List of ACRONYMS..
Copyright DP Kelly 2010
Although this list is not complete, it should get you into the right ballpark. If an entry is blank, it means that I’ve come across the acronym before, but still haven't been able to find out what it means!
Compiled by DP Kelly 29th April 2008 Updated: Continually up to 18th March 2011
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3G 3rd Generation
3.5G 31/2 generation (HSDPA)
3GPP 3 rd Generation Partnership Project
4G 4th Generation
8PSK 8 Phase Shift Keying
8VSB 8 Level Vestigal Sideband
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ABIOS Advanced Basic Input Output System
ABR Area Border Router
ABR Auxilliary Bass Radiator
AC Alternating Current
ACE Access Control Entry
ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface
Adapter
ACL Access Control list
ACL Asynchronous ConnectionLess
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
A/D Analogue to Digital
ADC Analogue to Digital Convertor
ADCPM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADMD Administrative Management Domain
ADSC Asymetrical Digital Subscriber line ?
ADSI Active Directory Services Interfaces
ADSL Assymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AEGIS Ad-Hoc Expert Group on the Global
Information Society
AFC Automatic Frequency Control
AFSDB Andrew File System DataBase
AH Authentication Header
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
a.k.a. Also Known As
ALC Automatic Level Control
AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
API Application Programming Interface
APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing
APM Advanced Power Management
ARC Advanced RISC Computing
ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Authentication Server
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDL Asynchronous Data Line ?
ASP Active Server Pages
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (=IDE)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM Automatic Teller Machine
ATRN Authenticated TuRN
ATX Advanced Technology Extended
AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator
AXFR Full Zone Transfer (DNS Zones)
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B2B Business to Business
B2C Business to Client
BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
BAP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
BCP Best Common Practice
BDC Backup Domain Controller
BHP Brake Horse Power
BINL Boot Information Negotiation Layer
BMP BitMaP ( picture file format )
BNC British Navy Connector
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
BPS Bits Per Second
BSI British Standards Institute
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CA Certification Authority
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAL Client Access Licence
CAO Computer Account Objects
CAS Column Address Strobe
CAST (protocol)
CBCP Call Back Control Protocol
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCIR International Radio Consultative
Committee
CCITT Comite Consultatif International
Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCP Compression Control Protocol
CCTV Closed Circuit TV
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDO Collaboration Data Objects
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol
CD-R Compact Disk Recordable
CD-RW Compact Disk Rewritable
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Router
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIR Committed Information Rate
CLIP Classical IP over ATM
CLK Clock signal
CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CMC Common Mail Call
CMS Content Management System
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CNAME Canonical Name Records
CNR Communications and Network Riser (slot in PC)
COM Component Object Model
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRL Certification Revocation List
CRS Certificate Request Syntax
CSA Canadian Standards Association.
CSC Customer Support Centre
CSD Circuit Switched data
CSIR Consumer Standards Institute for Research
CSNW Client Services For Netware
CSP Cryptographic Service Provider
CSR Client Server Subsystem
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
CSV Comma Separated Values
CTD Charge Transfer Device
CTI Computer-Telephony Integration
CTL Certificate Trust Lists
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D/A Digital to Analogue
DACL Discretionary Access Control List
DAC Digital to Analogue Converter
DAMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DAP Directory Access Protocol
dB Decibel
dBc dB with reference to Carrier
dBm dB with reference to 1mW
dBu dB with reference to 1uV
DC Direct Current
DCC Digital Content Creation
DCD Data Carrier Detect
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCS Digital Cellular System
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDF Data Decryption Field
DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System
DDR Double Data Rate (SDRAM)
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DES Data Encryption Standard
DES-CBC Data Encryption Standard - Cipher Chaining
DESX Data Encryption Standard X
DFS Distributed File System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIB Directory Information Base
DIL Dual In Line
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module (RAM)
DIN German Standards Institute (Deutshe Instituut von Norme)
DIT Directory Infromation Tree
DL Distribution List
DLC Data Link Control
DLL Dynamic Link Libraries
DMA Direct Memory Access
DN Distinguished Name
DNS Domain Name Service
DOD Dial On Demand
DPA Data Protection Act
DPA Differential Power Analysis
DPC Deferred Procedure Calls
DPDT Double Pole Double Throw (switch)
DPMS Display Power Management Signalling.
DPST Double Pole Single Throw
DRAM Dynamic Random Access memory
DRF Data Recovery Field
DS Directory Service
DSA Digital Structure Algorithm
DSA Directory System Agent
DSDM DDE Share Database Manager
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSMN Directory Service Manager for Netware
DSN Data Source Name
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DSR Data Set Ready
DSS Digital Signed Standard
DTD Document Type Definition.
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTL Diode Transistor Logic
DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency
DTT Digital Terrestrial Television
DUN Dial Up Networking
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVB-T/-S/-C DVB for Terrestrial/ Satellite/ Cable
DVB-T2 Digital Video Broadcast standard Terrestrial
version 2
DVD Digital Video Disk / Versatile Disk
DXA Directory Synchronisation Agent
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EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
ECC Error Correction Code
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECSA Engineering Council of South Africa
EDGE EnHanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDO Extended Data Out (RAM)
EDRP Encrypted Data Recovery Policy
EFD Exchange Forms Designer
EFP Exchange Forms Project
EFS Encrypting file system
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
EHT Extremely High Tension (voltage)
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EMF ElectroMotive Force (Voltage)
EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
ERD Emergency Recovery Disk
EROM Erasable ROM
ERP Effective Radiated Power
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ESE Extensible Storage Engine
ESMR Enhanced Specialised Mobile Radio
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
ETRN Extended TuRN (~=SMTP) protocol
EV-DO Evolution Data Optimised
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FCB File Control Block
FC Fibre Channel (Hard drives)
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FEK File Encryption Key
FET Field Effect Transistir
FM Frequency Modulation
FPNW File and Print Services for Netware
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FROG Fully Reliant On God
FRS File Replication Service
FSD Full Scale Deflection
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
