An A-Z overview of terminology information.
A
ACL – Access Control Lists.
ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.
ANSI – American National Standards Institute.
AP – Access Point.
ARP – Address Resolution Protocol.
ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
ASRG – Anit-Spam Research Group.
AUX – Auxiliary.
B
BOOTP – Bootstrap Protocol.
BOYD –Bring Your Own Device.
C
CENELEC – European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.
CFRG – Crypto Forum Research Group.
CIO – Chief Information Officer.
CLI – Command-Line Interface.
CSA – Canadian Standards Association.
D
DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service
DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation.
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
DNS – Domain Name System.
DoS –Denial of Service.
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line.
DTE – Data Terminal Equipment.
E
EIA – Electronic Industries Alliance.
EIGRP – Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
EoC – Ethernet over Copper.
ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
F
FC – Furrule Connector.
FCC – Federal Communication Commission.
FDD – Fiber Distributed Data
FTTH – Fiber-to-the-home.
FTTP – Fiber-to-the-premises.
FTP – File Transfer Protocol.
G
Gb/s – Gigabits per second.
GUI – Graphical User Interface.
H
HFC – Hybrid Fiber Coax.
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
I
IAB – Internet Architecture Board.
IAMP – Internet Message Access Protocol.
IANA – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
IESG – Internet Engineering Steering Group.
IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force.
IM – Instant Messaging.
IMP – Instant Message Processor.
IOE – Internet Of Everything.
IOS – Internet Operating System.
IP – Internet Protocol.
IPS – Intrusion Prevention Systems.
IPTV – Internet Protocol Television.
IPX – Internetwork Packet Exchange.
IRTF – Internet Research Task Force.
ISDN – Intergrated Services Digital Network
ISO – The International Organization for Standardization.
ISOC – The Internet Society.
ISR – Intergrated Service Router.
ITU-T – International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications Standardization.
J
JSA/JIS – Japanese Standards Association.
K
Kbps – Kilobits per second – 1000 bits per second.
L
LAN – Local Area Network.
LC – Lucent Connection.
LEDs – Light Emitting Diodes.
M
MAN – Metropolitan Area Network.
Mb/s or Mbps – Megabits per second.
MMF – Multimode Fiber.
MOTD – Message Of The Day.
N
NAT – Network Address Translation.
NCP – Network Control Protocol.
NIC – Network Interface Card.
NVRAM – Non Volatile RAM.
O
OS – Operating System.
OSI – Open Systems Interconnection.
OSPF – Open Short Path First.
OTDR – Optical Time Domain Reflectometer.
P
P2PRG – Peer-to-Peer Research Group.
PARC – XENOX Palo Alto Research Center.
PDU – Protocol Data Unit.
POP – Post Office Protocol.
PPP – Point-to-Point Protocol.
Privileged EXEC –Privileged Executive mode.
Q
QoS – Quality of Service.
R
RAM – Random Access Memory.
RFC – Request for Commands.
RRG – Router Research Group.
S
SAN – Storage Area Network.
SC – Subscriber Connection.
SDSL – Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line.
SLIP – Serial Line Interface Protocol.
SMA – Sub Miniature A.
SMF – Single Mode Fiber.
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
SP – Service Provider.
SPX – Sequenced Packet Exchange.
SSH – Secure Shell Protocol.
ST – Straight Tips.
SVI – Switch Virtual Interface.
T
T1, T3, G1, etc – Dedicated lease lines.
TCP –Transmission Control Protocol.
TFTP – Trivial File Transfer Protocol.
TIA – Telecommunications Industry Alliance.
U
UDP – User Datagram Protocol.
User EXEC – User Executive mode.
V
VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network.
VPN – Virtual private Network.
W
WAN – Wide Area Network.
WAP – Wireless Access Point.
WG – Working Group.
WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access.
WISP – Wireless Internet Service Provider.
WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network.
WWW – World Wide Web
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