| Network and Internet Acronyms, and URL info. |
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August 25, 2003
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| 3WC | World Wide Web Consortium. Collection of professional Internet authorities that define the web. their site |
| AA | Auto Answer (modem terminology) |
| AAPC | Advanced Program to Program Communication |
| ABEND | ABnormal END of program (mainframe and programming terminology) |
| ACF | Advanced Communication Functions |
| ACIS | Automatic Customer / Caller Identification System |
| ACK | Affirmative aCKnowledgement (modem talk) |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACLS | Access Control LiSts (NT security system) |
| ACM | Association of Computer Machinery |
| ACM | Acoustical Coupling Machine |
| ACR | Access Control Rights |
| ACS | Automatic Call Sequencer. |
| ACU | Automatic Calling Unit (modem talk) |
| ADH | Average Delay to Handle (average time until connected to an agent, server, POP, or ISP) |
| ADMD | ADministrative Management Domain |
| ADS | Active Directory partition Server |
| ADSL | Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ISDN type connection to the net) |
| ADSP | Apple talk Data Stream Protocol |
| ADU | Automatic Dialing Unit |
| AFP | Apple Talk File Protocol |
| AGC | ARChived file: Older compression file used by PKZIP |
| ALD | Analog Line Driver |
| ANI | Automatic Number Identification |
| AOL | America On Line (Internet Service Provider) |
| ARL | Access Rights Lists (privileges & access rights to network drives, directories, or files) |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol (Novell) |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (beginning of the internet) |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat Request |
| ARU | Automatic Response Unit |
| ASA | Average Speed of Answer (modem talk for connection time) |
| ASP | Application Service Provider |
| ASR | Automatic Send Receive unit (modem talk) |
| ASU | Adaptive Start Up (modem talk) |
| AT | 1. Asynchronous Transmission |
| AT | 2. ATtention (modem talk) |
| ATT | Average Talk Time |
| ATD | ATtention - Dial (modem talk) |
| ATDT | ATtention Dial Tone (modem talk) |
| ATE | Asynchronous Terminal Emulation: (service that runs on Banyan) |
| ATH | ATtention - Hang up (modem talk) |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATP | Apple Talk Protocol |
| ATTT | ATtention Touch Tone (modem talk) |
| AUI | Attachment Unit Interface (IEEE spec. for LAN's interface between MAU and DTE) |
| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy |
| AV | Authentication Verification |
| B2B | Business To Business (also seen as b2b) |
| B2C | Business To Consumer |
| BACP | Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BCC | Block Check Character |
| BDC | 1.Backup Domain Controller (Type of NT Server on a Microsoft Network) |
| BDC | 2.Binary Coded Decimals |
| BDS | Backup Domain Server |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| BERT | Bit Error Rate Testing |
| BFS | Banyan File System |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocols |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain (How UNIX servers define DNS - addresses); verb: how hardware interacts with network cards / devices |
| BITNET | Because It's Time NETwork (academic network) |
| BIU | Bus Interface Unit |
| BN | Backbone Network |
| BNC | British National Connector (terminator for coaxial+ cable) |
| BNS | Backbone Network Service |
| BOOTP | BOOTstrap Protocol |
| BSC | Binary Synchronous Communication |
| BSD | Berkley Software Distribution (Berkley UNIX reference) |
| BTS | Bit Test and Set |
| BYOA | Bring Your Own Access (Internet access via telnet & your own ISP) |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering (mainframe software utilities) |
| CAT | Continuous Asynchronous Transmission |
| CAT5 | Category 5 (refers to thickness and quality of wiring) |
| CATV | Community Antenna TeleVision |
| CAU | Control Access Unit |
| CBX | Computer Branch eXchange |
| CC | Carrier Connect (modem talk) |
| CCIRN | Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks |
| CCSA | Common Control Switching Arrangement |
| CCTP | Client to Client Protocol |
| CDA | Communications Decency Act (congressional censoring of internet) |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team (investigate internet incidents) |
| CFML | Cold Fusion Markup Language. |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CGMP | Cisco Group Management Protocol (used in routers, etc.) |
| CHAP | Chalenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CHAT | Conversational Hypertext Access Technology ("talking" in real time over the internet) |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing. Routers that contain list of resources (other routers, DNS, and services) which contain IP address. |
| CIFS | Library files used by exe/device drivers in Windows 95 (dll format) |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIM | Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIS | Client Information System |
| CIS | Compuserver Information System |
| CIU | Communication Interface Unit |
| CIX | Commercial Internet Exchange |
| CLNP | Connection-Less Network Protocol (OSI protocol similar to IP) |
| CLTP | ConnectionLess Transport Protocol (OSI transport layer protocol) |
| CLT | Communication Line Terminal |
| CMC | Common Mail Calls |
| CMC | Common Messaging Calls |
| CMC | Communication Management Configuration |
| CMIP | Certified (Common) Management Information Protocol (OSI) |
| CMS | Call Management System (automated voice & modem routing system.) |
| CMS | Content Management System: came into use with dynamic data on the web with pages such as psp, asp, etc. Referes to an interface to manage the data on a website. Sometimes refering to making global changes to an entire site by editing a template. |
| CN | Common Name |
| CNA | Certified Network (NetWare) Administrator |
| CNE | Certified Network (NetWare) Engineer |
| CNT | Certified Network (NetWare) Technician |
| COBRA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CODASYL | Conference On DAta SYstem Logic |
| COMSAT | COMmunications SATellite |
| CREN | Corporation for Research and Educational Networking |
| CRS | Content Replication System (part of the NT Backoffice suite that replicates HTML files from one server to another) |
| CSE | Certified Systems Engineer |
| CSLIP | Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| CSMA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
| CSMA / CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Carrier Avoidance |
| CSMA /CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Carrier Detection |
| CSNET | Computer + Science NETwork (academic network) |
| CST | Certified Systems Technician |
| CSU | Channel Service Unit |
| CSU | Channel Service Unit |
| CTCP | Client To Client Protocol |
| CTS | Clear To Send (modem talk) |
| DA | Destination Address (network terminology) |
| DACS | Digital Access on Cross-connect System |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (started internet) |
| DBX | Digital PBX |
| DCD | Direct (2. Digital) Carrier Detect (modem talk) |
| DCD | Data Carrier Detect |
| DCE | 1. Data Communication Equipment 2. Distributed Computing Environment 3. Data Circuit terminating Equipment |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model (Networked OLE) |
| DDD | Direct Distance Dialing |
| DDNS | Dynamic Domain Name System |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Services. An attack on a web site, server, or ISP that shuts down the service. Often a worm that requests so much information from the site being attacked that the overload causes a crash. |
| DDS | Digital Data Service (IBM) |
| DECnet | Digital Equipment Corporation (proprietary networking protocols) |
| DEK | Data Encryption Key |
| DES | Data Encryption Standards |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HyperText Markup Language |
| DIW | D Inside Wiring (networking terminology common to the physical layer) |
| d/l | or dl, or DL: Download |
| DLL | Data Link Layer (2nd level of networking topology) |
| DLR | DOS Lan Requestor |
| DNA | Digital Network Architecture |
| DNS | Domain
Name Server / (Service) (changes addresses: www.myname.com to 116.225.25.3) |
| DoS | Denial of Service. Attack on an Internet server that causes it to crash. Code Red in Feb. 2002 requested so much information from servers that it caused them to shut down when they couldn't keep up with the requests. |
| DOT | dotted decimal notation for IP address in byte (1.2.4.7) |
| DOV | Data Over Voice (when an line is being used for both voice and data transfer) ex. ISDN lines |
| DPI | Distributed Protocol Interface |
| DSA | Directory System Agent (x.500 directory service) |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line (fast connection to the Internet vs. using the phone line) |
| DSR | Data Set Ready (modem talk) |
| DSS | Directory and Security Server (IBM's new directory service for file servers) |
| DSU | Digital Service Unit |
| DT | 1. Dial Type (modem terms) |
| DT | 2. Dial Tone (modem terms) |
| DTE | Data Terminal (2. Transfer) Equipment (a LAN workstation can be one) |
| DTE | Dumb Terminal Emulator |
| DTR | Data Terminal Ready (modem signal signaling ready to receive) |
| DTS | Digital Termination Architecture |
| DUA | Directory User Agent (x.500 software) |
| DUN | Dial Up Networking |
| DWH | Data WareHousing |
| ECC | Error Correction Code |
| EFA | Extended File Attributes (Banyan / Novell) |
| EGP | Exterior Gateway Protocol (routing layer) |
| ELAN | Emulated Local Area Network |
| ELF | Extremely Low Frequency |
| EMS | Electronic Mail / Messaging System |
| ENS | Enhanced Network Services (Vines Service) |
| EOT | End Of Transmission (file transfer marker) |
| ERAS | Electronic Routing and Approval System (Hughe's Aircraft) |
| ESP | Enhanced Service Provider |
| ESS | Electronic Switching System |
| ETR | Early Token Release |
| EULA | End User License Agreement. |
| F2H | Fiber To Home: technology to provide fiber optic to residential hook-ups. Standard agreed upon in early 2003 |
| FAP | File Access Protocol |
| FARNET | Federation of American Research NETworks |
| FC | Frame Control (networking terminology) |
| FC-AL | Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (bus technology - better/faster than SCSI) |
| FCS | Frame Check Sequence (Token Ring) |
| FD / FDX | Full DupleX (modem terminology) |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interchange |
| FDM | Frequency-Division Multiplexing |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| FNC | Federal Networking Council (governments attempt to control the internet) |
| FNP | Special display effects (wipe, slide fade, ex. screen savers, and/or presentation programs) |
| FOSI | Formatted Output Specification Instance |
| FS | Frame Status (networking terminology) |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying |
| FSP | File Service Protocol |
| FTAM | File Transfer, Access, and Management (OSI service and protocol) |
| FTFS | Fault Tolerant File System |
| FTH | Fiber To Home: technology to provide fiber optic to residential hook-ups. Standard agreed upon in early 2003 |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol (method a file is transferred from an internet site to a local computer) |
| FTDP | File Transfer Protocol Daemon |
| GAN | Global Area Network |
| GENIE | General Electric Network Information Exchange |
| GML | Generalized Markup Language (generic HTML) |
| GOSIP | Government Open System Interconnection Protocol (Gvnt. agencies want to use this standard to replace TCP/IP) |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSNW | Gateway Service for NetWare |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
| HAM | Hybrid Access Method |
| HAP | Host Access Protocol |
| HDLC | High Level Data Link Control |
| HDX | Half DupleX |
| HOTT | Hot Of The Tree (electronic newsletter) |
| HP | Home Page (the index for a particular web site) |
| HSLN | High Speed Local Network |
| HSRP | Hot Standby Routing Protocol (to networking what FIFO is to PC's) |
| HTM | Unix server extension for HTML files |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language (programming for Internet web pages) |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol (1 way information is sent over and internet; travels over the phone lines from a server to a local computer, protocols are agreed upon standards or configurations that computers use) |
| HTTPS | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (meaning information sent to and from is encrypted) |
| IAB | Internet Activities Board (oversees TCP/IP development) |
| IAK | Internet Access Kit (pre-set icons to AOL, CompuServer, etc.) |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (central registry for internet assigned addresses, ports and such - ex: 225.149.149.6 (you can email: iana@isi.com)) |
| ICAP | Internet Calendar Access Protocol (Lotus) |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol (IP suite - generates error message) |
| ICPA | Internet Consumer Protection Agency |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force (governing body behind the internet protocols) |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| IGP | Interior Gateway Protocol |
| IGRP | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco proprietary protocol) |
| IIOP | Internet Interoperability ORB Protocol |
| IIS | Internet Information Server |
| ILS | Internet Locator Service (part of NT's Backoffice for tracking online items) |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IMAU | Intelligent Multi-Access Unit |
| IMS | Information Management System |
| InterNIC | InterNet Information Center: combined providers of registration ie. who you register your URL to the IP address with |
| IOS | Internet Operating System. |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPAD | Internet Protocol ADapter |
| IPS | Internet Personalization System (part of NT's Backoffice suite) |
| IPX | Internet Package eXchange (how PC's with different OS's transfer data) |
| IPX / SPX | Inter network Packet eXchange / Sequential Packet eXchange |
| IQY | Internet Query File |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| ISAPI | Internet Server Application Programming Interface |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network (Internet connection terminology - faster than using a modem, slower than T-1 connection.) Combines voice and data on same medium (or analog and digital if you prefer) |
| ISM | Internet Service Manager |
| ISOC | Internet SOCiety (non-profit organization trying to organize, research, and advance the internet) |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology (replacing the term IS for Information Systems) |
| JANET | Joint Academic NETwork |
| JAR | Java ARchive (a Java-based archiving format. ) |
| JCL | Job Control Language (mainframe programming language) |
| JDBC | Java Data Base Connectivity |
| JFC | Java Foundation Class |
| JUG | Joint Users Group (group of dedicated, perhaps proprietary computers) |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine (Java is a new internet programming tool) |
| L2TP | Level 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LAPM | Link Access Procedure for Modems |
| LATA | Local Area Transport Area |
| LBT | Listen Before Talk |
| LCC | Lost Calls Cleared |
| LCD | Lost Calls Delayed |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (one way server(s) manipulate multiple disks / users / and access levels) |
| LDDI | Local Distributed Data Interface |
| LEN | Low Entry Networking |
| LIP | Large Internet Packet |
| LIPS | Lightweight Internet Person Schema |
| LLC | Logical Link Control (level of the OSI topology) |
| LOS | Line Of Sight (usually refers to satellite, or dishes that transfer communication data via radio waves) |
| LTP | Local Talk Protocol |
| LU | Logical Unit |
| LWT | Listen While Talk |
| MAC | Medium Access Unit (or Multi for token ring, similar to CIU) |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network (several LAN's connected together in a similar geographical region. Hospitals and Colleges use these often to share resources) |
| MANIAC | Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Computer (one of the first working Mainframe computer designed and built in the early 60's) |
| MAP | Manufacturing and Automation Protocol |
| MAU | 1. Multi- Access Unit (patch panel for IBM to tie to server) |
| MAU | 2.Media Access Unit |
| mb | Message Board |
| MHS | Message Handling Service |
| MI | Mode Indicate (modem talk) |
| MIB | Management Information Bus |
| MIC | Mode Indicate Common (modem talk) |
| MILNET | MILitary NETwork (network of various branches of the military (TCP/IP)) |
| MIME | Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (Conventions for internet e-mail) |
| MLM | 1. Mail List Manager: used for mass marketing
on the Internet (spam) 2. Multi-Level Marketing. |
| MMC | Microsoft Management Console (NT 5.0 management program) |
| MML | Mathmatical Markup Language (thanks to SyrenSong at webproworld.com for this one) |
| MNET | Manager Networking |
| MODEM | MODulate / DEModulate |
| MOP | Maintenance Operation Protocols |
| MPR | Multi-Protocol Routing |
| MPTN | Multi-Protocol Transport Network |
| MRU | Maximum Receive Units |
| MSDN | MicroSoft Developers Network |
| MSN | MicroSoft Network |
| MSP | Managed Service Provider |
| MTA | Message Transfer Agent |
| MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit (how large a packet/data gram IP transfers prior to TCP returning a status packet) |
| MUA | Mail User Agent |
| MUD | Multiple User Device |
| MUD | 2.Multi-User Domain (Dungeon) - where multiple persons play games in real time via the Internet) |
| MVS | Multiple Virtual Systems |
| NAC | Network Adapter Card |
| NAK | Negative AcKnowledgement |
| NAP | Network Access Point |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NAU | Network Addressable Unit |
| NBS | Nation Bureau of Standards |
| NCC | Network Control Center |
| NCD | Network Computing Device |
| NCOS | Network Computer Operating System |
| NDL | Network / Native Device Language |
| NDS | Netware Directory Services |
| NCG | Network Computer Group (IBM division) |
| NCP | Netware Core Protocol |
| NDIS | Network Device Interface Specification |
| NDS | Network Direct Services |
| NEST | Novell Embedded System Technology |
| Net BEUI | Network BIOS Extended User Interface |
| NetBIOS | Network Basic Input Output System |
| NFS | Network File System (Sun Microsystems NOS / file system) |
| NGI | Next Generation Internet |
| NHRP | Next Hop Resolution Protocol (part of the IP suite) |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIC | Network Information Center |
| NIP | Network Interface Protocol |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NMM | Network Management Module |
| NMP | Network Management Protocol |
| NMS | Network Management System |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol (part of NT's Backoffice Suite) |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| NOS | Network Operating System |
| NSF | Network File System |
| NTDA | NT Disk Administration tools (NTDAT) |
| NTFS | New Technology File System (the FAT for Microsoft NT Servers/wkstn) |
| NWS | Netware Web Server |
| ODI | Open Data link Interface |
| ODIF | Open Document Interchange Format |
| OH | can mean either On Hook or Off Hook (modem talk) |
| ODINSUP | Open Data link INterface SUPport |
| ON | Organization Name (Banyan Vines naming convention) |
| ONA | Open Network Architecture |
| ORACLE | On-line Inquiry and Report Generator (Unix database program) |
| ORG | ORGanization (part of the Banyan Naming conventions) |
| OSA | Open System Architecture |
| OSI | Open System Interconnections (Topology standards for networking) |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First ('Proposed standard' for IGP) |
| OU | Organizational Unit |
| PAD | Packet Assemble / Dis-assemble (modem and internet talk) |
| PAM | Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
| PARC | Palo Alto Research Center (Where first Ethernet network was developed by Xerox) |
| PAT | Port Address Translation |
| PBX | Private Branch eXchange |
| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation (converting voice to digital using a PBX system) |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCN | Personal Communication Network |
| PDL | Page Description Languages |
| PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |
| PDN | Public Data Network (BBS) |
| PDS | Premises Distribution System (AT&T cabling standards for networks) |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit (OSI term for a packet) |
| PERL | Practical Extraction and Report Language (a UNIX server based language, used to create cgi scripts and more) |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy (refers to network security) |
| PHP | Personal Home Page. Was used by some free servers like homestead, or geocities for a while as a default file extension. Currently it has been adopted as an extension for use with Dynamic Databases which call information into web pages. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection |
| PING | Packet INternet Groper/Gopher (sending request to another computer server to see if it answers) |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptography Standard |
| POC | Point Of Contact |
| POF | Point Of Fail |
| POP | 1. Point Of Presence (internet and WWW terminology) |
| POP (or POP3 for version3) | 2. Post Office Protocol. The protocols used by PC's to download their email from internet mail servers once PAP has verified your login |
| PPC | Pay Per Click. The process of on web site paying another site for every time a person clicks on the link of the first site. |
| PPN | Peer to Peer Networking (2 computers hooked together sharing resources - no server) |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol (replacing SLIP) |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| PR | Page Ranking: System of rating a web site or page, popular with Google search engine as method or listing the higher ranked pages in SERPs. (Search Engine Results Page) |
| PROARB | PROteon interrupt ARBitrator (driver for a network card) |
| PROTMAN | PROTocol MANager |
| PSAPI | Presentation Space Application Programming Interface (protocol for accessing an IBM host) |
| PSN | Packet Switching Network |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PUCP | Physical Unit Control Point |
| PWS | Peer Web Server |
| QBS | Quality Based System |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (1 way laptops talk to LANs) |
| RAS | Remote Access Server |
| RAT | Remote Access Trojen |
| RBOC | Regional Bell Operating Companies (Group of major internet service providing companies) |
| RD | Receiving Data (modem talk) |
| RFC | Request For Comments - Documents that describe internet standards. |
| RFS | Routing Information Protocol (similar to NFS but on UNIX System V) |
| RI | Ring Indicator |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RJ-## | Registered (or Remote) Jack (RJ-11 for phones, RJ-45 for UTP and other cables) |
| RLN | Remote Lan Node |
| RNA | Remote Network Access (by use of Dial Up Connection) |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RSACi | Recreational Software Advisory Council (for the Internet) |
| RSVP | Resource reSerVation Protocol (Cisco router term) |
| RTS | Request To Send (modem talk) |
| Rx | Receive packets |
| SAM | Security Accounts Manager (database of users on NT's PDC) |
| SAP | Service Advertising Protocol |
| SAP | Service Access Point |
| SASO | Super Automatic Switch Over - New Windows NT technology that allows data from a crashed drive / disk or failed server to be switched over to an alternate server or drive (Similar in function to the array data striping that the Banyan / Unix server uses) |
| SD | 1. Send(ing) Data (modem talk) |
| SD | 2. Source Address (networking terminology) |
| SD | 3.Super Density (a type of format for the new DVD disks that allows up to 17 Gb of data to be stored on one CD) |
| SDN | Software Defined Network (routing through programs instead of hardware) |
| SE | Search Engine |
| SEM | Search Engine Management, or Search Engine Marketing |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization (As a position in a company, Search Engine Officer) |
| SERP | Search Engine Results Page |
| SFD | Start Frame Delimiter |
| SFM | Services For Macintosh (protocol to allow a Mac to talk to NT servers) |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SGMP | Simple Gateway Management Protocol (pre-SNMP) |
| .shtml | Server Side Includes Hypertext Markup Language file extension |
| SIG | Special Interest Group (specialized info over the net - sponsor IRC channels, newsgroups, and various internet sites.) |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol (being replaced by PPP) |
| SMB | Server / System Message Block protocol |
| SMDS | Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (connect TR to Ethernet) |
| SMS | System Management Server |
| S/MIME | Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (standard to send & receive encrypted mail) |
| SMDS | Switched Multi-mega-bit Data Service (new high speed transfer) |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNA | System Network Architecture (IBM proprietary architecture) |
| SNEWS | Secure internet NEWs Servers |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SNS | Secondary Network Server (fore-father to the BDC) |
| SOCKS | SOCKet Secure server |
| SONET | similar to T1 or t10 except speed is 51,840,000 + Kb per second) |
| SPE | System Policy Editor (NT's "poledit") |
| SPP | Sequenced Packet Protocol |
| SPX | Sequenced Packet eXchange |
| SSCP | System Services Control Point |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer (a high-level security protocol developed by Netscape) |
| STDA | Street Talk Directory Assistance |
| STML | Simple Text Markup Language |
| STP | Shielded Twisted Pair |
| STP | Secure Transfer Protocol |
| TAPI | Telephony Application Programming Interface |
| TCP/IP | Transfer Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
| TGP | Thumbnail Gallery Post |
| TIU | Trusted Interface Unit |
| TOP | Technical and Office Protocol |
| TOU | Terms Of Use |
| TP | Twisted Pair (wire) |
| TP | Transport Protocol (old LAN networking standard protocol) |
| TPA | Transient Program Area (area in RAM where running programs reside) |
| TR | Terminal Ready (modem talk) |
| TR | Token Ring |
| TRIB | Transmission Rate of Information Bits |
| TSI | Time Slot Interchange (before terminals had their own processor) |
| TSO | Time Sharing Option (how Mainframes allocate processor time) |
| TTY | TeleTYpe (how the generic print driver is named) |
| Tx | Transmit packets |
| U/L bit | Universally / locally administered bit (for addressing network info) |
| UCE | Unsolicted Commercial Email |
| UCM | Universal Cable Module |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol (Network protocol for transferring data packets - uses IP like TCP, but doesn't error check) |
| UID | User IDentification (internet, intranet, and server login accesses) |
| ULS | Universal License System (common license for cell phones) |
| UNC | Universal Naming Conventions |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifiers (see URL) |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator: The address of a website in text form, ex: www.somesite.com. This is translated into the IP or number such as 206.22.8.45. A "Yellow Pages" for finding a webpage or site. |
| USN | Update Sequence Number |
| UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair |
| UUCP | UNIX to UNIX CoPy (Currently used to describe protocol that transfers news, email, data over the internet.) |
| VAN | Value Added Network |
| VAR | Value Added Reseller |
| VDT | Video Display Terminal |
| VDU | Video Display Unit |
| VFS | Vines File System |
| VINES | Virtual NEtworking Software (Banyan NOS) |
| VIP | Vines Internet Protocol |
| VMS | Virtual Machine System |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VRC | Vertical Redundancy Check (same as parity check) |
| VSF | Vines System Files (A Banyan / UNIX networking and operating system) |
| VTAM | Virtual Transmission of Automated Messaging |
| VTP | Virtual Terminal Protocol |
| W3 | Short for WWW or World Wide Web |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium. Governing body of the Internet so to speak. |
| WAH | Work At Home |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information System (Info service and search engine used by many search sites like Yahoo, Infoseek, etc. to retrieve information on the Internet.) |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WATS | Wide Area Telecommunications System |
| WDDX | Web Distributed Data eXchange |
| WINS | Windows Internet Naming Service (95 and NT 4.0) |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WWWC | World Wide Web Consortium (governing body that proposes standards for the Web) |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language (the evolution of html) |