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VC

abbreviation for VICE-CHANCELLOR.

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Within the router, LANE sorts out virtual circuits and translates between frames and cells.

Network architectures and configuration choices

This means that ATM DSLAMs must transport each customer's traffic on separate permanent virtual circuits (PVCs), and each class of traffic for each customer on separate PVCs.

Implementing On-Demand Video Services Using DSL Technology

A "PVC" is a "Permanent Virtual Circuit." It sounds like an oxymoron: How can it be both permanent and virtual?

That article: Frame Relay

Virtual concepts have since been used in many architectures and designs including: Virtual Address Extension (VAX); Virtual Circuit (VC); Virtual Machine (VM); MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage and became OS/390 and now is z/OS); Virtual Memory System (VMS); Virtual Private Network (VPN); Virtual Reality (VR); Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM); Virtual Storage Extended (VSE; was DOS/VSE); Virtual Tape Subsystem (VTS); and Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM).

Storage Virtualization--Strategic For SANs

Features include support for over 32,000 conversations at up to OC-12 rates in a diverse multiprotocol environment and support for up to 248 active voice channels per virtual circuit.

Lucent launches network processor for multiprotocol gateways

Individual, full-time performance registers track problems at the line and frame relay levels -- even measuring private virtual circuit (PVC) Quality of Service parameters such as network transit delays, lost frames, and congestion." Reduce Downtime and Increase Throughput FramePath DSU/CSUs are important to NSPs and IS managers as they search for ways to reduce network downtime, increase throughput, and lower networking costs.

INACOM SELECTS LARSCOM'S FRAMEPATH 100 FOR NETWORK LINKING

* Some ATM equipment is virtual circuit (VC) based, some is virtual path (VP) based, and some handles both.

ATM concepts, architectures, and protocols

Specific statistics should include traffic use tables of top hosts and conversations, traffic usage by virtual circuit and host lists by application.

Demystify WAN link monitoring: the user's level of familiarity with WAN analyzers and the time spent with the system are important

A connected pair of Virtual Interfaces forms a bi-directional, memory-to-memory virtual circuit. Doorbells are used to notify a VI NIC that work (new Descriptor) has been placed on one of the Work Queues.

VI: Enabling High-Performance Data Access

Also, the general communication network methodologies of datagram versus virtual circuit models are presented.

Self-assessment procedure XVIII: a self-assessment procedure dealing with the fundamentals of data communications