Archive for the 'Networking Acronyms' Category

Most Common Networking Terms and Acronyms – T

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

T.120 ITU standard that describes data conferencing. H.323 provides for the capability to establish T.120 data sessions inside an existing H.323 session. T.30 Describes the overall procedure for establishing and managing communication between two fax machines. T.38 Defines procedures for real-time Group 3 facsimile communication over IP networks. T1 Digital WAN carrier facility. T1 transmits [...]

Most Common Networking Terms and Acronyms – S

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

SAN storage area networking. An emerging data communications platform that interconnects servers and storage at Gigabaud speeds. By combining LAN networking models with the core building blocks of server performance and mass storage capacity, SAN eliminates the bandwidth bottlenecks and scalability limitations imposed by previous SCSI bus-based architectures. SAP 1. service access point. Field defined [...]