Fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology
Glossary
5G
Fifth generation of broadband cellular network technology
AAAA record
A Domain Name System (DNS) record that holds an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address for a domain name.
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AfNOG
African Network Operations Group
API
Application Programming Interface
APNIC
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
ARIN
American Registry for Internet Numbers
AS
Autonomous System
ASN
Autonomous System Number
BCP
Best Current Practice
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
ccTLD
country code Top-Level Domain
CDN
Content Distribution Network: a network of servers that improves the timeliness and availability of Internet content. (sometimes also called a “Content Delivery Network”)
CERT
Computer Emergency Readiness Team
CGN
Carrier Grade NAT (Network Address Translation)
CMS
Content Management System
CPE
Customer Provided Equipment
CSIRT
Computer Security Incident Response Team
DANE
DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
DDOS attack
Distributed Denial-of-Service attack
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS
Domain Name System
DNSSEC
Domain Name System Security Extensions
EU
European Union
FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
gTLD
generic Top-Level Domain
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS
Secure version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IAB
Internet Architecture Board
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
ICT
Information and Communications Technology
IDN
Internationalized Domain Name
IDN
Internationalized Domain Name
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IGF
Internet Governance Forum
IP
Internet Protocol
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
IRTF
Internet Research Task Force
ISP
Internet Service Provider
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T
International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector
IXP
Internet Exchange Point
KB
Kilobyte
KINDNS
Knowledge-sharing and Instantiation Norms for DNS and Naming Security
L2TP
Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol
LACNIC
Latin American and Caribbean Network Coordination Centre
LAN
Local Area Network
LIR
Local Internet Registry
LTE
Long Term Evolution is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to define the latest standard for mobile network technology.
MAC
Message Authentication Code
MANRS
Mutally Agreed Norms for Routing Security
MB
Megabyte
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
NAT
Network Address Translation
NOC
Network Operations Centre
NOG
Network Operators Group
NREN
National Research and Education Network
NSF
National Science Foundation
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OTT
Over-the-top media services are offered directly to viewers via the Internet, bypassing cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms.
P2P
Peer-to-Peer
PKI
Public-Key Infrastructure
POP
Point Of Presence or Post Office Protocol
POP
Point of Presence
PPP
Purchasing Power Parity
QoS
Quality of Service
QUIC
QUIC (pronounced “quick”) is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol.
RDAP
Registration Data Access Protocol
RFC
Request For Comments
RFID
Radio-Frequency Identification
RFP
Request For Proposals
RIPE NCC
Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre
RIR
Regional Internet Registry
ROA
Route Origin Authorization
ROV
Route Origin Validation
RPKI
Resource Public Key Infrastructure
SAV
Source Address Validation
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TLD
Top-Level Domain
TLS
Transport Layer Security
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the globally used standard for time. UTC and GMT are essentially the same.
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN
Virtual Private Network
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WG
Working Group
WHOIS
A system that provides online records containing identifying and contact information about registered domain names, Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), and Internet Protocol addresses.
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
XML
Extensible Markup Language