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A

AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System)
Analog Cellular Telephone
Application gateway
Application Layer of OSI
Application Layer of TCP/IP
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
ARPANET
ATM (basic idea)
ATM LAN
Attenuation
Autonomous
Autonomous System

B

B-ISDN
base station
Baseband Coaxial Cable
Batcher-Banyan Switch
BGP (Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol)
Bridge
Broadband Coaxial Cable
Broadband ISDN
Broadcast network
Broadcasting
bus topology of LAN

C

CIDR - Classless InterDomain Routing
Circuit Switching
class A
class B
class B problem
class C
codec
Computer network
Connectionless service
Connection-oriented service
Cordless Telephone
crossbar switch

D

Data Link Layer of OSI
datagram model
Delay distortion
Dialog control (session layer)
Digital Cellular Telephone
distributed system
DNS (Domain Name System)
domain
dotted decimal notation

E

e-mail
electromagnetic spectrum
entities
exterior gateway protocol

F

Fiber Cables
Fiber Optics
Fiber To The Curb
Fiber To The Home
File transfer
Firewall
Fragmentation
Frame Relay
Frequency Division Multiplexing
Full-duplex transmission

G

Geosynchronous Satellite
Gigabit Testbed
GSM (Global System for Mobile communication)
guided media

H

half-duplex transmission
half-gateway
Host-to-Network Layer of TCP/IP

I

ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
IMTS (Improved Mobile Telephone System)
Infrared Wave interconnection
interface
interfaces in the ATM layer
interior gateway protocol
internet
internet (2)
Internet (with uppercase I)
Internet Layer of TCP/IP
IP address
IP (Internet Protocol)
Internetwork
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
ISDN Services

J

K

Knockout Switch

L

layer
Lightwave Transmission Local area network
Low-Orbit Satellite

M

Magnetic media
Metropolitan area network
Microwave Transmission
Millimeter Wave Mobile computing
modem
MTSO (Mobile Telephone Switching Office)
Multicasting
Multiconnected networks
Multiprotocol router

N

Name Servers
Network Layer of OSI
News
Noise
Novell NetWare

O

Open system
OSI model
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)

P

Paging System
peer process
permanent virtual circuit
Personal Communication Services
Physical Layer of OSI
Point-to-point networks
Presentation Layer of OSI
protocol stack
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

Q

Quality of service

R

Radio Transmission
recombining the fragments
recursive query
Remote login
Repeater
Resource Records
ring topology of LAN
RIP (Routing Information Protocol)
routing process
RS-232
RS-232-C

S

Service Access Point
Service Categories (ATM)
Session Layer of OSI
socket
SONET/SDH
Space Division Switch
Stub network
styles of internetworking
subnet
subnet (different from subnet as a collections of routers)
switched virtual circuit
Synchronization (session layer)

T

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) 2
TCP/IP Reference Model
Time Division Multiplexing
Time Division Switch
Token management (session layer)
Transit network
Transport gateway
Transport Layer of OSI
Transport Layer of TCP/IP
Tunneling
Twisted pair

U

UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
UDP (User Datagram Protocol) 2
unguided media
urgent data
user datagram

V

vpi_table

W

wide area network
Wireless networking

X

X.25 Networks

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