Acronyms and Abbreviations
A |
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AC |
Alternating Current |
AD |
Active Directory |
AES |
Advanced Encryption Standard |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
ASHRAE |
American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning |
ASP |
Application Service Provider |
B |
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BMC |
Baseboard Management Controller |
C |
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CLI |
Command Line Interface |
CSA |
Canadian Standards Association |
D |
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DC |
Direct Current |
3DES |
Triple Data Encryption Standard |
DES |
Data Encryption Standard |
DLC |
Double Lucent Connector |
DNS |
Domain Name Server |
E |
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ESD |
Electrostatic Discharge |
ESDP |
Electronic Software Delivery Platform |
ESN |
Equipment Serial Number |
F |
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FC |
Fibre Channel |
FC-AL |
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop |
FCoE |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
FRU |
Field Replaceable Unit |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
G |
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GE |
Gigabit Ethernet |
GTS |
Global Technical Service |
GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
H |
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HBA |
Host Bus Adapter |
HD |
High Density |
I |
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IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
IP |
Internet Protocol |
IPv4 |
Internet Protocol version 4 |
IPv6 |
Internet Protocol version 6 |
ISA |
Instrument Society of America |
ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
L |
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LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LUN |
Logical Unit Number |
M |
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MD5 |
Message Digest Algorithm 5 |
MIB |
Management Information Base |
MPO |
Multiple-fiber Push-on/Pull-off |
MGMT |
Network Time Protocol |
N |
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NDMP |
Network Data Management Protocol |
NEG |
Negative |
NIS |
Network Integration Service |
NL-SAS |
Near Line Serial Attached SCSI |
NTP |
Network Time Protocol |
O |
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ODF |
Optical Distribution Frame |
OID |
Object Identifier |
OTDR |
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer |
P |
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PDU |
Power Distribution Unit |
PO |
Purchase Order |
PPB |
Part Per Billion |
PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
R |
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RoHS |
Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances |
RH |
Relative Humidity |
RTN |
Return Current |
S |
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SAN |
Storage Area Network |
SAS |
Serial Attached SCSI |
SFP |
Small Form-factor Pluggable |
SFTP |
Secure File Transfer Protocol |
SHA |
Secure Hash Algorithm |
SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SMS |
Short Messaging Service |
STP |
Shielded Twisted Pair |
SSD |
Solid State Disk |
SSH |
Secure Shell |
T |
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TC |
Technical Committee |
TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
U |
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UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
UL |
Underwriters Laboratory |
UTP |
Unshielded Twisted Pair |
USM |
User-based Security Model |
V |
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VLAN |
Virtual Local Area Network |