This list includes just about everything remotely networking related: networking protocols, internet languages, types of internet connections, etc. as long as it's an acronym."
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| A | B
| C | D
| E | F
| G | H
| I | J
| K | L
| M | N
| O | P
| Q | R
| S | T
| U | V
| W | X
| Y | Z |
--- A --- ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode ABR - Available Bit Rate ACK - Acknowledgement (network related) ACS - Access Control System AD - Active Directory ADN - Advanced Digital Network aDSL - Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line AFP - AppleTalk Filing Protocol AMP - Adapter Management Protocol ANSI - American National Standards Institute APPN - Advanced Peer to Peer Networking ARP - Address Resolution Protocol ARPAnet - Advanced Research Project Agency Network ASBR - Autonomous System Boundary Router ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode AUI - Attachment Unit Interface --- B --- B2B - Business to Business BECN - Backward Explicit Congestion Notification BER - Bit Error Rate BGP - Border Gateway Protocol BIGA - Bus Interface Gate Array BISDN - Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network --- C --- CAN - Campus Area Network CCITT - Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone CCS - Common Channel Signaling CSS - Cascading Style Sheets CDDI - Copper Distributed Data Interface CGI - Common Gateway Interface CICS - Customer Information Control System CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIR - Commited Information Rate CLNP - Connectionless Network Protocol CONS - Connection Oriented Network Service COSP - Connection Oriented Session Protocol CSMA - Carrier-Sense Multiple Access CSMA/CD - CSMA with Collision Detection CSU/DSU - Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit --- D --- DACS - Digital Access Cross-connected System DAP - Directory Access Protocol DCE - Data Communications Equipment DDS - Digital Data Storage DECNet - Digital Equipment Corporation Network DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DLC - Data Link Control DLCI - Data Link Connection Identifier DNS - Domain Name Service DSL - Digital Subscriber Line DVMRP - Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol --- E --- EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code EDI - Electronic Data Interchange EGP - Exterior Gateway Protocol --- F --- FDDI - Fibre Distributed Data Interface FOIRL - Fibre Optic Inter-Repeater Link FSP - File Service Protocol FTP - File Transfer Protocol --- G --- GGP - Gateway to Gateway Protocol GID - Global Information Distribution GNS - Get Nearest Server --- H --- HSSI - High-Speed Serial Interface HTML - HyperText Markup Language HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure --- I --- IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IAP - Internet Access Provider IAB - Internet Architecture Board ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol IDRP - Inter-Domain Routing Protocol IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IESG - Internet Engineering Steering Group IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol IGP - Interior Gateway Protocol InARP - Inverse Address Resolution Protocol IP - Internet Protocol IPX - Intergrated Packet Exchange IPX/SPX - Intergrated Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange IRC - Internet Relay Chat IRTF - Internet Research Task Force ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network ISO - International Standards Organization ISP - Internet Service Provider IDSL - ISDN Digital Subscriber Line IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network --- J --- JUNET - Japan UNIX Network --- K --- Kbps - Kilobits Per Second KBps - KiloBytes per second --- L --- LAN - Local Area Network LANE - Local Area Network Emulation LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LLC - Logical Link Control --- M --- MAC - Media Access Control MAN - Metropolitan Area Network MAU - Multistation Access Unit MBps - Megabytes Per Second Mbps - Megabits Per Second MIB - Management Information Base MIME - Multiple Internet Mail Extensions Modem - Modulate/Demodulate MRU - Maximum Receive Unit MTU - Maximum Transmissionn Agent --- N --- NAS - Network Attached Storage NAT - Network Address Translation NCP - Netware Core Protocol NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification NDP - Neighbor Discovery Protocol NDS - Novell Directory Services NetBEUI - NetBIOS Extended User Interface NetBIOS - Network Basic Input/Output System NFS - Network File System NIC - Network Interface Card NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol NTP - Network Time Protocol NVT - Network Virtual Terminal --- O --- ODI - Open Data-link Interface OSI - Open System Interconnect OSPF - Open Shortest Path First --- P --- P2P - Peer to Peer PAD - Packet Assembler/Disassembler PAN - Personal Area Network PAT - Port Address Translation Pb - Peta byte PDU - Protocol Data Unit PEP - Packet Exchange Protocol PING - Packet InterNet Groper POP - Post Office Protocol POTS - Plain Old Telephone System PPP - Point to Point Protocol PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet PPTP - Point to Point Tunneling Protocol PSDN - Packet Switched Data Network PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuit --- Q --- QoS - Quality of Service QoSP - Quality of Service Parameters --- R --- RARP - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RBCS - Remote Boot and Configuration Service RFC - Request for Comment RIP - Routing Information Protocol RPC - Remote Procedure Call --- S --- SAN - Storage Area Network SATAN - Security Analysis Tool for Auditing Networks SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol S/N - Subnet SNA - Systems Network Architechture SNAP - Sub-Network Access Protocol SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol SNTP - Simple Network Time Protocol SPX - Sequenced Packet Exchange SQL - Structure Query Language STP - Shieled Twisted Pair SSH - Secure Shell SSL - Secure Socket Layer SVC - Switched Virtual Circuit SWAT - Samba Administration Tool --- T --- TB - Terabytes TBps - Terabytes per second Tbps - Terabits per second TCP - Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol TOS - Type Of Service TTL - Time To Live --- U --- UDLC - Universal Data Link Control UDP - User Datagram Protocol UNC - Universal Naming Convention URL - Uniform Resource Locator UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair UUEncode - Unix to Unix Encoding --- V --- VBR - Variable Bit Rate VPC - Virtual Path Connection VPN - Virtual Private Network --- W --- WAN - Wide Area Network WANG - Wide Area Network Group WINS - Windows Internet Naming Service WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network --- X --- XDR - External Data Representation xDSL - Extended Digital Subscriber Line XML - Extensible Markup Language XSL - Extensible Stylesheet Language XSML - Extensible Stylesheet Markup Language --- Y --- --- Z --- ZCS - Zero Code Suppression
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