ISDN Router Administrator Manual

M1112 Administrator Manual
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PPTP Point-to-point tunneling protocol
PWR Power
RAN Remote access node
RFC Request for comments
STA Status
TCP Transmission control protocol
UBR Unspecified bit rate
VCC Virtual channel connection
VCI Virtual channel identifier
VPI Virtual path identifier
WWW World Wide Web
Terms
10Base-T
10 Mbit/s Ethernet specification using two pairs of twisted cabling.
10Base-T is a part of the IEEE 802.3 specification.
ATM access network
An access network where traffic from the subscribers is multiplexed
and forwarded using ATM technology.
bridge
A device that connects two or more physical networks and forwards
packets between them. Bridges can usually be made to filter packets,
that is, to forward only certain traffic.
command line interface
Character-based man-machine interface where a command line end-
ing with <CR> character is used to configure a device. The device in-
terprets the command and returns a character-based response.