Acronyms Compiled - Computer Network


1G - Analog Voice
2G - Digital Voice
3G - Digital Voice and data (internet, emal, ..) p165 Tanenbaum
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ADSL - Asymetric Digital Subscriber Loop
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard
AMI - Alternate Mark Inversion
AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone System, 1982
AP - Access Point
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ASK - Amplitude Shift Keying
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode


BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BPSK - Binary Phase Shift Keying


CCITT - Comite Consultatif International Telegrahpique et Telephonique
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CDN - Content Delivery Network
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CLIENT - 
CMTS - Cable Modem Termination System
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSMA - Collision Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CD - Collision Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
CSNET - Computer Science Network
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CTS - Clear To Send


DES - Data Encryption Standard
DHT - Distrubuted Hash Table
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMT - Discrete MultiTone
DNS - Domain Name System
DOM - Document Object Model
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplier


FCC - Federal Communication Commission
FCFS - First Come First Serve
FDM - Frquency Division Multiplexing
FEC - Forward Error Correction
FIFO - First In First Out
FSK - Frequency Shift Keying
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTTH - Fibre To The Home


GEO - Geostationary Earth Orbit
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications, 1991
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service


HDLC - High Level Data Link Control
HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax
HSS - Home Subscriber Server
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - 


ICANN - Internet Coproation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICMP - Internet Message Control Message Protocol
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE 802.3 - Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ab - gigbit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u - fast Ethernet
IEEE 802.11 - WiFi Standard
IEEE 802.16 - WiMAX (Broadband) - Worldwide Interoperabilty for Microwave Access
IMAP - 
IMP - Interface Message Processors
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IP - Internet Protocol
IPv4 - 
IPv6 - SIPP - Simple Internet Protocol Plus
IrDA - Infrared Data Association
ISO - International Standard Organisation
IXP - Internet Exchange Points


LAN - Local Area Network
LCP - Link Control Protocol
LDPC - Low Density Parity Check
LEO - Low Earth Orbit
LTE - Long Term Evolution


MAC - Medium Access Control
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MEO - Medium Earth Oribt
MIMO - Multiple Input Multiple Output


NAP - Network Access Point
NCP - Network Control Protocol
NETWORK - 
NIC - Network Interface Card
NID - Network Interface Device
NIST - National  Institute of Standards and Technology
NRZ - Non Return to Zero


OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OSI - International Standards Organisation
OSI Model - Physical, Data link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application layers
OSPF - Open Shortest Path First Protocol


PACKET - 
PAN - Personal Area Network
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
PHP - HyperText Preprocessor
PON - Passing Optical Network
POP - Point of Presence
POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3
POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP - Point To Point Protocol
PSK - Phase Shift Keying
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
PTT - Push To Talk


QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QOS - Qualtiy of Service


RFID - Radio Frequency IDentification
RNC - Radio Network Controller
RTS - Request To Send
RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol


SERVER - 
SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm
SIM - Subscriver Identity Module
SIPP - Simple Internet Protocol Plus
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA - System Network Architecture (IBM?)
SNR - Signal To Noise Ratio
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
STDM - Statistical Time Division Multiplexing


TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
TELNET - 
TPDU - Transport Protocol Data Unit


UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, 2001
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair


VLAN - Virutal Local Area Network
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminals


W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy
WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WDM - Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
WPA - WiFi Protected Access


XML - eXtensible Markup Language
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