list of acronyms

LIST OF ACRONYMS

ADSL
ANS
ANS CO+RE
ARPA
AS
ATM
BGP4
CAP
CIX
CLEC
DARPA
DoD
EGP
EST
FDDI
FIX
FTP
IAT
ICMP
IEC
IETF
IGP
ILEC
IPv6
ISDN
ISI
ISP
IXP
LAN
LEC
MAE
MAN
MFS
MXP
NAP
NCP
NCS
NREN
NS/EP
NSF
NSFNET
NSP
OMNCS
OSPF
PC
PN
POP
PPP
PVC
RBOC
RIP
RSP
SLIP
SMDS
SONET
SVC
SWAB
TCP/IP
TTL
UDP
vBNS
WAN
WWW
XNS

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Advanced Networks and Services
ANS Commercial + Research and Education
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Autonomous System
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Border Gateway Protocol Version 4
Competitive Access Provider
Commercial Internet Exchange
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Department Of Defense
Exterior Gateway Protocol
Eastern Standard Time
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Federal Internet Exchange
File Transfer Protocol
Internet Analysis Tool
Internet Control Message Protocol
Interexchange Carrier
Internet Engineering Task Force
Interior Gateway Protocol
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
Internet Protocol Version Six
Integrated Services Digital Network
Information Sciences Institute
Internet Service Provider
Interexchange Point
Local Area Network
Local Exchange Carrier
Metropolitan Area Ethernet
Metropolitan Area Network
Metropolitan Fiber Systems
Metropolitan Exchange Point
Network Access Point
Network Control Protocol
National Communication System
National Research and Education Network
National Security Emergency Preparedness
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation Network
National Service Provider
Office of the Manager, NCS
Open Shortest Path First
Personal Computer
Public Network
Point of Presence
Point-to-Point Protocol
Permanent Virtual Circuit
Regional Bell Operating Company
Routing Information Protocol
Regional Service Provider
Serial Line Interface Protocol
Switched Multimegabit Data Service
Synchronous Optical Network
Switched Virtual Circuit
SMDS Washington Area Bypass
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Time To Live
User Datagram Protocol
Very High Speed Backbone Network Service
Wide Area Network
World Wide Web
Xerox Network Systems

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