Acronym

                                                   Acronym assignment

Section1 Applications:
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol )- is the protocol used between computers to transfer text from hypertext links. For example if you use the URL http://www.google.com and click enter, it will take you to the original page and so will the word google if u click on it, because it has hyperlink embedded in to it
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

SMTP-(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)- This is just the sending of a message from one user to the next. But yet goes through some steps for example if I want to send a message to professor Jain, first I will have to type the message, then send, the message than goes to my mail server, and placed into a message queue. Than the client side of SMTP opens a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol ) connection to professor Jain's  server. Than the SMTP sends my message across the connection. Than professor Jain can now read my message.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP

RTP-(Real-time Transfer Protocol) This mainly deals with the transfer of audio and video over Internet protocol suite
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_Transport_Protocol

DNS-(Domain Name System )Translate words or domains into numbers for world wide location of computers. For example if you enter the domain www.care.com this will be translated into numbers.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS

Section2 Transport:
TCP-(Transmission Control Protocol)-The most reliable of the two transport layer because it keeps tracks of the packets and forms a connection with the server prior to sending anything. It has the handshaking dialogue .
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

UDP-(User Datagram Protocol )- not reliable because it doesn't form a connection prior to sending a message and packets cannot be track and there is no information as to whether or not message was received or not. Doesn't have the hand handshaking dialogue
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol

Section3 Interment:
IP(Internet Protocol )- the main protocol of communicating on the internet, forms an numeric address for every domains entered by the user.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol

ICMP( Internet Control Message Protocol )-Use by network devices to send error messages, it's not always used like the TCP and the UDP .
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol

Section4 Link:
DSL(Digital subscriber line) -your data and phone line are on the same line but use different frequency so because of this you can talk and use the internet at the same time.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL

SONET(Synchronous Optical Networking )-All circuits use the same clock over the fiber connection
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONET

802.11-Is basically wifi
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11

ETHERNET-The LAN protocol we use to get messages or frames from one side of the network to the another.
sourcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet