ACL

Access Control List

ASN

Autonomous System Number

ASNet

Taiwanese NREN.

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

CANARIE

Canadian NREN. See: http://www.canarie.ca/

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

DANTE

Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe; DANTE's purpose is to plan, build and operate pan-European research networks. See: http://www.dante.net/

DFN

German NREN. See: http://www.dfn.de/

ESnet

The Energy Sciences Network. See: http://www.es.net/

GARR

Italian NREN. See: http://www.garr.it/

GÉANT2

The new European hybrid network interconnecting the NRENs. See: http://www.geant2.net/

IGP

Interior Gateway Protocol

L3

ISO-OSI Layer 3, usually referred to routed IP traffic

LHC

Large Hadron Collider. See: http://lhc-new-homepage.web.cern.ch/lhc-new-homepage/

LHC Network

Network connecting T0 and T1s for the LHC experiments

LHC network traffic

Data exchanged among data centres over the LHC network

LHC-OPN

Large Hadron Collider – Optical Private Network

MoU

Memorandum of Understanding

NOC

Network Operations Centre

NORDUnet

Nordic research and education network. See: http://www.nordu.net/

NetherLight

Open optical exchange in Amsterdam. See: http://www.netherlight.net/

NREN

National Research and Education Network (this term is used throughout this document as a generic term also including a National Research Network such as ESnet)  

RedIRIS

Spanish NREN. See: http://www.rediris.es/

RENATER

French NREN. See: http://www.renater.fr/

RIR

Regional Internet Registry

SURFnet

Dutch NREN. See: http://www.surfnet.nl/

T0

Tier 0 site

T1

Tier 1 site

T2

Tier 2 site

UKERNA

UK NREN. See: http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/