Terms & Acronyms pt.2 – Secure Digital Life #99.5
Doug is at Vale and Russ is in charge of the show this week! Russ talks about his terms and acronyms. Russ talks about:
Topic: Terms & Acronyms pt.2
Russ’s Favorite Acronyms:
- DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DNS – Domain Name System
- IP as in IP Address
- USB – Universal Serial Bus
- 1.x Full Speed (1.5 -12 MB/sec)
- 2.0 High Speed (480 MB/sec)
- 3.x Super Speed (5 – 20 GB/sec)
- IEEE – Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/opacstd.jsp)
- IEEE 1394 – IEEE Standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus – Amendment 3 (Firewire)
- IEEE 1711.2 – IEEE Draft Standard for Secure SCADA Communications Protocol (SSCP)
- IEEE 1725 – IEEE Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Cellular Telephones
- SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (industrial tech)
- IoT – Internet of Things
- Philips Hue
- Zwave/Zigbee Homekit tech
- WYSIWIG – What you See is What You Get (like FrontPage)
- CODEC (Code/decode) – required to play many types of media files such as MP3, MPG, and MP4
- PBX – Private Branch Exchange
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