Specifications

Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 901 Series Security Target
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List of Acronyms
The following acronyms and abbreviations are common and may be used in this Security Target:
Table 1: Acronyms
Acronyms/Abbreviations
Definition
AAA
Administration, Authorization, and Accounting
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol. An inter-domain routing protocol designed to provide
loop-free routing between separate routing domains that contain independent routing
policies (autonomous systems)
Bridge Domain
A bridge domain is a local broadcast domain that is VLAN-ID-agnostic.
BSC
Base Station Controllers
BTS
Base Transceiver Stations
CC
Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation
CE
Carrier Ethernet
CEM
Common Evaluation Methodology for Information Technology Security
CLI
Command Line Interface
CM
Configuration Management
DH
Diffie-Hellman
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
EAL
Evaluation Assurance Level
EFP
Ethernet Flow Point. An EFP service instance is a logical interface that connects a
bridge domain to a physical port or to an EtherChannel group in a router.
ENI
Enhanced Network Interfaces (ENIs). An ENI is typically a user-network facing
interface and has the same default configuration and functionality as UNIs, but can
be configured to support protocol control packets for Cisco Discovery Protocol
(CDP), Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP), EtherChannel Link Aggregation Control
Protocol (LACP).
EtherChannel
An EtherChannel bundles individual Ethernet links into a single logical link that
provides the aggregate bandwidth of up to eight physical links.
EVC
Ethernet Virtual Connection., a conceptual service pipe within the service provider
network.
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standard
GE
Gigabit Ethernet port
HA
High Availability (device or component failover)
HMAC
Hashed Message Authentication Code
HTTPS
Hyper-Text Transport Protocol Secure
IS-IS
Intermediate System to Intermediate System. An Open System Interconnection
(OSI) protocol that specifies how routers communicate with routers in different
domains.
IT
Information Technology
LAN
Local Area Network
MEF
Metro-Ethernet Forum. A MEF defines Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) as an
association between two or more user network interfaces that identifies a point-to-
point or multipoint-to-multipoint path within the service provider network.
MSC
Mobile Switching Center
NDPP
Network Device Protection Profile
NNI
Network Node Interfaces (NNIs) to connect to the service provider network
NTP
Network Time Protocol
OS
Operating System
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First. An interior gateway protocol (routes within a single