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RGB - Red-Green-Blue
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RIP - Routing Information Protocol
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RMON - Remote Monitoring
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SA - Source Address
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SAP - Service Access Point
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SCP - System control Processor
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SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
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SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
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SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
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SDU - Service Data Unit
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SFD - Start of Frame Delimiter
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SLIP - Serial Line IP
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SMDS - Switched Multimegabit Data Service
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SMTP - Simple Mail transfer Protocol
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SNA - Systems Network Architecture
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SNMP - Simple Network Management Proto-col
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SONET - Synchronous Optical Network
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SS - Switching System
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STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
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TA - Terminal Adapter
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TACS - Total Access Communications System
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Tbps - Terabits per second
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TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
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TCP/IP - Transmission Control Proto-col/Internet Protocol
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TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TLD - Top-Level Domain
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TM - Traffic Management
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UART - Universal Asynchronous Re-ceiver/Transmitter
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UNI - User-to-Network Interface
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UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supply
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UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
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VCC - Virtual Channel Connection
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VDT - Video Display Terminal
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VIC - Video Conferencing
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VLAN - Virtual LAN
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VoIP - Voice over IP
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VPN - Virtual Private Network
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VTOA - Voice and Telephony over ATM
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WAN - Wide Area Network
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WipLL - Wireless Internet Protocol Local Loop
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WWW - World Wide Web
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LTE - Line Terminating Equipment
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LUNI - LAN Emulation UNI
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MAC - Media Access Control
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MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
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MBONE - Multi-Media Backbone
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Mbps - Megabits (millions of bits) per second
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MCS - Multicast Server
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MDF - Main Distribution Frame
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MID - Message IDentifier
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MJPEG - Motion JPEG
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MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group
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MSB - Most Significant Bit
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NAU - Network Access Unit
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NCC - Network Control Center
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NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification
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NE - Network Element
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NETBIOS - Network Basic Input/Output Sys-tem
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NHRP - Next Hop Resolution Protocol
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NHS - Next Hop Server
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NIC - Network Interface Card
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NIU - Network Interface Unit
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NIWF - Network Interworking Function
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NLPID - Network Layer Protocol ID
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NM - Network Management
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NMCC - Network Management Control Center
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NME - Network Management Entity
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NML - Network Management Layer
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NMS - Network Management Station
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NNI - Network-to-Network Interface
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NSAP - Network Layer Service Access Point
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ODI - Open Data Link Interface
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ONA - Open Network Architecture
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OOF - Out of Frame
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OS - Operating System
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PAD - Packet Assembler/Disassembler
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PAP - Password Authentication Protocol
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PBX - Private Branch Exchange
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PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
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PCN - Personal Communications Network
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PD - Propagation Delay
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PDU - Packet Data Unit
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PDU - Protocol Data Unit
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PID - Protocol IDentifier
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PING - Packet INternet Groper
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PLCP - Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
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PMP - Point to Multipoint
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POPS - Points of Presence
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POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service
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PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol
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PRI - Primary Rate Interface
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PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
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PTT - Post, Telephone, and Telegraph
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PVCC - Permanent Virtual Channel Connec-tion
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PVPC - Permanent Virtual Path Connection
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Q-Factor - Quality for JPEG
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RF - Radio Frequency
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FCS - Frame Check Sequence
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FD - Frame Discard
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FEC - Forward Error Correction
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FIFO - First-In, First-Out
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FO - Fiber Optics
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FR - Frame Relay
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FR-SSCS - Frame Relay Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
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FTP - File Transfer Protocol
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FUNI - Frame based User-to-Network Interface (ATM Forum)
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GAN - Global Area Network
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GB - GigaByte
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Gbps - Gigabit per second
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GUI - Graphical User Interface
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HDLC - High speed Data Link Control
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HDSL - High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
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HSCSD - High Speed Circuit Switched Data
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HSSI - High Speed Serial Interface
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HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
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HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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Hz - Hertz
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IAB - Internet Activities Board
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IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
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IDN - Integrated Digital Network
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IDP - Initial Domain Part
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IDRP - Inter-Domain Routing Protocol
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IDSL - ISDN Digital Subscriber Line
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IDU - Interface Data Unit (UNI 3.0)
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IESG - Internet Engineering Steering Group
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IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol
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IGP - Internal (Interior) Gateway Protocol
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IGRP - Internal (Interior) Gateway Routing Protocol
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IN - Intelligent Network
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I/O - Input/Output
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IP - Internet Protocol
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IPI - Intelligent Peripheral Interface
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IPX - Internet Packet Exchange
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ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
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ISO - International Standards Organization
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ISOC - Internet Society
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ISP - Internet Service Provider
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ISSI - Inter-Switching System Interface
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ITU - International Telecommunications Union (formerly CCITT)
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JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
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Kbps - Kilo bits per second
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KHz - Kilohertz
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LAN - Local Area Network
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LANE - LAN Emulation (ATM Forum)
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LAPB - Link Access Protocol B-Channel
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LEC - LAN Emulation Client or Local Ex-change Carrier
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LECS - LAN Emulation Configuration Server
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LES - LAN Emulation Server
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LIFO - Last-in, First-Out
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LIS - Logical IP Subnet
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LLC - Logical Link Control
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LSB - Least Significant Bit
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ACK - Acknowledgement
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ADSL - Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line
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ANSI - American National Standards Institute
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ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
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ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
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ASCII - American Standard Code for Informa-tion Interchange
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ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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ATMARP - ATM Address Resolution Protocol
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AUI - Attachment Unit Interface
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BER - Basic Encoding Rules (ASN.1)
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BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
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BIP - Bit Interleaved Parity
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B-ISDN - Broadband Integrated Services Digi-tal Network
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BOM - Begining of Message
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BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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bps - bits per second
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BRI - Basic Rate Interface
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BSS - Broadband Switching System
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CAC - Connection Admission Control
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CCITT - Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph (now ITU)
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CCS - Common Channel Signaling
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CCSS7 - Common Channel Signaling System 7
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CEC - Common Equipment Card
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CEI - Connection Endpoint Identifier (UNI 3.0)
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CIP - Classical IP over ATM
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CIX - Commercial Internet Exchange
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CLIP - Classical IP
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CMIP - Common Management Information Protocol
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CMYK - Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
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Codec - Coder/Decoder
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CSU - Channel Service Unit
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D/A - Digital to analog conversion
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DAT - Digital Audio Tape
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DCC - Data Country Code
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DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DIP - Dual In-Line Package Switch
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DLC - Data Link Control
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DLCI - Data Link Connection Identifier
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DMS - Digital Multiplex System
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DNS - Domain Name Service
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DSAP - Destination Service Access Point
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DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
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DSLAM - Digital Subscriber Line Access Mul-tiplexer
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DS-0 - Digital Signal (Level 0)
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DSU - Data Service Unit
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DTE - Data Terminal Equipment
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DTL IE - Designated Transit List Information Ethernet
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DVMA - Direct Virtual Memory Access
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DXI - Data Exchange Interface
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DXI - Digital Exchange Interface
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EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
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EGP - External (Exterior) Gateway Protocol
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ELAN - Emulated LAN (ATM Forum LANE)
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EOM - End of Message
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ESF - Extended Super Frame
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ESI - End System Identifier
