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• 10 gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE)
• network tap
• ISSU (in-service software upgrade)
• Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
• MHz
• data link layer
• application delivery controller
• darknet
• Power over Ethernet (PoE)
• link-load balancer (link balancer)
• shortest path bridging
• Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
• mean opinion score (MOS)
• OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative)
• loose coupling
• smart grid sensor
• smart meter
• pervasive computing (ubiquitous computing)
• patch antenna
• AARP (AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol)
• AAUI (Apple attachment unit interface)
• average bouncing busy hour (ABBH)
• modem lights (AA)
• Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS)
• software-defined radio (SDR)
• throttled data transfer
• traffic shaping (packet shaping)
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
• device relationship management (DRM)
• frequency-shift keying (FSK)
• frequency modulation (FM)
• fiber to the home (FTTH)
• fiber to the curb (FTTC)
• Digital Powerline (DPL)
• cyclic redundancy checking
• customer premises equipment (CPE)
• Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
• baud
• bits per second (bps or bit/sec)
• Regional Internet Registry (RIR)
• logical network
• transparent addressing
• Net neutrality
• Port Address Translation (PAT)
• wireless mesh network (WMN)
• stateful inspection
• green networking
• beamforming
• patch panel
• 6to4
• location-based service (LBS)
• ping
• Seebeck effect
• port interface card (PIC)
• Internet Routing in Space (IRIS)
• phase-change cooling (vapor cooling)
• cognitive radio (CR)
• Peltier effect
• thermoelectric cooling
• MDI/MDIX (medium dependent interface/MDI crossover)
• master/slave
• FECN/BECN (forward explicit congestion notification/backward explicit congestion notification)
• client/server
• Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect (CSMA/CD)
• CSU/DSU (Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit)
• CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance)
• TCP/IP offload engine (TOE)
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
• Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)
• NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition)
• MOSPF (Multicast Open Shortest Path First)
• route aggregation
• route summarization (route aggregation)
• ARPANET
• radio frequency (RF, rf, orr.f.)
• OA&M (operations, administration, and management)
• IT Survival Kit: Networking refreshers
• NIS (Network Information System)
• Learning Path: Network Infrastructure
• LAN server
• Learning Path: Telephony and Wide Area Networks
• Ethernet Glossary
• Learning Path: Network and Web Site Administration
• IDSL
• Optical Carrier levels (OCx)
• two-way server
• flow routing
• pseudowire
• wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)
• ELF (extremely low frequency)
• availability
• bit stuffing
• deep packet inspection (DPI)
• direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) or direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA)
• netstat
• Cisco Information Security Specialist (CISS)
• network coding
• inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA)
• telecom carrier
• carrier detect



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