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63 Cards in this Set
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ADSL
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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Faster download; slower upload than DSL)
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AES
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Advanced Encryption Standard
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ALOHA
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The radio protocol developed at the University of Hawaii (hence aloha)
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AP
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Access Point (IEE802.11 wireless)
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APSTNDP
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Application Presentation Session Transport Network Data-Link Physical (o wow)
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ARP
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Address Resolution Protocol
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ATM
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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BSS
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Basic Service Set
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CDMA
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Code-Division Multiple Access
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CPU
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Central Processing Unit?
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CTS
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clear to send (after a RTS)
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CSMA
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access
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CSMA/CA
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance - for wireless
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CSMA/CD
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection - for ethernet
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DES
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Data Encryption Standard
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DHCP
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DSL
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Digital Subscriber Line
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DSSS
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Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
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FDMA
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Frequency Division Multiple Access
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FHSS
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Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
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FTP
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File Transfer Protocol
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GCD
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Greatest Common Divisor
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GNU
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“GNU's Not Unix!”
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GPG
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GNU Privacy Guard
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HTTP
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HyperText Transfer Protocol
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ICMP
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Internet Control Message Protocol
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IEEE
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Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers
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IFS
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InterFrame Space
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IMAP
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Internet Message Access Protocol
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IP
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Internet Protocol
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ISO
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Internet Standards Organization
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LAN
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Local Area Network
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LCP
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Link Control Protocol
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LLC
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Logical Link Control
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MAC
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Medium Access Control
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MIME
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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MIT
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MTU
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Maximum Transmission Unit
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NCP
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Network Control Protocol
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NIC
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Network Interface Card
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NFS
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Network File System
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OSI
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Open Systems Interconnection
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PC
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Personal Computer
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PGP
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Pretty Good Privacy
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POP
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Post Office Protocol
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PPP
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Point-to-Point Protocol
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ROM
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Read Only Memory
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RPC
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Remote Procedure Call
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RTS
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request to send (before a CTS)
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RSA
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Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (creators of the RSA public key cryptographic algorithm)
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SFTP
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Secure File Transfer Protocol
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SMTP
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Simple Mail Transport Protocol
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SSH
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Secure Shell
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TCP
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Transport Control Protocol
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TDMA
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Time Division Multiple Access
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TFTP
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Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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TPDU
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Transport Protocol Data Unit
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UDP
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User Datagram Protocol
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator
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WAN
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Wide Area Network
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WPAN
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Wireless Personal Area Network, or “Wireless PAN”
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WWW
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World-Wide Web
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