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Chapter 8 Acronyms
Computer Repair and Maintenance Chapter 8 Acronyms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| TSP | Telecommunication Service Provider |
| bps | Bits Per Second |
| kbps | Kilobites Per Second |
| Mbps | Megabites Per Second |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| APIPA | Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing |
| IPX/SPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packaged Exchange |
| NetBEUI | NetBIOS Extended User Interface |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| SSH | Secure Socket Host |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| Ping | Packet Internet groper |
| UTP | Unshielded twisted-pair |
| STP | Shielded Twisted-pair |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interface |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interface |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| MSAU | Multistation Access Unit |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IRTF | Internet Research Task Force |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnect |
| TCP | Transmisson Contol Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| PDU | Protocol Data Units |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| DUN | Dial Up Network |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
| AT | Attention characters |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone System |
| BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
| PRI | Primary Rate Interface |
| BISDN | Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ADSL | Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
| HDSL | High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDSL | Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
| VDSL | Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| IDSL | ISDN Digital Subscriber Line |
| PLN | Power Line Networking |
| PLT | Power Line Telecoms |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| VoIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |