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by **vsingh** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:33 am

RFC - Request for Comments
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IP - Internet Protocol
ISP - Internet Service Provider
CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection

by **cbick** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:09 pm

OSPF - Open Shortest Path First protocol

PPP - Point to Point Protocol

RIP - Routing Information Protocol

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

by **rybush** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:12 am

POP - point-of-presence
ISO - International Standards Orginization
OSI - Open Systems Interconnection
P2P - Peer-to-peer

by **squid314** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:05 pm

DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
HFC - Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial Cable

by **Anthony** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:58 pm

TDM - Time-Division Multiplexing
FDM - Frequency-Division Multiplexing

by **DenverRedHead** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:07 am

WEPWired Equivalent Privacy, a deprecated security protocol for wireless under IEEE 802.11. Virtually worthless, as software to break it has been generally available since it's introduction in 1999.

NATNetwork Address Translation, a method of hiding actual IP addresses via a masking technique at the firewall or gateway. Also used to overcome the shortage of IPv4 addresses by reusing 192.168.* space internally.[/b]

by **Christer** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:46 pm

UPnP - Universal Plug and Play
XML - Extensible Markup Language
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
HTTPU - Hypertext Transport Protocol Unicast
HTTPMU - Hypertext Transport Protocol Multicast
UDN - Unique Device Name
SCPD - Service Control Protocol Definition
GENA - General Event Notification Architecture
SSDP - Simple Service Discovery Protocol

by **Christer** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:22 am

FTP - File Transfer Protocol
POP3 - Post Office Protocol - Version 3
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol*
DNS - Domain Name System
TLS - Transport Layer Security
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer

*Note: In RFC 1064 IMAP was called INTERACTIVE MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOL. From RFC 1730 and forward IMAP is refered to as INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL. In the latest RFC (RFC 3501) IMAP = INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1. (http://www.imap.org/)

by **cbick** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:57 pm

TTL - Time To Live (in hops)

by **Teresa Davies** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:00 am

RIP = routing information protocol

SNMP = simple network management protocol

by **cbick** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:09 pm

ARQ - Automatic Repeat reQuest

by **max [is back]** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:59 am

CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing

by **Christer** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:22 pm

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 2131)
STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) (RFC 3489)
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol (RFC 792)
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol (RFC 1771)

by **AlexanderEnaceanu** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:40 am

HFC - Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial Cable

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