1  Acronyms

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AC

Access Controller

AC

Access Category

ACL

Access Control List

ACS

Auto-Configuration Server

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AIFSN

Arbitration Inter Frame Spacing Number

AP

Access Points

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AVF

Active Virtual Forwarder

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BFD

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

BIMS

Branch Intelligent Management System

BOOTP

Bootstrap Protocol

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BSS

Basic Service Set

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CA

Certificate Authority

CAC

Call Admission Control

CAPWAP

Controlling and Provisioning of Wireless Access Point

CAR

Committed Access Rate

CBS

Committed Burst Size

CFI

Canonical Format Indicator

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CIR

Committed Information Rate

CIST

Common and Internal Spanning Tree

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

CST

Common Spanning Tree

CTR

Counter mode

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DCF

Distributed Coordination Function

DER

Distinguished Encoding Rules

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DN

Distinguished Name

DNS

Domain Name System

DoS

Denial of Service

DSCP

Differentiated Services Codepoint

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EAP

Extensible Authentication Protocol

EAPOL

Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN

EBS

Excess Burst Size

ECDSA

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

ECWmax

Exponent form of CWmax

ECWmin

Exponent form of CWmin

EDCA

Enhanced Distributed Channel Access

ESS

Extended Service Set

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FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

H

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HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Security

HWTACACS

HW Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

I

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ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

ICMPv6

Internet Control Message Protocol for IPv6

ICPIF

Calculated Planning Impairment Factor

IE

Information Element

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IPng

IP Next Generation

IPv6

Internet Protocol Version 6

ISP

Internet Service Provider

IST

Internal Spanning Tree

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LACP

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

LACPDU

Link Aggregation Control Protocol Data Unit

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LR

Line Rate

LWAPP

Light Weight Access Point Protocol

M

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MAC

Message Authentication Code

MCS

Modulation and Coding Scheme

MIB

Management Information Base

MIC

Message Integrity Check

MOS

Mean Opinion Scores

MSTI

Multiple Spanning Tree Instance

MSTP

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures

MTTR

Mean Time to Repair

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NAS

Network Access Server

NAT

Network Address Translation

NMS

Network Management Station

NQA

Network Quality Analyzer

NTP

Network Time Protocol

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OAA

Open Application Architecture

OAP

Open Application Platform

OID

Object Identifier

Owner

Virtual Forwarder Owner

P

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PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PEAP-MSCHAPv2

Protected Extensible Authentication Portocol-Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol v2

PIR

Peak Information Rate

PKCS

Public Key Cryptography Standards

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PMK

Pairwise Master Key

PMTU

Path MTU

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PSF

Protocol Sub-Flow

PSK

Pre-Shared Key

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QoS

Quality of Service

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RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RMON

Remote Network Monitoring

RSA

Rivest Shamir and Adleman

RSNA

Robust Security Network Association

RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

RTS

Request to Send

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SCEP

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

SFTP

Secure FTP

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SSID

Service Set Identifier

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

SVP

SpectraLink Voice Priority

T

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TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLS

Transport Layer Security

ToS

Type of Service

TP

Traffic Policing

TPC

Transmit Power Control

TPID

Tag Protocol Identifier

TXOPLimit

Transmission Opportunity Limit

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U-APSD

Unscheduled automatic power-save delivery

UTC

Universal Time Coordinated

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VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network

VoIP

Voice over IP

VPDN

Virtual Private Dial-up Network

VRRP

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

VTY

Virtual Type Terminal

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WAPI

WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy

WIDS

Wireless Intrusion Detection System

WINS

Windows Internet Naming Service

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

WMM

Wi-Fi Multimedia

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access