Table A-1 List of Acronyms
Acronym
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Expansion
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AAA
|
authentication, authorization, and accounting
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ACL
|
access control list
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ACPI
|
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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API
|
application program interface
|
ARP
|
Address Resolution Protocol
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AS
|
Autonomous System
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AUP
|
acceptable use policy
|
BA
|
Behavior Aggregate
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BGP
|
Border Gateway Protocol
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BIOS
|
basic input/output system
|
CAL
|
Content Abstraction Layer
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CAR
|
Committed Access Rate
|
CD
|
Carrier Detect
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CDE
|
Content Delivery Engine
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CDNFS
|
CDS network file system; also prepositioned file system
|
CDS
|
Content Delivery System
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CDSM
|
Content Delivery System Manager
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CIFS
|
Common Internet File System
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CLF
|
Common Log format
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CLI
|
command-line interface
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CLNS
|
Connectionless Network Service
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CMS
|
Centralized Management System
|
CoS
|
class of service
|
CSNP
|
Complete Sequence Number PDU
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CSS
|
Content Services Switch
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CTE
|
chunked transfer encoding
|
DC
|
domain controller
|
DHCP
|
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
|
DHT
|
distributed hash table
|
DNS
|
Domain Name System
|
DSCP
|
differentiated services code point
|
DSL
|
Digital Subscriber Line
|
ECN
|
Explicit Congestion Notification
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EBGP
|
External Border Gateway Protocol
|
EIM
|
employee Internet management
|
ESIS
|
End System to Intermediate System
|
EULA
|
end user license agreement
|
FEC
|
forward error correction
|
FQDN
|
fully qualified domain name
|
FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
|
GMT
|
Greenwich Mean Time
|
GRE
|
generic routing encapsulation
|
GUI
|
graphical user interface
|
HTTP
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
|
HTTPS
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer
|
IANA
|
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
|
ICP
|
Internet Cache Protocol
|
ICAP
|
Internet Content Adaptation Protocol
|
ICMP
|
Internet Control Message Protocol
|
IDE
|
Integrated Drive Electronics
|
IFP
|
Internet Filtering Protocol
|
IIPC
|
Inter-process procedure
|
IPV6
|
Internet Protocol Version 6
|
IIS
|
Internet Information Services or Internet Information Server (Microsoft)
|
IMS
|
if-modified-since
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IS-IS
|
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
|
ISO-IGRP
|
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
|
LDAP
|
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
|
LCM
|
local/central management
|
LRU
|
least-recently-used
|
LSA
|
Link-state advertisement
|
LSDB
|
Link-state packet database
|
LSP
|
Link-state packet
|
MAC
|
Media Access Control
|
MIB
|
Management Information Base
|
MOTD
|
message-of-the-day
|
MPLS
|
Multiprotocol Label Switching
|
MSFC
|
Multilayer Switch Feature Card
|
MTU
|
maximum transmission unit
|
NACK
|
negative acknowledgement
|
NAS
|
network attached storage; network access server
|
NAT
|
Network Address Translation
|
NET
|
Network Entity Title
|
NFS
|
Network File System
|
NIC
|
Network Information Center
|
NNTP
|
Network News Transport Protocol
|
NSAP
|
network service access point
|
NSSA
|
not-so-stubby-area
|
NTP
|
Network Time Protocol
|
NTSC
|
National Television Systems Committee
|
NVRAM
|
nonvolatile random-access memory
|
OSPF
|
Open Shortest Path First
|
PAC
|
proxy autoconfiguration
|
PAL
|
Phase Alternating Line
|
PAWS
|
Protection Against Wrapped Sequence
|
PBR
|
policy-based routing
|
PDC
|
primary domain controller
|
PEM
|
Privacy Enhanced Mail
|
PFC
|
Policy Feature Card
|
PGM
|
Pragmatic General Multicast
|
PHB
|
Per Hop Behavior
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PID
|
process identifier
|
PKCS
|
Public Key Cryptography Standards
|
PPP
|
Point-to-Point Protocol
|
QoS
|
Quality of Service
|
RADIUS
|
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
|
RBCP
|
Router Blade Configuration Protocol
|
RCP
|
Remote Copy Program
|
RIB
|
Routing Information Base
|
RPC
|
remote procedure call
|
RRM
|
Received Routing Message
|
RSA
|
Rivest, Shamir, Adelman
|
RSPF
|
OSPF reverse shortest path first
|
RSVP
|
Resource Reservation Protocol
|
RTP
|
Real-Time Transport Protocol
|
RTSP
|
Real-Time Streaming Protocol
|
SAN
|
Storage Area Network
|
SASL
|
Secure Authentication and Security Layer
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SATA
|
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
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SCSI
|
Small Computer Systems Interface
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SDP
|
Session Description Protocol
|
SE
|
Service Engine
|
SE-NM
|
Service Engine Network Module
|
SFTP
|
Secure File Transfer Protocol
|
SLA
|
service level agreement
|
SLIP
|
Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
SMART
|
Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
|
SMB
|
Server Message Blocks (protocol)
|
SMTP
|
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
|
SNMP
|
Simple Network Management Protocol
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SPE
|
Synchronous Payload Envelope
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SPF
|
Shortest Path First
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SR
|
Service Router
|
SRAM
|
static random-access memory
|
SRHP
|
service routing host packet
|
SRM
|
Send Routing Message
|
SRP
|
Service Routing Protocol
|
SSH
|
Secure Shell
|
SSL
|
Secure Sockets Layer
|
SSN
|
Send Sequence Number
|
swfs
|
software file system
|
sysfs
|
system file system
|
syslog
|
system logging
|
TAC
|
Technical Assistance Center
|
TACACS+
|
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus
|
TCP/IP
|
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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TFTP
|
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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ToS
|
Type of Service
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TPS
|
transactions per second
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TTL
|
Time-to-Live
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UDI
|
unique device identifier
|
UDP
|
User Datagram Protocol
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UNC
|
uniform naming convention
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UNS
|
unified name space
|
UTC
|
Coordinated Universal Time
|
VBR
|
variable bit rate
|
VOD
|
video on demand
|
W3C
|
World Wide Web Consortium
|
WFQ
|
Weighted Fair Queueing
|
WMS 9
|
Windows Media Services 9 Series
|
WMT
|
Windows Media Technologies
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WRED
|
Weighted Random Early Detection
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XML
|
Extensible Markup Language
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