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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL):
A security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.

SONET:
The American National Standards Institute standard for synchronous data transmission on optical media. The international equivalent of SONET is synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH). Together, they ensure standards so that digital networks can interconnect internationally and that existing conventional transmission systems can take advantage of optical media through tributary attachments.

Storage Area Network (SAN):
The term Storage Area Network defines the hardware and software associated with enabling block-level data transfer between storage devices and hosts in a networked paradigm. Today, the predominant SAN technology is Fibre Channel, however with the creation of iSCSI, we can expect a combination of FC and technologies to form the infrastructure for SANs in the future.

SNA:
SNA is a proprietary IBM architecture and set of implementing products for network computing within an enterprise. It existed prior to and became part of IBM's Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and it is currently part of IBM's Open Blueprint. With the advent of multi-enterprise network computing, the Internet, and the de facto pen network architecture of TCP/IP, IBM is finding ways to combine its own SNA within the enterprise with TCP/IP for applications in the larger network.

Synchronous Disk Mirroring:
A method of ensuring that identical data is stored on separate storage media in realtime, typically for purposes of protecting against disk failure or where remote mirroring is implemented, for disaster recovery.

TIA 568:
The U.S. standard for building cabling.

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