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3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations) (Network) (Apple)
ABLE: Agent Building and Learning Environment ACE: Ascii Compatible Encoding
(IBM) ACE: Automatic Computing Engine
ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode ACF: Access Control Field
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
ACF: Advanced Communications Function
ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form
ACH: Automated Clearing House
Syntax description for programming languages
ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface
Adapter
ABR: Available Bit Rate
ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval Analysis
One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports variable
bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum guaranteed data System
transmission rate and specified performance parameters ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and
(Communication)
Durability
ABRS: Automated Book Request System (Software)
ABS: ABSolute ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable
Systems
ABS: Address Book Synchronization
(IBM) ACK: ACKnowledge
A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an
ABS: Auto Balance System affirmative response to the station with which the connection has
System to reduce vibration and noise in a peripheral (Hardware) been set up. (Communication)
ABS: Automatic Backup System ACL: Access Control List
ABT: ABorT For granting or denying access to computer resources (security)
(Operating systems)
ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services
ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic
AC: Access Customer
ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess
(Communication)
(Communication)
AC: Alternate Current
ACM: Abstract Control Model
AC: Audio Codec (Software)
(Hardware)
ACM: Afp Conversion Module
AC: Authentication Center (Software)
AC: AutoCheck ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
AC: Automatic Computer (Organizations)
ADUC: Active Directory Users and Computers AFDW: Active Framework for Data Warehousing
A snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) (Operating (Microsoft)
systems) (Microsoft) AFFS: Amiga Fast File System
ADW: Advanced Docking Window (Operating systems)
(Software)
ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System
(Communication)
ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management
(Software) AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System
(Hardware)
ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial interface AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate
devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Also known Audio Codec. GSM/AMR is an audio standard widely used for
as "multiple terminal interface." audio in GPRS and W-CDMA networks (Communication)
ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network AMR: Audio Modem Riser
ALOM: Advanced Lights Out Management Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)
(Hardware) (Sun) AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System
ALP: Apple List Price (Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar TRADing
(Hardware) (Apple) Eurpean based company that built the first sub $1000 IBM
ALP: Application Layer Program (or Process) compatible PCs in the mid 1980's
A program or process at the Application Layer (Network) ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ALP: Application Layer Protocol ANI: ANImated cursor
Any network protocol at the application layer (Network) File name extension (Microsoft)
ALP: Automatic Language Processing ANI: Automatic Number Identification
ALR: Advanced Logic Research ANN: ANNotations
ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of Agents File name extension (IBM)
ASP: Average Selling (or Street) Price ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet
ASPEN: Automatic System for Performance
Interface A
(Hardware)
Evaluation of the Network
ATC: Address Translation Controller
ASPI: Advanced Scsi Programming Interface
ATC: Advanced Transfer Cache
ASPN: ActiveState Programmer Network
(Hardware)
(Software)
ATDM: Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer
ASPS: Advanced Signal Processing System
ASPX: Active Server Pages eXtended ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration
NETwork
Dynamic web pages engine for the Microsoft .NET framework
(Software) (Microsoft) (Network)
CAE: Common Application Environment CAPD: Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities
CDMF: Commercial Data Masking Facility CDSA: Common Data Security Architecture
(IBM) CDSL: Consumer Digital Subscriber Line
CDML: Claris Dynamic Markup Language (Communication)
(Claris) CDT: C/C++ Development Tools
CD-MO: Compact Disk Magneto Optical Eclipse subproject working towards providing a fully functional C
and C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the
CD-MRW: Compact Disk-Mount rainier ReWriteable Eclipse platform (Software)
Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on CD-
CDT: Cambridge Display Technology
RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the
replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-rainier.org/ CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology
(Hardware) (Organizations)
CDN: Content Delivery Network CDT: Central Daylight Time
CDO: Collaboration Data Objects Timezone: GMT -6:00
CDONTS: Collaboration Data Objects for windows CDT: Corel Draw Template
New Technology Server File name extension
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CDV: Cell Delay Variation
CDOS: Concurrent Disk Operating System In an ATM network, the variation in cell delay through the
network (Network)
CDP: Certificate in Data Processing
One of the first certifications for computer professionals CD-V: Compact Disk - Video
CDW: Copy Database Wizard CENTR: Council of European National Top level
(Databases) (Microsoft) domain Registries
(Organizations)
CD-WO: Compact Disk - Write Once
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CDX: CompounD indeX
File name extension (Microsoft) CEOP: Conditional End Of Page
CD-XA: Compact Disk - eXtended Architecture CEPT: Conference of European Postal and C
Telecommunications
CE: Cache Enable
(Organizations)
CE: Chip Enable
CER: Canonical Encoding Rules
CE: Collision Elimination
CER: Cell Error Ratio
CE: Compact Edition In an ATM network, ratio of errored cells to transmitted cells.
Measures the accuracy of cell transmission (Network)
CE: Convert Enable
CER: Corporate Error Reporting
CE: Customer Edge
Tool that allows IT Administrators to manage error reports and
(Network)
error messages created by the Windows Error Reporting client
CE: Customer Engineer (WER) in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and error-
reporting clients included in other Microsoft programs (Software)
CEA: Cisco Enterprise Accounting (Microsoft)
(Cisco)
CERFNET: California Educational and Research
CEA: Consumer Electronic Association Federation NETwork
(Organizations)
CERN: Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CEBIT: CEntrum Büro Information CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
Telekommunikation
(Organizations)
CEBUS: Consumer Electronics BUS
CERT/CC: Computer Emergency Response Team
(Hardware) Coordination Center
CEC: Certified E-commerce Consultant (Organizations)
CEF: Cisco Express Forwarding CES: Circuit Emulation Service
Advanced, Layer 3 IP switching technology. It optimizes network
CES: Consumer Electronic Show
performance and scalability for networks with large and dynamic
traffic patterns, such as the Internet, on networks characterized CET: Central European Time
by intensive Web-based applications, or interactive sessions Timezone: GMT +1:00
(Network) (Cisco)
CF: ColdFusion
CEF: Common Executable Format
(Software)
Format that allows a single executable to be produced to run on
all Pocket PC devices, regardless of processor (Software) CF: Compact Flash
CEG: Continuous Edge Graphics Add-in expansion cards (Hardware)
CIO: Chief Information Officer CIVR: Computer and Interactive Voice Response
CIPS: Canadian Information Processing Society CJK: Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Accredits academic programs in technology, certifies (Software)
practitioners, and has a code of conduct for professional
CJLI: Command Job Language Interpreter
behavior. See also http://www.cips.ca/ (Organizations)
CKD: Count Key Data
CIPSO: Commercial Internet Protocol Security
Option CKE: Commercial Key Escrow
(Security) (Software)
CIR: Committed Information Rate CKM: Customer Knowledge Management
A minimum access rate the service provider commits to providing
CKO: Chief Knowledge Officer
the customer (Communication)
CL: Cas Latency
CIR: Consumer InfraRed
Number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow once a
(Hardware)
command is received. Low CAS latency is faster than high CAS
CIRC: Cross-Interleaved Reed-solomon Code latency (Hardware)
CMIS: Common Management Information System CMTL: Computer Memory Test Labs
(Organizations)
CMISE: Common Management Information Service
Element CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
(Network)
CML: Chemical Markup Language
CMU: Carnegie Mellon University
CML: Computer Managed Learning (Organizations)
CML: Conceptual Modelling Language CMVC: Configuration Management Version Control
CML: Current Mode Logic (IBM)
CNM: Communications Network Management CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment
International coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer
CNM: Customer Network Management rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, and
CNMA: Communications Network for Manufacturing competition against the proposed European Union Directive on
the Enforcement of Intellectual Property
Applications
CODE: Client/server Open Development
CNMS: Compaq Netelligent Management Software
Environment
(Compaq)
CODEC: COder/DECoder
CNMS: Cylink Network Management System
CoE: Center Of Excellence
CNN: Composite Network Node
Group of subject matter experts (Organizations)
CNR: Carrier to Noise Ratio
COE: Central Office Equipment
CNR: Communication and Networking Riser
COE: Common Operating Environment
(Hardware)
COE: Consistent Office Environment
CNR: Communication Network Riser
(Hardware) COEES: Central Office Equipment Engineering
System
CNS: Complimentary Network Service
COEM: Commercial Original Equipment
CNSS: Core Nodal Switching Subsystem Manufacturer
CNT: CoNTents COFA: Change Of Frame Alignment
File name extension
(Communication)
CNTFET: Carbon NanoTube Field-Effect Transistor COFDM: Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
(Hardware) Multiplexing
CNV: CoNVentional (Communication)
CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device CRCG: Center for Research in Computer Graphics
CPM: Cost Per Minute CRD: CaRDfile
File name extension
CPM: Critical Path Method
CRDL: Character Repertoire Description Language
CPML: Call Policy Markup Language
Describes a collection of characters defined in ISO/IEC 10646 or
(Network) Unicode or default grapheme clusters defined in UAX#29
CPN: Compuserve Packet Network CREN: Computer Research Education Network
CPO: Chief Privacy Officer CREN: Corporation for Research and Education
CPP: C Plus Plus (C++) Networking
Object-oriented programming language based on C. Also, CRF: Cable Retransmission Facility
filename extension. (Software)
C-RIMM: Continuity - Rambus Inline Memory CSAPI: Common Speller Application Program
Module Interface
(Hardware) CSAR: Channel System Address Register
CRIN: Centre de Recherche en Informatique de CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation
Nancy Company Name
CRISC: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Computer CSCC: Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium
CRISP: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Processor CSCW: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
CRL: Certificate Revocation List CSD: Circuit-Switched Data
(Security)
CSD: Computer Services Department
CRM: Customer Relationship Management
CSD: Corrective Service Diskette
CRME: Certified Remote Management Engineer (IBM)
CRMF: Certificate Request Message Format CSDC: Circuit Switched Digital Capability
A PKIX format used for messages related to life-cycle
management of X.509 certificates. This format is a subset of CSDS: Circuit Switched Data Service
CMMF CSE: Certified System Engineer
CROM: Control Read-Only Memory CSER: Consortium for Software Engineering
(Hardware) Research
CRP: Common Reference Platform (Organizations)
DACS: Digital Access Control System DARMS: Digital Alternate Realization of Musical
Symbols
DAD: Desktop Application Director
(Borland) DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency
DAE: Digital Audio Extraction
The U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET.
D
daemon: Disk And Execution MONitor (Organizations)
(Operating systems) DART: Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology
DAF: Dynamic Authentication Filter DART: Dynamic Advertising Reporting and Targeting
DAFS: Direct Access File System DAS: Data Acquisition System
(Operating systems) (Hardware)
DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence DAS: Data Agent Server
DAL: Data Abstraction Layer DAS: Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
DAL: Data Access Language DAS: Direct Attached Storage
DAL: Data Access Layer Storage device that connects directly to a single server
DDP: Distributed Data Processing DELNI: Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect
DESTA: Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation Adapter DFT: Design For Testability
DFN: Dedicated Frogans Network DIANE: DIrect Access Network for Europe
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) DIB: Device Independent Bitmap
DFN: Deutsches ForschungsNetz File format for raster bitmaps (Microsoft)
DNA: Distributed interNet Application DOCSIS: Data Over Cable Service Internet
(Microsoft) Specification
DNAfs: Distributed interNet Application for DOCSV: Data Over Circuit-Switched Voice
Financial Services DOD: Department Of Defense
(Microsoft) (Organizations)
DNC: Direct Numerical Control DOD: Direct Outward Dialing
DNC: Dynamic Network Controller (Communication)
DPBC: Delivery Point Bar Code DPST: Double Pole Single Throw
US Mail system to speed mail sorting, increase delivery accuracy, DPT: Distributed Processing Technology
and reduce postage costs
(DPT)
DPC: Deferred Procedure Call DPtoTP: Display Coordinates TO Tablet Coordinates
DPC: Direct Program Control Coordinates conversion
DPDT: Double Pole Double Throw DPV: Distributed Partitioned View
Joins horizontally partitioned data from a set of member tables
DPE: Distributed Processing Environment
across one or more servers, making the data appear as if from
DPI: Data Processing Information one table (Databases) (Microsoft)
DR.BOND: Dial-up Router Bandwidth ON Demand DRP: Distribution and Replication Protocol
(NEC) The goal of the DRP protocol is to significantly improve the
efficiency and reliability of data distribution over HTTP
DRAC: Dell Remote Assistant Card
Interface card from Dell Inc that provides out-of-band DRS: Data Replication Service
management facilities. The controller has its own processor, Service to move data between members of a server cluster
memory, battery, network connection, and access to the system (Software)
bus (Hardware) (Dell)
DRS: Document Registration System
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRS: Driver ReSource
A type of semiconductor random-access memory that stores
information in integrated circuits that contain capacitors. Because File name extension D
capacitors lose their charge over time, the dynamic RAM must be DRU: Disc Remastering Utility
periodically "refreshed" or recharged. (Hardware)
Tool designed to create a customized copy of the Ubuntu Linux
DRAS: Dynamic Remote Access Service Distribution (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) DRV: device DRiVer
DRAW: Direct Read After Write File name extension
DSSLL: Differentiated Services over Specific Link DTLL: Data Type Library Language
Layers Specifies libraries of datatypes using an XML language. The
schema for this language is defined in This International Standard
A system for mapping between Differentiated Services and other
using the compact syntax of the RELAX NG schema language, as
bandwidth-management protocols such as 802.1p and ATM
defined by Annex C of ISO 19757:2
(Network)
DTM: Deterministic Turing Machine
DSSS: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
(Communication) DTM: Digital Terrain Mapping
DSSSL: Document Style Semantic and Specification DTM: Distributed Transaction Monitor
Language
DTM: Document Table Model
International standard for associating processing with SGML
Interface to a document model designed specifically for the needs
documents
of Apache's XPath and XSLT implementations. The motivation
DST: Daylight Saving Time behind this model is to optimize performance and minimize
storage (Software)
DSTN: Double-layer SuperTwist Nematic
LCD display technology (Hardware)
DTMF: Dual Tone MultiFrequency
Use of two simultaneous voice-band tones for dial (such as touch
DSU: Data Service Unit tone) (Hardware)
DSU: Digital Service Unit DTML: Document Template Markup Language
DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data DTMS: Data Transformation Management System
(Communication)
DTO: Data Transfer Object
DSW: Data Status Word An "envelope" used to transport any kind of data between tiers of
systems (Software)
DSW: Device Status Word
DTO: Day-Time Organizer
DSX: Digital Signals Cross-connect
(Software)
DT: Definition Term
DTP: Data Tools Platform
HTML Tag
Provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools, enabling a
DT4DTD: DataTypes For Document Type Definition diverse set of plug-in offerings specific to particular data-centric
technologies and supported by the DTP ecosystem (Software)
DTA: Direct Tape Access
(Seagate) DTP: DeskTop Publishing
DTR: Dedicated Token Ring DVD-A: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-Audio
(Network) (Hardware)
DTR: DeskTop Reproduction DVD-MMVFF: Digital Versatile Disc MultiMedia Video
File Format
DTR: Draft Technical Report
DVD-R: Digital Video Disk-Recordable
DTS: Data Transformation Service
(Databases) DVD-RAM: Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access
Memory
DTS: Developer Technical Support
A read-write DVD (Hardware)
(Software) (Sun) D
DVD-ROM: Digital Versatile Disk - Read Only
DTS: Digital Theater Surround
Memory
DTS: Distributed Time Service A read only DVD (Hardware)
DTS: Distributed Traffic Shaping DVD-RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
(Cisco) ReWritable
(Hardware)
DTSS: Dartmouth Time Sharing System
DVE: Digital Video Effect
DTU: Demand Transmission Unit
D-VHS: Digital Video Home System
DTV: DeskTop Video
DVI: DeVice Independent
DTV: Digital TeleVision
File name extension
(Hardware)
DVI: Diagonal Viewable Image
DTVC: DeskTop Video Conferencing
(Hardware)
DU: Disk Usage
DVI: Digital Video Interactive
DUA: Directory User Agent
DVI: Digital Video Interface
The software that accesses the X.500 directory service on behalf
of the directory user. The directory user may be a person or Specification to interface digital flat panels with host PCs
another software element. (Hardware)
DVD+MRW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-Mount DVRMP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
rainier ReWritable (Network)
Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on DVX: Digital Voice eXchange
DVD+RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows
the replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-rainier.org/ DW: Data Warehouse
(Hardware) (Databases)
DVD+RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk- DW: Display Write
ReWritable Word Processor (Software) (IBM)
(Hardware)
DXVA: DirectX Video Acceleration EAPoL: Extensible Authentication Protocol Over Lan
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Security)
ECMP: Equal Cost Multipath Protocol EDAC: Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit
(Network) EDB: Embedded DataBase
ECN: Electronic Communications Network EDB: External Data Bus
ECN: European Counter Network (Hardware)
EDOC: Enterprise Distributed Object Computing EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read
Only Memory
EDODRAM: Extended Data Out Dynamic Random
A non-volatile PROM that may be written to as well as read from.
Access Memory
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
EES: Escrow Encryption Standard
EDOS: Enhanced Disk Operating System
Mmeory manufacturing technology EESP: Enterprise Extended Services Portal
EDP: Electronic Data Processing EET: Eastern European Time
Timezone: GMT +1:00
EDP: Extended Dos Partition
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) EF: Expedited Forwarding
A Per-Hop Behavior in the Differentiated Service standard, used
EDPM: Electronic Data Processing Machine to create a virtual leased line service (Network) E
EDPS: Electronic Data Processing System EFA: Extended File Attribute
EDPT: Enhanced fixed Disk Parameter Table EFCI: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication
(Hardware)
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDR: External Developer Release
EFI: Electromechanical Frequency Interference
EDRAM: Extended Dynamic Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
EFI: Electronics For Imaging
EICAVR: European Institute for Computer Anti- ELLIS: EuLisp LInda System
Virus Research ELM: ELectronic Mail
(Network)
E
EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive (or Device)
Electronics ELOD: Erasable Laser Optical Disk
Bus architecture (Hardware)
ELP: Equational Logic Programming
EIGRP: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
ELS: Entry Level System
Cisco proprietary routing protocol loosely based on their original
IGRP. EIGRP is an advanced distance-vector routing protocol, ELSA: ELektronische SAchen
with optimizations to minimize both the routing instability
German hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
incurred after topology changes (Network) (Cisco)
ELSNET: European Language and Speech NETwork
EIM: Electronic Image Management
EM: ElectroMagnetic
EIO: Enhanced Input/Output
EM: Electronic Mail
EIP: Enterprise Information Portal
(IBM) EM: EMphasis
HTML tag
EIR: Equipment Identity Register
A database containing a list of all valid IMEIs on the network EM: End of Medium
(Communication)
EM: Enterprise Management
EIS: Enterprise Information System
EM: Expanded Memory
EIS: European Information System
EM: Extensions Manager
EIS: Executive Information System
EMA: Electronic Mail Association
EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EMA: Enterprise Management Architecture
PC bus architecture (Hardware)
EMA: Enterprise Memory Architecture
EISE: Extended Intergration Support Environment
(Operating systems)
ADA project aimed to provide a real-time simulation of a generic
aircraft, together with the significant environmental factors EMACS: Editing MACroS
EISS: Europaeisches Institut für SystemSicherheit E-MAIL: Electronic MAIL
EITAAC: Electronic and Information Technology EMB: Enhanced Master Burst
Access Advisory Committee
EMB: Extended Memory Block
(Organizations)
EMBARC: Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming
EJB: Enterprise Java Bean
Computer
(Software) (Sun)
EMBM: Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping
EJC: Electronic Journal of Communication
EMC: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility
EKP: Enterprise Knowledge Portal
(IBM) EMC: E-Mail Connection
EL: ElectroLuminescent EMC: Emergency Management Card
(Hardware) (Hardware) (Intel)
EOSDIS: Earth Observing System Data and EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute
Information System (Organizations)
(NASA)
EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EOT: End Of Table A non-volatile memory chip that is programmed
after they it is manufactured. EPROMs differ from PROMs in that
EOT: End Of Tape they can be erased (generally by exposing the semiconductor
(Hardware) material to the ultraviolet light) and can be reprogrammed after
having been erased. (Hardware)
EOT: End Of Text
EPRPI: Enhanced Primary Rate Peripheral Interface
EOT: End Of Transmission
(Communication) EPS: Encapsulated PostScript
A file format for graphics and text supported by several graphics
EoU: Ease Of Use
drawing applications. (Adobe) E
EOUG: European Oracle User Group
EPSF: Encapsulated PostScript Files
EoVDSL: Ethernet Over Very high bit rate Digital
EPSI: Encapsulated PostScript Interchange
Subscriber Line
A version of the encapsulated PostScript format that describes an
(Communication) image using a standard text file. (Adobe)
EP: ElectroPhotographic EQD: English Query Domain
Laser printing technology (Hardware) Filename extension (Databases) (Microsoft)
EP: Exchange Provider EQP: EQuiPment
(Communication)
ER: Entity Relationship
EPA: Enhanced Performance Architecture
ER: Error Resilience
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency Technique that make systems more robust against errors
(Organizations)
ER: Explicit cell Rate
EPAC: Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
ER/RC: Extended Result/Response Code
EPD: Early Packet Discard
(Network)
ERA: Extended Registry Attributes
EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center ERAS: Electronic Routing and Approval System
EPL: Electronic switching system Programming ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center
Language ERIN: Environmental Resources Information
EPLD: Electrically Programmable Logic Device Network
(Hardware) ERLL: Enhanced Run Length Limited
EPM: Enhanced editor for Presentation Manager ERM: Enterprise Relationship Management
(IBM)
ERM: Enterprise Resource Management
EPM: Enterprise Print Manager (Software)
An OS/390 software solution for management of printers and
ERM: Entity-Relationship Model
print jobs in addition to the various printing functions. The host
data, AFP as well as line data, are converted into printer data ERMA: Electronic Recording Method, Accounting
streams such as PCL5 and PostScript (Software)
ERMS: Email Response Management System
EPM: Enterprise Process Management
(IBM) EROM: Erasable Read Only Memory
ETS: Econometric Time Series EWOS: European Workshop for Open Systems
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Implementors
ETS: Ethernet Terminal Servers
workshop for Europe.
(Hardware)
EWS: Early Warning Status
ETS: European Telecommunications Standard System that alerts the host system if drive performance
ETSI: European Telecommunication Standards approaches unacceptable reliability levels (Hardware)
Institute EWS: Employee Written Software
(Organizations) (IBM)
ETTb: Ethernet To The Business EWS: Exchange Web Services
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a (Microsoft)
business subscriber. See also ETTh and ETTx. (Communication)
ExCA: EXchangeable Card Architecture
ETTh: Ethernet To The Home
(Intel)
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a home
subscriber. See also ETTb and ETTx. (Communication) EXE: Executable
File name extension
ETTx: Ethernet To The X
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a EXE2BIN: EXEcutable To BINary
business subscriber (ETTb) or home subscriber (ETTh). See also
ETTb and ETTh. (Communication) EXIF: EXchangeable Image File format
Standard for storing interchange information in image files,
ETX: End of TeXt especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital cameras
(Communication) now use the EXIF format. See also http://www.exif.org/
EU: Execution Unit EXP: EXPonent
EUC: End User Computing EXSLT: Extensions to eXtensible Stylesheet
Language Transformation
EUC: Extended Unix Code
An encoding scheme that allows up to four codesets to coexist in EXT: EXTernal
one data stream. EUC supports one primary character set and
three supplementary character sets. (Operating systems)
EXTRA: EXecutionTRace Analyzer
FARE: Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement FCB: File Control Block
Film scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon) FCBS: File Control BlockS
FARNET: Federation of American Research FCC: Federal Communications Commission
NETworks (Organizations)
(Organizations)
FCC: File Carbon Copy
FASIC: Function and Algorithm-Specific Integrated
Circuit FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council for Science,
Engineering and Technology
FASMI: False Analysis of Shared Multidimensional
Information FC-EL: Fiber Channel - Enhanced Loop
(Hardware)
FAST: File And Settings Transfer
The FAST wizard helps you transfer files in windows XP
FCFS: First Come, First Served
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
FAST: First Application System Test FCHBA: Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Host bus adapter over optical fibers (Hardware)
FAT: File Allocation Table
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) FCI: Fibre Channel Interface
FAT12: File Allocation Table 12 bits FCI: Flow Control Indicator
Every entry in the table is 12 bits wide (Operating systems) FCI: Flux Changes per Inch
(Microsoft)
FCIF: Flexible Computer Interface Form
FAT16: File Allocation Table 16 bits
(Communication)
Every entry in the table is 16 bits wide (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
FC-PGA: Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array FDSL: Free Digital Subscriber Line
IC pins organization (Hardware) (Communication)
FCPH: Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling FDTE: Female Data Terminal Equipment
interface RS-232 adapter (Hardware)
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array FRAP: Frame Relay Access Probe
An integrated circuit containing an array of logic circuits in which (Network)
the connections between the individual circuits can be
programmed after manufacture, typically at the time of FRC: Frame Rate Control
installation (in the field). (Hardware) (Hardware)
FPS: Favorite Picture Selection FRUNI: Frame Relay User Network Interface
(Network)
FPS: First Person Shooter
Game genre (Games) FS: File Separator
fps: Frames Per Second FS: File System
Motion images reproduction speed FS: Frame Status
FPSE: FrontPage Server Extensions FS: Free Software
(Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
FPT: Forced Perfect Termination FSA: Fluidic Self-Assembly
FPU: Floating-Point Unit LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
(Hardware) FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
FPX: FlashPiX (Hardware)
Filename extension (Kodak) FSAG: Free Software Association of Germany
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name FSAM: Federated Storage Area Management
(Network) A naturally scalable environment of pooled, federated (i.e.,
FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device available when needed), modular, multivendor storage resources
(HP)
FRAD: Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
FSB: Front Side Bus
FRAG: FRAGment The bus within a microprocessor that connects the CPU with main
FRAM: Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory memory (Hardware)
FSCK: File System Consistency checK
FSMO: Flexible Single Master Operation FTSC: Fidonet Technical Standard Conference
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) FTTB: Fiber To The Basement
FSN: Full Service Network FTTC: Fiber To The Curb
FSP: Fax Service Provider FTTH: Fiber To The Home
(Communication)
FSP: File Service Protocol
FSP: Full Service Provider FTTN: Fiber To The Neighborghood
FTAM: File Transfer Access and Management FWIW: For What It's Worth
The International Organization for Standardization's Open (Net lingo)
Systems Interconnection (OSI) remote file service and protocol.
(Network) FWSM: FireWall Services Module
High-speed, integrated firewall module for Cisco switches routers
FTAM: File Transfer and Access Method (Security) (Cisco)
FTC: Federal Trade Commission FWT: French Winter Time
(Organizations) Timezone: GMT +1:00
FTE: Fault-Tolerant Ethernet FWTK: FireWall ToolKit
(Network) (Security)
FTFM: F*** The F***ing Manual FX: eFfeCTS
(Net lingo) Multimedia - audio/video editing and processing
FTL: Flash Transition Layer FXO: Foreign eXchange Office
(Intel) An FXO interface connects to the Public Switched Telephone
Network's (PSTN) central office and is the interface offered on a
standard telephone (Hardware)
GAIN: German Advanced Integrated Network GCRA: Generic Cell Rate Algorithm
GDMO: Guidelines for the Definition of Managed GFY: Good For You
Objects (Net lingo)
GDOS: Graphics Device Operating System GG: Good Game
GDP: Graphic Draw Primitive Said during online play (Games)
GFDL: Gnu Free Documentation License GIMPS: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
(GNU) GINA: Graphical Identification aNd Authentication
GFI: General Format Identifier GIOP: General Inter-Orb Protocol
GFI: Ground-Fault Interceptor Gips: Giga Instructions Per Second
GFLOPS: Giga FLoating point Operations per Second GIS: Geographic Information System
Processing speed A graphic application using a database of specialized information,
GFP: Global Functional Plane such as geographical and demographic data. (Software)
GRAM: Global Resource Allocation Manager GSTN: General Switched Telephone Network
GRASP: General Responsibility Assignment GSTS: Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking
Software Patterns System
(Software)
GT: Greater Than
GRDDL: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from (Software)
Dialects of Languages
GTD: Getting Things Done
Specification that introduces markup for declaring that an XML
Software systems that implement David Allen's "Getting Things
document includes gleanable data and for linking to an algorithm,
Done" methodology (Software)
typically represented in XSLT, for gleaning the resource
descriptions from the document GTDM: Group Time Division Multiplexing
GRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation GTE: General Telephone Electronics
Protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary network layer protocol
over another arbitrary network layer protocol (Network) GTF: Generalized Timing Format
IMAPI: Image Mastering Application Programming IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
Interface A unique number within the SIM card that identifies the
Allows an application to stage and burn a simple audio or data subscriber to the system (Communication)
image to CD-R or CD-RW devices (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation
IMC: Internet Mail Connector
IMSP: Internet Message Support Protocol
(Software) (Microsoft)
(Network)
IMC: Internet Message Center
IMSVS: Information Management System/Virtual
(Network)
Storage
IMDB: In-Memory DataBase
IMTC: International Multimedia Teleconferencing
(Databases) Consortium
IMDb: Internet Movie DataBase IMTV: Interactive Multimedia TeleVision
IMDS: IMage Data Stream IMUL: Integer MULtiply
(IBM)
IMUX: Inverse MUltipleXer
IME: Input Method Editor
(Software) (Microsoft) IN: Individual Network
IRC: Internet Relay Chat IRTOS: I2o Real Time Operating System
(Network) (Operating systems)
IRC: Interrupt Request Controller IRTP: Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol
(Hardware)
IRX: Information Retrieval eXperiment
IRCA: Internet Content Rating Association
IS: Image Stabilization
(Organizations)
A system like this can help your digital camera take clearer
IRCP: Internet Relay Chat Protocol images (Hardware)
(Network) IS: Information System
IRD: Implementation Row Descriptor IS: Interim Standard
(Databases) Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), is the first CDMA-based digital
IRD: Integrated Receiver/Descrambler cellular standard pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand name for IS-
95 is cdmaOne. IS-95 is also known as TIA-EIA-95
IrDA: InfraRed Data Association (Communication)
(Organizations) IS: Internal System
IRDP: Icmp Router Discovery Protocol IS: Interrupt Status
(Network)
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
IRDS: Information Resource Dictionary System PC bus architecture (Hardware)
IRET: Interrupt RETurn ISA: Instruction-Set Architecture
IRF: Inheritance Rights Filter
(Novell)
ISA: Interactive Services Association I
ISA: Internet Security and Acceleration
IRF: Interger Register File (Microsoft)
IRF: Intermediate Routing Function ISA: Internet Server Application
IRIS: Internet Retailer Information System (Software)
IRLED: InfraRed Light Emitting Diode ISBN: International Standard Book Number
IrLMP: InfraRed Link Management Protocol ISC: Information Supply Chain
(Communication) ISC: Instruction Set Computer
IRM: Information Resource Management ISC: Internet Service Center
IRM: Inherent Rights Mask ISC: Internet Storm Center
iRMC: Integrated Remote Management Controller See http://isc.sans.org/ (Organizations)
Implementation of a Remote Access Card (RAC) (Hardware) ISC: Inter-System Communication
(Fujitsu)
(IBM)
IRP: I/o Request Packet
ISCA: International Computing Security Association
Data structure used by Windows to communicate to kernel-mode
device drivers. (Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Organizations)
ISDN-UP: Integrated Services Digital Network User ISN-LAN: Information System Network-Local Area
Part Network
A communications technology offered by telephone carriers
ISO: Independent System Operator
worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services in a
single medium, offering customers digital data services and voice ISO: International Organization for Standardization
connections through a single wire An international standards body that reviews and approves
ISDP: I See Dead People independently designed products for use within specific
industries. ISO also develops standards for information exchange,
Tactical-ops, assault on terror gaming clan. See
such as the ISO/OSI model for computer networks. See
http://www.isdp.tk/ (Games)
http://www.iso.org/ (Organizations)
ISE: Integrated Software Engineering
ISO/OSI: International Standardization
(ISE) Organization/Open Systems Interconnection
ISEN: Internet Search Environment Number ISOC: Internet SOCiety
Is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs the
(Organizations)
Internet's databases. See also http://www.isen.org/
ISODE: International Standardization Organization
ISF: Information Security Forum
Development Environment
(Organizations)
ISP: Integrated System Peripheral control
ISFUG: Integrated Software Federal User Group
ISP: Interactive String Processor
ISH: Information Super Highway
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISHO: Inter-System HandOver
Communications service company that provides Internet access
Transfer of 3G calls to 2G networks mid call and vice-versa
(Network)
and services to its customers. ISPs range in size from small
independents serving a local calling area to large, established
I
ISI: Information Sciences Institute telecommunications companies (Network)
ISIS: Image and Scanner Interface Standard ISP: Interrupt Status Port
ISIS: Integrated Systems and Information Services ISPF: Interactive System Programming Facility
ISMA: Internet Streaming Media Alliance ISSN: Integrated Special Services Network
(Organizations) ISSN: International Standard Serial Number
ISMF: Interactive Storage Management Facility IST: Immerse System Technology
ISN: Information Systems Network IST: Initial System Test
ISN: Initial Sequence Number IST: Intelligent Scanning Technology
Synchronization between two hosts to establish a TCP connection.
(Network) ISTG: InterSite Topology Generator
Managing active directory replication (Operating systems)
ISN: Internet School Networking (Microsoft)
(Network)
ISN: Internet Services Network
ISN: Internet Shopping Network
JNAE: Jump if Not Above or Equal JRMP: Java Remote Method Protocol
(Software)
JNB: Jump if Not Below
JRP: Joint Requirement Planning
JNBE: Jump if Not Below or Equal
JS: JavaScript
JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface (Software) (Netscape)
Is a standard extension to the JavaTM platform, providing Java
technology-enabled applications with a unified interface to JS: Jump if Sign
multiple naming and directory services in the enterprise (Sun)
JSA: Japanese Standards Association
JNG: Jump if Not Greater
JSAM: Java Secure Application Manager
JSDK: Java Servlet Development Kit JTM: Job Transfer and Manipulation
(Software) JTMS: Justification based Truth Maintenance
JSDT: Java Shared Data Toolkit System
JavaTM Shared Data Toolkit JTS: Java Transaction Service
(Software) (Sun)
JTSIN: Joint Transmission Services Information
JSF: Java Server Faces Network
Technology that simplifies building user interfaces for JavaServer
JUG: Java User Group
applications. Developers of various skill levels can quickly build
web applications by assembling reusable UI components in a JUGHEAD: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy
page and connecting these components to a data source Excavation And Display
(Software) (Sun)
JUMP: Java User Migration Path
JSGF: JSpeech Grammar Format
(Software) (Microsoft)
JSML: JSpeech Markup Language
JUNET: Japan Unix NETwork
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
JVM: Java Virtual Machine
Scripting language based on a subset of the JavaScript
Programming Language. The format is specified in RFC 4627. The JVMDI: Java Virtual Machine Debug Interface
official MIME Media Type for JSON is application/json (Software) (Sun)
J
JSP: JavaServer Pages JVMPI: Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface
(Software) K
JVMTI: Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface
JSPA: Java Specification Participation Agreement
JVS: Java Validation Suite
(Sun)
(Software)
JSPC: JavaServer Pages Compiler
jwcid: Java Web Component IDentifier
(Software)
(Software)
JSR: Java Specification Request
JWS: Java Web Server
Is the actual description of a proposed and final specification for
the Java platform (Sun) (Sun)
JSS: Javascript Style Sheet JWSDL: Java Web Service Description Language
Provides a standard set of APIs for representing and manipulating
JSSE: Java Secure Socket Extension services described by Web Service Description Language (WSDL)
Is a set of Java packages that enable secure Internet documents (Sun)
communications. It implements a Java version of SSL and TLS
protocols and includes functionality for data encryption, server JWSDP: Java Web Services Developer Pack
authentication, message integrity, and optional client The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one download
authentication (Software) (Sun) containing key technologies to simplify building of web services
using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun)
JST: J2ee Standard Tools
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building multi- JXTA: JuXTApose
tier J2EE applications (Software) Started as a research project at Sun Microsystems, its goal is to
explore a vision of distributed network computing using peer-to-
JST: Japan Standard Time peer topology, and to develop basic building blocks and services
Timezone: GMT +9:00 that would enable innovative applications for peer groups
(Software)
JSTL: Jsp Standard Tag Library
JZ: Jump if Zero
JSWDK: JavaServer Web Development Kit
(Software) (Sun)
K
JTA: Java Transaction Api
(Sun) k: Kilo
Prefix for 10 power 3 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 10)
JTAG: Joint Test Action Group
(Hardware) K&R: Kernighan And Ritchie
"Traditional" or "classic" C language specification, named after its
JTAPI: Java Telephony Application Programming authors, Brian Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie (Software)
Interface
KAM: Keep Alive Memory
(Sun)
kVAh: Kilo Volt Ampere Hour LANCE: Local Area Network Controller Ethernet
Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware)
LANDP: Local Area Network Distributed Platform
KVM: K Virtual Machine
LANE: Local Area Network Emulation
A virtual machine designed from the ground up with the
A set of services and protocols that provide for the emulation of
constraints of inexpensive mobile devices in mind (Sun)
LANs, using ATM as a backbone to allow connectivity among LAN
KVM: Keyboard, Video, Mouse and ATM attached end stations (Network)
(Hardware) LAP: Link Access Procedure
KWIC: Key Word In Context Communication protocol (CCITT X.25) (Network)
A permuted index offering lists of titles, with each of the major LAP: Linux Application Platform
words as the first word, and the remaining words using key words
or phrases LAPB: Link Access Procedure Balanced
(Network)
KWS: Knowledge Work System
LAP-B: Link Access Procedure-Balanced
KXS: Kiva eXecutive Server
(Software) (Netscape) LAPD: Link Access Procedure-D channel
Communication protocol (Communication)
L LAPM: Link Access Procedure for Modems
L&F: Look & Feel LAPS: Lan Adapter and Protocol Support
(Software)
LAR: Load Access Rights
L&H: Lernout And Hauspie
LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
L1: Level 1
LASER: Light Amplification by the Stimulated
(Hardware)
Emission of Radiation
L2: Level 2
LASS: Local Area Signaling Service
(Hardware)
L2CAP: Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
LASTport: Local Area Storage TransPORT K
Protocol (DEC)
L2F: Layer 2 Forwarding
(Network) (Cisco)
LAT: Local Access Terminal L
LAT: Local Address Table
L2TP: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
A table containing the IP address range that is inside a firewalled
(Network) network (Network) (Microsoft)
LA: Limited Availability LAT: Local Area Transport
LAC: L2tp Access Concentrator (Network)
Device attached to the switched network or located on an end LATA: Local Access and Transport Area
system supporting L2TP to pass PPP traffic (Network)
Local telephone company's geographical area (Communication)
LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LATM: Local Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Part of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that allows to bundle
several physical ports together to form a single logical channel LAVC: Local Area Vax Cluster
(Network)
LAWN: Local Area Wireless Network
LADDR: LAyered Device DRiver
LB: Local Bus
(Microsoft)
Bus architecture (Hardware)
LADT: Local Access Data Transport
LBA: Logical Block Addressing
LAF: Look And Feel
LBL: LaBeL
(Software)
LALL: Longest Allowed Lobe Length LBM: Local Bus Master
LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl (or Php or Phyton) LBT: Listen Before Talk
Web applications platform (Software) LBT: Local Bus Targets
LAN: Local Access Network LBX: Local Bus Accelerator
LAN: Local Area Network LBX: Low-Band with X
Data communications network connecting computers and related
LC: Liquid Crystal
equipment, usually over an area not greater than 10 km (Network)
(Hardware)
LANACS: Local Area Network Asynchronous
Connection Server LCA: Life-Cycle Assessment
LANAID: LAN Adapter Installation and Diagnostic LCA: Logic Cell Array
(Network)
LCS: Lotus Communication Server LEAD: Live Early Adoption and Demonstration
LCSD: Laminate Chip Signal Diode LEAF: Law Enforcement Access Field
LOOPS: Lisp Object Oriented Programming System LPRA: Low Power Register Array
(Hardware)
LOOPZ: LOOP while Zero
lps: Lines Per Second
LOP: Loss of Pointer
Printing speed (Hardware)
LORE: Line Oriented Editor
LPS: Low Power Schottky
LOS: Loss of Signal (Hardware)
(Communication)
LPT: Line PrinTer
LOTOS: Language Of Temporal Order Specification (Hardware)
LOV: List Of Values LPWA: Lucent Personalized Web Assistant
LP: Linear Programming Anonymous web browsing service
MCGAM: Mixer Conformant Global Address Mapping MCTS: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(Network) (Microsoft)
MCH: Memory Controller Hub MCU: MicroController Unit
(Hardware)
MCU: Multi-Chip Unit
MCI: Media Control Interface (DEC)
MCI: Microwave Communications, Inc. MCU: Multipoint Control Unit
Now MCI Communications corporation
MD: Make Directory
MCIS: Microsoft Commercial Internet System MD: Message Digest
(Network) (Microsoft)
(Network)
MCL: Microsoft Compatibility Labs
MD: MicroDrive
(Microsoft)
(Hardware) (IBM)
MCL: Much Clown Love
MD: Mini Disk
Used by icp fans also known as juggalos (Net lingo)
(Sony)
MCM: MultiChip Module
MD: Monochrome Display
MCN: Metropolitan Campus Network
MD5: Message Digest 5
MCNE: Master Certified Novell Engineer Cryptographically strong message digest, see RFC 1321
(Novell) (http://www.iesg.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt) (Security)
MFLOPS: Million Floating point Operation Per MHPCC: Maui High Performance Computing Center
Second
MHS: Message Handling System
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the oating-point
performance of a computer MHz: MegaHertZ
MFM: Modified Frequency Modulation MI: Management Interface
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the floating-point
MI: Multiple Inheritance
performance of a computer (Hardware)
(Software)
MFN: Main Frogans Network
MI/MIC: Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
MIA: Mobile Internet Access
MFP: MultiFunction Printer
(Hardware) MIB: Management Information Base
MFPI: MultiFunction Peripheral Interface MiB: MebIByte
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
MFR: Multilink Frame Relay
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 kiB
(Network)
MIB: Multimedia Integration Box
MFS: Macintosh File System
(Siemens-Nixdorf)
(Operating systems) (Apple)
MIC: Macro Interpretative Command
MFS: Magnetic tape Field Search
MIC: Market Intelligence Center
MFS: Memory File System
MIC: Media Interface Connector
MFS: Message Format Service
MIC: Message Integrity Check
MFS: Modified Filing System
(Operating systems) MICE: Modular Integrated Communications
Environment
MFT: Master File Table
Table containing NT's file system structure (Operating systems) MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
(Microsoft) MICS: Macro Interpretive Commands
MFT: Mean Field Theory MID: Message IDentifier
MFT: Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of MID: Mobile Information Device
Tasks
MFTP: Multicast File Transfer Protocol
(Hardware)
M
MIDAS: Multi-tIer Distributed Application Service
MFU: Most Frequently Used (Borland)
MGA: Matrox Graphics Adapter MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
A note-oriented control language for specifying music. MIDI data
MGA: Monochrome Graphics Adapter
consists of codes specifying notes and timing. These codes can be
(Hardware) generated by or output to MIDI-compatible devices, such as
MGC: Media Gateway Controller keyboards or synthesizers (Hardware)
Provides a single management platform for fault, configuration, MIDL: Microsoft Interface Definition Language
performance and security management. It manages the Cisco (Microsoft)
PGW 2200 PSTN Gateway and the Cisco SC2200 Signaling
Controller. Cisco MGC Node Manager integrates access to all MIDP: Mobile Information Device Profile
signaling components (Software) (Cisco) Is a set of Java APIs which, together with the Connected Limited
Device Configuration (CLDC), provides a complete J2METM
MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol
application runtime environment targeted at mobile information
Controls (trunks) gateways interconnected with the Public devices, such as mobile phones and entry level PDAs (Sun)
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) with packet networks and
controls (residential) gateways that function as network MIE: Mobile Internet Explorer
interfaces for customer premise located equipment (Software) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
MIF: Maker Interchange Format
MGDI: Multiplatform Graphics Device Interface (Adobe)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MIF: Management Information File
MGE: Modular Gis Environment
MIF: Management Information Format
MGET: Multiple GET
MIF: Minimum Internetworking Functionality
MGML: Minimal Generalized Markup Language
MIF: Module Interconnection Facility
MGR: ManaGeR
MIFST: Microsoft Internet Finance Server Toolkit
MH: Modified Huffman (Network) (Microsoft)
MHDL: Mimic Hardware Description Language MIG: Media Interoperability Gateway
MHEG: Multimedia and Hypermedia information MIG: Metal In Gap
coding Expert Group
MHP: Managed Hosting Provider
MMIS: Materials Manager Information System MOCA: Microsoft Online Crash Analysis
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MML: Maker Macro Language
MOD: Magneto-Optical Disk
MML: Music Markup Language
MOD: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
MMM: Mobile Media Mode
(Software) (Microsoft)
MMO: Mobile MOdule
MOD: MODulus
(Hardware) (Intel)
Reminder of the integer division
MMOD: Male MODem
MODEM: MOdulator/DEModulator
Modem adapter (Hardware) (Cisco)
MOF: Managed Object Format
MMOG: Massively Multiplayer Online Game
(Microsoft)
(Games)
MOF: Meta-Object Facility
MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing
Standard interfaces that can be used to define and manipulate a
Game
set of interoperable metamodels and their corresponding models
(Games)
MOF: Microsoft Operations Framework
MMPM: MultiMedia Presentation Manager
Provides technical guidance that enables organizations to achieve
MMPM/2: MultiMedia Presentation Manager 2 mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and
manageability of Microsoft products and technologies (Microsoft)
MMR: Modified Modified Read
MOG: Multiplayer Online Game
MMRPG: Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game
(Games)
MOHLL: Machine Oriented High Level Language M
MMS: Maximum Message Size MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical
Processing
MMS: Merchant Management System
MOM: Manufacturing Operations Management
MMS: Microsoft Media Server
MOM: Message-Oriented Middleware
Streaming protocol used by the Microsoft Media Server. Used to
access unicast content from a Windows Media Server to a (Software)
Windows Media Player (Network) (Microsoft)
MOM: Microsoft Operations Manager
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service Provides manageability as part of the design and implementation
of Windows Server System technologies (Operating systems)
MMSH: Microsoft Media Server over Http (Microsoft)
(Network) (Microsoft)
MOMA: Message-Oriented Middleware Association
MMST: Microsoft Media Server over Tcp (Organizations)
(Network) (Microsoft)
MONET: Multiwavelength Optical NETwork
MMU: Memory Management Unit (Network)
(Hardware)
MOO: Mud, Object Oriented
MMVF: MultiMedia Video FIle A client used to connect to a MUD
(NEC)
MOP: Maintenance Operations Protocol
MMX: Matrix Manipulation eXtensions (Network)
(Intel)
MOP: Meta Object Protocol
MMX: MultiMedia eXtensions A reflective facility of an object-oriented language (Software)
(Intel)
MOPA: MultiProtocol Over Atm
MNG: Multiple-image Network Graphics (Communication)
A Portable Network Graphics (PNG)-like image format supporting
multiple, animated, transparent and compressed images MOPS: Million Operations Per Second
MNN: My Netscape Network MO-ROD: Magneto Optical-Rewriteable Optical Disk
(Hardware)
MNOS: Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor
MOS: Magneto-Optic Storage
MNP: Microcom Networking Protocol
(Network) MOS: Mean Opinion Score
MST: Mountain Standard Time MTFTP: Multicast Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Timezone: GMT -7:00 (Network)
NAMPS: Narrow-band Analog Mobile Phone Service NAU: Network Addressable Unit
(Network)
NAMS: National Association of Multimedia
Shareware NAUN: Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour
NaN: Not A Number NAV: Norton Anti Virus
A symbolic entry that is encoded in oating-point format (Software) (Symantec)
NDDK: Network Device Development Kit NEST: Novell Embedded Systems Technology
(Novell)
NDDL: Neutral Data Definition Language
NetBEUI: NETwork Bios Extended User Interface
NDE: News Development Environment (Network)
NDEF: Not DEFined NetBIOS: NETwork Basic Input Output System
NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification (Network)
(Network) NETBLT: NETwork BLock Transfer
NDL: Network Database Language NETCDF: NETwork Common Data Format
(Databases)
NETMON: NETwork MONitor
NDM: Network Data Manager
On-line storage service NEWS: Netware Early Warning System
NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol NEWS: Network Extensible Window System
(Network) A window system based on PostScript that Sun developed and
licenses (Operating systems) (Sun)
NDMS: Netware Distributed Management Services
NEWT: NEWs Terminal
NDN: Non-Delivery Notice
NEXT: Near-End CrossTalk
NDP: Numeric Data Processor
NeXT: NEw eXtended Technology
NDPS: Novell Distributed Print Services
NF: Naturally Flat
(Network) (Novell)
Crt technology (Hardware) (Mitsubishi)
NDR: Network Data Representation
NFAS: Non-Facility Associated Signaling
(Network)
In ISDN, a single D-channel can control multiple PRIs (Network)
NDR: Non-Delivery Report
NFE: Net Future Expectation
NDRO: Non Destructive ReadOut
NFF: No Fault Found
NDS: Netware Directory Service
NFI: Near Field Imaging
(Network) (Novell)
Touch screen where the screen itself is the sensor. NFI uses a N
NDT: Non Destructive Testing sophisticated sensing circuit that can detect a conductive object -
a finger or conductive stylus - through a layer of glass, as well as
NE: Network Element through gloves or other potential barriers (Hardware)
(Network)
NFI: No F***ing Idea
NE: Not Equal (Net lingo)
(Software)
NFM: No Further Messages
NEARNET: New England Academic and Research End of script, ie: you dont want to talk to this person anymore
NETwork (Net lingo)
NEAT: Novell Easy Administration Tool NFR: Near Field Recording
(Novell) (Hardware)
NEB: Netscape Extension Builder NFS: Need For Speed
(Software) (Netscape) Racing computer and video games by Electronic Arts released on
platforms including personal computers, Nintendo, Xbox, Xbox
NEC: National Electrical Code
360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles (Games)
NEC: Nippon Electric Corporation NFS: Network File System
(NEC)
A Sun distributed file system that provides transparent access to
NECA: National Exchange Carrier Association remote file systems on heterogeneous networks (Operating
systems) (Sun)
(Organizations)
NHSE: National Hpcc Software Exchange NIMS: Novell Internet Messaging System
(Novell)
NI: New Instructions
(Hardware) (Intel)
NIO: Native Input/Output
Rechargeable battery technology
NI: No Increase
NIO: New Input/Output
NI: Non Interlaced Java's new I/O subsystem (Software) (Sun)
(Hardware)
NIPR: Non-secure Internet Protocol Router
NIA: Next Instruction Address (Network)
NIAM: Natural language Information Analysis NIPS: Network I/os Per Second
Method
NIPS: Network Intrusion Prevention System
NIC: Network Information Center (Security)
Originally, a single NIC at SRI International served the ARPANET
(and later the defense data network [DDN] community) (Network) NIR: Network Information Retrieval
(Network)
NIC: Network Interface Card
(Hardware) NIS: Network Information Service
A distributed network database containing key information about
NIC: New Internet Computer the systems and the users on the network. The NIS database is
(Hardware) stored on the master server and all the slave servers (Network)
(Sun)
NIC: Numeric Intensive Computing
NIS: Norton Internet Security
NiCd: NIckel-CaDmium
(Software) (Symantec)
Rechargable battery technology
NIS/YP: Network Information System/Yellow Pages
NICE: Narrative, Immersive, Collaborative
Environment N-ISDN: Narrowband Integrated Services Digital N
Rechargeable battery technology Network
NICE: Network Information and Control Exchange N-ISDN: National Integrated Services Digital
Network
NICE: Novell Internet Connection Expert
(Network) (Novell) NISI: Network Information Services Infrastructure
(Network)
NICOLAS: Network Information Center OnLine Aid
System NISO: National Information Standards Organization
(NASA)
NISP: Networked Information Services Project
NID: Network Interface Device
NIST: National Institute of Standards and
(Hardware) Technology
NID: New Interactive Display (Organizations)
(NEC) NITC: National Information Technology Center
NID: Next IDentifier NITOL: Norway-net with IT for Open Learning
NIDL: Network Interface Definition Language NIU: Network Interface Unit
(Network)
NIW: Network Installation Wizard
NIDS: Network Intrusion Detection System (Software) (Microsoft)
(Security)
NIXL: Nas Interface eXchange Language
NIFC: Netscape Internet Foundation Classes (Network)
(Software) (Netscape)
NJ: Nice Job
NIH: Not Invented Here (Net lingo)
NIHCL: National Institute of Health Class Library NJE: Network Job Entry
NII: National Information Infrastructure (IBM)
NREN: National Research and Education Network NSM: Netscape Server Manager
(Netscape)
NRFD: Not Ready For Data
(Communication) NSM: Network and System Management
NSSC: Nasa Standard Spacecraft Computer NTSA: Netware Telephony Services Architecture
(Novell)
NSTC: National Science and Technology Council
NTSC: National Television Systems Committee
NSTL: National Software Testing Labs The group that proposed a method of composite color encoding
NT: Network Terminator based on quadrature modulation of I and Q color difference
components onto a color subcarrier and adding the resulting
NT: New Technology chroma signal to luminance (Organizations)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NTSD: New Technology Symbolic Debugger
NT: Nice Try (Microsoft)
(Net lingo)
NTSL: National Software Testing Laboratories
NT: No Text (Organizations)
(Net lingo)
NTT: Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
NT: Nome Time
NTU: Network Termination Unit
Timezone: GMT -11:00
NTWS: New Technology WorkStation
NT-1: Network Terminator type 1
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NTAS: New Technology Advanced Server
NUA: Network User Address
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NUB: Network Utility Box
NTCR: New Technology Challenge/Response
(Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NUI: Network User Identification
NTDS: New Technology Directory Service
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Network) N
NUI: Network User Interface
NTE: New Technology Embedded
(Operating systems)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NUI: Notebook User Interface
NTF: No Trouble Found
NUL: NULl
NTFS: New Technology File System
An invisible character with an internal code of 0 that occupies no
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) space if printed. Not to be confused with a blank, which is
NTHQ: New Technology Hardware Qualifier invisible but occupies a space
Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems) NUMA: NonUniform Memory Access
(Microsoft)
NURB: Non Uniform Rational B-spline
NTIA: National Telecommunications and
Information Administration NURBS: Non Uniform Rational B-Spline
(Organizations) A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
offers additional exibility through knots along the spline. Some
NTIS: National Technical Information Service knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to pull the
curve toward those knots
NTK: Newton ToolKit
NURMS: Non Uniform Rational MeshSmooth
NTLDR: New Technology LoaDeR
Method of tesselation used by 3D Studio MAX (Software)
Bootstrap loader for Microsoft Windows NT-based operating
systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft) NUUG: Norwegian Unix User Group
(Organizations)
NTLM: New Technology Lan Manager
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) NV: No oVerflow
A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
NTO: Network Terminal Operator
offers additional flexibility through knots along the spline. Some
(Network) knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to pull the
NTONC: National Transparent Optical Network curve toward those knots
Consortium NVDL: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching
(Organizations) Language
NTOP: New Technology Option Pack Allows specifying sections of XML documents to be validated
against different schemas thus enabling the creation of complex
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) documents containing multiple languages
OPML: Outline Processor Markup Language ORSS: Optical Recognition System Simulator
XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured OS: Operating System
information between applications running on different operating A collection of programs that monitor the use of the system and
systems and environments supervise the other programs executed by it (Operating systems)
OPOS: Ole for Point Of Sale OS/2: Operating System 2
OPP: Order Processing Pipeline (Operating systems) (IBM)
(Network) (Microsoft) OS/360: Operating System/360
OPROM: Optical Programmable Read Only Memory OS/400: Operating System/400
(Hardware)
OS/E: Operating System/Environment
OPS: Off Premise Station
A PBX station in a location separated from the location of the OS-9: Operating System-9
main PBX (Communication) OSA: Open Scripting Architecture
OPS: Open Profiling Standard OSA: Open System Architecture
(Netscape)
OSAF: Open Source Applications Foundation
ops: Operations Per Second Organization that aims to create and gain wide adoption of Open
OPS: Oracle Parallel Server Source application software of uncompromising quality and to
build an innovative, sustainable alternative application despite
(Oracle)
market inertia. See also http://www.osafoundation.org/
OPT: Open Protocol Technology (Organizations)
OVF: Open Virtualization Format P3P: Platform for Privacy Preferencies Project
Standard format for packaging and describing virtual machines
PA: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
and applications for deployment across heterogeneous
virtualization platforms (Hardware) (HP)
P PAL: PALette
File name extension
P: Paragraph
HTML tag PAL: Paradox Application Language O
(Databases) (Borland)
P: Peta
Prefix for 10 power 15 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 50) PAL: Phase Alternate Line P
European TV standard. A composite color standard similar to
p: Pico NTSC, except that the v-axis subcarrier reference signal inverts in
Prefix for 10 power -12 phase at the horizontal line rate
P&D: Plug & Display PAL: Privileged Architecture Library
(Hardware)
PAL: Processor Abstraction Layer
P&M: Personalization & Membership Contains the code necessary to initially boot the processor and
(Microsoft) includes error recovery and processor self-test routines
(Hardware) (Intel)
P&S: Point And Shoot
Digital camera type (Hardware) PAL: Programmable Array Logic
(Hardware)
P&S: Publish & Subscribe
PAL: Programmable Assembly Language
P/N: Part Number
PAL: Publication Access List
P/PC: Palm Personal Computer
SQL Server replication security mechanism (Databases)
(Hardware) (Microsoft)
P/T: Part Time PALC: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spatial Light
P2C2: Pantone Personal Color Calibrator Modulator
(Pantone) Display technology
PAM: Primary Access Method PBCAK: Problem Between Chair And Keyboard
It's when the problem is the computer user (Net lingo)
PAM: Programmable Attribute Map
PBD: PowerBuilder Dynamic library
PAM: Pulse-Amplitude Modulation (Databases) (Sybase)
(Communication)
PBE: Prompt By Example
PAMR: Public Access Mobile Radio
PBGA: Plastic Ball Grid Array
PAN: Personal Account Number (Hardware)
PAN: Personal Area Network PBI: Phone Based Interface
(Network)
PBM: Play By Mail
PAP: PAcket-level Procedure
PBOT: Physical Beginning of Tape
PAP: Password Authentication Protocol (Hardware)
A security provision in point-to-point protocol (PPP) (Network)
PBR: Policy-Based Routing
PAP: Printer Access Protocol (Cisco)
PAP: Protected Audio Path PBX: Private Branch eXchange
Initiative under investigation for how to provide encryption of Privately owned central switching office (Communication)
audio over user accessible buses
PC: Personal Computer
PAP: Push Access Protocol
PC: Pipeline Clock
PAR: Parallel
Used to specify the memory's speed. Example PC 800 (Hardware)
PAR: Personal Animation Recorder
PC: Printed Circuit
PAR: Personal Audio Recorder
PC: Program Counter
(Hardware)
A CPU register that contains the address (location) of the
PAR: Project Authorization Request instruction to be executed next in the program sequence
PAWS: Protect Against Wrapped Sequences PCBC: Plain Cipher Block Chaining
(Network) PCBO: Personal Computer Branch Office
PAX: Portable Archive eXchange (IBM)
PCNFS: Personal Computer Network File System PDES: Product Data Exchange Specification
PDF: Portable Document Format PDSS: Post Development and Software Support
File format for document interchange (Adobe)
PDT: Pacific Daylight Time
PDF: Printer Description File Timezone: GMT -8:00
File name extension (Borland)
PDT: Performance Diagnostic Tool
PDF: Processor Defined Function (IBM)
PDF: Program Development Facility PDT: Pliable Display Technology
(Hardware)
PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
(Communication) PDT: Programmable Drive Table
PDI: Personal Data Interchange PDU: Plug Distribution Unit
(Software)
PDU: Protocol Data Unit
PDI: Power and Data Interface The ISO/OSI term for packet. A PDU is a data object exchanged
by protocol machines (entities) within a given layer. PDUs consist
PDIAL: Public Dialup Internet Access List of both protocol control information (PCI) and user data
PDK: Product Development Kit PDW: Package and Deployment Wizard
(Network) (Intel) (Microsoft)
PDL: Page Description Language PDX: ParaDoX
PDL: Program Description Language File name extension (Borland)
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And PFA: Predictive Failure Analysis
Chair
PFB: Printer Font Binary
An answer to problems with inexperienced computer users (Net
File name extension
lingo)
PEC: Program Execution Control PFC: Power Factor Correction
Feature included in some power supply boxes that reduces the
PECL: Php Extension Community Library amount of reactive power generated (Hardware)
See http://pecl.php.net (Software)
PFC: Powerbuilder Foundation Class
PEEK: Partners Early Experience Kit (Software) (Sybase)
PEEL: Programmable Electrically Erasable Logic PFE: Programmer's File Editor
(Hardware)
PFM: Printer Font Metrics
PEL: Picture ELement File name extension
(IBM)
PFN: Page Frame Number
PEM: Port Expander Module
PFPU: Processor Frame Power Unit
PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
PFR: Portable Font Resource
(Security)
PFR: Power Fail Restart
PEOT: Physical End Of Tape
(Hardware) PFS: Page Free Space
(Databases)
PEP: Packet Exchange Protocol
PFS: Parallel File System
PEP: Packetized Ensemble Protocol
(Operating systems)
PEP: Point-Edge-Polygon
PFX: Personal inFormation eXchange
Type of graphics editor (Software)
(Microsoft)
PEP: Policy Enforcement Point
PFY: Pimple Faced Youth
A port on a network device where the policy decisions are
Young assistant to Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) (Net lingo)
actually enforced (Network)
PERC: Portable Environment for Real-time Control PGA: Pin Grid Array
IC pins organization (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
PERC: PowerEdge Raid Controller PGA: Professional Graphics Adapter
(IBM)
(Hardware) (Dell)
PERL: Practical Extraction Report Language PGA: Programmable Gate Array
(Hardware)
A flexible programming language especially designed for
processing text (Software) PGC: Program Group Control
PERM: Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic (Microsoft)
(Hardware) PGD: Planar Gas Discharge
PEROM: Programmable Erasable Read Only Memory Display technology (Hardware) P
PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique PGDN: PaGe DowN
PNRP: Peer Name Resolution Protocol POOL: Parallel Object Oriented Language
Secure, scalable, and dynamic name registration and name
POOP: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
resolution protocol first developed for Windows XP and then
upgraded in Windows Vista (Network) (Microsoft) Programming for parallel processors in any object-oriented
programming language (Software)
PNS: PeaceNet Sweden
POP: Package for Online Programming
PNS: Perceptual Noise Substitution
POP: Picture on Picture
PNW: Personal NetWare (Hardware)
PO: Parity Odd POP: Point Of Presence
PO: Purchase Order (Network)
POCSAG: Post Office Code Standardization Advisory POPA: POP All registers
Group POPF: POP Flags
Synchronous digital paging scheme (Communication)
POPL: Principles of Programming Languages
POD: Piece Of Data
POR: Plan Of Record
POD: Plain Old Documentation
POR: Point Of Return
POD: Plain Old Dos
POR: Power-On-Reset
POD: Power On Display
POS: Packet Over Sonet
POD: Problem Of the Day (Network)
Today's current difficulty with software (or hardware)
POS: Parent Over Shoulder
POD: Proof of Deposit
Software system used by financial institutions to verify teller
POS: Persistent Object Server
transactions. Usually consists of reader/sorter control software, POS: Pick Operating System
reject-reentry system, and reporting systems (Software)
Old operating system (Operating systems)
POD: Publishing On Demand
POS: Piece Of S**t
PODP: Pentium OverDrive Processor (Net lingo)
An upgrade processor for the 486 systems intended to emulate a
P
POS: Point Of Sale
Pentium (586) (Hardware) (Intel)
(Hardware)
POE: Power Open Environment
POS: POSitive
POE: Power Over Ethernet
POS: Programmable Option Select
(Hardware)
POSE: PalmOS Emulator
POEP: Primary Operand Execution Pipeline
POSE: Picture-Oriented Software Engineering
POF: Plastic Optic Fiber
POSH: Plain Old Semantic Html
POH: Path OverHead
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to
POH: Power-On Hours author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or
XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than
POI: Path Overhead Indicator presentational (Software)
POI: Point Of Information POSI: Promoting conference for Open System
POI: Point Of Interaction Interconnect
PPML: Personalized Print Markup Language PRAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
Printer Language P-RAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
PPN: Project Programmer Number
RACMan: Remote Automation Connection MANager RARE: Reseaux Associés pour la Recherche
(Network) Européenne
The European Association of Research Networks. Now called
RAD: Rapid Access Disk
TERENA (Network)
RAD: Rapid Application Development RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
(Software)
(Network)
RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging RAS: Random Access Storage
RADAR: Rights, Availabilities, Distribution Analysis RAS: Reader Admission System
and Reporting
RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
RADB: Routing Arbiter Data Base
RAS: Remote Access Service
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User
(Network)
Service
RAS: Row-Address Strobe
RADSL: Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication) RASAPI: Remote Access Service Application
Programming Interface
RAG: Row Address Generator
(Microsoft)
RAI: Rapid Application Integration
RAT: Register Alias Table
(Software)
RAT: Remote Access Trojan
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or
(Security)
Independent) Disks
(Hardware) RATP: Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol
RAIDb: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Databases RAVE: Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine
(Databases) (Apple)
RAMAC: Raid Architecture with Multi-level Adaptive RBL: Realtime Blackhole List
Cache System for creating intentional network outages ("blackholes")
for the purpose of limiting the transport of known-to-be-
RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analog unwanted mass e-mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/
Converter
RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company
Chip on a video board that generates the analog video signals
The local telephone company in each of the seven U.S. regions.
(Hardware)
RAMP: Remote Access Maintenance Protocol
(Communication) R
RC: Release Candidate
(Network)
Pre-release version of a program (Software)
RAMP: Risk Analysis and Management Program
RC: Resource Compiler
RAN: Radio Access Network (Software)
RAND: RANDom RCA: Radio Corporation of America
(Organizations)
RAND: Rural Area Network Design
RAP: Rapid Application Prototyping RCA: Readers' Choice Award
RELAX: REgular LAnguage description for Xml RFP: Request For Proposal
Uses XML syntax to express the structure relationships that are
RFQ: Request For Quotation
present in a DTD, and adds the XML Datatype Schema
mechanisms, as well RFQ: Request For Quote
RELML: Real Estate Listing Markup Language RFS: Remote File Sharing
RELSECT: RELative SECTor RFS: Remote File System
REM: REMark (Operating systems)
RITA: Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent RMTP: Reliable Message Transport Protocol
(Network) RMW: Read, Modify, Write
RJ: Registered Jack RN: Read News
Connector for phone and network cables (Hardware)
RNA: Remote Network Access
RJE: Remote Job Entry (Microsoft)
(Network)
RNA: Ring No Answer
RK: Resource Kit What you get when the modem you just called doesn't answer
(Operating systems) (Communication)
RKRM: Rom Kernel Reference Manual RNC: Radio Network Controller
(Hardware)
RLD: Received Line Detect
RNS: Run from Network Server ROPES: Rapid Object-oriented Process for
Embedded Systems
(Software)
(Operating systems)
RNUI: Remote Network User Identification
ROR: ROtate Right
ROADM: Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop
Multiplexer ROS: Read-Only Storage
A type of multiplexer used in optical networking (Hardware) (IBM)
rpm: Rounds (or Revolutions) Per Minute RSA: Remote Supervisor Adapter
(Hardware) PCI adapter which simplifies remote system management by
providing around-the-clock remote access to the server. The RSA
RPM: Route Processor Module monitors the server and sends out alerts to designated recipients
(Network) (Cisco) via LAN, pager, email or SNMP if a failure is detected (Hardware)
(IBM)
RPN: Real Page Number
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
RPN: Reverse Polish Notation
RSAC: Recreational Software Advisory Council
RPPROM: ReProgrammable Programmable Read (Organizations)
Only Memory
RSACI: Recreational Software Advisory Council on
RPQ: Request for Price Quotation the Internet
RPR: Relative Performance Rating (Organizations)
SAFE: Security And Freedom through Encryption SAP: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der
datenverarbeitung
SAG: Sql Access Group A german company that produces the leading suite of client-
SAIL: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory server business software ("Systems, Applications and Products in
data processing").
SAINT: Security Administrator's Integrated
Network Tool SAPI: Speech Application Programming Interface
(Software) (Microsoft)
SAINT: Symbolic Automatic INTegrator
SAPR: Systems Assurance Product Review
SAL: Shift Arithmetic Left (IBM)
SAL: Spatial Aggregation Language SAR: Segmentation And Reassembly
SALT: Speech Application Language Tags The process of breaking packets into ATM cells and reassembling
cells back into data packets (Communication)
Lightweight set of extensions to existing markup languages, in
particular HTML and XHTML that enable multimodal and SAR: Shift Arithmetic Right
telephony access to information, applications and Web services
from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs and wireless personal digital SAR: Specific Absorbtion Rate
assistants
SAR: Store Address Register
SAM: Scsi-3 Architecture Model
SAR: Successive Approximation Register
SAM: Security Accounts Manager
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SARC: Symantec's Antivirus Research Center
SAM: Sequential Access Method
(Symantec)
SAM: Serial Access Memory
SARG: Search ARGument
SAM: Single Application Mode (Databases) (Sybase)
(Microsoft)
SAS: Sales Accounting System
SAM: Storage Area Management
SAS: Secure Attention Sequence
SAM: System Administration Module A key sequence that begins the process of logging on or off. The
(Operating systems) default sequence is CTRL+ALT+DEL (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
SAMI: Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange
SAS: Serial Attached Scsi
SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language
Storage connection technology (Hardware)
SAN: Storage Area Network SAS: Server Attached Storage
SAN: System Area Network (Hardware)
(Network)
SAS: Single Attached Station
SANE: Standard Apple Numeric Environment SAS: Single Audio System
(Apple)
SAS: Statistical Analysis System
SANE: System Administration and Network
Engineering SASI: Sughart Associates System Interface
Old hard disk bus (Hardware)
SANITI: Storage Area Network Integrated
Technology Initiative SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SANS: System Administration, Networking and SAT: Sim Application Toolkit
S
Security institute Normally terminal device commands the Subscriber Identity
Organization that develops, maintains, and makes available at no Module (SIM). Terminal device supporting SAT feature gives for
cost, the largest collection of research documents about various SIM a feature to command terminal device (Communication)
aspects of information security, and it operates the Internet's SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
early warning system - Internet Storm Center. (Organizations)
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
SAO: Sector-At-Once
SATAN: System Administration Tool for Analyzing
CD recording methodology (Hardware)
Networks
SAP: Second Audio Program (Network)
SAP: Secure Audio Path SATF: Shared Access Transport Facility
SAP: Service Access Point SAV: Symantec AntiVirus
The point at which the services of an OSI layer are made Previously called Norton AntiVirus (NAV) (Software) (Symantec)
available to the next higher layer. The SAP is named according to
the layer providing the services (Network) SAVDM: Single Application Virtual Dos Machine
SBCCS: Single Byte Command Code Set SCA: Single Connector Attachment
(Hardware)
SBCM: Small Business Customer Manager
(Microsoft) SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
Systems used in industry to monitor and control plant status and
SBCR: Smart Business Card Reader provide logging facilities
(Hardware)
SCAF: Service Control Agent Function
SBCS: Single-Byte Character Set
SCAM: Scsi Configured AutoMatically
SBD: Same Business Day
SCART: Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils
Term defining when a service has to be delivered
Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs
SBF: Sequential Block Filemanager A socket standard used in Europe, named after its creator
company, to connect many kinds of audiovisual equipment -
SBF: Simple Boot Flag
sometimes also called the Peritel or Euro connector (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
SCAS: SCAn String
SBFM: Small Business Financial Manager
(Software) (Microsoft) SCB: Subsystem Control Block
(IBM)
SBI: Sound Blaster Instrument
SCBCD: Sun Certified Business Component
SBI: Speaker Box Interface Developer
An interface that integrates audio capability with ISDN on the Sun (Software) (Sun)
workstation (Hardware) (Sun)
SCC: Scsi Controller Commands
SBL: Softbridge Basic Language
(Software) SCC: Serial Communications Controllers
SBL: Spamhaus Block List SCC: Serial Controller Chip
Realtime database of IP addresses of verified spam sources and SCC: Source Code Control
spam operations, maintained by the Spamhaus Project team and
(Software)
supplied as a free service to help email administrators better
manage incoming email streams. See SCC: Standards Council of Canada
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/
(Organizations)
SBM: Small Business Manager
SCC: SuperComputer Center S
(Software) (Microsoft)
SCC: Sustainable Computing Consortium
SBM: Subnet Bandwidth Manager
(Organizations)
An IETF proposed standard for handling resource reservations on
shared and switched IEEE 802-style local-area media (Network) SCC: Synchronous Channel Check
(IBM)
SBN: Site Builder Network
(Microsoft) SCCI: Source Code Control Interface
(Software)
SBP: Serial Bus Protocol
(Hardware) SCCM: System Center Configuration Manager
Solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update your
SBR: Source BRowser
servers, clients, and devicesâ??across physical, virtual,
File name extension (Borland) distributed, and mobile environments (Microsoft)
SBR: Spectral Band Replication SCCP: Signaling Connection Control Part
Technology to enhance audio or speech codecs, especially at low
bit rates SCCP: Simple Conference Control Protocol
SGMP: Simple Gateway Management Protocol SICD: Still Image Capture Device
The predecessor to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (Hardware)
(Network)
SID: Sccs delta ID
SGR: Set Graphics Rendition The number used to represent a specific SCCS delta (Software)
SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics Random Access SID: Security IDentifier
Memory
SID: Serial Input Data
(Hardware)
SGSN: Serving Gprs Support Node SID: Sound Interface Device
(Hardware)
Provides packet routing to and from the SGSN service area for all
users in that service area (Communication) SID: Station IDentification
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm (AT&T)
A hashing algorithm that generates a 160-bit hash value (SHA-1). SID: Symbolic Interactive Debugger
Used with the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) in the Digital
Signature Standard (DSS), among other places (Security) SID: System IDentification
SHAR: SHell ARchive SIDF: System Independent Data Format
SHD: Self-Healing Driver SIDH: System Identification for Home Systems
(Operating systems) SIDT: Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
SHED: Segmented Hypergraphics EDitor SIE: Serial Interface Engine
SHF: Super High Frequency The USB module responsible for bus protocol (Hardware)
SIPP: Single In line Pin Package SLDT: Store Local Descriptor Table
(Hardware) SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk
SIPR: Secure Internet Protocol Router Refers to older mainframe hard disks that were used as a basis
(Network) for comparison during the initial UC Berkeley RAID studies.
(Hardware)
SIR: Save Instruction Recognition
SLEE: Service Logic Execution Environment
SIR: Serial InfraRed
SLF4J: Simple Logging Facade For Java
(Communication)
Intended to serve as a simple facade for various logging APIs
SIR: Sustained Information Rate allowing to the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at
deployment time. See http://www.slf4j.org/ (Software) S
SIRDS: Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram
SLG: Service Level Guarantee
SIRENE: Supplementary Information REquest at
(Network)
the National Entry
SLI: Scalable Link Interface
SIS: Single Instance Store
Method for linking two (or more) video cards together to produce
Architecture designed to maintain duplicate files with a minimum a single output. It is an application of parallel processing for
of disk, cache, and backup media overhead (Operating systems) computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power
(Microsoft) available for graphics (Hardware) (nVidia)
SIS: Strategic Information System SLI: Scan Line Interlacing
SIS: Supplier Information System (Hardware)
SISAL: Streams and Iteration in a Single SLIC: Serial Link and Interrupt Controller
Assignment Language SLIC: Session Layer Interface Card
SISL: System Interrupt Steering Logic (Hardware)
SISNET: Signal in Space through the interNET SLIC: Subscriber Line Interface Card
Interface between home phone lines and Central Office (CO)
SISSL: Sun Industry Standards Source License
(Hardware)
(Sun)
SLIC: System Level Integration Circuit SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology
SLIC: System Licensed Internal Code
Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures based
(IBM)
on threshold values determined by the manufacturer. This allows
SLIM: Structured Language for Internet Markup the network manager to replace a drive before it fails. (Hardware)
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol SMASE: System Management Application Service
An Internet protocol used to run IP over serial lines such as Element
telephone circuits or RS-232 cables interconnecting two systems. SMASH: Simple, Many And Self-Healing
SLIP is now being replaced by PPP (Communication)
Supercomputing architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
SLM: Service Level Management
SMASH: Systems Management Architecture for
SLM: Spatial Light Modulator Server Hardware
(Hardware) Suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics,
industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the management
SLMR: Silly Little Mail Reader of the data center
SLO: Service Level Objective SMAU: Smart Multistation Access Unit
(Network) (Network)
SLOSH: Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from SMB: Server Message Block
Hurricane A common format for sharing files, directories and devices in
SLOT: Scanned Laser Output Terminal Microsoft's operating systems (Operating systems)
SRM: Storage Resource Manager SSAD: Structured System Analysis and Design
(Software) SSADM: Structured System Analysis and Design
SRM: Supplier Relationship Management Method
Software enabling a company or entity to better coordinate SSAP: Session Service Access Point
activities and share information with suppliers (Software)
(Network)
SRM: System Renewability Message
SSAP: Source Service Access Point
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SSB: Single SideBand
SRMD: Security Risk Management Discipline
Detailed process that is useful in determining which threats and SSBAM: Single SideBand Amplitude Modulation
vulnerabilities have the most potential impact on a particular
SSBP: Simple Soap Binding Profile
organization (Security) (Microsoft)
(Software)
SRM-E: Service Resource Module Enhanced
SSC: Scsi Stream Command
(Network) (Cisco)
SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Compilable and
SRMP: Soap Reliable Messaging Protocol
Executable
SRMP enhances SOAP by defining additional headers that ensure
reliability in application-to-application communication (Software) Example program that demonstrates a bug or to submit to forums
when asking for help (Software)
SRN: Source/Recipient Node
SSCE: Site Server Commerce Edition
SRO: Sharable and Read Only (Microsoft)
SRP: Secure Remote Password SSCF: Service Specific Coordination Function
Secure password-based authentication and key-exchange
protocol. See also http://srp.stanford.edu/ (Security) SSCOP: Service Specific Connection Orientated
Protocol
SRP: Security Rollup Package
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SSCP: Service Switching Control Point
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 800 X 600 pixels in 256 SWIG: Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
colors (Hardware)
SWIM: System Wide Information Management
S-VHS: Super Video Home System (Network)
SVI: Switched Virtual Interface SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
Represents a VLAN of switch ports as one interface to the routing
or bridging function in the system (Network) SWMBO: She Who Must Be Obeyed
(Net lingo)
SVID: System V Interface Definition
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
SWOP: Specifications for Web Offset Publications
These specifications standardize the submission of materials
SVM: System Virtual Machine supplied to web offset publications, and areas of responsibility for
(Microsoft) each of the involved industry segments. See
http://www.swop.org/ (Organizations)
SVM: System Volume Mangement
SWP: Simple Web Printing
SVN: Switched Virtual Network
(IBM) SWP: SWaP
File name extension
SVP: SchemaView Plus
Filename extension for SchemaView Plus, a program for drawing SWRL: Semantic Web Rule Language
database schemas Intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web
SWAK: Sealed With A Kiss SXGA+: Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus
Saying goodbye (Net lingo) Video specification for a resolution of 1400 X 1050 pixels
(Hardware)
SWALK: Sealed With A Loving Kiss
SXI: StarOffice Impress
(Net lingo)
Star/Open Office presentation file extension (Software)
SWAN: Sun Wide Area Network
SXQL: Simple Xml Query Language
SWAP: Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SYL: See You Later
(Communication)
(Net lingo) S
SWAP: Simple Workflow Access Protocol
SYLK: SYmbolic LinK
SWAP: Stewart Warner Array Program
SYM: SYMbols
SWAR: Simd Within A Register File name extension
A form of parallelism used in most microprocessors. Examples
include MMX, SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow instructions (Hardware) SYMM: SYnchronized MultiMedia
SWBPD: Semantic Web Best Practices and SYMPL: SYsteM Programming Language
Deployment SYN: SYNonym
SWDP: Sun Web Developer Pack File name extension
Helps to leverage emerging web technologies and techniques to SYNC: SYNChronous
create interactive and dynamic web applications for the enterprise
(Software) (Sun) SYS: SYStem
SWF: ShockWave Format SYS: SYStem configuration
File format File name extension
TECO: Text Editor and COrrector TFTPD: Trivial File Transfer Protocol Daemon
Server-side TFTP service responsible for hosting specific file
TED: Tiny EDitor
download requests made by the client
TED: Transient Electromagnetic Device
TGA: TarGA
(Hardware)
File format for images
TEDIS: Trade Electronic Data Interchange Systems
TGC: Terminal Group Controller
TEI: Terminal Endpoint Identifier
TGIF: Thank Goodness It's Friday
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative (Net lingo)
TEL: Tivoli Enterprise Console TGP: Thumbnail Gallery Post
TELCO: TELephone Central Office TGT: Ticket Granting Ticket
(Communication) (Security)
TeleVAS: TELEphony Value Added Service TH: Table Header
TELNET: TELephone NETwork HTML tag
TN-LCD: Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display TPF: Transaction Processing Facility
(IBM)
TNO: The Netherlands Organization
tpi: Tracks Per Inch
TNPC: Taiwanese New Pc Consortium
Recording density (Hardware)
TNS: Trivial Name Server TPI: Transport Provider Interface
TNT: The News Toolkit The kernel components of the Transport Layer Interface (TLI)
See also NeWS (Sun) TPL: Table Producing Language
Tnx: ThanKS TPL: Targeted Peripheral List
(Net lingo)
(Hardware)
TOC: Table Of Contents TPL: Transaction Processing Language
TOD: Time Of Day TPM: Transaction Processing Manager
TODC: Time-Of-Day Clock tpm: Transactions Per Minute
A clock module that contains the system date and time (year-
Processing speed
month-day-hour-minutes). (Hardware)
TPM: Trusted Platform Module
TODS: Transactions On Database Systems
Published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that
TOE: Tcp Off-load Engine can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well as
(Hardware) the general name of implementations of that specification, often
called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security Device" (Hardware)
TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language
TPORT: Twisted pair PORT transceiver
TOF: Tiny Open Firmware (AT&T)
TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework TPOS: Transaction Processing Operating System
TOMS: Transactions On Mathematical Software TPPC: Transaction Processing Performance Council
TOOIS: Transactions On Office Information Systems (Organizations) T
TOP: Technical Office Protocol TP-PMD: Twisted Pair Physical layer Medium
Dependent
TOPICS: Total Online Program and Information
Control System TPR: Third-Party Relay
TOPLAS: Transactions On Programming Languages TPS: Transaction Processing System
And Systems TPS: Transactions Per Second
tops: Theoretical Operations Per Second TPT: Twisted Pair Transceiver
Processing power (Hardware)
TPTP: Test & Performance Tools Platform
TOPS: Timesharing OPerating System Provides powerful frameworks and services for an open platform
TOS: Terms Of Service upon which developers build unique test and performance
tools—both open source and commercial—that easily integrate
TOS: The Operating System with Eclipse (Software)
U/W SCSI: Ultra/Wide Small Computers System UCAA: Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
Interface (Remedios)
(Hardware)
UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced
U2W: Ultra-2-Wide Internet Development
(Hardware) (Organizations)
UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit UCT: Universal Coordinated Time
UDP: User Datagram Protocol ULANA: Unified Local Area Network Architecture
It is a connectionless transport mechanism for IP networks ULC: Ultra-Light Client
(Communication) (Software)
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol ULN: Universal Link Negotiation
UDRP: Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution ulp: Unit in Last Place
Policy In binary formats, the least-significant bit of the significant, bit 0,
UDS: User Data Source is the unit in the last place
UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface UMADS: Universal Measurement Architecture Data
Storage
UHE: Ultra High Efficiency
UMB: Upper Memory Block
(Hardware)
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency UMC: United Microelectronics Corporation
UTRA: Umts Terrestrial Radio Air interface V&V: Verification And Validation
(Communication) V.FC: Version First Class
UTRAN: Umts Terestrial Radio Access Network Communications standard
(Communication) V/F: Voltage to Frequency converter
UTS: Unicode Technical Standard (Hardware)
VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit VIS: Visual Instruction Set
(Hardware) VIS: Voice Information System
VI: Vertical Interval VIS: Volumetric Imaging System
The raster lines that are precluded by a video signal standard (Hardware)
from containing a picture
VITC: Vertical Interval TimeCode
VI: Video Input
(Hardware) VITS: Vertical Interval Test Signal
VI: Virtual Interface VIVO: Video In/Video Out
(Hardware) Video card connector that captures and produces video signals
(Hardware) (nVidia)
VI: Visual Interactive
VJ++: Visual J++
VIA: Vendors Isdn Association Java development platform (Software) (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
VKD: Virtual Keyboard Driver
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture
(Network)
VLA: Variable Length Array
(Software)
VIC: Very Inexpensive Computer
(Hardware)
VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
A networking architecture that allows end-systems on
VIC: Video Interface Chip topologically disconnected subnetworks to appear to be
(Hardware) connected on the same LAN. Predominately used in reference to
ATM networking. Similar in functionality to bridging (Network)
VIC: Virtual Image Copy
(Databases) VLB: Vesa Local Bus
Bus architecture (Hardware)
VIC: Voice Interface Card
(Hardware) (Cisco) VL-BUS: Vesa Local BUS
VPIM: Voice Profile for Internet Messaging VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Defines how voice messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME Election protocol that dynamically assigns responsibility for a
messages for transport over Internet messaging networks virtual router to one of the VRRP routers on a LAN (Network)
(Communication)
VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
VPL: Virtual Programming Language Non-proprietary redundancy protocol described in RFC 3768
designed to increase the availability of the default gateway
VPM: Video Port Manager servicing hosts on the same subnet (Network)
VPM: Virtual Parallel Machine VRT: Voltage Regulation Technology
VPM: Vulnerability and Patch Management (Intel)
(Operating systems) (HP) VRU: Voice Response Unit
VPN: Virtual Page Number VS: Virtual Storage
VPN: Virtual Private Network (IBM)
A network that functions as if it were private, though it exists on VSA: Virtual System Architecture
public wires. Data is protected through encryption and other
security mechanisms (Network) VSA: Visual Studio Analyzer
Is a tool to help you analyze performance, isolate faults, and
VPO: Virtual Protected Output
understand the structure of your distributed applications. You can
VPS: Virtual Private Server use Visual Studio Analyzer with applications and systems built
with any of the Visual Studio tools (Software) (Microsoft)
VPS: Voice Processing System
VSA: Visual Studio for Applications
VPSC: Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration Provides a fully integrated way for customers to seamlessly
VPT: Virtual Print Technology customize and extend the functionality of Web-based applications
using familiar tools (Software) (Microsoft)
VPT: Virtual Project Team
VSAM: Virtual Storage Access Method
VPU: Visual Processing Unit (Operating systems) (IBM)
Graphics coprocessor (Hardware)
VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal
VQ: Vector Quantization (Communication)
VQ: Video Quality VSB: Very Small Business
VQF: Vector Quantization Format VSB: Vestigial Sideband Modulation
An audio codec similar to MP3 but less lossy and (arguably) more (Communication)
intelligent. See http://www.vqf.com (Software)
VSD: ViSio Diagram
VQP: Vlan Query Protocol Filename extension (Microsoft)
(Network) (Cisco)
VSDT: Variable-Size Droplet Technology
VR: Virtual Reality Print technology (Hardware)
VR: Voltage Regulator VSE: Virtual Storage Extended
VRAM: Video Random Access Memory VSF: Vertical Scanning Frequency
A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed graphics
frame buffers, providing separate buses for the CPU and the VSI: Virtual Socket Interface
frame buffer logic (Hardware)
VSIA: Virtual Socket Interface Alliance
V-RATE: Vendor Risk Assessment and Threat (Organizations)
Evaluation
VSIMM: Video Single In line Memory Module
(Security)
A small printed circuit card that contains memory chips for
VRC: Vertical Redundancy Check storing video images (Hardware)
WAITS: Wide Area Information Transfer System WCA: Web Clipping Application
WAL: Write Ahead Log WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to
WAMP: Windows, Apache, Mysql, PHP (or Perl or
people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web
Phyton) content developers and for developers of authoring tools. The
Web applications platform (Software) primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility
WAN: Wide Area Network WCCP: Web Cache Communications Protocol
A T1, T3, broadband, or other network covering an area generally (Network) (Cisco)
larger than a city or metropolitan area network (Network)
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WAP: Wireless Access Point
Centrally connects wireless network nodes similar to a hub W-CDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
connecting wired PCs. (Network) (Communication)
WARP: Web service Aggregation, Rely and WCTL: Web Crossing Template Language
Propagation WD: Western Digital
WAS: Web Application Server (Hardware)
(Network) (Oracle) WD: Working Draft
WAS: Web Application Stress WDA: Web-Disabled Application
(Software) (Microsoft)
WDATAM: What Do All The Acronyms Mean
WASP: Wireless Application Service Provider (Net lingo)
(Software)
WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange
WAST: West Australian Standard Time XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex data
Timezone: GMT +7:00 between Web programming languages, creating what some refer
to as 'Web syndicate networks'
WAT: West Africa Time
Timezone: GMT -1:00 WDF: Windows Driver Foundation
Strategy for the next generation of Windows drivers. WDF defines
WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service a single driver model that supports the creation of object-
WAV: WAVeform oriented, event-driven drivers for either kernel mode or user
mode (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
File format for audio streams
WB: Wide Band WDG: Web Design Group
(Organizations)
(Communication)
WDJ: Web Developer's Journal
WB: Workbench
Pre-PPC Amiga operating system WDL: Windows Driver Library
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WBEM: Web-Based Enterprise Management
WBI: Web Browsing Intelligence WDM: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
A mechanism to allow multiple signals to be encoded into
WBMP: Wireless BitMaP multiple wavelengths (Communication)
File Format for bitmapped images suitable for WAP devices
WDM: Windows Driver Model
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WBT: Web-Based Training WDP: Wireless Datagram Protocol
WBTS: Windows-Based Terminal Server WDR: Web Description Resources W
WBXML: Wap Binary eXtensible Markup Language Vocabulary for Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
WOSA: Windows Open Systems Architecture WQXGA: Wide Quad eXtended Graphics Array
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Video specification for a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels
(Hardware)
WOU: Warranty Option Upgrade
(Hardware) WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
WOW: Windows on Win32
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service
WOW: WithOut Worry WRED: Weighted Random Early Detection
(Hardware) (Xerox) Combines IP precedence and Random Early Detection capabilities
to provide differentiated performance characteristics for different
WOW: World Of Warcraft classes of service (Network)
(Games)
WRI: WRIte
WP: Word Processor File name extension
WP: WordPerfect WRK: Windows Resource Kit
(Software) (Corel) (Microsoft)
WP: Write Protected WRT: With Regards To
WPA: Wi-fi Protected Access (Net lingo)
Designed to improve security over the older WEP encryption WRUD: What aRe yoU Doing?
methods (Security) (Net lingo)
WPA: Windows Product Activation WS: Web Services
(Software) (Microsoft) Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based
WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling
clients. Also used to prefix web services interoperability
(Network) applications or standards (Software)
WPAR: Workload PARtition WS: WordStar
Feature introduced with the IBM AIX® Version 6.1 operating
system. It allows running applications to move between System p WS: WorkSpace
machines or System p logical partitions (LPARs) (Operating
systems) (IBM)
WS: WorkStation
WSIL: Web Services Inspection Language WTAI: Wireless Telephony Application Interface
(Software)
Provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a site for
available services and a set of rules for how inspection related WTD: Week To Date
information should be made available for consumption (Software)
Time series function
WSIL4J: Web Services Inspection Language For
WTF: What The F**k
Java
(Net lingo)
Java class library that provides an API that is can be used to
locate and process WS-Inspection documents (Software) WTG: Way To Go
(Net lingo)
WSIT: Web Services Interoperability Technology
Open-source project for Java and .Net interoperability (Software) WTK: Wireless ToolKit
(Sun) (Software)
WSJ: Web Services Journal WTL: Windows Template Library
WSML: Web Services Markup Language Library for developing Windows applications and UI components.
It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of
WSP: Web Standards Project classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and
Collective effort of web developers and end users whose mission more (Software) (Microsoft)
is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading the
WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
browser makers that common standards are in everyone's best
interest WTO: World Trade Organization
WSP: Wireless Session Protocol (Organizations)
XCHG: ExCHanGe
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