ALA - American Library Association
ANSI - American National Standards
Institute
ARPA - Advanced Research Project Agency
ASCII - American Standard Code for
Information Interchange
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision
Detection
DAT – Digital Audio Tape
DCE - Data Communication Equipment
DTD – Document Type Definition
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
FCC – Federal Communication Commission
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
GPRS - General Packet Radio Services
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IP - Internet Protocol
IPX - Internet Packet Exchange
ISDN - Integrated Sevices Digital
Network
ISO - International Standards Organization
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
IT – Information Technology
Kbps - Kilo bits per second
LAN - Local Area Network
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
Mbps - Mega bits per second
PC - Personal Computer
PDF – Page Description Format
PS - PostScript
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive
Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RS 232 - Recommended Standard
232
SAN - Storage Area Network
SCSI - Small Computers System Interface
SGML – Standard Generalized Markup
Language
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
STML – Spoken Text Markup Language
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
VLAN - Virtual LAN
VRML – Virtual Reality Markup Language
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
(D)WDM - (Dense) Wavelength Division
Multiplexing
WML – Wireless Markup Language
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You
Get
WYSIWYNG - What You See Is What You
Never Get
WYSIWYM - What You See Is What You
Mean