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Appendix
ADSL-Related Acronyms
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BootP
Bootstrap Protocol
CHAP
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMT
Discrete Multi-Tone
DSLAM
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
IETF RFC
Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments
IPCP
Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPoA
IP over ATM
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
MAC (address)Media Access Control (address)
MPoA
Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
(AAL5)
NAT
Network Address Translation
PAP
Password Authentication Protocol
POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service
POP
Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPoA
PPP over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
PPPoE
PPP over Ethernet
PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
PVC
Permanent Virtual Connection
Telco
Telephone Company
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
VCI
Virtual Circuit Identifier
VPI
Virtual Path Identifier
WAN
Wide Area Network