ACL

Access Control List (zentrale Benutzerliste)

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface

AD, ADS

Active Directory

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AFP

Apple File Protocol

AH

Authentication Header

AIT

Advanced Intelligent Tape (Bandsicherungstechnik)

API

Application Program Interface

APIPA

Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASP

Application Service Provider (Software gegen Miete)

ASP

Active Server Pages

ATA

Advanced Technology Attachment

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATP

AppleTalk Transaction Protocol

AV

Anti-Virus

BAN

Body Area Network

BDC

Backup Domain Controller (Sicherungsdomänen-Controller)

bdd

Business Desktop Deployment

BGA

Ball Grid Array

BIND

Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BNC

British Naval Connector/Bayonet Niell-Concelman

BootP

Boot Protocol/Bootstrap Protocol

BRI

Basic Rate Interface

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

CA

Certificate Authority

CAL

Client Access License

CAN

Campus Area Network

CCITT

Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique

CDFS

CD-ROM File System

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIFS

Common Internet File System

CMS

Content Management System (inhaltsbasierte Webseitenverwaltung)

CNAME

Canonical Name

CSMA/CA

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection

CSNW

Client Services for NetWare

CSU

Channel Service Unit

CTI

Computer Telephony Integration

DAP

Directory Access Protocol

DAS

Direct Attached Storage

DAT

Digital Audio Tape

DC

Domain Controller

DECT

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DISM

Deployment Image Service and Management

DLT

Digital Linear Tape

DMS

Document Management System

DNS

Domain Name Service/Domain Name System

DOD

Department of Defense (DOD4-Modell)

DRM

Digital Rights Management

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSSS

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DSU

Data Service Unit

EAP

Extensible Authentication Protocol

EBF

Error Bug Fixes

ECC

Error Correction Code

EDI

Electronic Document Interchange

EFI

Enhanced Firmware Interface

EFS

Encrypting File System

EMI

Elektromagnetische Interferenz

FC

FibreChannel

FCoE

FibreChannel over Ethernet

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

FHSS

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FM

Frequency Modulation (Frequenzmodulation)

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name/Fully Qualified Distinguished Name

FSMO

Flexible Single Operations Master

FTP

File Transfer Protocol (Dienstprotokoll)

FTP

Foiled Twisted Pair (TP-Kabel)

GBIC

Gigabit Interface Converter

Gbps

Gigabits per second AUCH: Gbit/s

GC

Global Catalog

GNU

GNU is Not Unix

GPL

General Public License, Lizenzform z.B. für Linux-Software

GPO

Group Policy Object

GRE

Generic Encapsulation Protocol

GSNW

Gateway Services for NetWare

GUI

Graphical User Interface

GUID

Global Unique Identifier

HA

High Availability, High Availability Cluster

HAL

Hardware Abstraction Layer

HDD

Hard Disk Drive auch Hard Drive (HD)

HDLC

High-Level Data Link Control

HE

Höheneinheit (Maßeinheit (4,425cm) für Server und Racks)

HID

Human Interaction Device (z.B. Maus oder USB-Tastatur)

HPC

High Performance Computing, High Performance Computing Cluster

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICANN

Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers

ICD

Imaging and Configuration Designer

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

ICS

Internet Connection Sharing

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP

Internet Group Multicast Protocol

IIS

Internet Information Server

IKE

Internet Key Exchange

IMAP4

Internet Message Access Protocol version 4

Inode

Dateieintrag mit den Attributen einer Datei wie Zugriffsrechte, Besitzer, Größe und Adressen der Datenblöcke auf dem Filesystem

IP

Internet Protocol

IPP

Internet Printing Protocol

IPSec

Internet Protocol Security

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6

IPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange

IPX/SPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequence Packet Exchange

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

iSCSI

Internet SCSI

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM

Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM-Band)

ISP

Internet Service Provider

ITU-T

International Telecommunication Union – Telecom

Kbps

Kilobits per second

LAN

Local Area Network

LC

Local Connector (LWL-Stecker)

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Verzeichnisdienstprotokoll)

LGA

Line Grid Array (Prozessorsockel)

LLC

Logical Link Control

LPD

Line Printing Daemon

LPIC

LPIC Linux Professional Institute Certification (http://www.lpi.org)

LPR

Line Printer Remote

LVM

Logical Volume Manager

MAC

Media Access Control/Medium Access Control

MAU

Multistation Access Unit

Mbps

Megabits per second

MCSE

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Zertifizierung von Microsoft)

MCxx

Microsoft Certified – eine ganze Reihe von Microsoft Zertifizierungen, aktuell vom MCDST (Desktop Technician) bis MCITP (IT-Professional)

MDI

Media Dependent Interface

MDIX

Media Dependent Interface Crossover

MDT

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

MIB

Management Information Base

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MMF

MultiMode Fiber

MRTG

Multi Router Traffic Grapher

MSAU

MultiStation Access Unit

MS-CHAP

Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

MTA

Mail Transfer Agent

MT-RJ

Mechanical Transfer-Registered Jack (LWL-Stecker)

MX

Mail Exchanger

NAC

Network Access Control (Netzwerkzugangskontrolle)

NAPT

Network Address Port Translation

NAP

Network Access Protection

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NAT

Network Address Translation

NCP

NetWare Core Protocol

NDS

NetWare Directory Services

NetBEUI

Network Basic Input/Output Extended User Interface

NetBIOS

Network Basic Input/Output System

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Card

NIS

Network Information Service

NLB

Network Loadbalancing

NLM

NetWare Loadable Module

NNTP

Network News Transport Protocol

NOS

Network Operating System

NPS

Network Protection Server

NTFS

New Technology File System

NTP

Network Time Protocol

NVP

Nominal Velocity of Propagation (Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit)

OCL

Oracle Command Language

OCx

Optical Carrier (x für eine Zahl, z.B. OC-12)

OS

Operating System, Betriebssystem

OSI

Open Systems Interconnect, OSI-Modell

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First (Routing-Protokoll)

OTDR

Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (Messgerät)

OU

Organizational Unit (Begriff in Verzeichnisdiensten, z.B. LDAP)

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PDC

Primary Domain Controller (Windows NT)

PE

Pre-Installation Environment

PGA

Pin Grid Array (Prozessorsockel)

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy (Verschlüsselungsalgorithmus)

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PoE

Power over Ethernet

POP3

Post Office Protocol version 3

POTS

Plain Old Telephone System

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PPPoE

Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoA = ... over ATM)

PPTP

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PRI

Primary Rate Interface

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

PXE

Preboot Execution Environment

QiC

Quarter Inch Cartridge (Bandsicherungstechnik)

QoS

Quality of Service

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks oder ... of Inexpensive Disks

RAM

Random Access Memory

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAS

Remote Access Service

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

RDS

Remote Desktop Service

RDX

Removable Disk Storage Technology

RFC

Request for Comment

RFI

Radio Frequency Interface

RG

Radio Grade

RJ

Registered Jack

RMON

Remote Monitoring (Überwachungsprotokoll)

RPM

Red Hat Packet Manager (vorkompilierte Softwarepakete, welche viele Linux-Distributionen wie Fedora, SuSE, Red Hat etc. verwenden)

RU

Rack Unit (= Höheneinheit)

S/MIME

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

S/STP

Screened STP-Kabel

SAIT

Super Audio Intelligent Tape

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAS

Serial Attached SCSI

SAS

Server Attached Storage

SASI

Shugart Associates System Interface, Vorläufer des SCSI

SAT

Source Address Table (Adresstabelle in Switching Hubs)

SATA

Serial ATA

SC

Standard Connector/Subscriber Connector (Glasfaseranschluss)

SCP

Secure Copy Protocol

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SCSI-HBA

SCSI Host Bus Adapter auch SCSI-Host-Adapter

SDAT

Super Digital Audio Technology

SDLT

Super Digital Linear Tape

SDSL

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

SFF

Small Form Factor

SFTP

Secure File Transfer Protocol

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SIM

System Image Manager

SLD

Second Level Domain

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMART

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

SMB

Server Message Block

SMF

Single Mode Fiber

SMON

Switched Monitoring (Überwachungsprotokoll)

SMP

Symmetrical Multiprocessing

SMS

Storage Management Services

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SOA

Start of Authority

SOHO

Small Office/Home Office

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network

SQL

Structured Query Language

SPS

Standby Power Supply

SPX

Sequence Packet Exchange

SRPM

Sourcecode für die RPM inklusive Installationsroutinen

SSH

Secure Shell

SSID

Service Set Identifier

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

ST

Straight Tip

STD

Synchronous Time Divison (Multiplexing)

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

Stratum

Schichtbezeichnung im NTP-Protokoll

T1

T-Carrier Level 1

TA

Terminal Adaptor

TCL

Terminal Control Language

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TDM

Time Division Multiplexing

TDR

Time Domain Reflectometer

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLD

Top Level Domain

TTL

Time to Live

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UEFI

Unified Enhanced Firmware Interface

UNC

Universal Naming Convention

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

URL

Uniform Resource Locator
(bestehend aus Protokoll://FQDN/VirtualDirectory/Ressource)

USB

Universal Serial Bus

USMT

User State Migration Tool

USV

Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

UUID

Universal Unique Identifier

VDI

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VRM

Voltage Regulation Module (Spannungsregelmodul, z.B. für CPUs)

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WADK

Windows Automated Deployment KIT

WAF

Web Application Firewall

WAIK

Windows Automated Installation Kit

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol/Wired Access Point

WDS

Windows Deployment Service

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy

WFE

Web Frontend

WIF

Windows Imaging Format

WinRM

Windows Remote Management

WINS

Window Internet Name Service

WOL

Wake on LAN, Funktion für das Starten eines Rechners via Netzwerk

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access

www

World Wide Web

XFS

X-Filesystem (Unix-Dateisystem)

XML

Extensible Markup Language

Zeroconf

Zero Configuration

ZFS

Z-Filesystem (Unix-Dateisystem)