MPLS Acronyms

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  • AF: Assured Forwarding
  • ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • BA: Behavior Aggregate
  • BC: Bandwidth Constraint
  • BC Model: Bandwidth Constraint Model (e.g., RDM, MAM)
  • BE: Best Effort
  • BW: Bandwidth
  • CE: Customer Edge
  • CoS: Class of Service
  • CR: Constraint-based Routing
  • CSPF: Constrained Shortest Path First
  • CT: Class Type
  • DiffServ: Differentiated Services
  • DS: Differentiated Services
  • DSCP: DiffServ Code Point
  • DS-TE: DiffServ-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering
  • E2E: End-to-End
  • ECN: Explicit Congestion Notification
  • EF: Expedited Forwarding
  • E-LER: Egress LER
  • E-LSP: EXP-Inferred-PSC LSP
  • FEC: Forwarding Equivalency Class
  • FTP: File Transfer Protocol
  • IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol
  • I-LER: Ingress LER
  • IntServ: Integrated Services
  • IS-IS: Intermediate System to Intermediate System protocol
  • LDP: Label Distribution Protocol
  • LER: Label Edge Router
  • L-LSP: Label-Only-Inferred-PSC LSP
  • LSP: Label Switched Path
  • LSR: Label Switching Router
  • MAM: Maximum Allocation Multiplier
  • MAM: Maximum Allocation Model
  • MPLS: Multiprotocol Label Switching
  • MPLS-TE: Traffic Engineering used in non-DiffServ-aware MPLS networks, applied on aggregated basis
  • NNI: Network-to-Network Interface
  • OA: Ordered Aggregate
  • OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
  • PR: Provider router (SP’s router)
  • PE: Provider Edge
  • PHB: Per-Hop Behavior
  • PSC: PHB Scheduling Class
  • PVC: Permanent Virtual Connection
  • QoS: Quality of Service
  • Rd: down-stream Router
  • RDM: Russian Dolls Model
  • RSVP: Resource reservation Protocol
  • Ru: up-stream Router
  • S: Stacking bit
  • SLA: Service Level Agreements
  • SLS: Service Level Specification
  • SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • SP: Service Provider
  • SPF: Shortest Path First
  • SVC: Switched Virtual Connection
  • TA: Traffic Aggregate
  • TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
  • TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
  • TE: Traffic Engineering
  • TE-Class: set of {Class Type, p} where p is a preemption priority value associated with this TE-Class
  • TELNET: a TCP/IP standard protocol for remote terminal service
  • TLV: Type Length Value
  • TT: Traffic Trunk
  • TTL: Time To Live
  • UDP: User Datagram Protocol
  • UNI: User-to-Network Interface
  • VoATM: Voice over ATM
  • VoIP: Voice over IP
  • VPN: Virtual Private Network
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