| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ACS | Access Control Service |
| AD | Active Directory |
| AP | Access Point |
| AURA | Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy |
| CAPWAP | Control and Provisioning for Wireless Access Point |
| CCI | Co-Channel Interference |
| CIMC | Cisco Integrated Management Controller |
| CISS | Computing Information Services South |
| CLI | Command-line interface |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
| DB | Database |
| HA | High Availability |
| HDD | Hard-Drive Disk |
| HLD | High-Level Design |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ISE | Identity Service Engine |
| IT | Information Technology |
| LCMI | Least capable, most important |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LLD | Low-Level Design |
| LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| MBR | Minimum Basic Rate |
| MIB | Management Information Base |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| OOB | Out of band |
| PSK | Pre-Shared Key |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
| RRM | Radio resource management |
| RSSI | Received Signal Strength Indicator |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNR | Signal to noise ratio |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier |
| TACACS | Terminal Access Controller Access Control System |
| VLAN | Virtual local area network |
| WLC | Wireless Lan Controller |
| WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access |