Glossary of Terms

AN: Auto-Negotiation
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
BER: Bit Error Rate
CBS: Committed Burst Size
CIR: Committed Information Rate
CLI: Command Line Interface
DAC: Direct Attach Cable
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIP: Destination IP address
DMAC: Destination MAC address
DSCP: Differentiated Services Bode Point
eCPRI: Enhanced Common Public Radio Interface
ESMC: Ethernet Synchronization Message Channel
FC: Fiber Channel
FCoEHead: Fiber Channel over Ethernet Header
FCoETail: Fiber Channel over Ethernet Tail
FCS: The frame check sequence (FCS) is a four-octet cyclic redundancy check (CRC) that allows detection of corrupted data within the entire frame as received on the receiver side. According to the standard, the FCS value is computed as a function of the protected MAC frame fields: source and destination address, length/type field, MAC client data and padding (that is, all fields except the FCS).
FEC: Forward Error Correction
fid: Flow ID
Fps: Frames per second
Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
GRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation
GTPv1: GPRS Tunneling Protocol v1
GTPV2L1 - GTPv2 (w/options): GPRS Tunneling Protocol v2
I2C: I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit, eye-squared-C), alternatively known as I2C or IIC, is a synchronous, multi-controller/multi-target (controller/target), packet switched, single-ended, serial communication bus.
IBG: Inter Burst Gap
ICMPv4: Internet Control Message Protocol v4
IFG: Inter Frame Gap
IGMPV1: Internet Group Management Protocol v1
IGMPV2: Internet Group Management Protocol v2
IGMPV3: Internet Group Management Protocol v3
iid: Impairment ID
IPG: Inter Packet Gap
IPv4: Internet Protocol v4
IPv6: Internet Protocol v6
LAN: Local Area Network
LLC: Logical Link Control
LT: Link Training
MAC: Media Access Control
MAC-Ctrl: MAC 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.
MPLS-TP OAM: MPLS-TP, OAM Header
N.A.: Not Available / Not Applicable
NDP: Neighbor Discovery Protocol
NVGRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation
PBB: Provider Backbone Bridging Tag
PCP: Priority Code Point
PCS: Physical Coding Sublayer
PFC: Priority Flow Control
PMA: Physical Medium Attachment
Pps: Packets per second
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.
PWE: PW Ethernet Control Word
RoE: Radio over Ethernet
RTCP: Real-time Transport Control Protocol
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol
Rx: Receive
SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SIP: Source IP address
SMAC: Source MAC address
SNAP: Subnetwork Access Protocol
STP: Spanning Tree Protocol
TC: Traffic Class
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TG: Traffic Generation
TID: Test Payload Identifier. It is used to identify a sending stream.
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.
Tx: Transmit
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UI: User 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).
VXLAN: Virtual eXtensible LAN