List of Abbreviations

2F-BLSR two-fiber bidirectional line switched ring

2F-OBLSR two-fiber optical bidirectional link sharing ring
2F-UPSR two-fiber unidirectional path switched ring
4F-BLSR four-fiber bidirectional line switched ring
4F-OBLSR four-fiber optical bidirectional link sharing ring
A2oMPLS AAL 2 over MPLS
AAL ATM adaptation layer
ABR available bit rate
ABT ATM block transfer
ACR allowable cell rate
ADM add/drop multiplexer
ADPCM adaptive pulse code modulation
ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line
AFI authority and format identifier
ANP AAL 2 negotiation procedure
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APON ATM passive optical networks
APS automatic protection switching
ARIMA autoregressive integrated moving average
ARP address resolution protocol
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
ATU-C ADSL transceiver unit at the central office
ATU-R ADSL transceiver unit at the remote terminal
BAS broadband access server
BCD binary coded decimal
BE best effort service
BECN backward explicit congestion notification
B-frame bidirectional-coded frame
BGP border gateway protocol
BIP bit interleaved parity
B-ISDN broadband integrated services data network
BLSR bidirectional line switched ring
BPSR bidirectional path switched ring
BT burst tolerance