Glossary
F
Forwarding engine control processor. A general purpose CPU on the forwarding processor primarily
FECP
responsible for managing the forwarding engine and its connection to I/O.
Full height shared port adapter
FH
Cisco Forwarding Information Base
FIB
Cisco component can be returned if damaged
Field-replaceable
Field-programmable devices are hardware devices implemented on router cards that support separate
FPD
software upgrades. A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of programmable memory device
that exists on some cards in Cisco routers. The term, FPD, in general describes any type of
programmable hardware device, including FPGAs
Used to upgrade FPD images. Whenever a Cisco IOS image is released that supports SPAs, a
FPD image package
companion SPA FPD image package is also released for that Cisco IOS software release.
Forwarding Path Data Structures
FPDS
Field-replaceable unit
FRU
G
Gigabit Ether Channel. This is the logical aggregation of gigabit ethernet links for resiliency and load
GEC
sharing as defined in the 802.3ad protocol.
Generic Route Encapsulation
GRE
H
Hierarchical Queuing Framework
HQF
H.248
A VoIP signaling protocol, usually used between a dumb device and a clever controller. It is similar in
functionality to Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). It is used to communicate between SBC and
DBE in a distributed SBC system.
Half height shared port adapters
HH
I
IO Control Processor. General purpose CPU managing the SPA's.
IOCP
Internetworking Operating System
IOS
Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Hardware Installation Guide
GL-4
OL-13208-11