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A

ADSL

Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop

Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Loop

AIM

AOL Instant Messenger, see ICQ or try this explanation
or search with Google. Now as add-on in many Applikations.

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

Ein populärer globaler Verschlüsselungsstandard, der zur Verschlüsselung von Daten verwendet wird, um diese privat zu halten.

AIX

Advanced Interactive Executive [IBM's `unix']

API

Application Programmers Interface

ARM

Advanced RISC Machines, zur Firma

ASCII

Abkürzung für "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". Internationale Norm,
die alle auf Computern darstellbaren Zeichen festlegt. Siehe wiki on ASCII

AT-Befehle,

Spezieller Befehlssatz zur Steuerung eines Modems. Der Begriff stammt vom Urvater der Modems, dem Hayes-Modem.

All commands start with an "AT". The sequence of A followed by T is sometimes called "ATtention"

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Telecom)

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B

BLOG

weBLOG, Slang for Web Log, an on line personal journal
personal Hyde-Park Corner

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution (various UNIX flavors),
early Unix History

Bovespa

Bovespa-Index
der führende Aktienindex in Brasilien Índice Bovespa Börse São Paulo (Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo)

C

CAPI

Common (ISDN) API

CAS

Circuit Associated Signaling

Column Address Select/Strobe

CATV

Community Antenna TV

COOKIE

Cookies remember some state of the transaction between client and server.
The state object is called a cookie, for no compelling reason.

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)

Combined Rlogin and Telnet

CRM

Customer relationship management

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection, more details

CTI

heißt ausgeschrieben "Computer Telephony Integration".

Fachbegriffe aus den Bereichen Computer Telefonie und Call Center.
siehe dort CTI-Link und obendrein
CTI bei wiki , da rast die Technik, wiki seit 2004

CVS

Concurrent Versions System (also see VCS )

D

DBA

Data Base Administrator

DBMS

Data Base Management System

DataBase Management System (rdbms for Relational)

DECT

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, whatis ?

Digital European Cordless Telephony (formerly)

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DNA

DEC Network Architecture

Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (Windows DNA)

DOCSIS

Data Over Cable Service (DOCSIS)

DNS

Domain Name System wiki

Domain Name/Naming Server/System

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

MS why use DHCP

DPMI

DOS Protected Mode Interface (Microsoft)

DTD

Document Type Definition (W3C)

DTM

Digital Terrain Modeling

DTM

Digital Terrain Modeling

DVI

means Digital Visual Interface, i.e. digital connections between the video card and digital LCD

DVI-D (Digital) - Subdivided in single and dual link
DVI-A (Analog)
DVI-I (Integrated Digital/Analog)

E

ECO

Engineering Change Order

EDGE

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution, see gsm

EIS

Executive Information Systems

EJB

Enterprise JavaBeans

ELC

Ethernet LAN Controller

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphics

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ETSI

(the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) schön gelegen und noch
mehr Details

F

FEC

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

(US government rules)

look for FIPS 180-2, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), to generate dig. signatures

FTP

File Transfer Protocol [Internet protocol]

FTSE

Financial Times Stock Exchange UK share index, pronounced "foot'see"

G

GAPI

Gateway Application Programm

GIS

Geographical Information System

GNU

GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix'';
(it is pronounced "guh-NEW"), here is an entry point

GNOME

the GNU Network Object Model Environment

GSM

Global System (for) Mobile (Communications)

[European standard for digital cellular telephone systems, with

increasing use within the US: the earlier name was `Groupe Spécial Mobile'] see gsmworld.History

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service, supports Internet Protocol, ref. 1 and ref. 2

GPU

Graphical Processing Unit

H

HBCI

Home Banking Computer Interface

HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface
is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data.

HSCSD

High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HTML

HyperTextMarkupLanguage

tidy your HTML via

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol [protocol used by the WorldWideWeb initiative]

I

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority bei Wiki(en)
siehe auch ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

IAP

Internet Access Provider

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol [Novell]

ICQ

ICQ or 'I Seek You', instant messaging etc., wiki on ICQ

ICT

Information and Communication Technology, deutsch = IKT

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force ( zur homePage )

IMT

International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT-2000)

ISM

Institute for supply managment ( mehr dazu )
da gibt's dann quarterly Reports, die eine Voraussage darstellen

ISO

Infrared Space Observatory, [Chile]

International Organization for Standardization, [Geneva, more on ISO .]

ISV

Independent Software Vendor

ITU

International Telecommunications Union, HomePage and other Standards

J

J2EE

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE, TM)

JNDI

Java Naming and Directory Interface

JSP

Java Server Pages (1999)

JSTL

J(ava Server Pages) Standard Tag Libraries (2001-2)

L

LBS

Location Based Services, from wiki

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Open LDAP FAQ

M

MAC

Media Access Controller (MAC)

MCI

Microwave Communications Incorp.

( now an Internet backbone provider, + other )

MCNS

Multimedia Cable Network System (MCNS) consortium

MEMS

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, explained

MIB

Management Information Base

Men in Black

MIME

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension [or Multimedia ....]

MSS

Mobile Satellite Services

N

NASDaq

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System. Established in 1971 using computer network technology to display pricing and trade activity.

link to nasdr Glossary

Netscape

latest full Browser/Composer/e-mail  Ftp-download

at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.1/windows/win32/sea/

Juli 2003

NIC

Navigation Information Connection

Network Information Center [Internet]

Network Interface Card

Nicaragua (558) ISO 3-letter country code

Numeric Intensive Computing

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.01/windows/win32/sea/

NSC

Network Service Center

Network Systems Corporation

NTT

New Technology Telescope

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corporation

Nippon Telephone & Telegraph

O

OLTP

On-Line Transaction Processing

OSI

Office of Special Investigation [USAF]

Open System Interconnection

Open Systems Interconnection [see ISO]

P

P3P

Privacy Preferences Project, see W3C

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure (data encryption)

PBX

Private Branch Exchange

(The acronym PBX originally stood for "Plug Board Exchange".)

PHS

Personal Handyphone System

POP

Point Of Presence [MCI]

Post Office Protocol [Networking] (esp. TCP/IP)

Pop vs. Imap

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol [Internet]

PPPoE

PPP over Ethernet, (a method for establishing PPP

connections through Ethernet adapters) described in RFC 2516

PSTN

public switched telephone network

Q

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)

QPSK

Quadrature Phase Shift Key (QPSK)/QAM

R

RAS

Random Access Storage

Row Address Strobe\Select

Remote Access Service ("ferngesteuerter Zugriff"), d.h. von außen

RDF

Resource Description Format, (actually framework according to ->)
XML format for describing web-accessible resources
look at an old introduction

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

RFC

Request for Comment,

Internet RFC index, go there

or try the rfc editor search

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (encryption algorithm)explained

RTP

Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)

RTSP

Real Time Streaming Protocol, see

S

SEO

search engine optimisation, look it up
oder eben auch bei Google und eine Einführung

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SAA

Systems Application Architecture [IBM]

SDH

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ->SONET/SDH

SDIO

Secure Digital (SD) I/O, see MS FAQ

SDMI

Secure Digital Music Initiative see SDMI, wiki
history of MP3

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network, 100.. Mbits

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

is a chip card, the size of a first class postage stamp

used in GSM handies more details

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol, Internet, 1996/1999(ietf) an explanation and more
SIP verwendet die Transport-Protokolle TCP und UDP für die Übertragung

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol (sometimes SL/IP)

SNA

Santa Ana (Orange County) CA

Systems Network Architecture [IBM]

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SSID

Service Set IDentifier
Der Service Set Identifier (SSID) ist ein frei wählbarer Name und wird
allgemein als (Funk-)Netzwerkname des WLANs bezeichnet.

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer (security protcol for TCP/IP),
get explanation from the Net or locally,  see TLS protocol

T

TAPI

Microsoft® Windows Telephony Applications Programming Interface

Texas A&M

Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (school)

T1

1.544Mbps [Telephony], one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb Terrestrial 1 [data line],
see DS-1 for the whole hirarchy

TLD

top-level domain, (generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD)), see TLD
nagelneu internationalized domain name (IDN)

TLS

Transport Layer Security (protocol), see SSL

TMG

TeleMedienGesetz TMG, wiki

U

URI

Universal Resource Identifier (W3C)
address of any HTML document, image, video clip, program, etc. on the Web

URL

Universal Resource Locator (W3C), is a URI

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telephone Service

V

VCF

The Visual Component Framework is intended as a cross platform class library, that supports, among other things, an advanced GUI framework strongly influenced by Borland's Visual Component Library and Java's Swing framework.

VCS

Version Control System (checkout system) List of VCSs

VPN

virtual private network in computing

wiki

iPhone VPN-Verbindung zur FRITZ!Box

VSE

Virtual Storage Extended

W

WAP

Wireless application protocol, an application environment and set of communication protocols
for wireless devices designed to enable manufacturer-, vendor-, and technology-independent access to
the Internet and advanced telephony services. wapForum and intro

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs)
defined in the 802.11b standard.

WiFi

Short for wireless fidelity

WIKI

"wiki wiki" is Hawaiian for "quick"   woher mehr unter
Wikipedia eine freie Enzyklopädie 
Die Inhalte der Wikipedia unterliegen der GNU-Lizenz für freie Dokumentation.

WINS

Windows Internet Naming Service.

Zz

ZIP

PKWARE: Originator of the .ZIP file format
not to forget Phil Katz also in memory of Phil Katz from PkWare

KO's collected Acronyms, last updated 27.1.16