Technical Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. OXC
   Optical Crossconnect
2. PA
   Provider Assigned (IP address space assigned to a specific provider by IANA)
3. PA
   provider-aggregated
4. PAA
   PANA Authentication Agent
5. PAC
   Proxy Auto-Configuration
6. PACE
   Password Authenticated Connection Establishment
7. PAD
   Peer Authorization Database
8. PAI
   P-Asserted-Identity
9. PAKE
   Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
10. PAL
    Phase Alternation Line
11. PANA
    Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access
12. PB
    Provider Bridge
13. PB
    Posture Broker
14. PBA
    Proxy Binding Acknowledgement
15. PBB
    Provider Backbone Bridge
16. PBKDF2
    Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
17. PBU
    Proxy Binding Update
18. PBX
    Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
19. PC
    Protocol Controller
20. PCB
    Payload Confidentiality Block

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