A
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- AON - All Optical Network
- API - Application Programming Interface
- ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ATM -Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B
- BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
- BRI - Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)
C
- CO - Central Office
- CSU - Channel Service Unit
D
- DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS - Domain Name System
- DSU - Digital Service Unit
E
- EMI - Electromagnetic Interference
F
- FAT - File Allocation Table (FAT16, FAT32)
- FCC - Federal Communications Commission
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol (Port: 21)
G
- GSM - Global System for Mobile (telecommunications)
H
- HDLC - High (level) Data Link Control
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Port: 80)
I
- ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
- IIS - Internet Information Server
- ISO - International Organization for Standards
- IP - Internet Protocol
- IPSec - Internet Protocol Security
- IPv6 - Internet Protocol Version 6
- ISAPI - Internet Server API
- ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISP - Internet Service Provider
J
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M
- MAC - Media Access Control
- MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
- MDM - Mobile Device Management
N
- NAT - Network Address Translation
- NTFS - New Technology File System
O
- OS - Operations System
- OSI - Open System Interconnection
- OSI - Open System Interface
P
- PCI - Protocol Control Information
- PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
- POP - Post Office Protocol (Port: 110)
- PPP - Point to Point Protocol
- PRI - Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)
Q
R
- RAS - Remote Access Server
- RAS - Remote Access Service
S
- SDCU - Synchronous Data Channel Unit
- SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET)
- SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
- SOHO - Small Office/Home Office
- SONET -Synchronous Optical Network
- SSL - Secure Socket Layer (Port: 443)
T
- TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP - Transport Control Protocol
U
- UDP - User Datagram Protocol
- UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
V
- VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
- VPN - Virtual Private Network
- VXML - Voice Extensible Markup Language
W
- WAN - Wide Area Network
- WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
X
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
Y
Z
Chat Acronyms
- YW - Your Welcome
- LOL - Laugh Out Loud
- ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
- JK - Just kidding
- IMO - In my opinion
- BRB - Be Right Back
- BBL - Be Back Later
- BBS - Be Back Soon
- WB - Welcome Back
- TY - Thank You
- HB - Hurry Back
- BTW - By The Way