Glossary of Terms#
- ARP#
Address Resolution Protocol
- CBS#
Committed Burst Size
- CIR#
Committed Information Rate
- CLI#
Command Line Interface
- DHCP#
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DIP#
Destination IP address
- DMAC#
Destination MAC address
- DSCP#
Differentiated Services Bode Point
- IPv4#
Internet Protocol v4
- IPv6#
Internet Protocol v6
- LAN#
Local Area Network
- MAC#
Media Access Control
- MPLS#
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses.
- N.A.#
Not Available / Not Applicable
- PCP#
Priority Code Point
- PRBS#
Pseudorandom Binary Sequence is a binary sequence that, while generated with a deterministic algorithm, is difficult to predict and exhibits statistical behavior similar to a truly random sequence.
- SES#
Severe Errored Second
- SMAC#
Source MAC address
- TC#
Traffic Class
- TCP#
Transmission Control Protocol
- TG#
Traffic Generation
- TPID#
Test Payload ID
- TPLD#
Test Payload Data. Each Xena test packet contains a special proprietary data area called the Test Payload Data, which contains various information about the packet. The TPLD is located just before the Ethernet FCS.
- UDP#
User Datagram Protocol
- UI#
User Interface
- UNI#
User-to-Network Interface
- VID#
VLAN ID
- VLAN#
Virtual local area network (VLAN) is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer (OSI layer 2).