List of Acronyms

AA Authoritative Answer

AAAA IPv6 DNS record

ABR Area Border Router

ACD Automatic Call Distribution

ACELP Algebraic-Code-Excited Linear Prediction

ACK Acknowledgment

AD Active Directory

ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop

AF Address Family

AFI Address Family Identifier (RIP); Authority and Format Identifier (IS—IS)

AfriNIC African Network Information Center

AH Authentication Header

AIX Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM’s Unix)

AMI Alternate Mark Inversion

ANS Advanced Network Service

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AOL America On-Line

API Application Program Interface

APNIC Asian Pacific Network Information Center

APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communications ...

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