[ee122] some useful acronyms to keep track of
Vern Paxson
vern at icir.org
Fri Sep 14 01:05:08 PDT 2007
Last year, some students found it helpful to have a summary of the various
acronyms we run across in class. I sent it out at that time around the
mid-term, which is why the list is divided up in acronyms that come up
prior to the mid-term and after. There's also a list of acronyms we likely
won't cover in class, but you still will probably find useful to know in
your future network-related efforts.
For the most part, these are listed without definition, since the goal
is to flag them to be on your radar, as opposed to try to nail down their
meaning here.
Hope this proves helpful,
Vern
If no pronunciation is given, then it is each letter individually, e.g.,
TCP = "tee-sea-pea".
Acronyms we'll cover up to the MidTerm
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ACK pronounced as spelled
ARP pronounced as spelled
ARQ
CDN
CIDR pronounced "cider"
CNAME pronounced "See-name"
CRC
CSMA
CSMA/CD
DF This is the only IPv4 header bit that people commonly talked about.
DNS
FDM not in fact widely used
FDMA same, not in fact widely used
FTP
Gbps pronounced "gigabit-per-second" or just "gigabit"
HTTP
IEEE pronounced "eye-triple-ee"
IETF
IMAP pronounced "eye-map"; sometimes is "IMAP4" for version 4 of the protocol
IP
IPv4
IPv6
ISP
LAN pronounced as spelled; local area network
MAC pronounced as spelled; often combined to "MAC address"
MIME pronounced as spelled
MTU
MX
Mbps pronounced "megabit-per-second" or just "megabit"
NAK pronounced as spelled
NIC pronounced as spelled
NRZ not in fact widely used
NRZI not in fact widely used
POP pronounced as spelled; sometimes as "POP3" for version 3 of the protocol
PTR pronounced either "P-T-R" or "Pointer"
RFC
RIR
RR
RTT
SACK pronounced as spelled
SMTP
SONET pronounced "sonnet"
TCP
TDM
TDMA
TLD
TOS pronounced "toss"
TTL
UDP
URI
URL
WAN pronounced as spelled; wide-area network, i.e., a network that spans a large geographic region
WWW pronounced "dub-dub-dub" or sometimes "triple-dub"
Acronyms we'll cover after the Mid-Term
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AIMD
BGP
CWND pronounced "sea-wind"
DDoS pronounced "dee-dos"
DHCP
DoS pronounced as spelled
ECN
FIN pronounced as spelled
ICMP
MSS
NAT pronounced as spelled
OSPF
P2P pronounced "pea-two-pea"
PMTU
QoS pronounced either "Q-O-S" or "kwas"
RED pronounced as spelled
RST pronounced "reset"
SSTHRESH pronounced "ess-ess-thresh"
SYN pronounced "sin"
VOIP pronounced "voyp"
Acronyms we probably won't cover, but you still should know
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10BaseT pronounced "ten-base-tee"; the Twisted Pair version ('T') of 10 Mbps Ethernet; also 100BaseT, 1000BaseT
10G pronounced "ten-gee" or "ten-gig"; Ethernet that runs at 10 Gbps
802.3 pronounced "eight-oh-two-dot-three"; the IEEE standardization of Ethernet
802.11 pronounced "eight-oh-two-dot-eleven"; the IEEE family of wireless protocol standards such as "Wavelan"
ADDL pronounced as spelled; the DNS "additional" RRs
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode; a complex, high-speed link layer
AUTH pronounced as spelled; the DNS "authority" RRs
FastEther "fast-ether"; refers to 100 Mbps Ethernet
GigEther "gig-ether"; 1 Gbps Ethernet
MAN pronounced as spelled; metropolitan-area network
NANOG pronounced "nan-nog"; North American Network Operators Group
PHY pronounced "fie"; refers to the physical layer
WEP pronounced as spelled; Wired Equivalent Privacy or Wireless Encryption Protocol
WiMAX pronounced "why-max"; Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
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