PDU

plural PDUs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of power distribution unit.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of propwash deflection unit.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of professional development unit.
4. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of protocol data unit.
5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of poor dumb user.

   We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”

   2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376