Networking Acronyms

For all of the networking acronyms. I'm using the CompTIA Network+ N10-009 Certificate Guide by Anthony Sequeira as my textbook. Also, I'm only on chapter 10. This is not to teach you what they are for, only what they stand for. Because apparently everything must be an acronym in networking.

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Hint	Answer
STP	Spanning tree protocol
NDP	Neighbor discovery protocol
VLAN	Virtual local area network
ARP	Address resolution protocol
SDN	Software defined networking
FHRP	First hop redundancy protocol
SMNP	Simple network management protocol
OFDM	Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
CDN	Content delivery network
FDM	Frequency division multiplexing
BGP	Border gateway protocol
ZTP	Zero touch provisioning
SASE	Secure access secure edge
HTTP	Hypertext transfer protocol
CRC	Cyclic redundancy check
GRE	Generic routing encapsulation
RTT	Round trip time
LDAP	Lightweight directory access protocol
SANs	Storage area networks
RDP	Remote desktop protocol
SD-WAN	Software defined wide area network
LAN	Local area network
SSE	Security service edge
NAT	Network address translation
SSH	Secure shell
QoS	Quality of service
TTL	Time to live
DNS	Domain name system
HSRP	Hot standby router protocol

Hint	Answer
WAN	Wide area network
NFV	Network functions virtualization
TFTP	Trivial file transfer protocol
FTP	File transfer protocol
OSPF	Open shortest path first
MAC	Media access control
VXLAN	Virtual extensible local area network
PAT	Port address translation
NSG	Network security groups
TCP	Transmission control protocol
NTP	Network time protocol
DHCP	Dynamic host configuration protocol
CSMA/CD	Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
WLAN	Wireless local area network
SMTP	Simple mail transfer protocol
SMB	Server message block
MTU	Maximum transmission unit
SIP	Session initiation protocol
UDP	User datagram protocol
VPC	Virtual private cloud
OFDMA	Orthogonal frequency division multiple access
PDU	Protocol data unit
TDM	Time division multiplexing
NAS	Network attached storage
ICMP	Internet control message protocol
OSI	Open systems interconnection
EIGRP	Enhanced interior gateway routing protocol
APs	Access points
VPN	Virtual private network