Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Basic networking abbreviations

Basic networking abbreviations. 

3GPP-Third Generation Partnership Project
BS-Base Station
DSL- Digital Subscriber Line
DSSS- Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
IP- Internet Protocol
IEEE- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
MAC address- Media Access Control
LAN- Local Area Network
MAN- Metropolitan Area network
WAN- Wide Area Network
PAN- Personal Area Network
BRAN- Broadband radio Access Network
VOIP- Voice Over Internet Protocol
WLAN- Wireless Local Area Network
WI-FI- Wireless Fidelity
QOS- Quality Of Service
RF- Radio Frequency
POP- Point Of Presence
PHY- Physical layer
P2P- point to point
ETSI- European telecommunications standard Institute
AP- Access point
CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access
TDMA- Time Division Multiple Access
FDMA - frequency Division Multiple Access
ACK- Acknowledge
ASP- Application Service provider
ISP- internet Service Provider
UL/DL- Uplink/ Downlink
FDD- frequency Division Duplex
DVB- Digital Video Broadcast
EIRP- Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
FTP- file transfer protocol
HTTP- Hypertext transfer protocol
WAP- Wireless Application protocol
VPN- Virtual private Network
SISO- single Input Single Output
BGP- Broadband gateway protocol
OFDM- Orthogonal frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDMA- Orthogonal frequency Division Multiple Access
SNR- Signal to Noise Ratio.
MPEG- Moving Picture Experts Group
MSB- Most significance Bit
PDA- Personal Digital Assistant
PDU- Protocol Data Unit
STC- space Time coding
PSK-Phase Shift Keying
QPSK- Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
DNS- Domain Name system
DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
ATM- Asynchronous transfer mode
CRC- Cyclic Redundancy Code
DSCA- Distributed Subcarrier Allocation
FRF- Frequency Reuse factor
FCH- frame Control header
UGS- Unsolicited grant service
TSA- time Slot Allocation
HO- Hand Over
STC- Space Time Code
SM- Spatial multiplexing
LDPC- low Density Parity Check
VLAN- Virtual LAN
VTP- VLAN Trunk Protocol
UDP- User Datagram protocol
TCP- Transmission Control Protocol
RIP- Routing Information protocol
RSTP- Rapid Spanning tree Protocol
PAT- Port Address Translation
PPP- point to point Protocol
OSI- Open systems Interconnection
LLC- logical link Control
LCP- Link Control Protocol
IOS- Internetwork Operating System
IGP- Interior Gateway Protocol
IGRP- Interior Gateway routing protocol
SNMP- Simple Network Management protocol
EIGRP- Enhanced IGRP
DDR- Dial-on-Demand Routing
DTE- Data Terminal Equipment
CPE- Customer Premises Equipment
DCE- data Communications Equipment
CLI- Command Line Interface
BRI - Basic rate Interface
ARP- Address Resolution Protocol
AA - Auto Answer
AC - Access Control
DC- Data Centre
TTL- Time to Live

Many more are there which may not be covered...

-DR

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