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AAA

Authentication, Authorization, and Acounting

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ABR

Area Border Router

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ACL

Access Control List

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ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

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AfriNIC

African Network Information Center

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API

Application Program Interface

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APIPA

Automatic Private IP Addressing

(Internet Protocol)

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APNIC

Asia Pacific Network Information Center

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ARIN

American Registry for Internet Numbers

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ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

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Autonomous System

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ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuits

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ASN

Autonomous System Number

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ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

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BDR

Backup Designated Router

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BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

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BIA

Burned-In (MAC) Address

(Media Access Control)

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BSS

Basic Service Set

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CAM

Content Addressable Memory

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CDP

Cisco Discovery Protocol

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CEF

Cisco Express Forwarding

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CIDR

Classless InterDomain Routing

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CLI

Command Line Interface

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CoS

Class of Service

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# What does the acronym stand for? CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

# What does the acronym stand for? CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

# What does the acronym stand for? CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

# What does the acronym stand for? CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection

# What does the acronym stand for? CSU/DSU

Chanel Service Unit / Data Service Unit

# What does the acronym stand for? DAD

Duplicate Address Detection

# What does the acronym stand for? DCE

Data Communications Equipment

# What does the acronym stand for? DDN

Dotted-Decimal Notation

# What does the acronym stand for? DDNS

Dynamic Domain Name System

# What does the acronym stand for? DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? DNS

Domain Name System

# What does the acronym stand for? DoS

Denial of Service

# What does the acronym stand for? DR

Designated Router

# What does the acronym stand for? DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

# What does the acronym stand for? DTE

Data Terminal Equipment

# What does the acronym stand for? DTP

Dynamic Trunk Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? DUAL

Diffusing Update ALgorithm

# What does the acronym stand for? EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

# What does the acronym stand for? EGP

Exterior Gateway Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? EMI

ElectroMagnetic Interference

# What does the acronym stand for? EUI

Extended Universal Identifier

# What does the acronym stand for? FC

Fiber-optic Connector

# What does the acronym stand for? FCS

Frame Check Sequence

# What does the acronym stand for? FHSS

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

# What does the acronym stand for? FTP

File Transfer Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? GARP

Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? GIADDR

Gateway I(P) ADDRess | (Internet Protocol)

# What does the acronym stand for? HDLC

High-level Data Link Control

# What does the acronym stand for? HTML

HyperText Markup Language

# What does the acronym stand for? HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

# What does the acronym stand for? ICANN

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

# What does the acronym stand for? ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? IDS

Intrusion Detection System

# What does the acronym stand for? IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

# What does the acronym stand for? IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

# What does the acronym stand for? IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? IGP

Interior Gateway Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? IHL

Internet Header Length

# What does the acronym stand for? IOS

Internetwork Operating System

# What does the acronym stand for? IP

Internet Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? IPS

Intrusion Prevention System

# What does the acronym stand for? IPSec

IP Security | (Internet Protocol)

# What does the acronym stand for? IS-IS

Intermdiate System to Intermediate System

# What does the acronym stand for? ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

# What does the acronym stand for? ISL

Inter-Switch Link

# What does the acronym stand for? ISO

International Organization for Standardization

# What does the acronym stand for? ISP

Internet Service Provider

# What does the acronym stand for? LACNIC

Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Center

# What does the acronym stand for? LAN

Local-Area Network

# What does the acronym stand for? LC

Local Connector

# What does the acronym stand for? LIR

Local Internet Registry

# What does the acronym stand for? LLC

Logical Link Control

# What does the acronym stand for? LLDP

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? LSA

Link-State Advertisement

# What does the acronym stand for? LSDB

Link-State DataBase

# What does the acronym stand for? MAC

Media Access Control

# What does the acronym stand for? MD5

Message Digest 5

# What does the acronym stand for? MMF

MuliMode Fiber

# What does the acronym stand for? MOTD

Message Of The Day

# What does the acronym stand for? MP-BGP

MultiProtocol-Border Gateway Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? MSB

Most Significant Bit

# What does the acronym stand for? MTBF

Mean Time Between Failures

# What does the acronym stand for? MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit

# What does the acronym stand for? NA

Neighbor Advertisement

# What does the acronym stand for? NAT

Network Address Translation

# What does the acronym stand for? NCC

Network Coordination Centre

# What does the acronym stand for? NDP

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? NFS

Network FIle System

# What does the acronym stand for? NIC

Network Interface Card

# What does the acronym stand for? NS

Neighbor Solicitation

# What does the acronym stand for? NTP

Network Time Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? NTP

Network Time Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? NVRAM

NonVolatile RAM | (Random-Access Memory)

# What does the acronym stand for? OSI

Open System Interconnection

# What does the acronym stand for? OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

# What does the acronym stand for? OUI

Organizational Unique Identifier

# What does the acronym stand for? PAT

Port Address Translation

# What does the acronym stand for? PDU

Protocol Data Unit

# What does the acronym stand for? PING

Packet INternet Groper

# What does the acronym stand for? POP

Post Office Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? POST

Power-On Self Test

# What does the acronym stand for? PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

# What does the acronym stand for? PTT

Post, Telephone, and Telegraph

# What does the acronym stand for? QoS

Quality of Service

# What does the acronym stand for? RA

Router Advertisement

# What does the acronym stand for? RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server/Service

# What does the acronym stand for? RAM

Random-Access Memory

# What does the acronym stand for? RFC

Request For Comments

# What does the acronym stand for? RFI

Radio Frequency Interference

# What does the acronym stand for? RIP

Routing Information Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? RIPE

Reseaux IP Europeennes | (Internet Protocol)

# What does the acronym stand for? RIPNG

Routing Information Protocol Next Generation

# What does the acronym stand for? RIR

Regional Internet Registry

# What does the acronym stand for? ROAS

Router-on-a-Stick

# What does the acronym stand for? ROM

Read-Only Memory

# What does the acronym stand for? RPS

Redundant Power Supply

# What does the acronym stand for? RS

Router Solicitation

# What does the acronym stand for? RSA

Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman

# What does the acronym stand for? RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? RTT

Round-Trip Time

# What does the acronym stand for? SC

Subscriber Connector

# What does the acronym stand for? SCP

Service Control Point

# What does the acronym stand for? SLA

Service Level Agreement

# What does the acronym stand for? SLAAC

Stateless Address AutoConfiguration

# What does the acronym stand for? SMF

Single-Mode Fiber

# What does the acronym stand for? SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? SONET

Synchronous Optical NETwork

# What does the acronym stand for? SPF

Shortest Path First

# What does the acronym stand for? SSH

Secure SHell

# What does the acronym stand for? SSL

Secure Socket Layer

# What does the acronym stand for? ST

Straight Tip

# What does the acronym stand for? STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? SVI

Switched VIrtual Interfaces

# What does the acronym stand for? TACACS+

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus

# What does the acronym stand for? TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? TLS

Transport Layer Security

# What does the acronym stand for? ToS

Type of Service

# What does the acronym stand for? UDP

User Datagram Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? ULP

Upper-Layer Protocol

# What does the acronym stand for? UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

# What does the acronym stand for? URL

Uniform Resource Locator

# What does the acronym stand for? UTC

Universal Time Coordinated

# What does the acronym stand for? UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

# What does the acronym stand for? VC

Virtual Circuit

# What does the acronym stand for? VLAN

Virtual LAN | (Local-Area Network)

# What does the acronym stand for? VLSM

Variable-Length Subnet Mask

# What does the acronym stand for? VoIP

Voice over IP | (Internet Protocol)

# What does the acronym stand for? VPN

Virtual Private Network

# What does the acronym stand for? VTP

VLAN Trunking Protocol (Virtual LAN) (Local-Area Network)

# What does the acronym stand for? WAN

Wide-Area Network

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