List of Terms and Abbreviations

Abbreviations
• ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
• bps (bits per second)
• B-ISDN (Broadband-ISDN)
• CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection)
• EMail (Electronic Mail)
• FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
• FDDI-II (Fiber Distributed Data Interface II)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• IEEE 802.x
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• ISO (International Standards Organization)
• LAN (Local Area Network)
• MAC (Media Access Control)
• MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)
• N-ISDN (Narrowband-ISDN)
• NFS (Network File System)
• OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
• PBX (Private Branch Exchange)
• SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
• SNA (Systems Network Architecture)
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
• WAN (Wide Area Network)

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Terms
• 100Base Fast-Ethernet
• 100VG-AnyLAN
• Address
• Application Layer
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• Backbone
• Bits per second
• Bridge
• Baseband Coaxial Cable
• Broadband Coaxial Cable
• Broadband-ISDN
• Brouter
• Bus Topology
• Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
• Cell Relay
• Coaxial Cable
• Communication Infrastructure
• Costs of Networks
• Dataflow Machines
• Data Link Layer
• DECnet
• Digital Bit Pipe
• Electronic Mail
• End-to-end Layer
• Ethernet
• Fax
• Fibre Channel
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface II
• File Transfer Protocol
• Gateway
• High-speed LANs
• Hub
• Information and Communication
• Integrated Services Digital Network
• Interconnection Device
• International Standards Organization
• Internet Protocol
• Internet
• Internetworking
• Layer
• Linear Wiring
• Local Area Network
• Media Access Control
• Metropolitan Area Network
• Multimedia
• Multiprocessor System
• Network Architecture
• Network File System
• Network Layer
• Network Management Architecture
• Object-Oriented Thinking
• Open Systems Interconnection
• Optical Fibre
• Organizational Learning
• OSI Reference Model
• Out-of-band Signalling Concept
• Peer-to-Peer Network
• Physical Layer
• Planning
• Presentation Layer
• Protocol
• Relay System
• Repeater
• Ring Topology
• Router
• Selecting a Network
• Service
• Session Layer
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• Speed-Requirements
• Standard
• Star Topology
• Star Wiring
• Subnetwork
• Switch
• Systems Network Architecture
• Telnet
• Token-Passing
• Token Ring
• Token Bus
• Topology
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
• Transmission Media
• Transport Layer
• Twisted Pair Cable
• Wide Area Network
• Wiring Closet
• Wiring Standard
• Wiring System

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