AAAA, 372
access/distribution/core architectural model, 232
access regions, 217
accounting management, 310
acronyms, 477–489
adaptability, 61, 392, 400
adding hierarchy, 8, 9
adding interconnectivity, 8, 10
adding routing, 8
address/class calculations, 250
address identifier, 249
address mask, 249
address prefix, 266
address resolution protocol (ARP), 394
address terms/meanings, 252
addressing, 248
addressing fundamentals, 249–251
addressing mechanisms, 255–268
addressing/routing architecture, 219–220, 246–295
addressing fundamentals, 249–251
addressing mechanisms, 255–268
addressing strategies, 277–280
architectural considerations, 290–292
classful addressing, 255–257
external relationships, 290–292
internal relationships, 290
private addressing and NAT, 267–268
reference books, 248
routing boundaries, 269–271
routing flows, 268–269, 272–277
routing fundamentals, 251–254
routing mechanisms, 268–277
routing protocols, 282–290
routing strategies, 280–290
subnetting, 258–260
supernetting, 262–267
variable-length subnetting, 260–262
addressing strategies, 277–280
admission control, 341, 342
AF, 337
affordability, 61
AH, 367
airline industry, 43
alarm, 309
application behavior, 112
application groups, 68–70
application locations, 70–71
application requirements, 62–71
application types, 62–68
applications map, 71
Archie, 65
architectural models, 229–243
example (applying the models), 241–243
flow-based models, 233–235
functional models, 235–237
topological models, 231–232
using, 237–240
architecture. See network architecture
architecture/design defensibility, 15–16
archival/local storage for management data, 318, 319
ARP, 394
Art of Systems Architecting, The (Maier/Rechtin), 54
AS, 269
assured forwarding (AF), 337
asymmetric flows, 401
asynchronous applications, 66
ATM and SONET Basics (Dobrowski/Grise), 2, 386
ATM Solutions for Enterprise Internetworking (Ginsburg), 425
ATM-specific API, 24, 25
ATM switching, 434–443
audit trail, 15–16
authentication header (AH), 367
auto-switch-over redundancy, 452
autonomous system (AS), 269, 395
availability, 43, 63, 114–121