Describes the width of the pipe into the customer. ’Bandwidth on demand’ refers to the ability to increase the bandwidth as needed.

  Time taken to deliver a packet from the source to the receiver. Includes propagation delay (the time taken for the electrical or optical signals to travel the distance between the two points) and pr [..]

  10 Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using 50 ohm thin coaxial cable. Also known as Thin Ethernet.

  Add/Drop Multiplexer. A device which inserts lower rate channel traffic [add] or removes the traffic [drop] from a higher rate aggregate channel in a synchronous transmission network (SDH or SONET). [..]

  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop. A family of technologies used to deliver high-rate digital data over the existing copper local loop. One-way rates of up to 6 Mbps downstream (from the central of [..]

  American National Standards Institute. www.ansi.org

  Seventh (top) layer in the OSI seven layer model. Layer Contains functions for particular applications services such as file transfer.

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Method of encoding characters digitally.

  Applications Service Provider. An organization which provides applications (word processing, accounting packages, e-business, etc) remotely over a network.

  Asynchronous Transfer Mode. ATM is a connection-oriented packet switching technique where all cells follow the same path through the network. Cells are made up of 48 bytes of data plus a 5 byte head [..]