index_A

A

AAL (ATM Adaptation Layer), 130

AARP (AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol), 200

access methods , 103106

ACLs (Access Control Lists), 354, 356

ADSL ( asymmetrical digital subscriber line) technology, 37

AH (Authentication Header), 533535

AIM (Ascend Inverse Multiplexing) protocol, 4849

analog data, 2425

analog lines, 33

analog signals, 2425, 33

ANSI (American National Standards Institute), 10

AO/DI (Always On/Dynamic ISDN), 4953

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), 370, 374376, 463

APPC (Advanced Program-to-Program Communications), 13, 375, 466467

APPC/PC, 466467

AppleTalk protocols, 198202, 443, 444

Application layer, 7, 213272

application servers, 376379

applications

accounting management, 481

configuration management, 480

fault management, 480

mail-enabled, 397401

messaging-enabled , 405408

network, 345348

performance management, 481

print utilities, 368369

security management, 480

types of, 345348

workflow, 401404

ARCnet, 10, 105106

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), 159

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), 155

ASCII standard, 391392

ASDL and SDSL,5461

ASK (Amplitude-Shift Keying), 2728

ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface), 612

asset management, 508517

asynchronous signaling, 38, 127129

asynchronous transmissions, 128

ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), 7172, 115116, 124130, 131132

basics of, 127131

networks and, 129130

protocols, 130131

SONET and, 7677

switches and, 442

VLANs and, 446

ATM LAN Emulation (LANE), 446

attenuation, 2425, 58