| BMCA | Best Master Clock Algorithm |
| CM | Connection Manager |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DSCP | Differentiated Services Code Point |
| gPTP | Generalised Precision Time Protocol |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| LLDP | Link Layer Discovery Protocol |
| LLDPDU | LLDP Data Unit |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| mDNS | Multicast DNS |
| NTP | Network Timing Protocol |
| PCP | Priority Code Point |
| PTP | Precision Time Protocol |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| TC | Traffic Class |
| TDE | Topology Discovery Entity |
| TE-MSTID | Traffic Engineering Multiple Spanning Tree Instance Identifier |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TLV | type-length-value |
| TSN | Time-Sensitive Networking |
| VID | VLAN ID |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
