SHORTCUTS

Networking Abbreviations

A reference of 31 terms and abbreviations related to networking.

• NIC

  Network Interface Card

• MAC

  Media Access Control (Address)

• IP

  Internet Protocol (Address)

• TCP

  Transmission Control Protocol

• UDP

  User Datagram Protocol

• ICMP

  Internet Control Message Protocol

• ARP

  Address Resolution Protocol

• BGP

  Border Gateway Protocol

• OSPF

  Open Shortest Path First

• VLAN

  Virtual LAN

• QoS

  Quality of Service

• HTTP

  HyperText Transfer Protocol

• HTTPS

  HTTP Secure

• FTP

  File Transfer Protocol

• SSH

  Secure Shell

• LAN

  Local Area Network

• WAN

  Wide Area Network

• MAN

  Metropolitan Area Network

• PAN

  Personal Area Network

• SAN

  Storage Area Network

• NAS

  Network Attached Storage

• MQTT

  Message Queuing Telemetry Transport

• TTL

  Time To Live

• NAT

  Network Address Translation

• DNS

  Domain Name System

• DHCP

  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

• NTP

  Network Time Protocol

• HTTP2

  HTTP/2

• HTTP3

  HTTP/3 (QUIC)

• RDP

  Remote Desktop Protocol

• LDAP

  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol