Knowledge Base Common Networking Terminology and Abbreviation
Common Networking Terminology and Abbreviation
Background:
We hope this brief chart can show you the abbreviation of the network terms.
This Article Applies to:
All TP-Link(Omada) models
Common Terms:
| TS | Troubleshooting | |
| KB | Knowledge Base |
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| CG | Configuration Guide | |
| PR | Pre-Release | |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | |
| GW | Gateway | |
| SW | Switch | |
| VER | Version | |
| FW | Firmware / Firewall | |
| HW | Hardware | |
| SWC | Software Controller | |
| CBC | Cloud-Based Controller | |
| SDNC | Software Defined Networking Controller (AKA Omada Controller) |
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| OC | Omada Controller | |
| QoS | Quality of Service | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| WAN | Wide Area Network | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | |
| WG | WireGuard VPN | |
| OVPN | OpenVPN | |
| P2P | Peer-to-Peer / Point to Point | |
| S2S | Site to Site | |
| C2S | Client to Site | |
| NAT | Network Address Translation | |
| SRC | Source | |
| DST | Destination | |
| DNS | Domain Name System | |
| DDNS | Dynamic Domain Name System | |
| mDNS | Multicast DNS |
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| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol | |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol | |
| SMB | Server Message Block | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network | |
| VLAN Int | VLAN Interface | |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First | |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol | |
| STP | Spanning Tree Protocol | |
| RSTP | Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol | |
| PBR | Policy Based Routing (AKA Policy Routing) | |
| LB | Load Balance | |
| DPI | Deep Packet Inspection | |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection Systems | |
| IPS | Intrusion Prevention Systems | |
| NIC | Network Interface Card(Controller) | |
| RST | Reset | |
| CMD | Command Prompt | |
| CLI | Command-line Interface | |
| Sys | System | |
| Int | Interface |
Update Log:
Mar 28th, 2024:
Release of this KB.
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