General Networking Acronyms and Abbreviation Used in Software Development
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AHS- Abstract Handle Specification ASN.1- Abstract Syntax Notation One AUP- Acceptable Use Policy ACL- Access Control List ACK- acknowledgment AMP- Active Monitor Present ADPCM- Adaptive Pulse Code Modulation ARP- Address Resolution Protocol ADMD- Administration Management Domain AD- Administrative Domain ACF- Advanced Communications Facility APPC- Advanced Program-to-Program Communication ARPANET- Advanced Research Projects Agency Network ANSI- American National Standards Institute ASCII- American Standard Code for Information Interchange AM- Amplitude Modulation AARP- AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol ADSP- AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol AEP- AppleTalk Echo Protocol AFI- AppleTalk Filing Interface AFP- AppleTalk Filing Protocol ARAP- AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol ASP- AppleTalk Session Protocol ATP- AppleTalk Transaction Protocol AES- Application Environment Specification API- Application Program Interface AOW- Asia and Oceania Workshop ACSE- Association Control Service Element ABM- Asynchronous Balanced Mode ATM- Asynchronous Transfer Mode AFI- Authority and Format Identifier ARQ- Automatic Repeat Request ARS- Automatic Route Selection AS- Autonomous System AUI- Auxiliary Unit Interface
BER- Basic Encoding Rules B-ISDN- Basic-rate ISDN BTAM- Basic Telecommunications Access Method BNC- Bayonet Nut Connector BIND- Berkeley Internet Name Domain BSD- Berkeley Software Distribution BCD- Binary Coded Decimal BSC- Binary Synchronous Communications BOF- Birds Of a Feather BGP- Border Gateway Protocol BBS- Bulletin Board System
CWIS- Campus Wide Information System CD- Carrier Detect CSMA/CA- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD- Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection CNode- Catalog Node CRT- Cathode Ray Tube CO- Central Office CHAP- Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol CSU- Channel Service Unit CSDC- Circuit-Switched Digital Capability CIDR- Classless Inter-Domain Routing CTS- Clear To Send CNIDR- Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval CMOT- CMIP Over TCP CNI- Coalition for Networked Information coax- coaxial cable CTERM- Command Terminal Protocol CIX- Commercial Information Exchange COTS- Commercial Off-The-Shelf CCR- Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery CCIS- Common Channel Interoffice Signaling CMIP- Common Management Information Protocol CMIS- Common Management Information Services CATV- Community Antenna Television CERT- Computer Emergency Response Team CIT- Computer Integrated Telephony CONS- Connection Oriented Network Service CLNP- Connectionless Network Protocol CBX- Computerized Branch Exchange CLTP- Connectionless Transport Protocol CAM- Content Addressable Memory CVSD- Continuous Variable-Slope Delta modulation COSINE- Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe UTC- Coordinated Universal Time CCIRN- Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks CNRI- Corporation for National Research Initiatives COS- Corporation for Open Systems CREN- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking CICS- Customer Information Control System CPE- Customer Premises Equipment CRC- Cyclic Redundancy Check
DCE- Data Circuit-terminating Equipment DEK- Data Encryption Key DES- Data Encryption Standard DNIC- Data Network Identification Code DSU- Data Service Unit DSR- Data Set Ready DTE- Data Terminal Equipment DTR- Data Terminal Ready DDP- Datagram Delivery Protocol DDS- Dataphone Digital Service DARPA- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DDN- Defense Data Network DISA- Defense Information Systems Agency DACS- Digital Access and Cross-connect System DCM- Digital Circuit Multiplication DELNI- Digital Local Network Interconnect DNA- Digital Network Architecture DTS- Digital Termination Systems DMA- Direct Memory Access DAP- Directory Access Protocol DSA- Directory System Agent DUA- Directory User Agent DOS- Disk Operating System DV algorithm- Distance-Vector algorithm DCE- Distributed Computing Environment DDP- Distributed Data Processing DIA/DCA- Document Interchange Architecture/Document Content Architecture DNS- Domain Name System DIS- Draft International Standard DTMF- Dual Tone Multi-Frequency DAR- Dynamic Adaptive Routing DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DAS- Dynamically Assigned Socket
EMI- Electromagnetic Interference EDI- Electronic Data Interchange EFF- Electronic Frontier Foundation EIA- Electronic Industries Association ESS- Electronic Switching System EOA- End Of Address EOB- End Of Block EOM- End Of Message ETX- End of Text EOT- End Of Transmission ES- End System ES-IS- End System to Intermediate System EID- Endpoint Identifier EMA- Enterprise Management Architecture ELAP- EtherTalk Link Access Protocol EARN- European Academic and Research Network ECMA- European Computer Manufacturers Association EWOS- European Workshop for Open Systems XO transaction- Exactly-Once transaction XID- Exchange Identification EBCDIC- Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ESF- Extended Superframe Format EGP- Exterior Gateway Protocol XDR- External Data Representation EHF- Extremely High Frequency ELF- Extremely Low Frequency
FCC- Federal Communications Commission FIX- Federal Information Exchange FIPS- Federal Information Processing Standards FNC- Federal Networking Council FDDI- Fiber Distributed Data Interface FTAM- File Transfer, Access, and Management FTP- File Transfer Protocol FIFO- First In First Out FEC- Forward Error Correction FLEA- Four Letter Extended Acronym FCS- Frame Check Sequence FDM- Frequency Division Multiplexing FM- Frequency Modulation FDX- Full Duplex FQDN- Fully Qualified Domain Name
GAP- Gateway Access Protocol GOSIP- Government OSI Profile GIF- Graphical Interchange Format GMT- Greenwich Mean Time GUS- Guide to the Use of Standards
HDX- Half Duplex hex- hexadecimal HFS- Hierarchical File System HF- High Frequency HDLC- High-level Data Link Control HPCC- High Performance Computing and Communications HIPPI- High Performance Parallel Interface HASP- Houston Automatic Spooling Program
IEEE- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IC- Integrated Circuit ISDN- Integrated Services Digital Network IVDT- Integrated Voice/Data Terminal IDRP- Inter-Domain Routing Protocol IDPR- Inter-Domain Policy Routing IINREN- Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network IEC- Interexchange Carrier IDU- Interface Data Unit IMP- Interface Message Processor IGP- Interior Gateway Protocol IS- Intermediate System IS-IS- Intermediate System to Intermediate System IONL- Internal Organization of the Network Layer ISO- International Organization for Standardization IS- International Standard ITU- International Telecommunications Union ITU-TSS- International Telecommunications Union--- Telecommunications Standards Sector ITB- International Time Bureau IAB- Internet Architecture Board IANA- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol IESG- Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF- Internet Engineering Task Force IEN- Internet Experiment Note IGRP- Internet Gateway Routing Protocol IGMP- Internet Group Multicast Protocol IMAP- Internet Message Access Protocol IMR- Internet Monthly Report IP- Internet Protocol IPCP- Internet Protocol Control Protocol IR- Internet Registry IRC- Internet Relay Chat IRSG- Internet Research Steering Group IRTF- Internet Research Task Force ISOC- Internet Society IPX- Internetwork Packet Exchange INTAP- Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing ISODE- ISO Development Environment
Job Control Language JCL-
LIFO- Last In First Out LSB- Least Significant Bit/Byte LED- Light Emitting Diode LAP- Link Access Procedure LAP-B- Link Access Procedure-Balanced LAP-D- Link Access Procedure-D channel LCP- Link Control Protocol LS-algorithm- Link-State algorithm LATA- Local Access and Transport Area LAN- Local Area Network LAT- Local Area Transport LLAP- LocalTalk Link Access Protocol LLC- Logical Link Control LU- Logical Unit LEN- Low Entry Networking LF- Low Frequency
MICR- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition MX Record- Mail Exchange Record MIB- Management Information Base MAP- Manufacturing Automation Protocol MPL- Maximum Packet Lifetime MTU- Maximum Transmission Unit MTBF- Mean Time Between Failures MTTR- Mean Time To Repair MAC- Media Access Control MF- Medium Frequency MHS- Message Handling System MTA- Message Transfer Agent MTS- Message Telephone Service MAN- Metropolitan Area Network MNP- Microcom Networking Protocol MIF- Minimum Internetworking Functionality MSB- Most Significant Bit/Byte MVS- Multiple Virtual Systems MIME- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MAU- Multistation Access Unit MUD- Multi-User Dungeon MIDI- Musical Instrument Digital Interface
NBP- Name Binding Protocol NCTA- National Cable Television Association NECA- National Exchange Carrier Association NII- National Information Infrastructure NIST- National Institute of Standards and Technology NPTN- National Public Telecomputing Network NREN- National Research and Education Network NSF- National Science Foundation NTIA- National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTSC- National Television System Committee signal NAK- Negative Acknowledgment NAU- Network Addressable Unit NetBIOS- Network Basic Input Output System NCTE- Network Channel Terminating Equipment NCCF- Network Communications Control Facility NCP- Network Control Program NDIS- Network Device Interface Specification NFS- Network File System NIC- Network Information Center NIS- Network Information Services NMS- Network Management System NNTP- Network News Transfer Protocol NOS- Network Operating System NOC- Network Operations Center NSAP- Network Service Access Point NTO- Network Terminal Option NTP- Network Time Protocol NVE- Network Visible Entity NSS- Nodal Switching System NRZ- Non-return to Zero NAPLPS- North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
ODA- Office Document Architecture OCLC- On-line Computer Library Catalog ODI- Open Datalink Interface ONC- Open Network Computing OSPF- Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol OSF- Open Software Foundation OSI- Open Systems Interconnection OS- Operating System OCR- Optical Character Recognition OEM- Original Equipment Manufacturer
PAD- Packet Assembler/Disassembler PAP- Packet Authentication Protocol PDI- Packet Driver Interface PING- Packet Internet Groper PSN- Packet Switch Node PARC- Palo Alto Research Center PIU- Path Information Unit PVC- Permanent Virtual Circuit PCD- Personal Communication Device PCS- Personal Communication Service PC- Personal Computer PCMCIA- Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association PM- Phase Modulation PU- Physical Unit POP- Point Of Presence PPP- Point-to-Point Protocol PIN- Positive, Intrinsic, Negative POP- Post Office Protocol PTT- Postal Telegraph and Telephone PS- Post Script P-ISDN- Primary-rate ISDN PAP- Printer Access Protocol PEM- Privacy Enhanced Mail PABX- Private Automatic Branch Exchange PBX- Private Branch Exchange PRMD- Private Management Domain POSI- Promoting Conference for OSI PCI- Protocol Control Information PDU- Protocol Data Unit PDN- Public Data Network PSTN- Public Switched Telephone Network PUC- Public Utilities Commission PCM- Pulse Code Modulation PDM- Pulse Duration Modulation PWM- Pulse Width Modulation
QOS- Quality Of Service
RF- Radio Frequency RFI- Radio Frequency Interference RTFM- Read the F*cking Manual RO- Receive Only RGB- Red, Green, Blue RBOC- Regional Bell Operating Company RDB- Relational Database RTSE- Reliable Transfer Service Element RFS- Remote File System RJE- Remote Job Entry ROSE- Remote Operations Service Element RPC- Remote Procedure Call RFC- Request For Comments RTS- Request To Send RZ- Return to Zero RARP- Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RVI- Reverse Interrupt RI- Ring Indicator RTT- Round-Trip Time RIP- Routing Information Protocol
SPX- Sequenced Packet Exchange SPP- Sequenced Packet Protocol SLIP- Serial Line IP SAP- Service Access Point SAP- Service Advertising Protocol SDU- Service Data Unit SCP- Session Control Protocol SNR- Signal-to-Noise Ratio SGMP- Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol SMTP- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNMP- Simple Network Management Protocol SPOOL- Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line SCSI- Small Computer Standard Interface SCS- SNA Character String SNADS- SNA Delivery System SMFA- Specific Management Functional Area SGML- Standard Generalized Markup Language SPAG- Standards Promotion and Application Group SOH- Start Of Header SOM- Start Of Message STX- Start of Text SMI- Structure of Management Information SQL- Structured Query Language SNDCF- Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Facility SNAP- Subnetwork Access Protocol SHF- Super High Frequency SMDS- Switched Multimegabit Data Service SVC- Switched Virtual Circuit SDLC- Synchronous Data Link Control SONET- Synchronous Optical Network SSCP- System Services Control Point SAA- Systems Application Architecture SNA- Systems Network Architecture
TOP- Technical and Office Protocols TCAM- Telecommunications Access Method TACACS- Terminal Access Controller Access Control System TA- Terminal Adapter TLA- Three Letter Acronym TASI- Time-Assigned Speech Interpolation TDMA- Time Division Multiple Access TDM- Time Division Multiplexing TTL- Time To Live TRT- Token Rotation Time TLAP- TokenTalk Link Access Protocol TCP- Transmission Control Protocol TP0- Transport Class 0 TP4- Transport Class 4 TFTP- Trivial File Transfer Protocol TP- Twisted-Pair TOS- Type Of Service
UHF- Ultra High Frequency ULF- Ultra Low Frequency UNMA- Unified Network Management Architecture UART- Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter URI- Universal Resource Identifier URL- Universal Resource Locator USART- Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter USRT- Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter UUCP- UNIX-to-UNIX Copy UTP- Unshielded Twisted-Pair UA- User Agent UDP- User Datagram Protocol VAN- Value-Added Network VQL- Variable Quantizing Level VHF- Very High Frequency VLF- Very Low Frequency VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal VINES- Virtual Network System VTAM- Virtual Telecommunications Access Method VTP- Virtual Terminal Protocol VF- Voice Frequency
WDM- Wavelength Division Multiplexing WAIS- Wide Area Information Servers WAN- Wide Area Network WATS- Wide Area Telephone Service WIO- Workshop for Implementors of OSI WG- Working Group WWW or W3- World Wide Web
XNS- Xerox Network System
ZIP- Zone Information Protocol
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