Term
| ATM Interface Processor (AIP) |
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Definition
| Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network interface for Cisco 7000 series routers designed to minimize performance bottlenecks at the user network interface (UNI). The AIP supports ATM adaptation layer (AAL)3/4 and AAL5. |
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Definition
| Traditional Cisco ATM network built using BPX switches. |
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| ATM Network Interface Card |
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Definition
| Edge services processor (ESP) card that is used as the OC-3 interface to the broadband switch module (BXM) on a BPX switch. |
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Term
| Address Translation Gateway (ATG) |
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Definition
| Cisco DECnet routing software function that allows a router to route multiple, independent DECnet networks and to establish a user-specified address translation for selected nodes between networks. |
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Term
| Airline Product Set (ALPS) |
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Definition
| Tunneling mechanism that transports airline protocol data across a Cisco router-based TCP/IP network to an X.25-attached mainframe. This feature provides connectivity between agent set control units (ASCUs) and a mainframe host that runs the airline reservation system database. |
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Term
| Automated Packet Recognition-Translation (APaRT) |
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Definition
| Technology that allows a server to be attached to Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI) or Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) without requiring the reconfiguration of applications or network protocols. APaRT recognizes specific data-link layer encapsulation packet types and when these packet types are transferred from one medium to another, translates them into the native format of the destination device. |
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Definition
| Feature on Cisco routers that provides faster packet processing by allowing the ciscoBus to switch packets independently without interrupting the system processor. |
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Term
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Definition
| Closely integrated BPX switch, Access and Exchange Information System (AXIS) interface shelf, and extended services processor designed to support ATM and Frame Relay switched virtual circuits, as well as traditional PVCs. |
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Term
| Bus Interface Gate Array (BIGA) |
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Definition
| Technology that allows the Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switch to receive and transmit frames from its packet-switching memory to its MAC local buffer memory without the intervention from the host processor. |
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Term
| Channel Interface Processor (CIP) |
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Definition
| The Channel Interface Processor (CIP) is a channel attachment interface for Cisco 7000 series routers. |
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Term
| Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) |
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Definition
| The CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) is first-level general IT certification. Cisco offers three levels of general IT certifications: Associate, Professional, and Expert. |
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Term
| Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) |
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Definition
| The CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) is the highest of the three levels (Associate, Professional, and Expert) of general IT certification. |
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Term
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Definition
| Media- and protocol-independent device-discovery protocol that runs on all equipment manufactured by Cisco, including routers, access servers, bridges, and switches. Using Cisco Discovery Protocol, a device can advertise its existence to other devices and receive information about other devices on the same LAN or on the remote side of a WAN. Cisco Discovery Protocol runs on all media that support Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP), including LANs, Frame Relay, and ATM media. |
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Term
| Cisco Encryption Technology (CET) |
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Definition
| 40- and 56-bit Data Encryption Standard (DES) network layer encryption available since Cisco IOS Software Release 11.2. |
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Term
| Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) |
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Definition
| Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) is a scalable, distributed, layer 3 switching technology for IP. |
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Term
| Cisco Extended Bus (CxBus) |
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Definition
| Data bus for interface processors on Cisco 7000 series routers. |
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Term
| Cisco Frame Relay Access Device (Cisco FRAD) |
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Definition
| Cisco product that supports Cisco IOS Frame Relay System Network Architecture (SNA) services and can be upgraded to be a full-function multiprotocol router. |
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Term
| Cisco ISDN User Part (C-ISUP) |
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Definition
| Cisco proprietary protocol based on ISDN User Part (ISUP). ISUP is a protocol in the Signaling System 7 (SS7) system. |
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Term
| Cisco Link Services (CLS) |
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Definition
| Cisco link services is a front end for a variety of data-link control services. |
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Term
| Cisco Link Services Interface (CLSI) |
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Definition
| Suite of messages that are exchanged between Cisco link services (CLS) and data-link users, such as advanced peer-to-peer networking (APPN), SNA service point, and Data Link Switching Plus (DLSw+). |
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Term
| Cisco MGC Node Manager (CMNM) |
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Definition
| Cisco MGC Node Manager (CMNM) is a management system providing fault, performance, and security management for the VSC3000 (MGC) node. Also known as Rambler. |
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Term
| Cisco Network Registrar (CNR) |
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Definition
Software product that provides IP address management and highly scaleable and redundant DHCP (RFC-2131, authored by rdroms) and DNS servers. Devices supported include Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable modems and PCs. Cisco Network Registrar also provides enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server capabilities.
CNR offers unique capabilities such as classes of service and extension points to allow extensive customization to provision DOCSIS cable modems, TR069 devices and packetcable MTAs.
DHCPv6 (RFC-3315) is fully supported in the 7.0 release.
See also the Broadband Access Center product, which leverages the CNR DHCP server extension interface to provide highly scaleable and reliable provisioning services on top of the basic DHCP protocols. |
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Term
| Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory (CNS-AD) |
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Definition
| Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory (CNS/AD) consists of an Active Directory port to Solaris and HP/UX, and an NT and UNIX client implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) API and GSS-API. |
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Term
| Cisco Optical Network Planner (ONP) |
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Definition
| The Cisco ONP is designed for use with the Cisco ONS 15900 Series Wavelength Router network elements to optimize available optical network bandwidth. |
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Term
| Cisco Service Management (CSM) |
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Definition
| System within Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAM&P) and management tools for service providers and large enterprise networks. Cisco Subscriber Registration Center (CSRC) is part of this system. |
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Term
| Cisco Subscriber Registration Center (CSRC) |
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Definition
| Integrated solution for data-over-cable service providers to configure and manage broadband modems, and enable and administer subscriber self-registration and activation. |
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Term
| Cisco Wavelength Router Manager (Cisco WRM) |
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Definition
| Cisco element management system designed for use with the Cisco ONS 15900 Series Wavelength Router. |
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Term
| Cisco Web Application Framework (CWAF) |
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Definition
| Underlying framework that manages the Web GUI for the User Registrar and Modem Registrar products. |
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Term
| Cisco-trunk (private line) Call |
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Definition
| A Cisco-trunk (private line) call is established by the forced connection of a dynamic switched call. A Cisco-trunk call is established during configuration of the trunk and stays up for the duration of the configuration. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco internetworking architecture that "fuses" together the scalability, stability, and security advantages of the latest routing technologies with the performance benefits of ATM and LAN switching, and the management benefits of VLANs. |
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Term
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Definition
| GUI-based device-management software application that provides dynamic status, statistics, and comprehensive configuration information for Cisco internetworking devices. In addition to displaying a physical view of Cisco device chassis, CiscoView also provides device monitoring functions and basic troubleshooting capabilities, and can be integrated with several leading Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based network management platforms. |
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Term
| Class Selector (QoS - CS) |
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Definition
A Class Selector (CS) is a DiffServ-architecture marking that corresponds to an IP Precedence marking:
DSCP Value Binary Value IP Precedence Value
Default 000000 0
CS1 001000 1
CS2 010000 2
CS3 011000 3
CS4 100000 4
CS5 101000 5
CS6 110000 6
CS7 111000 7
--Jose Mendez (Cisco TAC) 01:01, 2 June 2010 (UTC) |
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Term
| Combinet Packet Protocol (CPP) |
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Definition
| Combinet Packet Protocol (CPP) is a proprietary encapsulation used by legacy Combinet products for transporting data. |
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Term
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Definition
| In Cisco routers, the configuration register is a 16-bit, user-configurable value that determines how the router functions during initialization. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco IOS feature that enables a router to function as a physical unit concentrator for Systems Network Architecture (SNA) physical unit 2 nodes. Physical unit concentration at the router simplifies the task of physical unit definition at the upstream host while providing additional flexibility and mobility for downstream physical unit devices. |
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Term
| Data Movement Processor (DMP) |
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Definition
| A processor on the Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switch that, along with the multiport packet buffer memory interface, performs the frame-switching function for the switch. The DMP also handles translational bridging between the Ethernet and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) interfaces, IP segmentation, and intelligent bridging with protocol-based filtering. |
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Term
| Data-link Switching Plus (DLSw+) |
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Definition
| Cisco implementation of the DLSw standard for System Network Architecture (SNA) and NetBIOS traffic forwarding, DLSw+ goes beyond the standard to include the advanced features of the current Cisco RSRB implementation, and provides additional functionality to increase the overall scalability of data-link switching. |
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Term
| Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL) |
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Definition
| Convergence algorithm used in Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) that provides loop-free operation at every instant throughout a route computation. Allows routers involved in a topology change to synchronize at the same time, while not involving routers that are unaffected by the change. See also EIGRP. |
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Term
| Director Response Protocol (DRP) |
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Definition
| Protocol used by the DistributedDirector feature in IP routing. |
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Term
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Definition
| Method of distributing Web traffic by taking into account Web server availability and relative client-to-server topological distances to determine the optimal Web server for a client. DistributedDirector uses the Director Response Protocol (DRP) to query DRP server agents for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing table metrics. |
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Term
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Definition
| Interactive command mode of Cisco IOS software |
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Term
| Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) |
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Definition
| Advanced version of Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) developed by Cisco. Provides superior convergence properties and operating efficiency, and combines the advantages of link state protocols with those of distance vector protocols. Compare with IGRP. |
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Term
| Enhanced Monitoring Services |
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Definition
| Set of analysis tools on the Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switch, consisting of an integrated RMON agent and the Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN). These tools provide traffic monitoring and network segment analysis and management. |
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Term
| Ethernet Interface Processor (EIP) |
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Definition
| Interface processor card on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The EIP provides high-speed (10-Mbps) AUI ports that support Ethernet Version 1 and Ethernet Version 2 or IEEE 802.3 interfaces, and a high-speed data path to other interface processors. |
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Term
| Extended Services Processor (ESP) |
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Definition
| Rack-mounted adjunct processor that is co-located with a Cisco BPX/AXIS (all three units comprise a BPX service node) and has IP connectivity to a StrataView Plus Workstation. |
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Term
| FDDI Interface Processor (FIP) |
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Definition
| Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The FIP supports SASs, DASs, dual homing, and optical bypass. It contains a 16-mips processor for high-speed (100-Mbps) interface rates. |
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Term
| Fast Ethernet Interface Processor (FEIP) |
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Definition
| Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The FEIP supports up to two 100-Mbps 100BaseT ports. |
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Term
| Fast Sequenced Transport (FST) |
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Definition
| Connectionless, sequenced transport protocol that runs on top of the IP protocol. SRB traffic is encapsulated inside IP datagrams and is passed over an FST connection between two network devices (such as routers). FST speeds up data delivery, reduces overhead, and improves the response time of SRB traffic. |
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Term
| Fast Serial Interface Processor (FSIP) |
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Definition
| Default serial interface processor for Cisco 7000 series routers. The FSIP provides 4 or 8 high-speed serial ports. |
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Term
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Definition
| In Fast Switching, a route cache is used to expedite packet switching through a router. This process is different from process switching. |
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Term
| Frame Relay access support (FRAS) |
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Definition
| Cisco IOS feature that allows SDLC, Token Ring, Ethernet, and Frame Relay-attached IBM devices to connect to other IBM devices. It connects to the devices across a Frame Relay network. |
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Term
| Gateway Discovery Protocol (GDP) |
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Definition
| Cisco protocol that allows hosts to dynamically detect the addition of new routers to a network. It also enables the host to determine when a router goes down. Gateway Discovery Protocol (GDP) is based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP). |
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Term
| Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) |
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Definition
| Tunneling protocol that was developed by Cisco. Generic routing encapsulation (GRE) can encapsulate a variety of protocol packet types inside IP tunnels. This creates a virtual point-to-point link to Cisco routers at remote points over an IP network. |
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Term
| HSSI Interface Processor (HIP) |
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Definition
| HSSI Interface Processor (HIP) is the interface processor on Cisco 7000 series routers. The HIP provides one High Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) port that supports connections to ATM, Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS), Frame Relay, or private lines, at speeds of up to T3 or E3. |
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Term
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Definition
| A helper address forwards UDP-based client protocol requests. |
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Term
| Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) |
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Definition
| Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) provides high network availability and transparent network topology changes. HSRP creates a hot standby router group with a lead router, that services all packets sent to the hot standby address. The lead router is monitored by other routers in the group, and if it fails, one of the standby routers inherits both the lead position and the hot standby address. |
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Term
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Definition
| Inter-Switch Link (ISL) is a Cisco proprietary protocol that maintains VLAN information, as traffic flows between switches and routers. |
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Term
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Definition
| Any of a number of processor modules used in the Cisco 7000 series routers, including AIP, CIP, EIP, FEIP, FIP, FSIP, HIP, MIP, SIP, and TRIP. |
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Term
| Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) |
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Definition
| Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) was developed by Cisco to address the issues associated with routing in large, heterogeneous networks. Compare IGRP with Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). Also see IGP, OSPF, and RIP. |
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Term
| Internetworking Operating System (IOS) |
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Definition
Internetworking Operating System (IOS) is Cisco system software that provides common functionality, scalability, and security for all products under the CiscoFusion architecture. Cisco IOS allows centralized, integrated, and automated installation and management of networks, while ensuring support for a variety of protocols, media, services, and platforms.
IOS and CISCO IOS are trademarks of Cisco, registered in the United States and other countries. |
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Term
| MultiChannel Interface Processor (MIP) |
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Definition
| Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers that provides up to two channelized T1 or E1 connections via serial cables to a channel service unit (CSU). The two controllers on the MIP can each provide up to 24 T1 or 30 E1 channel-groups, with each channel-group presented to the system as a serial interface that can be configured individually. |
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Term
| Multiservice IOS Channel Aggregation (MICA) |
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Definition
| Technology that enables the simultaneous support of remote-access users through both analog modems and ISDN devices. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco network management application that provides an easy-to-use GUI for monitoring RMON statistics and protocol analysis information. NETscout also provides extensive tools that simplify data collection, analysis, and reporting. These tools allow system administrators to monitor traffic, set thresholds, and capture data on any set of network traffic for any segment. |
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Term
| Native Client Interface Architecture (NCIA) |
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Definition
| System Network Architecture (SNA) applications-access architecture, developed by Cisco, that combines the full functionality of native SNA interfaces at both the host and the client with the flexibility of leveraging TCP/IP backbones. NCIA encapsulates SNA traffic on a client PC or workstation, thereby providing direct TCP/IP access while preserving the native SNA interface at the end-user level. In many networks, this capability obviates the need for a standalone gateway and can provide flexible TCP/IP access while preserving the native SNA interface to the host. |
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Term
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Definition
A network flow is defined as a unidirectional sequence of packets between given source and destination endpoints. Network flows are highly granular. Traditional NetFlow uses a 7-tuple of source and destination IP address, transport layer port numbers, IP Protocol, Type of Service (ToS), and the input interface port to uniquely identify flows. (Egress NetFlow uses the output interface.)
Flexible NetFlow (FNF) is a ground-up rewrite of NetFlow which allows the user to customise the netflow tuple to include (or exclude) almost 200 different fields.
NetFlow data can be exported to a NetFlow Collector appliance in a variety of cisco defined formats (v1, v5, v8, v9 (RFC 3954)), or in the standardised IPFIX format (RFC 5101). Data is most often transferred over UDP or SCTP-PR (RFC3758). |
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Term
| Network Management Processor (NMP) |
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Definition
| Processor module on the Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switch used to control and monitor the switch. |
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Term
| Open Packet Telephony (OPT) |
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Definition
| Cisco's open packet telephony architecture. |
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Term
| Open Peripheral Interface (OPI) |
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Definition
| Cisco proprietary interface between peripheral gateways and the central controller of the Internet CallManager (ICM). |
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Term
| Peripheral Interface Manager (PIM) |
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Definition
| Cisco proprietary interface between a peripheral and the peripheral gateway |
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Term
| Physical Layer Interface Module (PLIM) |
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Definition
| Interface that allows the application infrastructure provider (AIP) to access a variety of physical layers, including transparent asynchronous transceiver interface (TAXI) and Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) multimode fiber-optic cable, synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)/SONET single-mode fiber cable, and E3 coaxial cable. |
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Definition
Traffic policing is a Quality of Service tool implementation that can monitor the rate of a specified traffic, acting as packet dropping to avoid one traffic type to consume the available bandwidth to other types. For example:
voice payload is marked as EF
a serial interface is configured with priority queuing, guaranteeing 500 kbps to EF packets
600 kbps of voice traffic enters the router at one point
The excess is dropped to avoid this type of traffic from consuming more bandwidth than the one reserved
This happens because priority queuing method -used to accomplish low delay, jitter, and loss- would stop other types of packets from getting any bandwidth (the queuing method always gives preference to EF traffic), since the next packet to be sent would always be the EF marked one, other traffic would be left without space. --Jose Mendez (Cisco TAC) 00:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC) |
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Term
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Definition
| Operation that provides full route evaluation and per-packet load balancing across parallel WAN links. |
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Term
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Definition
| Technique that alleviates the load across a synchronous data link control (SDLC) network by allowing routers to act as proxies for primary and secondary nodes, thus keeping polling traffic off the shared links. Proxy polling has been replaced by SDLC Transport. |
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Definition
| Cisco policy server application for dynamically managing network traffic flows. |
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Term
| Reliable SAP Update Protocol (RSUP) |
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Definition
| Bandwidth-saving protocol developed by Cisco for propagating services information. RSUP allows routers to reliably send standard Novell SAP packets only when the routers detect a change in advertised services. RSUP can transport network information either with or independently of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) routing function for IPX. |
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Term
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Definition
| Processor module in the Cisco 7000 series routers that contains the CPU, system software, and most of the memory components that are used in the router. Sometimes called a supervisory processor. |
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Term
| Route-Switch Processor (RSP) |
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Definition
| Processor module in the Cisco 7500 series routers that integrates the functions of the RP and the SP. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco router feature with which disparate environments can be integrated into a single, high-speed, enterprise-wide network. Native synchronous data link control (SDLC) traffic can be passed through point-to-point serial links with other protocol traffic multiplexed over the same links. Cisco routers can also encapsulate SDLC frames inside IP datagrams for transport over arbitrary (non-SDLC) networks. Replaces proxy polling. |
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Term
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Definition
| Feature that allows a Cisco router that receives an all-stations broadcast on a virtual multidrop line to propagate the broadcast to each SDLC line that is a member of the virtual multidrop line. |
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Term
| SDLLC - SDLC Logical Link Control |
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Definition
| Cisco IOS software feature that performs translation between SDLC and IEEE 802.2 type 2. |
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Term
| SMDS Interface Protocol (SIP) |
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Definition
| SIP (SMDS Interface Protocol) is used in communications between CPE and SMDS network equipment. Allows the CPE to use SMDS service for high-speed WAN internetworking. Based on the IEEE 802.6 DQDB standard. |
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Term
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Definition
| Frame Relay connection between two virtual networking services in different areas or domains. The Cisco Proprietary Network-to-Network Interface (SPNNI) connection gets its name from the proprietary Network-to-Network Interface Protocol that operates over this connection. |
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Term
| Security Posture Assessment (SPA) |
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Definition
| Comprehensive security analysis of large-scale, distributed client networks conducted by Cisco Systems engineers. |
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Term
| Serial Interface Processor (SIP) |
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Definition
This product is obsolete.
Details
Do not use the terms SIP or serial interface processor. Use pre-FSIP instead. The FSIP (Fast Serial Interface Processor) is the default serial interface processor for Cisco 7000 series routers. |
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Term
| Silicon Switch Processor (SSP) |
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Definition
| High-performance silicon switch for Cisco 7000 series routers that provides distributed processing and control for interface processors. |
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Term
| Silicon Switching Engine (SSE) |
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Definition
| Routing and switching mechanism that compares the data link or network layer header of an incoming packet to a silicon-switching cache, determines the appropriate action (routing or bridging), and forwards the packet to the proper interface. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco 7000 series processor module that acts as the administrator for all CxBus activities. Sometimes called CiscoBus controller. |
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Term
| Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) |
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Definition
| Feature of the Cisco Catalyst series switches that extends the monitoring capabilities of existing network analyzers into a switched Ethernet environment. SPAN mirrors the traffic at one switched segment onto a predefined SPAN port. A network analyzer attached to the SPAN port can monitor traffic from any of the other Catalyst switch ports. |
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Term
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Definition
| Feature providing TCP/IP header compression over X.25 links, for purposes of link efficiency. |
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Term
| Technical Assistance Center (TAC) |
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Definition
| The Cisco customer support center. There are four TACs worldwide. |
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Term
| Terminal access controller access control system plus (TACACS+) |
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Definition
| Proprietary Cisco enhancement to Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS). Provides additional support for authentication, authorization, and accounting. |
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Term
| Token Ring Interface Processor (TRIP) |
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Definition
| The Token Ring Interface Processor (TRIP) is a high-speed interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The TRIP provides two or four Token Ring ports for interconnection with IEEE 802.5 and IBM Token Ring media with ports independently set to speeds of either 4 or 16 Mbps. |
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Term
| Two-Way Simultaneous (TWS) |
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Definition
| Mode that allows a router configured as a primary synchronous data link control (SDLC) station to achieve better utilization of a full-duplex serial line. When TWS is enabled in a multidrop environment, the router can poll a secondary station and receive data from that station while it sends data to or receives data from a different secondary station on the same serial line. |
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Term
| UniDirectional Link Detection (UDLD) |
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Definition
| A software-based Cisco proprietary protocol that is capable of detecting unidirectional links in shared media or in other complicated setups. |
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Term
| Versatile Interface Processor (VIP) |
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Definition
| Interface card used in Cisco 7000 series and Cisco 7500 series routers. The VIP provides multilayer switching and runs Cisco IOS software. The most recent version of the VIP is VIP2. |
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Term
| Virtual Networking Services |
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Definition
| Software on some Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switches that enables multiple workgroups to be defined across switches and offers traffic segmentation and access control. |
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Term
| Virtual Switch Controller (VSC) |
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Definition
| Cisco's virtual switch controller. |
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Term
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Definition
| Cisco Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based network-management software tool. Workgroup Director runs on UNIX workstations either as a standalone application or integrated with another SNMP-based network management platform, providing a seamless, powerful management system for Cisco workgroup products. |
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Definition
| X.25 is an International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) protocol standard for WAN communications that defines how connections between user devices and network devices are established and maintained. X.25 is designed to operate effectively regardless of the type of systems connected to the network. This standard is typically used in the packet-switched networks (PSNs) of common carriers, such as the telephone companies. Subscribers are charged based on their use of the network. The development of the X.25 standard was initiated by the common carriers in the 1970s. At that time, there was a need for WAN protocols capable of providing connectivity across public data networks (PDNs). X.25 is now administered as an international standard by the ITU-T. |
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Term
| break-out break-in (BOBI) |
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Definition
| Virtual network service (VNS) feature that allows interworking between Euro-ISDN (ETSI) and other VNS-supported signaling variants, such as Digital Private Network Signaling System (DPNSS) and Q-Signaling protocol (QSIG) (European Computer Manufacturers Association). |
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Term
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Definition
| The ciscoBus II controller card (CSC-CCTL2) provides two functions for the Cisco AGS+ router: it interconnects the system bus (Multibus) with the ciscoBus for routing packets between ciscoBus and system bus interfaces, and it performs packet-switching functions on the ciscoBus using its onboard processor and 512 KB of dedicated packet memory. |
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Definition
| Router feature allowing two SDLC- or high-level data link control (HDLC)-compliant devices to connect to one another through an arbitrary multiprotocol topology (using Cisco routers) rather than through a direct serial link. |
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Definition
| Switching based on the silicon switching engine (SSE), which allows the processing of packets independent of the silicon switch processor (SSP) system processor. Silicon switching provides high-speed, dedicated packet switching. |
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Term
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Definition
| Function that enables the creation of logically separated switched IP workgroups across the switch ports of a Catalyst 5000 series switch running Virtual Networking Services software. See also Virtual Networking Services. |
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