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Revision as of 23:06, 20 February 2013
- CTWUG owned high site
- A high site whose network equipment is entirely owned by CTWUG, and whose building owner has a working relationship with CTWUG granting access to the premises.
- Private high site
- A high site whose network equipment is partly or entirely owned by a private entity other than CTWUG.
- Backbone high site
- A high site with 1 or more backbone links to other Backbone high sites.
- Peer high site
- A high site where 100% of traffic is either originated or terminated by the peer in question.
- Point-to-Point link
- A network connection between only 2 network devices.
- Point-to-Multipoint link
- A network connection between 3 or more network devices, all sharing a single broadcast domain.
- Backbone link
- A Point-to-Point link between transit routers.
- Transit router
- A router with one or more network interfaces carrying traffic with IP addresses both originated and terminated by high sites other than that which hosts the router in question.
- Temporary down time
- A period of service disruption lasting no more than 12 hours.
- Long-term down time
- A period of service disruption lasting more than 12 hours.
- Working reverse DNS
- An IP address that can be resolved to a DNS name, and whose resulting DNS name resolves to the original IP address.