Networking Standards
Networking standards ensure the interoperability of networking technologies by defining the rules of communication among networked devices. Networking standards exist to help ensure products of different vendors are able to work together in a network without risk of incompatibility.
From wireless networking standards like 802.11a and Gigabit Wi-Fi to wired networking standards like Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, our networking standards dictionary offers a glossary of important terms you need to know.
Sub-Categories
Terms
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet – 10GbE (IEEE 802.3ae)
- 1000Base-T (IEEE 802.3ab)
- 100Base-T (IEEE 802.3u) Fast Ethernet
- 10Base-2
- 10Base-T (Twisted Pair Ethernet)
- 10Base5
- 2-205 rule
- 5-4-3 rule
- 802.11 IEEE wireless LAN standards
- 802.11a
- 802.11ac
- 802.11ac Wave 2
- 802.11ad
- 802.11ah
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11n
- 802.11r
- 802.16
- 802.1x
- AAUI
- ABR
- Aloha
- AP - Access Point
- APPC
- AppleTalk
- ARCnet
- ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- Atom
- AUI
- auto partitioning
- Auto-Negotiation
- CAMP - Cloud Application Management for Platforms
- Cat-5
- CBR
- CCK
- CDDI - Copper Data Distribution Interface
- collision
- collision detection
- collision domain
- connection-oriented service
- connectionless service
- CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
- DCE
- DLSw - Data-Link Switching
- ENIW - Ethernet Networking Interface (Web)
- ESCON - Enterprise Systems Connection
- EtherLoop
- Ethernet
- Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging
- Ethernet Networking Interface
- FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- FICON
- GBIC
- giant
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Gigabit Wi-Fi
- global area network
- HAVi
- HDLC - High-level Data Link Control
- HomePNA (HPNA)
- HSRP
- IDNX
- IEEE 802 standards
- IMA - inverse multiplexing over ATM
- iSCSI
- jumbo frame
- LAT
- legacy
- legacy network
- LMDS
- LocalTalk
- LOM - LAN on motherboard
- MAE
- MDIX
- medium dependent interface
- Mobile Location Protocol
- MPLS - Multiprotocol Label Switching
- MU-MIMO
- NAS - Network Attached Storage
- OSI - Open System Interconnection
- packet collision
- packet collision rate
- PIX Firewall
- PPPoA
- RTT - real-time technology
- runt
- SDLC
- SDSL
- shared Ethernet
- shielded twisted pair
- SMDS
- SONET - Synchronous Optical Network
- switched Ethernet
- switching hub
- Systems Network Architecture - SNA
- terminator
- TOPS - transparent operating system
- UBR
- User-to-Network Interface (UNI)
- vampire tap
- VBR
- verti-port
- vEth - virtual Ethernet
- Wi-Fi (wireless networking)
- Wi-Fi HaLow
- WiGig
- wireless charging
- X.25
- X.400
- X.500
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