Secure Sockets Layer
- STE
- Section Terminating Equipment
- SVC
- Switched Virtual Circuit
- SYN
- SYNchronize sequence numbers flag (TCP header)
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- T-1
- 1.54 Mbit/sec bandwidth
- T-3
- 45 Mbit/sec bandwidth
- TAT
- Theoretical Arrival Time
- TAXI
- Transparent asynchronous transmitter/receiver interface
- TC
- Transmission Convergence
- TCP
- Transmission Control Protocol
- TDDM
- Telecomunications Distributions Methods Manual
- TIG
- Topology Information Group
- TTCP
- Test TCP, a throughput test program
- TTL
- Time To Live
- TUBA
- TCP and UDP over Bigger Addresses
- TUC
- Total User Cell count
- TUCD
- Total User Cell Difference
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- UBR
- Unspecified Bit Rate
- UDP
- User Datagram Protocol
- UME
- UNI Management Entity
- UNI
- User-Network Interface
- UNIX
- is not an acronym
- UPC
- Usage Parameter Control
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- VAI
- vBNS Authorized Institution. See vBNS UAP
- VAT
- Visual Audio Tool
- VBNS
- very high performance Backbone Network Service
- VBR
- Variable Bit Rate
- VC
- Virtual Channel
- VCI
- Virtual Channel Identifier
- VCL
- Virtual Channel Link
- VIC
- VIdeo Conferencing tool
- VINCE
- Vendor Independent Network Control Entity
- VLAN
- Virtual Local Area Network
- VON
- Voice Over Network
- VP
- Virtual Path
- VPC
- Virtual Path Connection
- VPCI
- Virtual Path Connection Identifier
- VPI
- Virtual Path Identifier (ATM) or vBNS Partner Institution. See vBNS UAP
- VPL
- Virtual Path Link
- VPT
- Virtual Path Terminator
- VTCC
- vBNS Technical Coordinating Committee
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- WAN
- Wide Area Network
- WRED
- Weighted RED
- WWW
- World Wide Web
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- XTI
- X/Open Transport Layer Interface
- DAST