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Chapter 8 Acronyms
Computer Repair and Maintenance Chapter 8 Acronyms
Question | Answer |
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LAN | Local Area Network |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
TSP | Telecommunication Service Provider |
bps | Bits Per Second |
kbps | Kilobites Per Second |
Mbps | Megabites Per Second |
DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
MAC | Media Access Control |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DNS | Domain Name System |
IP | Internet Protocol |
APIPA | Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing |
IPX/SPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packaged Exchange |
NetBEUI | NetBIOS Extended User Interface |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
WWW | World Wide Web |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
SSH | Secure Socket Host |
POP | Post Office Protocol |
IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
Ping | Packet Internet groper |
UTP | Unshielded twisted-pair |
STP | Shielded Twisted-pair |
EMI | Electromagnetic Interface |
RFI | Radio Frequency Interface |
CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
MSAU | Multistation Access Unit |
FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
IRTF | Internet Research Task Force |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
Wi-Fi | Wireless Fidelity |
DoD | Department of Defense |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnect |
TCP | Transmisson Contol Protocol |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
PDU | Protocol Data Units |
IRQ | Interrupt Request |
DUN | Dial Up Network |
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol |
AT | Attention characters |
POTS | Plain Old Telephone System |
BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
PRI | Primary Rate Interface |
BISDN | Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network |
ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
ADSL | Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
HDSL | High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line |
SDSL | Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line |
VDSL | Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line |
IDSL | ISDN Digital Subscriber Line |
PLN | Power Line Networking |
PLT | Power Line Telecoms |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
VoIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |
PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |