Glossar

BAN Body Area Network

BBTAG Broadband TAG

BWA Broadband Wireless Access

CATV Cable TV

COTAG Coexistence TAG

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

DLS Direct Link Setup

DPAP Demand Priority Access Protocol

DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus

DTE Data Terminal Equipment

EEE Energy Efficient Ethernet

EFM Ethernet in the First Mile

EPON Ethernet Passive Optical Network

FBSS Fast Basic Service Set

FEC Forward Error Correction

FOTAG Fiber Optical TAG

FTTH Fiber to the Home

GbE Gigabit Ethernet

HDTV High Definition Television

HILI Higher Layer Interface

HUMAN Highspeed Unlicensed MAN

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE-SA IEEE Standards Association

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

ISLAN Integrated Services LAN

ISM Industrial, Science and Medical

ISO International Organization for Standardization

LAG Link Aggregation

LAN Local Area Network

LLC Logical Link Control

LMSC LAN & MAN Standards Committee

LSDI Large Scale Digital Imagery

MAC Media Access Control

MAN Metropolitan Area Network

MBWA Mobile BWA

MIB Management Information Base

MIHS Media Independent Handover

MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output

MMF Multimode Fiber

NLoS Non Line of Sight

OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OTN Optical Transport Network

PAN Personal Area Network

PAR Project Authorization Request

PHY Physical Layer

PoE Power over Ethernet

PoEPlus PoE Plus

QoS Quality of Service

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

RPR Resilient Packet Ring

RRTAG Radio Regulatory TAG

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SMF Singlemode Fiber

SMI Structure of Management Information

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

TAG Technical Advisory Group

TBUS Token Bus

TRING Token Ring

UNII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure

VLAN Virtual LAN

WAN Wide Area Network

WAVE Wireless Access in the Vehicular Environment

WDM Wave Division Multiplexing

WDS Wireless Distribution System

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WLAN Wireless LAN

WPAN Wireless PAN

WRAN Wireless Regional Area Network