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N

NAFTA     North American Free Trade Agreement
NAK       Negative Acknowledgment
NAP       Network Access Point
NAPT      Network Address Port Translation
NAS       Network Access Server
NASA      National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAT       Network Address Translation
NATA      North American Telecommunications Association
NAUN      Next Active Upstream Neighbour (Token Ring)
NBS       National Bureau of Standards
NBTel     New Brunswick Telephone Company
NCB       National Certification Bodies
NCC       Network Control Center
NCC       New Common Carrier
NCIH      North Carolina Information Highway
NCP       Network Control Point
NCP       Network Control Processor (Ardis)
NCP       Network Control Protocol
NCTA      National Cable Television Association
NE        Network Element
NEC       National Electric Code
NECA      National Exchange Carrier Association
NetBIOS   Network Basic Input/Output System
NEXT      Near End CROSS-Talk
NFOEC     National Fiber-Optic Engineering Conference
NFPA      National Fire Protection Association
NFS       Network File System protocol
NGBT      Negotiating Group on Basic Telecommunications
NGDLC     Next-Generation Digital Loop Carrier
NGN       Next Generation Network
NGSO      Non-GeoStationary Orbit
NIC       Network Interface Card (LANs)
NII       National Information Infrastructure
N-ISBN    Narrowband ISBN
NIST      National Institute of Science/Standards and Technology (USA)
NIU       Network Interface Unit
NMC       Network Management Center
NMF       Network Management Forum
NML       Network Management Layer
NMS       Network Management System
NMS       Network Management Station (SNMP)
NMT       Nordic Mobile Telephone
NNI       Network-Network Interface (ATM)
NNTP      Network News Transfer Protocol
NORAD     North American Aerospace Defence Command
NOS       Network Operating System
NPRM      Notice for Proposed Rule Making
NRC       Network Reliability Council
NREN      National Research and Engineering Network
NRM       Negotiated Rule Making
NRM       Normal Response Mode
NRTL      Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory
NRZ       Non Return to Zero
NS        Name Server (DNS)
NSA       National Security Agency (USA)
NSAP      Network Service Access Point (ATM)
NSF       National Science Foundation
NSFNet    National Science Foundation Network
NSM       Network Status Monitoring
NT        Network Termination
NTT       Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
NTU       Network Terminating Unit
NVOD      Near Video on Demand
NZDS      Non Zero Dispersion Shifted (ITU-T G.655)

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