Christopher Francis - Acronym Assignment

Christopher Francis        

CS 461

Acronym Assignment

·         HTTP: HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and it is used to transmit and collect messages through hyper text. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

·         SMTP: SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it is an Internet standard for e-mail transmission across IP networks. Its basic function is to send emails between servers when emails are sent from a mail client to a mail server.

·         RTP: RTP stands for Real-time Transport Protocol and is used to transmit real time data, such as videos and audio files, between servers.

·         DNS: DNS stands for Domain Name System and it’s a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It takes domain names and translates them into IP addresses.

·         TCP: TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite (IP), and is commonly known throughout the entire suite as TCP/IP. TCP provides reliable, ordered, error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between programs running on computers connected to a local area network, intranet or the public Internet.

·         UDP: UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol and is one of the cores of the Internet protocol suite. UDP is an alternative to the TCP and is also a connectionless protocol. Unlike TCP, UDP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive datagrams over an IP network. It's used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network.

·         IP: IP stands for Internet Protocol and is the primary network protocol used on the Internet, developed in the 1970s. IP specifies the format of packets, also called datagrams, and the addressing scheme. IP by itself It allows you to address a package and drop it in the system, but there's no direct link between you and the recipient. When used with TCP however, it establishes a connection between two hosts so that they can send messages back and forth for a period of time.

·         ICMP: ICMP stands for Internet Control Message Protocol and is another core of the Internet Protocol Suite. It’s an extension to the Internet Protocol (IP) defined by RFC 792. ICMP is a message control and error-reporting protocol between a host server and a gateway to the Internet. ICMP uses IP datagrams, but the messages are processed by the IP software and are not directly apparent to the application user. ICMP supports packets containing error, control, and informational messages. ICMP is commonly used in routers to send error messages.

·         DSL: DSL stands for Digital subscriber line and it provides internet access by transmitting digital data over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL technology allows Internet and telephone services to work over the same phone line without requiring customers to disconnect either their voice or Internet connections.

·         SONET: SONET stands for Synchronous Optical Network and is a physical layer network technology designed to carry large volumes of traffic over relatively long distances on fiber optic cabling.

·         802.11: 802.11 is a set of technology standards for wireless network devices. These standards are determined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), and they basically govern how different wireless devices are designed and how they communicate with each other.

·         Ethernet: Ethernet is the most widely-installed local area network (LAN) technologyEthernet divides a stream of data into shorter pieces called frames. Each frame contains sources, destination addresses and error checking data so that damaged data can be detected and retransmitted.

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