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Integrated Services Digital Network
thumb|ISDN telephone
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
standard for data transmission in a local area network
broadcasting
network messaging to multiple recipients simultaneously
medium access control
service layer in IEEE 802 network standards
High-Level Data Link Control
bit-oriented code-transparent synchronous data link layer protocol
Anycast
Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which a single IP address is shared by devices (generally servers) in multiple locations. Routers direct packets addressed to this destination to the location nearest the sender, using their normal decision-making algorithms, typically the lowest number of BGP network hops. Anycast routing is widely used by content delivery networks such as web and name servers, to bring their content closer to end users.
round-trip delay time
time required to receive a response to a query across a communication system
passive optical network
telecommunications technology used to provide fiber to the end consumer
frequency-hopping spread spectrum
radio signal transmission method invented by Hedy Lamarr
Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
technology used in telecommunications networks
baseband
thumb|Spectrum of a baseband signal, energy E per unit frequency as a function of frequency f. The total energy is the area under the curve.
encapsulation
method of designing modular communication protocols in which separate functions are abstracted from their underlying structures
Preboot Execution Environment
Preboot Execution Environment
direct-sequence spread spectrum
modulation technique to reduce signal interference
E-carrier
The E-carrier is a member of the series of carrier systems developed for digital transmission of many simultaneous telephone calls by time-division multiplexing. The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) originally standardised the E-carrier system, which revised and improved the earlier American T-carrier technology, and this has now been adopted by the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). It was widely used in almost all countries outside the US, Canada, and Japan. E-carrier deployments have steadily bee
customer-premises equipment
terminal and associated equipment located at a subscriber's premises
Carrier-grade NAT
type of Network address translation
bandwidth throttling
throttling
Synchronous Data Link Control
computer communications protocol from IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
routing protocol
Geocast
right|200px Geocast refers to the delivery of information to a subset of destinations in a wireless peer-to-peer network identified by their geographical locations. It is used by some mobile ad hoc network routing protocols, but not applicable to Internet routing.
IEEE P802.1p
IEEE task group active from 1995 to 1998
Cisco Inter-Switch Link
proprietary Cisco VLAN trunking protocol
network booting
process of booting a computer from a network
T-carrier
thumb|right|Left: A 66 block; center and right: Cabinets containing [[Smartjack network interface devices for T1 circuits]]
IEEE 802.1ad
Ethernet networking standard
IEEE 802.1AE: IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks—Media Access Control (MAC) Security
IEEE standard
Fios by Verizon
Internet service provider and TV provider
LocalTalk
LocalTalk is a particular implementation of the physical layer of the AppleTalk networking system from Apple Computer.
World Wide Name
A unique identifier used in storage technologies
Tunnel broker
provides a network tunnel
Data link connection identifier
network protocol
Link adaptation