RA! NAP! CAP!
A glossary of NII acronyms
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- ANS
- Advanced Network Services
- AUP
- Acceptable Use Policy
- CAP
- Competitive Access Provider
- CO+RE
- COmmercial plus Research and Education
- FARNET
- Federation of American Research NETworks
- FDDI
- Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- FIX
- Federal Internet eXchange point (sometimes termed just
an exchange point)
- IP
- Internet Protocol
- IXC
- Inter-eXchange Carrier
- ISP
- Internet Service Provider
- IRC
- Inter-Regional Connectivity
- kbps
- Thousands of bits per second
- MAE
- Metropolitan Area Exchange (a NAP for a metropolitan
area)
- Mbps
- Millions of bits per second
- Merit
- Michigan Education, Research, and Information
Triad
- NAP
- Network Access Point (sometimes termed just an
exchange point)
- NII
- National Information Infrastructure
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- NTTF
- National Telecommunications Task Force (an
Educom activity)
- OC-3
- Optical Carrier-3 (digital circuit running at 155
Mbps)
- OC-12
- Optical Carrier-12 (digital circuit running at 622
Mbps)
- PBX
- Public Branch eXchange (i.e. a phone switch)
- RA
- Routing Arbiter
- RADB
- Routing Arbiter Data Base
- R&E
- Research and Education
- SNA
- Systems Network Architecture
- T-1
- Digital circuit running at 1.544 Mbps
- T-3
- Digital circuit running at 45 Mbps
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol
- VBNS
- NSF's Very-high-speed Backbone Network
Service
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