Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
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Appendix B
Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Table 4 – Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Term
Description
3G
3G is a short for 3
rd
Generation.
This is a term used to represent the 3rd generation of mobile telecommunications
technology.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard.
A specification for the encryption of electronic data in a symmetric-key encryption
format based on a design principle known as a substitution-permutation network, and is
fast in both software and hardware.
API
Application Programming Interface.
APN
Access Point Name.
The name of a gateway between a
GPRS
(or
3G
, etc.) mobile network and another
computer network, frequently the public Internet.
ASP
Active Server Pages.
Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
CP
An Essence Term.
Control Panel.
DIY
Do-It-Yourself
DMZ
Demilitarized Zone.
In computer security, a DMZ is a physical or logical sub-network that contains and
exposes an organization's external-facing services to a larger and untrusted network,
usually the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional layer of security to an
organization's local area network (LAN).
ECS
An Essence Term.
Essence Connect Server.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
An institute that regulates interstate (USA) and international communications via radio.
FL
An Essence Term.
A Flood Detector peripheral device.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol.
A standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a
TCP-based network, such as the Internet.
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service.
A packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and
3G
cellular communication system's
global system for mobile communications (
GSM
).
