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AC:
Access Control
ACE:
Automatic Calling Equipment
ACK:
ACKnowledge
ACR:
Abandon Call and Retry
ADSP:
Appletalk Data Stream Protocol
AEP:
Appletalk Echo Protocol
AFP:
Appletalk Filing Protocol
ARCnet:
Attached Resource Computer NETwork
ASP:
Appletalk Session Protocol
ATP:
Appletalk Transport Protocol
BN:
Bridge Number
BSA:
Basic Service Area
BSS:
Basic Service Set
CDDI:
Copper Distributed Data Interface
CMSA/CA:
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CP:
Continuation Pointer
CRC:
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRQ:
Call Request
CSMA/CA:
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD:
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect
CTS:
Clear To Send
CUG:
Closed User Group
D:
Direction bit
DA:
Destination Address (MAC)
DAS:
Dual Attached Station
DCD:
Data Carrier Detect, officially known as Received Line Signal Detector
DCE:
Data Communications Equipment
DCLA:
DC Level Adjust
DDP:
Datagram Delivery Protocol
DID:
Destination IDentifier
DIX:
Digital Intel Xerox
DLO:
Data Line Occupied
DPR:
Digit Present
DR:
Date Rate
DSAP:
Destination Service Access Point
DSC:
Distant Station Connected
DSR:
Data Set Ready, officially known as DCE Ready
DSSS:
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DTE:
Data Terminal Equipment
DTR:
Data Terminal Ready, officialy known as DTE Ready
ED:
Ending Delimiter
ELAP:
Ethernet Link-Access Protocol
ENQ:
Enquiry
EOT:
End Of Transmission
ESA:
Extended Service Area
ESS:
Extended Service Set
FBE:
Free Buffer Enquiry
FC:
Frame Control
FCS:
Frame Check Sequence
FDDI:
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FHSS:
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FS:
Frame Status
GFI:
General Format Identifier
HDLC:
High level Data Link Control
IGRIP:
Interior Gatway Routing Information Protocol
IR:
Infrared
IRL:
Inter Repeater Link
IS:
Internet System
ISO:
International Standards Organisation
ISU:
Information Symbol Unit
ITT:
Invitation To Transmit
LAN:
Local Area Network
LAPB:
Link Access Procedure Balanced
LCN:
Logical Channel Number
LF:
Largest Framesize
LGN:
Logical Group Number
LLAP:
Localtalk Link-Access Protocol
LLC:
Logical Link Control
LTH:
Length
MAC:
Media Access Control
MDI:
Medium Dependent Interface
MII:
Medium Independent Interface
MPDU:
MAC Protocol Data Unit
Modem:
MOdulator DEModulator. A device for connecting two DTEs.
NAK:
Negative AcKnowledge
NBP:
Name-Binding Protocol
NIC:
Network Interface Card
NID:
Next IDentification
OSI:
Open Systems Interconnect
OSPF:
Open Shortest Path First
PAC:
Packet
PAD:
Packet Assembler/Disassembler
PAP:
Printer Access Protocol
PCM:
Pulse Code Modulation
PHY:
Physical
PLCP:
Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLP:
Packet Layer Protocol
PMD:
Physical Medium Dependent
PMI:
Physical Medium independent sublayer
PND:
Present Next Digit
PPP:
Point-to-Point Protocol
PSDU:
Physical Sublayer Data Unit
PTI:
Packet Type Identifier
PVC:
Permanent Virtual Circuit
RC:
Routing Control (16 bits)
RD, RxD:
Received Data
RDx:
Route Designator x
RI:
Routing Information
RII:
Routing Information Indicator
RIM:
Resource Interface Module
RIP:
Routing Information Protocol
RSU:
Reconfiguration Symbol Unit
RT:
Routing Type
RTMP:
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
RTS:
Request To Send
SA:
Source Address incl. RII
SABM:
Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
SABME:
SABM Extended
SAS:
Single Attached Station
SC:
System Code
SD:
Starting Delimiter
SDH:
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SFD:
Start Frame Delimiter
SGND:
Signal GrouND
SID:
Source IDentification
SN:
Segment Number
SNAP:
SubNetwork Addressing Protocol
SOH:
Start Of Header
SONET:
Synchronous Optical NETwork
SSAP:
Source Service Access Point
STP:
Shielded Twisted Pair
SVC:
Switched Virtual Circuit
TD, TxD:
Transmitted Data
THT:
Token Holding Time
TLAP:
Token ring Link-Access Protocol
TP-PMD:
Twisted Pair PMD
TRT:
Token Rotation Time
TTRT:
Target Token Rotation Time
UTP:
Unshielded Twisted Pair
WAN:
Wide Area Network
ZIP:
Zone Information Protocol
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