CompTIA Network+ Acronyms

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Acronyms to know
Justin McFall
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WAP Wireless Access Point
POTS Plain Old Telephone Signal
IDS Intrusion Detection System
IPS Intrusion Prevention System
NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System
HIDS Host Intrusion Detection System
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
QOS Quality of Service
VPN Virtual Private Network
STP (Switch Technology) Spanning Tree Protocol
RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
SPB Shortest Path Bridging
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
MS-CHAPv2 Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
EAP-TLS Extensible Authentication Protocol - Transport Layer Security
MPPE Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
DES Data Encryption Standard
3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
AH Authentication Header
ESP Encapsulation Security Payload
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
RADIUS Remote Access Dial-In User Service
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System
XTACACS Extended Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System
RAS Remote Access Services
RRAS Routing and Remote Access Services
XML Extensible Markup Language
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
RFB Remote Frame Buffer
DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
gTLD Generic Top Level Domain
ccTLD Country-Code Top Level Domain
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
AAAA IPv6 Records
CNAME Canonical Name
MX Mail Exchanger
PTR Pointer Record
NAT Network Address Translation
PAT Port Address Translation
DNAT Destination Network Address Translation
SONET Synchronous Optical Networking
ANSI American National Standards Institute
STS Synchronous Transport Signals
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
ITU International Telecommunications Union
STM Synchronous Transport Modules
WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
SAR Segmentation and Reassembly
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
BRI Basic Rate Interface
PRI Primary Rate Interface
PSTN Public Switch Telephone Network
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
VDSL Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
MPPP Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
CMDA Code Division Multiple Access
LTE Long Term Evolution
HSPA+ Evolved High Speed Packet Access
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
STP (Cabling) Shielded Twisted Pair
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
ST Connector Straight-Tip Connector
FC Field Assembly Connector
SC Subscriber/Standard/Square Connector
LC Lucent Connector (Little Connector)
MT-RJ Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack
UPC (fiber) Ultra-Polished Connector
APC (fiber) Angle Polished Connector
TDR Time Domain Reflectometer
OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System
ICS Industrial Control Systems
DCS Distributed Control System
RTU Remote Terminal Unit
VTC Video Teleconferencing
RIR Regional Internet Registries
NDP Neighbor Discovery Protocol
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
SLAAC Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
DAD Duplicate Address Detection
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing
CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CoS Class of Service
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
UC Uniform Communications
SDN (Cloud) Software Defined Networking
NAS Network Attached Storage
SAN Storage-Area Network
FC (cloud) Fibre Channel
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCIP Fibre Channel over IP
iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
PaaS Platform as a Service
SaaS Software as a Service
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
HaaS Hardware as a Service
MIB Management Information Base
OID Object Identifiers
SIEM Security Information and Event Management
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