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	Gbps
	Gigabits per second. The data world avoided using the term billion, which invariably is interpreted as one thousand million, or one million million, in favor of the term giga as one thousand million. Of course, some confusion between the telecommunications and data-storage worlds still exist as to whether a giga is really the value 10^9 or 2^30.

	AS
	Autonomous System. The term used to describe a collection of networks administered by a common network-management organization. The most common use of this term is in interdomain routing, where an Autonomous System is used to describe a self-connected set of networks that share a common external policy with respect to connectivity, or in other words, networks that generally are operated within the same administrative domain.

	ATM
	Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A data-framing and transmission architecture that features fixed length data cells of 53 bytes, consisting of a fixed format of a 5-byte cell header and a 48-byte cell payload. The small cell size is intended to support high-speed switching of multiple traffic types. The architecture is asynchronous, so there is no requirement for clock control of the switching and transmission.