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E
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
Electromagnetic radiation released from an
electronic device that disrupts the operation or
performance of another device.
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
The discharge of stored static electricity that
can damage electronic equipment and impair
electrical circuitry that results in complete or
intermittent failures.
emulated LAN (ELAN)
A virtual LAN (VLAN) for Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM).
encoder-decoder (CODEC)
Compresses and decompresses audio and video
data.
equal cost multipath (ECMP)
Distributes routing traffic among multiple
equal-cost routes.
Ethernet switches (ES)
A family of frame-based computer networking
technologies for local area networks (LANs).
Ethernet Services Module (ESM)
The ESM serves as the demarcation point
between the enterprise customer and the service
provider and utilizes an Ethernet user-to-network
interface (UNI).
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600
Terminology
NN46205-102 01.01 Standard
30 May 2008
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