User's Manual Part 4

Release8
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Issue2,November2007 Draft5forRegulatoryReview 525
SM
Customer premises equipment (CPE) device that extends network or
Internet services by communication with an Access Point Module or an
Access Point cluster.
SMMIB
Management Information Base file that defines objects that are
specific to the Subscriber Module or Backhaul timing slave. See also
Management Information Base.
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol, defined in RFC 1157. A
standard that is used for communications between a program (agent)
in the network and a network management station (monitor). See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1157.html
.
SNMPTrap
Capture of information that informs the network monitor through
Simple Network Management Protocol of a monitored occurrence in
the module.
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The protocol that the
Northbound Interface in Prizm uses to support integration of Prizm
with an operations support systems (OSS) such as a customer
relationship management (CRM), billing, or provisioning system
SSE
Bandwidth and Authentication Manager (BAM) interface to the SQL
server. Unique sets of commands are available on this interface to
manage the BAM SQL database and user access. Distinguished from
Engine. See also Engine.
StandardOperating
Margin
See Fade Margin.
StaticIPAddress
Assignment
Assignment of Internet Protocol address that can be changed only
manually. Thus static IP address assignment requires more
configuration time and consumes more of the available IP addresses
than DHCP address assignment does. RFC 2050 provides guidelines
for the static allocation of IP addresses. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2050.html
. See also DHCP.
su‐
A command that opens a Linux
®
operating system session for the user
root.
SubnetMask
32-bit binary number that filters an IP address to reveal what part
identifies the network and what part identifies the host. The number of
subnet mask bits that are set to 1 indicates how many leading bits of
the IP address identify the network. The number of subnet mask bits
that are set 0 indicate how many trailing bits of the IP address identify
the host.
SubscriberModule
Customer premises equipment (CPE) device that extends network or
Internet services by communication with an Access Point Module or an
Access Point cluster.
SustainedDataRate
Preset rate limit of data transfer.