Glossary of Terms
- 10GBASE-CX4: 10 Gigabit over coaxial cable, IEEE Std 802.3ak™- 2004
- 10GBASE-LRM: 10 Gbps over MMF using 1310 nm wavelength optics
- 10GBASE-R: 64B/66B coding scheme for serial data transmission at 10.3125 Gbps
- 10GBASE-T: 10 Gbps over 4-pair, twisted-pair balanced copper cabling
- 10GBASE-W: 10GBASE-R with a SONET/SDH mapper (aka WIS)
- 10GbE: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- 10GEA: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
- 10G EPON: 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
- 64B/66B: 64 binary symbols (bits) are scrambled and appended with a sync binary symbol and a control binary symbol
- CWDM: Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- DAS: Direct Attach Storage
- DMD: Differential Mode Delay
- DSQ128: Double Square constellation, PAM16 constellation with half the code points removed
- DTE: Data Terminal Equipment
- DWDM: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- EDC: Electronic Dispersion Compensation
- EFM: Ethernet in the First Mile
- FCoE: Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- GMII: Gigabit Media Independent Interface
- HSSG: Higher Speed Ethernet Study Group
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IEEE-SA: IEEE Standards Association
- IPG: Inter-Packet Gap
- iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
- ISP: Internet Service Provider
- LAN: Local Area Network
- LRM: LR Optics for Multi-Mode Fiber
- LTE: Line Terminating Equipment
- MAC: Media Access Control
- MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
- MDI: Medium Dependent Interface
- MMF: Multimode Fiber
- NAS: Network Attached Storage
- PAR: Project Approval Request
- PAM: Pulse Amplitude Modulation
- PCS: Physical Coding Sublayer
- PHY: Physical Layer Device
- PMA: Physical Medium Attachment
- PMD: Physical Medium Dependent
- PoE: Power over Ethernet
- PoE+: Power over Ethernet extended to 30W
- POP: Point of Presence
- QSFP: Quad small form-factor pluggable
- RS: Reconciliation Sublayer
- SAN: Storage Area Network
- SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
- SERDES: Serializer-Deserializer
- SFP+: Small Form factor Pluggable for 10 Gigabit optics
- SMF: Single-Mode Fiber
- SONET: Synchronous Optical NETwork
- SPE: SONET/SDH Payload Envelope
- SSP: Storage Service Provider
- UNH-IOL: University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab
- WAN: Wide Area Network
- WIS: WAN Interface Sublayer
- WWDM: Wide Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- XAUI: 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface
- XENPAK, X2, XPAK, XFP: 10 Gigabit optical module form factors
- XFI: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Serial Interface
- XGMII: 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface
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