ANSI (American Nationl standards institute)

the principal standards setting body in the United States. It is a no-profit, non-governmental organization.

advanced research and development network operation center(ARDNOC)

the agency founded by the Canadian government to develop new internet 2 technologies and protocols.

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

a new single key encryption standard authorized by NIST that replaces DES

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)

a network layer protocol standard for data link lyer address resolution requests

Address

a coded representation of the destination of data or of the originating source.

ACM (Association for computing machinery)

it is an association of computer professionals

Access point

the prt of the wireless LAN that connects the LAN to other network