Common Computer Related Acronyms

A

• ANSI - American National Standards Institute
• AON - All Optical Network
• API - Application Programming Interface
• ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ATM -Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B

• BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
• BRI - Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)

C

• CO - Central Office
• CSU - Channel Service Unit

D

• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DNS - Domain Name System
• DSU - Digital Service Unit

E

• EMI - Electromagnetic Interference

F

• FAT - File Allocation Table (FAT16, FAT32)
• FCC - Federal Communications Commission
• FTP - File Transfer Protocol (Port: 21)

G

• GSM - Global System for Mobile (telecommunications)

H

• HDLC - High (level) Data Link Control
• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Port: 80)

I

• ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
• IIS - Internet Information Server
• ISO - International Organization for Standards
• IP - Internet Protocol
• IPSec - Internet Protocol Security
• IPv6 - Internet Protocol Version 6
• ISAPI - Internet Server API
• ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
• ISP - Internet Service Provider

J

K

L

• LAN - Local Area Network

M

• MAC - Media Access Control
• MAN - Metropolitan Area Network

N

• NAT - Network Address Translation
• NTFS - New Technology File System

O

• OS - Operations System
• OSI - Open System Interconnection
• OSI - Open System Interface

P

• PCI - Protocol Control Information
• PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
• POP - Post Office Protocol (Port: 110)
• PPP - Point to Point Protocol
• PRI - Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)

Q

• QoS - Quality of Service

R

• RAS - Remote Access Server
• RAS - Remote Access Service

S

• SDCU - Synchronous Data Channel Unit
• SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET)
• SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
• SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
• SOHO - Small Office/Home Office
• SONET -Synchronous Optical Network
• SSL - Secure Socket Layer (Port: 443)

T

• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
• TCP - Transport Control Protocol

U

• UDP - User Datagram Protocol
• UTP - Universal Twisted Pair

V

• VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
• VPN - Virtual Private Network
• VXML - Voice Extensible Markup Language

W

• WAN - Wide Area Network
• WAP - Wireless Application Protocol

X

• XML - Extensible Markup Language

Y

Z

Chat Acronyms

• YW - Your Welcome
• LOL - Laugh Out Loud
• ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
• JK - Just kidding
• IMO - In my opinion
• BRB - Be Right Back
• BBL - Be Back Later
• BBS - Be Back Soon
• WB - Welcome Back
• TY - Thank You
• HB - Hurry Back
• BTW - By The Way