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REVIEW DRAFT—CISCO CONFIDENTIAL
Glossary
GL-5
Cisco Prime Network 4.0 User Guide
OL-29343-01
Q
QoS
Quality of services is the technique of prioritizing traffic flows and specifying preferences for
forwarding packets with higher priority.
S
SAN
A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level
data storage.
SBC
Session Border Controllers control and manage real-time multimedia traffic flows between IP
network borders, handling signaling, and media.
SCTP
Stream Control Transmission Protocol is a message oriented, reliable transport protocol with direct
support for multihoming that runs on top of Internet Protocol (IPv4/IPv6).
SGSN
Serving GPRS Support Node is a very important component of the GPRS network. It is responsible
for handling the delivery of data from and to the mobile nodes within its geographical service area,
such as packet routing and transfer, mobility management, and authentication of users
static links
Links that are created at the VNE level but are not updated. These links do not perform any
configuration or provisioning on a device or in the network.
subscriber
The party receiving a service.
subscriber access
points
The access interfaces that are named based on the parent interface.
T
ticket
Object that represents an attention-worthy root alarm whose type is marked in the registry as
“ticketable.” A ticket has the same type as the root alarm it represents, and it has a status, which
represents the entire correlation tree. A ticket can be acknowledged by the user. Both Prime Network
Vision and Cisco Prime Network Events display tickets and allow you to navigate down to view the
consequent alarm hierarchy. From an operator’s point of view, a fault is always represented by a
complete ticket. Operations such as Acknowledge or Remove are applied to the whole ticket.
U
unassociated bridges
Switching Entities that do not belong to a flow domain, such as a network VLAN, a VPLS instance,
or a network pseudowire.
V
virtual cloud or
unmanaged network
Network, or part of a network, that is not managed by Prime Network. An unmanaged network is often
represented in network diagrams by a cloud symbol or image.