644    

ASCII, 150, 152    /

ASIC, 274, 448

ASN, 440

ASN.1, 597, 601, 615, 617

, 27, 70, 91, 126, 156, 170, 183,

251-252,311,316,363,407,440,

442,559

 Forum, 79, 541
Attachment Unit Interface (AUI), 207
attenuation, 117, 124
AUI, 207, 209, 217, 242
auto-negotiation, 243
Automatic Protection Switching

(APS), 486

Autonomous System (AS), 417
autopartitioning, 277
availability, 101



B-ISDN, 541

backbone, 265

Backbone Concentrator Node

(BCN), 440
backbone routers, 439
backpressure, 311
BadFCS, 625
bandwidth, 117
Banyan VINES, 441
Basic Rate Interface (BRI), 510
baud, 120

BayNetworks, 253, 440, 589, 595
Be, 535

BCN, 225, 440
Be, 535
Beacon, 225
BECN, 537
BGP, 419, 441, 443
BGP4, 406
BICC, 266
billing, 586
Bipolar Alternate Mark Inversion

(AMI), 138
bit robbing, 478
BLN, 440
BNC, 210

Boundary Routing, 444
BPDU, 326
Brand-Rex, 266
bridge, 57, 291
Broadband-ISDN, 540
broadcast, 202, 370

domain, 332

storm, 295, 443
brouter, 444
Burst Mode, 161, 255
Burst Mode Protocol NLM, 436
Burst Tolerance (), 556
business management
layer, 590



CA Unicenter TNG, 587
Cabletron, 450, 620
Cabletron Spectrum, 586
Cabletron Systems, 446
Catalyst 5000, 444, 450
CD, 195
Centillion, 316
channel, 109
CHAP, 493
checksum, 434
CIR, 535

circuit switching, 164
Cisco

12000, 440

1600, 440

2500, 440

3600, 440

7500, 440

Cisco Systems, 253, 444, 531
CiscoVfew, 589
Classical IP, 559, 560
Classless Inter-Domain Routing

(CIDR), 373, 404, 406, 418
client, 29
CLNS OSI, 441

CMIP, 588, 592, 611, 615, 617
CMIS, 616, 617
CMSIE, 615
coaxial, 110