Acronyms grrrrrrrr

OMG this is doing my head in- Data Communication Fundamentals
Watch as this list grows for ease of use I will put this in Alphabetical order - finally finished

AC - Alternating Current
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (2 separate frequencies, telephone & data over the 1 phone line)
AUI - Attachment Unit Interface
ANSI - American National Standards Institute (Established 1918)
AM - Amplitude Modulation
APPN - Advanced Peer to Peer Networking
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ - Automatic Repeat Request (Yes Request is correct)
ARPANet - Advanced Research Projects Administration Network
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BCC - Block Check Character
BER - Bit Error Rate
Bisync (Not really an acronym) - Binary Synchronous comunication
BNC - Bayonet Nut Connector
BRI - Basic R ate Interface
Brouters (Not really an acronym) - Devices that both bridge and route
CIDR - Classless Interdomain Routing
CCITT - Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy (part of ITU formed in 1956) - in 1993 renamed to ITU-T
CMIP - Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS - Common Management Information Services
CMOT - CMIP over TCP/IP
CNM - Communication Network Management
Coax (Not really an acronym) - Coaxial Cable
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (also called polynomial error detection)
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSU - Channel Service Unit
CSU/DSU - Channel Service Unit/ Data Service Unit
CTS - Clear-to-send
DASD - Direct Access Storage Device
DC - Direct Current
DCE - Data Communication Equipment
DDD - Direct Distance Dial
DES - Data Encryption Standard
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIB - Directory Information Base
DISOSS - Distributed Office Support System
DOS - Disc Operating System
DNA - (Digital Equipment Corporation's) Digital Network Architecture
DNS - Domain Name Service or Domain Name System
DPCM - Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DQDB - Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DSU - Data Service Unit
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
EIA - Electrical Industries Alliance
EIA/TIA - Electrical Industries Alliance/ Telecommunications Industry Association
EFI - Electrical Frequency Interface
e-mail - (Not really an acronym) Electronic Mail
EOF - End Of File
EOT - End Of Transmission
ETX - End-Of-Text
FC - Carrier Frequency
FCS - Frame Check Sequence
FDDI - Fibre Distributed Data Interface
FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEC - Forward Error Correction
FM - Modulation Frequency
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
HDLC - High Level Data Link Control
HFC - Hybrid Fibre/ Coaxial (cable) - contains both optical fibre and copper cables
I/O - Input/Output
IAB - Internet Architectures Board (Internet protocols and procedures, advice on creation of the internet standards.) www.iablorg/iab
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (responsible for coordinating the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses)
IBM - International Business Machines
IC - Integrated Circuits
ICA - Integrated Communications Adapter
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IETF - Internet Engineering Taskforce (developing technical standards for the Internet) www.ietf.org
InterNIC - Internet Network Information Centre (provides domain name registration, IP assignment, directory of directories and publicly accessible database.) www.internic.net
IOCS - Input/Output control System
IPX - Internet Packet Exchange
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO - Internet Standards Organisation (started in 1947)
ISOC - (The) Internet Society, looks into Social, Political and Technical Issues www.isoc.org
ISP - Internet Service Provider
ITU - International Telecommunications Union (began in 1860's - 20 countries agreed to standardise telegraph networks)
LAN - Local Area Network
LAPB - Link Access Procedure Balanced
LLC - Local Link Control
LRC - Longitudinal (Horizontal) Redundancy Checking
LTE - Line Termination Equipment
MAC (addresses) - Media/Medium Access Control
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MAU - Multistation access unit
MIB - Management Information Base
MILNet - Military Network
MSAU or MAU - Multistation access unit
NIC - Network Interface Card
NFS - Network File System
NSF - National Science Foundation
NSS - Nodal Switching System
OSF - Open Software Foundation
OSI (model) - Open Systems Interconnection
PAD - Packet Assembly/disassembly device
PAM - Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PBX - Private Branch Exchange
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
PDU - Protocol Data Unit
PM - Phase Modulation
POTS - Plain Old Telephone System
PPM - Pulse Position Modulation
PRI - Primary Rate Interface
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
PU - Physical Unit
PVC - Permanent Vertical Circuit
QoS - Quality of Service
RF (modems) - Radio-Frequency
RFI - Radio Frequency Interface
RG-58 A/U - Radio Grade 58
RIP - Router Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RS-232 - Recommended Standard (protocol approved by the EIA)
RU - Request/response Unit
RVI - Reverse Interrupt
SAP - Service Access Point
SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
SDM - Space Division Multiplexing
SMDS - Switched Multimegabit Data Services
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA - Systems Network Architecture
SNADS - Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services
SNR - Signal-to-noise ratio
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SONET - Synchronous Optical Network
SQL - Structured Query Language
SRB's - Source Routing Bridges
SSCP - System Services Control Point (SNA)
STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling
STDM - Statistical time division multiplexing
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
SVC - Switched Vertical Circuit
T1 MUX - T1 Multiplexer
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCAM - Telecommunication Access Method
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TH - Transmission header
TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association
TLD's - Top Level Domains
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
VDU - Visual Display Unit
VR - Virtual Route
VT - Virtual Terminal
VRC - Vertical Redundancy Checking
VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
WAN - Wide Area Network
WATS - Wide Area Telephone Service
WDM - Wave Division Multiplexing
XNS - Xerox Network Services