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National ISDN1 NI-1 is the ISDN standard in the US. It is the first successful attempt to standardize at a level allowing the same end user equipment to connect transparently to differentswitch vendor's equipment. Prior to this standard, all end user equipment needed to understand the particulars of the switch to which it was connected.

NBII NETBuilder II router

NBP (NetBIOS protocol)(3Com) Developed for LAN Manager; small, high-performance transport protocol with a NetBIOS interface.

NCP Network Control Protocol

NCS Network Control Server

NCS/AT Network Control Server/AT

NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications. A federally funded organization ine the USA whose mission is to research and develop high-technology resources for the scientific community.  

NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) Produced by Microsoft, a specification for a generic, hardware-and protocol-independent device driver for NICs.

NET3 Net3 (Norme Europenne de Telecommunications) is the European-wide standard for ISDN. The trade name for the standard is EuroISDN.

NetBIOS (Network BIOS [basic input/output system) Standard interface to networks on IBM PC and compatible systems.

NetID

Netscape Another graphical world wide web browser. Network Identifier

Network Layer OSI layer that is responsible for routing, switching and subnetwork access across the entire OSI environment.

NEXT Near End Crosstalk

NFS Network File System

NSFNET The backbone of the Internet since 1990 when ARPANET was dimantled.

Newsgroup A Usenet discussion group or bulletin board.

NIC Network Interface Card. See Adapter.

NIC Internet Network Information Center. Responsible for setting up and administering domain names.

NII National Information Infrastructure (US).

NIS Network Information Service

N-ISDN Narrowband ISDN

NLM NetWare loadable module

NLPID Network Layer Protocol IDentifier

NLSP NetWare Link Services Protocol (Novell)

NNI Network-to-Network Interface

NNTP News Network Transfer Protocol. Defined in RFC1036, this is a common method by which articles are transferred on Usenet.

Node Any computer that is connected to a network.

Node emulators A Personal Routing concept that creates logical proxies for remote users so that they appear as local clients on the corporate LAN.

NOS Network Operating System

NREN National Research and Education Network - the proposed broadband successor to the Internet in the US.

NSAP Network Service Access Point,an OSI layer 3 (or layer 3 style) network addresses

NT1 A NT1 is the equipment required to convert from the two wire U interface to the four wire S/T interface. This equipment is NOT REQUIRED outside of North America.

NT2 Network Termination, type 2

NTFS NT File System. The file system designed for Microsoft Windows NT.

NTSA Network Technical Support Alliance