Siglas

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
OSI
Open System Interconnection
ISO
International Organization for Standarizations
DoD
Department of Defense
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
URL
Uniform Resource Locators
RFC
Reference for Comments
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CATV
Cable TV
WLAN
Wireless Area Network
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
DDN
Dotted-Decimal Notation
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
AP
Access Point
SOHO
Small Office / Home Office
LAN
Local Area Network
WAN
Wide Area Network
UTP
Unshield Twisted-Pair
FE
Fast Ethernet
GE
Gigabit Ethernet
EMI
Electromagnetic Interference
NIC
Network Interface Card
GBIC
Gigabit Interface Converter
SFP
Small form-factor pluggables
MDIX
Medium Dependent Interface Crossover
SFD
Start Frame Delimiter
MAC
Media Access Control
FCS
Frame Check Sequence
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
OUI
Organizationally Unique Identifier
BIA
Burned-In Address
CSMA/CD
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CO
Central Office
CPE
Customer Premises Equipment
CSU/DSU
Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit
DTE
Data Terminal Equipment
DCE
Data Communications Equipment
HDLC
High-Level Data Link Control
PoP
Point of Presence
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
DSLAM
DSL Access Multiplexer
DNS
Domain Name System
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
IPv4
Internet Protocol Version 4
IPv6
Internet Protocol Version 6
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
DNS
Domain Name System
PInG
Packet Internet Groper
WWW
World Wide Web
SNMP
Simple Network Managment Protocol
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
SMTP
Simple Mail Tranfer Protocol
POP3
Post Office Protocol Version 3
SSL
Secure Socket Layer
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Telnet
SSH
NFS
QoS
CAM
LED
CLI
AAA
EBCDIC
ASCII
NetBIOS
NetBEUI
RTP
LLC
ASIC
bit
CRC
NMS
FQDN
APIPA
L2TP
TTL
ICMP
POST
ISL
DTP
IVR
SVI

802.2
802.3
802.3u
802.3ab
802.3ae

Telecommunication Network
Secure Shield
Network File System
Quality Of Service
Content Adressable Memory
Light-Emitting Diode
Command-Line Interface
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Network Basic Input Output System
NetBIOS Extended User Interface
Real-Time Transport Protocol
Logical Link Control
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
Binary Digit
Cyclic Redundancy Check
Network Management Station
Fully Qualified Domain Name
Automatic Private IP Addressing
Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol
Time to live
Internet Control Message Protocol
Power On Self Test
Inter-Switch Link
Dynamic Trunk Protocol
Inter-VLAN Routing
Switched Virtual Interfaces

LLC
Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet Cat5
Ten Gigabit Ethernet Fiber/Coax