PLD, FPGA, CPU, PROCESSOR, LAN, ETHERNET, INTERNET, TCP/IPMPLD, CPLD, PGA, MEMORY, NIC, MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION UNIT, LATENCY, THROUGHPUT, OS, PAP, MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL, IPV4, IPV6, PHY Physical Layer PLD Programmable Logic Devices PNI Programmable Network Interface PP Protocol Processor PPP Programmable Protocol Processor QoS Quality of Service SAN Storage Area Network SAR Segmentation And Reassembly SSL Secure Socket Layer STCAM Simplified TCAM TCAM Ternary Content Addressable Memory TCP Transport Control Protocol TOE TCP Offload Engine TTL Time to Live UDP User Datagram Protocol ULP Upper Layer Protocol XAC eXtract And Compare XDR External Data Representation