In designing and assessing telephone networks, ABBH is the measure of traffic load on a switching system during the busiest hour of each day, over a certain period, typically one week, then averaged for the time period.

A small box that lets you hook up to four devices from one PC serial or parallel port on your computer.

Ab Initio is a high-volume data processing applications and enterprise application integration software.

Able2Extract 10 is an all-in-one PDF utility, designed for people of various professions. With this software, users can create, convert and edit any PDF document, no matter its size or page complexity.

A standard way to describe a message (a unit of application data) that can be sent or received in a network. ASN.1 is divided into two parts: (1) the rules of syntax for describing the contents of a message (2) how you actually encode each data item in a message. 

A set of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) used to create GUI objects: buttons, scroll bars, and windows.  AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) from Sun Microsystems. A more recent set of GUI interfaces called Swing extends the AWT.

  One of three central principles (along with encapsulation and inheritance). Through the process of abstraction, a programmer hides all but the relevant data about an object in order to reduce complexity and increase efficiency.

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An interface specification that enables 3-D graphics to display quickly on personal computers other than an expensive graphics workstation.  

An Intel 800-series chipset design that uses a dedicated bus to transfer data between the two main processor chips instead of using the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, which was used in previous chipset architectures. 

A step-by-step methodology for speeding up the implementation of an SAP R/3 system by as much as 50%. The components of ASAP, are called 'Accelerators'. It consists of templates, questions, and scenarios that require user inputs.

  Devices that speed up data communications, storage and retrieval, encryption and decryption, mathematical operations, graphics, and Web page viewing. They can consist of an individual IC chip, a printed circuit card, or a self-contained system.

In the field of information security, access control is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource.

A table that tells a computer OS which access rights each user has to a particular system object, such as a file directory or individual file. Each object has a security attribute that identifies its access control list. 

A list of all the requests for individual files that people have requested from a Web site. These files will include the HTML files and their imbedded graphic images and any other associated files that get transmitted.