| Acronym |
Meaning / Link |
| SAA |
Systems
Application Architecture |
| SAFE |
Security And Freedom through
Encryption |
| SAP |
Service
Advertising Protocol or Service
Access Point |
| SAPI |
Scheduling
or Speech
Application Programming Interface or Service Access Point
Identifier |
| SAS |
Small
or Smart Antenna Systems |
| SASI |
Shugart
Associates System Interface |
| SATA |
Serial
Advanced Technology Attachment |
| SATAN |
Security
Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks |
| SATNET |
Satellite Network |
| SCADA |
Supervisory
Control And Data Acquisition |
| SCC |
Switching Control Center or Strongly
Connected Component |
| SCCS |
Switching Control Center System
or Source
Code Control System |
| SCE |
Service Creation Environment |
| SCI |
Scalable
Coherent Interface |
| SCIzzL |
Scalable
Coherent Interface Local Area MultiProcessor Users, Developers,
and Manufacturers Association |
| SCLM |
Software Configuration and
Library Manager |
| SCM |
Software Configuration
Management, Source Code Management, Subscriber Carrier Module,
Supply Chain Management |
| SCO |
Santa
Cruz Operation |
| SCODL |
Scanned Conversion Object
Description Language (also a PC file format for film recorders) |
| SCP |
Service Control Point |
| SCPC |
Single-Channel Per Carrier
Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments |
| SCPI |
Standard
Commands for Programmable Instruments |
| SCSA |
Signal
Computing System Architecture |
| SCSI |
Small
Computer System Interface (interface standard) |
| SCTP |
Simple
Computer Telephone Protocol |
| SDH |
Synchronous
Digital Heirarchy |
| SDL |
Shielded Data Link or Specification
and Design/Description Language. |
| SDLC |
Synchronous
Data Link Control |
| SDRAM |
Synchronous
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| SDSC |
San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| SDSF |
System (Spool) Display and
Search Facility |
| SEAL |
Secure Electronic Authorization
Laboratory or Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation
Language. |
| SECAM |
Sequential
Couleur a'Memorie (French & Russian color TV standard) |
| SECC |
Single
Edge Contact Cartridge |
| SEM |
System Error Message |
| SEPP |
Single
Edge Processor Package |
| SERP |
Search
Engine Results Page(s) |
| SET |
Secure Electronic Transactions |
| SFA |
Sales Force Automation, Spectral
Flame Analyzers, Secondary FAcility |
| SFT |
System Fault Tolerance |
| SGML |
Standard
Generalized Markup Language |
| SGRAM |
Synchronous
Graphics Random Access Memory |
| S-HDSL |
Single-Line - High-bit-rate
Digital Subscriber Line |
| SI |
Source Index |
| SIF |
Standard Input Format |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SIM |
Subscriber
Identity Module |
| SIMD |
Single
Instruction/Multiple Data, Single
Instruction Multiple Data |
| SIMM |
Single
In-Line Memory Module |
| SIP |
Single In-Line Package,
Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIPP |
Single
In-Line Pin Package |
| SIW |
Service Inter Working (telephony - data
circuit) - Used to distinguish data circuit that convert from a
frame relay on one end to an ATM on the other. |
| SKIP |
Simple Key management for
Internet Protocol |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement or
Second Language Acquisition (teaching) or
Special Libraries Association (gov) or
Submerged Lands Act (law) |
| SLDRAM |
Synchronous-Link
Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| SLED |
Single Large Expensive Disk |
| SLI |
Scalable Link
Interface, Scanline Interleave Mode (PC video card), Service
Logic Interpreter (ITS), Session Level Interface, Source Language
Instruction (old IBM mainframes), Space Launch Initiative (NASA
planning), Speech and Language Impaired/Impairment, Subscriber
Line Interface, System Level Infrastructure, System Level
Integration |
| SLIC |
Subscriber Line Interface
Circuit |
| SLIP |
Serial
Line Internet Protocol |
| SLMR |
Silly Little Mail Reader |
| SMB |
Server Message Block |
| SMCC |
Sun
Microsystems Computer Company |
| SMDS |
Switched
Multimegabit Data Service |
| SMI |
System Management Interrupt |
| SMM |
System
Management Mode |
| SMP |
Symmetrical
Multi-Processing |
| SMPTE |
Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers |
| SMS |
Service Management Systems or Storage
Management Subsystem |
| SMTP |
Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNA |
Systems
Network Architecture |
| SNADS |
Systems Network Architecture
Distribution Services |
| SNAP |
Specification for Non-heat
Advertising Printing |
| SNMP |
Simple
Network Management Protocol |
| SOHO |
Small
Office / Home Office |
| SO-J |
Small Outline J-lead |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SONET |
Synchronous
Optical Network |
| SORD |
System
Of Role Development and Special
Operations and Research Division |
| S/PDIF |
Sony Philips
Digital InterFace |
| SP |
Stack Pointer |
| SPARC |
Scalar
Processor ARChitecture (32-bit RISC microprocessor) |
| SPGA |
Staggered
PGA (see Pin Grid Array) |
| SPI |
Synchronous Parallel Interface
in Digital Video Broadcasting
(DVB) and
Stateful
Packet Inspection in routers / firewalls |
| SPICE |
Software Process Improvement and
Capability dEtermination |
| SPID |
Service
Profile IDentification or Service Provider ID |
| SPLOG |
Short for Spam Blog as in SPambLOG |
| SPP |
Standard Parallel Port |
| SPRs |
Software Problem Reports, SPecialist Registrars,
Standard Paper Remittances |
| SPRS |
Single Pass
Reflow Soldering, Service Provider Registry System, Supervised
Postgraduate Research Studies, Standardized Payroll/Personnel
Reporting System, Space Planning Requirements System, Senior
Principal Research Scientist, School Principal's Recommendation
Scheme, Spares Priority Release Sequence |
| SPS |
Standby Power Supply |
| SPX |
Sequenced
Packet Exchange |
| SQL |
Structured
Query Language |
| SRAM |
Static
Random Access Memory |
| SS7 |
Signaling
System 7 |
| SSA |
Serial
Storage Architecture |
| SSB |
Single Side Band |
| SSD |
Solid State Disk |
| SSFD |
Solid State Floppy Disk |
| SSL |
Secure
Sockets Layer |
| SSO |
Simultaneous Switching Outputs |
| SSPA |
Solid State Power Amplifier |
| STA |
Spanning Tree Algorithm |
| STD |
Standard or State
Transition Diagram |
| STEP |
STandard
for Exchange of Products Model Data |
| STP |
Shielded Twisted Pair or Signal
Transfer Protocol |
| STUPID |
Standard Technical Utilized
Procedures In Disasters or STUPid Is as stupid Does |
| SUBLIB |
Subroutine Library |
| SUE |
Stupid User Error |
| SUN |
Stanford University Networks |
| SURBL |
Spam URI Real-time Block Lists |
| SVC |
Switched Virtual Circuit or
Supervisor Call |
| SVG |
Scalable
Vector Graphics |
| SVGA |
Super
Video Graphics Array |
| SWIM |
Super Woz Integrated Machine |
| SWOP |
Specifications for Web Offset
Printing |
| SYMPL |
SYsteMs
Programming Language |
| SysOp |
Systems
Operator |
| SYSPLEX |
SYStem ComPLEX (IBM) |
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