Important Networking Acronyms
Networking Acronyms'
AAL ->ATM Adaptation Layer
AM ->Amplitude Modulation
AMI ->Alternate Mark Inversion
ANS ->American National Standard
ANSI ->American National Standard Institute
ARQ ->Automatic Repeat Request
ASCII ->American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASK ->Amplitude-Shift Keying
ATM ->Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B-ISDN ->Broadband ISDN
BOC ->Bell Operating Company
CBR ->Constant Bit Rate
CCITT ->International Consultative Committee on Telegraphy and Telephony
CIR ->Committed Information Rate
CRC ->Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSMAICD ->Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
DCE ->Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
DES ->Data Encryption Standard
DTE ->Data Terminal Equipment
FCC ->Federal Communications Commission
FCS ->Frame Check Sequence
FDDI ->Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM ->Frequency-Division Multiplexing
FSK ->Frequency-Shift Keying
FTP ->File Transfer Protocol
FM ->Frequency Modulation
HDLC ->High-Level Data Link Control
HTTP ->Hypertext Transfer Protocol
ICMP ->Internet Control Message Protocol
IDN ->Integrated Digital Network
IEEE ->Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF ->Internet Engineering Task Force
IP ->Internet Protocol
IPng ->Internet Protocol - Next Generation
ISDN ->Integrated Services Digital Network
IS0 ->International Organization for Standardization
ITU ->International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T ->ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
LAN ->Local Area Network
LAPB ->Link Access Procedure-Balanced
LAPD ->Link Access Procedure on the D Channel
LAPF ->Link Access Procedure for Frame Mode Bearer Services
LLC ->Logical Link Control
MAC ->Medium Access Control
MAN ->Metropolitan Area Network
MIME ->Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extension
NRZI ->Nonreturn to Zero, Inverted
NRZL ->Nonreturn to Zero, Level
NT ->Network Termination
OSI ->Open Systems Interconnection
PBX ->Private Branch Exchange
PCM ->Pulse-Code Modulation
PDU ->Protocol Data Unit
PSK ->Phase-Shift Keying
PTT ->Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone
PM ->Phase Modulation
QOS ->Quality of Service
QPSK ->Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RBOC ->Regional Bell Operating Company
RF ->Radio Frequency
RSA ->Rivest, Shamir, Adleman Algorithm
SAP ->Service Access Point
SDH ->Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDU ->Service Data Unit
SMTP ->Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP ->Simple Object Access Protocol
SONET ->Synchronous Optical Network
TCP ->Transmission Control Protocol
TDM ->Time-Division Multiplexing
TE ->Terminal Equipment
UNI ->User-Network Interface
URI ->Universal Resource Identifier
URL ->Uniform Resource Locator
VAN ->Value-Added Network
VBR ->Variable Bit Rate
VCC ->Virtual Channel Connection
VPC ->Virtual Path Connection
WWW ->World Wide Web