COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING CONCEPTS -FULL FORMS
COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING CONCEPTS
FULL FORMS
1. ARPANET
Advanced Research Project Agency
Network
2. NSF
National Science Foundation
3. TCP/IP
Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
4. IP
Internet Protocol
5. NIU
Network Interface Unit
6. NIC
Network Interface Card
7. MAC Address
Media Access Control address
8. TAP
Terminal Access Point
9. LAN
Local Area Network
10.MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
11.PAN
Personal Area Network
12.CAN
Campus Area Network
13.WAN
Wide Area Network
14.VGM
Voice Grade Medium
15.DGM
Data Grade Medium
16.UTP Cable
Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable
17.STP Cable
Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
18.CAT-5 cable
Category-5 cable
19.WWW
World Wide Web
20.GHz
Giga Hertz
21.Hz
Hertz
22.MHz
Mega Hertz
23.KHz
Kilo Hertz
24.THz
Tera Hertz
25.PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
26.LASER
Light Amplification (by) Stimulated
Emission (of) Radiation
27.bps
bits per second
28.Bps
Bytes per second
29.kbps
kilo bits per second
30.Kbps
Kilo bytes per second
31.mbps
million bits per second
32.Mbps
million bytes per second
33.P2P
Point to Point
34.MODEM
Modulation/Demodulation
35.AM
Amplitude Modulation
36.FM
Frequency Modulation
37.PM
Phase Modulation
38.A/F
Audio frequency
39.DTE
Data Terminal Equipment
40.DCE
Data Communication Equipment
41.CTS
Clear to send
42.CD
Career Detect
43.RJ-45
Registered Jack-45
44.AUI Connector
Attachment Unit Interface
45.BNC Connector
Bayone Neill Concelman
46.SNA
Systems Network Architechture
47.ISP
Internet Service Provider
48.FDDI
Fiber-Distributed Data Interface
49.ISDN
Integrated Services Digital network
50.VFIR
Very fast Infrared
51.NFS
Network File System
52.HTTP
Hyper text Transfer Protocol
53.MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
54.SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
55.WAIS
Wide Area Information Service
56.FTP
File Transfer Protocol
57.URL
Uniform Resource Locator
58.URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
59.URN
Uniform Resource Name
60.SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol
61.LCP
Link Control Protocol
62.NCP
Network Control Protocol
63.IPCP
IP Control Protocol
64.PPP
Point to Point Protocol
65.GSM
Global System for Mobile
Communications
66.SIM
Subscriber Identification Module
67.SMS
Short Message Service
68.IDEN
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
69.TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
70.CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
71.WLL
Wireless in Local Loop
72.3G
Third Generation
73.EDGE
Enhanced Data Rate for Global
Evolution
74.UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunication
System
75.PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
76.E-Mail
Electronic Mail
77.CC
Carbon Copy
78.BCC
Blind Carbon Copy
79.BSNL
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
80.VSNL
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
81.HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
82.XML
Extensible Markup Language
83.DHTML
Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
84.ASP
Active Server Pages
85.JSP
Java Server Pages
86.VB Script
Visual Basic Script
87.PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
88.PERL
Practical Extraction Report Language
89.OSS
Open Source Software
90.FLOSS
Free Libre Open Source Software
91.GNU
GNU’s Not Unix
92.FSF
Free Software Foundation
93.OSI
Open Source Initiative
94.W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
95.GPL
General Public License
96.FOSS
Free and Open Source Software
97.SSL
Secured Socket Layer
98.UNCITRAL
United Nation’s Commission for
International Trade Related Law
99.IPR
Intellectual Property Rights
100. FAT
File Allocation Table
