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> I understand that I'm not the target audience, Yes, that's it in a nutshell. People who work in the same field/sub-field will use jargon to enhance/shorten

by jnbiche 11y ago

> I understand that I'm not the target audience, Yes, that's it in a nutshell. People who work in the same field/sub-field will use jargon to enhance/shorten communication. This has been the case for at least several thousand years. If you're out to rid the world of jargon, you've got quite a battle ahead of you.

sdenton4 11y ago
The point, though, is that these technologies aren't in use anymore, and therefore no one new has a good reason to know the acronyms... There are plenty of new acronyms to know, after all! Ultimately, this is why we write textbooks, to consolidate knowledge for the next generation. It may not matter if you know a particular historical example, so long as you know the ups and downs of a given approach.
- dsp1234 11y ago
  is that these technologies aren't in use anymore SONET/SDH - Still in use today (though not as much as in the past) SAN - Storage area network. Basically any large enough organization is going to have one. FC - Fibre Channel, still one of the top ways to connect SAN and other storage arrays. FCoE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet, taking the FC protocols and moving them over copper B2B credits - Back to Back buffer credits. Knowing this is like knowing about TCP window size adjustments or three way handshake. It's knowing about how the protocol works over the wire. NOC - Network Operations Center, the place where the network guys keep an eye on the physical layer. PSTN - Public switched telephone network. Think all of the hardline telephones. It's that entire network. Still in use as my grandmother can attest to. 3G - 3rd generation wireless (or at least the wireless carriers brand it that way). OOB - Out of band. Not using the normal network of a particular system. ex: using a modem hooked up to the PSTN to dial out and send calls when a server's IP network is down. OOB communication is very common as it provides redundancy when all the "normal" stuff fails. SMS - Short Message Service. Non-picture text messages. GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication. One of the two leading wireless protocols/systems. ATT and T-mobile phones use GSM. AT commands - ATtention commands. A command language for manipulating modems. Still in use in many phone radios today. Basically every acronym listed is in existing use and generally still widely used. So there is good reason for people who work with them to know them. And it doesn't take a network technician to know what all of these mean. I'm a lowly classic asp web developer, and everyone of these was familiar to me. therefore no one new has a good reason to know the acronyms These acronyms allow me to talk with the network people. In the same way them knowing what HTML, CSS, JS, PNG, JPEG, PS, etc are allows them to work with me. It's not absolutely required, but it greases the wheel.
  - hueving 11y ago
    >PSTN - Public switched telephone network. Think all of the hardline telephones. It's that entire network. Still in use as my grandmother can attest to. It's not that simple anymore. Now it's frequently packetized after the last mile so PSTN is just an illusion provided as a service to your phone jack.
  - cbd1984 11y ago
    OK, now explain ATM-to-the-desktop. Not what, but why: I know what ATM is, I just don't understand why I'd want an internal networking protocol designed to mix voice and data transmissions using short cells running right to my desktop. If we're going to do the 1980s Telco solution, isn't ISDN the service I'd get to my desktop?

by jnbiche 11y ago

sdenton4 11y ago

The point, though, is that these technologies aren't in use anymore, and therefore no one new has a good reason to know the acronyms... There are plenty of new acronyms to know, after all! Ultimately, this is why we write textbooks, to consolidate knowledge for the next generation. It may not matter if you know a particular historical example, so long as you know the ups and downs of a given approach.

dsp1234 11y ago
is that these technologies aren't in use anymore SONET/SDH - Still in use today (though not as much as in the past) SAN - Storage area network. Basically any large enough organization is going to have one. FC - Fibre Channel, still one of the top ways to connect SAN and other storage arrays. FCoE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet, taking the FC protocols and moving them over copper B2B credits - Back to Back buffer credits. Knowing this is like knowing about TCP window size adjustments or three way handshake. It's knowing about how the protocol works over the wire. NOC - Network Operations Center, the place where the network guys keep an eye on the physical layer. PSTN - Public switched telephone network. Think all of the hardline telephones. It's that entire network. Still in use as my grandmother can attest to. 3G - 3rd generation wireless (or at least the wireless carriers brand it that way). OOB - Out of band. Not using the normal network of a particular system. ex: using a modem hooked up to the PSTN to dial out and send calls when a server's IP network is down. OOB communication is very common as it provides redundancy when all the "normal" stuff fails. SMS - Short Message Service. Non-picture text messages. GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication. One of the two leading wireless protocols/systems. ATT and T-mobile phones use GSM. AT commands - ATtention commands. A command language for manipulating modems. Still in use in many phone radios today. Basically every acronym listed is in existing use and generally still widely used. So there is good reason for people who work with them to know them. And it doesn't take a network technician to know what all of these mean. I'm a lowly classic asp web developer, and everyone of these was familiar to me. therefore no one new has a good reason to know the acronyms These acronyms allow me to talk with the network people. In the same way them knowing what HTML, CSS, JS, PNG, JPEG, PS, etc are allows them to work with me. It's not absolutely required, but it greases the wheel.
- hueving 11y ago
  >PSTN - Public switched telephone network. Think all of the hardline telephones. It's that entire network. Still in use as my grandmother can attest to. It's not that simple anymore. Now it's frequently packetized after the last mile so PSTN is just an illusion provided as a service to your phone jack.
- cbd1984 11y ago
  OK, now explain ATM-to-the-desktop. Not what, but why: I know what ATM is, I just don't understand why I'd want an internal networking protocol designed to mix voice and data transmissions using short cells running right to my desktop. If we're going to do the 1980s Telco solution, isn't ISDN the service I'd get to my desktop?