Acronyms

This is a book on data communications, all right! There s no way to avoid using tons of acronyms.

AIS		Alarm Indication Signal
ARP		Address Resolution Protocol
ATIS		Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards
ATM		Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI		Attachment Unit Interface
BER		Bit Error Ratio
CA		Connectivity Association
CC		Continuity Check
CFI		Call for Interest
CFM		Connectivity Fault Management
CO		Central Office
COL		Collision
CPE		Customer Premises Equipment
CRC		Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRS		Carrier Sense
CSMA/CD		Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
DES		Data Encryption Standard
DHCP		Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMT		Discrete Multi-Tone
DSLAM		Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSM		Dynamic Spectrum Management
DTE		Data Terminal Equipment
EAP		Extensible Authentication Protocol
EFM		Ethernet in the First Mile
EPON		Ethernet Passive Optical Network
ESHDSL		Enhanced Single-Pair High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line

EVC		Ethernet Virtual Connection
FEC		Forward Error Correction
FTTH		Fiber to the Home
GBIC		Gigabit Interface Converter
GDMO		Guidelines for Definitions of Managed Objects
GMII		Gigabit Media Independent Interface
HDLC		High-Level Data-Link Control
IEEE		Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF		Internet Engineering Task Force
IFS		Inter-Frame Spacing
IP		Internet Protocol
ISS		Internal Service Sublayer
ITU		International Telecommunication Union
LAN		Local Area Network
LLC		Logical Link Control
LLDP		Link Layer Discovery Protocol
LMSC		LAN/MAN Standards Committee
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