Abbreviations
AAA Authentication Authorisation Accounting
AAAARCH Authentication Authorisation Accounting
ARCHitecture research group
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AC Alternating Current
Application Categories
ACK Acknowledgement
ACS Admission Control Service
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AF Assured Forwarding
AH Authentication Header
AMR Adaptive MultiRate
API Application Programming Interface
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
AS Autonomous System
ASCII American Standard Code and Information
Interchange
ASI Application Specific Information
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASM Application Specific Module
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation no.1
ASON Automatically Switched Optical Network
ASP Application Service Provider
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BA Behaviour Aggregate
BB Bandwidth Broker
BBE Better than Best Effort
BE Best Effort
BER Bit Error Ratio
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BGP-4 Border Gateway Protocol, version 4
BICC Bearer-Independent Call Control
B-ISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BLA Business Level Agreement
BR Border Router
BS Bearer Service
CAC Call Admission Control
Connection Admission Control
CAR Committed Access Rate
CATV Cable Television
CBC Cipher Block Chaining
CBR Constraint-Based Routing
CBS Committed Burst Size
CBT Core Based Tree
CBWFQ Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing
CC Connection Count
CCI Connection Controller Interface
CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative
Committee (now: ITU-T)
CDF Complementary Distribution Function
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDR Committed Data Rate
CE Congestion Experienced (part of ECN mechanism)
Customer Edge
CI Configuration Interface
CID Class Identity
CIM Common Information Model
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIV Common Information Viewpoint
CL Controlled Load (Intserv class)
CLP Cell Loss Priority
CMIP Common Management Information
CN Core Network
COA Care-Of-Address
COPS Common Open Policy Service
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CoS Class of Service
CP Connection Point
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPG Connection Point Group
CPODA Contention Priority Oriented Demand Access
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Core Router
CR-LDP Constraint-Based Label Distribution Protocol
CRT Cathode Ray Terminal
CS Circuit Switched
Class Selector (Diffserv class)
CSCF Call State Control Function
CS-MGW Circuit Switched Media Gateway
CSPF Constrained Shortest Path First