COMMUNICATION AND NETWORK CONCEPTS

Abbreviations & Full Forms

1 ARPANET Advanced Research Project Agency Network

2 NSF National Science Foundation
3 TCP/IP Transmission Control Prototcol / Internet Protocol
4 NIU /NIC Network Interface Unit / Network Interface Card
5 TAP Terminal Access Point
6 LED Light Emitting Diode
7 STP/ USTP Shielded Twisted Pair / Unshielded Twisted Pair
8 LAN Local Area Network
9 MAN Metropolitan Area Network
10 WAN Wide Area Network
11 PAN Personal Area Network
12 RJ Registered Jack
13 HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
14 FTP File Transfer Protocol
15 NTP Network Time Protocol
16 SLIP / PPP Serial Line Internet Protocol / Point To Point Protocol
17 PDA Personal Digital Assistant
18 GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
19 CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
20 TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
21 SIM Subscriber Identification Module
22 WLL/ WiLL Wireless in Local Loop
23 GPRS General Packet Radio Service
24 EDGE Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution
25 SMS Short Message Service
26 UMTS Universal Mobile Telephone System
27 HLR Home Location Register
28 IRC Internet Relay Chat
29 SIP Session Initiation Protocol
30 VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
31 WWW World Wide Web
32 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
33 NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
34 POP Post Office Protocol
35 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
36 HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
37 XML Extensible Markup Language
38 DHTML Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language
39 PHP Hypertext Pre processor
40 ASP Active Server Pages
41 FLOSS Free Libre / Livre Open Source Software
42 GNU GNU not Unix
43 FSF File Software Foundation
44 OSI Open Source Initiative
45 W3C World Wide Web Consortium
46 GPL General Public License
47 IPR Intellectual Property Rights
48 FAT File Allocation Table
49 URL Uniform Resource Locator
50 MODEM Modulation And Demodulation
51 NFS Network File System
52 MAC Media Access Control
53 ISP Internet Service Provider
54 PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
55 IMAP Internet Mail Access Protocol
56 LCP Link Control Protocol
57 ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
58 DNS Domain Name System
59 MAGIC Mobile multimedia, anytime anywhere, Global mobility support,
integrated wireless solution, and customized personal service.