| CM | Communications Manager |
| iWARP | Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol also known as RDMA over Ethernet |
| RDMA | Remote Direct Memory Access |
| RNIC | RDMA Network Interface Controller (RNIC) - A network I/O adapter or embedded controller with iWARP, and Verbs functionality |
| OFED | Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution |
| VERB | Abstract definition of functionality; not an API |