Acronyms:

A - B





AAL - ATM Adaptation Layer

ABR - Available Bit Rate

ACM - Address Complete Message

ACT - Activity Bit

ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

Ai - Signaling ID assigned by Exchange A

AIM - ATM Inverse Multiplexer

AIR - Additive Increase Rate

AIS - Alarm Indication Signal

AIS-E - Alarm Indication Signal - External

AMI - Alternate Mark Inversion

ANI - Automatic Number Identification

ANM - Answer Message

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

API - Application Programming Interface

APPN - Advanced Peer to Peer Network

ARE - All Routes Explorer

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

ARQ - Automated Repeat reQuest

ASE - Application Service Element

ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASN - Abstract Syntax Notation

ASP - Abstract Service Primitive

ATD - Asynchronous Time Division

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMARP - ATM Address Resolution Protocol

ATS - Abstract Test Suite

AUU - ATM User-to-User

B-ICI - Broadband Inter Carrier Interface

B-ICI SAAL - B-ICI signaling ATM Adaptation Layer

B-ISDN - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

B-ISUP - Broadband ISDN User's Part

B-LLI - Broadband Low Layer Information

B-NT - Broadband Network Termination

B-TE - Broadband Terminal Equipment

BBC - Braodband Bearer Capability

BCBDS - Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer Service

BCD - Binary Coded Decimal

BCOB - Broadband Class of Bearer

BECN - Backward Explicit Congestion Notification

BER - Bit Error Rate

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BGT - Broadcast and Group Translators

Bi - Signaling ID assigned by Exchange B

BIP - Bit Interleaved Parity

BISDN - Broadband - Integrated Services Digital Network

BISSI - Broadband Inter Switching System Interface

BN - Bridge Number

BOF - Birds of Feather

BOM - Beginning of Message

BOOTP - Bootstrap Protocol

BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BPP - Bridge Port Pair

BPS - Bits per second

BSVC - Broadcast Switched Virtual Connections

BT - Burst Tolerance

BTAG - Begin Tag

BUS - Broadcast and Unknown Server

BW - Bandwidth