Abbreviations

Term

Meaning

AMF

Access and Mobility Management Function

APN

Access Point Name

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AS

Autonomous System

ASN

Autonomous System Number

BB

Bottleneck Bandwidth

BDP

Bandwidth Delay Product

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BSS

Business Support System

CC

Continuity Count

CDP

Cisco Discovery Protocol

CESoE

Circuit Emulation Services over Ethernet

CFM

Connectivity Fault Management

CGMP

Cisco Group Management Protocol

CIR

Committed Information Rate

CPE

Customer-Premises Equipment

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DNS

Domain Name System

DoS

Denial of Service

DS

Differentiated Services

DSCP

Differentiated Services Code Point

DSLAM

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DTP

Dynamic Trunking Protocol

DUT

Device Under Test

DV

Delay Variation

EAPoL

Extensible Authorization Protocol over LAN

Ec/Io

Per-chip signal-to-noise ratio

EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

EIR

Excess Information Rate

EPC

Evolved Packet Core

ES

Errored Second(s)

ESMC

Ethernet Synchronization Messaging Channel

ETH

Ethernet

EVC

Ethernet Virtual Connection

EVPL

Ethernet Virtual Private Line

EVP-LAN

Ethernet Virtual Private LAN

FEC

Forward Error Correction

FM

Fault Management

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communication

GSMP

General Switch Management Protocol

HLS

HTTP Live Streaming

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol

IMEI

International Mobile Equipment Identity

IMSI

International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IP

Internet Protocol

IPP

IP Precedence

IS-IS

Intermediate System – Intermediate System

ISP

Internet Service Provider

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

L2CP

Layer 2 Control Protocols

LACP

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

LAMP

Link Aggregation Marker Protocol

LAN

Local Area Network

LLC

Logical Link Control

LLDP

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

LTE

Long Term Evolution

MAC

Medium Access Control

MANO

Management and Orchestration

MBH

Mobile Backhaul

MC

Multicast

MCC

Mobile Country Code

ME

Maintenance Entity

MEF

Metro Ethernet Forum

MEG

Maintenance Entity Group

MEL

MEG (Maintenance Entity Group) Level

MEP

MEG (Maintenance Entity Group) End Point

MIB

Management Information Base

MIP

MEG (Maintenance Entity Group) Intermediate Point

MITM

Man In The Middle

MLD

Multicast Listener Discovery

MNC

Mobile Network Code

MOS

Mean Opinion Score

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

MPLS

Multiprotocol Layer Switching

MPTS

Multi Program Transport Stream

MSTP

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

MVRP

Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit

NAT

Network Address Translation

NDP

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

NFV

Network Function Virtualization

NFVI

Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure

NG-RAN

Next Generation Radio Access Network

NIC

Network Interface Controller (or: Card)

NMS

Network Management Station

NOC

Network Operations Center

NTP

Network Time Protocol

OAM

Operations, Administration, and Management (or: Maintenance)

OCA

Open Connect Appliance

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First (protocol)

OSS

Operations Support System

OTT

Over-The-Top

OUI

Organizationally Unique Identifier

OWAMP

One-Way Active Measurement Protocol

PAT

Program Association Table

PCAP

Packet Capture

PCP

Priority Code Point

PCR

Program Clock Reference

PD

Packet Delay

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PDV

Packet Delay Variation

PGW

Packet data network Gateway

PID

Packet Identifier

PLMN

Public Land Mobile Network

PLR

Packet Loss Ratio

PM

Performance Management

PMT

Program Map Table

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PPPoE

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

PVST

Per-VLAN Spanning Tree

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

Q-in-Q

Informal name for IEEE 802.1ad, amendment to IEEE 802.1Q-1998

QoS

Quality of Service

RAN

Radio Access Network

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAT

Radio Access Technology

RGW

Residential Gateway

RIPv2

Routing Information Protocol version 2

RPCAP

Remote Packet Capture

RRH

Remote Radio Head

RSCP

Received Signal Code Power

RSRP

Reference Signal Received Power

RSRQ

Reference Signal Received Quality

RSSI

Received Signal Strength Indication

RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

RTP

Real-time Transport Protocol

RTT

Round-Trip Time

SaaS

Software as a Service

SAP

Service Access Point

SAVI

Source Address Validation Improvement

SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SD

Slice Differentiator

SDN

Software-Defined Networking

SES

Severely Errored Second(s)

SFD

Start of Frame Delimiter

SFP

Small Form-factor Pluggable (transceiver)

SINR

Signal to interference-plus-noise ratio

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SLAAC

Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

SLM

Synthetic Loss Measurement

SLS

Service Level Specification

SNAP

Subnetwork Access Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SP

Service Provider

SSH

Secure Shell

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SST

Slice/Service Type

STB

Set-Top Box

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

TA

Test Agent

TAC

Tracking Area Code

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TLS

Transport Layer Security

TOS

Type of Service

TS

Transport Stream

TTL

Time To Live

TWAMP

Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol

UAS

Unavailable Seconds

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UNI

User–Network Interface

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UTF

UCS (Universal Character Set) Transformation Format

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network

VM

Virtual Machine

VNF

Virtualized Network Function

VoIP

Voice over IP

vTA

Virtual Test Agent

VTP

VLAN Trunk Protocol

WAN

Wide Area Network

WCDMA

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

Y.1563

ITU-T Y.1563: Ethernet frame transfer and availability performance

Y.1564

ITU-T Y.1564: Ethernet service activation test methodology

Y.1731

ITU-T Y.1731: Performance monitoring in a service provider network