Glossary

A high-speed Ethernet rate used in data center spine-leaf networks and optical interconnects.

Active Optical Cable. A pre-terminated optical cable assembly with embedded transceivers for short-reach high-speed links.

Border Gateway Protocol. A routing protocol often used in large data centers, internet edge, and EVPN-VXLAN fabrics.

Direct Attach Copper. A passive or active copper cable assembly used for short-distance switch-to-switch or switch-to-server links.

Digital Optical Monitoring. Real-time diagnostics for optical power, temperature, voltage, and bias current.

An overlay architecture combining EVPN control plane with VXLAN encapsulation for scalable Layer 2 and Layer 3 fabrics.

The signal loss introduced by a connector, splice, cable, or component in a fiber link.

A compact fiber connector commonly used for SFP, SFP+, SFP28, and many high-density patching systems.

Multi-chassis link aggregation. A design that lets two switches appear as one logical aggregation endpoint.

Multi-fiber push-on connector family used in high-density trunk cabling and parallel optics.

Single-mode optical fiber type used for longer reach links, often with 1310 nm or 1550 nm optics.

Power over Ethernet. Technology that carries power and data over Ethernet cabling for devices such as APs and cameras.

A compact 100G optical transceiver form factor based on four 25G electrical lanes.

Remote Direct Memory Access. A low-latency data transfer method used in storage, HPC, and AI cluster networks.

RDMA over Converged Ethernet. Enables RDMA traffic over Ethernet fabrics for high-performance workloads.

A 10G small form-factor pluggable transceiver widely used for access, aggregation, and server links.

A two-tier data center topology that improves east-west bandwidth and predictable latency.

Wavelength Division Multiplexing. A technique that carries multiple optical channels over one fiber pair or strand.