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APPENDIX
Acronyms and Abbreviations
A 1GE 1 Gigabit Ethernet10GE 10 Gigabit Ethernet
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
ACE Application Control Engine
ACESM Application Control Engine Service Module
ACK Acknowledge
ACL Access Control List
ACN Assignment Change Number
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer
AH Additional Header
AHS Additional Header Segment
AFID Autonomous Fabric ID
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
APP Application
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Autonomous System
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization
ASR1K ASR 1000 Router
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B2B Buffer-to-Buffer
BA Bridge Assurance
BB_Credit Buffer-to-Buffer Credit
BC Business Continuity
BF Build Fabric
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BH Basic Header
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BLSR Bidirectional Line Switch Ring
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BVI Bridge-group Virtual Interface
BW Bandwidth
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C Customer
CAPEX Capital Expenditures
CAST Alyssa P Hacker and Ben Bitdiddle
Cat6K Catalyst 6500
CDB Command Descriptor Block
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol
CE Customer Edge
CEF Cisco Express Forwarding
CFS Cisco Fabric Services
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIMP Cloud Infrastructure Management Platform
CLI Command Line Interface
CN Change Number
CNA Converged Network Adapter
CP Congestion Point
CPP Control Path Processor
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CsC Carrier support Carrier
CUG Closed User Group
CWDM Course Wavelength Division Multiplexing
CWM Congestion Window Monitoring
CoS Class of Service
D_ID Destination ID
DAI Dynamic ARP Inspection
DAS Direct Attached Storage
DC Data Center
DCB Data Center Bridging
DCBX Data Center Bridging Exchange
DCNM Data Center Network Manager
DCU Dispersion Compensation Unit
DDR3 Double-Data-Rate 3
DH-CHAP Diffie Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol
DiffServ Differentiated Services
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module
DMVPN Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DoS Denial-of-Service
DPC Data Path Controller
DPI Deep Packet Inspection
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DR Disaster Recovery
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DST_VIF Destination Virtual Interface Identifier
DVS Distributed Virtual Switch
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
DWRR Deficit Weighted Round Robin
E2E End-to-End
E-CE Enterprise Customer Edge
E-PE Enterprise Provider Edge
E_Port Expansion Port
EDFA Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier
ELP Exchange Link Parameters
ENode End Node
EOF End-of-Frame
EOT Enhanced Object Tracking
ERSPAN Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer
ESC Exchange Switch Capabilities
ESCON Enterprise System Connection
Eth Ethernet
ETS Enhanced Transmission Selection
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EUI Extended Unique Identifier
F_Port Fabric Port
FAIS Fabric Application Interface Standard
FC Fibre Channel
FC-BB Fibre Channel Backbone
FC-SP Fibre Channel Security Protocols
FCC Fibre Channel Congestion Control
FCF FCoE Forwarder
FCIP Fibre Channel over IP
FCIP_DE FCIP Data Engine
FCIP_LEP FCIP Link End Point
FCNS Fibre Channel Name Server
FCP FC Protocol
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCoE_LEP FCoE Link End Point
FC_ID Fibre Channel Identifier
FC-MAP FCoE MAC Address Prefix
FDISC Discover Fabric Service Parameters
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class
FEX Fabric Extender
FICON Fibre Connection
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FIP FCoE Initialization Protocol
FLOGI Fabric Login
FM Fabric Manager
FPMA Fabric Provided MAC Address
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FSF FCIP Special Frames
FSPF Fabric Shortest Path First
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FWSM Firewall Service Module
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter
Gbps Gigabits per second
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GFP Generic Framing Procedure
GLBP Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GUI Graphical User Interface
HA High Availability
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBA Host Bus Adapter
HBH Hop-By-Hop
HIA Here_I_Am
HOL Head-Of-Line
HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ID Identifier
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
iFCP Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
IFT Isolated Fabric Topology
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol
IKE Internet Key Exchange
INCITS International Committee for Information Technology Standards
I/O Input/Output
IP Internet Protocol
IPC Inter Processor Communication
IPPCP IP Payload Compression
IPS Intrusion Protection System
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
IQN iSCSI Qualified Name
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IRB Integrated Routing and Bridging
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISL Inter-Switch Link
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISR Integrated Services Router
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System
iSNS Internet Storage Name Service
ISU I_See_You
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
IVR Inter-VSAN Routing
JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
L1 Layer 1
L2 Layer 2
L2MP L2 Multi-Path
L2TPv3 Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol version 3
L3 Layer 3
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LB Load-Balancing
LBA Logical Block Address
LCAS Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
LDP Label Distribution Protocol
LER Label Edge Router
LSP Label Switched Path
LSR Label Switch Router
LU Logical Unit
LUN Logical Unit Number
LZ Lempel-Ziv
LZS Lempel-Ziv-Stac
MAC Media Access Control
MAC-DA MAC Destination Address
MAC-SA MAC Source Address
MAN Metro Area Network
MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
MCN Membership Change Number
MEC Multichassis EtherChannel
mGRE Multipoint GRE
MITM Man-In-The-Middle
MP-BGP Multiprotocol BGP
MP-eBGP Multiprotocol external BGP
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MP-iBGP Multiprotocol internal BGP
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MSFC Multilayer Switch Feature Card
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MWS Maximum Window Size
N_Port Node Port
NAA Network Address Authority
NAM Network Analysis Module
NBAR Network Based Application Recognition
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
NFS Network File System
NHRP Next Hop Resolution Protocol
NIC Network Interface Card
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOC Network Operations Center
NPIV N_Port ID Virtualization
NP_Port Proxy N_Port
NSV Not-So-VRF
nWWN Node World Wide Name
NX No Execute
NX1KV Nexus 1000V
NX2K Nexus 2000
NX5K Nexus 5000
NX7K Nexus 7000
N_Port Node Port
OADM Optical Add Drop Multiplexer
OAM&P Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning
OC Optical Carrier
OPEX Operation Expenditures
OS Operating System
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OUI Organization Unique Identifier
OVF Open Virtualization Format
OX_ID Originator Exchange ID
P2P Point-to-Point
P Provider
PaaS Platform-as-a-Service
PBR Policy-based Routing
PC Personal Computer
PDAs Personal Digital Assistant
PDP Policy Decision Point
PDU Protocol Data Unit
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PE Provider Edge
PEP Policy Enforcement Point
PE_Port Physical E_Port
PFC Priority-based Flow Control
PFC3 Policy Feature Card 3
PF_Port Physical F_Port
PG Priority Group
PGID Priority Group ID
PLM Product Lifecycle Management
PMTU Path MTU
PMTUD Path MTU Discovery
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PN_Port Physical N_Port
Po Port Channel
POI Point-of-Interception
PPMN Path-Protected Mesh Network
PPRC Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy
PVLAN Private VLAN
pWWN Port World Wide Name
QoS Quality of Service
QCN Quantized Congestion Notification
R2T Ready to Transfer
R_RDY Receiver Ready
R_T_TOV Receiver Transmitter Time-Out Value
RA Redirect_Assign
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RAS Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
RBO Remote Branch Office
RCF Reconfigure Fabric
RD Route Distinguisher
RDBMS Relational Database Management System
RDM Raw Device Mapping
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
RIPv2 Routing Information Protocol version 2
RP Reaction Point
RPO Recovery Point Objective
RQ Removal_Query
RR Route Reflector
RU Rack Unit
RSP Response
RTO Recovery Time Objective
RTT Round-Trip Time
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RX_ID Responder Exchange ID
S_ID Source ID
SaaS Software-as-a-Service
SACK Selective Acknowledgment
SAN Storage Area Network
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDR Scalable Data Referencing
SFP Small Form-Factor Pluggable
SG Service Group
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLB Server Load-Balancer
SLPv2 Service Location Protocol version 2
SMB Small to Medium Business
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOF Start-of-Frame
SOI Service-Oriented Infrastructure
SONET Synchronous Optical Networking
SP Service Provider
SPAN Switched Port Analyzer
SPKM Simple Public Key Mechanism
SPMA Server Provided MAC Address
SRC_VIF Source Virtual Interface Identifier
SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
SRP Secure Remote Password
SSH Secure Shell
SSO Stateful Switchover
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
SVI Switch Virtual Interface
SW_ILS Switch Internal Link Services
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TFO Transport Flow Optimization
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDM Time-Division Multiplexing
TLV Type-Length-Value
TMN Telecommunication Management Network
TOE TCP Offload Engine
ToR Top-of-Rack
TPM Trusted Platform Module
TRILL Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
TXT Trusted Execution Technology
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UCS Unified Computing System
UCSM UCS Manager
UFT Unified Fabric Topology
ULP Upper Level Protocol
UPSR Unidirectional Path Switch Ring
URL Uniform Resource Locator
UUID Unique User ID
VC Virtual Circuit
VCAT Virtual Concatenation
VCI Virtual Circuit Identifier
VDC Virtual Device Context
VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
vDS vNetwork Distributed Switch
VEM Virtual Ethernet Module
VE_Port Virtual E_Port
vEth Virtual Ethernet
VFC Virtual Fibre Channel
VF_Port Virtual F_Port
VIM Virtual Infrastructure Methodology
VIP Virtual IP
VLAN Virtual LAN
VM Virtual Machine
VMFS Virtual Machine File System
VMM Virtual Machine Monitor
VN Virtual Network
VNTag Virtual NIC Tag
VN_Port Virtual N_Port
VOA Variable Optical Attenuator
vPC Virtual Port Channel
vPC HM vPC Host Mode
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRF Virtual Routing and Forwarding
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
VSAN Virtual SAN
VSB Virtual Service Blade
VSG Virtual Security Gateway
VSI Virtual Storage Infrastructure
VSM Virtual Supervisor Module
vSS vNetwork Standard Switch
VSS Virtual Switching Systems
WAAS Wide Area Assplication Services
WAN Wide Area Network
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WCCP Web Cache Communication Protocol
WCCPv2 Web Cache Communication Protocol version 2
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WKP Well-Known Port
WSDL Web Services Description Language
WWN World Wide Name
WWW World Wide Web
XFER_RDY Transfer Ready
XML Extensible Markup Language
