Home
Dictionary
Tags
IT Terms tagged with Communication
1000Base-T
100BASE-T
133T Speak
8b/10b Encoding
9P
A-list Blogger
Access Port
Acoustic Coupler
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM)
Adaptive Route
Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Address Resolution Protocol Spoofing (ARP Spoofing)
Administrative Domain (AD)
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA)
Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC)
Air Gap
All-In-One Printer
Analog Roaming
Andrew File System (AFS)
Annoybot
Anonymous Login
Anonymous Post
Antenna Array
Appletalk
AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol (AARP)
AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP)
Application Layer
Application Sharing
Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
Asynchronous Data
Asynchronous Groupware
Attached Resource Computer Network (ARCNET)
Attenuation
Attenuation-to-Crosstalk Ratio (ACR)
Authentication Center (AuC)
Authorization
Auto-Partitioning
Automatic Call Distributor (ACD)
Automatic Location Identification (ALI)
Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)
Auxiliary Port (AUX)
Band
Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP)
Base Station (BS)
Base Station Controller (BSC)
Bell 212A
Bell Operating Company (BOC)
Binary Digit (bit)
Bit Stuffing
Blackberry Messenger (BBM)
BlackBerry OS
Blacklist
Blogroll
Bluetooth Universal Serial Bus (BT-USB)
Bonjour
Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Bozo Filter
Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)
Broadband
Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)
Broadband Wireless Access (Wibro)
Broadcast Address
Broadcast Domain
Broadcasting
Bus Mastering
Bus Topology
Call Forwarding
Caller Ringback Tone (RBT)
CAN-SPAM Act
Canonicalization
Capacity
Carnivore
Carrier
Category 3 Cable (Cat 3 Cable)
Category 4 Cable (Cat 4 Cable)
Cell On Wheels (COW)
Cell Relay
Cells In Frames (CIF)
Cellular
Central Office Exchange Service (Centrex)
Central Processing Unit (CPU) Socket (CPU Socket)
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
Challenge-Response Authentication
Change Management
Channel Service Unit/Digital Service Unit (CSU/DSU)
Chat
Check Digit
Checksum
Chunk
Circuit-Level Gateway
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Cisco Network Admission Control (Cisco NAC)
Cisco Unified Computing System (CUCS)
Clamshell Mobile
Class C Network
Client-Server Model
Coaxial Cable
Code Division Multiplexing (CDM)
Cognitive Radio
Cold Server
Collision Avoidance
Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
Communication and Networking Riser (CNR)
Communication Controller
Communication Media
Communication Software
Communications Over Internet Protocol (CoIP)
Communications Server
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
Component Object Model+ (COM+)
Computer Cluster
Computer Network Technician
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Congestion
Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC)
Connection-Oriented Protocol (COP)
Connection-Oriented Service
Connectionless Service
Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
Customer Premises Equipment Device (CPE Device)
Cyberduck
Cyberpunk
Cyberspace
Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
Dancing Baby
Dark Fiber
DARPANET
Data
Data Access Arrangement (DAA)
Data Card
Data Communications (DC)
Data Communications Equipment (DCE)
Data Distribution Service (DDS)
Data Encapsulation
Data Integration Service
Data Journalism
Data Link Control (DLC)
Data Link Layer
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Datagram
DB-15
DB-50
DB-68
DB-9
Dedicated Access Line
Deep Dialing
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Message System (DMS)
Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA)
Demultiplex (DEMUX)
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Dial-on-Demand Routing (DDR)
Dial-Up Connection
Digital Camera
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT)
Digital Signature
Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (DSVD)
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H)
Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (DVB-T)
Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation (DVB-S2)
Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
Direct Inward Dialing
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
Disconnect Anxiety
Discoverable Mode
Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
Disk-to-Disk (D2D)
Disposable Email
Disruption-Tolerant Network (DTN)
Distributed File System (DFS)
Distributed Search
DMCA 1201
DNS Whitelist
Domain Controller
Domain Name
Domain Name System (DNS)
Domain Name System Based List (DNSBL)
Dual Band
Dual-Mode Device
Dual-Ring Topology
Dual-Tone Multifrequency (DTMF)
Dumb Network
Duplex
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Dynamic Smart Cooling
Dynamic Virtual Private Network (DVPN)
E-Speak
eDonkey Network (eD2k)
Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM)
Electromagnetic Field (EMF)
Electronic Card (e-Card)
Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)
Electronic Ink (E Ink)
Email Harvesting
Email Hoax
Email Signature
Engineer-to-Order Enterprise Resource Planning (ETO ERP)
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS)
Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise Collaboration System (ECS)
Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA)
Enterprise Message Exchange (EMX)
Enterprise Messaging System (EMS)
Enterprise Portal Software (EPS)
Enterprise Private Network
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
Eris Free Network (EFNet)
Error Checking and Correction
Error Correction
Error Detection
EtherLoop
Ethernet
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Even Parity
Event-Stream Processing (ESP)
Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO)
Expansion Card
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Extranet
Facsimile Machine (Fax Machine)
Fail
Farming
Fast Infoset (FI)
Fax Modem
Feature Group D (FGD)
Femtocell
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
Fiber-Optic Service (FiOS)
File Area Network (FAN)
Financial Information Exchange (FIX)
Fixed Routing
Flash Mob
Flight Mode
Flooding
Flow Control
Flowchart
FON Map
FON Spot
Foneros
Forward (FW)
Forward Error Correction (FEC)
Fragmentation
Frame Check Sequence
Frankenpine
Fraud over Internet Protocol (FoIP)
Free Space Optics
Freedom of Information
Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)
Friend-To-Friend (F2F)
Full Duplex (FDx)
G.723
G.726
G.727
G.728
Gatekeeper Transaction Message Protocol (GKTMP)
Generic Access Network (GAN)
Geosynchronous Satellite
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Global Area Network (GAN)
Global Internet Exchange (GIX)
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
GNUnet
Google Phone
Google Talk
Graynet
Group 4 Protocols
Groupware
Half Duplex (HDX)
Hamming Code
Handoff
Handover (HO)
Hardening
Hashing
Hayes-Compatible Modem
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
High-Performance Radio Local Area Network (HIPERLAN)
Host Name
Host-Based Modem
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
I-Mode
I2P
Identification, Friend Or Foe (IFF)
IEEE 1284 Parallel Interface Standard
IEEE 488 (GPIB)
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11d
IEEE 802.11e
IEEE 802.11i
IEEE 802.11j
IEEE 802.11k
In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI)
Industrial, Scientific and Medical Radio Band (ISM Band)
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Architecture (IA)
Information Systems or Information Services (IS)
Infrared (IR)
Input/Output Device (I/O Device)
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN)
Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS)
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suite (IC-BPMS)
Intellectual Property (IP)
Interactivity
Intercast
Interconnection Agreement
Interleaving
Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP)
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Internet
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Internet Network Operations Center (INOC)
Internet Over Satellite
Internet Protocol (IP)
Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP PBX)
Internet Protocol Telephony (IP Telephony)
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Internet Society (ISOC)
Internet Transit
Internet2
Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX)
Internetworking Device
Interoperability
Intranet Suite
Intrusion Signature
Inverse Multiplexer (IMUX)
Inverted Network
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
iPhone 3G
iPod
Jammer
Java Message Service (JMS)
JenniCam
Jitter (VoIP)
Joe Job
Kademlia (Kad)
Kerberos
Kevin Mitnick
La Fonera
Lag
LAN Switching
Last Mile Technology
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
Layer Two Forwarding (L2F)
Leisure Diving
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Line of Sight (LoS)
Link Aggregation (LAG)
Link Control Protocol (LCP)
Linkerati
Local Access and Transport Area (LATA)
Local Area Network (LAN)
Local Area Network (LAN) Emulation (LANE)
Local Area Network Emulation (LANE)
Local Area Transport (LAT)
Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS)
LocalTalk
Location Based Services (LBS)
Location Dependent Services
Logical Link Control (LLC)
Logical Topology
Logical Unit Number (LUN)
Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC)
Loop Capable Fabric Port (L_Port)
Loopback Plug
Loopback Test
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Main Distribution Frame (MDF)
Measured Telephone Service (MTS)
Media
Media Access Control Address (MAC Address)
Medium Dependent Interface Crossover (MDIX)
MERA VoIP Key System (MVKS)
MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS)
Message Digest
Message Queuing Service
Message Switching
Methods for Testing and Specification (MTS)
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
Microcom Networking Protocol (MNP)
Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP)
Minimum Point of Entry (MPOE)
Mobile Application Service Provider (MASP)
Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP)
Mobile Internet Device (MID)
Mobile IP
Mobile Location Protocol (MLP)
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA)
Mobile Network Operator (MNO)
Mobile Operating System (Mobile OS)
Mobile Phone Spam
Mobile Search
Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN)
Mobile Switching Center (MSC)
Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE)
Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)
Mobility Management
Mobipocket Reader
Modulation
Motorola Droid X
MSN TV
Multi Channel Television Sound (MTS)
Multiband Antenna
Multicast Address
Multicast Backbone (MBone)
Multihomed
Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP or MHP)
Multimedia Message Service (MMS)
Multiple Channels Per Carrier (MCPC)
Multiplexer (MUX)
Multiplexing
Multiprotocol Over ATM (MPOA)
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Neo FreeRunner
Netbios Extended User Interface (NetBEUI)
NetBIOS Session Service (NBSS)
Netbus
NetMeeting
Netware Core Protocol (NCP)
NetWare Link (NWLink)
Network Access Server (NAS)
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Network Architecture
Network Bottleneck
Network Convergence
Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)
Network File System (NFS)
Network Identity (Network ID)
Network Interface Card (NIC)
Network Interface Device
Network Layer
Nimrod Routing Architecture
Node
Node Port (N_Port)
Noise
Non Return to Zero Inverted (NRZI)
Nonrepudiation
Nuker
Nym Server
Odd Parity
Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C)
Online Marketing
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Open Financial Exchange (OFX)
Open Relay
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI Model)
Optical Burst Switching (OBS)
Optical Fiber
Optical Fiber Amplifier
Optical Fiber Cable
Optical Mesh Network (OMN)
Optical Network
Optical Power Meter (OPM)
orkut
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
Outsourced Product Development (OPD)
Packet
Packet Capture
Packet Filtering
Packet Switched Network (PSN)
Parity Check
Passive Reconnaissance
PCI Extended (PCI-X)
Peer-to-Peer Architecture (P2P Architecture)
Peering
Peering Agreement
Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus (PCI Bus)
Phase-Shift Keying (PSK)
Phreaking
Physical Layer
Piconet
Pierre Salinger Syndrome
Piggyback Email
Pocket Dialing
Policy Awareness
Port Address Translation (PAT)
Port Forwarding
Portable Mesh Repeater
Power Line Communications (PLC)
Predictive Dialer
Presence
Presentation Layer
Private Access DSL (PADSL)
Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX)
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Private Key
PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (PIPA)
Protocol Data Unit
Provisioning (Computer Networking)
Provisioning (Computing)
Provisioning (Telecommunications)
Pseudonym (nym)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Punchdown Block
Push Technology
Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)
Push-to-Talk (PTT)
Quad Band
Quality of Service (QoS)
R/390
Radio Frequency Field (RF Field)
Radio Frequency Identification Reader (RFID Reader)
Real-Time Communications (RTC)
Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
Referrer
Regional Broadband Global Area Network (RBGAN)
Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO)
Registered Jack (RJ)
Registered Jack-11 (RJ-11)
Registration Admission Status (RAS)
Remote Access
Remote Copy (rcp)
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Remote Terminal
Repeating Hub
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
Rich Client
Ring Network
Ring Topology
Route Control
Routing
Routing Information Field (RIF)
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Routing Metric
Routing Protocol
RTP Control Protocol (RTCP)
Samsung Bada
SAP Integration Server (SAP IS)
Satellite Dish
Satellite Internet Access
Secondary Audio Program (SAP)
Secret Key
Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND Protocol)
Secure Real-Time Protocol (Secure RTP or SRTP)
Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX)
Sequenced Packet Protocol (SPP)
Serial Copy Management System (SCMS)
Serial Port
Server-Based Computing (SBC)
Service Advertising Protocol (SAP)
Session Announcement Protocol (SAP)
Session Border Controller (SBC)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Shared Contact Center (SCC)
Shared Loop
Shared Resources
Short Message Service (SMS)
Short Message Service Center (SMSC)
Shotgun Approach
Signal Strength
Silver Satin
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Skype
Sliding Window
SMS Gateway
Social Media Cleansing
Softphone
Software Modem
Software Switch
Spam
Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS)
Spam Over Internet Telephony (SPIT)
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
SPDY Protocol
Split Multi-Link Trunking
Spread Spectrum
SprintLink
Star Wars Kid
Storage over Internet Protocol (SoIP)
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Subnetwork (Subnet)
Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP)
Supernet
Surge Protector
Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Synchronous Messaging
Telecommunications
Telecommunications Closet (TC)
Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturer (TEM)
Telephone Company (Telco)
Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM)
Telephony
Terminal
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
Terminal Adapter (TA)
Terminal Node Controller (TNC)
The Google+ Project
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
TiBook
Ticket Granting Server (TGS)
Tiered Data Plan
Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
Token
Token Bus Network
Token Ring Network
Topology
Transmission Sequence Number (TSN)
Transparent Bridge
Transponder (XPDR, XPNDR, TPDR or TP)
Transport Layer
Tree Topology
Tru2way
Trunk Port
Tweet
Unbundled Network Element (UNE)
Unbundled Network Elements-Platform (UNE-P)
Unified Communications (UC)
Unified Communications System (UCS)
Unified Messaging (UM)
Universal Business Language (UBL)
Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP)
Unlocked Cellphone
Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE)
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE)
Upstream
Usability
User Agent Client (UAC)
User Agent Server (UAS)
V.22
V.22bis
V.32
V.34
V.42
V.90
V.92
Variable Length Subnet Mask (VLSM)
Velocity of Propagation
Verizon Fiber Optic Service (Verizon FiOS)
Vertical Handover
Vertical Scalability
Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL)
Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
Very-High-Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL)
Video Teleconferencing (VTC)
Viral Marketing
Virtual Call Center (VCC)
Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI)
Virtual Home Environment (VHE)
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Virtual Teletype (VTY)
Vishing
Visitor Location Register (VLR)
Voice 2.0
Voice on the Net (VON)
Voice Operated Switch (VOX)
Voice Over Instant Messenger (VoIM)
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Voice Over Internet Protocol Caller Identification (VoIP Caller ID)
Voice Over Internet Protocol Gateway (VoIP Gateway)
Voice Over Internet Protocol Phone (VoIP Phone)
Voice Over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA)
Voice Over Wireless Fidelity (VoWi-Fi)
Voice Over Wireless Local Area Network (VoWLAN)
Voice Recognition
Voice Search
VoIP Trunk Gateway
Walkman Phone
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
Web Analytics
Web Client
Web Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT)
Web-Based Seminar (Webinar)
Web-Based Training (WBT)
Website Filter
White Paper
White Space Device (WSD)
Whitelist
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)
Wi-Fi Range Extender
Wi-Fi5
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Wide Area Telecommunication Service (WATS)
Wideband
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)
Wideband Voice
Windows Clustering
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Sockets (Winsock)
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Wireless Communications
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
Wireless Modem
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
Wireless Spectrum
Wireshark
Workgroup Productivity Package
Wormhole Switching
Wrap Plug
X Terminal
X.400
X2
Xerox Network Systems (XNS)
XMODEM
Yagi Antenna
YMODEM
ZMODEM
Sign-In
Join Techopedia
Home
Dictionary
Articles
Tutorials
Newsletters
Menu
Home
Dictionary
Articles
Tech 101
How To
5 Things
IT Careers
History of Tech
Tutorials
Hot Trends
Big Data
Windows 8
Security
Cloud Computing
Data Centers
Mobile Computing
CRM
Green IT
Storage
Virtualization
Online Privacy
Job Roles
Developers
Network Admins
Database Admins
Tech Support
IT Management
Water Cooler
Infographics
Who To Follow
All Topics
Hacking
Online Marketing
Buzzwords and Jargon
Viruses
Operating Systems
Legal
People
Search Engines
World Wide Web
Personal Tech
Gaming
Linux
Internet