Glossary

 

A
AVC
Application Visibility and Control

 

C
CFT
Common Flow Table
CP
Control Plane
CSR
Cloud Services Router

 

D
DP
Data plane

 

E
ESP
Embedded Services Processor

 

F
FNF
Flexible NetFlow
FW
Firewall

 

I
IP
Internet Protocol – Layer 3 Datagram Protocol. IP provides features for addressing, type-of-service specification, fragmentation and reassembly, and security. Defined in RFC 791 (IPv4) and RFC 2460 (IPv6).
IPC
Inter Process Communication
IPFIX
Internet Protocol Flow Information Export

 

L
L2
Datalink Layer (layer 2) of the ISO reference model
L3
Network Layer (layer 3) of the ISO reference model
L4
Transport Layer (layer 4) of the ISO reference model
L7
Application Layer (layer 7) of the ISO reference model

 

M
MACE
Measurement, Aggregation, and Correlation Engine
MMA
Metric Mediation Agent
MMON
Media Monitoring

 

N
NAT
Network Address Translation
NBAR/NBAR2
Network Based Application Recognition

 

P
PA
Performance Agent

 

R
RP
Route Processor
RSVP
Resource Reservation Protocol

 

S
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SSRC
Synchronization Source

 

T
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol—L4 Reliable Transport Mechanism. Connection-oriented transport layer protocol that provides reliable full-duplex data transmission. TCP is part of the TCP/IP protocol stack.
TSS
TCP Session State

 

U
UDP
User Datagram Protocol—L4 Transport Mechanism. Connectionless transport layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack. UDP is a simple protocol that exchanges datagrams without acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery, requiring that error processing and retransmission be handled by other protocols. UDP is defined in RFC 768.

 

V
VRF
Virtual Routing and Forwarding

 

W
WAAS
Wide Area Application Services
WAN
Wide Area Network
WCM
WAAS Central Manager

 

Z
ZBFW
Zone Based Firewall