Net+ Acronyms

AAA - Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

ACL - Access Control List

AP - Access Point

APIPA - Automatic Private IP Addressing

ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

AS - Autonomous System

ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

AXT - Alien Crosstalk

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BNC - Bayonet Neill-Concelman

BOOTP - Bootstrap Protocol

BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BSSID - Basic Service Set Identifier

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device

CA - Certificate Authority

CAPWAP - Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points

ccTLD - Country Code Top-Level Domain

CCTV - Closed-Circuit Television

CDN - Content Delivery Network

CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIFS - Common Internet File System

CNAME - Canonical Name Record

DAD - Duplicate Address Detection

DCI - Data Center Interconnect

DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DLC - Data Link Control

DKIM - DomainKeys Identified Mail

DNS - Domain Name System

DNSSEC - Domain Name System Security Extensions

DOCSIS - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

DoH - DNS over HTTPS

DoS - Denial of Service

DoT - DNS over TLS

DRP - Disaster Recovery Plan

EIGRP - Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

EMI - Electromagnetic Interference

EOL - End-of-Life

EOS - End of Support

ESSID - Extended Service Set Identifier

FEP - Fluorinated Ethylene Polymer

FEXT - Far-End Crosstalk

FHRP - First Hop Redundancy Protocol

FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

GCMP - Galois/Counter Mode Protocol

GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation

GRE - Generic Routing Encapsulation

gTLD - Generic Top-Level Domain

GUI - Graphical User Interface

HaaS - Hardware as a Service

HVAC - Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning

IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service

IaC - Infrastructure as Code

IAM - Identity and Access Management

IBSS - Independent Basic Service Set

ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol

ICS - Industrial Control System

IDF - Intermediate Distribution Frame

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IIoT - Industrial Internet of Things

IKE - Internet Key Exchange

IoT - Internet of Things

IP - Internet Protocol

IPAM - IP Address Management

IPsec - Internet Protocol Security

IPS - Intrusion Prevention System

IDS - Intrusion Detection System

ISAKMP - Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

ISL - Inter-Switch Link

ITU - International Telecommunication Union

LACP - Link Aggregation Control Protocol

LAG - Link Aggregation Group

LAN - Local Area Network

LC - Local Connector

LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDAPS - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure

LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol

LTE - Long Term Evolution

MAC - Media Access Control

MDF - Main Distribution Frame

MIB - Management Information Base

MPO - Multi-Fiber Push On

MS-SQL - Microsoft Structured Query Language

MTP - Multi-Fiber Termination Push-On

MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit

MX - Mail Exchanger

NAC - Network Access Control

NAS - Network Attached Storage

NDP - Neighbor Discovery Protocol

NFV - Network Function Virtualization

NGFW - Next-Generation Firewall

NSE - Nmap Scripting Engine

NS - Name Server

NTP - Network Time Protocol

NTS - Network Time Security

NTS-KE - Network Time Security Key Establishment

OID - Object Identifier

OS - Operating System