ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers)

The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) respon-

sible for assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses variously to National Internet Registries (NIRs) or directly to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) in Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. See also IP, IP address, LIR, NIR, and RIR.

• variable bit rate (VBR)
• variable quantizing level (VQL)
• VAR (Value-Added Reseller)
• V band
• vBNS (very-high-speed Backbone Network Service)
• VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
• VC
• VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier)
• VCO (Voice Carry Over)
• VCO (Voice Carry Over)
• VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser)
• VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser)
• VDSL2 (Very-high-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line version 2)
• VDSL (Very-high-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line)
• vector
• vector quantization
• vector quantizing code (VQC)
• vector sum excited linear predictive coding (VSELP)
• velocity of light
• velocity of propagation (Vp)
• Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives)
• vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)
• vertical redundancy check (VRC)
• very-high-data-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL)
• Very High Frequency (VHF)