1  Acronyms

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AAA

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

ABR

Area Border Router

ACL

Access Control List

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AS

Autonomous System

ASBR

Autonomous System Border Router

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BDR

Backup Designated Router

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CAR

Committed Access Rate

CLI

Command Line Interface

CoS

Class of Service

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DDM

Distributed Device Management

DLA

Distributed Link Aggregation

DRR

Distributed Resilient Routing

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DR

Designated Router

D-V

Distance Vector Routing Algorithm

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EGP

Exterior Gateway Protocol

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FTP

File Transfer Protocol

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GE

Gigabit Ethernet

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IAB

Internet Architecture Board

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

IGP

Interior Gateway Protocol

IP

Internet Protocol

IRF

Intelligent Resilient Framework

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LSA

Link State Advertisement

LSDB

Link State DataBase

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MAC

Medium Access Control

MIB

Management Information Base

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NBMA

Non Broadcast MultiAccess

NIC

Network Information Center

NMS

Network Management System

NVRAM

Nonvolatile RAM

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PIM

Protocol Independent Multicast

PIM-DM

Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode

PIM-SM

Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode

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QoS

Quality of Service

R                                                                                                                                Return

RMON

Remote Network Monitoring

RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

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SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SP

Strict Priority

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

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TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

ToS

Type of Service

TTL

Time To Live

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UDP

User Datagram Protocol

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VLAN

Virtual LAN

VOD

Video On Demand

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WRR

Weighted Round Robin