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Acronyms List
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*Contributor: Tim Bratton K5RA*
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List of acronyms sometimes encountered in the AREDN® project.
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:AAM: AREDN® Alert Message
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:AAMM: AREDN® Alert Message Manager
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:AC: Alternating Current
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:ACK: Acknowledge, Acknowledgement
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:ADMIN: Administration, Administrative, Administrator
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:ADS-B: Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast
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:ADV: Advanced
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:AFS: AREDN® Firmware Selector
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:AGL: Above Ground Level
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:AM: Amplitude Modulation
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:AP: Access Point
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:API: Application Programming Interface
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:AREDN: Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network
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:ARES: Amateur Radio Emergency Service
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:ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
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:ARPS: Automatic Packet Reporting System
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:ARRL: American Radio Relay League
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:ASF: Apache Software Foundation
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:ATA: Analog Telephone Adapter
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:AV: Audio Visual
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:AVL: Automatic Vehicle Location
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:AZ: Azimuth
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:BIN: Binary File Type
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:BSSID: Basic Service Set Identifier
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:CAD: Computer Aided Dispatch, Computer Aided Design
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:CCA: Clear Channel Assessment
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:CGI: Common Gateway Interface
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:CHAN: Channel
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:CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing
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:CM: Centimeter (10 E-2 meter)
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:CMD: Command
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:CONF: Configuration
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:CPU: Central Processing Unit
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:CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance
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:CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (computer graphics)
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:CTR: Center
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:CTRL: Control (a keyboard key)
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:CTS: Clear to Send
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:CTCSS: Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System
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:DB: Decibel
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:DBI: Decibel relative to an isotropic radiator
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:DBM: Decibel relative to one milliwatt (10E-3 watt)
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:DC: Direct Current
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:DDNS: Dynamic Domain Name System
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:DFS: Dynamic Frequency Selection
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:DHCP: Dynamic Host Control Protocol
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:DHS: Department of Homeland Security
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:DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
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:DNS: Domain Name System
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:DSP: Digital Signal Processor
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:DTD: Device to Device
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:EL: Elevation
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:EMCOMM: Emergency Communications
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:EPUB: Electronic Publication
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:ETX: Expected Transmission
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:EWMA: Exponential Weighted Moving Average
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:FCC: Federal Communications Commission
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:FLV: Flash video file container format
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:FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
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:FTP: File Transfer Protocol
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:GHZ: Gigahertz (10E9 Hertz)
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:GIS: Geographic Information System
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:GNU: A project within which the free software concept originated
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:GPS: Global Positioning System
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:GUI: Graphical User Interface
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:GZ: A file format and software application (gzip) for file compression/decompression (g for GNU)
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:HLS: HTTP Live Streaming
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:HSL: Hue, saturation, lightness (for image color representation)
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:HTML: HyperText Markup Language
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:HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
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:IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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:ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
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:ICS: Incident Command System
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:ICS-213: General Message form
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:ID: Identifier, Identity
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:IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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:IIC: A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
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:IMAP: Internet Mail Access Protocol
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:IMG: Image file format
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:IPK: A compressed archive format used by the OpenWRT Package Management System (opkg) on AREDN® nodes
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:IP: Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol address
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:IRC: Internet Relay Chat
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:IRCD: Internet Relay Chat Daemon
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:ISES: Open Information Systems for Emergency Services
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:ISP: Internet Service Provider
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:I2C: A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
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:JSON: Javascript Object Notation
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:KML: Keyhole Markup Language
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:KW: Kilowatt (10E3 watt)
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:LAMP: Linux, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
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:LAN: Local Area Network
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:LAT: Latitude
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:LED: Light Emitting Diode
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:LGI: Long Guard Interval
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:LGPL: Lesser General Public License (GNU)
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:LON: Longitude
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:LOS: Line of Sight
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:LQ: Link Quality
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:LQM: Link Quality Manager, Link Quality Management
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:MA: Milliamp (10E-3 amp)
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:MAC: Media Access Control
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:MACOS: Apple Computer Operating System
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:MAMPP: MacOS, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
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:MB: Megabtye (10E6 bytes)
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:MBPS: Megabits (10E6 bits) per second
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:MCC: Mobile Command and Control
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:MCS: Modulation Coding Scheme
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:MG: Magnetic North
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:MHZ: Megahertz (10E6 Hertz)
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:µV: Microvolt (10E-6 volt)
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:MIMO: Multiple Input Multiple Output
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:MM: Millimeter (10E-3 meter)
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:MP4: A digital multimedia container format
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:MRC: Maximal Ratio Combining
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:MTR: My traceroute, Matt's traceroute – combines functions of traceroute and ping into one network diagnostic tool
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:MS: Microsoft
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:MSC: Mobile Switching Center
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:MSG: Message
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:NAT: Network Address Translation
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:NAV: Navigation
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:NC: Non-commercial
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:NLOS: Near Line of Sight
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:NLQ: Neighbor Link Quality
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:NTP: Network Time Protocol
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:NVRAM: Non-volatile Random Access Memory
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:OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
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:OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing protocol
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:OLSRD: Optimized Link State Routing Daemon
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:ONVIF: Open Network Video Interface Forum
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:OPENWRT: An open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux upon which AREDN® is based
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:OS: Operating System
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:PBX: Private Branch Exchange
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:PC: Personal Computer
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:PDF: Portable Document Format
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:PEP: Peak Envelope Power
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:PHP: Perl Hypertext Pre-Processor
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:PPK: Private Key File Extension
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:POE: Power Over Ethernet
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:POP: Post Office Protocol
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:PR: Pull Request (a GitHub mechanism)
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:PSK: Phase-Shift Keying
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:PSK: Protect Access Pre-Shared Key
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:PTZ: Pan, Tilt, and Zoom (video camera control)
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:PUB: Public Key File Extension
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:PUTTY: Communications tool for running interactive command-line sessions on other computers
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:PVE: Proxmox Virtual Environment
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:PVID: Port VLAN Identification
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:PXE: Preboot Execution Environment
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:QEMU: Quick Emulator (computer virtualization engine)
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:QTH: Radio Q-signal for “Location”
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:RACES: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
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:RAM: Random Access Memory
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:RF: Radio Frequency
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:ROM: Read-Only Memory
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:RPI: Raspberry Pi single-board computer
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:RSSI: Received Signal Strength Indicator
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:RST: ReStructured Text file format
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:RTS: Request to Send
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:RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol
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:RX: Receive, Receiver
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:SCP: Secure Copy Program
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:SDR: Software Defined Radio
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:SF: San Francisco (California)
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:SISO: Single Input Single Output
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:SKYWARN: Program of the National Weather Service which collects reports of localized severe weather in the United States
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:SMS: Short Message Service
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:SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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:SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
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:SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
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:SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
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:SQL: Structured Query Language for relational databases
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:SS: Spread Spectrum
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:SSH: Secure Shell
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:SSID: Service Set Identifier
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:SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
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:TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
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:TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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:TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
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:TELNET: Command line terminal program
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:TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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:TMP: temporary
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:TN: True North
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:TX/RX: Transmit/Receive
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:UCI: Unified Configuration Interface
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:UDP: User Datagram Protocol
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:UI: User Interface
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:URL: Universal Resource Locator
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:USB: Universal Serial Bus
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:V: Volts
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:V2V: Virtual-to-virtual VM migration program
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:VDC: Volts – Direct Current
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:VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
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:VLC: VideoLAN Client
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:VM: Virtual Machine
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:VMDK: Virtual Machine Disk format
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:VOIP: Voice over IP
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:W: Watt (unit of power)
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:WAN: Wide Area Network
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:WEBRTC: Web Real-Time Communication - open-source project to facility web communications
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:WGT: Weight
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:WIFI: Family of wireless networking protocols based on IEEE 802.11 standard
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:WIMAX: Family of wireless communication protocols based on IEEE 802.16 standard
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:WIN: Microsoft Windows
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:WINLINK: Worldwide radio messaging system using amateur radio frequencies
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:WINSCP: Secure file copy program for Windows
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:WISP: Wireless Internet Service Provider
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:WPA: WiFi Protected Access encryption method (WPA/WPA2/WPA3)
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:WX: Weather
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:XLINK: Cross-Link configured to pass AREDN® data between non-AREDN® devices
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:XMPP: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
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:YAAC: Yet Another ARPS Client
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:ZIP: File format and software application used for file compression/decompression
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