The list of communications acronyms and abbreviations.

All communications related acronyms and abbreviations.

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IP:
Internet Protocol(Network Layer Protocol, Routing, Communications protocol)
28
SNMP:
Simple Network Management Protocol(Switching, Communications protocol)
17
ISP:
Internet Service Provider(Computer network, Wireless networking)
17
TCP:
Transmission Control Protocol(Transport Layer, Switching)
16
UDP:
User Datagram Protocol(Transport Layer, Communications protocol)
14
OSPF:
Open Shortest Path First(Network Layer Protocol, Routing)
12
BGP:
Border Gateway Protocol(Network Layer Protocol, Routing, Data Transmission)
10
ARP:
Address Resolution Protocol(data link layer protocol)
9
POTS:
Plain Old Telephone Service(Data Transmission, Communications, Printing)
8
NTP:
Network Time Protocol(Communications protocol)
6
RFC:
Request for Comments(Computer network, Data Transmission, Communications)
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ICMP:
Internet Control Message Protocol(Network Layer Protocol, Routing)
5
SLIP:
Serial Line Internet Protocol(Communications protocol, Protocol)
3
NNTP:
Network News Transfer Protocol(Communications protocol)
1
HTTP:
Hypertext Transfer Protocol(Communications protocol, Protocol)
1
PPP:
Point-to-Point Protocol(Communications protocol, Protocol, Communications)
0
POP:
Point of Presence(Data Transmission, Communications, Printing)
0
VoIP:
Voice over IP(Data Transmission, Communications, Networking)
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