application

A program designed to perform a function or suite of related functions of benefit to an end

user, with examples being accounting, mathematical analysis, video editing, and word processing. Application software differs from utilities, which are devoted to system management tasks. See also utility.

• Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)
• server
• service
• service access point identifier (SAPI)
• service creation element (SCE)
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• service management system (SMS)
• service mark (SM)
• service node
• service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• service profile identification (SPID)
• service set identifier (SSID)
• service switching point (SSP)
• Sesame (Secure European System for Applications in a Multivendor Environment)
• session
• Session Description Protocol (SDP)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE)
• Session Layer
• set handler
• set-top box
• severely errored cell block ratio (SECBR)
• SFTP (Shielded Foil Twisted Pair)
• SGCP (Simple Gateway Control Protocol)
• SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)