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Network and Telecom Encyclopedia and Dictionary

Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a reference To help networking and telecom professionals better understand the industry, we assembled this network and telecom encyclopedia and dictionary. This network encyclopedia and dictionary will cover the following areas:

  • Bandwidth and physical level terms
  • Computing architecture, language, algorithm
  • Communication service and providers
  • Data networking and communication concepts
  • Electronic commerce
  • Enterprise computing, networking and management
  • File and storage technologies and systems
  • Hardware 
  • Hypermedia and Hypertext
  • Internet and Intranet
  • Information and network security
  • Local Area network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) and Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
  • Mobile communication, networking and computation
  • Multimedia
  • Network and telecom access technologies
  • Network concept, architecture, and technologies
  • Network management and operation systems
  • Optical technologies
  • Operating systems
  • Software concepts, architecture
  • Telecommunications and telephone technologies
  • Voice/Data converged network technologies/services
  • Web technologies and services
  • Wireless communication technologies

This online dictionary is located at: http://www.networkdictionary.com  

To build this online encyclopedia faster and to include the most useful terms, we welcome our readers and colleagues in the industry to contribute. Click here to for details of how to contribute a network term article and get a free Network Protocol Map.

Other resources:

All general networking related terms are collected in the Networking Library

All network protocol related terms are collected in the Protocol Dictionary or Protocol Suites.  

All network security related contents can be found at Javvin's Network Security Library .

All telecom (exclude wireless) related contents can be found at Javvin's Telecommunication Library.

All wireless related contents can be found at Javvin's Wireless Networking Library.

All hardware related terms can be found at Javvin's Hardware Library.

All software ware related terms can be found at Javvin's Software Library.

For other terms, you may click the following link: Other Subjects.

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