acronyms: P-T

P2P

Peer-to-Peer

PAM

Pluggable Authentication Module

PAN

Personal Area Network

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PARC

Palo Alto Research Center

PATA

Parallel ATA

PBX

Private Branch Exchange

PC

Personal Computer

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCM

Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PDC

Primary Domain Controller

PDF

Portable Document Format

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PE

Preinstallation Environment

PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

PIM

Personal Information Manager

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

PnP

Plug and Play

PoE

Power over Ethernet

POP

Post Office Protocol

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX

POST

Power-On Self Test

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PPTP

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

PXE

Pre-Boot Execution Environment

QoS

Qualiy of Service

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RAID

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RAM

Random Access Memory

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAS

Remote Access Service

RBAC

Role-Based Access Control

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

RDRAM

Rambus DRAM

RFC

Request For Comments

RGB

Red, Green, Blue

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

RIPE

Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RJ

Registered Jack

RMA

Returned Materials Authorization

RMON

Remote Monitoring

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RSA

Rivest, Shamir, Adelman

RTF

Rich Text Format

RTM

Release To Manufacturing

RU

Rack Unit

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAP

Service Advertising Protocol

SAS

Serial Attached SCSI

SATA

Serial ATA

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SDK

Software Development Kit

SDL

Simple DirectMedia Layer

SDRAM

Synchronous DRAM

SIMM

Single In-line Memory Module

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMART

Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology

SMB(1)

Small-Medium Business/Small-to-Midsize Business

SMB(2)

Server Message Block

SMP

Symmetric Multiprocessing

SMS

Short Message Service

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNA

Systems Network Architecture

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SOHO

Small Office/Home Office

SONET

Synchronous Optical Network

SPARC

Scalable Processor Architecture

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRAM

Static RAM

SSID

Service Set Identifier

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

TACACS

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System

TCL

Tool Command Language

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TDR

Time Domain Reflectometry/Reflectometer

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TIA

Telecommunications Industry Association

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TKIP

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol

TPE

Twisted-Pair Ethernet

TTL

Transistor-Transistor Logic

TWAIN

(None) or Technology Without An Interesting Name