Glossary: IT & Networking terms

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ADC (2) ADC (3) ADDIE Address Harvester ADFS ADL ADM ADMD ADMIN$ ADO adox ADPCM ADSI ADSI Edit ADSL ADSP AEP (1) AEP (2) AF (1) AF (2) AFI AFP AFRINIC AGP AGTL AH AHCI AICC AIFF AIN Aio AISO AIX AJAX A-Law ALI ALO ALS AM AMI Encoding Amplitude AMPS AMR AMS AMT Analog andragogy ANI/CLI ANS ANSI Anti-Replay Anycast AOL AOTS AP APIC APM APNIC APPC append Applet AppleTalk Address APPN AR ARA ARAP ARB Archie ARCNET ARIN ARP ARPA ARQ ARS AS (1) AS (2) AS/400 ASA ASBR ASCII ASF ASIC ASMP ASN.1 ASP (1) ASP (2) ASP (3) ASPI assoc ASVD Asynchronous Transmission AT ATA ATAPI ATC ATEC ATL Server ATM ATMARP ATP ATSC Attenuation attrib.exe ATU ATU-R AUI AUP AURP AUTOEXEC.NT avatar AVCHD AVP AWStats B2B B2C B8ZS BACP Balanced & Unbalanced Circuits bandwidth banner BAP Baseband Transmission Baseline Data Baud Baud Rate BBN BBS Bc Bcc BCD B-CDMA BCL BD BDA BDC BDR Be BECN Behavior Blocking Bell 103 Bell 113 Bell 201 Bell 202 Bell 208 Bell 209 Bell 212 Benchmarking BEOLSWBAT BER BGP BIA BICSI BIND BINL BIOS bipolar bis BISDN B-ISDN Bisync BIT Bit Bucket BITS (1) BITS (2) BLOB Blog BLSR BLT Bluetooth BNC B-Node BOC BOM BOOT.INI BOOTP bootsect.dos BOPS BPB BPDU BPEL BPI BPR bps BQB BQTF BRI Bridge Bridged Tap Bridges BRML Broadband Transmissions Brouter BSR Buffer Buffer Overflow BUS Bus Enumerator Byte C# C/R C++ CA Cable Modem cacls CAD CAL call CAM (1) CAM (2) CANE CAP CAPI CAR CardBus Carrier Wave Carriers CAS CASF CASIE CATC Catenet CATOS CAU (1) CAU (2) CBC CBR CBR (2) CBT CBWFQ CC CC/XDS CCEP CCI CCIF CCITT CCKM CCM CC-NUMA CCO CCP ccTLD CCW CD CD Encoding CDATA CDF (1) CDF (2) CDMA CDO CDP CDPD CE CEBus cell tax CENIC Central Clock CERT CES CEU CF CGI CGM CHAP Character Encoding Checksum CHI Choreography Language CIC CICS CIDR CIFS CIIX CIM CIMS cipher Cipher Text CIPS CIR Circuit Switched Network Circuit Switching CISC CISCO CIW (1) CIW (2) CIX CKIP CLASS Class 4 Switch Class 5 Switch CLEC CLI clickthrough CLP CLR CLS CMAK CMC CMIP CMOS CMS (1) CMS (2) CMTS CN CNAME CNIP CNP CNR CO COBRA Code Signing Codec (1) CODEC (2) COFF Collision Collision Domain Co-Location color Compact.exe Compiling Composite Message Frame concatenate Congestion Connectionless Communication Connection-oriented Communication Connector Constellation Points Continuous ARQ convert.exe Convolutional Code cookie COOP COPS corpus COS (1) CoS (2) COSE CP/M CPAN CPC CPE cpm CPRM CPU CQ CRC CRM Cross-Connect Block Crossfire Crosstalk CRS (1) CRS (2) CryptoAPI CS CSA CSC cscript.exe CSD CSLIP CSMA/CA CSMA/CD CSNW CSP CSR CSS (1) CSS (2) CSS (3) CSTA CSU/DSU CSV (1) CSV (2) CSVDE CT CTI CTL CTP CTS Cut-Through CVS CWIS cyberspace cybersquatter CyBus DACL DACS DAD DAO DAP (1) DAP (2) DAS Data Communication Data Mining Data Sink Datagram datagrams DB DBA DBMS DC DCC dcdiag DCE (1) DCE (2) DCE (3) DCEC DCES DCF DCIM DCMI DCOM dcomcnfg DCS DDE DDF DDI DDL DDM DDNS DDOS DDP DDR DDR SDRAM DDS DE DEA DEC DECNET Demand Priority Access Demarcation demonstration DEN DEP DEP (2) Deprecate Deregulation DES DESX DET DFS DHCP DHCP Relay DIB Dibit DID DIDS diff DiffGram Diffie-Hellman Technique Diff-Serv Digital Certificate Digital Cross-Connect Digital Signature dijkstra DIM DIMM DIP DIR directed discovery directory database DirectX Dirty Data Discrete ARQ diskperf.exe DISP Dispersion DisplayPort Distance Vector Protocol DIT dithering Divestiture DIWG DIX DL DLC (1) DLC (2) DLCI DLL DLNA DLSw DLUR/s DMA DMCA DME DMF DMI DML DMT DMTF DN DNA DNIS DNS dnscmd DNSO DNSSEC DOAP DOCSIS Document Tree DOD DODnic DOM Domain DOP Double Word Byte DOV DPA DPC DPLL DPMI DPOF DPSK DPT DQDB DR DRA DRAM DRARP DRF DRI (1) DRI (2) DRM DRM (1) DRM (2) DRY DS DS0 DSA (1) DSA (2) dsacls DSAP dsastat DSE DSI DSL DSLAM DSML DSMN DSN DSP (1) DSP (2) DSS DSSS DSSSL DST (1) DST (2) DSU DSVD DTC DTD (1) DTD (2) DTE DTIM DTMF DTP (1) DTP (2) DTS (1) DTS (2) DTV DUAL DUN Duplex DVB-T DVD DVD-A DVI DVM DVMRP DWDM E4X EACL EAP EARL EBCDIC ebXML EC ECC ECC (1) ECHS ECI ECMA ECMA Script ECP EDCDIC EDGE EDI EDK EDN EDRA EDS (2) EEPROM EF (1) EF (2) EFF EFS EGP (1) EGP (2) EGPRS EHLLAPI EIA EIA/TIA 232 EIA/TIA 449 EIA/TIA 530 EIA/TIA 612/613 EIDE EIGRP EIM EIU EJB ELAP Element ELFEXT EMA Embedded Objects Embedded Windows NT® EMC EMF EMI EMI (2) EMS Encapsulation Encoding enumerate EP Epistemology EPP EPROM Equal Access ER ERD ERD (1) ERP ESCD ESCON ESD ESD (1) ESE ESF ESM ESMR ESNET ESP ESRB ESS ET ETC Ethernet Ethernet_802.2 Ethernet_802.3 Ethernet_II Ethernet_SNAP EtherTalk ETSI EULA EVDO EV-DO Exabyte ExIFS Extranet FAL Farad FBJS FBML fc FC-AL FCC FCIP FCL FC-PGA FCS FD FDC FDDI FDM FEC FECN federated identity FEK FEP Ferrite Coil FEXT FFT FHSS Fiber-Optic Cable FICON FIFO findstr finger FIPS Firewire FIX FLEM FLP FM FNC FOAF FOIRL FOOBAR Fortezza FPLMTS FPM FPNW FQDN FQL FRAD Fragment-free Switching Frame Frame Rate Frame Relay Frequency FRF FRS FRSP FS FSD FSK FSM (1) FSM (2) FSMO FSRTL FSSA FTAM ftdisk.sys FTP (1) FTP (2) Full-Duplex FXO FXS G.703 G.DMT GAL GAN gateway GBIC GCA GCR GDI GE GFC GFCI GGP ghost GHz GIF Gigabyte Gigaflops GINA G-lite Global Catalog global.asa GMC GMSK GNS GNU gopher GOSIP GPC (1) GPC (2) GPIB GPO GPRS GPT (1) GPT (2) GQoS GRDDL GRE Grooming GSM GSNW GSR GSS-API gTLD GUI GUID GVPN H.264 H.323 Half-Duplex handout HAPI HAVi HCC HCI HCL HDB3 HDC HDCD HDCP HDD HDLC HDMI HDML HDSL HDTV Header HEC Hertz HFT HHC H-HDD HID HIDS hit Hive HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS HMAC HMMP HMMS HMOM HMS H-Node Home RF Home-PNA HPFS HPNA HPPI HPR HPSB HSCSD HSRP HSSI HTML HTPC HTTP HTU-C HTU-R HTX Hub HUT (1) Hut (2) HVAC hyperlink i.Link I/O IAB (1) IAB (2) IAD IANA IAPP IAS IAS.MDB IASG IBM ibstpi.org ICA ICANN ICCB ICH ICMP ICP ICR ICS (1) ICS (2) ICSA ICV ID IDC (1) IDC (2) IDE (1) IDE (2) IDE (3) IDEA IDF IDL IDQ IDS IDSL IDT IEAK IEEE IEEE 1284 IEEE 1394 IEEE 802.1 IEEE 802.10 IEEE 802.11 IEEE 802.12 IEEE 802.16 IEEE 802.2 IEEE 802.20 IEEE 802.22 IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3u IEEE 802.4 IEEE 802.5 IEEE 802.6 IEEE 802.7 IEEE 802.8 IEEE 802.9 IEP IER IESG IETF IFS IGRP IHS IHV IIOP IIS IKE IKMP ILEC ILMI ILS IM IMAP IMP Impedance Impressions IMS IMT IMT-2000 IMTC IMU IMUX IN Index Server Information Store infrastructure inkML instr() Instructional Design Instructional Development Instructional System Instructional Technology Interface Internet InterNIC Interoperability intranet IOAPIC IOS IP IPC IPConfig IPCP IPI IPID IPL IPNNI I-P-O IPOA IPP IPSEC IPSEC Policy Agent IPSEC.SYS IPX ipxroute IR (1) IR (2) IRC IrDA IRDP IRI IRP IRQ IRR IRTF IS ISA ISAKMP ISAM ISAPI ISAPI Filter ISATM iSCSI ISD ISDN IS-IS ISL ISM ISN ISO ISOC isochronous ISP ISR ISS ISSLOW ISSN ISUP IT ITC Iteration IVR IVRU IXC IxDA IXFR J++ J2EE jabber JAVA Java Sandbox JavaScript JDBC JEITA JIT JMF JPEG Jscript JSON Jughead KADM Kbps KCC KDC Kerberos KHz KIF Kilobyte KLOC KM L2F LAAP LAC LACNIC LADS lambdas LAN LANC LANE LAPB LAP-B LAPD LAPF LAPM LAP-M LASER Last Mile LAT LATA Late Collision latency LBA LCN (1) LCN (2) LCP LCR LDAP LDIF LDIFDE LDM LDN LDP LE LEAP LEC (1) LEC (2) LED Lempel-Ziv LER LES Lexical Structure LFE LFN LIFO Link-State Protocol LIP LIR LLAP LLC LM Host LMI LMS Lobe Cables LOC Local Loop LocalTalk Logical Network Design LOH long frame LPC LPD/LPR LPQ LQM LRC LRE LRN LRPC LSA (1) LSA (2) LSAP LSAPI LSB LSL LSM LSN LSP (1) LSP (2) LSR (1) LSR (2) LSRR LSU LT LTE LUN LUT LVDS LZ LZW MAC MADCAP MAE Magic Numbers Manchester Encoding MAP MAPI MAU Mbps MBR (1) MBR (2) MBWA MBZ MC MCH MCIS MCPS MCR MCS MCSE MCSE+I MCSP MCX MD5 MD5-CHAP MDAC MDF MDI MDI-ng Megabyte Megaflops MELL MER Message Digest metacognation MFJ MFT MHS MHz MIB MIC (1) MIC (2) MIC (3) Microsegmentation MIDI MIF MILNET MIME MIS MLA MLID MLPA MLT-3 MMI MMO MMS (1) MMS (2) MMS (3) MMTF M-Node MNP Mobil MIF Modal Dispersion modem Modified B-Node MOF MOLI MOLP MOM MOTIS MOTO MOVE MP MPEG MPLS MPNL MPOA MPOE MPPC MPPE MPR MR heads MRH-R MRU MS MSAS MSAU MSB MS-CHAP MSCS MSDN MSDSS msdtc MSF msiexec.exe MSIL MSPSRV.EXE MSR MSS MTA MTBF MTP MTS (1) MTS (2) MTSO MTU Mu-Law Multicasting Multihomed Multi-mode Fiber multiplexing MUP MUX MX NAAC NAK Named Pipe NANOG nanosecond NAP (1) NAP (2) NAS (1) NAS (2) NAT NAUN NBF NBIPX NBMA NBNS NBP nbsp NBT NBTSTAT NC NCB NCP (1) NCP (2) NCSA (1) NCSA (2) NCT NDIS NDS NEBS NES NEST Net Accounts Net Computer NET CONFIG net config server Net Continue NET DIAG Net Group NET INIT Net Localgroup NET LOGOFF NET LOGON NET PASSWORD Net Pause NET PRINT Net Share NET START Net Statistics NET STOP NET TIME NET USE Net User NET VER NET VIEW NetBEUI NetBIOS NetBT netdiag.exe netdom netsh NetShow netstat Network Monitor NEXT NFS NFSNET NFT NHLFE Nibble NIC NID NIDS NIP NIS NIST NLB NLM NLP NLSP nltest NMC NMS NNI NNTP node NOS NPA (1) NPA (2) NPA (3) NREN NRN NRP NRS NRZ Encoding NRZI Encoding NSF NSFNET NSI NSLOOKUP NSP (1) NSP (2) NSS NSSA NT ntdetect.com NTDOS.SYS NTDS ntdsutil NTFS NTIO.SYS NTLDR NTLM NTP NTU NTUSER.DAT NTUSER.DAT.LOG NTVDM NTVDM.EXE NULL MODEM NVE NW NWLink O&MAP OADM OAK Oakley OASIS OBI object Object Signing (1) Object Signing (2) Object Signing (3) OC-1 OC-12 OC-192 OC-256 OC-3 OC-48 OC-768 OCN OCR octothorpe OCUR OCX Odata ODBC ODI OEM OFDM OFDMA OID OLAP OLE OLE DB OLED OLGA OLTP OMG One-Way Hash Function OOD OOF OOP openGL Operating System Opportunistic Locks OPSEC OR ORBs Orchestration Language ORPC OS OSF OSI OSPF OT OTA OTDR OUI Outsourcing OWF OWL OXC OXID P2P P64H PAB PAC Packet Switched Network Packets PAD PAE PAM PAN PAP (1) PAP (2) parsing PAT Patch Panel Path Vector Protocol PBR PBX PC/SC PCA PCB PCCA PCDATA PCI (1) PCI (2) PCIA PCM PCMCIA PCS PCT PDA PDC PDF PDL PDM PDN PDP PDU PE (1) PE (2) PEAP Pedabyte Pedagogy Peer-to-Peer Networking PEM PEP PERL permissions PES PFS PFX PGA PGP Phase Modulation PHB PHS PHY Physical Network Design PIC PICS PIE PIM PING PIR pixel PKI PKIX Plenum Cabling PLL PLP PM PMB PMD PMTU PNG P-Node PNWGP POA POE POH POP POP2 POP3 POSIX POST POTS POTS Splitter PPGA PPM (1) PPM (2) PPN PPP PPPOE PPTP PQ PReP PRI PRINTER$ privileged time PRMD Productivity Paradox PROFS Propagation Delay Protocol Protocol Conversion Protocol Stack PSE PS-ELFEXT PSK PSM PSN PSNEXT PS-NEXT PSSU PST PSTN PSU PT PTS PTT PUC PVC (1) PVC (2) PWL PWM PXE Python Q.921 Q.931 Q.933a q933a QAM QIC QOS Qpel QPSK QRTD Quadbit RAD RADB RADIUS RADSL RAID RAM RAP (1) RAP (2) RARP RAS RBDE RBOC RBS RCP RD RDAB RDBMS RDF RDFS rdisk.exe RDN RDO RDP rdr.sys RDRAM RDS Recursion RED REG_BINARY REG_DWORD REG_EXPAND_SZ REG_MULTI_SZ REG_SZ regini.exe Regulatory Agencies REN (1) REN (2) REP Repeaters Resolvers Resource Partner REST REXEC REXX RF RFC RFI RFNM RG6 Coaxial Cable RGB RGBA RIA RID RIF rights RIP RIPE RIR RIT RJ RMON ROI ROM ROMB rot13 Route Router Routing Protocol RPC RPD RPG RPL RPS RRAS RRDNS RRP RS RS-232 RSA RSAC RSL RSOP RSP RSS RSVP RTMP (1) RTMP (2) RTS (1) RTS (2) RTSP RTT RTU Runts RUP RZ S/N S/PDIF SA SACL SAD SAG Sakai SAM SAML Sampling Rate SAN Sandbox SAP (1) SAP (2) SAPI SAR SAS SATAN SAWSDL SAX SBM SC242 SCA SCAM SCCP SCE SCI (1) SCI (2) SCM SCO SCORM SCP SCS SCSI SCSI ID ScTP SCTS SCW SD (1) SD (2) sdcheck SDH SDI SDK SDLC SDP SDRAM SDSL SECC SECC2 secedit Security Descriptor Segmentation Semantic Web SEPP SET Setupmgr.exe SFD SFF SGBP SGC SGCP SGI SGML SHA SHI SID SIG Silent RIP SIMD Single-Mode Fiber Sink SIP SIPC SIR SIT Site SKIP SLED SLI SLIP SMAU SMB SMBs SMDS SMI SMI (2) SMIL SMM SMP SMPTE SMS SMT SMTP SNA SNADS SNAP SNASw SNMP SNTP SOA (1) SOA (2) SOAP SOF SOH SOHO SONET sort Source Routing SPA SPAM SPAN SPAP SPDIF SPDLC SPE SPF SPI SPID SPKI/SDSI SPM SPML Spoofing SPOOL SPR SPX SQE SQL SRAM SRB SRM SRP SRTT SRTT (1) SS7 SSAP SSH SSID SSL SSO SSP (1) SSP (2) SSPI SSRR SSSO STA Standards Star Topology STDM STE STM (1) STM (2) STP (1) STP (2) STPP Streaming STS (1) STS (2) student learning objective student performance objective Subnet SVC SVG svr.sys Switch Switching Syllabus SYN sysdiff.exe System.CB T.30 T1 T1.105 T1.106 T3 TA TACACS+ TAD tag (1) tag (2) Tailgate Tandem Office TAPI Tbps TC TCAP Tcl/Tk TCM TCP TCP/IP TCSEC TDI TDM (1) TDM (2) TDMA TDP TDR TDS TE1 TE2 TEI Telecommunications Telecommunications Act of 1996 Telecommuter Telepole Telnet Terabyte terbo TFT TFTP TGS TGT Thesis Thicknet Thinnet THR TI TIA Tick Tie-Wrap TKIP TLA TLA (2) TLAP TLD TLS (1) TLS (2) TMDS TME TMN ToD TOH TOS TRACERT Transcevier Transit Internetwork tree Tribit TRT TSAPI TSI TSIG TSP TSU TSV TTL (1) TTL (2) Turtle TWA TWS U Reference Point UA UAM UART UAS UAWG UCE UCLP UDA UDDI UDEF UDF (1) UDF (2) UDF (3) UDP UDRP UHCI UI UL UltraSCSI UltraWideSCSI UMS UMTS UNC UNI Unicast Unicode U-NII UN-II Universal Access Universal Carriers Universal Service UPN UPS UPSR Upstream UREP URI URL URN USB USE User Agent USER.DAT USN USOC UTP UUCP UUID UUNET UX UXGA V.24 V.35 VBI VBR VC VCC VCI VCM VCN VCSEL VDD VDM VDSL ver Veronica VESA VFAT VFD VFS VHDSL VIC VID VidToAsf ViiV VIP VIP2 Virus Scanner visits VITAL VL BUS VLAN VLDB VLM (Microsoft) VLM (Novell) VLSI VLSM VML VMM VOB VOBU VoCoder VOD VOIP VPD VPI VPN VRC VRML VRRP VT VTM VTOA VTP (1) VTP (2) VWD W3C WAE WAI WAIS Wake-on-LAN WAN WAP War Spying WARP Wavelength WavToAsf WBEM WCAT W-CDMA WCF WCMP WDDM WDM (1) WDM (2) WDP WebBots WebDAV webmaster WEC WEP WFM WFP WFQ WHQL WIC WideSCSI Wi-Fi Wiki winnt.exe winnt32.exe WINS WinSock Wireless Access Protocol WLAN WMA WMFSDK WMI WMIC WML WMS WNMP Word Byte WOSA WOW WPA WPF WRAN WRED Write Back Cache Write Through Cache WRR WS-* WSCL wscript.exe WSDL WS-F PRP WS-Federation WSFL WS-I WSP WSRM WSS (1) WSS (2) WS-Security WSUS WTLS WTP WUXGA WXGA X.21 X.25 X.28 X.29 X.3 X.32 X.400 X.500 X.509 XAML XAPIA XBAP XBL xcopy XCP XFBML XFORMS XHTML XML XMP XNS XO XOR XSD XSL XSL-FO XSLT XTACACS ZIP zone of authority µsec  

This course introduces students to fundamental data communication concepts including voice and data communications, networking hardware, the OSI model, and network design. Network management and security issues are also covered. This course is designed for the student who is interested in learning about data communications and networking as well as the career options that are available in this field.