Network terms

Updated: 05/06/2024 by Computer Hope

Network terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 920 terms like topology, download, hub, and CDN. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'W' to find terms like Wi-Fi' in the 'W' section.

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Class A Network E-mail Ring topology Mesh topology Network server Username Communication device Download Hub
Number
1U 2U 3GPP 3U 4U 5G 5U 6to4 6U 7U 10BASE2 10BASE5 10BASE-T 10 Gigabit Ethernet 100BASE-FX 100BASE-T 100BASE-T4 100BASE-TX 100BASE-X 100VG-AnyLAN 568A 568B 802.3 802.3ab 802.3ae 802.3u 802.3z 802.11 802.11a 802.11b 802.11c 802.11d 802.11e 802.11f 802.11g 802.11i 802.11j 802.11n 802.12 802.16 802 standards 1000BASE-CX 1000BASE-LX 1000BASE-SX 1000BASE-T
A
Access log Access point Access rights Access server Account Ack ACL ACR Active directory Active topology Ad Address resolution protocol Ad hoc ADSI ADSL Agent Aggregate Aloha Anonymous Antenna Anycast Apache server APIPA Apple Airport AppleTalk Application gateway Application layer Application server ARCnet A record ARP ARPA ARPANET AS ASN ASN.1 ASP Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM Attachment Unit Interface AUI Autonomous system AWS
B
Backbone Bandwidth Baseband Base station BDC Beowulf BER BERT BGMP BGP Bind Bisync Bitnet Bit stuffing Bittorrent BlackBerry Enterprise Server BlackBerry Messenger Blade Blade server BNC BNC Connector BOINC BOOTP Bootstrap protocol Border Gateway Protocol Bottleneck BPDU BPL BPSK BranchCache Bridge Broadband Broadcast Broadcast address Broadcast domain Brouter BSDI BSS BSSID Burst Bus topology
C
Cable Cable tester CAP Cascading hubs Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3 Cat 4 Cat 5 Cat 5e Cat 6 Cat 7 CCDE CCIE CCNA CCNP CCS CDDI CDN Central office CHAP Chernobyl packet Chirp CIDR CIFS CIM CIR CISSP Citrix Class A Class B Class C Class D Class E Cleartext CLI Client Client-server network CLNS Closed network Cloud computing Cluster Clustering CNAME CNE CNST CO Coaxial cable Collision Colo Colocation Command Line Interface Communication device Communications Communications controller Communications protocol Competitive Access Provider Computer name Connectionless Contention Convergence Core router Credential CREN Crimp Crimping tool Crossover cable Cross-platform network Crosstalk CSMA/CD CSNET CSU/DSU CTCP cURL
D
DA-15 DApps Data center Data communication Datagram Delivery Protocol Data line Data link layer Data transfer Data transfer rate DB-9 DCIM DCOM DDP DDR Decentralized system Dedicated server Deep Space Network Default user Denial Of Service Deploy DHCP Dial-on-demand routing Digital data transmission Directory harvest attack Disk duplexing Diskless workstation Disk quota management Disk server Distributed computing Distributed system DIX DLC DMZ DNS DNS hijacking DNS record DNS resolver DoCoMo Domain Domain controller Domain forwarding Domain join Domain local group Domain name Domain name registrar Domain namespace Domain Name System Domain tree DOS Down Download Downtime DS3 DSAP DSL DSN DSR DTX Dumb terminal Dynamic allocation Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Dynamic routing
E
E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 EAP Echo Edge device Edge router EDIINT Egress filtering EIGRP E-mail Encapsulation Endpoint Enterprise-wide network Entry Error rate Ethereal Ethernet Ethernet adapter Ethernet controller Ethernet frame Ethernet port Ethernet SNAP EtherPEG Ethertalk Ethtool Evil twin Exchange Expect External IP address External LAN adapter Externet port Extranet
F
FaaS Fast Ethernet Fault tolerance FCIP F connector FDDI FDDI-2 FEC FEP FFDT Fiber-optic Fiber-optic cable Fibre channel FidoNet File server File sharing File transfer File Transfer Protocol FiOS Firewall Flood FOIRL FOMO Forests and trees Forward error correction FQDN FR Frame Frame relay FreeNAS Freenet Free Space Optics Front-end processor FSO FSP FTAM FTP FTTP
G
Gateway GBIC Geocast Glass house Google Nest Ground loop Group policy GroupWare G.SHDSL Guest Guided media
H
H.323 Hamachi HAN Handshake HDLC HDSL HELO Heterogeneous network Hidden share Home Home area network Home directory HomeGroup Home network Homogeneous Network Hop Hops Host Host computer Hostid Hostname Host priority Hosts file Hotspot HSS HSSI Httperf HTTP server Hub Hubbed mode Hybrid cloud Hybrid topology HyperTerminal Hyper-V
I
IANA ICA Icacl ICANN ICMP ICS ICT IDSL IEEE 802.11 IEEE 802 standards IEN IGES IGMP IGP IGRP IIS IMAP Infrared broadband Internal IP address Internet Internet Information Server Internet node Internet Packet eXchange \ Sequential Packet eXchange Internet Protocol Internet Protocol Television InterNIC Interoperability Intranet IP IP cloaking IPP IPsec IP spoofing Iptables IPTV IPv4 IPv6 IPX/SPX IS ISATAP iSCSI iSCSI Initiator ISDN ISIS ISP IT IT infrastructure
J
Jabber
K
Kerberos
L
L2TP LAN LAN port LAN segment Latency LAWN Layer 1 Layer 2 Layer 3 Layer 4 Layer 5 Layer 6 Layer 7 Layer 8 Leased line Leech LFAP Li-Fi Linear bus topology Line-side T1 Link aggregation Link state packet LLC Lmhosts Load balancing Local Local Area Network Local bypass Localhost Local IP address Locking Lockout LOF Logical unit Log off Log on Loopback LOS LPWAN LPX LSP LU
M
MAC MAE Mail server Mainframe MAN Many-to-many data relationship Map MAPI Mastodon MAU MCSA MCSE MDaemon MDF Mesh topology MetaMask Metcalfe's Law MIB Mirror Mirroring MMS Modbus MPLS MPP MRU MSAU MSCS MTU Multicast Multi-mode fiber Multiplex Multi-user system MX record My Network Places MySensors
N
N+ NAK Nameserver Name server Name server protocol NAP NAPT Narrowband transmission NAS NAT NBT NCP NDIS NDR NDRO Negate Nest Wifi Net Net architect NetBEUI NetBIOS NetBIOS over TCP/IP Netio Netmask Net neutrality Netstat Netting NetWare Network Network+ Network Access Protection Network adapter Network address Network administrator Network architecture Network connection Network Control Panel Network database Network device driver Network directory Network drive Network engineer Network layer Network management software Network media Network Neighborhood Network operating system Network port Network printer Network segment Network server Network socket Network solutions Network structure Network terminal number NFS NIC NIT NMS NNTP Node Node address NOS Notwork NPAC NSAP NSFNET Nslookup NSP NSPA NTN NTP
O
OC Octet ODI Offline mode Offsite OID Open Open network OpenSSL OpenStack Optical carrier Optical fiber Optical wireless Optical wireless communication Oracle public cloud OSI OSPF Overlay Overlay network OWC
P
P2P PaaS PAC Packet Packet aggregation Packet switching PAD PAN PAT Patch cable Patch panel Payload PDC PDU Peer Peer-to-peer communication Peer-to-peer network Permission Personal cloud Physical layer Physical unit Pidgin Piggyback PIM Ping Ping and pong Ping of death POE POP POP3 Port Port forwarding Port scanner Port triggering Power over Ethernet Power user PPP PPPoE PPTP Presentation layer Print server Promiscuous mode Propagation delay Protocol Proxy Proxy server Pseudoterminal Ptm PTR Pts Pty Punch down tool PureVPN Push e-mail Putty PXE
Q
QMAC QoS QPSK
R
Rack mount RADIUS RADSL RAP RARP RAS rDNS RDP Real-time transport protocol Recursion Redis Regenerative Repeater Remote access Remote Access Server Remote Desktop Remote Media Streaming Remote storage Remote user Repeater RequestTTY Reserved address space Resource record REST Reverse DNS lookup Reverse resolving RF Ring sequence Ring status Ring topology RIP RJ-45 RLP Roam Rollover cable Round robin Route Route aggregation Router Routing Routing algorithm Routing table RPC RRAS RTCP RTP RTSP RTTP
S
SA SaaS Samba SAN SAP SATAN Satellite S band S-band Multiple Access SCTP SDLC SDSL SDU Second-level domain Segment Sequenced Packet eXchange Serial Server Server farm Serverless computing Server mirroring Service Advertising Protocol Session layer SFTP Share Shared directory Shared folder Shielded Twisted-Pair cable Short haul Sign off Sign on Single-mode fiber Sitename SLA SLD SLIP SMA Smart home Smart terminal SMB SMS SMTP Smurf attack SNA Sneakernet Sniffing SNMP SOA SOCKS SONET Spanning tree Spanning tree protocol SPDY SPI Spoof Spoofing Spread spectrum SPX SSAP SSH SSHD SSID SSL SSTP Stack Stadia Star topology Stateful firewall Stateless Static Static allocation STM STM-1 STM-4 STM-8 STM-16 STM-64 Store and forward STP STP Cable Straight through Streaming content STS STS-1 STS-3 STS-12 STS-24 STS-48 STS-192 Subdomain Subnet Subnet mask Subnetwork Supercomputer Switch Symmetrical SYN SYN attack Syncthing Syslog SYSOP System administrator System operator
T
T1 T2 T3 T568A T568B TA TACACS Tap TCP TCP fingerprinting TCP/IP TDMA TeamViewer Tele Telecommunications Telepresence Teleprocessing Telnet Teredo Terminal Terminal emulation TFTP Thick client Thick Ethernet Thin client Thin Ethernet Throttle Throughput Time-out Time server TKIP TLD Token Token ring Toner probe Top-level domain Topology TOPS TOS TP-PMD Trace Tracepath Traceroute Traffic Traffic shaping Transaction processing Transfer rate Transit network Transmit Transport layer Tree topology Trunk TTFB TTL Tuner card Tunnel Turnpike effect Twisted-pair cable
U
UDP UDSL UNC Unethical hacking Unguided media Unicast Uniformity Unshielded Twisted Pair cable Uplink Upload Upload/download UPnP Upstream User User account User group Username UTP cable
V
VADSL VAN VBR VC VCI VCID VDD VDSL Vhost Virtual computing Virtual host Virtualization Virtual router VLAN VMware vSphere VNC VOIP VPN VPS VRRP VSAT
W
Wake On LAN Walled garden WAN WAP WBEM Webcast Web farm Web forwarding Web host Web server WEP WFW WHOIS Wide Area Network Wideband transmission Wi-Fi Wi-Fi calling Wi-Fi Direct Wi-Fi extender WiMAX Winpopup WINS Winsock WireGuard Wireless Wireless adapter Wirelessly WireShark Wire stripper WISP WLAN WOL Workgroup Workstation WPAD WPAN WPS
X
X.25 X.400 Xerox network services XMT XNS
Y
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Z
ZAK Zarafa Zeroconf Zero configuration network ZIP Zombie Zone

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