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Network + Acronyms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |