Standards
Standards are specifications that define quality and functionality of specific items such as communication, display, formatting, and others. Standards are established norms across the industry and are uniform.
From display standards to formatting standards, our standards dictionary offers a glossary of terms you should know.
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Terms
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet – 10GbE (IEEE 802.3ae)
- 2B1Q
- 3GPP
- 802.11 IEEE wireless LAN standards
- 802.11a
- 802.11b
- 802.11e
- 802.11g
- 802.11n
- 802.11r
- 802.11x
- 802.1x
- 8514/A
- 8B/10B encoding
- A+ certification
- ACM
- AES
- agile software development
- AIIM
- Aloha
- AMR
- ANSI
- ANSI 378
- Applicability Statement 2
- Application Lifecycle Management
- ASN.1
- ASPIC
- Association of Shareware Professionals
- AT command set
- Atom
- ATSC
- Auto-Negotiation
- Automated Clearing House Network
- B-channel
- Bell 103
- Bell 212A
- Binary File Transfer (BFT)
- BRI
- broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
- BSI - National Standards Body of the UK
- BTX
- business Web transaction processing
- canonical
- CAPI
- Carrier Ethernet
- CCITT - Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique
- Centronics interface
- CGA - color graphics adapter
- cHTML
- CIE color model
- CIFS - Common Internet File System
- collision avoidance
- communications protocol
- CompTIA
- configuration item
- configuration management
- configuration management database
- Creative Commons license
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- CTIA
- D-channel
- D1 resolution
- data breach
- data center tiers
- Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
- de facto standard
- Device Bay
- DevOps - development and operations
- DICOM
- DIN connector
- DISA
- disk striping
- DiVA
- DMTF
- DOCSIS
- DPMS
- DSSS - direct-sequence spread spectrum
- DSVD
- DVB
- DVB-H
- DVB-HTML
- DVB-Java
- DVB-MHP
- DVB-SH
- DVI - Digital Visual Interface
- e-discovery
- E911
- ebXML
- ECCMA
- ECMA
- ECP - Extended Capabilities Port
- EDID
- EDRM
- EDRM Metrics
- EGA
- EIDE - Enhanced IDE
- EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture
- Electronic Industries Alliance
- endpoint
- EPP - Enhanced Parallel Port
- ERCIM
- ESDI
- ESI
- ETNO
- ETSI
- event management
- ExpressCard
- FCAPS
- FCC
- FHSS - frequency-hopping spread spectrum
- FIMA
- FRCP
- G.711
- G.721
- G.722
- G.723
- G.726
- G.727
- G.729
- G.7xx
- G.SHDSL
- GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
- GEM
- GKTMP
- Governance Plan
- GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
- Group 3 protocol
- Group 4 protocol
- H.225
- H.245
- H.323
- HAVi
- Hayes-compatible
- HD voice
- HDV
- Hercules graphics
- HIPAA
- HiperLAN
- HomePNA (HPNA)
- hop off
- HQ-VCD
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language
- HTML5
- i.LINK
- IAHC
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- IEEE
- IEEE 1394
- IEEE 829
- IEN
- IETF
- Incident Management Activities
- International Color Consortium
- Internet Architecture Board
- Internet Key Exchange
- Internet Society
- IP Multimedia Subsystem
- IPP
- IPsec VPN
- IRAP
- IrDA
- IRTF
- ISA bus
- ISDN - integrated services digital network
- ISMA
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- ISO 9000
- ISWC
- ITIL
- ITS
- ITU
- IVI
- JEDEC
- Joliet
- jumbo frame
- Kermit
- LaTeX
- LD-CELP
- licensing strategy
- licensing technology
- LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol
- LLDP Agent
- MCGA multicolor/graphics array
- MCPC
- MDA - monochrome display adapter
- Megaco
- Metro Ethernet
- Metro Ethernet Forum
- MGCP
- microarchitecture
- MIDI
- mini-SATA - mSATA
- MoCA
- Modbus protocol
- Modbus TCP/IP
- MPEG-4
- MPLS - Multiprotocol Label Switching
- mutex - mutual exclusion object
- Mylar
- NAPT
- NDMP
- Near Field Communication
- NFC Forum
- NISO
- NIST
- NTLM - Windows NT LAN Manager
- NTP
- NTSC - National Television System Committee
- OAuth
- OBEX
- OBI
- Object-Based Storage Device
- ODBC - Open DataBase Connectivity
- OMG
- open
- OPEN Act - Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act
- open architecture
- Open Virtualization Alliance
- OpenCable Project
- OpenDocument Format
- OpenURL
- OSI - Open System Interconnection
- OVF
- PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
- PCI Express
- PCI Express x16
- PCI Security Standards Council
- PCI SSC
- PCI-DSS
- PCMCIA
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- PEAP
- PGA
- PictBridge
- PIPA - PROTECT IP Act
- PnP
- policy awareness
- PostScript
- PRI
- PRM
- process owner
- program stream
- proprietary
- protocol
- PSIP
- Punycode
- Q.931
- QIC - quarter-inch cartridge
- QR Code
- QSIG
- QVGA - Quarter Video Graphics Array
- QXGA
- Registration Admission Status
- RFC
- rich text format
- RoIP
- RosettaNet
- RS-232C
- RS-422 and RS-423
- RS-485
- run book
- run book automation
- S-VHS
- S/MIME
- S/PDIF
- SAA
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- SAS
- SATA III - SATA Revision 3.x
- SB-ADPCM
- SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
- SDLC
- SECAM
- security software
- SFLC
- SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
- Shadow IT
- SIGCOMM
- SLIP
- SLP
- SMART
- SMPTE
- SNIA
- SNTP
- Software Plus Services
- SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act
- SPID
- SSTP
- ST-506 interface
- standard
- Standard Operating Environment - SOE
- STUN
- SVGA - Super VGA
- SWIFT - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
- SXGA
- Tabular Data Control
- Tabular Data Stream
- target initiated termination
- TCP-Friendly Rate Control
- terminal adapter
- test-driven development
- TeX
- The Open Group
- topic maps
- TR-069
- Transaction Authority Markup Language
- transport stream
- TrueType
- TWAIN
- Universal 3D - U3D
- USB 3.1
- USB-C
- UTC
- UXGA
- V.22
- V.22bis
- V.32
- V.34
- V.35
- V.42 communications standard
- V.90
- V.92
- vendor-neutral
- VESA
- VGA - video graphics array
- VHS
- video standards
- VITA
- VSB
- vt100
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
- Wavelet Scalar Quantization
- WBEM
- Web services
- WebRTC - Web real time communication
- WECA
- WfM
- Wi-Fi Alliance
- Wi-Fi5
- Wireless-G
- WMM - Wi-Fi Multimedia
- WPA2 - Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
- WSP
- WXGA
- XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- XMI
- XML Schema Definition - XSD
- Xmodem
- XSL
- Ymodem
- Zmodem
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