Acronyms Flashcards
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
SOHO
Small Office Home Office
LAN
Local Area Network
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
SNA
System Network Architecture
“A networking model developed by IBM back in 1970s and 1980s.
ISO
The International Organization for Standardization
- OSI networking model developed by ISO.
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
DoD
Department of Defense
- The US department who developed the TCP/IP networking model.
RFC
Requests For Comments
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
SEQ
sequence number
WAN
Wide Area Network
IP
Internet Protocol
DDN
Dotted-decimal notation
LH
Link Header
LT
Link Trailer
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
URL
Uniform Resource Locators
URI
Universal Resource Identifiers
IEEE 802.11
Wireless Standard
AP
Access Point
SWD
Distribution Switch
IEEE 802.3
Common name : Ethernet Standards
- First Ethernet
- Informal IEEE name - 10BASE-T
- Formal IEEE name - 802.3
- Cable Type - Copper
- Distance - 100m
UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair
GBIC
Gigabit Ethernet Interface Converter
SFP
Small Form Pluggable
SFP+
Small Form Pluggable Plus
HDLC
FCS
Frame Check Sequence
ICMP
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
MAC
Media Access Control
DNS
Domain Name Service
OSPF
Open Shortest Path First
SFD
Start Frame Delimiter
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
OUI
Organizationally Unique Identifier
BIA
Burned-in-address
IOS
Internetwork Operating System
- An operating system software runs in the CISCO switch.
CLI
Command Line Interface
- Human Interface to the switch
