For
quick reference, we have included a table of the
most common acronyms found within this web
site.
| AdCom |
Administrative Committee |
| AEROCOM |
Aeronautical Communications Symposium |
| AES |
Aerospace and Electronics Systems Group |
| AIEE |
American
Institute of Electrical Engineers |
| ARPA |
Advanced
Research Projects Agency |
| ARPANET |
ARPA
Network |
| AT&T |
American
Telephone and Telegraph |
| BBN |
Bolt
Beranek and Newman Corporation |
| CERN |
Conseil
Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire
(European Organization for Nuclear
Research) |
| Comsat |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
| ComSoc |
Communications Society |
| ComTech |
Group on
Communications Technology |
| FCC |
Federal
Communications Commission |
| GLOBECOM |
IEEE
Global Communications Conference |
| ICC |
IEEE
International Conference on Communications |
| ICCC |
International Conference on Computer
Communications |
| IMPs |
Interface Message Processors |
| INFOCOM |
Joint
Conference of the IEEE Computer and
Communications Societies |
| Intelsat |
not
spelled out - International Satellite
organization? |
| IP |
Internet
Protocol |
| IPTO |
Information Processing Techniques Office |
| IRE |
Institute of Radio Engineers |
| ISPs |
Internet
Service Providers |
| ITU |
International Telecommunications Union |
| JSAC |
IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
| MCI |
Microwave Communications, Inc. |
| MILCOM |
IEEE
Military Communications Conference |
| MILNET |
Military
Network |
| NCSA |
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NOMS |
IEEE
Network Operators Management Symposium |
| NTC |
National
Telecommunications Conference |
| NTT |
Nippon
Telephone and Telegraph |
| PC |
Personal
Computer |
| PGCS |
Professional Group on Communications Systems |
| PGMIL |
Professional Group on Military Electronics |
| RBOCs |
Regional
Bell operating companies |
| RFC |
Request
For Comment |
| SABRE |
(not
spelled out) |
| SAGE |
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment |
| SAIC |
(not
spelled out) |
| TASI |
Time
Assignment Speech Interpolation |
| TAT-1 |
Transatlantic Telephone Cable |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| Telenet |
(not
spelled out) |
| TENEX |
(not
spelled out) |
| WELL |
Whole
Earth 'Lectronic Link |
