ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATMF ATM Forum
BCG Bearer Connection Group
CAS Channel Associated Signaling
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CDV Cell Delay Variation
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CID Channel Identifier
CLR Cell Loss Ratio
CPS Common Part Sublayer
DBR Deterministic Bit Rate
FEC Forward Error Correction
FRF Frame Relay Format
GFR Guaranteed Frame Rate
GWID Gateway Identifier
IP Internet Protocol
ITU International Telecommunications Union
LCO Local Connection Option
MBS Maximum Burst Size
MCR Minimum Cell Rate
MFS Maximum Frame Size
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol
nrt-VBR Non-real-time Variable Bit Rate
NSAP Network Service Access Point
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
QoS Quality of Service
rt-VBR Real-time Variable Bit Rate
SAR Segmentation and Re-assembly
SCR Sustained Cell Rate
SDT Structured Data Transfer
SDU Service Data Unit
SPVC Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit
SRTS Synchronous Residual Time-Stamp
SSCOP Service-specific Connection Oriented Protocol
SSSAR Service-specific Segmentation and Re-assembly
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
TDM Time-Division Multiplexing
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate
UDT Unstructured Data Transfer
VC Virtual Circuit
VCCI Virtual Circuit Connection Identifier
VCI Virtual Circuit Identifier
VP Virtual Path
VPCI Virtual Path Connection Identifier
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
11.0 Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank several colleagues at Cisco and the
industry who have contributed towards the development of the MGCP ATM
package, and who have implemented and tested these constructs.
Special thanks are due to Bill Foster, Flemming Andreasen, Raghu
Thirumalai Rajan, Joe Stone, Hisham Abdelhamid, Joseph Swaminathan,
Sushma Srikanth, Amit Agrawal, Mohamed Mostafa, Latha Idury, David
Auerbach and Robert Biskner of Cisco systems and to Mahamood Hussain
of Hughes Software Systems for their contributions. Finally, thanks
are due to Scott Bradner for guiding the final phase of the
publication of this document.
12.0 Author's Address
Rajesh Kumar
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
Phone: 1-408-527-0811
EMail: rkumar@cisco.com
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