COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING CONCEPTS

FULL FORMS
1. ARPANET 16.UTP Cable
Advanced Research Project Agency Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable
Network 17.STP Cable
2. NSF Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
National Science Foundation 18.CAT-5 cable
3. TCP/IP Category-5 cable
Transmission Control 19.WWW
Protocol/Internet Protocol World Wide Web
4. IP 20.GHz
Internet Protocol Giga Hertz
5. NIU 21.Hz
Network Interface Unit Hertz
6. NIC 22.MHz
Network Interface Card Mega Hertz
7. MAC Address 23.KHz
Media Access Control address Kilo Hertz
8. TAP 24.THz
Terminal Access Point Tera Hertz
9. LAN 25.PDA
Local Area Network Personal Digital Assistant
10.MAN 26.LASER
Metropolitan Area Network Light Amplification (by) Stimulated
11.PAN Emission (of) Radiation
Personal Area Network 27.bps
12.CAN bits per second
Campus Area Network 28.Bps
13.WAN Bytes per second
Wide Area Network 29.kbps
14.VGM kilo bits per second
Voice Grade Medium 30.Kbps
15.DGM Kilo bytes per second
Data Grade Medium

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31.mbps 48.FDDI
million bits per second Fiber-Distributed Data Interface
32.Mbps 49.ISDN
million bytes per second Integrated Services Digital network
33.P2P 50.VFIR
Point to Point Very fast Infrared
34.MODEM 51.NFS
Modulation/Demodulation Network File System
35.AM 52.HTTP
Amplitude Modulation Hyper text Transfer Protocol
36.FM 53.MIME
Frequency Modulation Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
37.PM 54.SMTP
Phase Modulation Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
38.A/F 55.WAIS
Audio frequency Wide Area Information Service
39.DTE 56.FTP
Data Terminal Equipment File Transfer Protocol
40.DCE 57.URL
Data Communication Equipment Uniform Resource Locator
41.CTS 58.URI
Clear to send Uniform Resource Identifier
42.CD 59.URN
Career Detect Uniform Resource Name
43.RJ-45 60.SLIP
Registered Jack-45 Serial Line Internet Protocol
44.AUI Connector 61.LCP
Attachment Unit Interface Link Control Protocol
45.BNC Connector 62.NCP
Bayone Neill Concelman Network Control Protocol
46.SNA 63.IPCP
Systems Network Architechture IP Control Protocol
47.ISP 64.PPP
Internet Service Provider Point to Point Protocol

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65.GSM 80.VSNL
Global System for Mobile Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
Communications 81.HTML
66.SIM Hypertext Markup Language
Subscriber Identification Module 82.XML
67.SMS Extensible Markup Language
Short Message Service 83.DHTML
68.IDEN Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network 84.ASP
69.TDMA Active Server Pages
Time Division Multiple Access 85.JSP
70.CDMA Java Server Pages
Code Division Multiple Access 86.VB Script
71.WLL Visual Basic Script
Wireless in Local Loop 87.PHP
72.3G Hypertext Preprocessor
Third Generation 88.PERL
73.EDGE Practical Extraction Report Language
Enhanced Data Rate for Global 89.OSS
Evolution Open Source Software
74.UMTS 90.FLOSS
Universal Mobile Telecommunication Free Libre Open Source Software
System 91.GNU
75.PSTN GNUs Not Unix
Public Switched Telephone Network 92.FSF
76.E-Mail Free Software Foundation
Electronic Mail 93.OSI
77.CC Open Source Initiative
Carbon Copy 94.W3C
78.BCC World Wide Web Consortium
Blind Carbon Copy 95.GPL
79.BSNL General Public License
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 96.FOSS
Free and Open Source Software

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 97.SSL
Secured Socket Layer
98.UNCITRAL
United Nations Commission for
International Trade Related Law
99.IPR
Intellectual Property Rights
100. FAT
File Allocation Table