The name of a type of Bell system serial line, usually used to connect fairly distant sites. Provides1.544 megabits-per-second bandwidth.
T3
The name of a type of Bell system serial line, usually used to connect fairly distant sites. Provides 44.736 megabits-per-second bandwidth.
TAC
Technical Assistance Center (Cisco); Terminal Access Controller
TACACS
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System. A security system developed by the DDN community to control access to it's Terminal Access Controllers, which are Internet hosts that accept dial-up access. Cisco adopted TACACS as its security system to control access to Cisco routers.
TAG
Technical Advisory Group
TAGS
Text And Graphics System, located in Mesa Lab room 31B.
TAP
Transportation Alternatives Program, a UCAR program which runs shuttle vans that cycle between the Foothills and Mesa labs.
TAPI
Telephone Application Programming Interface
TCAM
Ternary Content Addressable Memory, a kind of fast-lookup memory found in some Cisco devices
TCAM
Technical Customer Account Manager, a term used by Level 3 to describe its techies
Transmission Control Protocol, described in RFC 793. The major transport protocol in the Internet suite of protocols providing reliable, connection-oriented, full-duplex streams. Uses IP for delivery.
TD
Traffic Director (Cisco)
TDA
Temporal Data Authority
TDM
Time-Division Multiplexing
TDP
Tag Distribution Protocol, an old Cisco protocol for distributing labels in an MPLS network.
TDP was standardized and became Label Distribution Protocol (LDP).
TDR
See Time Domain Reflectometer.
TE
Traffic Engineering
telnet
The virtual terminal protocol in the Internet suite of protocols described in RFC 854. Allows users of one host to log into a remote host and interact as normal terminal users of that host.
Terabeam
Company that makes wireless radios. As of 2004-09-13, NETS uses them to connect CG and FL on VLAN 312 between cg2-ml-c1-gs port 1/1 and fl2-3095-c1-gs port 1/1. The Terabeams do not have SNMP management.
terminal server
A small, specialized computer that connects many terminals (serial lines) to a LAN. Terminal servers typically use the TELNET or LAT protocols to allow a terminal user to connect to hosts on the network.
terminator
The end of an Ethernet segment.
TerraPatch
Terra Patch or TerraPatch(?) is a reference to the area of the hand hole on Stout Street owned by the Auraria Campus that is the point-of-demarcation between the campus and ICG. The City has an above ground patch panel in the same area and they coined the term. The Terracentre was the building where fiber was installed into the building by both the City and Campus. See http://newmedia.colorado.edu/silverandgold/messages/326.html.
TFT
Thin-Film Transistor
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol. A simplified version of FTP, this protocol is often used to download software from a Unix machine to a network device such as a Cisco router. The tftp program on Unix systems implements TFTP.
three-way-handshake
The process whereby two protocol entities synchronize during connection establishment.
THORPEX
THe Observing system Research and Predictability EXperiment, a program of the
WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) to accelerate the improvements
in the accuracy of 1-day to 2 week high-impact weather forecasts
for the benefit of humanity. THORPEX includes TIGGE, which stores data at NCAR.
TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association
TIGGE
THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble, a key component of THORPEX. SEE THORPEX. TIGGE stores data at NCAR.
TIFF
Tag Image File Format
Time Domain Reflectometer
A device used to detect breaks in network wiring. It sends a signal down a wire, times how long the electrical echo takes to return, and displays the distance to a break.
TISO
Terrestrial Impact of Solar Output
TLD
Top Level Domain
TLS
Transparent (or Transport) LAN service
TLV
Type Length Value
TNP
The Nature Place (CHECO conferences are typically held there)
TONIC
The Other Node In Case (NETS' Juniper router)
ToS
Type of Service
TPID
Tag Protocol IDentifier
transceiver
Transmitter-receiver. The physical device that connects a host interface to a local area network, such as Ethernet. Ethernet transceivers contain electronics that apply signals to the cable and sense collisions.
TRAP
Telephone Record And Playback
TS
Technical Specification
TSA
Time Stamping Authority
TSP
TAPI Service Provider
TSSSS
Technical Support and Small Systems Section
Tsunami
Model name for the Western Multiplex wireless bridges that we once used to connect ML and FL.
