Virtually everything in networking has an acronym. Therefore, this page is a pretty good index for this set of notes.
| AAA | Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting | Security |
| ACL | Access Control List | ACL |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol | |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | OSI |
| BDPU | Bridge Protocol Data Unit | Ethernet |
| BSS | Basic Service Set | WiFi |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol | Security |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance | WiFi |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection | Ethernet |
| DAI | Dynamic ARP Inspection | |
| DCF | Distributed Coordination Function | WiFi |
| DiffServ | Differential Services | QoS |
| DMVPN | Dynamic Multipoint VPN | VPN |
| DSCP | Differentiated Services Code Point | QoS |
| DSSS | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum | WiFi |
| DTLS | Datagram TLS | VPN |
| EAP | Extensible Authentication Protocol | WiFi |
| ESS | Extended Service Set | WiFi |
| FHSS | Frequency Hoping Spread Spectrum | WiFi |
| HIDS | Host-based Intrusion Detection System | |
| HSRP | Hot Standby Router Protocol | |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | |
| IBSS | Independent Basic Service Set | WiFi |
| ICS | Industrial Control System | |
| IDF | Intermediate Distribution Frame | |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System | |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | |
| IMAP4 | Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 | |
| IPS | Intrusion Prevention System | |
| ISATAP | Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol | IPv6 |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | |
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol | VPN |
| MDF | Main Distribution Frame | |
| MIMO | Multiple Input Multiple Output | WiFi |
| MTBF | mean time between failures | |
| MTTF | Mean Time To Failure | |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Recover | |
| MU-MIMO | Multi-User MIMO | WiFi |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet | |
| NAC | Network Access Control | |
| NAS | Network Access Server | |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage | |
| NIDS | Network-based Intrusion Detection System | |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing | WiFi |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol | Security |
| PCF | Point Coordination Function | WiFi |
| PMTU | Path MTU Discovery | |
| POP3 | Post Office Protocol Version 3 | |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | Security |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol | VPN |
| PSTN | Public Switch Telephone Network | |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service | Security |
| RTP | Real-time Transport Protocol | |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition | |
| SHA | Secure Hashing Algorithm | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol | SNMP |
| SONET | Synchronized Optical Network | Ethernet |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier | WiFi |
| STP | Spanning Tree Protocol | Ethernet |
| TACAS+ | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus | Security |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter | |
| UPS | Uninterruptable Power Supply | |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network | VLAN |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | VPN |
| VRRP | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol | |
| WAP | Wireless Access Point | WiFi |
| WEP | Wireless Equivlaence Privacy | WiFi |
| WPA | WiFi Protected Access | WiFi |
| WPS | WiFi Protected Security | WiFi |
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