| German | English |
| Network Attached Storage | network-attached storage (A storage unit directly connected to the network using standard protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP for providing file access services) |
| Network File System | network file system (A distributed file system that allows users to access remote files and directories on a network as if they were local. NFS is compatible with Microsoft Windows and UNIX-based systems, including Linux and Mac OS X) |
| Network News Transfer-Protokoll | Network News Transfer Protocol (A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols used to distribute network news messages to NNTP servers and clients (newsreaders) on the Internet. NNTP is designed so that news articles are stored on a server in a central database, thus enabling a user to select specific items to read) |
| Simple Network Management-Protokoll | Simple Network Management Protocol (A network protocol used to manage TCP/IP networks. In Windows, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) service is used to provide status information about a host on a TCP/IP network) |
| Simple Network Management-Protokolltrap | Simple Network Management Protocol trap (An unsolicited Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) packet sent from one SNMP entity to another usually in response to a stimulus or an event on the sending entity) |