Networking

Acronyms in networking starting with 'X,Y and Z'

XNS Xerox Network System (Xerox Corp.) Y2K Year 2000 YAG Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet YB Yottabyte(1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) ZB Zettabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)

Acronyms in networking starting with 'W'

W3C World Wide Web Consortium W-CDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access WACS Wireless Access Communications System WAN Wide Area Network WAP Wireless Access Protocol WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service WBM Web Based Management WCS Wireless Communications Service WDCS Wideband Digital Cross-connect System WDM Wave Division Multiplexer WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy WfM Wired for Management WFQ […]

Acronyms in networking starting with 'V'

VAR Value Added Reseller VBNS Very High-Speed Backbone Network Service VBR Variable Bit Rate VBR-rt Variable Bit Rate real-time VC Virtual Circuit VCI Virtual Channel Identifier VCR Video Cassette Recorder VCSEL Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser VDSL Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line VFN Vendor Feature Node VG Voiced Grade VHF Very High Frequency (30 MHz to 300 […]

Acronyms in networking starting with 'U'

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UAWG Universal ADSL Working Group UBR Unspecified Bit Rate UDP User Datagram Protocol UHF Ultra High Frequency (300 MHz to 3 GHz) UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System UN United Nations UNI User-Network Interface UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply USB Universal Serial Bus USDLA United States Distance Learning Association USNC U.S. National Committee […]

Advanced Television Enhancement (Networking)

Despite the impressive growth in the number of households with multiple PCs and the meteoric rise of the Internet, one in five Americans do not want to own a computer These households constitute the potential market for advanced television enhancement (ATE) services, which integrate telephone, television, and Internet services without requiring a PC platform. The […]

AppleTalk (Networking)

AppleTalk is Apple Computer’s LAN protocol. It is built into every Macintosh computer and facilitates communications between a variety of Apple and non-Apple products linked on LANs. AppleTalk provides access to print and file servers, e-mail applications, and other network services. The AppleTalk network itself can be configured in either a bus, star, or ring […]

All-Optical Networks

Optical-network technologies have reached an enormous capacity in recent years, yet carriers still cannot keep up with bandwidth demand. For example, while the demand for high-speed data services has driven interconnect vendors to introduce high-capacity interfaces (OC-12, OC-48) for backbone routers, now there is growing demand for DS-3 and OC-3 service payloads. In turn, this […]

Applications Hosting (Networking)

Applications hosting is a type of service that allows a company’s employees to access enterprise applications via an online subscription with a third-party firm. This arrangement eliminates the cost and management hassles associated with acquiring, deploying, and maintaining corporate-wide applications—or developing them in-house. Instead, the different software options are managed, monitored, and maintained by a […]

Applications Metering (Networking)

In today’s business environment it has become necessary to track computer assets—both hardware and software—to determine the cost of ownership and depreciation, and aid departmental budgeting and theft deterrence. A key aspect of asset management is applications metering, which entails monitoring how many copies of a particular software program are in use at any given […]

Applications Monitoring (Networking)

Applications monitoring involves the continuous surveillance of data networks and their components, and the reporting of potential problems so they can be resolved quickly. Organizations can monitor applications with standard network management tools and resolve problems with in-house technical staff. Alternatively, the organization can outsource the applications monitoring function to a third-party network management firm […]

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