| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BSS | Basic Service Set |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design |
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation |
| CIDR | Classless Inter Domain Routing |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DIN | Deutsches Institut für Normung |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| EIGRP | Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| ESS | Extended Service Set |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GUA | Global Unicast Address |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protcol Secure |
| IBSS | Independent Basic Service Set |
| ICANN | International Conference on Artifical Neural Networks |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protcol |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IGP | Interior Gateway Protocol |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protokoll |
| IPSec | Internet Protocol Security |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| IS-IS | Intermediary System to Intermediary System |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Unit |
| LLA | Link Local Address |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LUA | Local Unique Address |
| MAC | Media Access Protocol |
| MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit |
| NFC | Network File System |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIC | Network Information Center |
| NetBIOS | Netware Basic Input Output System |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| PLC | Power Line Communication |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| RFC | Request for comments |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| SAP | Service Access Point |
| SAP | Service Advertising Protocol |
| SLAAC | Stateless Address Autoconifguration |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SPX | Sequenced Packet Exchange |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| STP | shielded twisted Pair |
| STP | Spanning Tree Protocol |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UTF | UCS (Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format |
| UTP | unshielded twisted Pair |