Abbreviations


  • ANSI- American National Standard Institute.
  • ASCII- American Standard Code for Information.
  • ARPANET- Advanced Research Project Agency Network.
  • ADSL- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.
  • NIC- Network Interface Card.
  • BNC- Bayonet Normalized Connector.
  • RJ- Register Jack.
  • MAC- Media Access Control.
  • CSMA- Carrier Sense Multiple Access.
  • STMP-Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
  • CA- Collision Avoidance.
  • CD- Collision Detection.
  • HTTP- Hyper Text Terminal Protocol.
  • HTML- Hyper Text Markup Language.
  • DNS- Domain Name System/Server.
  • ARP- Address Resolution Protocol.
  • RARP- Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
  • MAC- Media Access Control.
  • OSI- Open System Interconnection.
  • ISO- International Organization of Standardization.
  • TCP/IP- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
  • CCITT- Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph.
  • ITU- International Telecommunication Union.
  • LLC- Logical Link Control.
  • CRC- Cyclic Redundancy Check.
  • Ack- Acknowledgement.
  • RAM- Random Access Memory.
  • SRAM- Static Random Access Memory.
  • DRAN- Dynamic Random Access Memory.
  • ROM- Read Only Memory.
  • PROM- Programmable Read Only Memory.
  • EPROM- Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.
  • EEPROM- Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.
  • IC- Integrated Circuit.
  • CPU- Central Processing unit.
  • ALU- Arithmetic & Logic Unit.
  • CU- Control Unit.
  • WPM- Word Per Minute.
  • BIOS- Basic Input Output System.
  • MPEG- Motion Picture Experts Group.
  • MPG- Motion Picture Group.
  • JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group.
  • JPG- Joint Photographic Group.
  • AVI- Audio Video Interleave.
  • BMP- Bitmap
  • DLL- Dynamic Link Library.
  • CGI- Computer Generated Image. Or Common Gateway Interface.(Cisco)
  • CAD- Computer Aided Design.
  • MAR- Memory Address Register. Or  Mobile Access Router.(Cisco)
  • MDR- Memory Data Register.
  • FF- Flip-Flop.
  • FIFO- First In First Out.
  • LIFO- Last In First Out.
  • FORTRAN- FORmula TRANslator.
  • COBOL- Common Business Oriented Language.
  • BCD- Binary Coded Decimal.
  • IBM- International Business Machines.
  • W3C- World Wide Web Consortium.
  • WWW- World Wide Web.
  • VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal.
  • VHS- Video Home System.
  • VGA- Video Graphics Adapter.
  • AGP- Advanced Graphics Port.
  • UMTS- Universal Mobile Telecommunication System.
  • GSM- Global System for Mobile.
  • CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access.
  • TDMA- Time Division Multiple Access.
  • FDMA- Frequency Division Multiple System.
  • TTF- True Type Font.
  • W-CDMA- Wideband – Code Division Multiple System.
  • UHF- Ultra High Frequency.
  • VHF- Very High Frequency.
  • SONET- Synchronous Optical NETwork.
  • SNR- Signal to Noise Ratio.
  • REB- Red Green Blue. (Fundamental Color)
  • RMS- Root Mean Square.
  • SCSI-(Pronunciation is Scuzzy)- Small Computer System Interface.
  • PIN- Personal Identification Number.
  • PDF- Portable Document Format.
  • PPT- Power Point Format
  • GEO- Geostationary Earth Orbit.
  • MEO- Medium Earth Orbit.
  • LEO- Lower Earth Orbit.
  • SEA-ME-WE- South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe.
  • LED- Light Emitting Diode.
  • LCD- Liquid Crystal Display.
  • LASER- Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
  • CRT- Cathode Ray Tube.
  • NMR- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
  • MRI- Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  • OCR- Optical Character Recognition.
  • OMR- Optical Mark Recognition.
  • SIM- Subscriber Identification Module.
  • TE- Terminal Equipment.
  • BTS- Base Transceiver Station.
  • BSC- Base Station Controller.
  • PCU- Packet Control Unit.
  • MSC- Mobile Switching Centre.
  • VLR- Visitor Location Register.
  • PSTN- Public Switched Telephone Network.
  • LOS- Line Of Sight.
  • NLOS- Non-Line Of Sight.
  • HLR- Home Location Register.
  • AUC- Authentication Centre.
  • EIR- Equipment Identity Register.
  • GPRS- General Packet Radio Service.
  • EDGE- Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution.
  • SGSN- Serving GPRS Support Node.
  • GGSN- Gateway GPRS Support Node.
  • EM- Electro Magnetic.
  • ISM band- Industrial Scientific & Medical band

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