Appendix B - Abbreviated Index
Networking:
access group
address field
asynchronous network
backbone
branching network
client
closed user group
commercial refile
control station
delayed-delivery facility
democratically synchronized network
despotically synchronized network
differentiating network
directed net
distributed control
distributed network
distributed-queue dual-bus (DQDB) [network]
endpoint node
equivalent network
free net
gateway
global address
GOSIP
group address
hierarchical computer network
hierarchically synchronized network
hotline
hybrid communications network
hypermedia
intelligent network (IN)
intelligent peripheral (IP)
interconnection
intermediate element
internetworking
interworking functions
leg
link
logical topology
loop transmission
maritime broadcast communications net
master station
mediation function
multicast
multichannel
multilevel precedence and preemption (MLPP)
multilink operation
multiple media
multipoint access
net operation
network
network control program (NCP)
network engineering
network interface
network interface card
network topology
noncentralized operation
nonsynchronous network
open network architecture (ONA)
overhead information
packet switching
path
PCS
physical topology
point-to-point link
polling
port
portability
POSIX
precedence
primary channel
primary station
public data network (PDN)
public switched network (PSN)
radio net
relay
remote access
remote logon
route
routine message
seizing
server
service termination point
signal center
signal transfer point (STP)
sliding window
slot
slotted-ring network
slot time
sublayer
subnetwork
switched circuit
symmetrical channel
synchronous data link control (SDLC)
synchronous network
synchronous transmission
system failure transfer
system follow-up
system signaling and supervision
tandem
teleconference
Terminal Access Controller (TAC)
terminal adapter
terminal endpoint (TE) functional group
through group
through supergroup
T-interface
token-bus network
token passing
token-ring network
trace packet
unidirectional operation
U interface
Universal Personal Telecommunications (UPT) service
virtual network
virus
wrapping
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