| Subject | German | English |
| comp., MS | Open Shortest Path First | open shortest path first (A routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. OSPF allows a router to calculate the shortest path to each node for sending messages. The router sends information on the nodes it is linked to, called link-state advertisements, to other routers on the network to accumulate link-state information to make its calculations) |
| commun. | Open-Shortest-Path-First | open shortest path first |