The FTnP is a precise and uniform measure of the FTP assigned to a frame relay SVC or PVC.

The BVC, NSE and NS-VC may be associated with the TLLI and NSAPI.

A method and system provision a first virtual connection between a first device and a second device; and provision a second virtual connection between the first device and a third device.

Individual cells are then assigned a virtual connection by the headend controller.

The server terminates the virtual connection when all client requests have been completely fulfilled.

The virtual connection information associated with an incoming ATM cell is hash coded.

If the desired VC descriptor is stored in the cache, the CAM returns the associated address to the processing engine and the processing engine retrieves the VC descriptor from the cache memory.

Traffic from multiple sources using multiple protocols can be routed in a single ATM connection (e.g., virtual path, virtual connection).

Called a switched virtual connection in ATM terminology.

A virtual connection is sent from a source connected to the network (10) to a node (12) in the network (10) wherein the virtual connection comprises a series of data cells comprising a header portion and a data portion.

The processor creates a two-dimensional link list data structure for each VC.

The agent established communication with a remote server via a 'virtual' Internet connection that is imperceptible to the user such as a LAN or dial-up connection. the server sends the agent command files that govern the agent's behavior.

The electrical connection or integrated bridge design provides a virtual connection between the two VME backplanes (10, 14) that is transparent to the end user.

The queue comprises a first amount of buffer space, is dedicated for the duration of the circuit connection and, dedicated only to that virtual connection.

The network port is adapted to receive cells on at least one aggregated permanent virtual connection.