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G&A

General and Administrative

GARP

Generic Attribute Registration Protocol

gateway

The original Internet term for what is now called a router or more precisely, an IP router. In modern usage, the term "gateway" refers to a system which does translation from some native format to another. Examples include Kinetics boxes, which translate AppleTalk to/from EtherTalk. See router.

GAU

General Accounting Unit

GBIC

GigaBit Interface Converter

GD

General Deployment (Cisco)

GDA

Group Destination Addresses

GDP

Gateway Discovery Protocol

GEC

Gigabit EtherChannel

GEIP

Gigabit Ethernet Interface Processor (Cisco)

GeoMax

A dense wave division multiplexing service offered by Qwest. See http://www.qwest.com/wholesale/pcat/pltgeomax.html

GFTD

Gone For The Day

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GIG

A Teragrid term for person who in charge of the project: Tony Rimovsky

GIN

Gigabit Interface Node (NETS' Juniper router)

GLERL

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

GLIF

Global Lambda Integrated Facility

GLOBE

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

GLORIAD

Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development

GMRP

GARP Multicast Registration Protocol

GNOME

GNU Network Object Model Environment

GNU

GNU's Not Unix

GPS/MET

Global Positioning Systems/Meteorology

GSN

Gigabyte Satellite Network. The ACTS Gigabit Satellite Network is a system of five High Data-Rate (HDR) ground stations, designed to be used with the ACTS. The purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of a space-based high data-rate communications network.

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation

GSR

Gigabit Switch Router, a Cisco product line

GSS

General Support Services (State of Colorado)

GST

Global Positioning Systems Science and Technology Program

GTLD

Generic Top Level Domain

GTRN

Global Terabit Research Network

GTS

Generic Traffic Shaping

GUP

Gatekeeper Update Protocol

guest hosts and networks

See the CSAC Network security definitions

GVRP

GARP VLAN Registration Protocol

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