Glossary

ADCCP

Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures

ADU

Analogue to Digital Units

AGP

A high-speed PCI bus dedicated to graphics adapters

ARCNET

Attached Resource Computer Network

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATA

Advanced Technology Attachment.

ATAPI

Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) Packet Interface

ATM

Asychronous Transfer Mode

BID

Bridge Identifier

BIOS

Binary Input Output System

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

BPDU

Bridge Protocol Data Unit

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CMP

Chip-Level Multiprocessor

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRLF

Carriage Return Line Feed

CTS

Clear To Send

DCD

Data Carrier Detected

DCE

Data Circuit-terminating Equipment

DF

Don't Fragment

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIN

Deutsches Institut fuer Normung

DNS

Domain Name System

DNP

Distributed Network Protocol

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSR

Data Set Ready

DTE

Data Terminal Equipment

DTR

Data Terminal Ready

ECC

Error-Correcting Code

ECN

Explicit Congestion Notification

EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

GBIC

Gigabit Interface Converter

GPS

Global Positioning System

HBA

Host Bus Adapter

HDA

Head/disk Assembly

HDLC

High-level Data Link Control

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IC

Integrated Circuits

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICCP

Inter-Control Center Protocol

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated/Intelligent Drive Electronics

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IED

Intelligent Electronic Devices

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IHL

Internet Header Length

IP

Internet Protocol

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

ISL

Inter-Switch Link

ISO

International Standards Organization

ITU

International Telecommunication Union

ITU-T

International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications.

LAN

Local Area Network

LLC

Logical Link Control

LRC

Longitudinal Redundancy Check

LSB

Least Significant Bit

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MF

More fragments

MPLS

Multi-Protocol Label Switching

MSB

Most Significant Bit

MSTP

Mulitple Spanning Tree Protocol

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit

NIC

Network Interface Card

NIR

Near-Infrared

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OPC

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) for Protocol Control

OSI

Open Systems Interoperability

OUI

Organizationally Unique Identifier

PATA

Parallel ATA

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PD

Powered Devices

PHY layer

Physical layer

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

POE

Power Over Ethernet

PSE

Power Sourcing Equipment

RAM

Random Access Memory

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RFC

Request For Comments

RIR

Regional Internet Registries

RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

RTS

Request to send

RTU

Replacement Training Unit

SATA

Serial ATA

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

SCADA

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SMON

Switch monitoring

SMP

Symmetric multiprocessing

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SDO

Standards Development Organization

SSH

Secure Shell

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

TCN

Topology Change Notification

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TOS

Type Of Service

TXD

Transmitted Data

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

USB

Universal Serial Bus

VDU

Visual Display Unit

VLAN

Virtual LAN

VLT

Virtual LAN Trunk

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VTP

VLAN Trunking Protocol

VOIP

Voice over IP

WAN

Wide Area Network

WIFI

Wireless Fidelity

WSA

Web Standards Association

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

XML

Extensible Markup Language