In alphabetical order here are 40 of the most used acronyms in the networking world:
- ACL – Access Control List
- AWS – Amazon Web Services
- CDN – Content Delivery Network
- CI – Continuous Integration
- CLI – Command Line Interface
- DDoS – Distributed Denial of Service
- DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS – Domain Name System
- EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
- FTP – File Transfer Protocol
- GCP – Google Cloud Platform
- HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
- HVM – Hardware Virtual Machine
- IoT – Internet Of Things
- IP – Internet Protocol
- ISP – Internet Service Provider
- LB – Load Balancer
- NAC – Network Access Control
- NAT – Network Address Translation
- NFS – Network File System
- NS – Name Server
- PC – Personal Computer
- RDS – Relational Database Service
- SES – Simple Email Service
- SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SSH – Secure Shell
- SSL – Secure Socket Layer
- TTL – Time To Live
- VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
- VM – Virtual Machine
- VPN – Virtual Private Network
- WAF – Web Application Firewall
- WAN – Wide Area Network
- WAP -Wireless Access Point
- WLC – Wireless LAN Controller
- WML – Wireless Markup Language
- WPA – WiFi Protected Access
- WSP -Wireless Service Protocol
- WWW – World Wide Web
