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Network + Acronyms
Question | Answer |
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CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance |
CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
S/MIME | Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
IPX /SPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange / Sequence Packet Exchange |
ACL | Access Control List |
AD | Active Directory |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
AMI | Alternate Mark Inversion |
AM | Amplitude Modulation |
AV | AntiVirus |
AFP | Apple File Protocol |
ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
AH | Authentication Header |
APIPA | Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing |
BDC | Backup Domain Controller |
BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
BERT | Bit-Error Rate Test |
BootP | Boot Protocol /Bootstrap Protocol |
BNC | British Naval Connector / Bayonet Niell-Concelman |
CDFS | CD-ROM File System |
CNAME | Canonical Name |
CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
CRAM-MD5 | Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism Message Digest 5 |
CSU | Channel Service Unit |
CSNW | Client Services for NetWare |
CIFI | Common Internet File System |
DLC | Data Link Control |
DSU | Data Service Unit |
DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
DC | Domain Controller |
DNS | Domain Name Service / Domain Name Server / Domain Name System |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
EMI | ElectroMagnetic Interference |
EFS | Encrypting File System |
EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
FAT | File Allocation Table |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
FDM | Frequency Division Multiplexing |
FHSS | Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum |
FM | Frequency Modulation |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name / Fully Qualified Distunguished Name |
GSNW | Gateway Services for NetWare |
Gbps | Giga bits per second |
GBIC | Gigabit Interface Converter |
GPO | Group Policy Object |
Hz | Hertz |
HDLC | High-Level Data Link Control |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
ICA | Independent Computer Architecture |
ISM | Industrial, Scientific, and Medical |
ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
IT | Information Technology |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
ICS | Internet Connection Sharing |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
IGMP | Internet Group Multicast Protocol |
IIS | Internet Information Server |
IKE | Internet Key Exchange |
IMAP4 | Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPSec | Internet Protocol Security |
IPv4 | Internet Protocol version 4 |
IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
Kbps | Kilobits per second |
L2F | Layer 2 Forwarding |
L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
LED | Light Emitting Diode |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LPD | Line Printer Daemon |
LPR | Line Printer Remote |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LC | Local Connector |
LLC | Logical Link Control |
MX | Mail Exchanger |
MIB | Management Information Base |
MT-RJ | Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack |
MAC | Media Access Control / Medium Access Control |
MDI | Media Dependent Interface |
MDIX | Media Dependent Interface Crossover |
Mbps | Megabits per second |
MBps | Megabytes per second |
MS-CHAP | Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
MMF | MultiMode Fiber |
MSAU | MultiStation Access Unit |
MAU | Multistation Access Unit |
NCP | NetWare Core Protocol |
NDS | NetWare Directory Services |
NLM | NetWare Loadable Modulue |
NAT | Network Address Translation |
NetBIOS | Network Basic Input / Output System |
NetBEUI | Network Basic Inuput / Output Extended User Interface |
NFS | Network File System |
NIS | Network Information Service |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NT | New Technology |
NTFS | New Technology File System |
OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnect |
OS | Operating Systems |
OCx | Optical Carrier |
OTDR | Optical Time Domain Reflectometer |
OU | Organizational Unit |
PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit |
PC | Personal Computer |
PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
POTS | Plain Old Telephone System |
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
PPPoE | Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet |
PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
POP3 | Post Office Protocol version 3 |
PDC | Primary Domain Controller |
PRI | Primary Rate Interface |
PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
QoS | Quality of Service |
RFI | Radio Frequency Interface |
RG | Radio Grade |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks / Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
RJ | Registered Jack |
RAS | Remote Access Service |
RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol |
RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
RSA | Rivest, Shamir, Adelman |
SCP | Secure Copy Protocol |
SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol |
SSH | Secure Shell |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
SPX | Sequence Packet Exchange |
SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
SMB | Server Message Block |
SSID | Service Set Identifier |
STP | Shielded Twisted Pair |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SMF | Single Mode Fiber |
SFF | Small Form Factor |
SOHO | Small Office / Home Office |
SC | Standard Connector / Subscribor Connector |
SPS | Standby Power Supply |
SOA | Start of Authority |
SMS | Storage Management Services |
ST | Straight Tip |
SONET | Synchronous Optical Network |
T1 | T-Carrier Level 1 |
TA | Terminal Adaptor |
TCL | Terminal Control Language |
TDR | Time Domain Reflectometer |
TTL | Time to Live |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
UNC | Universal Naming Convention |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
WINS | Window Internet Name Service |
WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
WAP | Wireless Application Protocol / Wired Access Point |
www | World Wide Web |
Zeroconf | Zero Configuration |
dB | decibels |
nm | nanometer |
tcsh | turbo C shell |