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A. Abbreviations
Abbreviation Description
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. A method of authentication of remote
clients used by Point to Point Protocol (PPP) servers and based on a shared secret.
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing. A CIDR address is written with a forward slash
preceding a suffix indicating the number of bits in the prefix length, such as
192.168.0.0/16.
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check. A method of detecting errors in transmitted data.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
HTTP Hyper Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
IIoT Industrial Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
LAN A computer network covering a small geographic area, like a home, office, or group of
buildings. Compare to WAN.
MAC Media Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier attached to most forms of
networking equipment.
MIB Management Information Base. A database used by SNMP to manage devices such as
switches and routers in a network.
PAP Password Authentication Protocol. An authentication protocol using unencrypted ASCII
passwords over a network.
PC Personal Computer
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol. A data link protocol to establish a direct connection between two
networking nodes.
QR Quick Response
RTU Remote Terminal Unit. A device that collects data from data acquisition equipment and
sends it to the main system over a network.
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. A process control application that collects
data from networked devices.
SSH Secure SHell. A network protocol using public key cryptography to provide secure
remote login.
SSL Secure Socket Layer. A cryptographic protocol that creates a secure data transfer
session over a standard TCP connection.
Syslog A protocol for sending event messages over an IP network to remote servers called
“event message collectors.”
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security.
UDP User Datagram Protocol. One of the communications protocols of the Internet Protocol
Suite. Replaces TCP when a reliable delivery is not required.
URL Uniform Resource Locator
VID VLAN Identifier
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network. A logical subgroup within a local area network that is created
with software rather than by physically manipulating cables.
WAN Wide Area Network. A computer network that crosses metropolitan, regional, or national
boundaries. Compare to LAN.