ABRs : Area Boarder Routers ....................................

( ACAU : Aironet Client Administration Utility ACM : Aironet Client Monitor ACS : Access Control Server (Wireless) AD : Advertised Distance ....................................... (503#5208) ADSL : Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADU : Aironet Desktop Utility AES : Advanced Encryption Standard (Symmetric Encryption) AH : Authentication Header ARP : Address Resolotion Protocol .............................. (504#1072) ASICs : Application-Specific Integrated Circuits ............... (504#1225) AS : Autonomous System ......................................... ( ASBRs : Autonomous System Boundary Router ...................... ( ATM : Asynchronous Transfer Mode ............................... (504#3230) ATU-C: ADSL Terminal Unit- Central Office ATU-R: ADSL Terminal Unit- Remote AVVID : ?? Voice VLAN ID AWP : Adaptive Wireless Path BDR : Backup Designated Router ................................. ( BID : Bridge ID BPDU : Bridge Protocol Data Unit ............................... (504#3308) CAM : Content Addressable Memory ............................... (504#4987) CA : Certificate Authority CAC : Call Admission Control (Wireless->VLAN and QoS) CAM : Content Addressable Memory CAP: Carrierless Amplitude Modulation/Phase Modulation CAR : Committed Access Rate CATV: Community Antenna Television CBWFQ : Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing CDPD : Cellular Digital Packet Data (Wireless) CEF (CEF Switching) : Cisco Express Forwarding ?? CFI : Canonical Format Indicator ............................... (504#3278) CGMP : Cisco Group Management Protocol ......................... (504#5046) CIDR : Classless InterDomain Routing ........................... ( CIR : Committed Information Rate ............................... (503#5299) CLI : Command Line Interface ................................... (504#4938) CLP : Cell Loss Priority CLNP: Connectionless Network Protocol CLNS: Connectionless Network Service CMTS : (Cable) CO : Central Office CoS : Class of Service CPE : Consumer Premises Equipment CQ : Custom Queuing CRC : Cyclic Redundancy Check .................................. (504#3248) CRL : CSMA/CA : Carrier Sense Multiple access with Collision Avoidence CSMA/CD : Carrier Sense Multiple access with Collision Detection (504#1031) CSNP: Complete Sequence Number PDU (IS-IS PDUS) CST : Common Spanning Tree (also: Mono Spanning Tree) .......... (504#4264) DAI : Dynamic ARP Inspection DBDs (DDPs) : Database Description Packets ..................... (503#3209) DCEF : DES : (Symmetric Encryption) DFS : Dynamic Frequency Selection (Wireless) DIS: Designated IS DMT: Discrete MultiTone DOCSIS: (A standard for certification of cable equipment vendor devices) DPD : Dead Peer Detection (IKE) DR : Designated Router ......................................... (

DSCP : DiffServ Code point DSL : Digital Subscriber Line DSLAM : Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexing DSSS : Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum DTP : Dynamic Trunking Protocol ................................ (504#3299) DUAL : Diffusing Update Algorithm .............................. ( DVMRP : Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol ............. (504#8030) DVS : Directed VLAN Services EAP : Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP-FAST : Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling EARL : Enhanced Address Resolution Logic ....................... (504#4515) EBC : Ethernet Bundle Controller ............................... (504#4515) ECNM: Enterprise Composite Network Model EIGRP : Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol ............. (503#5003) EoMPLS : Ethernet over MPLS ESP : Encapsulating Security Payload EUI : Extended Universal Identifier (IPv6) FD : Feasible Distance ......................................... (503#5208) FDDI : Fiber Distributed Data Interface ........................ (504#1017) FDM : Frequency-division Multiplexing FEC : Forwarding Equivalance Class Matching FIB : FLSM: GLBP : Gateway Load Balancing Protocol GPRS : General Packet Radio Service (Wireless) GRE : (Layer 3 VPN) HDSL : High-Data-Rate DSL HFC : Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (Cable Technology Terms-->cable network is segmented) HMAC : Message Authentication and Integrity Check using Hash HSRP : Hot Standby Routing Protocol ............................ (504#1450) IAPP : Inter-Access Point Control (Wireless->Layer 2 Roaming->802.11f) IBSS : Independent Basic Service Set (Wireless) IDS : Intrusion Detection SYstem IDSL : Integrated Services Digital Network DSL IETF : IGMP : Internet Group Management Protocol ...................... (504#8030) IGP : Interior Gateway Protocol ................................ ( IGRP : Interior Gateway Protocol ............................... ( IIN: Intelligent Information Network IKE : Internet Key Exchange IRDP : ICMP Discovery Protocol ................................. (506#6013) IRs : Internal Routers ......................................... ( ISL : Cisco Inter-Switch Link .................................. (504#3076) ISM : Industrial, Scientific, and Medical Frequency Band LACP: (Dynamic Trunk Negotiation Protocol) LCP : Line Communication Processor ............................. (504#4917) LDP: (MPLS Label Protocol-->Cisco) LFIB: LIB: LLQ : Low Latency Queuing LR : (Wireless) LSAck : Link-State Acknowledgement ............................. ( LSAs : Link-State Advertisements ............................... ( LSDB : Link-State Databases ..................................... ( LSP: Link-state Packet LSR : Link-State Request ....................................... (503#3218) LSU : Link-State Update ........................................ ( MAC : Message Authentication and Integrity Check MAP : Mesh Access Points (Wireless)

MD5: Message-Digest 5 MED : Multi-Exit-Discriminator ................................. MISTP : Multi-Instance Spanning Tree Protocol MLS : Multilayer Switching ..................................... MLS-RP : Multilayer Switcing Route Processor ................... MLS-SE : Multilayer Switching Switch Engine .................... MLSP : Multilayer Switching Protocol ........................... MPBGP: Multiprotocol BGP (MPLS) MPLS: Multiprotocol Label Switching MQC : Modular QoS CLI MSTP : Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol MTU : Maximum Trasmission Unit ................................. NAM : Network Analysis Module NBAR : Network-Based Application Recognition NBMA : NonBroadcast, MultiAccess ............................... NLRI : Network Layer Reachability Information NSSA : Not-So-Stubby Area ...................................... NTSC : National Television System Committee OFDM : Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing OSPF : Open Shortest Path First ................................ OTP : (IPsec Peer Authentication Method) PAgP : Port Aggregation Protcol ................................ PAL : Phase Alternating Line PBX : PCS : (Wireless) PDMs : Protocol-Dependent Modules .............................. PDU : Protocol Data Unit ....................................... PHP: Penultimate Hop Popping (MPLS) PIM : Protocol Independent Multicast ........................... PKI : POTs: Plain Old Telephone Service PQ : Priority Queuing PRC: Partial Route Calculation (IS-IS) PSNP: Partial Sequence Number PDU (IS-IS PDUS) PVID : Private Vlan ID PVRST : Per VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree PVST : Per-VLAN Spanning Tree .................................. QAM : Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QoS : Quality of Service ....................................... QPSK : Quadrature Phase Shift Keying RAP : Rooftop Access Points (Wireless) RD: Route Distinguishers (MPLS) RF : Radio Frequency (gW) RHE : Regional Headend RIB: RID : Router ID ................................................ RIP : Routing Information Protocol ............................. RP : Rendezvous Point .......................................... RPF : Reverse Path forwarding .................................. RPR : Route Processor Redundancy RSA : (Asymmetric Encryptionn) RSM : Route Switch Module ...................................... RSPAN : Remote Switched Port Analyzer RSTP : Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol RSVP : Resource Reservation Protocol RT: Route Targets (MPLS) RTMP : Routing Table Maintenance Protocol ...................... RTO : Retransmit Interval ...................................... RTP : Reliable Transport Protocol (Realtime Transport Protocol) SAID : Security Association Identifier .........................

(503#5946) (504#4987) (504#5030) (504#5030) (504#5030)

(504#3287) (503#5041) (503#4280) ( (504#4523)

(503#5015) (504#1205) (504#1345)

(504#4246) (504#1272)

( ( (504#8053) (504#7407) (504#1237)

(504#8428) (503#5128) (504#3179)

SAP : Service Advertising Protocol ............................. SDM : SDSL : Single-Line DSL SECAM : Sequential couleur avec Memoire SIA : Stuck-in-Active .......................................... SNAP: Subnet Point of Attachment SNPA: Subnetwork Point of Attachment (IS-IS) SNR : (Wireless) SONA: Service-Oriented Network Architecture SONET : Syncronous Optical Network SPAN : Switched Port Analyzer SPTs: Shortest Path Trees (Multicast) SRM : Single Router Mode SRTT : Smooth Round-Trip Timer.................................. SSID : Service Set Identifier (WLAN) STP : Spanning-Tree Protocol ................................... SVI : (VLAN) TCAM (Table): Tenary Content Addressable Memory TCI : Tag Control Information .................................. TDP : (MPLS Label Protocol--> Non-Cisco) TKIP : (Wireless->Strong Encryption) ToS : Types of Service ......................................... TPC : Transmit Power Control (Wireless) UDLD : Unidirectional Link Detection VDSL : Very-High-Data-Rate DSL VLSMs : Variable-Length Subnet Masking ......................... VRF (Tables): (MPLS VPN) VRRP : Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VSPAN : VLAN Switched Port Analyzer VTP : VLAN Trunk Protocol ...................................... WDM : Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM/DWDM) WDS : Wireless Domain Services WEP : Wired Equivalent Privacy WFQ : Weighted Fair Queuing Wi-Fi : (Wireless) WLSE : Wireless LAN Solution Engine WMM : Wi-Fi Multimedia WPA : Wi-Fi Protected Access WRED : Weighted Random Early Detection WRR : Weighted Round Robin Xauth: (Mechanism used for user authentication for VPN clients)

(504#1074)

(503#5563)

(503#5120) (504#3306) (504#3276) (503#9158)

(504#3361)

NTSC: National Television System Committee (Cable System Standards) PAL: Phase Alternating Line (Cable System Standards) SECAM: Sequential Couleur avec Memoire (Germany Cable System Standards) TDP: (MPLS Label Protocol) LDP: (MPLS Label Protocol) OSPF hello muticast ip : 224.0.0.5 for DR and BDR : 224.0.0.6 OSPF router states : 1.down : enabled 2.init : send hello message 3.two-way : exchange (next:elect DR & BDR) 4.exstart 5.exchange : to exchange DBD 6.loading

7.full LAN : Local Area Network PAN : Personal Area Network