RMON
Remote Monitoring. RMON provides standard information that a network administrator can use to monitor,
analyze, and troubleshoot a group of distributed LANs.
RoW
Rest of World. RoW or RW is an operating country code of a device.
RSA
Rivest, Shamir, Adleman. RSA is a cryptosystem for public-key encryption, and is widely used for securing
sensitive data, particularly when being sent over an insecure network such as the Internet.
RSSI
Received Signal Strength Indicator. RSSI is a mechanism by which RF energy is measured by the circuitry on a
wireless NIC (0-255). The RSSI is not standard across vendors. Each vendor determines its own RSSI
scale/values.
RSTP
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol. RSTP provides significantly faster spanning tree convergence after a topology
change, introducing new convergence behaviors and bridge port roles to do this.
RTCP
RTP Control Protocol. RTCP provides out-of-band statistics and control information for an Real-Time Transport
Protocol session.
RTLS
Real-Time Location Systems. RTLS automatically identifies and tracks the location of objects or people in real
time, usually within a building or other contained area.
RTP
Real-Time Transport Protocol. RTP is a network protocol used for delivering audio and video over IP networks.
RTS
Request to Send. RTS refers to the data transmission and protection mechanism used by the 802.11 wireless
networking protocol to prevent frame collision occurrences. See CTS.
RTSP
Real Time Streaming Protocol. RTSP is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and
communications systems to control streaming media servers.
RVI
Routed VLAN Interface. RVI is a switch interface that forwards packets between VLANs.
RW
Rest of World. RoW or RW is an operating country code of a device.
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