Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronyms and Abbreviations
Numbers (0–9)
0 The standard number dialed for accessing a local telephone
company operator
00 The standard number dialed for accessing an international
telephone company operator
0RL Zero Relative Level (transmission)
0TLP Zero Transmission Level Point (transmission)
1!EV-DO 1!Evolution-Data Optimized
1.44M The capacity of high-density 3.5-inch floppy disks
10/100 An Ethernet supporting 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps at same port
10BaseF A 10-Mbps Baseband Ethernet using Fiber-optic cabling (IEEE)
10BaseFP A 10-Mbps Fiber-Passive Baseband Ethernet (IEEE)
10BaseT A 10-Mbps Baseband LANs using Twisted-pair cabling (IEEE)
10GBE 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE)
10GEA 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (IEEE)
100BaseFX A 100-Mbps Baseband Fast Ethernet using multimode Fiberoptic
cabling (IEEE)
100BaseT 100 Mbps, Baseband, Twisted pair (IEEE)
100BaseT2 100 Mbps, Baseband, with two Twisted pair (IEEE)
14.4 Having maximum data transfer rate of 14.4 kbps (modems)
16-QAM 16-state Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
1BL One Business Line (class of service)
1F4 One Four-user party line (class of service)
1FB One Flat-rate Business phone line (class of service)
1FL One Family phone Line (class of service)
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1
1FR One Flat-rate Residential phone line (class of service)
1G First Generation (mobile phones)
1MB One Measured-rate Business phone line (class of service)
1MR One Measured-rate, Residential phone line (class of service)
1NF First Normal Form (computer database)
2-FSK Two-level FSK (modulation)
2/4-QPSK Two Quadrature PSK (modulation)
21CN 21st Century Network
23BCD Having 23 Bearer channels and one Data channel (ISDN)
24!7 24 Hours of a day, Seven days of a week (technical support)
2B1Q Two Binary, One Quaternary (ISDN)
2BCD Having two Bearer channel and one Data channel (ISDN)
2F Two-Fiber (line or cable)
2FR Flat-Rate party line having two subscribers (service code)
2G Second Generation (mobile phones)
2.5G Second-and-half Generation (mobile phones)
286 A simple expression for Intel’s 80286 microprocessor
28.8 Having a maximum transfer rate of 28.8 kbps (modems)
2NF Second Normal Form (computer database)
2W Two-Wire (line or cable)
3C An operating system developed by 3Com Company (networking)
3B/2T Three Binary bits encoded into two Ternary symbols
3D Three-Dimensional
3D API 3D Application Programming Interface (computer)
3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
3DGF 3D Geometry File
3FR Flat-Rate party line having Three subscribers (service code)
3G Third Generation (mobile phones)
3GL Third Generation Programming Language
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project (GSM)
3GPP2 Counterpart of 3GPP responsible for CDMA-2000 (GSM)
3GSM Third-Generation GSM
3GTS Third-Generation Test System (Agilient Company)
486DX A simple expression for Intel’s 80486DX microprocessor
486SL A simple expression for Intel’s 80486SL microprocessor
476SX A simple expression for Intel’s 80476SX microprocessor
4B/3T 4 Binary bits encoded into 3 Ternary (data encoding)
4B/5B 4 Binary bits encoded into 5 Binary bits (data encoding)
4-DEPSK 4-phase Differentially-Encoded PSK (modulation)
4F Four-Fiber (cable)
2 &
4FR Flat-Rate party line having four subscribers (service code)
4FSK Four-level FSK (modulation)
4G Fourth-Generation (mobile phones)
4GL The Fourth-Generation Programming Language
4NF Fourth Normal Form (computer database)
4PDT Four-Pole Double-Throw (switches)
4PST Four-Pole Single-Throw (switches)
4W Four-Wire (line or cable)
4WL-WDM Four-Wavelength Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
5!5 Five by Five (teletype communication)
5!B No. 5 CrossBar Circuit Switch
56K Having a maximum data transfer rate of 56 kbps (modems)
586 An unofficial name for Intel’s Pentium microprocessor
56 kbps 56,000 Bits Per Second
5B6B 5 Binary bits encoded into 6 Binary bits (data encoding)
5ESS Number 5 Electronic Switching System (AT&T)
5NF Fifth Normal Form (computer database)
64 kbps 64,000 Bits Per Second
64QAM 64-state Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
6800 An 8-bit microprocessor developed by Motorola
73 Best Regards (Morse code transmissions)
80286 A 16-bit microprocessor developed by Intel
80287 A coprocessor for use with the 80286 microprocessors (Intel)
80386 See 80386DX
80386DX A 32-bit microprocessor developed by Intel
80386SL A microprocessor developed by Intel for laptop PCs
80386SX A low-cost version of 80386DX microprocessor (Intel)
80387 A coprocessor for use with the 80386 microprocessors (Intel)
80387SX A coprocessor for use with the 80386SX microprocessors (Intel)
80486 See i486DX
80486SL See i486SL
80486SX See i486SX
8080 One of the first chipsets served as the basis of PCs
8086 The original microprocessor in the 80!86 family (Intel)
8087 A coprocessor developed by Intel for use with the
8086/8088 and microprocessors (Intel)
8088 The original microprocessor of the first IBM PCs
88 Love and Kisses (Morse code transmissions)
8B/6T 8 Binary bits encoded into 6 Tri-state symbols (data encoding)
8B/10B 8 Binary bits encoded into 10 Binary bits (data encoding)
8FR Flat-Rate party line having eight subscribers (service code)
8PSK Octant Phase Shift Keying (modulation)
9600 Having a maximum data transfer rate of 9600 bps (modems)
Numbers (0–9) & 3
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A a
a Symbol for prefix atto-, denoting one-quintillionth or
10K18
A 1. Symbol for Ampere (electronics)
2. Symbol for Anode (electronics)
3. Symbol for Acceleration
4. Symbol for Area
A˚ Symbol for Angstrom (unit of wavelength of light)
A2DP Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
A-BPSK Aviation Binary Phase Shift Keying (modulation)
A-QPSK Aviation Quadrature Phase Shit Keying (modulation)
A-TDMA Advanced TDMA (access)
A/D Analog-to-Digital (converters)
A/D-D/A Analog-to-Digital or Digital-to-Analog (converters)
A/m Ampere per meter
aA attoampere
AA 1. Accounting Authority (Inmarsat)
2. Automated Attendant
3. Auto Answer (modems)
4. Access Adapter
AAA 1. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (LANserver)
2. ATM Access Adapter
AAAC All Aluminum Alloy Cable
AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence
A
5
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AABS Automated Attendant Billing System
AAC 1. Airline Administrative Communications
2. Aeronautical Administrative Communications
3. Augmentative and Alternative Communications (ICT)
4. Automatic Amplitude Control
5. Abbreviated Address Calling
6. Advanced Audio Codec
7. Access Authorization Certificate (Inmarsat)
AACR All America Cables and Radio, Inc.
AACS Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem (spacecraft)
AAIC 1. Accounting Authority Identification Code (Inmarsat)
2. Active Addressing Integrated Circuit
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL-1 ATM Adaptation Layer 1
AAL-3/4 ATM Adaptation Layers 3 and 4
AAN Associated Account Number (wireless)
AAP 1. Application Access Point
2. Address Allocation Protocol
3. Alternative Access Provider
AAPI Audio Application Programming Interface (computer)
AAR Automatic Alternate Routing (network feature)
AARP AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
AARS Asian Association of Remote Sensing
AARTS Automatic Audio Remote Test Set
AAS 1. Authorized Application Specialist
2. Aeronautical Advisory Station
AATS Access Approval Test System
AATSR Advanced Along-track Scanning Radiometer (remote sensing)
AAV Automated Address Verification
AB 1. Access Burst (GSM)
2. Additional Bits (MUX)
3. Asynchronous Balanced mode (OSI model)
ABARIS Advanced Broadband Architecture for Internet Services
ABC 1. Arbitration Bass Controller (electronics)
2. Automatic Bill Calling (payphone)
3. Automatic Bias Compensation (circuit)
4. Activity-Based Costing (ICT finance)
5. Automated Brightness Control (television)
6. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (TV broadcaster)
6 &
7. Armored Brush Cable
8. Automated Business Connection
ABCS Advanced Business Communications via Satellite
ABD Average Business Day
ABDN Attendant Blocking of Directory Number
ABEC Alternate Billing Entity Codes
ABEL Advanced Boolean Equation Language
ABEND 1. Abnormal END (computer)
2. Abortive END
ABF Air-Blown Fiber
ABI Application Binary Interface
ABIOS Advanced BIOS (computer)
ABIST Autonomous Built-in Self-Test
ABM 1. Asynchronous Balanced Mode (LANs)
2. Apogee Booster Motor
ABME Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended
ABN abnormal (alarm status)
ABR 1. Available Bit Rate (ATM)
2. Area Border Router
3. Auto Baud Rate detect (data communications)
abs absolute value (mathematics)
ABS 1. Alternate Billing Services (INs)
2. Average Busy Season
3. Aeronautical Broadcast Station
ABSBH Average Busy Season Busy Hour
ABT Advanced Broadcast Television
about (Morse code transmissions)
ABU Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
ABUI Association of Banyan Users International
ABX Advanced Branch Exchange
AC 1. Alternating Current (electronics)
2. Assignment Channel
3. Absorption Coefficient (fiber optics)
4. Access Control (LANs)
5. Access Code
6. Acquisition Cycle
7. Authentication Center
AC/AC Alternating Current to Alternating Current (power)
AC/DC 1. Alternating Current to Direct Current (power)
2. Operating both with AC and DC power lines (equipment)
ACA 1. American Communication Association
2. Australian Communications Authority
3. Automatic Circuit Assurance (PBX feature)
A a & 7
A
AcademNet Academic Research Network (Russia)
ACAR Aluminum Conductor Alloy-Reinforced
ACARD 1. Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development
2. Acquisition Card program
ACARS ARINC Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ACAT Additional Cooperative Acceptance Testing (test method)
ACATS Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (standard)
ACB 1. Annoyance Call Bureau
2. Architecture Control Board
3. ATM Cell Bus
4. Automatic Callback
ACC 1. Analog Control Channel (wireless)
2. Area Control Center (COMSAR)
3. Authorization Control Center
4. Adaptive Cruise Control (car radar)
5. Automatic Callback Calling
6. Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
ACCS 1. Automatic Calling Card Service
2. Associated Common-Channel Signaling
ACCOLC Access Overload Class
ACCU Association of C and CCC Users
ACCH Associated Control Channel (GSM)
ACD 1. Automatic Call Distributor (PBX)
2. Average Call Distance
ACE Automatic Cross-connection Equipment
ACEC Advisory Committee for Electronics and
Communications
ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction (voice coding)
ACeS Asian Cellular Satellite
ACF Advanced Communication Function (software)
ACF/NCP ACF Network Control Program (software)
ACF/VTAM ACF Virtual Terminal Access Method (software)
ACFG autoconfiguration (BIOS extensions)
ACG Automatic Call Gapping
ACH Attempts per Circuit per Hour (call centers)
ACI Adjacent Channel Interference
ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter (computer)
8 &
ACID Atomic, Consistent, Isolation, Durable (database transaction)
ACIF Australian Communications Industry Forum
ACIR Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio (microwave)
ACIS 1. Advanced Cargo Information System
2. Automatic Caller/Customer Identification Service
3. Andy, Charles, Ian’s System (computer modeling)
ACITS Advisory Committee on Information Technology Standardization
ACK acknowledge (control character)
ACL 1. Access Control List (networking)
2. Advanced CMOS Logic (digital electronics)
3. Application Connectivity Link (Siemens’ protocol)
4. Association for Computational Linguistics
ACLC Adaptive Communication Line Converter
ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (microwave)
ACM 1. Association for Computing Machinery
2. Automatic Call Manager
3. Address Control Memory
4. Address Complete Message (ATM)
5. Advanced Communications Function
ACMPA Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna (microwave)
ACNA Access Customer Name Abbreviation
ACO 1. Additional Call Offering (ISDN)
2. Alarm Cut Off (MUX)
ACON Administrative Operating Company Number
ACONet Academic Computer Network (Australia)
ACOST Advisory Council on Science and Technology
ACP 1. Activity Concentration Point
2. Adjacent Channel Power (microwave)
3. Association of Computing Professionals
4. Azimuth Change Pulse
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (computer)
ACPR Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (microwave)
ACPW Asymmetric Coplanar Waveguide (microwave)
ACR 1. Allowed Cell Rate (ATM)
2. Abandon Call and Retry
3. Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio (transmission)
ACRFNET Academic Computing Research Facility Network
ACS 1. Automatic Call Sequencer
2. Advanced Communication System (AT&T)
3. ATM Circuit Steering
A a & 9
A
4. Australian Computer Society
ACSB Amplitute Compandored Single SideBand
ACSE 1. Access Control and Signaling Equipment (Inmarsat)
2. Association Control Service Element (OSI model)
ACSL Advanced Continuous Simulation Language (programming)
ACSnet Australian Computer Society national computer network
ACSS Association of Computer Support Specialists
ACT 1. Applied Computer Telephony
2. Authorization Code Table
3. Association of Communications Technicians
ACTA 1. America’s Carriers Telecommunications Association
2. Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments (FCC)
ACTAS Alliance of Computer-based Telephony Application Suppliers
ACTE Approvals Committee for Terminal Equipment (GSM)
ACTGA Attendant Control of Trunk Group Access
ACTIUS Association of Computer Telephone Integration and
Users and Suppliers (U.K.)
ACTL Access Customer Terminal Location (code)
ACTOM Advisory Committee on Technical and Operational Matters (ITU)
ACTRIS Association for Cooperation in Telecommunications Research In Switzerland
ACTS 1. Advanced Communications Technologies and Services
2. Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (NASA)
3. Association of Competitive Telecommunications Suppliers
4. Automatic Coin Toll Service
ACU 1. Antenna Control Unit (GSM)
2. Automatic Calling Unit (IBM)
ACUTA Association of College and University Telecommunications
Administrators (standards organization)
ACV Advanced Common View
ACWG Asymmetrical Coplanar Wave-Guide (microwave)
ACWPBX Advanced Cordless Wireless Private Branch Exchange
AD Administrative Domain
ADA 1. Average Delay to Abandon
2. ADA Lovelace Language (programming)
ADACC Automatic Directory Assistance Call Completion
10 &
ADAD Automatic Dialing and Announcing Device
ADAR Advanced Design Array Radar
ADAS Automated Directory Assistance Service (Northern Telecom)
ADB Apple Desktop Bus (Macintosh)
ADC 1. Analog-to-Digital Converter (electronics)
2. Automated Data Collection
3. Asia DAB Committee
ADCA 1. Automatic Data Collection Association
2. Automatic Data Capture Association
ADCCP Advanced Data Communications Control Protocol (ANSI)
ADCU Association of Data Communications Users
ADDMD Administrative Directory Management Domain (X.500)
ADE Above-Decks Equipment
ADEOS Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (remote sensing)
ADF 1. Automatic Direction Finder (equipment)
2. Automatic Document Feeder
ADFOC All Dielectric Fiber-Optic Cable
ADH 1. Average Delay to Handle
2. Automatic Data Handling
ADI Alternate Digit Inversion (data encoding)
ADIO Analog/Digital Input/Output
ADK Application-Definable Keys
ADL Advanced Distributed Learning (e-learning)
ADLNet Advanced Distributed Learning Network (e-learning)
ADM 1. Adaptive Delta Modulation
2. Add and Drop Multiplexer (MUX)
ADMD Administration Management Domain (X.400)
ADML Asymmetric Digital Microcell Link (Telcordia standard)
ADN Advanced Digital Network (Bell)
ADNT Advanced Digital Network Trunking
ADO Auxiliary Disconnect Outlet
ADONIS Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems (ICT)
ADP Automatic Data Processor (computer)
ADPCM 1. Adaptive Differential PCM (modulation)
2. Association for Data Processing and Computer
Management
ADPCOD Adaptive Prediction Encoder
ADPDEC Adaptive Prediction Decoder
ADPE Automatic Data Processing Equipment
ADPS Automatic Data Processing System
ADPSSO Automatic Data Processing System Security Officer
A a & 11
A
ADQ Average Delay in Queue
ADR 1. Achievable Data Rate
2. Aggregate Data Rate
3. Analog to Digital Recording
4. Alternate Destination Routing (AT&T)
ADRMP Auto-Dialing Recorded Message Player
ADRT Approximate Discrete Radon Transform
ADS 1. Automatic Dependent Surveillance (aviation)
2. Automatic Data System
3. Advanced Design System (Agilient’s microwave)
4. Angular Displacement Sensor (remote sensing)
5. AudioGram Delivery Services (Nortel)
ADSI Analog Display Services Interface (Telcordia standard)
ADSL Asymmetric DSL (access)
ADSP AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol (networking)
ADSR Automatic Data Speed Recognition
ADSTAR Automated Document Storage And Retrieval
ADSU 1. ATM Digital Service Unit (ATM hardware)
2. Automatic Dependent Surveillance Unit (aviation)
ADT 1. Abstract Data Type
2. Audio, Data, and Teletext
3. Automatic Detection and Tracking (radar)
ADTF ACR Decrease Time Factor
ADTV Advanced Definition Television
ADU 1. Asynchronous Data Unit
2. Above-Deck Unit (satellite terminals)
3. Area Decision Unit (MUX)
4. Average Daily Use
5. Automatic Dialing Unit
ADX Automatic Data Exchange
AE 1. Acoustic Emission
2. Application Entity (OSI model)
3. Account Executive
AEA 1. American Electronics Association
2. American Engineering Association
3. Aerial Experimental Association (Bell)
AEB Analog Expansion Bus (computer)
AEC 1. Acoustic Echo Canceller
2. Alternate Exchange Carrier
AECS Aeronautical Emergency Communications System (avionics)
AECT Association for Educational Communications and Technology
AEEC Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (ARINC)
12 &
AEEM Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
AEF Aircraft Emergency Frequency
AEGIS 1. Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation
System
2. Airborne Early-warning Ground Integration System
AEI Automatic Equipment Identification
AEJMC Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication
AEMIS Automatic Electronic Management Information System
(AT&T)
AEP AppleTalk Echo Protocol (networking)
AER Advanced Edge Router
AEROSAT Aeronautical Satellite Communications System
AEROTHAI Aeronautical Radio of Thailand
AES 1. Aeronautical Earth Station (Inmarsat)
2. Audio Engineering Society
3. Advanced Encryption Standard
4. Application Environment Standard (or Service)
AESA Active Electronically Steered Array (microwave antennas)
AESS Aerospace and Electronics System Society
AET Application Entity Title (OSI model)
AEU 1. Auxiliary Electronics Unit
2. Aircraft Early Warning
3. Airborne Early Warning
4. Asia Electronic Union
AEW 1. Aircraft Early Warning
2. Airborne Early Warning
AF 1. Audio Frequency
2. Assigned Frame (Motorola)
AFACTS Automatic Facilities Test System
AFAQ French Quality Assurance Association
AFAST Advanced Flyaway Satellite Terminal
AFC 1. Automatic Frequency Control (electronics)
2. Amplitude-to-Frequency Converter
3. Advanced Fiber Communications
AFCEA Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
AFDW Active Framework for Data Warehousing
AFE 1. Analog Front End (functions)
2. Antiferroelectric
AFI 1. Authority and Format Identifier (ATM)
2. Address and Format Identifier (OSI model)A
AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFIS 1. Airborne Flight Information System
2. Automated Fingerprint Identification System (Motorola)
AFM 1. Adobe Font Manager
2. Adobe Font Metrics
3. Antiferromagnetism
AFMR Antiferromagnetic Resonance
AFN Aeronautical Fixed Network (COMSAR)
AFNOR Association Française de Normalization (France)
AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research (U.S.A.)
AFP AppleTalk Filing Protocol (networking)
AFPCON AFP Configuration (Novell NetWare)
AFRN Armed Forces Radio Network (broadcaster)
AFRS Armed Forces Radio Service (broadcaster)
AFRTS American Forces Radio and Television Services (broadcaster)
AFS 1. Advanced Freephone Service
2. Andrew File System (networks)
3. Aeronautical Fixed Service (ITU)
4. Automation File Server
AFSK Audio Frequency-Shift Keying (modulation)
AFT Automatic Fine Tuning (receivers)
AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network (COMSAR)
AFTRA American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AFV Audio-Follow-Video
AG Application Generator (software)
AGC 1. Automatic Gain Control (electronics)
2. Audio Graphic Conferencing
AGCH Access Grant Channel (GSM)
AGCOMNET Agriculture’s voice and data Communications Network (U.S.A.)
AGE Aerospace Ground Equipment
AGN again (Morse code transmissions)
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port (Intel motherboards)
AGPS Assisted GPS
AGRS Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service (aviation)
AGT 1. Audio Graphics Terminal
2. Albera Government Telephone
AGTK Application Generator Toolkit
AGU 1. Address-Generation Unit
2. Automatic Ground Unit
AGW Access Gateway (switching)
AGWCS Air-Ground Worldwide Communications System
(aviation)
Ah Ampere-hour
AH Authentication Header (IP datagrams)
AHD Audio High-Density (recording)
AHDL Analog Hardware-Description Language (software)
AHDS Arts and Humanities Data Service (ICT of JISC
committee)
AHEN 1. Alabama Home Educator’s Network (U.S.A.)
2. Alberta Higher Education Network (e-learning)
3. Alternative Higher Education Network (e-learning)
AHF Adaptive High-Frequency (radio)
AHFG ATM-attached Host Functional Group
AHP Authentication Header Protocol
AHR Ampere Hour
AHT 1. Average Handle Time
2. Average Holding Time
.aif Name extension for Audio Interchange Files (computer)
AI 1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Airborne Interception (radar)
3. Action Indicator (ISDN)
AIA 1. Aerospace Industries Association (U.S.A.)
2. Application Interface Adapter
3. Automatic Internet Administration
AIC 1. Automatic Intercept Center (Telcordia Technologies)
2. Analog Interface Circuit (modem)
AICC 1. Automatic Incoming Call Connection
2. Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control (car radar)
AICE Australian Institute of Computer Ethics
AID Access Identifier (MUX)
AIDA Accessible Information on Development Activities
AIDC Automatic Identification and Data Collection (Mexico)
AIDS Access Identifier System
AIEE American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE)
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AIIA Australian Information Industry Association
AIIM Association for Information and Image Management
AILS Advanced Integrated Landing System (ICT)
AIM 1. Amplitude Intensity Modulation
2. Ascend Inverse Multiplexing (protocol)
3. Association for Interactive Media
4. ATM Inverse Multiplexer
5. Access Intelligent Multiplexer
A a & 15
A
AIMS 1. Aeronautical Interim Monitoring System
2. Auto Indexing Mass Storage
AIMUX ATM Inverse Multiplexer
AIN Advance Intelligent Network
AINC Arabic Internet Names Consortium
AINTCC Automated Intercept Call Completion (Northern
Telecom)
AIOD Automatic Identification of Outward Dialing (PBX)
AIP ATM Interface Processor
AIR 1. Allowed Information Rate (frame relay)
2. Additive Increase Rate (ATM)
3. Airborne Imaging Radar
4. All India Radio (broadcaster)
5. Association of Independents in Radio
6. Air-Incident Recording (magnetic storage)
AIRB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
AIRF Additive Increase Rate Factor (ATM)
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sensor (remote sensing)
AIS 1. Alarm Indication Signal (MUX)
2. Automatic Intercept System
3. Automated Information System
4. Aeronautical Information Services (COMSAR)
5. Association for Information Systems
AISS Automated Information Systems Security
AIST Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
AISTel Associazione Italiana per lo Sviluppo delle
Telecomunicazioni
AIT 1. Assembly, Integration, and Testing
2. Atomic International Time
3. Advanced Intelligent Tape (tape format)
4. Automatic Identification Technology
AITP Association of Information Technology Professionals
(U.S.A.)
AITS 1. Australian Information Technology Society
2. Administrative Information Technology Services
3. Advanced Information Technology Services
4. Associazione Italiana Tecnici del Suono
5. Acknowledged Information Transfer Service
AIW Application Implementer’s Workshop
AIX Advanced Interactive executive (IBM-operating
system)
AJ Anti-Jamming (electronics)
AJP American Journal of Physics
AKM Apogee Kick Motor (satellite)
16 &
AL 1. Adaptation Layer (ATM)
2. Application Layer (OSI model)
ALAP AppleTalk Link Access Protocol
ALB Analog Loop-Back (testing)
ALBO Automatic Line Build-Out (transmission)
ALC 1. Automatic Level Control
2. Automatic Load Control (fiber optics)
3. Airline Line Control (protocol)
ALDC Adaptive Lossless Data Compression
ALE 1. Application Logic Element
2. Automatic Link Establishment (HF radio station)
3. Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
4. Approvals Liaison Engineer (British)
ALF Advanced Library Format
ALFA Automatic Laser-Fiber Assembly
ALG Application Level Gateway
ALGaAs Aluminum–Gallium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
ALGOCOM Algorithm Communications Company (Iran)
ALGOL Algorithmic Language (programming)
ALI 1. ATM Line Interface
2. Automatic Location Identification
3. Automatic Location Information
ALIS Access Line In Service
ALIT Automatic Line Insulation Testing
ALL Analog Leased Line
ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
ALM 1. AppWare Loadable Module
2. Automated Loan Machine
ALMRBS Airport Land Mobile Radio Base Station (aviation)
ALMRS Airport Land Mobile Radio Station (aviation)
ALN 1. Asynchronous Learning Networks (e-learning)
2. Adaptive-Logic Network (neural networks)
AlNiCo Aluminum Nickel Cobalt (substance)
ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite
ALPETH Aluminum/Polyethylene (cable)
ALPS Automatic Loop Protection Switching
ALS 1. Automatic Laser Shutdown
2. Advanced Low-power Schottky (TTL)
3. Active Line State
ALT 1. Automated Loop Test
2. Association for Learning Technology (U.K.
e-learning)
3. Alternate Local Transport
ALTEL Association of Long-distance Telephone companies
A a & 17
A
ALTS Association for Local Telecommunications Services
(U.S.A.)
ALU 1. Arithmetic and Logic Unit (computer)
2. Average Line Utilization
AM 1. Amplitude Modulation
2. Angle Modulation
3. Access Module
4. Apogee Motor (satellite)
5. Active Matrix (displays)
6. Alarm Management
AM band Radio-frequency band ranging from 535 to 1605 kHz
AM-AM Amplitude-Modulation to Amplitude-Modulation
conversion
AM-PM Amplitude-Modulation to Phase-Modulation
conversion
AM-TFT Active Matrix, Thin-Film Transistor
AM/FM Handling either AM or FM signals (radio receivers)
AM/SSB Amplitude-Modulation with Single SideBand
operation
AM/VSB Amplitude-Modulation with Vestigial SideBand
operation
AMA Automatic Message Accounting
AMADNS AMA Data Networking System (OSS)
AMANDA Automated Messaging And Directory Assistance
AMAP Adaptive Mobile Access Protocol
AMATPS AMA Teleprocessing System (OSS)
AMBA Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
AMBE Advanced Multiband Excitation (Inmarsat)
AMC Allgon Mobile Communications (Sweden)
AMCs Adds, Moves, and Changes (IBM-speak about
computer fan)
AMD American Micro Devices (company)
AMDM ATM Multiplexer/Demultiplexer
AME 1. Amplitude Modulation Equivalent (transmission)
2. Automatic Message Exchange
AMEL Active Matrix Electroluminescence
AMES Aeronautical Mobile Earth Station
AMF 1. Apogee Motor Firing (satellite)
2. Automated Module Fabrication
AMHS Automated Message-Handling System
AMI 1. Alternate Mark Inversion (data encoding)
2. Active Microwave Instrument (remote sensing)
AMIS Audio Messaging Interchange Specification (voice mail)
AML 1. Actual Measured Loss
18 &
2. Automatic Modulation Limiting (electronics)
3. Amplitude Modulated Link
4. Analog Microwave Link
5. ARC Macro Language (programming)
AMLCD Active Matrix Liquid-Crystal Display
AMN Abstract Machine Notation
Amp 1. Ampere
2. amplifier
AMP Advanced Metal Powder (storage technology)
amplidyne amplifier dyne
AmprNet Amateur packet radio Network
AMPS 1. Advanced Mobile Phone Service (cellular networks)
2. Automatic Message Processing System
AMPSSO Automatic Message Processing System Security Officer
AMR 1. Anisotropic Magneto-Resistance
2. Automated Meter Reading
3. Audio Modem Riser (Intel motherboards)
4. Adaptive Multirate (codec)
AMRAC Association Mondale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires
(France)
AMS 1. Account Management System
2. Attendant Management System (NEC)
3. Aeronautical Mobile Service (COMSAR)
AMS-IX Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Amsat Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
AMSC American Mobile Satellite Corporation
AMSK Auxiliary Manual Select Keyboard
AMSS 1. Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service (COMSAR)
2. Airborne Multispectral Scanner
AMT Address Mapping Table (routers and servers)
AMTA American Mobile Telecommunications Association
AMTFT Active-Matrix Thin-Film Transistor (electronics)
AMTI Airborne Moving-Target Indicator
AMTOR Amateur Teleprinting Over Radio
AMTS 1. Automated Maritime Telecommunications System
2. Asia-Pacific Mobile Telecommunications Satellite
Pte. Ltd
AmTV Amateur Television
AMVER Automated Merchant Vessel Report
AN Access Network
ANA Automatic Network Analyzer
ANAC Automatic Number Announcement Circuit
Anamux Analog multiplexer
ANBP AppleTalk Name-Binding Protocol
A a & 19
A
ANC 1. All Number Calling
2. Air Navigation Commission (COMSAR)
ANCARA Advanced Networked Cities And Regions Association
AND Automatic Network Dialing (service)
ANI Automatic Number Identification (feature)
ANL 1. Automatic Noise Limiter
2. Ambient Noise Level
ANM Answer Message
ANN 1. Artificial Neural Network
2. Arab News Network
ANOVA Analysis of Variance
ANRT Agence Nationale de Reglementation des Telecommunication
(Morocco)
Ans answer
ANS 1. Advanced Network and Services
2. American National Standards
ANSA Alternate Network Service Agreement (ISDN)
ANSI American National Standards Institute (U.S.A.)
ANSI-C A version of C programming language standardized by
ANSI
ANSI/SPARC ANSI Standards Planning And Requirements
Committee
ANT 1. antenna
2. Antenna Noise Temperature
3. Advanced Network Technologies (company)
4. Access Network Termination
5. Alternate Number Translation
ANTC Advanced Networking Test Center
ANTIVOX Anti-voice-Operated Transmission (electronics)
ANX Automative Network Exchange
AO Acoustic-Optical
AO/DI Always On Dynamic ISDN
AoC Advice of Charge (GSM supplementary service)
AOC Aeronautical Operational Communications
AoCI Advice of Charge Indication (GSM supplementary
service)
AoCC Advice of Charge Charging (GSM supplementary
service)
AOCN Administrative Operating Company Number
AOCS Altitude and Orbit Control System
AoD Audio-on-Demand (service)
AOHell America Online Hell (hacker program)
AOL America Online (information service)
20 &
AOM 1. Acousto-optic Modulator
2. Administration, Operations, and Maintenance
AON 1. Active Optical Network
2. All-optical Network
AOR Atlantic Ocean Region (Inmarsat)
AOR-E Atlantic Ocean Region-East (Inmarsat)
AOR-W Atlantic Ocean Region-West (Inmarsat)
AOS 1. Alternate Operator Services
2. Area of Service
AOSP Alternate Operator Service Provider
AOSS Auxiliary Operator Services System
AOSSVR Auxiliary Operator Services System Voice Response
AOTF Acoustic Optical Tunable Filter (MUX)
AOW Asia and Oceania Workshop
AP 1. Access Point (wireless LAN)
2. Access Provider
3. Anomalous Propagation
4. Application Program
5. Applications Processor (AT&T)
6. Adjunct Processor
APA All Points Addressable (graphics)
APAD Asynchronous Packet Assembler/Disassembler
APAN Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (consortium)
APaRT Automated Packet Recognition/Translation
APC 1. Adaptive Predictive Coding
2. Automatic Phase Control (electronics)
3. Advanced Process Control
4. Aeronautical Passenger Communications
5. Association for Progressive Communications
APCC American Public Communications Council
APCN Asia-Pacific Cable Network (consortium)
APCO Association of Public-safety Communications Officials
(U.S.A.)
APCS Aeronautical Public Correspondence Service
APD Avalanche Photo Diode (electronics)
APDC Avalanche Photodiode Coupler
APDIP Asia-Pacific Development Information Program
(United Nations)
APDU Application Protocol Data Unit (OSI model)
APES Antenna Pointing Element Set (Satcom)
APEX Application Exchange (protocol)
APFD Aggregate Power Flux Density
API 1. Application Programming Interface (software)
2. Advanced Publication of Information (Intelsat)
3. Air Position Indicator
A a & 21
A
API/CS Application Programming Interface and Communications
Service
APK Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying (modulation)
APL 1. Array Programming Language (computer)
2. Automatic Program Load (PBX feature)
3. Average Picture Level (video system)
APLT Advanced Private Line Termination (PBX)
APM 1. Amplitude Phase Modulation
2. Advanced Power Management (computer)
APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Information Center
APO Adaptive Performance Optimization (technology)
APOLT APON Line Termination
APON ATM Passive Optical Network
APONT APON Termination (electronics)
APOT Additional Point of Termination
app application
APP Ascend Password Protocol
APPA American Public Power Association
APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (IBM)
APPGEN Application Generator
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (IBM SNA)
APR 1. American Public Radio (broadcaster)
2. Annual Percentage Rate (contracts)
APRN Alaska Public Radio Network (broadcaster)
APS 1. Advanced Photo System
2. Advanced Planning and Scheduling (ICT)
3. Automatic Protection Switching (MUX)
4. Analog Protection System (broadcasting)
APSC Asia-Pacific Space Center, Inc. (U.S.A.)
APSCC Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council
APSE Automatic Protection Switching Extendable
APSI Asia-Pacific Satellite Industries Co., Ltd
APSK Amplitude PSK (modulation)
APSW All Purpose Software
APT 1. Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (organization)
2. Automatically Programmed Tools
3. Automatic Picture Transmission
APTS Association of Public Television Stations
AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Publications
AQCB Automated Quote Contract Billing
AQL Acceptable Quality Level (of products)
AR 1. Axial Ratio (microwave)
2. Alternate Route
3. Automatic Recall
22 &
ARA 1. AppleTalk Remote Access
2. Address Resolution Advertisement (routing service)
Arabsat Arab Satellite Communications (organization)
ARAM Audio grade RAM (memory)
ARB All-Routes Broadcast
.arc Name extension for compressed archive files
(computer)
ARC Attached Resource Computer (LANs)
ARCH Access Response Channel (wireless)
ARCI Amateur Radio Club International
ARCNet Attached Resource Computer Network
ARCS Astra Return Channel System
ARD 1. Advanced Research and Development
2. Automatic Ring Down
ARE All-Routes Explorer (ATM)
ARENA Automated Resource to Electronic Navigation Archive
ARES Amateur Radio Emergency Service (organization)
ARF 1. Alternative Regulatory Framework
2. Alternate Recovery Facility (Satcom)
ARFA Arrested Receive Frame Acquisition
ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (GSM)
ARI Automatic Room Identification (telephony service)
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses ( Japan)
ARIES 1. Angle-Resolved Ion and Electron Spectroscopy
2. Australian Resource Information and Environment
Satellite
ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers (U.S.A.)
ARINC Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (airline consortium)
ARISE 1. Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and
Earth
2. American Renaissance in Science Education
ARISS Amateur Radio International Space Station
ARISTOTELES Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies
Observing The Earth’s Fields from Low
Earth-orbiting Satellites
.arj A DOS file extension for ARJ compression program
.ARJ Name extension for Achieving program by Robert K.
Jung (computer)
ARL Acceptable Reliability Level (of products)
ARLE Advanced Run-length Limited Encoding (data storage)
ARM 1. Asynchronous Response Mode (OSI model)
2. American Radio Museum
3. Answering and Recording Machine
4. Apogee Rocket Motor (satellite)
A a & 23
A
ARMIS Automated Management Reporting Information
System
ARNS Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service (ITU)
ARNSS Aeronautical Radio Navigation-Satellite Service (ITU)
ARO Active Resonant Oscillator (microwave)
AROS 1. Amateur Radio Observation Service
2. Amiga Research Operating System
ARP 1. Address Resolution Protocol (networking)
2. Azimuth Reference Pulse
ARPA 1. Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S.A.)
2. Automatic Radar Plot Aid (shipboard radar)
ARPANet ARPA Network
ARPM Average Revenue Per Minute (GSM)
ARPU Average Revenue Per User (GSM)
ARQ Automatic Retransmit Request (data communication)
ARQ-GB Automatic Retransmit Request - Go Back
ARQ-SR Automatic Retransmit Request - Selective Retransmit
ARQ-SW Automatic Retransmit Request - Stop and Wait
ARR Airborne Radio Relay
ARRL American Relay Radio League
ARRN Amateur Radio Repeater Network
ARS Automatic Route Selection/Selector
ARSG Australian Radiocommunications Study Group
ARSR Air Route Surveillance Radar
ART Arab Radio and Television network (broadcaster)
ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems
Artron Artificial Neuron
ARU Audio Response Unit
AS 1. Autonomous System
2. Amateur Satellite
3. Applicability Statement
4. Advanced Schottky (microchips)
5. Authorization Stream
AS&C 1. Alarm Surveillance and Control
2. Advanced Systems and Concepts (U.S. Defense)
ASA 1. Acoustical Society of America
2. American Standards Association (now ANSI)
3. Average Speed of Answer
4. Affiliated Sales Agency
ASAI Adjunct Switch Application Interface (AT&T)
ASAM Advanced Services Access Manager (Alcatel)
ASAPI Advanced Speech API (computer)
ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ASARS Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System
24 &
ASAS All-Source Analysis System
ASBC Advanced Space Business Corporation
.asc Name extension for files containing ASCI text
(computer)
ASC 1. Abnormal Station Code
2. AUTODIN Switching Center
3. Automatic Slope Control (circuitry)
4. Advanced Switching Communications
5. Aeronautical System Center (U.S.A.)
ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
ASCC Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
ASCENT Association of Communications Enterprises
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(computer)
ASCU Agent Set Control Unit (IBM)
ASD Asynchronous Data
ASDE Airport Surface Detection Equipment
ASDS Accunet Spectrum of Digital Services (AT&T)
ASDSP Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor
ASE 1. Application Service Element (OSI model)
2. Amplified Spontaneous Emission
3. Automatic Switching Equipment
ASFB Application-Specific Functional Block
ASG Access Service Group
ASH 1. Ardire-Stratigakis-Hayduk (algorithm)
2. Amplifier-Sequenced Hybrid (microwave)
ASI 1. Alternate Space Inversion (data encoding)
2. Artificial Sensing Instrument
3. Application Software Interface
4. Astronomical Society of India
5. Agenzia Spaziale Italiano (Italian Space Agency)
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (electronics)
ASK Amplitude-Shift Keying (modulation)
ASL Adaptive Speed Leveling (modem)
ASMTP Authenticated SMTP (Internet)
ASN 1. Aeronautical Satellite News (magazine)
2. Acknowledgement Sequence Number
3. Autonomous System Number
4. Abstract Syntax Notation (OSI model)
ASOCNet Army Special Operations Command Network
ASON Automatically-Switched Optical Network
ASP 1. Application Service Provider (Internet)
2. Administrable Service Provider (SCSA)
3. Alternate Service Provider
A a & 25
A
4. Abstract Service Primitive (ATM)
5. Adjunct Service Point (INs)
6. Analog Signal Processing
7. AppleTalk Session Protocol (networking)
8. Average Selling Price (microchip manufacturing)
9. ATM Switch Processor
10. Attached Support Processor (Northern Telecom)
11. Association of Shareware Professionals
12. Active Server Page (HTML)
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (computer)
ASPJ Advanced Self-Protection Jammer (electronics)
ASQ 1. Automated Status Query
2. Administrative Science Quarterly
3. American Society for Quality
4. Application Status Query
ASR 1. Automatic Send/Receive (telex maker company)
2. Automatic Speech Recognition (telephony service)
3. Automatic System Reconfiguration (computer)
4. Access Service Request (frame relay)
5. Airport Surveillance Radar
6. Answer Seizure Ratio
7. Average Service Rate (percentage)
ASRM Automatic Send/Receive Monitor (ASR company
product)
ASRT Automatic Send/Receive Terminal (ASR company
product)
ASS Amateur Satellite Service (ITU)
ASSP 1. Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing
2. Application-Specific Standard Product (microchips)
ASSTA Australian Speech Science and Technology Association
AST Automatic Scheduled Testing
ASTAP APT Standardization Program (APT)
ASTC 1. Australian Science and Technology Council
2. Association of Science-Technology Centers
Incorporated
ASTD American Society of Training and Development
(e-learning)
ASTE Advanced Systems and Telecommunications Equipment
ASTERR Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflectance
Radiometer (remote sensing)
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ASTP Advanced Systems and Technology Program
ASTRAL Alliance for Strategic Token-Ring Advancement and
Leadership
26 &
ASU 1. Application-Specific Unit
2. ATM Service Unit
ASV Air-to-Surface-Vessel (radar)
ASWC Alternate Serving Wire Center
.asx Name extension for Windows Media Player files
(computer)
ASYNC Asynchronous (data transfer)
AT 1. Advanced Technology (IBM PCs)
2. Access Tandem
3. Acceptance Test
4. Audiotex(t)
5. Asynchronous Transmission
AT Attachment Advanced Technology Attachment (interface
standard)
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph (company)
ATA 1. Air Transport Association
2. Auto-Tracking Antenna
3. American Telemarketing Association (U.S.A.)
4. Analog Terminal Adapter (Northern Telecom)
5. AT Attachment (computer interface)
ATA2 Second generation AT Attachment (interface standard)
ATACS Army Tactical Communications System (U.S.A.)
ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface specification (CD-ROM)
ATB All Trunks Busy (signal)
ATC 1. Air Traffic Control (aviation)
2. Adaptive Transform Coding
ATCA Antique Telephone Collectors Association
ATCON AppleTalk network Control (Novell NetWare)
ATCONFIG AppleTalk Configuration (Novell NetWare NLM)
ATCP AppleTalk Control Protocol
ATCRBS Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System
ATD 1. Asynchronous Time-Division
2. Advanced Technology Demonstration
3. Attention Dial the phone (modems)
ATDE Adaptive Time Domain Equalizer
ATDM Asynchronous Time-Division Multiplexing
ATDNet Advanced Technology Demonstration Network
ATDP Attention Dial Pulse (modem command)
ATDRSS Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
(NASA)
ATDT Attention Dial Tone (modem command)
ATE 1. Authorized Telecommunications Entity
2. Automatic Test Equipment
A a & 27
A
ATEL Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory
ATELP Adaptive-Transform-Excited-Linear Prediction
ATF Advanced Tactical Fiber
ATG 1. Address Translation Gateway (Cisco)
2. Automatic Test Generation
3. Air-To-Ground (service)
ATHD Average Ten High-Day (data communication)
ATI 1. Advanced Telecommunication Institute
2. Accelerated Technology Incorporated
ATIA Air Traffic Interface Application (Motorola)
ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
(U.S.A.)
ATL Active Template Library (Microsoft)
ATM 1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (network technology)
2. Air Traffic Management (aviation)
3. Automated Transaction Machine
4. Automatic Tracking Mechanism
ATM DSU ATM Digital Service Unit
ATM DXI ATM Data Exchange Interface
ATM-25 ATM running at 25 Mbps
ATMARP ATM Address Resolution Protocol
ATMP Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol
ATN Aeronautical Telecommunications Network
ATNS Advanced Trunking Networking System
ATOF Advanced Tactical Optical Fiber
ATOP Automatic Traffic Overload Protection (feature)
ATOW Acquisition and Tracking Order-Wire
ATP 1. AppleTalk Transaction Protocol (networking)
2. Acceptance Test Procedure
3. Advanced Technology Provider
4. Automatic Telephone Payment
ATPC Automatic Transmitter Power Control
ATPG Automatic Test Pattern Generator (broadcasting)
ATPS AppleTalk Print Services (Novell NetWare)
ATPSCON AppleTalk Print Services Configuration (Novell
NetWare)
ATRAC Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (minidisk)
ATRAN Automatic Terrain Recognition And Navigation
(military)
ATS 1. Air Traffic Services (aviation)
2. Abstract Test Suite (testing a protocol)
3. Applications Technology Satellite program
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee (U.S.A.)
ATSE Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
28 &
ATSR 1. Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (remote sensing)
2. Along-Track Scanning Radar
ATSR/M Along-Track Scanning Radiometer Microwave (sounder)
ATT 1. Automatic Toll Tracking
2. Average Talk Time
ATTC Advanced Television Test Center
ATTND attendant
ATU 1. ADSL Transceiver Unit (ITU)
2. ADSL Terminal Unit
3. Auxiliary Test Unit
4. African Telecommunications Union
ATU-C ADSL Transmission Unit-Central office
ATU-R ADSL Transmission Unit-Remote office
ATUC ADSL Transmission Unit-Central office
ATUG Australian Telecommunication User Group
ATV 1. Advanced Television (HDTV)
2. Amateur Television
ATVEF Advanced Television Enhancement Forum
ATX 1. Audiotex(t)
2. Advanced Technology Expanded (PC motherboards)
AU 1. Access Unit
2. Alternate Use
3. Administrative Unit (MUX)
AU PTR Administrative Unit Pointer (MUX)
AuC Authentication Center (GSM)
AUCS AT&T Unisource Communications Services
AUD Audio input/output (audio systems)
AUG Administrative Unit Group (MUX)
AUI 1. Autonomous Unit Interface (Ethernet transceiver)
2. Attachment Unit Interface (Ethernet transceiver)
3. Access Unit Interface (LANs)
AUP Acceptable Use Policy (ISPs)
AUR Access Usage Record
AURP AppleTalk Update-based Routing Protocol
AUS Access Unit Subrack
AUSREP Australian Ship Reporting system
AUSSAT Australian domestic Satellite operator
Auto-SD Automatic Signal Degrade (MUX)
Auto-SF Automatic Signal Failure (MUX)
AUTODIN Automatic Digital Network (U.S. Defense)
AUTOEXEC Automatically Executed (computer command)
AUTOSEVOCOM Automatic Secure Voice Communication network
AUTOVON Automatic Voice Network (U.S. Defense)
AUU ATM User-to-User (bit)
A a & 29
A
AUUG Australian Unix User Group
AUX 1. Auxiliary Device (computer serial port or COM1)
2. Auxiliary signal (audio systems)
AUXBC Auxiliary Broadcasting
.av Name extension for Audio–Visual files (computer)
AV Audio–Visual
AVC Automatic Volume Control (electronics)
AVD Alternative Voice/Data (transmission)
AVE Automatic Volume Expander (electronics)
AVHRR 1. Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (remote
sensing)
2. Advanced Very High-Resolution Radar
.avi Name extension for audio–visual files (computer)
AVI 1. Audio–Video Interleave (file format)
2. Automatic Vehicle Identification
3. Analog VHDL International (standards group)
AVIOS American Voice Input/Output Society
AVK Audio–Video Kernel (digital video)
AVL Automatic Vehicle Location (GSM)
AVNIR Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer
AVRS Automated Voice Response System
AVSG Advanced Video Systems Group (Canada)
AVSS Audio–Video Support System (digital video)
AVSSCS Audio/Visual Service-Specific Convergence Sublayer
(ATM)
AWA Antique Wireless Association
AWACS Airborne Warning And Control System
AWAN Analog Wide Area Network
AWC 1. Area-Wide Centrex
2. Association for Women in Computing
AWCC Afghan Wireless Communications Company
AWG 1. American Wire Gauge (cable standards)
2. Arbitrary Waveform Generator
AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise
AWM American Wiring Material
AWNV All Weather and Night Vision System
AWSI Association of Wireless System Integrators
AX.25 Amateur-radio implementation of X.25
A!E Automatic Cross-connection Equipment
AZ Azimuth (Satcom)
AZ/EL Azimuth and Elevation (Satcom)
AZON Azimuth Only (Satcom)
AZRAN Azimuth and Range (radar)
30 &
B b
b 1. Symbol for bit (unit of data)
2. Symbol for baud (unit of character transmission)
3. Symbol for barn (unit of nuclear cross section)
b/s bits per second
B 1. Symbol for Byte
2. Symbol for Base (transistor circuit diagrams)
3. Symbol for Bel (unit of measure of signal strength)
4. Symbol for magnetic flux density
5. Symbol for Beta (Beta test)
B channel Bearer channel (ISDN)
B Link Bridge Link (SS7)
B&S Brawn and Sharp Gauge
B&W Black and White (television set)
BC Positive terminal of Battery or voltage source
BK Negative terminal of Battery or voltage source
B-CDMA Broadband CDMA (access)
B-DCS Broadband Digital Cross-connect System
B-ICI B-ISDN Inter Carrier Interface (ATM)
B-ICISAAL B-ICI Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
B-ISUP Broadband ISDN User’s Part (SS7)
B-LLI Broadband Lower Layer Information
B-LT Broadband Line Termination
B
31
B-MAC Broadband Master Antenna Control
B-NT Broadband Network Termination
B-PCS Broadband Personal Communications Services (FCC)
B-Picture Bi-directionally predictive-coded Picture (MPEG)
B-QSIG Broadband ISDN Q-interface Signaling
B-Sat Broadcasting Satellite system Corporation ( Japan)
B-TA Broadband Terminal Adapter (ISDN)
B-TE Broadband Terminal Equipment (ISDN)
B2B Business-to-Business (e-commerce)
B2C Business-to-Consumer (e-commerce)
B2E Business-to-Employee (e-commerce)
B2G Business-to-Government (e-commerce)
B3ZS Bipolar with 3 Zeros Substitution (data encoding)
BA 1. Basic Access
2. Burst Acquired
3. Business Address
BAA Blanket Authorization Agreement
BABT British Approvals Board for Telecommunications
BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
BACR Billing Account Cross Reference (number)
BAF Bellcore AMA Format (data)
BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAIC Billing of All Incoming Calls (GSM supplementary
service)
.bak Name extension for backup files (computer)
Balun Balanced-input to unbalanced-output converter
(microwave)
BAN 1. Base Area Network
2. Billing Account Number
BAOC Billing of All Outgoing Calls (GSM supplementary
service)
BAOL British Association for Open Learning (e-learning)
BAPCO British Association of Public-safety Communications
Officials
BAPTA Bearing And Power Transfer Assembly
BARITT Barrier Injection Transit Time (semiconductors)
BARS Basic Automatic Route Selection (Nortel Networks)
BAS Bit Allocation Signal
BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
(computer)
BASR Buffered Automatic Send/Receive
.bat Name extension for batch program files (computer)
32 &
BAT Bouquet Association Table
Batelco Bahrain Telecommunications Company (operator)
BATT battery (diagrams)
BAW Bulk Acoustic Wave (HF device)
BB 1. Baseband signal (MUX)
2. Bulletin Board
3. Broadband
BBC 1. British Broadcasting Corporation (broadcaster)
2. Broadband Bearer Capability
3. Back-to-Back Connection
BBD Bucket Brigade Device (semiconductors)
BBE Background Block Error (MUX)
BBER 1. Bulletin Board Error Rate
2. Background Block Error Ratio
BBEXP Baseband Expansion
BBG Basic Business Group
BBG-I ISDN Basic Business Group
BBIN Broadband Intelligent Network
BBIU Baseband Interface Unit
BBL Broadband Loop
BBLAN Baseband Local Area Network
BBM Breadboard Model
BBN Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (company)
BBPULB Big Brother Protects You from Little Brothers
(wireless networks)
BBS 1. Bulletin Board System (ICT)
2. Bridge-to-Bridge Station
BBSS Baseband Sub-System
BBT 1. Broadband Transmission (Intelsat)
2. Bit-Block Transfer
BBTM Beam-to-Beam Traffic Matrix (Intelsat)
BBU Baseband Unit (Intelsat)
BBUL Bumpless Build-Up Layer packaging
Bc Committed Burst size
BC 1. Backward Compatible (coding and softwares)
2. Beam Coupling
3. Binary Code
4. Broadcast
BCC 1. Blind Carbon Copy (e-mail)
2. Base-station Color Code (GSM)
3. Bellcore Client Company
4. Block Check Character
5. Broadcast Control Computer
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel (cellular networks)
B b & 33
B
BCD 1. Binary-Coded Decimal (coding)
2. Burst Channel Demodulator
BCE Bandwidth-Control Element (frame relay)
BCH 1. Bose, Chaudhuri, and Hocquenghem code (error
correction)
2. Broadcast Channels (GSM)
BCHO Base-Controlled Hand-Off (cellular networks)
BCI 1. Broadcast Interference
2. Bit Count Integrity
BCL Base general premises Cabling License (Australia)
BCM 1. Bit-Compression Multiplexer
2. Basic Call Model (AINs)
3. Block-Coded Modulation
4. Binary Coded Matrix (Intelsat)
BCN Beacon (navigation)
BCOB Broadband Connection-Oriented Bearer (ATM)
BCOB-A BCOB Class A (ATM)
BCOB-C BCOB Class C (ATM)
BCOB-X BCOB Class X (ATM)
BCP 1. Batch Change Supplement
2. Best Current Practice
3. Bulk Copy Program (software)
BCR Binary Charge Regulator
BCRI Business Communications Review International
(magazine)
BCRS Bell Canada Relay Service
BCS 1. Basic Control System (Satcom)
2. Batch Change Supplement
3. Boston Computer Society
4. B-channel Circuit-Switched
5. Basic Combined Set (OSI model)
6. British Computer Society
7. Beam Control System (satellite)
8. Broadcast Control System
BCSM Basic Call State Model (AINs)
BCVT Basic Class Virtual Terminal (OSI model)
Bd baud (unit of telex transmission speed)
BD Building Distributor
BDC 1. Backup Domain Controller (server)
2. Broadband Digital Cross-connect
BDCS Broadband Digital Cross-connect System (MUX)
BDD Binary Decision Diagram
BDE Below-Decks Equipment
BDF Block Data Format
34 &
BDFB Breaker Distribution Fuse Bay (switch room)
BDI Bearing Deviation Indicator
BDLC Burroughs Data Link Control (protocol)
BDN Bell Data Network
BDR Battery Discharge Regulator
BDSL Broadband DSL (access)
BDT 1. Billing Data Tape
2. Binary Decision Tree
3. Telecommunications Development Bureau (France)
BDU Below-Decks Unit (satellite terminals)
BE Burst Excess
BEAMOS Beam-associated MOS (semiconductors)
BEARS Billing Exchange Account Record System
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (frame
relay)
BECTA British Educational Communications and Technology
Agency of United Kingdom (e-learning)
BEDO RAM Burst Extended Data Output RAM (memory)
BEEP Block Extensible Exchange Protocol
BEF Band Elimination Filter
BEHINCOM Behin Ertebat Mehr Company (Iran)
BEI Back-scattered Electron Imaging
Bellcore Bell Communications Research (company)
BeOS Be Operating System (Be, Inc.)
BEP 1. Bit Error Probability
2. Back End Processor
BER 1. Bit Error Rate (transmission)
2. Bit Error Ratio (transmission)
3. Basic Encoding Rules
BERT Bit Error Rate Test (transmission)
BES 1. Base Earth Station
2. BlackBerry Enterprise Server
BETA Business Equipment Trade Association
BETRS Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service
BeV Billion electron Volts (power)
BEX Broadband Exchange
BEZS Bandwidth Efficient Zero Suppression
BFI Bad Frame Indicator (GSM)
BFICC British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee
BFL Buffered FET Logic (digital electronics)
BFN Beam-Forming Network (microwave)
BFO Beat-Frequency Oscillator (electronics)
BFOC Bayonet Fiber Optic Connector
BFOG Brillouin Fiber Optic Gyroscope
B b & 35
B
BFSK Binary FSK (modulation)
BFSL Best-Fit Straight Line (error measurement)
BFT 1. Binary File Transfer (computer)
2. Batch File Transmission (computer)
BG 1. Basic Group
2. Board of Governors (Intelsat)
BG/BARC BG Budget and Account Review Committee (Intelsat)
BG/P BG Planning committee (Intelsat)
BG/T BG Technical committee (Intelsat)
BGA Ball-Grid Array (microchips)
BGAN Broadband Global Area Network (Inmarsat)
BGE-I ISDN Business Group Elements
BGID Business Group ID (ISDN)
BGMP Border Gateway Multicast Protocol
BGND Background
BGP Border Gateway Protocol (routing)
BGP4 Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (router)
BH Bandwidth Hog
BHC Backbone to Horizontal Cross-connect
BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempts (GSM)
BHCC Busy Hour Call Completion (GSM)
BHCR Busy Hour Call Rate
BHLI Broadband High-Layer Information (ATM)
BHM Busy Hour Minutes
BHMC Busy Hour Minutes of Capacity
Bi-directional Radiating or sensitive to two directions
BIA Burned In Address (LANs)
BIB 1. Backward Indicator Bit (SS7)
2. British Interactive Broadcasting
BIBO Bounded Input, Bounded Output
BIC Barring of Incoming Calls (GSM supplementary
service)
BIC-Roam Barring of Incoming Calls while Roaming (GSM
service)
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control
BICI Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface
BiCMOS Bipolar CMOS (semiconductors)
BICSI Building Industry Consulting Service International
(standards)
BID Bridge Identification Code
BIDDS Base Information Digital Distribution System (military)
BiDi bi-directional (transmission)
BIDOPS Bi-Doppler Scoring (military)
36 &
BIDS Broadband Infrastructure for Digital TV and
multimedia Services
BIE Base station Interface Equipment
BiFET Bipolar FET (semiconductors)
BIFODEL Binary Fiber-Optic Delay Line
BIG Broadband Integrated Gateway
BIGA Bus Interface Gate Array (microchips)
BIH Bureau International del’Heure
BII Base Information Infrastructure
.bin Name extension for files encoded with Mac Binary
(computer)
BINAC Binary Automatic Computer project
BIND Berkley Internet Name Daemon (Novell NetWare)
BIOD Bell Integrated Optical Device
BIOS Basic Input Output System (computer)
BIP 1. Bit Interleaved Parity (data encoding)
2. Billing Interconnection Percentage
3. Band Interleaved by Pixel (remote sensing)
BIP-8 Bit Interleaved Parity 8 (data encoding)
BIP-N Bit Interleaved Parity N (data encoding)
BIP-RZ Bipolar-Return to Zero level (data encoding)
BIF-L Biphase-Level (data encoding)
BIS 1. Business Information System
2. Border Intermediate System
3. Broadband Interactive System
BISDN Broadband ISDN
BISSI Broadband Inter Switching System Interface
BIST Built-in Self-test (operation)
BISYNC Binary Synchronous Control (protocol)
bit binary digit
bit/s bits per second
BIT Built-In Test
BITBLT BIT Block Transfer (Microsoft Windows)
BITE 1. Backward Interworking Telephony Event
2. Built-in Test Equipment
BITNet Because It’s Time Network (WANs)
BITNIC BITNet Network Information Center
BITS 1. Base Information Transport System (U.S. Air force)
2. Building Integrated Timing Supply (clock)
BITT BIT Transparent
BIU 1. Basic Information Unit (IBM SNA)
2. Bus-Interface Unit
BIX Byte Information Exchange (Byte magazine)
BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor (semiconductors)
B b & 37
B
BK break (Morse code transmissions)
BL 1. Business Line
2. Bit Line
BLAM Binary Logarithmic Access Method
BLAS Basic Linear-Algebra Subprogram (software)
BLEC 1. Broadband Local Exchange Carrier
2. Building Local Exchange Carrier
BLER Block Error Rate
BLERT Block Error Rate Test/Tester (data transmission)
BLES Broadband Loop Emulation Services
BLF Busy Lamp Field
BLIP Bluetooth’s Local Information Points (bluetooth)
BLISS Broadband Lightwave Source System
BLOB Binary Large Objects (data type)
BLOS Beyond Line-of-Sight (microwave)
BLP Block Loss Probability (transmission)
BLR 1. Branch Level Revenue
2. Block Loss Ratio (transmission)
BLSR Bidirectional Line-Switched Ring
BLT Block Line Transfer
BLU Basic Link Unit
BM 1. Balanced Modulator
2. Buffer Memory
3. Burst Modem
BMC 1. Business Management Computer
2. Broadband Management Controller
BMEC Batelco Middle East Company (Bahrain)
BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
BMIGRATE A program used to migrate from Banyan VINES
operating system to Novell Netware 4.1 (networking)
BMLC Basic Mode Link Control (OSI model)
BMMG British Minicomputer Manufacturing Group
.bmp Name extension for bitmap format files (graphics)
BMP Basic Multilingual Plane
BMR 1. Bit Mis-delivery Ratio (transmission)
2. Block Mis-delivery Ratio (transmission)
BMTI Block Mode Terminal Interface
BN 1. Bridge Number
2. Border Node
3. Background Noise
BNA 1. Burroughs Network Architecture
2. Billing Name and Address
BNAP Broadband Network Access Point (British Telecom)
BNC 1. British Naval Connector (cables)
38 &
2. Bayonet-coupling Navy Connector
3. Bayonet-coupling Nut Connector
BNCC Base Network Control Center
BNR Bell-Northern Research (Northern Telecom)
BNSC British National Space Centre (England)
BNT Broadband Network Termination
BO Back-Off
BOB Break-Out Box testing device (transmission)
BOC 1. Bell Operating Company
2. Business Office Code
BOE Buffer Overflow Error
BOF Business Operations Framework (wireless)
BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell (network language)
BOIC Barring of Outgoing International Calls (GSM service)
BOIC-exHC BOIC except the Home Country (GSM service)
BOL Beginning of Life
BOLT Broadband Optical Line Termination
BOM 1. Beginning of Message (ATM)
2. Bill of Materials (contracts)
3. Basic Operations Monitor
BONAPARTE Broadband Optical Network using ATM PON Access
facilities in Realistic Telecommunications Environment
BONDING Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group
BONT Broadband Optical Network Termination
BootP Bootstrap Protocol (TCP/IP)
BOP 1. Bit-Oriented Protocol
2. Biocomputing Office Protocol
3. Beginning of Packet
BOS Bill Output Specifications
BOSS Billing and Order Support System
bot robot
BOT Build, Operate, and Transfer (GSM contracts)
BP 1. Band-Pass
2. By-Pass
3. Base Pointer
4. Beam Position
5. Block Pair (telephone wire)
BP14 Body Part 14
BPAD Bisynchronous Packet Assembler/Disassembler
BPCS Broadband Personal Communications Standards
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit (ATM)
BPF Band-Pass Filter
Bpi Bytes per inch (recording surface)
BPM Beam Position Monitor
B b & 39
B
BPON Broadband Passive Optical Network
bpp bits per pixel (digital images)
BPP Brokered Private Peering (industry plan)
BPR Business Process Reengineering
bps bits per second
BPS 1. By-Pass
2. B-Channel Packet-Switched
BPSK Binary PSK (modulation)
BPU Boundary Processing Unit
BPV Bipolar Violation (data encoding)
BQM Business Quality Messaging
BQOS Business Quality of Service
BR 1. Beacon Receiver
2. Bureau of Radiocommunications
3. Back-Reflection
4. Bit Rate
BRA Basic Rate Access (ISDN)
BRADS Bell Rating Administrative Data System (Telcordia
Technologies)
BRC Bus Repeater Card
BRCS Business and Residence Customer Service
BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
(remote sensing)
BREW Binary Run-time Environment for Wireless (Qualcom)
BRF Band-Rejection Filter
Brg bridge (circuits)
BRI 1. Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)
2. Basic Rate ISDN (service)
BRIDS Bellcore Rating Input Database System
BRISC Bell-Northern Research Reduced Instruction Set
Computing
BRL Balance Return Loss
BRM Bus Repeater Module
BRS 1. Buried Ridge Stripe
2. Big Red Switch (computer)
BRTC Bus Repeater Terminating Card
BRTM Bus Repeater Terminating Module
BS 1. Back-Space (character control code)
2. Base Station
3. Bearer Service (ISDN)
4. Beam Splitter
5. Back Scatter
6. Broadcasting Service (ITU-T)
BSA 1. Basic Switching Arrangement
40 &
2. Basic Serving Arrangement (OSI model)
BSAC Bit-Sliced Arithmetic Coding
BSACE Billing System ACE
BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
BSC 1. Binary Synchronous Communications (protocol)
2. Binary Symmetric Channel
3. Base Station Controller (GSM)
BSCC Bell South Cellular Corporation
BSD UNIX Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX
BSDL Boundary-Scan Description Language (software)
BSE 1. Broadcasting Satellite Experiment ( Japan)
2. Back-Scattered Electrons
3. Basic Switching Element (networking)
4. Basic Service Element (voice processing)
BSF Band Stop Filter (electronics)
BSFOCS Black Sea Fiber Optic Cable System (cable consortium)
BSFT Byte Stream File Transfer
BSGL Branch Systems General License (British)
BSHR Bidirectional Self-Healing Ring
BSI British Standards Institution (U.K.)
BSIC Base Station Identity Code (GSM)
BSIS Branch Sales Information System
BskyB British Sky Broadcasting (TV broadcaster)
BSL British Sign Language (programming)
BSMS Broadcast Short Message Service (GSM)
BSMTP Batch Simple Mail-Transfer Protocol
BSN Backward Sequence Number (GSM)
BSO Bit Synchronous Operation (SONET)
BSOC Battery State-of-Charge
BSOD Black Screen of Death (windows error message)
BSP 1. Bell System Practice
2. Byte Stream Protocol
BSQ Band Sequential (remote sensing)
BSR 1. Bit Scan Rate
2. Bit Scan Reverse
BSRF Bell System Reference Frequency
BSS 1. Broadcast Satellite Services (ITU)
2. Boeing Satellite Systems
3. Base Station Subsystem (GSM)
4. Broadband Switching System
5. Business Support System
6. Basic Synchronized Set (OSI model)
BSSAP Base Station Subsystem Application Part (GSM)
BSSMAP Base Station Subsystem Mobile Application Part (GSM)
B b & 41
B
BSTCE Base Station Terminal Control Element
BSU 1. Beam Steering Unit
2. Burst Synchronization Unit
BSVC Broadcast-Switched Virtual Connections
BT 1. British Telecom (company)
2. Base Transceiver (GSM)
3. Burst Tolerance (ATM)
4. Bit Time
5. Television Broadcasting service (ITU-T)
BTA 1. Basic Trading Area (cellular networks)
2. Broadband Telecommunications Architecture
3. Broadband Terminal Adapter
4. Business Technology Association (standard
organization)
BTag Beginning Tag (ATM)
BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)
BTB Book-To-Bill (ratio)
BTBT Band-To-Band Tunneling
BTE 1. Boltzmann Transport Equation
2. Broadband Terminal Equipment
BTI British Telecom International
BTL 1. Bell Telephone Laboratories
2. British Telecommunications Laboratories
3. Backplane Transceiver Logic (electronics)
4. Bipolar Transistor Logic
BTM Broadband Transport Manager
BTMU Bit Transport Master Unit
BTN Billing Telephone Number
BTO 1. Built To Order (PC makers)
2. Bandwidth Trading Organization
3. Bombing Through Overcast (military)
BT British Telecom
BTP Burst Time Plan
BTR 1. Bit Timing Recovery
2. Block Transfer Rate
3. British Telecom Requirement
BTRL British Telecom Research Laboratories
BTS 1. Base Transceiver Station (GSM)
2. Bit Test and Set
BTSM Base Transceiver Station Management (wireless)
BTSO Bit Transport Slave Optical
BTU 1. Basic Transmission Unit
2. British Thermal Unit
BTV Business Television
42 &
BU Baseband Unit
BUFF buffer
BUNI Broadband User Network Interface
BURBON Broadband Urban Rural-Based Open Networks
BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server
BVA Billing Validation Application database (AT&T)
BVR Beyond Visual Range
BVS Billing Validation Service (AT&T)
BW bandwidth (parameter)
BWA 1. Broadband Wireless Access
2. Backward-Wave Amplifier (electronics)
BWF Broadcast Wave Format
BWFN Beam Width, First Nulls (antennas)
BWG Beam Wave-Guide (antenna)
BWM BandWidth Management System
BWO Backward-Wave Oscillator (electronics)
Byte Binary Term
BZT Bundesamt fu¨ r Zulassungen in der Telecommunikation
(German)
B b & 43
B
C c
c 1. Symbol for prefix centi-, denoting one-hundredth
or 10K2
2. Symbol for character
3. Symbol for cycle
4. Symbol for a constant value (mathematics)
cc cubic centimeter
C/I Ratio Carrier-to-Interference Ratio
c/in characters per inch
c/s 1. characters per second
2. cycles per second
C 1. Symbol for Capacitor or Capacitance (electronics)
2. Symbol for Coulomb (unit of electric charge)
3. Symbol for Collector (transistor circuit diagrams)
4. Symbol for Celsius (temperature unit)
5. Symbol for speed of light in a vacuum
6. A programming language
C&C 1. Computer and Communications
2. Command and Control
C&D Control and Display
C&DH Control and Data Handling (Intelsat)
C&IT Communications and Information Technology (same
as ICT)
C&W Cable and Wireless
C
45
CK Symbol for negative terminal of a C battery or
voltage source
CC Symbol for positive terminal of a C battery or
voltage source
CCC An extension of C programming language
C-AFM Calibrated Atomic Force Microscope
C-band Radio frequency band ranging from 4 to 6 GHz
C-channel Circuit-mode channel
C-DTE Character mode DTE (computer)
c-HTML Compact HTML
C-Net Coaxial Network
C-To-L C-band to L-band
C/A Clear and Acquisition Code (GPS)
C/DTAC Customer Disability Telecommunications Advisory
Committee
C/I Carrier-to-Interference power (ratio)
C/IM3 Carrier-to-3rd Order Inter modulation Ratio (Intelsat)
C/IMo Carrier-to-Inter modulation noise density ratio
(Intelsat)
C/Io Carrier-to-Interference power spectral density ratio
(Intelsat)
C/M Carrier-to-Multipath power (ratio)
C/N Carrier-to-Noise power (ratio)
C/No Carrier-to-Noise power spectral density (ratio)
C/R Command Response (frame relay)
C/S Call Sign (navigation)
C/T Carrier-to-noise Temperature (ratio)
C2 Command and Control system (military)
C2B Consumer-to-Business (e-commerce)
C2C Consumer-to-Consumer (e-commerce)
C2G Consumer-to-Government (e-commerce)
C2L Close Complementary Logic (digital electronics)
C3 Command, Control, and Communications system
(military)
C3L Complementary Constant-Current Logic (digital
electronics)
C3Po Cisco 3 Port switch
C4 Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
C4I Command, Control, Computer, Communications, and
Intelligence
C7 The European version of SS7
C64 Commodore 64
CA 1. Communication Agent
2. Conditional Access
46 &
3. Call Appearance
4. Cell Allocation (GSM)
5. Certificate Authority (digital certificate)
CAA 1. Civil Aviation Administration or Authority
2. Computer-Assisted Assessment (ICT)
3. Collinear Antenna Array
CAAGR Compound Annual Average Growth Rate
CaAs Cadmium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
.cab Name extension for cabinet files (computer)
CAB Canadian Association of Broadcasters
CableLabs Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (standards
organization)
CABS Carrier Access Billing System
CABS BOS CABS-Billing Output Specifications
CAC 1. Customer Administration Center
2. Carrier Access Code
3. Call Admission Control (ATM)
4. Connection Address Control
CACH Call Appearance Call Handling (ISDN)
CACM Communications of the Association for Computing
Machinery
CACS Centralized Alarm Control System
CAD 1. Computer-Aided Design (ICT)
2. Computer-Aided Drafting (ICT)
3. Computer-Aided Dispatching (ICT)
CAD/CAM Computer-Aided Design /Computer-Aided
Manufacturing (ICT)
CADA Computer-Aided Design and Analysis (ICT)
CADB Calling Area Database (MCI)
CADC Control And Display Console (Intelsat)
CADD Computer-Aided Design and Development (ICT)
CADS 1. Code Abuse Detection System
2. Computer Abuse Detection System
CAE 1. Computer-Aided Engineering (ICT)
2. Common Applications Environment (ICT)
CAFA Computer-Aided Financial Analysis
CAG 1. Customer Activation Group (Inmarsat)
2. Conditional Access Gateway
3. Computer-Aided Graphics (ICT)
CAGR Cumulative Annual Growth Rate (finance)
CAI 1. Computer-Aided Instruction (ICT)
2. Common Air Interface (GSM)
3. Configuration and Alarm Interface
C c & 47
C
CAIS Conditional Access Interface Server
cal calorie (unit of heat)
CAL 1. CAN Application Layer
2. Computer-Aided Learning (e-learning)
3. Computer-Assisted Learning (e-learning)
CALC Customer Access Line Charge
CALEA Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act
CALLUM Combined Analog Locked-Loop Universal Modulator
CALNet California Network
CALS 1. Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (EDI)
2. Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
(EDI)
CALSCH Calendaring and Scheduling working group of
the IETF
CAM 1. Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICT)
2. Computer-Assisted Makeup (ICT)
3. Carrier Module
4. Controlled Attachment Module (LANs)
5. Content-Addressable Memory
6. Conditional Access Module (TV viewing card)
7. Call Accounting Manager
8. Call Application Manager
CAMA Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAMA-ONI CAMA-Operator Number Identification
CAMA/LAMA CAMA Logical Automatic Message Accounting
CAMAC Computer-Aided Measurement And Control (ICT)
CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced
Logic
CAMP Channel Amplifier
CAMC Conditional Access Management Center (television)
CAN 1. Control Area Network
2. Controller Area Network
3. cancel (character control code)
CanISDN Canadian ISDN
CAO Computer-Assisted Ordering (ICT)
CAP 1. Competitive-Access Provider
2. Client Access Protocol
3. Carrierless Amplitude and Phase modulation
4. Cellular Array Processor (Fujitsu)
5. Conditional Access Packet (EMM)
6. CAMEL Application Part
CAPC Competitive Access Provider Capacity (transmission
speed)
Capex Capital expenditures
48 &
CAPI 1. Cryptography Application Program Interface
2. Common-ISDN API
CAPIMS Conditional Access Program Information Management
System
CAPP Computer-Aide Process Planning (ICT)
Caps 1. Call Attempts Per Second
2. Capital letters (keyboard)
CAPS 1. Code Abuse Prevention System
2. Competitive Access Providers (telephone network)
CAPTAIN Character And Pattern Telephone Access Information
Network
CAPWIRE Capitol Wireless Inc. (company)
CAR Computer-Aided Retrieval (ICT)
CARAB Canadian Amateur Radio Advisory Board
CARE Customer Account Record Exchange
CARE/ISI CARE Industry Standard Interface
CAROT Centralized Automatic Reporting On Trunks (test &
maintenance)
CARP Cache Array Routing Protocol
CARS Cable Television Relay Service
CAS 1. Channel Associated Signaling
2. Centralized Attendant Service
3. Communications Applications Specification
4. Conditional Access Segment (TV broadcasting)
5. Collision Avoidance System (electronics)
6. Column-Address Strobe (memory chip logic signal)
CASBAA Cable And Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia
CASC Communications Air Support Center
CASE 1. Computer-Aided Software Engineering (ICT)
2. Computer-Assisted Software Engineering (ICT)
3. Computer-Aided System Engineering (ICT)
4. Computer-Assisted System Engineering (ICT)
5. Common Application Service Elements
CAST 1. Computer-Aided Software Testing (ICT)
2. Computer-Assisted Software Testing (ICT)
Cat category (cable standard)
CAT 1. Computer-Aided Teaching (e-learning)
2. Computer-Aided Testing (ICT)
3. Computerized Axial Tomography (medicine)
4. Conditional Access Table
5. Council for Access Technologies
6. Communications Authority of Thailand
7. Call Accounting Terminal (AT&T)
8. Clear-Air Turbulence
C c & 49
C
CAT3 Category 3 UTP Cable (copper cables)
CAT5 Category 5 UTP Cabling (copper cables)
CATI Computer-Aided Telephone Interviewing
CATLAS Centralized Automatic Trouble Locating and Analysis
System
CATNIP Common Architecture for Next generation Internet
Protocol
CATS Consortium for Audiographics Teleconferencing
Standards
CATT 1. Controlled Avalanche Transit-time Triode
(semiconductors)
2. China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
CATV 1. Community Antenna Television (broadcasting)
2. Community Access Television
3. Cable Television
CAU 1. Controlled Access Unit (LANs)
2. Connection Arrangement Unit (Northern Telecom)
CAUS Conditional Access Uplink System (TV broadcasting)
CAV Constant Angular Velocity (hard disks)
CAVE 1. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
2. Cellular Authentication and Voice Encryption
CB 1. Check Bits
2. Cell Broadcast (GSM)
3. Compensation Buffer
4. Citizens’ Band (radio service)
CB Radio Citizen’s Band Radio
CBA 1. Could Be Anything (fault type)
2. Community Broadcasters Association (U.S.A.)
CBAA Community Broadcasters Association of Australia
CBAC Context-Based Access Control
CBC 1. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (company)
2. Cipher Block Chaining (data encryption)
3. Cell Broadcast Center (GSM)
4. China Broadcast Cybercast
CBCH Cell Broadcast Channel (GSM)
CBCPS Conductor-Backed Co-Planar Stripline (microwave)
CBCPW Conductor-Backed Co-Planar Waveguide (microwave)
CBDS 1. Connectionless Broadband Data Service (ATM)
2. Common Basic Data Set
CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacture
Association
CBETS Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test
Satellite
50 &
CBF 1. Computer-Based Fax
2. Community Broadcasters Foundation Ltd. (Australia)
CBGA Ceramic Ball-Grid Array (microchips)
CBH Component Busy Hour
CBI Color Burst Inversion (TV broadcasting)
CBK Change Back
CBL 1. Computer-Based Learning (e-learning)
2. Communications By Line
CBM Commodore Business Machines
CBMS Computer-Based Managing System (ICT)
CBO Continuous Bit Oriented
CBP Coded Block Patterns (TV broadcasting)
CBQ Class-Based Queuing
CBR 1. Carrier and Bit Timing Recovery
2. Constant Bit Rate (ATM service)
3. Committed Bit Rate (ATM service)
4. Carson Bandwidth Rule
CBS 1. Certified Banyan Specialist (Banyan Systems)
2. Columbia Broadcasting System
3. Call Broadcast Services (GSM)
4. Constant Bit rate Service
CBSC Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
CBT 1. Computer-Based Training (e-learning)
2. Core-Based Trees (IP multicast)
3. Cincinnati Bell Telephone company (U.S.A.)
CBTA Canadian Business Telecommunication Alliance
CBTR Carrier and Bit Timing Recovery
CBUD “Call Before U Dig” (cabling)
CBX Computerized Branch Exchange (IBM)
CC 1. Call Control (GSM)
2. Carbon Copy (fax and e-mail)
3. Courtesy Copy (e-mail)
4. Cross Connect
5. Country Code
6. Company Code
7. Constant Current
CCA 1. Carrier-Controlled Approach
2. Circuit Card Assembly
CCAF Cluster Control Agent Function
CCB 1. Common Carrier Bureau (FCC)
2. Cluster Control Bus
3. Customer Care and Billing (GSM)
CCBM Came Clear By Magic (repair technique)
C c & 51
C
CCBS 1. Call Completion to Busy Subscriber
2. Customer Care and Billing System
CCC 1. Clear Channel Capability (data transmission)
2. Clear Coded Channel
3. Center for Corporate Communications
4. Call Control Character (telephony)
5. Command and Control Center
6. Customer Care Center (Inmarsat)
7. Credit Card Call
8. Communications Competition Coalition
CCCH Common Control Channel (GSM)
CCCP Committee on Computer-to-Computer
Communications Protocol
CCD Charge-Coupled Device (semiconductors)
CCDA Cisco Certified Design Associate (Cisco)
CCDN Corporate Consolidated Data Network
CCDP Cisco Certified Design Professional (Cisco)
CCE Call Carrying Equipment
CCEB Combined Communications–Electronics Board
CCF 1. Cluster Control Function
2. Consumer Consultative Forum
CCFL Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
CCG Control Clock Generator
CCH Connections per Circuit-Hour
CCI 1. Co-Channel Interference
2. Common Client Interface (Windows)
CCIA Computer and Communications Industry Association
CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (Cisco)
CCIR 1. Comite´ Consultatif des International
Radiocommunications
2. Center for Communication Interface Research
CCIRN Coordinating Committee for International Research
Networks
CCIS 1. Common-Channel Interoffice Signaling
2. Control Command Information System
CCITT 1. Comite´ Consultatif International Te´le´graphique et
Te´le´phonique
2. Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy
and Telephony (now ITU)
CCK Complementary Code Keying (modulation)
CCL 1. Configuration Control Link
2. Carrier Common Line (charge)
CCM 1. Cross Connection Management
2. Counter-Counter Measure (electronics)
52 &
C3CM Command, Control, and Communications
Countermeasures
CCMA Call Center Management Association (U.K.)
CCMT Computer-Controlled Microwave Tuner (microwave)
CCNA 1. Cisco Certified Network Associate (Cisco)
2. Customer’s Carrier Name Abbreviation
CCNE Cisco-Certified Network Engineer (Cisco)
CCNP Cisco-Certified Network Professional (Cisco)
CCNR Call Completion on No Reply
ccNUMA cache-coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access
(computer)
CCP 1. Cluster Control Processor
2. Compression Control Protocol
3. Certificate of Computer Programming
CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel
CCPR Co-Channel Power Ratio (microwave)
CCR 1. Carrier and Clock Recovery
2. Current Call Rate (ATM)
3. Customer Control Routing
CCS 1. Common Channel Signaling (ISDN)
2. Clear Confirmation Signal (data communications)
3. Common Communication Support (protocol)
4. Centi Call Second
CCS7 Common Channel Signaling No. 7
CCSA 1. Common Control Switching Arrangement (AT&T)
2. China Communication Standards Association
CCSD Command Communications Service Designator
CCSDS Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CCSL Compatible Current-Sinking Logic (digital
electronics)
CCSN Common Channel Signaling Network
CCT 1. Continuity Check Tone
2. Computer Compatible Tape
3. Consultative Committee of Telecommunications
4. Calling Card Table
CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CCTV Closed-Circuit Television (system)
CCU 1. Cluster Control Unit
2. Communication Control Unit (minicomputers)
3. Camera Control Unit
CCV Credit Card Validation
CCW 1. Cable Cutoff Wavelength (fiber optics)
2. counterclockwise
C c & 53
C
cd 1. change the current directory (MS DOS Command)
2. candela (unit of luminous intensity)
cd/m2 candela per square meter
CD 1. Compact Disk
2. Carrier Detect (modems)
3. Collision Detection
4. Campus Distributor (Campus backbone cable)
5. Count Down
6. Call Definition
7. Cell Delineation (ATM)
CD-E Compact Disk Erasable
CD-I Compact Disk Interactive
CD-R Compact Disk Recordable
CD-R/E Compact Disk Recordable and Erasable
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CD-ROM/XA CD-ROM Extended Architecture
CD-RW Compact Disk Re-writable (computer)
CD-V Compact Disk Video
CD-WO Compact Disk Write Once
CDA 1. Communications Decency Act
2. Call Duration Advice
CDAR Customer Dialed Account Recording
CDAS Commanding and Data Acquisition Station (remote
sensing)
CDB 1. Clock Distribution Board
2. Code Data Byte (software downloading)
CDC 1. Control and Delay Channel
2. Customer Data Change
3. Chromatic Dispersion Coefficient (fiber optics)
4. Connected Device Configuration (J2ME)
CDCA Continuous Dynamic Channel Allocation
CDCS Continuous Dynamic Channel Selection
CDDI Copper Distributed-Data Interface (cable)
CDE 1. Common Desktop Environment (UNIX)
2. Custom Design Engineering
CDEV Control panel Device (Apple Macintosh)
CDF 1. Cutoff Decrease Factor (ATM)
2. Combined Distribution Frame
3. Cumulative Distribution Function
4. Channel Definition Format (Internet)
CDFP Centrex Data Facility Pooling
CDFS Compact Disk File System (CD-ROM drives)
CDG CDMA Development Group (U.S. standards
organization)
54 &
CDI 1. Clock Distribution Interface
2. Compact Disk Interactive
CDL Coded Digital Locator
CDLC Cellular Data Link Control (protocol)
CDLRD Confirming Design Layout Report Date
CDM 1. Conditioned Diphase Modulation
2. China Digital Media (pay TV operator)
3. Code-Division Multiplexing
CDMA Code-Division Multiple Access (cellular networks)
CDMA 1X The first generation of CDMA-2000
CDMA 1X EV DO The Evolved Data Only first generation of
CDMA-2000 (GSM)
CDMA-2000 Code-Division Multiple Access 2000 (3rd Generation)
CDMA2000
1x RTT Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1x
(single-carrier) Radio Transmission Technology
CDMA one The First commercial CDMA cellular system
CDMP Cellular Digital Messaging Protocol
CDN 1. Control Directory Number
2. Content Data Network
3. Content Delivery Network
CDO Community Dial Office (switching system)
CDP 1. Cisco Discovery Protocol (Cisco)
2. Customized Dial Plan
3. Certificate of Data Processing
CDPA Capture Division Packet Access (cellular networks)
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data (cellular networks)
CDPDF Cellular Digital Packet Data Forum
CDPSK Coherent Differential PSK (modulation)
.cdr Name extension for CorelDRAW format files (graphics)
CDR 1. Call Data Record
2. Call Detail Record (cellular networks)
3. Call Drop Rate (GSM)
4. Critical Design Review
5. Clock/Data Recovery (LANs)
6. Complete Document Recognition
CDRAM Cache Dynamic RAM (memory)
CdS Cadmium Sulfide (semiconductors)
CDS 1. Circuit Data Services
2. Chromatic Dispersion Slope (optical fibers)
CDSA Common Data Security Architecture
CDSL Consumer DSL (access)
CDT 1. Credit allocation (packet Switching)
2. Center for Democracy and Technology
C c & 55
C
3. Control Data Terminal
4. Code Download Table (software downloading)
CDTAC Consumer/Disabilities Telecommunications Advisory
Committee
CDTV Comodore Dynamic Total Vision
CDU Central Display Unit
CDV 1. Call Delay Variation (ATM)
2. Compressed Digital Video
3. Compact Disk Video
CDVCC Coded Digital Verification Color Code
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance (ATM)
CE 1. Connection Endpoint (ATM)
2. Circuit Emulation
3. Chip Enable (electronics)
C/E Buffer Compression and Expansion Buffer
CeBIT Centrum Buero Information Telekommunikation
(Germany)
CEBus Consumer Electronics Bus
CEC 1. Commission of the European Communities
2. China Electric Company
3. Canadian Electric Code
CECL Cascade Emitter-Coupled Logic (digital electronics)
CED Capacitance Electric Disk
CEDAR Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and
Recognition
CEDT Called Equipment Identification Tone
CEG Canterbury Electronics Group (New Zealand)
CEI 1. Connection Endpoint Identification (ATM)
2. Comparable Efficient Interface
CEIR Central Equipment Identity Register
CEKS Centrex Electronic Key Set
celliquette Social etiquette for using cellphones
CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction (voice coding)
cellphone cellular telephone
CEM Centro Esercizio de Manufenzione (Italy)
CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association
(standards)
CEMF Counter Electromotive Force
CEMH Controlled Environment Man-Hole
CEN Comite´ European de Normalisation (Belgium
standards)
CENELEC Comite´ European pour la Normalisation en
Electrotechnique
CEO Chief Executive Officer (of companies)
56 &
CEOS Committee On Earth Observation Satellite (remote
sensing)
CEOS-IDN CEOS International Directory Network (remote
sensing)
CEP Circular Error Probability (transmission)
CEPS Color Electronic Prepress System
CEPT Conference of European Postal and
Telecommunications
CER Cell Error Ratio (ATM)
CERB Centralized Emergency Reporting Bureau (Canada)
CERDIP Ceramic Dual Inline Package (microchips)
CERFnet California Education and Research Federation
Network
CERMET Ceramic Metal (element)
CERN Centre European des Recherche Nucleáire
(Switzerland)
CERPACK Ceramic Package (microchips)
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team (organization)
CES 1. Coast Earth Station (Inmarsat)
2. Circuit Emulation Switching (ATM)
CESA Cyberspace Electronic Security Act (U.S.A.)
CESID Caller Emergency Service ID
CEST Center for the Exploitation of Science and Technology
CETIS Center for Educational Technology Interoperability
Standards
CEU Commercial End User (DSL)
CEV Controlled Environmental Vault (room)
CF 1. Call Forwarding (GSM)
2. Compact Flash (memory)
3. Center Frequency
4. Critical Frequency (propagation)
CFC Compact Flash Plus (memory)
CFA 1. Carrier Failure Alarm (transmission)
2. Commercial Frame Agreement (Inmarsat)
3. Carrier Facility Assignment
4. Connecting Facility Assignment
5. Connecting Facility Arrangement
6. Consumer Federation of America
7. Compact Flash Association
8. Cross-Field Amplifier (microwave)
CFAC Call Forward All Calls
CFAMN Call Forwarding Address Modified Notification
CFAR Constant False-Alarm Rate (radar)
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CFB Call Forwarding on Mobile Subscriber Busy (GSM
service)
CFC Current-to-Frequency Converter
CFCA Communications Fraud Control Association (U.S.A.)
CFDA Call Forward Don’t Answer
CFDAMA Combined Free/Demand Assignment Multiple Access
CFE Contractor-Furnished Equipment
CFF 1. Coded File Format
2. Critical Fusion Frequency
CFGDA Call Forward Group Don’t Answer
CFM 1. Companded Frequency Modulation
2. Carrier Financial Management
3. Cubic Feet per Minute (PC fans)
CFNRe Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Not Reachable
(GSM)
CFNRy Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber No Reply
(GSM service)
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFP Channel Frame Processor
CFR 1. Confirmation to Receive frame
2. Code of Federal Regulations
CFRA Combined Fixed/Reservation Assignment
CFS Call Forwarding System
CFSK Coherent FSK (modulation)
CFU Call Forwarding Unconditional (GSM supplementary
service)
CFV Call For Votes (Usenet newsgroup)
CFW Call Forward
CG Character Generator
CGA 1. Carrier Group Alarm
2. Color Graphics Adapter (320!200 pixel monitors)
CGI 1. Common Gateway Interface (Internet)
2. Computer Graphics Interface
3. Cell Global Identification (GSM)
CGI-bin Common Gateway Interface-binaries
CGISS Commercial Government and Industrial Solutions
Sector
.cgm Name extension for Computer Graphics format files
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (format)
CGMP Cisco Group Multicast Protocol
CGS unit Centimeter-Gram-Second unit (parameter)
CGSA Cellular Geographic Service Area (cellular networks)
CGW Customer Gateway
Ch channel
58 &
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
(security)
CHEST Combined Higher Education Software Team
(e-learning)
CHI Concentration Highway Interface (ISDN)
CHINT Charge-Injected Transistor (semiconductors)
CHKDSK Check Disk (DOS command)
CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform
CHS Cylinder-Head Sector (PC hard drive)
CHTML Compact HTML (programming)
Ci Curie (unit of radioactivity)
CI 1. Clear Indication
2. Cell Identity (GSM)
3. Congestion Indicator (ATM)
4. Certified Integrator
5. Customer Interface
CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability
CIAJ Communications Industry Association of Japan
CIAS Circuit Inventory and Analysis System
CIB Compliance & Information Bureau (FCC)
CIBER Cellular Intercarrier Billing Exchange Roamer Record
(GSM)
CIC 1. Customer Interface Configuration
2. Carrier Identification Code
3. Circuit Identification Code (SS7)
4. Content Indicator Code
5. China Institute of Communications
CICS Customer Information Control System (IBM)
CID 1. Customer Identity (British term)
2. Caller ID (telephony service)
3. Circuit Designator
4. Charge-Injection Device (semiconductors)
5. Consecutive Identical Digits
CIDB Calling line Identification Delivery Blocking (feature)
CIDCW CID on Call Waiting (telephony service)
CIDIN Common ICAO Data Interchange Network
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing (method)
CiDSL Consumer-installable DSL (access)
CIE 1. Commercial Internet Exchange
2. Computer-Integrated Engineering (ICT)
CIF 1. Cells In Frame (ATM)
2. Cells In Flight (ATM)
3. Common Intermediate Format (video compression)
4. Common Interchange Format
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CIF-AD Cells In Frames-Attachment Device (ATM)
CIFAX Ciphered Facsimile
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIGOS Canadian Interest Group on Open Systems
CIGRR Common Interest Group on Rating and Routing
CIID Card Issuer Identifier Code
CIIG Canadian ISDN Interest Group
CIK Cryptographic Ignition Key
CIM 1. Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (ICT)
2. Computer-Input Microfilm
3. Common Information Model (network
management)
4. Customer Information Manager (MCI)
5. Corporate Information Management
CIO Chief Information Officer (ICT)
CIP 1. Certified Internet Professional
2. Carrier Identification Parameter (ATM)
3. Computer Interface Program
4. Channel Interface Processor (Cisco)
CIPA Children’s Internet Protection Act
CIPHONY Ciphered telephony
CIPS Canadian Information Processing Society
CIR 1. Current Instruction Register (CPU)
2. Committed Information Rate (frame relay)
3. Committed Information Range (ATM)
4. Communications Industry Researchers (company)
5. Carrier to Interference Ratio
6. Computer Integrated Railroading (ICT)
CIRA Canadian Internet Registration Authority
CIRF Co-channel Interference Reduction Factor
CIS 1. Communications and Information Systems
2. Card Information Structure (memory card)
CISA China Information Service Association
CISC 1. Complex-Instruction-Set Computer (processor
chips)
2. Customer Information Control System (software)
CISCC Collocation Interconnection Service Cross Connection
Cisco Computer Information Systems Company
CISE Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(U.S.A.)
CISPR Comite´ International Special des Perturbations
Radioelectriques
CIT 1. Communications and Information Technology
2. Computer Integrated Telephone
60 &
CITA Canadian Independent Telephone Association
CITC Communications and Information Technology
Commission
CITEL Comision Inter-Americana de Telecommunicaciones
CITR Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research
CITRIS Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society
CITU Central IT Unit (United Kingdom)
CIV Cell Inter-arrival Variation (ATM)
CIVDL Collaboration for Interactive Visual Distance Learning
(e-learning)
CIX Commercial Internet Exchange
CJC Canadian Journal of Communication
CK Ciphering Key
CKL Circuit Location
CKR Circuit Reference
CKSN Ciphering Key Sequence Number (GSM)
CKT circuit
CL Connectionless (mode)
CLAMN Called Line Address Modification Notification
CLAS Centrex Line-Assignment Service
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Services
CLC 1. Communications Line Controller
2. Carrier Liaison Committee
CLCC Ceramic Leaded-Chip Carrier (electronics)
CLCI Common Language Circuit Identification
CLD Competitive Long-Distance (carrier)
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration ( J2ME)
CLDLS Connectionless Data Link Service
CLE 1. Common Logic Equipment
2. Customer Location Equipment
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CLEI Common Language Equipment Identifier
CLEOS Conference of the Lasers and Electro-Optic Society
CLI 1. Caller Line Identification (ISDN)
2. Command-Line Interface
3. Cumulative Leakage Index (FCC)
CLIB C Language Interface Library (networking)
CLID Calling Line Identification (GSM)
CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation (GSM)
CLIR Calling Line Identification Restriction (GSM)
CLIS Calling Line Identification Signal (GSM)
Clk clock (pulse)
CLLI Common Language Location Identifier code (Telcordia)
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CLM Career Limiting Move
CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol (OSI model)
CLNS Connectionless-mode Network Service (OSI model)
CLP 1. Cell Loss Priority (ATM)
2. Certified Linux Professional
CLR 1. Cell Loss Ratio (ATM)
2. Connection Loudness Rating
3. Circuit Layout Record (type of service)
CLS 1. Connectionless Server
2. Control Line Setting
3. Clear the current Screen (MS DOS Command)
CLSI Custom Large-Scale Integration (microchips)
CLSP Competitive Local Service Provider
CLTP Connectionless Transport Protocol (OSI model)
CLTS Connectionless Transport Service
CLTU Command Link Transmission Unit
CLUT Color Look-Up Table
CLV Constant Linear Velocity (hard disks)
cm centimeter
cm3 cubic centimeter
CM 1. Configuration Management (wireless)
2. Connection Management (GSM)
3. Connection Matrix (MUX)
4. Computing Module
5. Cable Modem
CMA Communications Managers Association (standards
organization)
CMAC Control Mobile Attenuation Code
CMC 1. Common Messaging Calls
2. Comsat Mobile Communications
3. Computer-Mediated Communications (ICT)
4. Communications Management Configuration
5. Customer Management Complex
6. Connection Management Controller (ATM)
CMCI Cable Modem to CPE Interface
CMD Command (computer)
CMDR Command Reject (computer)
CMDS Centralized Message Distribution System
CMEA Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm
CMI 1. Computer-Managed Instruction (e-learning)
2. Coded-Mark Inversion (data encoding)
3. Control Mode Idle
Cmil Circular mil (measure of sectional area of a wire)
62 &
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
(networking)
CMIS Common Management Information Service
(networking)
CMISE Common Management Information Service Element
(wireless)
CML 1. Current-Mode Logic (digital electronics)
2. Customer Microcircuits Ltd (company)
CMOL CMIP Over Logical link control
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
(semiconductors)
CMOS RAM Random Access Memory using CMOS technology
(memories)
CMOS SOS Silicon-On-Sapphire combined with CMOS technology
CMOS SOS RAM A RAM memory using a combination of CMOS and
Silicon-On-Sapphire technologies (memories)
CMOT CMIP Over TCP/IP
CMP 1. Cluster Management Processor
2. Communications Management Processor
3. Chip-level Multiprocessing
CMR 1. Cellular Mobile Radio
2. Cell Misinsertion Rate (ATM)
3. Common-Mode Rejection (amplifiers)
CMRF Combined Mode Resonator Filter
CMRFI Cable Modem to Radio Frequency Interface
CMRR Common-Mode Rejection Ratio (amplifiers)
CMRS Commercial Mobile Radio Service (cellular networks)
CMS 1. Cluster Management System
2. Content Management System
3. Changeable Message Sign
4. Call Management Services
5. Color Management System (monitors)
CMS-8800 Cellular Mobile telephone Service (North America)
CMS/MD Cluster Management System Mediation Device
CMT Connectionless Mode Transmission
CMTRI Cable Modem Telco Return Interface (data over cable)
CMTS 1. Cellular Mobile Telephone System
2. Cable Modem Termination System
CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation (networking)
CMY Cyan-Magneta-Yellow color model (computer
imaging)
CMYK Cyan-Magneta-Yellow-black color model (computer
imaging)
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CN 1. Complementary Network
2. Change Notice
3. Control Network (ATM)
CNA 1. Certified Novell Administrator (Novell NetWare)
2. Cooperative Network Architecture
3. Customer Name and Address bureau
CNAE Customer Network Access Equipment
CNAM Caller ID with Name
CNC 1. Central Node Controller
2. Computer Numerical Control (ICT)
3. Computerized Numerical Control
CND 1. Calling Number Display
2. Calling Number Delivery
CNE Certified Novell Engineer (Novell NetWare)
CNEPA Certified Novell Engineer Professional Association
(Novell, Inc.)
CNE Certified Novell Engineer (Novell NetWare)
CNES Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (French Space
Agency)
CNET Centre National d’Etudes de Te´lećommunication
(France)
CNF conference
CNI Certified Novell Instructor (Novell NetWare)
CNIP Calling Number Identification Presentation (wireless)
CNIR Calling Number Identification Registration (wireless)
CNIS 1. Calling Number Identification Service (wireless)
2. Channel Navigation Information Service
CNIT Centro Nazionale Interuniversitario per
Telecomunicazioni (Italy)
CNM 1. Customer Network Management (ATM)
2. Communications Network Management
CNN Cable News Network (TV broadcaster)
CNO Corporate Networking Officer
CNR 1. Complex Node Representation (ATM)
2. Customer is Not Ready
3. Carrier-to-Noise power Ratio (transmission)
CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives
CNS 1. Complementary Network Service
2. Communication Navigation Surveillance (aviation)
CNSA China National Space Administration
CNT Coaxial Network Termination
CNTL control
CNX Certified Network Expert
64 &
CO 1. Connection Oriented
2. Central Office (DSL)
CO-LAN Central Office Local Area Network
COA Change Over Acknowledge (GSM message)
COAI Cellular Operations Association of India
COAM Customer Owned And Maintained telephone
equipments
COAT Coherent Optical Adaptive Technique (fiber optics)
COB Close Of Business
COB Chip On Board
CoBAMs Consortium of Brick And Mortars (e-commerce)
COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language (programming)
COBRA A wrong spelling of CORBA
COBRAS Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite
COC Central Office Connection
COCOT Customer-Owned Coin-Operated Telephone
COCUS Central Office Code Utilization Survey
COD 1. Connection-Oriented Data (ATM)
2. Catastrophic Optical Damage (fiber optics)
CODAN Carrier-Operated Device Antinoise
CODAR Correlation, Detection, And Ranging (submarine
detection)
CODASYL Computer On Data Systems Languages (organization)
Codec Coder/decoder
CODLS Connection-Oriented Data Link Service
CODS Connection-Oriented Data Service
COE 1. Central Office Equipment
2. Central Office Engineer
COER 1. Central Office Equipment Report (of a telephone
company)
2. Center for Organizational Excellence Research
(New Zealand)
COFA Change Of Frame Alignment
COFDM Coded Orthogonal FDM (transmission)
COFETEL Comision Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Mexico)
COG Centralized Ordering Group
COHO Coherent Oscillator
COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk
CoLo Co-Location (servers)
COLP Connected Line Identification Presentation (GSM
service)
COLR Connected Line Identification Restriction (GSM
service)
COLT Cellular On Light Truck
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C
.com The MS DOS name extension for executable program
files
COM 1. serial communications port (computer)
2. Component Object Model (MS ActiveX platform)
3. Continuation Of Message (ATM)
4. Common Object Model (ICT)
5. Computer-Output Microfilm
COM port Communication port (computer)
COM1 A communication port used for connecting a serial
mouse
COM2 A serial communication port used for connecting
a modem
COM3 A communication port used connecting other
peripherals
COMB combiner
Comdex Computer Dealers Exposition (trade show)
COMINT Communications Intelligence
COMJAM Communications Jamming
COMLOGNet Combat Logistic Network (military)
comms communications
COMP Compare files or set of files (MS DOS Command)
Compander Compressor-expander
COMPSURF Comprehensive Surface Analysis (Novell program)
CompTel Competitive Telecommunications Association
(U.S.A.)
CompTIA Computing Technology Industry Association (U.S.A.)
COMPUSEC Computer Security
COMS 1. Circuit Order Management System
2. Consortium for Multipurpose Satellite (South Korea)
COMSAR Communications for Search And Rescue (IMO
sub-committee)
Comsat Communications Satellite Corporation (U.S. operator)
COMSEC Communications Security
CON Circuit Order Number
CONNEX Connectivity Exchange
CONF configuration
CONFIG configuration information (Novell NetWare utility)
CONP Connection-Oriented Network Protocol
compander compressor and expander
CoNS Consortium for School Networking
CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service (networking)
CONTEL Continental Telecom Inc. (company)
CONV converter
COO Change Over Order (GSM message)
66 &
Co-Pol Copolar (antennas)
COP 1. Cable Organizer Panel
2. Certificate Of Proficiency (ship radio operator)
COPOUS Committee On Peaceful Use of Outer Space (United
Nations)
COPS 1. Common Open Policy Service (IETF protocol)
2. Common Operations Software (Bell Labs)
COPT Coin-Operated Pay Telephone
COPW Customer Owned Premises Wire
COR Circuit Order Record
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORE Council Of Registrars
CoS Class of Service
COS 1. Connection Oriented Service
2. Compatible for Open Systems
3. Corporation for Open Systems (organization)
COS/MOS Complementary Symmetry Metal-oxide Semiconductor
COSC Customer Operations Support Center (Boeing)
COSE Common Open Software Environment (Unix)
COSETI Columbus Optical SETI
COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection
Networking in Europe
CoSN Consortium for School Networking
COSName Class Of Service Name
COSPAS Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov
(Russia)
Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress
(Russia)
COT 1. Central Office Terminal/Termination
2. Customer Originated Trace (feature)
3. Customer Office Terminal
COTAR Correlated Orientation Tracking And Range (vehicle
tracking)
COTAT 1. Correlation Tracking And Triangulation (trajectories)
2. Committee On Transportation And
Telecommunications
COTP Connection-Oriented Transaction Protocol
COTS 1. Connection-Oriented Transport Service
2. Commercial Off-The-Shelf (military)
3. Compact, Outdoor, Transportable, Single-site
(Marconi)
COV Control Over Voice (Mitel’s protocol)
COW 1. Cell site On Wheels
2. Character-Oriented Windows
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CP 1. Circular Polarization
2. Control Point (networking)
3. Connection Point
4. Change Proposal (Inmarsat)
5. Customer Premises
6. Carrier Pulse
CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers
CPA 1. Co-Polarization Attenuation
2. Critical Path Analysis (ICT)
3. Close Point of Approach (shipboard radar)
4. Cost Per Action
5. Center for Policy Alternatives (Internet)
6. Computer Press Association
7. Chip Protection Act
8. Color Phase Alternation (television)
CPAF Customer Premises Access Facility
CPAS Cellular Priority Access Service
CPB 1. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
2. Central Processing Board
CPC 1. Customer Port Controller
2. Calling Party Control
3. Calling Party Connected
CPCI Compact Protocol Control Information
CPCN Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (FCC)
CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer (ATM)
CPD Call Processing Data
CPDA Compression Priority Demand Assignment
CPDLC Controller-Pilot Data-Link Control (aviation)
CPE 1. Customer Premises Equipment (networking)
2. Customer Provided Equipment (networking)
CPFSK Continuous Phase FSK (modulation)
CPGA Ceramic Pin-Grid Array (microchips)
cpi characters per inch
CPI 1. Common Part Indicator (ATM)
2. Common Programming Interface (computer)
3. Common Physical Interface (ISDN)
4. Computer to PBX Interface
5. Cost Per Inquiry
CPL 1. Commercial Private Line
2. Call Processing Language (programming)
3. coupler
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device (digital
electronics)
cpm cycles per minute
68 &
CPM 1. Critical Path Method (project control)
2. Customer Premise Management
3. Cable Plant Management
4. Communications Processor Module
5. Continuous Phase Modulation
CPN 1. Calling Party Number
2. Customer Premises Network
3. Computer PBX Network
CPNI Customer Proprietary Network Information
CPODA Compression Priority Demand Assignment (protocol)
CPP 1. Calling Party Pays (telephone call charge)
2. Cable Patch Panel (DEC)
CPR Continuing Property Record (Telcordia Technologies)
cps 1. characters per second (data transfer)
2. cycles per second
CPS 1. Cellular Priority Service
2. Call Progress Signal
3. Cassette Preparation System (TV broadcasting)
4. Co-Planar Stripline
5. Cisco Powered Networks
CPSI Customer Premises Satellite Interface
CPSK Coherent PSK (modulation)
CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPSS Control Packet Switching System
CPT 1. Call Progress Tone
2. “Carriage Paid To” (network language)
CPU Central Processing Unit (computer)
CPU-bound Computation-bound
CPUG Call Pickup Group
CPW Co-Planar Waveguide (microwave)
CQ General call to all stations (Morse code transmissions)
CQFP Ceramic Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
CR 1. “Carriage Return” (control character of printers)
2. Call Reference
3. Call Register (telephone switch)
4. Call Request
5. Channel Reliability
6. Connection Request
7. Contrast Ratio (screens)
8. Customer Record
CR-LDP Constraint-based Routed-Label Distribution Protocol
(MPLS)
CRAFT Cooperative Research Action For Technology
CRAG Cellular Radio Advisory Group
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CRATT Cryptographic Radio Teletype equipment
CRB Community Radio Broadcasters
CRC 1. Cyclic Redundancy Check (data error detection)
2. Communications Research Center (Canada)
3. Communications Regulation Commission (Bulgaria)
CRCS Continuous Rigid Cable Support
CRD 1. Cluster Reconciliation Descriptor
2. Contention Resolution Device
CREAM Cosmic Radiation Effects and Activation Monitors
(microwave)
CREDFACS Conduit, Risers, Equipment space, Ducts, and Facilities
CREG Concentrated Range Extension with Gain
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
(ICT)
CRF 1. Connection-Related Function (ATM)
2. Cell Relay Function (ATM)
CRIS Customer Record Information System
CRISP CAP Real-time ITIP-Based Scheduling Profile
CRITO Center for Research on Information Technology and
Organizations (U.S.A.)
CRITCOM Critical Itelligence Communications
CRM 1. Call Record Management
2. Customer Relationship Management (ICT)
3. Cell Rate Margin (ATM)
CRMAP Cyclic Reservation Multiple Access Protocol
CRO 1. Complete with Related Order
2. Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope (test instrument)
CROM Control and Read-Only Memory
CRP 1. Capacity Reserve Pool
2. Cabling Reference Panel
3. Command Repeat
CRS 1. Coast Radio Station
2. Cell Relay Service (ATM)
CRST Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (telephone authority)
CRT Cathode-Ray Tube (displays)
CRTC Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications
Commission
CRTSSDA Cascaded Reactively Terminated Single-Stage
Distributed Amplifier
CRV Call Reference Value (number)
Cryosar Cryogenic Switching by Avalanche and
Recombination
CS 1. Cluster Startup
2. Cell Selection
70 &
3. Chip Select (electronics)
4. Control Strobe (logic signal)
5. Convergence Sublayer (B-ISDN and ATM)
6. Communication Satellite (broadcasting)
7. Capability Sets (INs)
8. Coding Scheme
CS-ACELP Conjugate Structure-Algebraic Code Excited Linear
Prediction
CS-CDPD Circuit-Switched Cellular Digital Packet Data
CSA 1. Call-path Services Architecture (IBM)
2. Canadian Standards Association (Canada)
3. Canadian Space Agency (Canada)
4. Comprehensive System Accounting
5. Carrier Serving Area (DSL)
CSAR Combat Search And Rescue (Motorola)
CSB Cable Services Bureau (FCC)
CSBT Chinese users association for Satellite communications,
Broadcasting and Television
CSC 1. Common Signaling Channel
2. Cospas-Sarsat Council
3. Circuit Switching Center
4. Customer Service Center (MCI)
5. Customer Service Coordinator
6. Customer Service Consultant
7. Customer Support Center
CSCD Circuit-Switched Cellular Data
CSD 1. Cluster Specific Descriptor
2. Cellular Security Device
3. Circuit-Switched Data
CSDC Circuit-Switched Digital Capability (AT&T)
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSDN Circuit-Switched Data Network
CSE 1. Communications Security Establishment (Canada)
2. CAMEL Service Environment (GSM)
CSEL Cable Select (computer)
CSF 1. Clique Storing Facility
2. Cell Site Function
CSFI Communication Subsystem For Interconnection (IBM)
CSI 1. Called Subscriber Identification
2. Cellular Specialties Inc. (company)
3. Computo Service Inc. (company)
4. Computer Security Institute
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization
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CSID Calling Station ID
CRIS Customer Records Information System
CSC Customer Service Center
CSL 1. Communications Services Limited
2. Current-Sinking Logic (digital electronics)
3. Current-Sourcing Logic (digital electronics)
CSLIP Compressed Serial Link Internet Protocol
CSM 1. Communication Systems Management
2. Communications Security Material
3. Cell-Site Modem
4. Clock Supply Module
5. Combined Symbol Matching
CSMA Carrier-Sense Multiple Access
CSMA-CA Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA-CD Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSMDR Centralized Station Message Detail Reporting
CSMI Call Screening, Monitoring and Intercept
CSN Circuit-Switched Network
CSNet Computer and Science Network (U.S.A.)
CSO 1. Central Services Organization
2. Computing Services Office (Internet directory)
3. Composite Second Order
CSOC Convolutional Self-Orthogonal Code (error correction)
CSP 1. Certified Service Provider
2. Competitive Service Provider
3. Commerce Service Provider
4. Content Service Provider
5. Communications Service Provider
6. Chip-Scale Package
CSPDN Circuit-Switched Public Data Network
CSPF Constrained Shortest Path First (routing protocol)
CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project
CSQP Customer/Supplier Quality Process
CSR 1. Cell Switch Router (ATM)
2. Customer Service Record
3. Customer Service Representative
4. Customer Station Rearrangement
CSS 1. Cascading Style Sheets (Web design)
2. Cellular Subscriber Station
3. Coordinator, Surface Search
4. Customer Support System (GSM)
5. Content Scrambling System (broadcasting)
6. Customer Service Segment
72 &
CST 1. Computer-Supported Telephony (Siemens)
2. Compatible Sideband Transmission
CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Application
CSTP Customer Specific Term Plan
CSU 1. Channel Service Unit (networking)
2. Channel Sharing Unit
3. Customer Service Unit
4. Circuit Switching Unit
CSUA Canadian Satellite Users Association
CSV 1. Circuit-Switched Voice (call for voice)
2. Comma Separated Value format (data storage)
CT 1. Conformance Test
2. Cordless Telephone
3. Computer Telephony
4. Computed Tomography (medicine)
5. Call Transfer
6. Center Tap (circuit diagrams)
CT Scan Computer Tomographic Scanning (medicine)
CT0 Zero Generation Cordless Telephony
CT1 Cordless Telephone Generation 1
CT2 Cordless Telephone Generation 2
CT2-CAI CT2 Common Air Interface
CT3IP Channelized T3 Interface Processor
CTA 1. Cordless Terminal Adapter (DECT)
2. Competitive Telecommunications Association
(Canada)
CTAS Carrier Test Access Switch
CTB Composite Triple Beat
CTC Counter/Timer Circuit
CTCA Canadian Telecommunications Consultants
Association
CTCSS Continuous Tone Controlled Squelch System (cellular
networks)
CTD 1. Call Transfer Delay (ATM)
2. Clock Time Deference
3. Current Transfer Device
4. Continuity Tone Detector
CTE 1. Circuit Terminating Equipment
2. Channel Translating Equipment
3. Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (microwave)
CTERM Communications Terminal (protocol)
CTFM Continuous-Transmission Frequency-Modulation
CTFT Color Thin-Film Transistor (semiconductors)
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CTI 1. Computer Telephony Integration (ICT)
2. Computers in Testing Initiative (ICT)
3. Critical Technologies Institute
4. Call Technologies, Inc. (company)
CTIA 1. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
(U.S.A.)
2. CT Innovation Alliance
CTIP Computer Telephony Interface Products
CTL 1. Complex Text Layout
2. Complementary-Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
CTM 1. Cordless Terminal Mobility (DECT)
2. Circuit Transfer Mode
3. Conformal Transformation Method
CTN 1. Corporate Telecommunication Network
2. Consumers’ Telecommunication Network
3. Call Tracking Number
CTO 1. Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization
(U.K.)
2. Chief Technology Officer (ICT)
CTOS Convergent Technology Operating System
CTP 1. Connection Terminating Point
2. Cordless Telephony Profile (Bluetooth)
CTR Common Technical Regulations of Europe (ETSI)
Ctrl Control key (keyboard)
CTS 1. Clear-To-Send (RS 232 signal)
2. Communication Transport System
3. Conformance Testing Service
4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome of wrist and hand
(keyboard)
CTSS Compatible Time-Sharing System
CTT Central Traffic Terminal
CTTC Coax To The Curb
CTTE Common TDM Terminating Equipment
CTTU Centralized Trunk Test Unit
CTU 1. Central Terminal Unit
2. Command & Telemetry Unit
CTX 1. Clear-To-Transmit (RS 232 signal)
2. centrex
CTY Console Teletype
cu cubic (SI Units)
CU 1. Carrier Unit
2. Channel Unit
3. Crosstalk Unit
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CUA Common User Access (computer)
CUD could (Morse code transmissions)
CUG Closed-User Group (GSM supplementary service)
CUI Character User Interface (computer)
CUJT Complementary Uni-Junction Transistor
(semiconductors)
CUL See You Later (Morse code transmissions)
CUSEEME “See You, See Me” (Internet videoconferencing
system)
CV 1. Code Violation (data encoding)
2. Checksum Value
3. Computer Vision
4. Continuous Vulcanization (cables)
5. Constant Voltage
CVBS Composite Video Blanking and Synchronization (TV
signals)
CVC Computer Virus Catalog
CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition process (semiconductors)
CVDL Continuously Variable Delay Line
CVF Compressed Volume File (Microsoft)
CVP 1. Cooperative Voice Processing (British)
2. Certified Vertical Partner
CVPO Chemical Vapor Pulse Oxidation process (fiber optics)
CVR Crystal Video Receiver
CVS Computer Vision Syndrome
CVSD Continuously Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
CW 1. Continuous Wave
2. Carrier Wave
3. Composite Wave
4. clockwise
5. Call Waiting Supplementary Service (GSM)
CVT Constant Voltage Transformer
CWA Communications Workers of America
CWC Cable & Wireless Communications (broadcasting)
CWDM 1. Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (fiber
optics)
2. Circular Waveguide Dual Mode (microwave)
CWIS Campus-Wide Information System (universities)
CWML Compact Wireless Markup Language (programming)
CWS Communications Wiring System
CWSA Constant Width Slot Antenna (microwave)
CWVA Cable & Wireless Virtual Academy
CX Change Context (networking)
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CXR carrier
CXML Commerce XML (programming language)
cybernaut cybernetics astronaut
CYTA Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (GSM operator)
CZCS Constant Zone Color Scanner (remote sensing)
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D d
d 1. Symbol for prefix deci-, denoting one-tenth or
10K1
2. Symbol for distance
D 1. Symbol for electrostatic flux density
2. Symbol for Drain (FETs)
3. Symbol for Directivity (antennas)
D-AMPS Digital AMPS
D-Bit Delivery confirmation Bit (X.25)
D-Channel Data Channel (ISDN)
D-CLEC Digital Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
D-FET Depletion-mode FET (semiconductors)
D-LINK Diagonal Link (SS7)
D-VHS Digital version of VHS recording or playback
D/A Digital-to-Analog (electronics)
D/C Down Converter (satcom)
D/I Drop and Insert
D/L Down Link (satcom)
D/S Digital-to-Synchro (electronics)
D2-MAC Multiplexed Analog Component type D2 (TV
format)
D4 Digital 4th Generation Channel Bank (transmission)
DA 1. Demand-Assigned (access)
2. Doesn’t Answer (phone)
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3. Distribution Area (DSL)
4. Directory Assistance
5. Destination Address (LANs)
6. Differential Attenuation (Apple Macintosh)
7. Desk Accessory (software)
8. Discontinued Availability (circuit)
DA/TDMA Demand-Assigned mode TDMA (access)
DAA Data Access Arrangement
DAB 1. Digital Audio Broadcasting (satcom)
2. Dynamically Allocatable Bandwidth
3. Data Acquisition Board
DAC 1. Digital-to-Analog Converter (electronics)
2. Dual Attachment Concentrator
DACC 1. Digital Access Cross-Connect
2. Directory Assistance Call Completion
DACCS Digital Access Cross-Connect System (Intelsat)
DACD Digital Automatic Call Distributor
DACS Digital Access and Cross-connect System (DSL)
DAF 1. Destination Address Field
2. Data Administration Forum
3. Decrement All Frame (Motorola)
DAG Distress Alert Generator
DAI Digital Audio Interface
DAL Dedicated Access Line
DAM DECT Authentication Module
DAMA Demand-Assignment Multiple-Access
DAMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service
DAN DECT Access Node
DAND Despun Active Nutation Damper (Intelsat)
DAO Disk At Once (data storage)
DAP 1. Directory Access Protocol (network management)
2. Data Access Protocol (DECNet)
3. Data Access Point (MCI)
4. Data Acquisition Processor
5. Dedicated Array Processor (microchips)
6. Demand-Assigned Processor
DAQ 1. Delivered Audio Quality
2. Data Acquisition
DAR 1. Digital Audio Radio
2. Dynamically Adaptive Routing
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
DARPANet Defense ARPANet
DARS Digital Audio Radio System (broadcast operator)
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DAS 1. Dial Access Switching (Cisco)
2. Data Acquisition System
3. Dual Attachment Station
DASCPC Demand Assignment SCPC (access)
DASD Direct-Access Storage Device (semiconductors)
DASS 1. Demand Assignment Signaling & Switching unit
2. Digital Access Signaling System
3. Direct-Access Secondary Storage
DASS2 Digital Access Signaling System No. 2
.dat Name extension for data files (computer)
DAT 1. Digital Audio Tape
2. Dynamic Address Translation
Data CLEC Data Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
DATE Duly Authorized Telecommunications Entity (Intelsat)
DATTS Data Acquisition Telecommand and Tracking Station
(Intelsat)
DATU Direct-Access Test Unit
DAU Dumb Ass User
DAV 1. Distributed Authoring and Versioning
2. Data Available (logic signal)
3. Digital Audio-Visual
DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council (Italy)
DAVID Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder (ITU)
DAWS Digital Advanced Wireless Service
dB Decibel (one-tenth of a Bel)
dB/K Decibels relative to reciprocal temperature (in Kelvin)
dBa Decibels adjusted
dBA Decibel Audio (sound level)
dBa(FIA) dBa measured with FIA-line weighting (fiber optics)
dBa(HAI) dBa measured with HAI-receiver weighting (fiber
optics)
dBa0 dBa measured at zero transmission level point
dBc Decibels relative to unmodulated carrier power level
dBd Decibels relative to a Dipole antenna gain
.dbf Name extension for database files (computer)
dBf Decibels above one femtowatt
dBHz Decibels relative to one Hertz
dBi Decibels relative to an isotropic antenna gain
dBic Decibels relative to an isotropically radiated carrier
dBk Decibels relative to one kilowatt
dBm Decibels relative to one milliwatt (0 dBmZ1 milliwatt)
DBM Double-Balanced Mixer (microwave)
dBm0 Decibels relative to one milliwatt at a point of zero
dBm0p dBm0 measured with psophometric weighting
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dBmc dBm measured with C-message weighting
dBmc0 dBmc measured at 0 Transmission Level Point
dBm(f1Kf2) Flat noise power in dBm
dBmp Decibels relative to one milliwatt using psophometric
weighting
dBmV Decibels relative to one millivolt across a specific
impedance
dBnW Decibels relative to one nanowatt (0 dBnWZ1 nW)
dB0 Decibels relative to 0TLP
dBp Decibels relative to one picowatt
dBpsoph Noise power in dBm measured with
psophometric weighting
dBpW Decibels referred to one picowatt (0 dBpWZ1 pW)
dBq Decibels relative to digital speech codec Quality
dBr Decibels referred to a given reference
dBrn Decibels relative to reference noise level
dBrnC Decibels relative to reference noise using
C-message weighting
dBrnC0 Decibels relative to reference noise using a type
C-messaging channel adjusted for equivalence to
a 0 dBm equivalent point
dBuV Decibels relative to one microVolt
dBuW Decibels relative to one microWatt (mW)
dBV Decibels relative to one Volt
dBW Decibels relative to one Watt
dBx Decibels above the reference coupling
DB 1. Data Burst
2. Dummy Burst (GSM)
3. database
4. Data Bus
DBA 1. Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (protocol feature)
2. Direct Broadcast Address
3. Database Administrator (ICT)
DBC Dense Binary Code
DBD 1. Database Driver
2. Digital Bearing Discriminator
DBF Digital Beam Forming (microwave)
DBFN Digital Beam Forming Network
DBit Delivery confirmation Bit (X.25)
DBMS Database Management Systems (ICT)
DBP Deutsche Bundespost (German Communications)
DBPSK Differential Binary PSK (modulation)
DBR Deterministic Bit Rate
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DBS 1. Direct Broadcast by Satellite (TV service)
2. Digital Broadcast Satellite
DBT 1. Deutsche Bundespost Telecom (Germany)
2. Defect-Based Testing
DBTVS Direct Broadcast Television Satellite
DBU Dial Backup
DC 1. Direct Current (power)
2. Disconnect Conform
3. Disconnect (live internet chat)
DC/AC Direct Current to Alternating Current (power)
DC/DC Direct_Current-to-Direct_Current converter (electronics)
DCA 1. Document Content Architecture (IBM)
2. Dynamic Channel Allocation (DECT)
3. Defense Communication Agency (U.S.A.)
4. Directory Client Agent
5. Download Configuration Area (software
downloading)
DCAS Direct Carrier Administration System
DCASP Digitally Controlled Analog Signal Processing
DCC 1. Data Communications Channel (MUX)
2. Data Country Code (ATM)
3. Digital Compact Cassette
4. Digital Cross-Connect (MUX)
5. Digital Color Code
6. Digital Command Center
7. Digital Communications Center
8. Digital Communications Conference
DCCH Dedicated Control Channel (GSM)
DCD 1. Data-Carrier-Detect (RS 232 signal)
2. Dynamically Configurable Device
3. Duty Cycle Distortion
4. Document Content Description
DCDI Directional Correlation Deinterlacing
DCE 1. Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (networking)
2. Data Communications Equipment (networking)
3. Distributed Computing Environment (service)
DCF Dispersion Compensating Fiber
DCFL Direct-Coupled FET Logic (digital electronics)
DCG Dispersion Compensation Grating (optical signals)
DCH 1. D-Channel Handler
2. Dedicated Channel
DCI 1. Digital Control Interface
2. Data Communications Company of Iran
3. Display Control Interface
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DCLEC A CLEC specialized in delivering only DSL services
DCM 1. Digital Circuit Multiplication
2. Decoder and Control Module
3. Dispersion Compensation Module
4. Dynamically Controllable Magnetic
DCME Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment
DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCMS Digital Circuit Multiplication System
DCN 1. Data Communication Network
2. Disconnect frame
DCNR Digital Content Network Receiver
DCOF Doubly Cladded Optical Fiber
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model (ICT)
DCP 1. Digital Communications Protocol
2. Device Control Protocol
3. Data Collection Platform (remote sensing)
DCPR Detailed Continuing Property Records
DCPSK Differentially Coherent PSK (modulation)
DCR 1. Direct-Conversion Receiver
2. Down-Converting Receiver
DCS 1. Digital Cellular System (GSM)
2. Digital Communication System
3. Digital Cross-connect System (MUX)
4. Digital Clock Source
5. Digital Coded Squelch
6. Data Collection System (remote sensing)
7. Defense Communication System
8. Distributed Communications System
DCS-1800 Digital Cellular System at 1800 MHz (GSM-1800)
DCT 1. Digital Carrier Termination
2. Discrete Cosine Transform (mathematics)
DCTE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
DCTI Desktop Computer Telephony Integration
DCTL Direct-Coupled Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
DCTN Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
DCTU Digital Carrier Trunk Unit
DCU Distribution Control Unit
DCV Digital Compressed Video
DCWV DC Working Voltage (electronics)
DCXO Digitally-Compensated Crystal Oscillator
DD 1. Dotted Decimal notation
2. Double Density (floppy diskette)
DDA 1. Domain Defined Attribute (X.400)
2. Digital Differential Analyzer
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DDB 1. Digital Data Bank
2. Device Dependent Bitmap
DDBMS Distributed Database Management System
DDC 1. Direct Department Calling (service)
2. Direct Digital Control (computer)
3. Display Data Channel (VESA standard)
DDCMP Digital Data Communication Message Protocol
DDCP Direct Digital Color Proof (test sheet)
DDCPSK Double Differential Coherent PSK (modulation)
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange (Windows feature)
DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
DDF Digital Distribution Frame
DDI 1. Direct Digital Interface
2. Direct Dialing Inward
DDJ Data Dependent Jitter
DDL Data Definition/Description Language (programming)
DDM Distributed Data Management architecture
(networking)
DDN 1. Defense Data Network (U.S.A.)
2. Digital Data Network
DDN-NIC Defense Data Network–Network Information Center
DDNS Dynamic Domain Naming System (Internet)
DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service
DDP 1. Datagram Delivery Protocol
2. Distributed Data Processing
3. Data Distribution Plan (IMO)
DDR 1. Disengagement Denial Ratio
2. Double Data Rate (memory)
DDR-SDRAM Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic RAM
(memory)
DDS 1. Digital Data Service (DSL)
2. Digital Data Storage (standard)
3. Dataphone Digital Service (AT&T)
4. Distributed Data System
5. Direct Digital Synchronous (interface)
6. Direct Digital Synthesizer
7. Direct Dialing Service
DDSD Delay Dial Start Dial (protocol)
DDT Digital Dirty Trick (security feature)
De-emph De-emphasis (frequency modulation)
DE 1. Discard Eligibility bit (frame relay)
2. Designated Entity
3. Differentially Encoded
DEB Differentially Encoded Baseband
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DEBS Dynamic Electronic Bias System
DEC 1. Digital Equipment Corporation
2. decoder
DECA Digital Electronics Control Assembly
DECNet Digital Equipment Corporation’s proprietary Network
architecture
DECPSK Differentially Enhanced Coherent PSK (modulation)
DECT 1. Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
(ETSI)
2. Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
DEF Design Exchange Format
Deg degree
DEK Data Encryption Key
DEL 1. Delete a file (MS DOS Command)
2. Delete key (PC keyboard)
DELNI 1. Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect
2. DEC Local Network Interface
DELTIC Delay-Line-Time-Compression
DEM 1. demodulator
2. Digital Elevation Model (remote sensing)
DEMKO Denmark Elektriske Materie Kontrol
demo demonstration part (software package)
DEMOD demodulator
Demod/Remod Demodulation and Remodulation
DEMPR DEC Multiport Repeater
DEMS Digital Electronic Management System
DEMUX demultiplexer
DEMUXing demultiplexing
DEN Directory Enabled Networking (network management)
DENet Danish Ethernet Network
DEP Degraded Error Performance
DEPS Departmental Entry Processing System
DEPSK Differential Encoded PSK (modulation)
dequeue double-ended queue
DES 1. Data Encryption Standard (IBM algorithm)
2. Destination End Station (ATM)
3. Double-Ended Synchronization (networking)
DESC Defense Electronic Supply Center
DET detector
Detem Optical detector/emitter combiner (transducer)
DEU Data Encryption Unit
DF 1. Direction Finder (equipment)
2. Distribution Frame
3. Distress Frequency
84 &
DFA Doped Fiber Amplifier (fiber-optic)
DFB Distributed Feedback (laser)
DFC Data Flow Control
DFD 1. Data Flow Diagram (ICT)
2. Digital Frequency Discriminator
DFE Decision Feedback Equalizer (adaptive filter)
DFES Department For Education and Skills (U.K.
Government)
DFG Diode Function Generator
DFI Digital Facility Interface
DFM 1. Digital Frequency Modulation
2. Design For Manufacturability
3. Dispersive Fade Margin
DFS 1. Dynamic Frequency Selection
2. Distributed File System (Windows 2000 feature)
DFSK Double FSK (modulation)
DFT 1. Direct Facility Termination
2. Discrete Fourier Transform (algorithm)
3. Design For Test
DG Director General
DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Specification
(computer)
DGNSS Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems
DGPS Differential GPS
DGPT Department of General Posts and
Telecommunications, Vietnam
DGT 1. Direcsio´ n Geńe´rale des Te´lećommunicaciones
(France)
DHACP Dynamic Host Automatic Configuration Protocol
DHBT Double-Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (TCP/IP)
DHN Digital Home Network
DHSD Duplex High-Speed Data
DHTML Dynamic HTML (programming)
DI 1. Dedicated Integrator
2. Dielectric Isolation
DIA Document Interchange Architecture (data
transmission)
DIA/DCA DIA Document Content Architecture
diac diode AC (semiconductor switch)
DIAG diagnostic port
DIALAN DMS Integrated Access Local Area Network (Northern
Telecom)
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DIB 1. Dual Independent Bus (Intel’s Pentium II
processor)
2. Directory Information Base (X.500)
3. Device Independent Bitmap (file format)
DiBEG Digital Broadcasting Expert’s Group
DIC Dubai Internet City
DICODE-NRZ Di-Code-Non-Return to Zero level (data encoding)
DID 1. Destination ID
2. Direct Inward Dialing (phone line)
3. Detailed Interface Dossier
DIEL Advisory committee on telecommunications for
Disabled and Elderly people
DIF Data Interchange Format (computer)
DIFAR Directional Finding And Ranging (submarine warfare)
DIFCOD Differential Coder
DIFDECOD Differential Decoder
DiffServ Differentiated Services (QoS)
DiffZL Differential Ziv–Lempel (data encoding)
digicash digital cash
DigiTAG Digital Television Action Group (broadcasting)
DII Defense Information Infrastructure
DIL 1. Direct In-Line (office trunk)
2. Dual In-Line (microchips)
DILL Another form of saying “DLL”
DIM 1. Digital Interface Module
2. Document Image Management
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module (Macintosh PCs)
DIMS Document Image Management System
DIN Deutsches Institute fu¨r Normung (German
Standards)
DINA 1. Distributed Intelligent Network Architecture
2. Dynamic Intelligent Network Architecture
3. Direct Noise Amplification (jammer)
4. Danish Informatics Network in the Agricultural
Science
DIOCES Distributed Interoperable and Operable Computing
Environments and Systems
diode A two-electrode electron tube or semiconductor
DIP 1. Dual Inline Package (microchips)
2. Document Image Processing
3. Dedicated Inside Plant (local exchanges)
DIPS Digital Image Processing System
dir directory (MS DOS Command)
DIS Draft International Standard (ISO)
86 &
DISA 1. Direct Inward System Access (PBX feature)
2. Defense Information System Agency
Disc disconnect
DISH Data Interchange for Shipping
DISKCOPY Copy from one floppy Disk to another (MS DOS
Command)
DISN Defense Information Systems Network
DISNet Defense Integrated Secure Network
DISOSS Distributed Office Support System (IBM)
DIT Directory Information Tree (X.500)
DITS Digital Information Transfer System
DIU 1. Digital Interface Unit
2. Digital Indoor Unit (VSAT terminals)
DIW D type Inside Wire
DIX Digital/Intel/Xerox
DL 1. Distance Learning (ICT)
2. Data Link
3. Digital Library
4. Dead Load
DLC 1. Digital Loop Carrier (transmission equipment)
2. Direct Line Console
3. Dynamic Load Control
4. Data Link Control (protocol)
5. Data Link Connection (frame relay)
6. Dead-Link Check
7. Dual Layer Capacitor (electronics)
DLCI 1. Data Link Connection Identifier (frame relay)
2. Digital Loop Carrier Interface
DLE Data Link Escape (character control code)
DLEC Data Link Exchange Carrier
.dll Name extension for Dynamic-Link Library files
(computer)
DLL 1. Down Line Load
2. Dynamic-Link Library (Windows feature)
3. Data Link Layer driver
4. Digital Leased Lines
DLM Double-Level Metal (microchips)
DLP Digital Light Processing
DLPBC Dual Loop Port Bypass Circuitry
DLPI Data Link Provider Interface (ATM)
DLR 1. Destination Local Reference (GSM)
2. Design Layout Report
3. Deutches Zentrum fu¨ r Luft-und Raumfahrt
(Germany)
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DLS 1. Data Link Switching (IBM)
2. Distance Learning Section (e-learning)
3. Digital Loudspeaker
DLSE Dial Line Service Evaluation
DLSw Data Link Switching (standard)
DLSW Data Link Switching Workgroup
DLT 1. Digital Linear Tape
2. Design Life Time (satellite)
DLTU Data Link Trunk Unit (AT&T)
DLVA Detector Log Video Amplifier
DM 1. Delta Modulation
2. Digital Modulation
3. Delay Modulation
4. Differential Modulation
5. Detection Module
6. Disconnect Mode (X.25)
7. Distress Message
DMA 1. Direct Memory Access (computer)
2. Deferred Maintenance Alarm
3. Differential Mode Attenuation (AC power system)
4. Document Management Alliance
5. DECT Multimedia Access Profile
DMB 1. Digital Multipoint Bridge
2. Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
DMBU Dial Modem Backup Unit
DMC 1. Dual voice grade Modem Card
2. Discrete Memory Channel
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMD 1. Differential Mode Delay (fiber-optic)
2. Digital Micromirror Device (display)
DME 1. Distributed Management Environment
2. Distance Measuring Equipment
DMF Data Management Facility
DMG Distress Message Generator (IMO)
DMH Data Message Handler (cellular networks)
DMI 1. Desktop Management Interface (networking)
2. Digital Multiplexed Interface (AT&T)
DMI-BOS Digital Multiplexed Interface-Bit-Oriented Signaling
DML 1. Data Manipulation Language (programming)
2. Declarative Markup Language (programming)
3. Development Markup Language (programming)
DMM Digital Multimeter (test equipment)
DMO 1. Digital Modification Order
2. Data Mode Operation
88 &
3. Direct Mode Operation (cellular networks)
DMOS Double-diffused MOS (semiconductors)
DMPDU Derived MAC PDU (service)
DMR 1. Digital Microwave Radio
2. Dual-Mode Resonator (microwave)
DMS 1. Digital Multiplex System
2. Digital Multiplexed Switch (Northern Telecom)
3. Digital Media Solutions
4. Document Management System (ICT)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMSU Digital Main Switching Unit
DMT 1. Discrete Multitone (modulation)
2. Digital Multiplexed Trunk
DMTF Desktop Management Task Force (ICT)
DMUX demultiplexer
DMW Digital Microwave
DMX Digital Music Express
DMZ Demilitarized Zone (networks)
DN 1. Directory Number (ISDN telephone)
2. Digital Network
DNA 1. Digital Network Architecture
2. Distributed Network Administration
3. DEC Network Architecture
4. Dynamic Node Access
DNAL Dedicated Network Access Line
DNAR Directory Number Analysis Reporting
DNC 1. Distributed Networking Computing
2. Dynamic Network Controller
3. Direct Numerical Control
4. Distributed Network Computing
DNCF Directory Number Call Forwarding
DND Do Not Disturb (PBX)
DNI Digital Non-Interpolation
DNIC Data Network Identification Code (X.121)
DNID Data Network Identification code (Inmarsat)
DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service
DNL Dynamic Non-Linearity (microwave)
DNP Dial-up Networking Profile (Bluetooth)
DNPA Data Numbering Plan Area (X.25)
DNPIC Directory Number Primary InterLATA Carrier
DNPS Divisional Network Product Support
DNR 1. Dynamic Network Reconfiguration (IBM)
2. Dynamic Noise Reduction (satcom)
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3. Dialed Number Recorder
DNS 1. Domain Naming System (Internet)
2. Domain Name Service (Internet)
3. Distributed Network Service
DNSIX Defense Network Security Information Exchange
DNSSE Domain Name System Security Extensions
DNTX Do Not Transmit (Morse code)
DOA Dead On Arrival (of an equipment)
DoB Denial of Business
.doc Name extension for Word Processor document files
(computer)
DoC Department of Communications (Canadian
Government)
DOC Dynamic Overload Control (switch)
DocObject Document Object
DoCoMo Do Communications over the Mobile Network
(operators)
DOCSIS Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications
DoD Department of Defense (U.S. army)
DoD-STD Department of Defense Standard (U.S.A.)
DOD 1. Direct Outward Dialing (PBX feature)
2. Depth Of Discharge
DoDD Department of Defense Directive (U.S.A.)
DoDI Department of Defense Instructions (U.S.A.)
DoDISS DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (U.S.A.)
DOE Direct Order Entry
DOM domestic
DOMSAT Domestic Satellite communication system
DOP Dedicated Outside Plant (local exchanges)
Doran Doppler ranging system
DoS Denial-of-Service (network attack)
DOS Disk Operating System (computer)
DOSA Distributed Open Signaling Architecture (IP telephony)
DOT memory Domain-Tip memory
DOV Data Over Voice
DOVAP Doppler Velocity And Position system
DP 1. Data Port
2. Data Parity
3. Data Processing
4. Deflate Protocol
5. Dial Pulse
6. Distribution Partner (Inmarsat)
DPA 1. Demand Protocol Architecture
2. Digital Port Adapter (Northern Telecom)
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3. Digital Performance Archive
4. Dearborn Protocol Adapter (PC board)
5. Differential Power Analysis
6. Document Printing Application
DPBC Double-Pole Back Connected
DPBX Digital Private Branch Exchange
DPC 1. Destination Point Code (routing)
2. Data Processing Center (remote sensing)
3. Digital Port Cluster
DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel
DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel
DPCM Differential PCM (modulation)
DPCS Digital Personal Communications Services
DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel
DPDT Double-Pole Double-Throw (switches)
DPE Distributed Processing Environment
DPFC Double-Pole Front Connected
DPHEMT Double-heterojunction Pseudomorphic High-Electron
Mobility Transistor
dpi dots per inch (scanners)
DPI 1. Dedicated Pair-In (telephone wire pair)
2. Direct Pickup Interference
3. Dots Per Inch (image resolution)
4. Data Processing Company of Iran
DPLB Digital Private Line Billing
DPLL Digital Phase-Locked Loop
DPLX 1. Duplex
2. Duplexer
DPM 1. Digital Panel Meter (test equipment)
2. Digital Phase Modulation
3. Dual-Precedence Message
DPMA 1. Data Processing Management Association
2. Dynamic Power Management Architecture (ICT)
DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface
DPMS 1. Digital Performance Monitoring System
2. Display Power Manager Signaling (VESA standard)
DPNSS Digital Private Network Signaling System
DPO 1. Dedicated Pair Out (telephone wire pair)
2. Direct Public Offering
3. Digital Pulse Origination
DPP 1. Distributed Processing Peripherals
2. Distributed Programming Platform
3. Distributed Pipe Protocol
4. Digitally Programmable Potentiometer
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5. Direct Print Protocol
6. Demand Priority Protocol
DPPB Digital Primary Patch Bay (fiber optics)
DPRAM Dual Port RAM (memory)
DPRS Domestic Public Radio Service
DPS 1. Differential Phase Shift
2. Digital Passage Service
3. Digital Protection Switch
DPSK Differential PSK (modulation)
DPST Double-Pole Single-Throw (switches)
DPT Digital Pulse Termination
DPU 1. Digital Processing Unit
2. Dynamic Path Update (IBM)
3. Director of Public Utilities
DPX Data Path loop Extension
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus (architecture)
DQPSK Differential Quadrature PSK (modulation)
DQTV Distribution Quality Television
DR 1. Dual Rate
2. Design Review
3. Digital Radio
DRA Direct Radiating Array (antennas)
DRAM Dynamic RAM (memory)
DRAW Direct Read After Write (optical disks)
DRB Digital Radio Broadcasting
DRC Design Rule Checking
DRCS Digital Radio Concentrator System
DRDRAM Direct Rambus Dynamic RAM (memory)
DRDW Direct Read During Write (optical disks)
DRFM Digital Radio Frequency Memory
DRiP Duplicate Ring Protocol (Cisco)
DRM Digital Rights Management
DRO 1. Dielectric Resonator Oscillator (microwave)
2. Dielectric Resonator Oscillator (electronics)
DRP 1. Digital Receiver Processor (Inmarsat)
2. Distribution and Replication Protocol
DRRS Digital Radio Relay System
DRS 1. Data Relay Satellite
2. Digital Reference Signal
3. Digital Radio System
4. Digital Reconfiguration Service
5. Direct Receiving Station (satcom)
6. Disengagement Request Signal
92 &
DRT DS3 Redundancy and Termination
DRTL Dial Repeating Tie Line
DRTS Data Relay and Test Satellite
DRTT Dial Repeating Tie Trunk
DRU 1. DACS Remote Unit
2. Digital Remote Unit (NEC)
.drv Name extension for driver files (computer)
.drw Name extension for Micrografx DRAW format files
(graphics)
DRX Discontinuous Reception (GSM mobile station)
DS 1. Dispersion Shifted (optical fiber)
2. Downstream
3. Digital Service
4. Digital Signal
5. Data Strobe (logic signal)
DS-0 Digital Signal Level 0
DS-1 Digital Signal Level 1 (synonym for T1)
DS-CDMA Direct Sequence CDMA (access)
DSA 1. DAMA Signaling Analyzer
2. Distributed System Architecture (networking)
3. Data Service Adapter
4. Directory Service Agent (software)
5. Direct Selling Association
6. Digital Signature Algorithm
7. Dial Service Assistance
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
DSAT 1. Digital Supervisory Audio Tones
2. Digital Satellite Television (broadcasting)
DSB 1. Double-Sideband (modulation)
2. Digital Sound Broadcasting
DSB-EC Double-Sideband Emitted Carrier (modulation)
DSB-RC Double-Sideband Reduced Carrier (modulation)
DSB-SC Double-Sideband Suppressed Carrier (modulation)
DSB-TC Double-Sideband Transmitted Carrier (modulation)
DSC 1. Data Satellite Channel
2. Differential Scanning Calorimetry
3. Digital Service Channel
4. Digital Selective Calling (shipping)
5. Digital Subscriber Controller
6. Digital Still Camera
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7. Digital-to-Synchro Converter
8. Distributed Statistical Computing
9. descrambler
DSCP Differential Service Code Point
DSCS Defense Satellite Communication System
DSDC Direct Service Dialing Capability
DSE 1. Distributed Single-Layer Embedded (test method)
2. Distributed Systems Engineering
3. Data Switching Exchange
4. Data Switching Equipment
5. Deep Sky Exploration society
6. Digital Subtitle Encoder
7. Dynamic System Estimation Library
DSF Dispersion Shifted Fiber
DSH Double Super Heterodyne
DSI 1. Digital Speech Interpolation (voice compression)
2. Digital Switching Information
3. Detailed Spectrum Investigation
DSL 1. Digital Subscriber Line (access)
2. Digital Subscriber Loop (AT&T)
3. Design System Language (programming)
DSLAM DSL Access Multiplexer (network device)
DSM 1. Delta–Sigma Modulation
2. Direct Sequence Modulation
3. Direct-Spread Modulation
4. Design Structure Matrix
5. Digital Switching Matrix
6. Dependency Structure Matrix
DSMCC Digital Storage Media Command and Control
(protocol)
DSN 1. Distributed Systems Network
2. Defense Switch Network
3. Double Shelf Network
4. Deep Space Network
DSNG Digital Satellite News Gathering
DSO 1. Digital Storage Oscilloscope
2. Digital Sampling Oscilloscope
DSOM Distributed System Object Model (IBM)
DSP 1. Digital Signal Processor (chip)
2. Display Systems Protocol
3. Domain-Specific Part (ATM)
DSR 1. Data-Set-Ready (RS 232 signal)
2. Data Sampling Rate
3. Data Signaling Rate
94 &
4. Digital Satellite Radio (broadcasting)
5. Disengagement Success Ratio (fiber optics)
DSRC Dedicated Short-Range Communications
DSRI Destination Station Routing Indicator
DSRR Digital Short-Range Radio
DSS 1. Digital Switched Service
2. Digital Signature Standard
3. Digital Signaling System
4. Digital Satellite System (STB hardware)
5. Direct Station Selector (PBX hardware)
6. Direct Satellite System
7. Decision Support System (set of programs)
DSS1 Digital Subscriber Signaling System 1
DSS2 Digital Subscriber Signaling System 2
DSSCS Defense Special Service Communications System
DSSLL Differentiated Services over Specific Link Layer
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (transmission)
DSSSL Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
(ISO)
DST 1. Direct Sounding Transmission
2. Dispersion Supported Transmission
DSTB Digital Set-Top-Box
DSTE 1. Digital Subscriber Terminating Equipment
2. Data Subscriber Terminating Equipment
DSTN Double-layer Super-Twisted Nematic (display)
DSTO Defense Science and Technology Organization
(Australia)
DSTP Double-Shielded Twisted Pair
DSTR distribution
DSU Data Service Unit (networking)
DSUB Data Service (SCPC) Sub-band Signaling Channel
DSVD Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (modems)
DSX Digital Signal Cross-Connect system
DT 1. Deutsche Telekom
2. Direct Termination
DTAB Demountable Tape-Automated Bonding (IC)
DTAD Digital Telephone Answering Device
DTAN Despun Torque Actuated Nutation (Intelsat)
DTAP Direct Transfer Application Part (GSM)
DTC 1. Digital Trunk Controller
2. Digital Transmit Command
3. Digital Traffic Channel (cellular networks)
DTCM Differential Trellis Coded Modulation
D d & 95
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DTCP Dual Tape-Carrier Package (microchips)
DTD Document Type Definition (XML)
DTE Data Terminal Equipment (networking)
DTF 1. Dynamic Tracking Filter
2. Distance-To-Fault (microwave)
DTH Direct To Home (broadcasting)
DTI Digital Trunk Interface
DTL 1. Diode–Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
2. Designated Transit List (ATM)
3. Dial Tone Line
4. Distance Teaching and Learning (e-learning)
DTL/TTL DTL input to TTL output and vice versa (digital
electronics)
DTLU Digital Trunk and Line Unit
DTM 1. Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode
2. Digital Terrain Model (remote sensing)
DTMF Dual-Tone Multifrequency (telephone sets)
DTMX Digital Trunk Manual (telephony) Exchange
DTN 1. Data Transfer Network
2. Data Transmission Network
DTO 1. Dial Tone Office
2. Digital Test Oscilloscope
3. Digitally Tuned Oscillator
4. Direct Termination Overflow
DTP 1. Desktop Publishing (ICT)
2. Distributed Transaction Processing (computer
networks)
DTR 1. Data-Terminal-Ready (RS 232 signal)
2. Data Transfer Rate
3. Discrete Tone Relation
DTRS 1. Digital Trunked Radio System
2. Digital Tape Recording System
3. Digital Telemetry Recording System
4. Data Transfer Request Signal
DTS 1. Digital Termination System (microwave)
2. Digital Television Standard
3. Digital Theater System (home audio systems)
4. Distributed Time Service
5. Decoding Time Stamp
DTSP Digital Television Station Project, Inc.
DTSR 1. Dial Tone Speed Recording
2. Digital Tape System Recording
3. Digital Temporary Storage Recording
DTT 1. Digital Trunk Testing
96 &
2. Digital Tape Transfer
3. Digital Tie Trunk
4. Digital Telecommunication Trunk
5. Digital Terrestrial Television (broadcasting)
DTTB Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
DTTL Data Transition Tracking Loop
DTU 1. Digital Test Unit
2. Digital Trunk Unit
3. Digital Transmission Unit
DTV Digital Television (broadcasting)
DTVC Digital Television by Cable
DTVE Digital Transversal Equalizer
DTX Discontinuous Transmission (cellular networks)
DU 1. Data Unit
2. Dispersion-Unshifted (optical fiber)
DUA Directory User Agent (software)
DUAL Distributed Update Algorithm
DUART Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver–Transmitter
DUE Dumb User Error
DUN Dial-Up Networking (PC communications)
DUP Data User Part (SS7)
DUT Device Under Test (equipment)
DUV Data Under Voice (AT&T)
DV Digital Video
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting (organization)
DVB-C DVB Cable transmission standard
DVB-H DVB-Handheld
DVB-IRD DVB Integrated Receiver Decoder
DVB-RCS DVB-Return Channel by Satellite system
DVB-S DVB Satellite transmission standard
DVB-SI DVB Service Information
DVB-T DVB Terrestrial (standard)
DVBG Digital Video Broadcasting Group
DVC 1. Digital Video Compression
2. Digital Video Cassette
DVCD Double Video Compact Disk
DVD 1. Digital Video Disk (ICT)
2. Digital Versatile Disk (ICT)
DVD-E Digital Video Disk-Erasable
DVD-R Digital Video Disk-Recordable
DVD-RAM Digital Video Disk-Random Access Memory
(rewritable)
DVD-ROM Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory
DVD-R/W Digital Video Disk Re-Writable
D d & 97
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DVD2 Digital Video Disk 2nd Generation
DVI 1. Digital Video Interface (standard)
2. Digital Video Interactive
DVM 1. Digital Voltmeter (test equipment)
2. Data and Voice Multiplexer
3. Data and Voice Multiplexing
DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (IETF)
DVOM Digital Volt–Ohm-Milliammeter (electronics)
DVP Digital Video Processor
DVR Digital Video Recorder
DVRN Dense Virtual Routed Network
DVS Digital Video Service
DVSI Digital Voice Systems, Inc. (company)
DVST Direct View Storage Tube
DVTS Desktop Videoconferencing Telecommunications
System
DWA Data Warehousing Alliance (Microsoft)
DWC Digital Wireless Communications
DWDM Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (fiber optics)
DWG Digital Working Group
DWI Data Warehousing Institute
DWMT Discrete Wavelet Multitone
DWS Dialable Wideband Service
DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform (mathematics)
DX 1. Data Exchange
2. Direct Current Signaling
3. duplex
DXB Drawing Interchange Binary (file extension)
DXC Digital Cross-Connect (MUX)
DXer A long-Distance listener of short wave radio stations
(Ham Radio)
.dxf Name extension for AutoCAD 2-D format files
(graphics)
DXF Drawing interchange Format (CAD files)
DXI Data Exchange Interface
DXing The hobby of receiving and listening to a long Distant
short wave radio station (Ham Radio)
dyn dyne (unit of force)
98 &
E e
e 1. Symbol for basic unit of electron charge
2. Symbol for instantaneous value of an alternating
voltage
3. Symbol for electronic version
e-bomb e-mail bomb
e-book electronic book
e-business electronic business
e-cash electronic cash (e-commerce)
e-check electronic check (e-commerce)
e-commerce electronic commerce
e-credit electronic credit
e-Fax electronic Facsimile
e-form electronic form
e-government electronic government
e-law electronic law
e-learning electronic learning (e-learning)
e-mail electronic mail
e-money electronic money
e-rate electronic rate
e-signature electronic (digital) signature
e-text electronic text
e-stamp electronic stamp
e-zine electronic Magazine
E
99
E 1. Symbol for Emitter (transistor circuit diagrams)
2. Symbol for Electric field strength (antennas)
3. Symbol for prefix exa-, denoting 1018 or 260
E band Optical Frequency band ranging from 1360 to 1460 nm
E Channel Echo Channel
E Link Extended Link
E Port Expansion Port
E&I Engineering and Installation
E&M “Ear and Mouth” (signaling)
E-1 The European equivalent of American T-1 transmission
line operating at 2.048 Mbps
E-BCCH Extended-Broadcast Control Channel
E-Carrier European Carrier (ITU-T)
E-FET Enhancement-mode FET (semiconductors)
E-IDE Enhanced IDE (interface)
E-LMI Enhanced Local Management Interface (frame relay)
E-Nose Electronic Nose
E-O Electrical-Optical
E-OTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference
E-TDMA Extended TDMA (access)
E-time Execution time
E/A Events and Alarms subsystem (Intelsat)
E/S Earth Station (satcom)
E2PROM Electronically Erasable Programmable ROM (memory)
EA 1. Extended Addressing (frame relay)
2. Equal Access
3. Early Assignment
4. Effective Availability
EAA Electronic Afzar Azma Company (Iran)
EAC 1. European Astronaut Center
2. Engineering Assistance Contract (Intelsat)
EACA European Association of Communications Agencies
EACEM European Association of Consumer Electronics
Manufacturers
EADAS Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition
System
EADP European Association of Directory and database
Publishers
EAE Extended Arithmetic Element
EAEO End Access End Office
100 &
EAFC Enhanced Automatic Frequency Control (electronics)
EAGE Electrical Aerospace Ground Equipment (Intelsat)
EAGLE Extended Area GPS Location Enhancement
EAI 1. External Alarm Indicator
2. Enterprise Application Integration
EAN European Article Numbering (bar coding)
EANTC European Advanced Networking Test Center
(Germany)
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol (OSI model)
EAR Echo Attenuation Ratio (transmission)
EARC Extraordinary Administrative Radio Conference
EARN European Academic and Research Network
EAROM Electrically Alterable ROM (memory)
EARP Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol
EARSeL European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories
EAS 1. Emergency Alert System (cable TV broadcast)
2. Events and Alarms System (Intelsat)
3. Extended Area Service (network feature)
4. Electronic Acquisition System
5. Electronic Articles Surveillance
6. Engineering and Applied Sciences
7. Enterprise Application Server
8. European Astronomical Society
EASI ETSI ATM Services Interoperability
EAX Electronic Automatic Exchange
EB 1. Expansion Buffer
2. Errored Block
3. Exa-Byte, which is 260 or 1024 times petabytes
Eb/No Energy per bit-to-Noise power spectral density (ratio)
EBA 1. European Broadcasting Area
2. Eventual Byzantine Agreement
EBAM Electron-Beam-Accessed Memory
EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
(computer)
EBD Effective Bill Date
EBDI Electronic Business Data Interchange
EBE Embedded Base Equipment (Bell)
EBGA Enhanced Ball-Grid Array (microchips)
EBHC Equated Busy Hour Call (Intelsat)
EBICON Electron Bombardment Induced Conductivity
EBIOS Enhanced BIOS (computer)
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and
Amortization
E e & 101
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EBL 1. Electronic Bearing Line (navigation)
2. Electron Beam Lithography (semiconductors)
EBO Embedded Base Organization (Bell)
EBONE European network backbone (service)
EBPP Electronic Bill Presentation and Payment
EBR Electronic Beam Recorder
EBS 1. Emergency Broadcast System (cable TV)
2. Electron-Bombarded Semiconductor (device)
EBSD Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction (microwave)
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EBX Electronic Branch Exchange
EC 1. Exchange Carrier
2. Electronic Carrier
3. Energy Communications (PBX feature)
4. Electro-optic Coefficient (fiber optics)
5. Element Controller
6. Equipment Clock
7. End Chain
8. Echo Canceller
ECA Exchange Carrier Association
ECAC European Civil Aviation Conference
ECB 1. Error Correction Bit
2. Enhanced Cellular Base Station
ECC 1. Error Checking and Correction code
2. Embedded Control Channel (MUX)
3. Electronic Common Control
4. Electronic Commerce Canada Inc.
5. Electronically Controlled Coupling
6. Emergency Communications Center
7. Exchange Carrier Code (Telcordia Technologies)
8. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (wireless)
9. Egypt Cyber Center
ECC RAM Error Correcting Code RAM (memory)
ECCA European Cable Communications Association
(Belgium)
ECCKT Exchange Company Circuit
ECCM 1. Electronic Counter-Countermeasure (interference)
2. Electromagnetic Counter-Countermeasure (interference)
ECCO Equatorial Constellation Communications
Organization
ECDIS Electronic Chart Display Information System
ECF Embedded Code Formatting
ECG Electrocardiogram (medicine)
102 &
ECGA Enhanced Color Graphics Adapter (640!400 pixel
monitors)
ECH 1. Enhanced Call Handling
2. Echo-Cancelled Hybrid (DSL)
ECHO European Commission Host Organization
ECI 1. End Chain Indicator
2. External Call Interface
ECIS 1. European Committee for Interoperable Systems
2. European Computer Industry research Center
3. European Conference on Information Systems
ECITC European Committee for Information Technology and
Certification
ECL Emitter-Coupled Logic (digital electronics)
ECM 1. Echo Canceller Module
2. Error Correction Mode (G3 fax machine)
3. Electronic Countermeasures (radar)
4. Electromagnetic Countermeasures (interference)
5. Entitlement Control Message (broadcasting)
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
(Switzerland)
ECMEA Enhanced Cellular Messaging Encryption Algorithm
ECMP Equal Cost Multiple Routing (traffic)
ECMR Equal Cost Multipath Routing
ECMS Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (operator)
ECN 1. Electronic Communications Network
2. Emergency Call Network
3. Explicit Congestion Notification (IP standard)
ECO Electron-Coupled Oscillator (electronics)
ECOC European Conference on Optical Communication
ECOMEG E-Commerce Experts Group
ECP 1. Enhanced Call Processing (voice mail)
2. Extended Capabilities Port (computer)
3. Encryption Control Protocol
4. Electronic Commerce Platform
5. Executive Cellular Processor
ECPA Electronic Communications Privacy Act
ECPE Embedded Customer-Premises Equipment (telephone
company)
ECS 1. European Communication Satellite
2. Electronic Commerce Service
3. Electronic Chart System (navigation)
ECSA Exchange Carriers Standards Association
ECSD Enhanced Circuit-Switched Data
ECSSB Exalted Carrier SSB (modulation)
E e & 103
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ECT 1. Enterprise Caching Technology
2. Explicit Call Transfer
ECTA European Competitive Telecommunications
Association
ECTEL European Telecommunications and Professional Electronics
Industry
ECTF 1. Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (U.S.A.)
2. European Community Telework Forum
ECTRA European Committee for Telecommunications
Regulatory Affairs
ECTUA European Council of Telecommunications Users
Association
ED 1. Electronic Directory
2. Ending Delimiter (LANs)
ED RAM Enhanced Dynamic RAM (memory)
EDA 1. Electronic Design Automation (ICT)
2. Electronic Directory Assistance
3. Erbium-Doped Amplifier (fiber optics)
EDAC Error Detection and Correction (transmission)
EDACS Enhanced Digital Access Communications System
EDAM Enhanced Digital Announcement Machine
EDC 1. Error Detection and Correction
2. Error Detection Code (transmission)
EDCH Enhanced D-Channel Handler
EDD Enhanced Disk Drive
EDDA European Digital Dealers Association
EDF Erbium-Doped Fiber
EDFA Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (fiber optics)
EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering Archiving and Retrieval
EDGE Enhanced Data-Rates for GSM Evolution
EDH Electronic Document Handling
EDI Electronic Data Interchange (ICT)
EDIA Electronic Data Interchange Association
EDIDAG Electronic Data Interchange of Dangerous
Goods information
EDIF Electronic Data Interchange Format (ICT)
EDIFACT EDI for Administration, Commerce And Transport
(ICT)
EDIMAR Electronic Data Interchange of Maritime documents
(ICT)
EDIS Emergency Digital Information System/Service
EDIU Expansion Digital Interface Unit
EDL Environment Data Link
EDLIN Editor of Lines (outdated MS-DOD text editor)
104 &
EDM 1. Electronic Document Management
2. Electronic Discharge Machining
EDMS Engineering Document Management System (ICT)
EDO 1. Extended Data Output (memory)
2. Enhanced Data Output (memory)
3. Equipment Design Objectives
EDO DRAM Extended Data Output DRAM (memory)
EDO RAM Extended Data Output RAM (memory)
EDP 1. Electronic Data Processing (computer)
2. Exchange Delivery Point
EDPS Electronic Data Processing System
EDRS European Data Relay Satellite
EDS Extended Data Service
EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
EDSL Extended DSL (access)
EDSS1 European Digital Signaling System No. 1
EDTR Effective Data Transfer Rate (transmission)
EDTV 1. Enhanced-Definition Television (broadcasting)
2. Extended-Definition Television (broadcasting)
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EE End-to-End signaling
EEC 1. Error Checked and Corrected
2. Electromagnetic Emission Control
EEG Electroencephalogram (medical equipment)
EEHLLAPI Entry Emulator High-Level Language Applications
Programming Interface
EEHO Either End Hop Off
EEI 1. External Environment Interface
2. Edison Electric Institute
EEL Enhanced Extended Link
EEMA European Electronic Messaging Association
EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
(memories)
EEP 1. Electroencephalophone
2. Electromagnetic Emission Policy
EEPG Enhanced Electronic Program Guide
EEPROM Electronically Erasable Programmable ROM (memory)
EER Effective Earth Radius
EES 1. Earth Exploration Satellite
2. Escrow Encryption Standard (U.S. Department of
Justice)
EESN Expanded Electronic Serial Number
EESS Earth Exploration Satellite Service (ITU)
E e & 105
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EESSI European Electronic Signature Standardization Initiative
(ICT)
EETDN End-to-End Transit Delay Negotiation
EF Entrance Facility
EF&I Engineer, Furnish, and Install (purchase method)
EFCI Explicit Forward Congestion Indicator (ATM)
EFD Event Forwarding Discriminator (wireless)
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation (standards
organization)
EFI&T Engineer, Furnish, Install, and Test
EFIS Electronic Flight Information System
EFL 1. Emitter-Follower Logic (digital electronics)
2. Equivalent Focal Length
EFMA Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance
EFOC European Fiber Optics and Communications
(conference)
EFR Enhanced Full Rate (codec)
EFS 1. Error Free Seconds
2. Enhanced Full-rate Service
3. Electronic Filing System (Intelsat)
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer (ICT)
EFTA European Free Trade Association (Geneva)
EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale (ICT)
EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System
EG European Graphics Association
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter (640!350 pixel monitors)
EGC 1. Enhanced Group Calling (Inmarsat)
2. Equal Gain Combiner
EGI Embedded Global Positioning Satellite Inertial
Navigation System
EGM Extraordinary General Meeting (Intelsat)
EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
(satellite)
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol (routing)
EGPRS Enhanced General Packet Radio Service
EGSM Extended (frequency range) GSM
EGW Edge Gateway
EHF 1. Extremely High Frequency (30–300 GHz range)
2. Error Hold File
EHR Enhanced Half-Rate codec
EHT Extremely High Tension
EHTPS Extremely High-Tension Power Supply
EHV Extra-High Voltage (power)
EHz Exa-Hertz (1018 Hz)
106 &
EI Error Interval
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance (standards organization)
EIAJ Electronic Industries Association of Japan
EICS Emergency Integrated Communication System
EICTA European Information and Consumer Electronics
Technology Industry Association
EID Equipment Identifier (mobile radio)
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (interface)
EIDQ European International Directory Enquiries
EIF Electronic Industries Foundation
EIG Electronic Information Group
EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco)
EIIA Embedded Industrial Internet Appliance
EIM 1. Ethernet Inverse Mapper
2. Emirates Internet & Multimedia (U.A.E.)
EIMF European Interactive Media Federation
EIN European Information Network
EIP Early Implementers Program (Novell, Inc.)
EIPA 1. Electronic Information and Communication for
Pedagogical Academies (Austria)
2. European Information Provider Association
EIR 1. Excess Information Rate (frame relay)
2. Equipment Identity Register (GSM)
EIRENE European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced
Network
EIRP Effective Isotropically Radiated Power (microwave)
EIS 1. Executive Information System (ICT)
2. Expanded Interconnection Service
3. Epidemic Intelligence Service
EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture (PC bus)
EIT Event Information Table (broadcasting)
EITA European Information Technology Association (U.K.)
EIU Ethernet Interface Unit
EIUF European ISDN Users’ Forum
EJTAG Enhanced JTAG
EKE 1. Encrypted Key Exchange (protocol)
2. Electronic Key Exchange
EKMS Electronic Key Management System
EKTS Electronic Key Telephone Service (ISDN)
EL 1. elevation
2. Electro Luminescent
ELAN Emulated LAN (ATM)
ELE Extremely Low-frequency Emission (monitors)
ELEC Enterprise Local Exchange Carrier
E e & 107
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ELED Edge-emitting Light-Emitting Diode
ELF Extremely Low Frequency (30–300 Hz range)
ELFEXT Equal Lever For End Cross-Talk
ELG European Launching Group (broadcasting)
ELINT Electronic Intelligence
ELIU Electrical Line Interface Unit
ELOT Greek Organization for Standardization (Greece)
ELS NetWare Entry Level System NetWare (networking)
ELSEC Electronic Security
ELSR Edge Label Switch Router
ELSSE Electronic Sky Screen Equipment
ELSU Ethernet LAN Service Unit
ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter (COMSAR)
EM 1. “End of Medium” (character control code)
2. Engineering Model
3. Element Manager
4. Expanded Memory
EMA 1. Electronic Messaging Association (U.S.A.)
2. Electronic Missile Acquisition
EMACS Editor MACros (text editor)
EMAG ETSI MIS Advisory Group
Email Electronic mail
EMBARC Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming Computer
(Motorola)
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility (interference)
EMCON Emission Control (propagation)
EMD 1. Equilibrium Mode Distribution (propagation)
2. Electromechanical Dialing (telephone exchange)
EME 1. Electromagnetic Energy
2. Electromagnetic Environment
3. Externally Mounted Equipment
4. Earth-Moon-Earth (radio communications)
EMEA Europe, Middle East and Africa (region)
.emf Name extension for Enhanced Metafile format
(graphics)
EMF 1. Electromotive Force (parameter)
2. Electromagnetic Force (parameter)
3. Element Management Function
4. Enhanced Metafile (printer file)
5. European Multimedia Forum
EMG Electromyogram (medicine)
EMI 1. Electromagnetic Interference (noise)
2. Exchange Message Interface
EML Element Management Layer (networking)
108 &
EMM 1. Entitlement Management Message (broadcasting)
2. Expanded Memory Manager (device driver)
EMMA Enhanced Multimedia Architecture (broadcasting)
EMMSEC European Multimedia Microprocessor Systems and
Electronic Commerce (ICT)
EMOS Equipment Management Operating System
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
EMPD Equilibrium Modal-Power Distribution (propagation)
Emph Emphasis (FM transmission)
EMPS Electronic Mobile Payment Services (project)
EMR 1. Exchange Message Record (Telcordia Technologies)
2. Electromagnetic Radiation (hazard)
EMRP Effective Monopole-Radiated Power (Intelsat)
EMS 1. Expanded Memory Specification (standard)
2. European Mobile Satellite
3. Element Management System
4. Electronic Message Services
5. Enterprise Messaging Server
6. Enhanced Message Service (GSM)
7. Electromagnetic Susceptibility
EMT Electrical Metal Tubing
EMTUG European Manufacturing Technology User Group
EMU Electromagnetic Unit (parameter)
EMUG European MAP Users Group
EMUT Enhanced Manpack Ultrahigh-frequency Terminal
EMV Electromagnetic Vulnerability
EMW 1. Electromagnetic Wave
2. Electromagnetic Warfare
EN Equivalent Node
ENA 1. Enterprise Network Addressing
2. Extended Network Addressing
ENC 1. Electronic Navigation Chart
2. encoder
ENCB Estonian National Communication Board
Endec Encoder–decoder
ENET 1. Ethernet
2. Enhanced Network
ENFIA Exchange Network Facility for Interstate Access
ENG Electronic News Gathering
ENI Embedded Network Interface
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
ENID EGC (closed-) Network Identification code (Inmarsat)
ENN Emergency News Network
ENOB Effective Number Of Bits (ADC)
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ENOS Enterprise Network Operating System (Sun
Microsystems)
ENQ “enquiry” (character control code)
ENR Excess Noise Ratio
ENS 1. Emergency Number Service
2. Enterprise Network Services (software)
ENSO ETSI National Standardization Organization
ENT Equivalent Noise Temperature
ENTELEC Energy Telecommunications and electrical Association
ENUM Electronic Number
EO 1. End Office (networking)
2. Erasable Optical drive
EOA End-Of-Address (signal)
EOB End-Of-Block (signal)
EOC 1. Embedded Overhead Communication Channel
(transmission)
2. Electro-Optic Coefficient
EOD End-Of-Data (signal)
EOE Electronic Order Exchange
EOF End-Of-File (control character)
EOL 1. End-Of-Line (control character)
2. End-Of-Orbit life (satcom)
EOP 1. End-Of-Procedure frame
2. End-Of-Program
EOS 1. Earth Observation System (remote sensing)
2. Earth Observation Satellite
3. End-Of-Selection (control character)
4. Electro-Optical System
EOT 1. End-Of-Transmission (control signal)
2. End-Of-Tape (control signal)
3. End-Of-Text (flag or marker)
EOTC 1. European Organization for Testing and Certification
2. Electro-Optic Technology Center
EOW Engineering Order-Wire (MUX)
EP-DVB European Parliament Digital Video Broadcasting
EPABX Electronic PABX
EPAC Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
EPC Electric Power Conditioner
EPD Early Packet Discard (ATM)
EPF Electronic Payment Forum (www.epf.net)
EPFD 1. Electronic Position-Fixing Device (GPS)
2. Equivalent Power Flux Density (microwave)
EPG Electronic Program Guide (broadcasting)
EPI Electronic Position Indicator
110 &
EPIC 1. Electronic Privacy Information Center
2. Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (ICT)
3. European Project on Information infrastructure
Co-ordination
EPIISG European Project on Information Infrastructure Starter
Group
EPIRB Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon
(COMSAR)
EPLANS Engineering, Planning and Analysis System
EPLD Electronically Programmable Logic Device (digital
electronics)
EPLSR Enhanced Position Location Reporting System
epndB effective perceived noise decibel
EPN 1. Expansion Port Network
2. Esteeman Paging Network (Iran)
EPOC Electronic Piece Of Cheese (operating system)
EPOS Electronic Point Of Sale (ICT)
EPP 1. Enhanced Parallel Port (computer)
2. European Polar Platform
EPPA European Public Paging Association
EPPI Expanded Plan-Position Indicator
EPR Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (electronics)
EPRI Electric Power Research Institute
EPRML Extended Partial Response/Maximum Likelihood
EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM (memory)
.eps Name extension for Encapsulated PostScript files
(graphics)
EPS 1. Encapsulated Post-Script (image format)
2. Endless Phase Shifter
EPSCS Enhanced Private-Switched Communications Service
EPSF Encapsulated Post-Script File
EPSN Enhanced Private-Switched Network
EPU Expanded Processing Unit
EQ Equalizer, Equalization
EQL equalizer
EQTV Extended Quality Television
ER 1. Error Ratio
2. Equipment Room
3. Explicit Rate (ATM)
ERA European Research Area
ERB Emergency Radio Beacon
ERC 1. European Radiocommunications Committee
2. Electromagnetic Radiation Control
ERD Entity Relationship Diagram (ICT)
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ERL Echo Return Loss (transmission)
ERM 1. Enterprise Resource Management
2. Entity Relationship Model (ICT)
ERMA 1. Electronic Recording Method Accounting
2. Electronic Recording Machine Accounting
ERMES Enhanced Radio Messaging System (ETSI)
ERN Early Routing Node
ERO European Radiocommunications Office (CEPT)
ERP 1. Effective Radiated Power (antenna parameter)
2. Enterprise Resource Planning (ICT)
ERS 3. European Remote-sensing Satellite
ERSS European Remote Sensing Satellite
ERTMS The European Railway Traffic Management System
ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (remote sensing)
Es/No Energy per symbol to Noise power spectral density
(ratio)
ES 1. Earth Station
2. Electronic Switch
3. Expert Systems
4. Errored Seconds (MUX)
5. End System (ATM)
6. Exchange Service (BellSouth)
7. Enhanced Services
ES-IS End System to Intermediate System (protocol)
ESA 1. European Space Agency (France)
2. Emergency Stand-Alone
3. Electronic Spectrum Analyzer
4. Electronically Steered Array (microwave antennas)
ESAS Electronic Service Activation System (Inmarsat)
ESBAR Epitaxial Schottky Barrier (diode)
Esc 1. Escape key (PC keyboard)
2. Engineering Service Circuits
ESC Egyptian Space Communications (Egypt)
ESCA 1. European Speech Communication Association
2. Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis
ESCD Extended System Configuration Data (computer BIOS)
ESCON Enterprise System Connectivity (service)
ESD 1. Electrostatic Discharge
2. Electrostatic Sensitive Device
3. Electronic Software Distribution
4. Error Signal Degrade (MUX)
ESDA Electronic System Design Automation (ICT)
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface (hard disk)
ESDRAM Enhanced Synchronized Dynamic RAM (memory)
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ESF 1. Extended Super-Frame format (T-1 line)
2. European Science Foundation
ESFMU Extended Super-Frame Monitoring Unit
ESG Event Schedule Guide (broadcasting)
ESH End System Hello packet
ESI 1. Enhanced Serial Interface (computer)
2. End System Identifier (ATM)
3. Equivalent Step Index (profile)
4. Environmental Sensing Instrument
ESL Equivalent Series inductance (electronics)
ESLNT Equivalent Satellite Link Noise Temperature
ESM 1. Extended Subscriber Module
2. Electronic warfare Support Measure
3. Electronic Support Measure
4. Element and Subnetwork Manager
ESMA Extended Subscriber Module-100 A
ESMR Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (cellular
networks)
ESMTP Extended Simple Mail-Transfer Protocol
ESMU Extended Subscriber Module-100 URBAN
ESN 1. Electronic Security Number (GSM)
2. Emergency Services (telephone) Number
3. Electronic-Switched Network
ESnet Energy Science network
ESNUG E-mail Synopsis User Group
ESOs European Standardization Organizations
ESOC European Space Operations Center
ESP 1. Enhanced Serial Port (computer)
2. Enhanced Service Provider
3. Encapsulating Security Payload
4. Ethernet Service Provider
5. Earth Surface Potential
ESPA 1. European Selective Paging Association
2. Educational Software Publishers Association
(e-learning)
ESPAN Enhanced Switch Port Analyzer
ESPRIT European Strategic Program for Research in
Information Technology
ESQ End System Query packet
ESR 1. Equivalent Series Resistance (electronics)
2. Electronic Spin Resonance (microwave)
3. Errored Seconds Ratio
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ESS 1. Electronic Switching System (Lucent Technologies)
2. Event Synchronization System
EST Electroshock Therapy
ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Center
(Netherlands)
ESTO European Science and Technology Observatory
ESU Electrostatic Unit (parameter)
ESZ Emergency Service Zone
ET Exchange Termination
ETA Electronic Technicians Association
ETACS Extended TACS (British cellular)
ETB 1. End of Transmission Block (control character)
2. Electronic Term Book
3. Electronic Test Bed
4. Engineers Tool Box
ETC 1. Enhanced Throughput Cellular (protocol)
2. Earth Terminal Complex
3. Electronic Toll Collecting
ETCP Electrolytic Tough-pitch Copper (wires)
ETDM Electrical Time-Division Multiplexing
ETDMA Extended TDMA (access)
ETE Equivalent Telephone Erlangs
ETF European Telecsonferencing Federation
ETFTP Enhanced Trivial FTP (networking)
EtherLEC Ethernet Local Exchange Carrier
ETI Electronic Telephone Interface
ETIS European Telecommunication Informatics Services
ETITO Electro-Technology Industry Training Organization
ETL Embedded Transmission Line (microwave)
ETM 1. Electronic Ticketing Machine
2. Enhanced Thermic Mapper (remote sensing)
ETN Electronic Tandem Network
ETNOA European Telecommunications Network Operations
Association
ETNS Emergency Telephone Number System
ETO European Telecommunications Office
ETPI Eastern Telecommunications of Philippines Inc.
ETR 1. ETSI Technical Report
2. Effective Transmission Rate
3. Estimated Time of Repairing
ETRA Egyptian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
ETRF Electrically Tuned RF (filter)
ETRI Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute
(Korea)
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ETS 1. European Telecommunication Standard (GSM)
2. European Technology Services
3. Engineering Test Satellite (Japan)
4. Effective Transmission Speed
5. ETSI Technical Specification
6. Electronic Tandem Switching
7. Ethernet Terminal Server
8. Electronic Technology Systems
ETSA European Telecommunication Services Association
ETSI European Telecommunications Standardization
Institute (France)
ETT Electro Thermal Thruster
ETTM Electronic Toll and Traffic Management
ETV 1. Educational TV (e-learning)
2. European Training Village (e-learning)
ETX End-of-Transmission (control character)
EU European Union
EUC Extended UNIX Code
EUCL End User Common Line charge
EUI-48 Extended Unique Identifier-48 (bits)
EUI-64 Extended Unique Identifier-64 (bits)
EULA End-User License Agreement (softwares)
Eumetsat European Meteorological Satellite (organization)
EUNet European UNIX Network
EURESCOM European institute for Research and Strategic studies in
Telecommunications
Euro ISDN European ISDN
EUROBIT European Association of Business Machine Manufacturers
and Information Technology
EUROCAE European Organization for Civil Aviation Electronics
EUT Equipment Under Test
EUTOTELDEV European Telecommunication Development
Eutelsat European Telecommunications Satellite (organization)
EUTP Enhanced Unshielded Twisted Pair
EUV Extreme Ultra-Violet
eV electronvolt (unit of energy)
EV European Videotelephony
EVPRT Event Printer
EV-DO Evolution Data Only services
EVA Electronic Value Added
EVC Enhanced Video Connection (standard)
EVDV Evolution Data Voice
EVM Error Vector Magnitude
EVR Electronic Video Recording
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EVRC Enhanced Variable Rate voice Coder
EW Electronic Warfare (interference)
EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems
EWP Electronic White Pages
EWSD Elektronisches Wahl System Digital (Siemens Switching
system)
EWSM Electronic Warfare Support Measure
EWTIS European Waters Traffic Information System
EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture
EXCSA Exchange Carrier Standards Association
.exe Filename extension for executables programes
(computer)
EXM Exit Message
EXOR Exclusive OR (digital gate)
EXOS 1. Extension Outside
2. Exospheric Satellite
EXP expansion
ext external
EXT extension
EXTN extension
EXZ Excessive Zeros (data encoding)
EYP Electronic Yellow Pages
EZ East Zone beam
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F f
f 1. Symbol for prefix femto-, denoting 10K15
2. Symbol for Frequency
F 1. Symbol for Farad (unit of capacitance)
2. Symbol for Filament of tubes (electronics)
3. Symbol for Focal length
4. Symbol for Fixed service (ITU-T)
F key Function key
F Port Fabric Port
F-BCCH Fast Broadcast Control Channel
F-ES Fixed End System
F/D Focal Length-to-Diameter (ratio)
F/O Fiber Optics
F/V Frequency-to-Voltage (converter)
F/V-V/F Frequency-to-Voltage or Voltage-to-Frequency
(converter)
F33 Fleet 33 (Inmarsat terminal)
fA femtoampere
FA Fault Alarm
FAA 1. Federal Aviation Administration
2. Frequency Assignment Authority
FAC 1. Forced Authorization Code
2. Final Assembly Code (GSM mobile station)
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FACC Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation
(company)
FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel (GSM)
FACOM Fully Automatic Computer
FACS Facilities Access Control System
FACT 1. Fabrication And Continuity Test Program (Intelsat)
2. Fairchild Advanced CMOS Technology (electronics)
FACTE Fujitsu Access & Transport Equipment
FAD Function Access Domain
FADS Force Administration Data System
FAL Frame Alignment Loss (MUX)
FALU Floating-point Arithmetic Logic Unit (computer)
FAM Fast Access Memory
FAMA Fixed-Assigned Multiple Access
FAN 1. Flexible Access Network
2. Far Area Network
FANE Flexible Access Network Element
FANP Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (routing)
FANS Future Air Navigation System (aviation)
fanzine An online magazine for fans of a particular group
of persons
FAP 1. Fuse Alarm Panel
2. Formats And Protocols
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (ICT)
FAR 1. Federal Aviation Regulation
2. False Alarm Rate
FARNet Federation of American Research Network
FAS 1. Frame Alignment Signal (MUX)
2. Frame Acquisition and Synchronization
3. Facility-Associated Signaling
FASIC Function and Algorithm-Specific Integrated Circuit
FASSET Functional Advanced Satellite System for Evaluation
and Test
FAST Fairchild Advanced Schottky TTL (electronics)
FAT 1. File Allocation Table (computer)
2. Factory Acceptance Tests
FATAM File Application, Transfer, Access, and Management
FAU Fixed Access Unit (wireless)
FAW Frame Alignment Word (MUX)
FAX short term for Facsimile Equipment/Machine
FB 1. Framing Bit
2. Fine Business (Morse code transmissions)
3. Frequency Correction Burst (GSM)
FBBC Full Baud Bipolar Coding
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FBC Facility-Based Carrier
FBG Fiber Bragg Grating
FBO Facilities-Based Operator (VPNs)
FBSS Full Band Spread Spectrum
FBT Fused Biconic Taper
FBU 1. Functional Business Unit
2. Failed Before Utilization (Bellsouth)
FBus Frame Transport Bus
FBW 1. Forward Band Working (Intelsat)
2. Fractional Bandwidth
FBWA Fixed Broadband Wireless Access
FBX Fujitsu Broadband Cross-connect Node
FC 1. Feedback Control
2. Frame Control (networking)
3. Fiber-optic Connector (NTT)
4. Fiber Channel
5. Forecast Center Station (Intelsat)
FC and PC Face Contact and Point Contact
FC Switch Fiber Channel Switch
FC-0 Fiber Channel level 0
FC-AL Fiber Channel-Arbitrated Loop (networking)
FC-EL Fiber Channel-Enhanced Loop (networking)
FC-PGA Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array (microchips)
FC-PH Fiber Channel Physical Standard
FCA 1. Fiber Channel Association (U.S. standards
organization)
2. Flip-Chip Assembly
3. Free Carrier
FCAPS Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and
Security
FCB File Control Block (MS-DOS)
FCBGA Flip-Chip Ball Grid Array (microchips)
FCC 1. Federal Communications Commission (standards)
2. Flexible Control Cable
FCCH Frequency Correction Channel (GSM)
FCCRP Federal Communications Commission Registration
Program
FCD Facility Completion Date
FCI Forward Call Indicator
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FCIA Fiber Channel Industry Association
FCIP Fiber Channel over IP (Cisco)
FCLC Fiber Channel Loop Community
FCN function
FCOS Feature Class Of Service
FCOT Fiber Control Office Terminal
FCS 1. Frame Checking Sequence (transmission)
2. Fraud Control System (MCI)
3. Facility Control System
4. Federation of Communication Services (U.K.)
5. Fiber Channel Specification
FCSI Fiber Channel System Initiative (IBM)
FCT 1. Fixed Cellular Terminal
2. Fast CMOS Technology
FCW 1. Federal Computer Week (magazine)
2. Fiber Cutoff Wavelength (fiber optics)
FD Functional Description (Intelsat)
FDB 1. Fahrenheit Dry Bulb
2. Functional Description Block (Intelsat)
FDC 1. Flight Dynamics and Commanding (Intelsat)
2. Floppy Disk Controller (computer)
FDCC Forward Control Channel
FDCCH Forward Digital Control Channel (cellular networks)
FDD 1. Floppy Diskette Drive (computer)
2. Frequency-Division Duplexing (transmission)
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface (LANs)
FDE Frequency Domain Equalizer
FDF Fiber Distribution Frame
FDFD Finite Difference Frequency Domain
FDHM Full Duration at Half Maximum
FDHP Full Duplex Handshaking Protocol
FDI Feeder Distribution Interface (switching)
FDL Facilities Data Link (T-1)
FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing
FDMA Frequency-Division Multiple Access
FDP 1. Fiber-optic Distribution Panel
2. Fractional Degradation of Performance
FDPL Foreign Data Processor Link (PBX)
FDR Frequency Domain Reflectometry
(microwave)
FDS Frequency-Division Switching
FDTD Finite Difference Time Domain
FDX Full-Duplex (transmission)
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FE 1. Functional Entity
2. Format Effector (control character)
FEA 1. Field-Emitter Array (displays)
2. Finite-Element Array (microchips)
FEBE Far-End Block Error (MUX)
FEC 1. Forward Error Correction (transmission)
2. Forwarding Equivalence Class
3. Far-End Cross talk
4. Future ECM Computer
5. Flexible Etched Circuits
FECC Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator
FECCOD FEC Encoder
FECDEC FEC Decoder
FECM Future Entitlement Control Message
FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (frame relay)
FED 1. Field Emission Display (TV and monitor)
2. Fire Emitting Diode
3. Frequency Error Detector
FEFO First Ended, First Out
FEI Federation of the Electronics Industry (United
Kingdom)
FEL Free Electron Laser
FEM Finite-Element Method
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEN Feeder Echo Noise (antenna)
FENS Fujitsu-Enhanced Network Management System
FEP 1. Front-End Processor (network computer)
2. Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene-insulated wire
FER Frame Error Rate
FERF Far-End Remote Failure alarm (MUX)
FERL Further Education Resource For Learning (ICT)
FERM Forward Explicit Rate Management (ATM)
FES 1. Fixed Earth Station
2. Frequency Exchange Signaling
3. Field-Emission Spectroscopy (electronics)
4. Fixed End System
FET Field-Effect Transistor (semiconductors)
FETA FET Amplifier
FEX Foreign Exchange Trunk
FEXT Far-End Cross-Talk (transmission)
FF 1. “Form Feed” (printer function)
2. Flip-Flop
3. Fast Forward
FFDI Fast Fiber Data Interface
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FFL Front Focal Length (fiber optics)
FFM Flat Fade Margin
FFO Fixed-Frequency Oscillator
FFOL Fiber Flow On LAN
FFP Federation of Functional Processor
FFS Flash File Standard
FFSK Fast FSK (modulation)
FFT 1. Fast Fourier Transform (algorithm)
2. Fast File Transfer
FFTDCA Final-Form Text Document Content Architecture
FG Functional Group (ATM)
FGA Feature Group A
FGB Feature Group B
FGC Feature Group C
FGC-EA Feature Group C and Equal Access
FGCPW Finite Groundplane Coplanar Waveguide (microwave)
FGD Feature Group D
FGD-EA Feature Group D and Equal Access
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FGM Fixed Gain Mode
FGS Felicity Grounding System
FH Frequency-Hopping (transmission)
FH-CDMA Frequency-Hopping—CDMA (access)
FHMA Frequency-Hopping Multiple Access
FHSS Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (transmission)
FIA Fiber-optic Industry Association
FIB Forward Indicator Bit (SS7 message)
FIC Flight Information Center (aviation)
FICON Fiber Connectivity (IBM)
FID Field Identifier (ISDN)
FIF Fractal Image Format
FIFO “First In, First Out” (buffer memories)
FIGS Figure Shift
FILO “First In, Last Out” (memory and data communication)
FIN Field Inspection Notice
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FIR 1. Finite Impulse Response (filter)
2. Fast Infrared (port)
FIRM Functionally Integrated Resource Manager
FIRMR Federal Information Resource Management Regulation
FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
(organization)
FIS Forms Interchange Standard
FISINT Foreign Instrumentation Signal Intelligence
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FISK Fax a disk (sending information on phone line)
FISO Fast In, Slow Out (memories)
FISU Fill-In Signal Unit (SS7 message)
FIT Failures In Time
FITE Forward Interworking Telephony Event
FITL Fiber-In-The-Loop
FIU Facsimile Interface Unit
FIX Federal Internet Exchange
FK Foreign Key
FL 1. Fiber Line
2. Fault Locating
FLAG Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe (Cable Consortium)
FLB Facility Loop Back
FLC 1. Fiber Loop Carrier
2. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLCD Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Display
FLEC Forward-Looking Economic Cost
FleetBB Fleet Broad-Band (Inmarsat)
.fli Name extension for animation files in the FLI
file format
FLINK Combination of a Flash and a Wink signal
FLIR Forward-Looking Infrared unit
FLL Fiber-in-the-Loop-Local
FLM Fujitsu Lightwave Multiplexer
FLOP Floating-point Operation
FLOPS Floating-point Operations Per Second (computer
speed)
FLR Forward-Looking Radar
FM 1. Frequency Modulation
2. Full Modulation
3. Fault Management
FM-band Frequency Modulation band ranging from 88 to
108 MHz
FM/AM Amplitude Modulation of a carrier by subcarriers that
are Frequency-Modulated by information
FM/PM Phase Modulation of a carrier by subcarriers that are
Frequency-Modulated by information
FMA Fixed-Mount Antenna
FMAS Facility Maintenance and Administration System
FMB Frame Marker Bus
FMBS Frame Mode Bearer Service
FMC 1. Fixed Mobile Convergence (service)
2. Forward Motion Compensator (remote sensing)
FMCW Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (radar)
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FMFB Frequency Modulation Feedback
FMI Fixed Mobile Integration
FMIC Flexible MVIP Interface Circuit
FMIF FM Improvement Factor
FMLB First Make/Last Break (connectors)
FMS 1. Fleet Management Service
2. Flight Management System
3. Flexible Manufacturing System (ICT)
FMT Fade Migration Technique
FMV Fair Market Value
FN Frame Number (GSM)
FNA Functional Network Architecture
FNC Federal Networking Council (NASA)
FNPA Foreign Numbering Plan Area
FNPRM Further Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (FCC)
FNR 1. Fixed Network Reconfiguration
2. Faculty Network Resources
FNS 1. Fiber Network Systems
2. Fiber Network Service
FO Fiber Optics
FOA 1. Fiber-Optic Amplifier
2. Fiber-Optic Association, Inc.
3. First Office Application
FOB Free Onboard (contracts)
FOBP Fractional Out-of-Band Power
FOC 1. Firm Order Confirmation
2. Fiber-Optic Combiner
3. Fiber-Optic Connector
4. Full Operational Compatibility
FOCC Fiber-Optic Cable Component
FOCUS Federation On Computing in the United States
FOD Fax-On-Demand
FODA FIFO-Ordered Demand Assignment
FODU Fiber-Optic Distribution Unit
FOG Fiber-Optic Around the Golf (cable consortium)
FOI Act Freedom Of Information Act
FoIP Fax over IP
FOIRL Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link (IEEE)
FOL Fiber-Optic Link
FOM Fiber-Optic Modem
FOMA Freedom Of Multimedia Access
FORTRAN Formula Translation (programming language)
FOSDIC Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computer
FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
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FOT 1. Fiber-Optic Transmitter
2. Frequency of Optimum Transmission
FOTM Fiber-Optic Test Method
FOTP Fiber-Optic Test Procedure
FOTS 1. Fiber-Optic Transmission System
2. Fiber-Optic Telemedicine System
FOV Field Of View (remote sensing)
FOWM Fiber-Optic Well Monitoring
FOX Fiber-Optic extender
FP 1. Feature Package (software)
2. File Processor
3. Floating Point
FPBGA Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array (microchips)
FPCB Field-Programmable Circuit Board
FPD 1. Full Page Display
2. Flat Panel Display
FPDL Foreign Processor Data Link (Rockwell)
FPG Feature Planning Guide
FPGA 1. Field-Programmable Gate Array (digital electronics)
2. Fine-Pitch Grid Array (microchips)
FPH Free Phone (INs)
FPI Formal Public Identifier
FPIC Field-Programmable Interconnect Chip
FPID Field-Programmable Interconnect Device
FPIS Forward Propagation Ionospheric Scatter (fiber optics)
FPLA Field-Programmable Logic Array (digital electronics)
FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System
(ITU)
FPM DRAM Fast Page Mode Dynamic RAM (memory)
FPN Floating-Point Number
FPODA Fixed Priority-Oriented Demand Assignment (access
technique)
FPP 1. Fixed Path Protocol
2. Fiber-optic Patch Panel
fps frames per second (video images)
FPS 1. Fast Packet Switching
2. Fault Protection Subsystem (power)
3. Focus Projection and Scanning
4. First Person Shooter (video games)
5. Frames Per Second (video or 3D games)
FPSLIC Field-Programmable System-Level IC
FPT Forced Perfect Terminator (IBM)
FPU Floating-Point Unit (circuit)
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name (Internet)
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FQFP Fine-pitch Quad Flat Pack
FR 1. Frame Relay (access protocol)
2. Full Rate codec
3. Flat Rate Service
FRA Fixed Radio Access (WLLs)
FRAD 1. Frame Relay Access Device
2. Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
FRAM Ferroelectric RAM (memory)
FRBS Frame Relaying Bearer Service
FRC Functional Redundancy Checking
FRCID Frame Relay Cable Interface Device
FRD Fire Retardant (cables)
FRED Fast Recovery Epitaxial Diode
FREE Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail
FreeBSD Free Berkeley Software/Standard Distribution (ICT)
Freq 1. Frequency
2. File request
FRF 1. Frame Relay Forum
2. Frequency Response Function
FRL Facility Restriction Level (AT&T)
FRLP Forward and Return Link Pair (Inmarsat)
FRM 1. Focus–Rotation Mount
2. Fixed-Reference Modulation
FRMR Frame Reject
FRND Frame Relay Network Device
FRP Fast Reservation Protocol
FRS 1. Flat Rate Service
2. Frame Relay Service
3. Family Radio Service
4. Field Routing System
FRSE Frame Relay Switching Equipment
FRSP Frame Relay Service Provider
FRST Foundation for Research Science & Technology
(New Zealand)
FRTE Frame Relay Terminal Equipment
FRTT Fixed Round-Trip Time
FRU Field Replacement Unit
fs femtosecond (10K15 s)
FS 1. Fixed Service (Intelsat)
2. Fix Stuff (MUX)
3. File Separator
4. Full Scale (test equipments)
5. Field Strength
6. Frame Status (networking)
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FSAA Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (ICT)
FSAN Full Services Access Network (ATM-based optical
network)
FSAPT Faculty of Scientific-Applied Post and
Telecommunications (Iran)
FSB Front Side Bus (computer)
FSBS Frame Switching Bearer Service
FSC 1. Fiber-Switched Capable (GMPLS)
2. Frequency Spectrum Congestion (transmission)
FSCS Frequency-Selective Conducting Surface
FSD Frequency Spectrum Designation (propagation)
FSDPSK Filtered Symmetric Differential PSK (modulation)
FSF 1. Free Software Foundation
2. Frequency Scaling Factor
FSK Frequency-Shift Keying (modulation)
FSL 1. Fiber Subscriber Loop
2. Free Space Loss
3. Flexible Service Logic
4. Facsimile Signal Level
FSN 1. Full Service Network
2. Forward Sequence Number (GSM)
FSO 1. Foreign Switching Office
2. Free Space Optics
FSOQ Frequency Shift Offset Quadrature (modulation)
FSP 1. File Service Protocol
2. Fiber-optic Splice Panel
FSR 1. Full-Scale Range
2. Full Sheet Resonance
FSS 1. Fixed Satellite Service frequency band (ITU)
2. Frequency-Selective Surface
FST Frequency-Shift Telegraphy
FSTC Financial Services Technology Consortium
FSTS Federal Secure Telephone System
ft foot
ft2 square foot
ft/min foot per minute
ft3/min cubic foot per minute
ft/s foot per second
FT France Telecom (company)
FT-1 Functional T-1
FT-3 Functional T-3
FTA Federal Telecommunications Act
FTAM File Transfer, Access & Management (protocol)
FT Bus Frame Transport Bus
F f & 127
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FTC Fast Time Constant (algorithm)
FTE 1. Facsimile Terminal Equipment
2. Full-Time Equivalent (call center)
FTIP Fiber Transport Inside Plant
FTL Flash Translation Layer (PCMCIA standard)
FTMSC France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications
FTNS Fixed Telecommunications Network Service
FTP 1. File Transfer Protocol (networking)
2. Foil Twisted Pair (cables)
FTS 1. File Transfer Support
2. Finite Time Stability (ATM)
FTSC 1. Federal Telecommunication Standards Committee
2. FidoNet Technical Standards Committee
FTT Fault-Tracing Time
FTTB 1. Fiber-To-The-Building (fiber optics)
2. Fiber-To-The-Business (fiber optics)
FTTC Fiber-To-The-Curb (fiber optics)
FTTCab Fiber-To-The-Cabinet (fiber optics)
FTTH Fiber-To-The-Home (fiber optics)
FTTL Fiber-To-The-Loop (fiber optics)
FTTN Fiber-To-The-Neighborhood (fiber optics)
FTTO Fiber-To-The-Office (fiber optics)
FTTP Fiber-To-The-Premise (fiber optics)
FTTS Fiber-To-The-Subscriber (fiber optics)
FU Frame Unit
FUNI Frame-based User–Network Interface (ATM)
FUT Fiber Under Test
fV femtovolt
FVC 1. Forward Voice Channel
2. Frequency-to-Voltage Converter (electronics)
FVO Field Verification Office
FVR Flexible Vocabulary Recognition
fW femtowatt
FWA 1. Fixed Wireless Access
2. Forward-Wave crossed-field Amplifier (electronics)
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum (pulse)
FWLL Fixed Wireless Local Loop
FWM Four-Wave Mixing (fiber optics)
FX 1. Foreign Exchange (service)
2. Fixed service
FXC Fiber switch Cross-Connect
FXO Foreign Exchange Office
FXS Foreign Exchange Station
FZA Fresnel Zone Antenna
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G g
g 1. Symbol for acceleration due to Earth’s gravity
(9.81 m/s2)
2. Symbol for gram (unit of weight)
G 1. Symbol for prefix giga-, denoting 109 or 230
2. Symbol for Gauss (unit of magnetic induction)
3. Symbol for Grid of tubes (electronics)
4. Symbol for Gravitational force
5. Symbol for Gate (FETs)
6. Symbol for electrical conductance
7. Symbol for Gain (antennas and amplifiers)
G-M counter Geiger–Mu¨ eller counter (electronics)
G-MSC Gateway Mobile Switching Center (GSM)
G/A Ground-to-Air communication
G/G Ground-to-Ground communication
G/T Gain-to-noise Temperature (ratio)
G2 Symbol for Intelligence, meaning secret information
(U.S. Army)
G2B Government-to-Business (e-commerce)
G2C Government-to-Consumer (e-commerce)
G2G Government-to-Government (e-commerce)
G3 Fax Group 3 Fax system
G4 Fax Group 4 Fax system
G
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GA 1. Go Ahead (telex)
2. General Assembly (ETSI)
3. Generally Available (contracts)
GaALAs Gallium–Aluminum–Arsenide (semiconductors)
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GaAs Gallium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
GaAsFET Gallium–Arsenide FET (semiconductors)
GaAsP Gallium–Arsenide Phosphide (semiconductors)
GAB 1. Group Access Bridging (service)
2. Group Audio Bridging
3. Group Asynchronous Browsing
GAC 1. Global Area Coverage
2. Government Advisory Committee (Internet)
GAGAN GPS And GEO Augmentated Navigation (India)
GAL Generic Array Logic (digital electronics)
GaInAs Gallium–Indium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
GAM GPS-Aided Munitions
GaN Gallium Nitride (semiconductors)
GAN Global Area Network (Inmarsat)
GaP Gallium Phosphide (semiconductors)
GAP 1. Generic Access Profile (DECT)
2. Ground-to-Air Paging
3. Generic Access Profile (Bluetooth)
GARP 1. Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (VLANs)
2. Global Atmospheric Research Program
3. Growth At a Reasonable Price
GARS Geological Applications for Remote Sensing
GAT 1. Generic Addressing and Transport Protocol
2. Go Ahead Tone (fiber optics)
GATM Global Air Traffic Management (aviation)
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
GAZEL Global Arizona E-Learning (E-learning)
Gb 1. Gigabit, which is 1,000,000,000 bits (transmission)
2. Gilbert (unit of magnetomotive force)
Gb/s Gigabit per second
GbE Gigabit Ethernet
Gbps Gigabits per second (transmission)
GB Gigabyte, which is 230 or 1024 times Megabyte
(computer)
GBAS Ground-Based Augmentation System
GBCS Global Business Communications Systems (AT&T)
GBH Group Busy Hour (MUX)
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter (Ethernet)
GBM Gulf Business Machines (Abu Dhabi)
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GBN GPRS Backbone Network
GBR Ground-Based Radar
GC Global Coverage
GCA 1. Game Control Adapter (computer)
2. Ground-Controlled Approach (radar system)
3. Gain-Controlled Amplifier
GCAC Generic Connection Admission Control (ATM)
GCD Great Circle Distance
GCE Ground Communications Equipment
GCF Global Certifications Forum (GSM)
GCI 1. Graphic Character Internal (Siemens)
2. Ground-Controlled Interception (radar)
GCMD Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
GCOM Global Climate Observation Mission (remote sensing)
GCPW Grounded Coplanar Waveguide (microwave)
GCRA Generic Call Rate Algorithm (ATM)
GCS 1. Ground Control Station
2. Global Communications Service
3. Governmental Communication Systems
4. Gate-Controlled Switch (electronics)
GCT Greenwich Civil Time (UTC)
GD Graceful Discard (frame relay)
GDDM Graphical Data Display Manager (SNA)
GDE Group-Delay Equalizer
GDF Group Distribution Frame (MUX)
GDG Global Development Gateway (World Bank)
GDHS Ground Data Handling System
GDI Graphics Device Interface (MS Windows)
GDMO Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects
GDN Graphic Display Network
GDOP Geometric Dilution Of Precision
GDPS Global Data Processing System
GE 1. Gigabit Ethernet
2. Good Evening (Morse code transmissions)
GEA Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
GEANet Gigabit European Academic Network (fiber network)
GEDCOM Genealogical Data Communication (data exchange
format)
GEM 1. Graphics Environment Manager
2. Gateway of Educational Materials (E-learning)
GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System (United
Nations)
GEN generator
Gencam Generic Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICT)
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GENTEX General Telex
GENIAC Genius Almost-Automatic Computer
GENIE General Electric Network for Information Exchange
GEO 1. Geostationary Earth Orbiting (satellite)
2. Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting (satellite)
GEOS Geoworks Operating System
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems (remote
sensing)
GEQ Gain Equalizer
GERAN GSM–Edge Radio Access Network (GSM)
GES Ground Earth Station (Inmarsat)
GETS Government Emergency Telecommunications Service
GeV Gigaelectronvolt (109 eV)
GF Gold Franc (billing)
GFC Generic Flow Control (ATM)
GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (circuit breaker)
GFE Government Furnished Equipment
GFI 1. Group Format Identifier (packet switching)
2. Ground-Fault Interrupter (circuit breaker)
GFLOPS One billion Floating-point Operations Per Second
(computer)
GFM Graphics File Manager
GFP 1. Generic Framing Procedure
2. Global Function Plane (INs)
3. Ground Fault Protector
GFSK Gaussian FSK (modulation)
GFXO Ground start FXO
GFXS Ground start FXS
GGP Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol (DARPA)
GGRF GSM Global Roaming Forum
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node (cellular networks)
GH Effect Gordon-Hous Effect (transmission)
GHOST GSM Hosted SMS Teleservices
GHz Gigahertz (109 Hz)
GI Grade Index (fiber optics)
GIAC Global Incident Analysis Center
GIC 1. General Instrument Corporation
2. Gigabit Interface Converter
3. Geomagnetically Induced Current
GID GARP Information Declaration
GIDEP Government and Industries Data Exchange
Program
.gif Name extension for GIF format files (graphics)
GIF Graphical Interchange Format (imaging)
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Gig 1. Gigabits per second
2. Gigahertz per second
Gig-E Gigabit-Ethernet
GIGAMO Gigabyte-class Magneto-Optical (storage technology)
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out (computer)
GII Global Information Infrastructure
GIIC Global Information Infrastructure Commission
GILC Global Internet Library Campaign
GILS Government Information Locator Service
GIM Group Identification Mark (cellular networks)
GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program (software)
GIP 1. GSM/DECT Interworking Profile
2. Graded-Index Profile (fiber optics)
3. GARP Information Protocol
GIS 1. Geographical Information System (ICT)
2. Geeky Internal Stuff (database)
3. General Information Services
4. General Information Sessions
5. Global Information Society
6. Geospatial Information System
GISIS Global Integrated Shipping Information System (IMO)
GITS Government Information Technology Service
GIX Global Internet Exchange
GJISI Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
GJXDM Global Justice XML Data Model (U.S.A.)
GKP Global Knowledge Partners
GKS Graphical Kernel System
GL Graphics Library
GLIS Global Land Information System
GLONASS Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia)
GLR-L Global Location Register—Local (mobile networks)
GLR-N Global Location Register—Network (mobile networks)
GM Good Morning (Morse code transmissions)
Gmax maximum Gain
GMCR Globe-Mackay Cable and Radio Corporation
GMD Guaranteed Message Delivery
GMDSS Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (COMSAR)
GMES Global Monitoring for Environmental and Security
GMII Gigabit Media-Independent Interface
GMP Global Managed Platform
GMPCS Global Mobile Personal Communication System (ITU-T)
GMPLS Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching
GMR Giant Magneto Resistance effect
GMRP GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (networking)
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GMS 1. Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
2. Generic Maintenance System
GMSC Gateway Mobile Switching Center
GMSK Gaussian-filtered MSK (GSM modulation)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GN Good Night (Morse code transmissions)
GNCT Generalized No Circuit Treatment
GND Ground (electronics)
GNE Gateway Network Element (SONET)
GNMC Global Network Management Center
GNN Global Network Navigator (Web-based information
service)
GNOME GNU Object Model Environment
GNSS Global Navigational Satellite System (U.S.A.)
GNU GNU’s Not Unix Operating System
GO-MVIP Global Organization for MVIP, Inc. (U.S.A.)
GOES 1. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
2. Geostationary Orbiting Earth Satellite
GOF Glass Optical Fiber
GOGO Government-Owned, Government-Operated
GU Gigaohm (electronics)
GOLD Global Online Directory
GOM Generic Object Model
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring System (remote sensing)
GOMS Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite
GOPS One billion Operations Per Second (computer)
GORIZONT The Russian geostationary telecommunications satellite
GORS General Organization of Remote Sensing (Syria)
GoS Grade of Service
GOS Global Observing System
GOSAT Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite
GOSIP Government Open System Interconnection Profile
(OSI model)
GPA General Purpose Adapter (AT&T)
GPC Gateway Protocol Converter
GPCL General Premises Cabling License
GPF General Protection Fault (MS Windows)
.jpg Name extension for JPEG format files (graphics)
GPI 1. GTI Physical Interface
2. GammaFax Programmers Interface
3. Glide Path Indicator
4. Ground Position Indicator
GPIB General-Purpose Interface Bus (computer)
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GPIRS Global Positioning Inertial Reference System
GPL 1. General Public License (Free Software Foundation)
2. Graphical Programming Language
GPM Global Precipitation Measurement (remote sensing)
GPoP Global Point of Presence
GPR Ground-Penetrating Radar
GPRS General Packet Radio Service (cellular network)
GPS 1. Global Positioning System
2. Global Position Spotting
GPTC General Post and Telecom Company (Libya)
GPU Graphics Processing Unit (computer)
GQFP Guard-ring Quad Flat Pack
GR Generic Requirements (Telcordia Technologies)
GRC Ground Return Circuit
GRE Generic Router Encapsulation (Internet)
GREJ Group Reject
GREP Generalized Regular Expression Parser (Unix utility)
GRIC Global Reach Internet Connection
GRID Global Resource Information Database (remote
sensing)
GRIN 1. Gradient Index (fiber optics)
2. Graded Index (fiber optics)
GRM General Relationship Model
GRSU 1. Generic Remote Switch Unit
2. Geographic Remote Switch Unit
GRX GPRS Roaming Exchange
GS Group Separator
GS Trunk Ground Start Trunk
GSA General Services Administration (U.S.A.)
GSC Global Standards Collaboration (ETSI)
GSDN Global Software Defined Network (AT&T)
GSF Generic Services Framework (software design)
GSI 1. Grand-Scale Integration (microchips)
2. Glide Slope Indicator
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications (Europe)
GSM-900 GSM at 900 MHz
GSM-R GSM Standard for Railway Applications
GSMA GSM Association
GSMP General Switch Management Protocol (ATM)
GSMPLMN GSM Public Land Mobile Network
GSN 1. Gateway Switching Node
2. Gigabyte System Network
3. Global Subscriber Number
GSO Geostationary Orbit (satellite)
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GSO-FSS Geostationary Satellite Orbit—Fixed Satellite Service
GSOC German Space Operations Center
GSR Gigabit Switch Router
GSS Group Switch Selector
GSSA Generic Security Service Application
GSSAP Generic Security Service Application
GSTN Global-Switched Telephone Network (ITU-T)
GT 1. Global Title
2. Gain Transfer
GTA 1. Government Telecommunications Association
(U.S.A.)
2. Guam Telephone Authority
GTE 1. General Telephone and Electronics (company)
2. Group Translating Equipment
GTI Generic Traffic Interface
GTL 1. Global Tele-Systems Ltd (India)
2. Gunning Transceiver Logic (CMOS circuits)
GTLD Generic Top-Level Domain (Internet)
GTLC Gunning Transceiver Logic Plus (CMOS circuits)
GTLP Gunning Transceiver Logic Plus (electronics)
GTMOSI General Teleprocessing Monitor for OSI
GTN Global Transaction Network (AT&T)
GTO 1. Geostationary Transfer Orbit
2. Gate Turn-Off
3. General Telecommunications Organization
(Oman)
GTOC General Telephone Operating Company
GTP 1. General Telemetry Processor
2. Generalized Trunk Protocol
3. GNOME Translation Project
4. Green Transport Plans
5. Government Telecommunications Program
GTS 1. Global Telecommunications System
2. Global TeleSystems (company)
3. Government Telecommunications System
GTSS Global Telecom Solutions Sector (Motorola)
GTT Global Title Translation
GUI Graphical User Interface (computer)
GUID Global Unique Identification (component object
model)
GUM Grand Unified Multicast (IETF)
GVF Global VSAT Forum (England)
GVI Global Vegetation Index (remote sensing)
GVNS Global Virtual Network Service
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GVRP GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (VLANs)
GVTel Garden Valley Telephone (company)
GW 1. Gateway
2. Gigawatt (109 W)
.gz Name extension for files compressed with the UNIX
gzip
Gzip GNU zip (compression software)
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H h
h 1. Symbol for hour
2. Symbol for hecto-, meaning one hundred or 102
3. Symbol for Planck’s constant (electronics)
H 1. Symbol for magnetic field strength (electronics)
2. Symbol for Henry (unit of inductance)
3. Symbol for horizontal polarization
H PAD Host Packet Assembler/Disassembler
H-Channel High-Speed Channel (ISDN)
H-MVIP High-density MVIP
H-pol Horizontal polarization
H-sync Horizontal synchronization
Ha-Dec Hour angle–Declination angle
HA Horn Alert of car (for mo bile ringing)
HAARP High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAAT Height Above the Average Terrain (antenna)
HACBSS Homestead And Community Broadcasting Satellite
Service
HAD Half Amplitude Duration
HAL 1. Hardware Abstraction Layer (operating system)
2. Hardwired Array Logic (digital electronics)
HALE High-Altitude Long Endurance
HALT Highly Accelerated Life Testing (satellite)
HAM Radio Home Amateur Radio
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HAN Home Area Network
HAPS High-Altitude Platform Systems (application)
HARM High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
HASP Houston Automated Spooling Program (transmission
protocol)
HAVI Home Audio–Video Interoperability architecture
HBA Host Bus Adapter (computer)
HBC Half-band Bipolar Coding
HBFG Host Behavior Functional Group (ATM)
HBS Home Base Station (wireless)
HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (electronics)
HC High-speed CMOS (as in 74 HC245 IC numbers)
HCA Host Channel Adapter (fiber optics)
HCI 1. Host Command Interface
2. Human Computer Interface standards
3. High Council of Informatics (Iran)
HCIT High Council of Information Technology (Iran)
HCL Hardware Compatibility List (Microsoft)
HCN 1. Hierarchical Computer Network
2. Hybrid Communications Network
HCO Hearing Carry Over (TRS)
HCPLD High-Capacity Programmable Logic Device
(microchips)
HCS 1. Hundred Call Seconds
2. Hard Clad Silica (optical fiber)
3. Hierarchical Cell Structure (cellular networks)
4. High Council of Space (Iran)
HCSS High-Capacity Storage System (data storing)
HCT 1. Hardware Compatibility Test (Microsoft)
2. High-speed CMOS with TTL thresholds (as in 74
HCT245 IC numbers)
HD 1. Half Duplex (operation)
2. High-Definition (TV set)
3. Hard Disk
4. Hard Drive
5. High-Density
HD-MAC High-Definition MAC (TV standard)
HDB High-Density Bipolar code
HDB3 High-Density Bipolar three zeros Substitution (data
encoding)
HDBMS Hierarchical Data-Base Management System
HDC Hard Disk Controller (computer)
HDCT Hybrid Discrete Cosine Transform
HDD Hard Disk Drive
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HDDR High-Density Digital Recorder
HDDT High-Density Digital Tape
HDF Hierarchical Data Format (computer)
HDFSS High-Density Fixed Satellite Service
HDL Hardware Description Language
HDLC 1. High-level Data-Link Control (protocol)
2. Hardware Description Language C
HDML Handheld Devices Markup Language (programming)
HDO Hearing Destination Order (FCC)
HDPCM Hybrid Difference PCM (modulation)
HDRSS High-Data-Rate Storage System
HDSL High-bit-rate DSL (access)
HDSL2 High-bit-rate DSL version 2 (access)
HDT Host Digital Terminal (cable TV)
HDTMOS High-Density Technique MOS (semiconductor)
HDTP Handheld Device Transport Protocol (wireless)
HDTV High-Definition Television (broadcasting)
HDX Half-Duplex (operation)
HDWDM Hyper Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
HE Head End (cable TV)
HEAO High-Energy Astronomy Observatory
HEC 1. Header Error Check (ATM)
2. Hong Kong Electric Company
HEHO Head-End Hop Off (traffic)
HEL Hardware Emulation Layer (operating systems)
HEM Hughes Engineering Module
HEM wave Hybrid Electromagnetic wave
HEMP High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
HEMT High Electron-Mobility Transistor (semiconductors)
HeNe laser Helium–Neon laser
HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit (satellites)
HEOS Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite
HEP High-Energy Physics
HEPA High-Efficiency Particulate Arrester (filter)
HEPIC High-Energy Physics Information Center
HEPNet High-Energy Physics Network
HER High-Efficiency Red (LEDs)
HERALD Harbor Echo Ranging And Listening Device (sound
detection)
HERF High-Energy Radio Frequency
HERO Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
(military)
HERP Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Personnel
(military)
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HET 1. Hall-Effect Transducer (semiconductors)
2. Heterodyne
Hex Hexadecimal
HEXFET Hexagonal FET (semiconductors)
HF 1. High Frequency (3–30 MHz range)
2. Hands Free (PBX and Wireless)
HFAARS High-Frequency Adaptive Antenna Receiving System
HFAI Hands Free Answer on Intercom
HFC Hybrid-Fiber Coax (network architecture)
HFCPN High-Frequency Conditioned Power Network
HFDF High-Frequency Distribution Frame
HFET Heterostructure FET (semiconductors)
HFS Hierarchical File System (computer)
HFSCD Hierarchical File System format for Compact Disk
(networking)
HFSS High-Frequency Structure Simulator
HFU Hands Free Unit
HG Home Gateway (LANs)
HGA 1. Hercules Graphics Adapter (720!348 pixel
monitors)
2. High-Gain Antenna
Hi-Cap High-Capacity system
Hi-Fi High-Fidelity system
Hi-Tech High-level Technology
HI-OVIS Highly Interactive Optical Visual Information System
Hi-res High-resolution system
Hi8 Video High-quality extension of the Video 8 format
HIC Hybrid Integrated Circuit (electronics)
HIC High-tech Industries Center (Iran)
HIF Host Interface node
HiLAT High-Latitude Satellite (U.S.A)
HIO Highly Inclined Orbit
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(U.S.A.)
HiperLAN High-performance LAN
HiPOT High-Potential (testing)
HiPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface (fiber optic)
HiRAN High-precision SHORAN
HIRS High-resolution Infrared Sounder (remote sensing)
HITS 1. High-Intensity Transient Signal
2. Hawaiian Inter-islands Telecommunications System
3. Hawaiian Information Transfer System
HIVR Host Interactive Voice Response
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HJBT Hetero-Junction Bipolar Transistor (semiconductors)
HJFET Hetero-Junction FET (semiconductors)
HKIX Hong Kong Internet Exchange
HKSW Hook Switch
HLC High-Level Committee (ITU)
HLD 1. High-Level Design
2. High-Level Dispatcher
HLES Home Land Earth Station (Inmarsat)
HLF High-Level Function
HLL High-Level Language
HLLAPI High-Level Language Applications Programming
Interface (IBM)
HLP High-Level Protocol
HLR Home-Location Register (cellular networks)
HLS 1. Hue—Lightness–Saturation (color model)
2. Hitless Switch
HLUT Half Look-Up Table
HMA High-Memory Area (IBM PCs)
HMD Head-Mounted Display
HMG Hyper Master Group
HMI 1. Human-Machine Interface
2. Hub Management Interface (networking)
HMIC Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit
HMM Hidden Markov Method (algorithm)
HMMP Hypermedia Management Protocol (network
management)
HMS 1. High-performance Management System
2. Hydrological and Meteorological Station
HNDS Hybrid Network Design System
HNF High-performance Network Forum
HNPA Home Numbering Plan Area
HNS Hughes Network Systems (company)
HO Handover (GSM)
HO Tone Handoff Tone (cellular networks)
HOBIC Hotel Billing Information Center (AT&T)
HOBIS Hotel Billing Information System (AT&T)
HOC Highest Outgoing Channel
HOI Higher Order Interface
HOL High-Order Language (programming)
HOMC Human-Oriented Media Computing
HomePNA Home Phone-line Networking Alliance (standards
organization)
HomeRF Home Radio Frequency
HOMO Home Office Mobile Office
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HOP Higher Order Path
HOPA Higher Order Path Adaptation
HOPC Higher Order Path Connection
HOPCM High-Order PCM (modulation)
HOPS Hardwire Order Processing System
HOPSN Higher Order Path Sub-Network
HOPT Higher Order Path Termination
HOR Horizontal polarization
HOVC High-Order Virtual Container (MUX)
hp horsepower
HP Hewlett-Packard (telecom company)
HPA 1. High-Power Amplifier (microwave)
2. High-Performance Addressing (LCD displays)
3. Hi-vision Promotion Association (broadcasting)
HPAD Host Packet Assembler/Disassembler
HPBW Half-Power Beam-Width (antennas)
HPC Handheld Personal Computer
HPF High-Pass Filter
HPFS High-Performance File System (OS/2)
HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language (programming)
HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
HPIIS High-Performance International Internet Services
HPIL Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop (as in HP41CX
calculator)
HPM High-Power Microwave
HPO High-Performance Option
HPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface
HPPM High-Power Propulsion Module
HPR High-Performance Routing (LANs)
HPT 1. High-order Path Termination
2. Host Processing Time
HQ Headquarter
HR 1. Half-Rate
2. Here (Morse code transmissions)
HRC 1. Hypothetical Reference Circuit
2. Hybrid Ring Control
3. High-Rupturing Capacity
HRDP Hypothetical Reference Digital Path
HRDS Hypothetical Reference Digital Section
HRFWG Home RF Working Group (US standards
organization)
HRP Hypothetical Reference Path
HRPT High-Resolution Picture Transmission
HRSC High-Resolution Stereo Color (remote sensing)
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HRV High-Resolution Visible (remote sensing)
HRVIR High-Resolution Visible and Middle Infrared (remote
sensing)
HRX Hypothetical Reference Connection (ISDN)
HSA High-Speed Access
HSB 1. Hue–Saturation–Brightness (color model)
2. Hot Standby
HSC 1. Hierarchical Storage Controller
2. High-Speed Channel
HSCH High-Speed Channel
HSCI High-Speed Communications Interface (Cisco)
HSCS High-Speed Circuit-Switched
HSCSD High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (wireless)
HSD 1. High-Speed Data (Inmarsat)
2. Home Satellite Dish
HSDA High-Speed Data Access
HSDL High-speed Subscriber Data Line (Telcordia
Technologies)
HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSDRAM High-speed Synchronized Dynamic RAM (memory)
HSDU High-Speed Data Unit
HSF Heat-Sink Fan (electronics)
HSI Hue–Saturation–Intensity (color model)
HSL Hue–Saturation–Luminance (color model)
HSLN High-Speed Local Network
HSM 1. Hierarchical Storage Management (file storage)
2. Hardware-Specific Module (networking)
HSN 1. Hopping Sequence Number (GSM)
2. Hierarchically Synchronized Network (networking)
HSOP High-power Small-Outline Package (microchips)
HSPD High-Speed Packet Data
HSPSD High-Speed Packet-Switched Data (wireless)
HSR Harmonic Suppression Reactor
HSRP Hot Standby Routing Protocol (routing)
HSSI High-Speed Serial Interface (Cisco)
HSSP High-Speed Switched Port
HST High-Speed Technology
HSTL 1. High-Speed Transceiver Logic (digital electronics)
2. High-Speed Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
HSTP High-Speed Transport Protocol
HSTR High-Speed Token-Ring
HSV Hue–Saturation—Value (color model)
hSymbols/s hecto (100) Symbols per seconds (TV)
HSYNC Horizontal Sync (video signals)
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HT 1. “Horizontal Tabulation” (character control code)
2. High Tension
HTC High-Tech Computer
HTCC High-Temperature Co-fiber Ceramic
HTCP Hyper Text Catching Protocol
HTG Hunt Group
HTL High-Threshold Logic (digital electronics)
.htm The MS-DOS/Windows 3.x name extension for HTML
files
.html Name extension for HTML files
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language (programming)
HTMLC HTML Plus (programming)
HTR Hard-To-Reach
HTRB High-Temperature Reverse Bias
HTS High- Temperature Superconductor
HTTL High-power Transistor-to-Transistor Logic (digital
electronics)
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (World Wide Web)
HTTP-NG Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Next Generation
HTTPD Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon
HTTPS HTTP-Secure Connection
HTU-C HDSL Terminal Unit—Central (HDSL modem or line
card)
HTU-R HDSL Terminal Unit—Remote (HDSL modem or PC
card)
HUD Head-Up Display (combat aircraft)
HUT 1. High-Usage Trunk
2. Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
HV 1. High Voltage
2. Have (Morse code transmissions)
HVAC 1. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning system
2. High-Voltage AC
HVDC High-Voltage Direct Current (power)
HVP Hub Voice Port
HVPS High-Voltage Power Supply
HVQ Hierarchical Vector Quantization (video compression)
HWCS Harmony Wireless Communications System (Motorola)
HyCoS Hypermedia Communication Server
HYTELNet Hypertext-browser for TELNet Accessible sites
Hz Hertz (unit of frequency)
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I i
I 1. Symbol for electrical current (electronics)
2. Symbol for Intensity (electronics)
3. Symbol for “On” position of rocker switches
(electronics)
I Package Installation Package
I&C Installation and Checkout
I&M Installation and Maintenance
I&R Installation and Repair (telephone company
department)
I-4s Fourth Generation of Inmarsat Satellites (Inmarsat)
I-beam Name of cursor when resembles the capital letter I
(computer)
I-CASE Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering
I-CF ISDN Call Forwarding
I-CFDA ISDN Call Forwarding Don’t Answer
I-CFDAIO ISDN Call Forwarding Don’t Answer Incoming Only
I-CFIB ISDN Call Forwarding Interface Busy
I-CFIBIO ISDN Call Forwarding Interface Busy Incoming Only
I-CFIG ISDN Call Forwarding Intra-Group
I-CFIO ISDN Call Forwarding Incoming Only
I-CFPF ISDN Call Forwarding over Private Facilities
I-CFV ISDN Call Forwarding Variable
I-CFVCG ISDN Call Forwarding Variable facilities for Customer
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I-CNIS ISDN Calling Number Information Service
I-Commerce Internet Commerce
I-EDI Internet-based Electronic Data Interchange
I-ETS Interim European Telecommunications Standard
I-frame Intra-coded frame (MPEG animation)
I-HC ISDN Hold Capability
i-LINK Another name for FireWire Technology
i-Mode Internet-Mode (GSM service)
I-MUX Inverse Multiplexer
I-Order Installation Order
I-picture Intra-coded picture (MPEG animation)
I-PNNI Integrated PNNI (ATM)
i-Pod Internet Pod (Apple)
I-time Instruction time
I-TV Interactive Television
I-Way Information Superhighway
I/F Interface
I/O 1. Input/Output (electronics)
2. In-route/Out-route
I/P Input
I/R Installation and Repair
I2 Internet 2
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit
I2ICE Integrated Instrumentation and In-Circuit Emulation
(electronics)
I2L Integrated-Injection Logic (digital electronics)
I2O Intelligent Input/Output (standard)
I2S2C2 International Information Systems Security Certification
Consortium
I2T Intelligent Interface Technology
i386SL A version of Intel’s 386 family of microprocessors
i486DX An advanced version of Intel’s 80386 microprocessor
i486SL A low-power consumption version of Intel’s 80 486DX
i486SX A low-cost alternative to the Intel’s 80 486DX
IA 1. International telegraph Alphabet
2. Internet Appliance
3. Instrumentation Amplifier (electronics)
4. Implementation Agreement
5. Intelligent Agent
6. Intel Architecture
IA-32 Intel Architecture 32 bit
IA-64 Intel Architecture 64 bit
IA2 International telegraph Alphabet No. 2
IA5 International telegraph Alphabet No. 5
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IAAB Inter-American Association of Broadcasting
IAB 1. Internet Architecture Board (DARPA)
2. Internet Activities Board
IAC 1. Information Access Company
2. Information Analysis Center (U.S. defense
department)
3. Interactive Synchronous Communications
4. Inter-Application Communications (protocol)
5. Internet Access Coalition (organization)
6. Institute for Advanced Commerce (IBM)
7. Industry Advisory Council
IADs Integrated Access Devices (Internet)
IADP International Assistance & Development Program
(Intelsat)
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEEE Iranian Association of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IAF International Astronautical Federation
IAGA International Association of Geomagnetism and
Aeronomy
IAGC Instantaneous Automatic Gain Control (Intelsat)
IAHC International Ad Hoc Committee
IAI Initial Address Information
IAL Intel Architecture Labs (Intel)
IAM 1. Initial Access Message (SS7)
2. Incoming Address Message (SS7)
3. Intermediate Access Memory
IAMSAR International Aeronautical and Maritime Search And
Rescue (IMO)
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (organization)
IAO Intra-Office SONET signal
IAP 1. Internet Access Provider
2. Intelligent Access Point
IAP1 Initial Acquisition Phase 1 code
IAP2 Initial Acquisition Phase 2 code
IAPP Inter-Access Point Protocol
IARL International Amateur Radio League
IARU International Amateur Radio Union
IASA Integrated AUTODIN System Architecture
IASG Internetwork Address Sub-Group
IAT 1. Intermediate Attitude Trim
2. International Atomic Time
IATA International Air Transport Association
IATE International Accounting and Traffic Analysis
Equipment
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IAU 1. Initial Acquisition Unit
2. International Astronomical Unit
IB Input Buffer
IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority
IBC 1. International Broadcasting Convention
2. Information Bearer Channel
3. Integrated Broadband Communications
4. Interface Buffer Controller
5. Internal Bus Controller
6. Initial Billing Company
IBCN Integrated Broadband Communications Network
IBDN Integrated Building Distribution Network (fiber optics)
IBG Inter-Block Gap (storage disks or tapes)
IBI 1. Inter-Burst Interference
2. Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics
3. International Broadcast Institute
IBIC Interface Bus Interactive Control
IBL Initial Binary Load
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
IBM AT IBM’s personal computer Advanced Technology
IBM PC IBM Personal Computers
IBM-ERS IBM Emergency Response Service
IBN Institut Belge de Normalisation (Belgium)
IBND Interim Billed Number Database
IBNPR In-Band Noise Power Ratio
IBO Input Back-Off
IBOC In-Band On-Channel (broadcasting)
IBPD In-Band Power Difference
IBS 1. Intelsat Business Service
2. Intelligent Battery System
3. International Broadcasting Station
IBT 1. Internet-Based Training (e-learning)
2. Isochronous Burst Transmission (data network)
IBW Instantaneous Band-Width
IBX Integrated Business Exchange (same as PBX)
IC 1. Integrated Circuit (electronics)
2. International Channel
3. Intercom
4. Interexchange Carrier
5. Intermediate Cross-connect
IC DRAM Integrated Circuit DRAM (memory)
ICA 1. International Communications Association (U.S.
standards)
2. Integrated Communications Adapter (fiber optics)
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iCal Internet Calendaring and scheduling (Apple Inc.)
Ical An X-based calendaring and scheduling program
ICAL Internet Community At Large
iCalendar Internet Calendaring and scheduling (Apple Inc.)
ICALEP International Conference on Accelerator and Large
Experimental Physics
ICAM Integrated Conditional Access Module
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAP Intellectual Capital
ICAPI International Call API
ICASA Independent Communications Authority of South
Africa
ICB Individual Case Basis (service)
ICC International Calling Card (service)
ICCAPI International Call Control API
ICCB Internet Configuration Control Board
ICCC Internet Channel Commerce Connectivity protocol
ICCF 1. Interexchange Carriers Compatibility Forum
2. International Civic Communication Forum (Ukraine)
3. International Correspondence Chess Federation
ICCID Integrated Circuit Card ID
ICD 1. International Code Designator
2. Interface Control Document
3. Interconnect Diagram
ICDL International Computer Driving License
ICE 1. In-Circuit Emulator (electronics)
2. Information Content and Exchange (protocol)
3. Information Communications and Entertainment
ICE Age Information Communication and Entertainment Age
ICEA Insulated Cable Engineers Associations, Inc. (U.S.A.)
ICFA International Computer Facsimile Association
ICI 1. Inter-Channel Interference
2. Inter-Carrier Interface
3. Interface Control Information (ISO)
4. Incoming Call Identification
5. International Commission on Illumination
ICIA Information and Communications Industry
Association, Ltd
ICII Iranian Communication Industries Incorporation
ICIT International Center for Information Technology (MCI)
Icky PIC Sticky Plastic Insulated Conductor
ICM 1. Integrated Call Management
2. Image Color Matching (scanning)
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ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol (IETF)
ICMPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol version 6
ICN Idle-Channel Noise
ICNI Integrated Communications, Navigation, and
Identification
ICNIRP International Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation
Protection
ICO Intermediate Circular Orbit (satellite)
ICOMP Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance index
(TEST)
ICONET Satellite Communication Network of ICO Global
Communications
ICONTEC Instituto Colombiano de Normas Tećnicas
ICP 1. Internet Connection Provider
2. Internet Cache Protocol
3. Integrated Communications Provider
4. Integrated Communications Platform
5. Independent Communications Provider
6. Intelligent Call Processor/Processing (AT&T service)
ICQ “I Seek You” (instant messaging client)
ICR 1. Initial Cell Rate (ATM)
2. Internet Call Routing node (Telcordia Technologies)
3. In-Circuit Reconfiguration
ICS 1. Interactive Call Setup
2. Integrated Communications System (Northern
Telecom)
3. Internet Connection Sharing
ICSA International Computer Security Association (U.S.A.)
ICSC 1. Interexchange Customer Service Center
2. Infrared Communication Systems Study Committee
ICSTD Information, Communication, and Space Technology
Division (UN)
ICT Information & Communications Technology
ICTA 1. International Computer-Telephony Association
2. International Center for Technology Assessment
3. International Commission on Technology and
Accessibility
4. Independent Cable & Telecommunications
Association
ICTC Information and Communications Technology Center
ICTSB ICT Standards Board (ETSI)
ICTUS ICT Unified Submissions
ICV Integrity Check Value
ICW Interrupted Continuous Wave (modulation)
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ID 1. Identification
2. Identifier
3. Identification Digit(s)
4. Input Device
5. Intermediate Device
6. Integrated Dispatch
IDA 1. Integrated Data Access
2. Integrated Digital Access
3. Interchange of Data between Administrations
IDAB Improved Digital Audio Broadcast (technology)
IDAL International Dedicated Access Line
IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming
Interface
IDC 1. Internet Data Center
2. Intermediate-rate Digital Carrier
3. International Data Corporation (company)
4. Insulation Displacement Connector (DSL)
IDCMA Independent Data Communications Manufacturers
Association
IDCS Integrated Digital Communications System
IDCSP Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program
IDD International Direct Dial (code)
IDDD International Direct Distance Dialing (feature)
IDDS Installable Device Driver Server
IDE 1. Integrated Device Electronics (computer interface)
2. Intelligent Derive Electronics (disk)
3.Integrated Development Environment (Windows
program)
IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm
IDECM Integrated Defense Electronic Countermeasure
(military)
IDEF Intrusion Detection Exchange Format
IDEN Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (wireless)
IDev Input Device
IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame
IDFT Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (algorithm)
IDI Initial Domain Identifier (ATM)
IDL Interconnect Description Language
IDL 1. Interactive Distance Learning (e-learning)
2. Interface Design Language (programming)
IDLC Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
IDM Isochronous Demodulation
IDML International Development Markup Language
(programming)
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IDN 1. Integrated Digital Network
2. Information Digit Node (Sprint)
3. International Domain Name (Internet)
4. Identification Number
IDNX 1. International Digital Network Exchange
2. Integrated Digital Network Exchange
IDP 1. Integrated Data Processing
2. Internetworking Datagram Protocol (Internet)
IDR 1. Intermediate Data Rate (Intelsat)
2. Isochronous Distortion Ratio (transmission)
IDRP Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (Novell NetWare)
IDS 1. Intrusion Detection System
2. Internal Data Services
3. Current of Drain-to-Source (electronics)
IDSCP Initial Defense Communication Satellite Program
IDSL ISDN DSL (access)
IDSS Saturated current of Drain-to-Source (electronics)
IDSU Intelligent Data Service Unit
IDT 1. Inter-machine Digital Trunk
2. Inter-DXC Trunk
3. Interactive Data Transaction
4. Integrated Digital Terminal
IDTS Integrated Data Test System (software program)
IDTV Improved-Definition Television (broadcasting)
IDU 1. In-Door Unit (VSAT)
2. Interface Data Unit
3. Indefeasible Right of Use (optical fiber)
IE 1. Information Engineering
2. Internet Explorer (software)
IEC 1. Inter-Exchange Carrier (see IXC)
2. Internet Exchange Center
3. International Electrotechnical Commission (Geneva)
4. International Engineering Consortium (U.S.A.)
IECEJ Institute of Electronic and Communication Engineers
of Japan
IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.)
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
(standards)
IEI Iran Electronic Industries
IEN Internet Experimental Note
IEPG 1. Internet Engineering and Planning Group (ISPs)
2. Intelligent Electronic Program Guide
IES 1. Information Exchange Service
2. Illuminating Engineering Society
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3. Inter-Enterprise Systems
IESNA Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group (Internet society)
IESS Intelsat Earth Station Standard
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force (IAB subcommittee)
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFAC International Federation of Automation Control
IFax Internet-interfaced Facsimile device
IFB Indirect Feedback
IFC Information From Controller
IFCC Internet Fraud Compliant Center
IFCM Independent Flow Control Message
IFD Image File Directory
IFE In-Flight Entertainment system
IFEA Internet Free Expression Alliance (organization)
.iff Name extension for files having IFF format (computer)
IFF 1. Interchange File Format
2. Identification, Friend, or Foe (aircraft detection
equipment)
IFFM Incoming First Fail to Match (telephone company)
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (algorithm)
IFG Inter-Frame Gap (frame relay)
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
IFL 1. Inter-Facility Link (fiber optics)
2. International Frequency Library
IFM 1. Intermediate Frequency Module
2. Instantaneous Frequency Measurement
IFMP Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol (IETF)
IFOC Integrated Fiber Optic Circuit
IFOV Instantaneous Field Of View (remote sensing)
IFP Internet Fax Protocol
IFR Instrument Flight Rules (aviation)
IFRB International Frequency Registration Board (ITU-R)
IFS 1. International Freephone Service (ITU-T)
2. Installable File System Manager
3. Ionospheric Forward Scatter (propagation)
IFSK Incoherent FSK (modulation)
IFSS Intermediate Frequency Sub-System
IFTS International Toll Free Service
IFWP International Forum on the White Paper
IG 1. Isolated Ground
2. International Gateway
3. Insertion Gain (transmission)
IGA Intermediate-Gain Antenna
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IGBT Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (semiconductors)
IGC Intelligent Graphics Controller
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (file format)
IGFET Insulated-Gate FET (semiconductors)
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol (networking)
IGO Inter-Governmental Organization
IGP 1. Interior Gateway Protocol (Cisco)
2. Integrated Graphics Processor
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco)
IGT Ispettorato Generale della Telcomunicazioni (Italy)
IGW International Gateway Switch
IGY International Geophysical Year
IHF 1. Institute of High Fidelity
2. Inherited-Halt Flip-flop
IHL Internet Header Link
IHO International Hydrographic Organization
IHP Internal High-order path Protection
IIA 1. Information Industry Association (U.S.A.)
2. Irish Internet Association
3. Iran Informatics Association
IICA International Intellectual Capital Codes Association
IICCA International Intellectual Capital Codes Association
IIH Is-IS Hellow (routing protocol)
III Information Industry Index
IIIA 1. Integrated Internet Information Architecture
2. Internet Information Infrastructure Architecture
3. International Internet Industrial Association
IIL Integrated-Injection Logic (digital electronics)
IILC Information Industry Liaison Committee
IIN Issuer Identification Number
IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IIR 1. Interactive Information Response
2. Infinite Impulse Response (filter)
3. Interactive Information Response
IIS Internet Information Server (Windows NT)
IISP 1. Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (ANSI)
2. Interim Interface Signaling Protocol
3. Interim Interswitch Signaling Protocol
IITF Information Infrastructure Task Force
IIW ISDN Implementers Workshop
IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IJT Intrinsic-Junction Transistor (semiconductors)
IKBS Intelligent Knowledge-Based System (ICT)
IKE Internet Key Exchange (IPsec)
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IKP Internet Keyed-payments Protocol
IL 1. Insertion Loss (transmission)
2. Intermediate Language (programming)
ILA 1. Intermediate Light Amplification
2. Injection-Locked Amplifier
ILAN 1. Interactive LAN (protocol)
2. Inline Amplifier Node
ILAS Improved Limb Atmospheric Sounder (remote
sensing)
ILCR International Least Cost Route
ILD Injection Laser Diode
ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
ILF Infra low Frequency (300–3000 Hz)
ILLED Integral Lens Light-Emitting Diode
ILLP Inter Link-to-Link Protocol
ILMI Interim Link Management Interface (ATM)
ILNP Interim Line Number Portability
ILO Injection-Locked Oscillator
ILOVEYOU “I LOVE YOU” (VBScript worm)
ILP Internal Low-order path Protection
ILS 1. International Launch Service (satellite company in
U.S.A.)
2. Instrument Landing System (avionics)
3. Input-buffer Limiting Scheme
4. Integrated Learning System (e-learning)
5. Internet Locator Service
ILSR IPX Link State Router (networking)
ILT 1. Idle Line Termination
2. Instructor-Led Training (e-learning)
3. Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education (U.K.)
IM 1. Intermodulation
2. Intensity Modulation
3. Isochronous Modulation
4. Information Model
5. Instant Messaging
IMA 1. Interactive Multimedia Association (Malaysia)
2. Integrated Modular Avionics
3. Inverse Multiplexing for ATM
IMAC Isochronous Media Access Control (FDDI Architecture)
IMAG Induction Magnetometer
IMAP Internet Messaging Access Protocol
IMAP4 Internet Messaging Access Protocol 4
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IMAS Intelligent Maintenance Administration System
(software)
IMASS Intelligent Multiple Access Spectrum Sharing
IMAX “I”—eye Maximum (cinematic system)
IMC 1. Internet Mail Consortium (U.S.A.)
2. Interagency Management Council
3. Instrument Meteorological Condition (avionics)
IMD Intermodulation Distortion
IMDN Intelligent Mobile Data Network
IME Internally Mounted Equipment
IMEI International Mobile-station Equipment Identifier
(GSM)
IMEISV IMEI plus a Software Version (GSM)
IMFET Internally Matched FET (semiconductors)
IMG Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases (remote
sensing)
IMN Inmarsat Mobile Number
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMCC ISDN Management Coordinating Committee
IML Incoming Mail Loss (telephone company)
IMP 1. Interface Message Processor (ARPANet)
2. Intermodulation Products
IMPATT Impact Avalanche Transit Time (semiconductors)
IMPDU Initial MAC Protocol Data Unit
IMPS Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite
IMR Intermodulation Ratio
IMS 1. IP Multimedia Subsystem
2. Information Management System (ICT)
IMS/VS Information Management System/Virtual System
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity (GSM)
IMSO International Mobile Satellite Organization
IMT 1. International Mobile Telecommunications
2. Inter-Machine Trunk
IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications-2000
IMTA International Mobile Telecommunications Association
IMTC International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium
(U.S.A.)
IMTS 1. Improved Mobile Telephone System
2. International Mobile Telecommunications System
IMUIMG ISDN Memorandum of Understanding Implementation
Management Group
IMUX Inverse Multiplexer
IMW Intelligent Music Workstation
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IN Intelligent Network
INA 1. Information Network Architecture (Telcordia
Technologies)
2. Interactive Network Adapter (broadcasting)
INAP 1. Intelligent Network Access Protocol (INs)
2. Intelligent Network Application Part (INs)
InAs Indium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
INAT Intermode Alarm Transport
Inbox Incoming mails box (e-mail)
INC International Carrier
INCC Internal Network Control Center
INCM Intelligent Networks Call Model
IND-E Indian Ocean Region East (Inmarsat)
IND-W Indian Ocean Region West (Inmarsat)
INDIGO Integrated Digital Overlay
INDIX International Network for Development Information
Exchange
INE Intelligent Network Element
INet Institutional Network
INET short form of Internet
info information field (LANs)
Infobahn Information autobahn (superhighway)
INFOSEC Information Security system
InGaAs Indium–Gallium–Arsenide (semiconductors)
INGECEP Integrated Next Generation Electronic Commerce
Environmental Project
INH Inhibiter (microchips)
.ini Name extension for Initialization files (computer)
INIC ISDN Network Identification Code
INIM ISDN Network Interface Module
INIRC International Non-Ionizing Radiation Committee
INL 1. Internode Link
2. Integral Non-Linearity
INMAC International Network Management Center
Inmarsat International maritime satellite (organization)
Now it is called “International mobile satellite
Company”
INMC International Network Management Center
INMLM Integrated Network Manager Link Module
INMS 1. Inmarsat Monitoring System
2. Integrated Network Management Services
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INN 1. Internode Network
2. Internet News
INNO International Neural Network Operator
INNS International Neural Network Society (Berkeley
University, U.S.A.)
INode Integrated Node
INOS Intelligent Network Operating System
InP Indium–Phosphide (semiconductors)
INP 1. Intelligent Network Processor
2. International Network Planning
3. Interim Number Portability
INPA Interchangeable Network Planning Area
INPE 1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
2. Brazilian Space Agency
INPS Intelligent Network Product Support
INs Intelligent Networks
INS 1. Information Network System
2. Ion Neutralization Spectroscopy (electronics)
3. Inertial Navigation System
4. Integrated Network System
5. Internet Naming Service
INSAT Indian National Satellite
INSP IN Service Provider
INSS IN Service Subscriber
int internal
INT Induction Neutralizing Transformer
INTAIP Interoperability Technology Association for
Information Processing
INTEGRAL International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
Intelsat International Telecommunication Satellite
(organization)
intercom intercommunication system
InterLATA Telecommunication services that originate in one LATA
and terminate in another
Internaut Internet astronaut
internet interconnection of two or more data networks
Internet International Network
Internet2 The second Generation Internet
InterNIC Internet Network Information Center (U.S.A.)
InterPBX The calls coming to a PBX
INTERSPUTNIK International Organization of Space Communications
(Russia)
INTFC Interface
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IntraLATA Telecommunication services that originate and
terminate in the same as LATA
INTS International Transit Switch
IntServ Integrated Services
INTUG International Telecommunications User Group
INV inverter
InWATS Inward Wide-Area Telephone Services
I/O Input/Output
IO Information Outlet
IOA Interim Operating Authority (cellular networks)
IOC 1. In-route/Out-route Controller (electronics)
2. Input/Output Controller
3. Integrated Optical Circuit (electronics)
4. Intelsat Operations Center
5. Intermediate Orbit Communications
6. Independent Operating Carrier
7. Inter-Office Channel
8. ISDN Ordering Code
IOCTF Intelsat Operations Center TDMA Facility
IOD Identified Outward Dialing (PBX)
IOEF Instantaneous Override Energy Function (AT&T)
IOF Inter-Office Facility
IOL Inter-Operability Lab (New Hampshire University)
ION 1. Internetworking Over NBMA
2. Intelligent Optical Network
IONL Internal Organization of the Network Layer (OSI model)
IOP 1. Input/Output Processor
2. interoperability
IOPS Internet Operators Group
IOR 1. Indian Ocean Region (Inmarsat)
2. Index Of Refraction (fiber optics)
IOS 1. Internetwork Operating System (Cisco)
2. Inter-Office Section
3. Indian Ocean Satellite (Intelsat)
4. International Organization for Standardization
(Switzerland)
IOSA Inter-Office Section Adaptation
IOST Inter-Office Section Termination
IOT 1. In-Orbit Testing (satellites)
2. Inter-Operators Tariffs (GSM)
3. InterOperability Testing
IOTP Internet Open Trading Protocol
IOU Input/Output Unit
IOV In-Orbit Verification (space researches)
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IP 1. Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
2. Information Provider (Internet)
3. Interface Processor (electronics)
4. Intelligent Peripheral (device)
5. Ingress Protection (hardware box standard)
6. Intercom Profile (Bluetooth)
IP PBX Internet Protocol PBX
IPA 1. Intermediate Power Amplifier
2. Intellectual Property Attorney
IPARS International Passenger Airline Reservation System
(IBM)
IPBO Input Power Back-Off
IPC 1. Inter-Process Communication (networking)
2. Inter-Personal Communications
3. Information Processing Center
4. ISDN to POTS Converter
IPCC Internet Protocol Contact Center
IPCE Inter-Process Communication Environment
IPCH Initial Paging Channel (GSM)
IPCI Integrated Personal Computer Interface
IPComp IP Payload Compression Protocol
IPconfig Internet Protocol configuration (utility program)
IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPDC Internet Protocol Device Control
IPDR Internet Protocol Data Record
IPDRs IP Detail Records
IPDS 1. Inmarsat Packet Data Service
2. Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IBM)
IPDU Internet Protocol Data Unit
IPE 1. Intelligent Peripheral Equipment (Northern
Telecom)
2. Initial Pointing Error
IPEI International Portable Equipment Identities
(wireless)
IPENZ Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand
IPL Initial Program Load (of operating systems)
IPLC International Private Line Circuits
ipm 1. impulses per minute
2. interruptions per minute
IPM 1. Inter-Personal Messaging system (X.400)
2. Interference Prediction Model (propagation)
3. Incremental Phase Modulation
4. Internal Polarization Modulation
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IPMC Industrial Process Measurement and Control
IPMS Inter-Personal Messaging Service
IPN Impulse Noise
IPNC IP Network Controller
IPND Integrated Public Number Database
IPNG Internet Protocol Next Generation
IPNGWG IP Next Generation Working Group
IPNS ISDN PBX Networking Specification
IPO 1. Initial Public Offering (finance)
2. Input-Process-Output
IPoATM Internet Protocol over ATM
IPoD Internet Protocol phone over Data
IPONZ Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
IPoS IP over SONET (IETF)
IPP Internet Printing Protocol
IPPV Impulse Pay Per View (broadcasting)
IPR Intellectual Property Right
IPRA Internet Policy Registration Authority
IPRS Internet Protocol Routing Service (Bell)
IPS 1. Internet Protocol Suite
2. Integrated Power Systems
IPS7 Internet Protocol Signaling 7
IPSec IP Security policy (VPNs)
IPSN International Public-Switched Network
IPSO IP Security Option
IPSS International Packet-Switched System
IPT IP Telephony
IPT Gateway IP Telephony Gateway
IPTC IP Telephony solution for Carriers (Ericsson)
IPTV Internet Protocol TV (Cisco)
IPU Intelligent Processing Unit
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange (networking)
IPXCP IPX Control Protocol (networking)
IPXODI Internetwork Packet Exchange Open Data-link
Interface
IPX/SPX Internet Packet Exchange Sequenced Packet
Exchange
IPXWAN IPX Wide-Area Network (Novell specification)
I/Q In-phase/Quadrature
IQF Intrinsic Quality Factor (transmission)
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IR 1. In-Route
2. Infrared
3. Internet Registry
4. Information Retrieval
IRA 1. Internet Resource Access
2. Impulse Radiating Antenna
IRAC 1. International Radiocommunications Advisory
Committee
2. Interagency Radio Advisory Committee
3. Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Council (U.S.A.)
4. Internal Review and Audit Compliance
5. Infrared Array Camera
IRAM Intelligent RAM (memory)
IRAMS Innovative Real-time Antenna Modeling System
iraser infrared maser
IRC 1. Internet-Relay Chat (ICT)
2. Integrated Receiver decoder
3. International Record Carrier
4. Interference Rejection Combining (cellular networks)
IrCOMM Provides COM (serial or parallel) port emulation or
connections using IrDA protocol
IRCN Inter-Regional Control Node
IRD 1. Integrated Receiver/Descrambler
2. Integrated Receiver/Decoder (DSB)
3. Internal Resources Database
IrDA Infrared Data Association (standards organization)
IRDB Intelligent Roaming Data-Base (cellular networks)
irdome infrared dome
IRE Institute of Radio Engineers
IRED Infrared-Emitting Diode (electronics)
IREQ Interrupt Request (signal)
IRF 1. Industrial Radio Frequency
2. Impulse Response Function
3. Inherited Rights Filter (networking)
IRFBP Inmarsat Request For Business Plan
IRFU Integrated Radio Frequency Unit
IRG Inter-Record Gap (storage disks or tapes)
IRGB Intensity Red Green Blue (monitors color encoding)
IRIB Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
IRICA Iran Informatics Companies Association
IRIG Inter-Range Instrumentation Group
iRIP iCalendar Real-time Interoperability Protocol
IRL Inter-Repeater Link (networking)
IrLAP Infrared Link Access Protocol (IrDA Network)
164 &
IrLMP Infrared Link Management Protocol (IrDA Network)
IRM Image Rejection Mixer
IrMC Infrared Mobile Communications
IROB In Range Of Building
IRP I/O Request Packet
IRQ Interrupt Requests (computer)
IRR 1. Internet Routing Registry
2. Image Rejection Ratio (heterodyning)
IRS 1. Inertial Reference System
2. Indian Remote Sensing System
IRSC Iranian Remote Sensing Center
IRSG Internet Research Steering Group
IRSU ISDN Remote Subscriber Unit
IRTF Internet Research Task Force (IAB subcommittee)
IRTU Integrated Remote Test Unit
IRU Indefeasible Right of Use or User (undersea fiber cable)
IS 1. Information Services (ICT)
2. Information Systems (ICT)
3. Information Superhighway
4. Information Separator (control character)
5. Interactive Services
6. Interim Standard
7. Internal Shield (tube-base diagrams)
IS-2000 Interim Standard 2000 (cellular network)
IS-41 Interim Standard 41 (cellular network)
IS-410 Interim Standard 41 Zero (cellular network)
IS-41A Interim Standard 41A (cellular network)
IS-95 Interim Standard 95 or CDMAone (cellular network)
IS-IS 1. Intermediate System to Intermediate System (routing
protocol)
2. Intelligent Scheduling and Information System
ISA 1. Iranian Space Agency (Iran)
2. Industry Standard Architecture (old computers)
3. Interactive Service Association
4. Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation society
5. Instrumentation Society of America
ISACA Information Systems Auditability and Control
Association
ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management
Protocol
ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Method (databases)
ISAP Istanbul Action Plan (ITU)
ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface
(Microsoft)
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ISAR Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar
ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( Japan)
ISB 1. Inter-Shelf Bus
2. Independent Side-Band (modulation)
ISBN Integrated Satellite Business Network
ISC 1. International Switching Center
2. Internet Software Consortium
ISCA International Speech Communication Association
ISCCP International Satellite Clouds Climatologic Project
(remote sensing)
ISCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
ISCP Integrated Services Control Point (Telcordia
Technologies)
ISD 1. Incremental Service Delivery
2. Information Systems Department
3. Internet Standards Document
ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting
ISDE Integrated Services Digital Exchange
ISDL Integrated Services Digital Line
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (transmission)
ISDN2 ISDN with two BRI channels and one D channel
ISDN2e European ISDN with two BRI channels and one
D channel
ISDN30 ISDN service delivering 30 BRI lines over one line
ISE Integrated Switching Element
ISEC Information Security Exploratory Committee
ISG Incoming Service Group
ISHM International Society of Hybrid Microelectronics
ISI 1. Information Sciences Institute
2. Inter-Symbol Interference (transmission)
3. Informatics Society of Iran
ISIA Information and Software Industry Association
ISIS 1. Internal Switch Interface System (packet service)
2. Intelligent Scheduling and Information System
ISL 1. Inter-station Signaling Link (Inmarsat)
2. Inter-Satellite Link (Intelsat)
3. Inter- Switch Link (Cisco Ethernet)
4. ISDN Signaling Link (Northern Telecom)
ISLU Integrated Services Line Unit (AT&T)
ISM Inter-Stellar Medium
ISM Band Industrial, Scientific and Medical frequency Band
ISMC International Switching Management Center
International Society for Measurement and Control
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ISMN Integrated Switching Management Network
International Standard Music Number
ISMS Interactive SMS (GSM)
ISN 1. Inmarsat Serial Number
2. Intelligent Service Node (AT&T)
3. Information Systems Network (AT&T)
4. Initial Sequence Number
ISNAP Intelligent Services Network Applications Processor
ISNET Inter-Islamic Network on Space Sciences and
Technology
ISNI Intermediate Signaling Network Identification
ISO 1. International Standards Organization (Switzerland)
2. isolator
ISOC Internet Society
ISoD Interactive Service on Demand
ISODE ISO Development Environment (OSI model)
IsoENET Isochronous Ethernet
ISO/OSI model International Organization for Standardization Open
System Interconnection model
ISP 1. Internet Service Provider
2. Internet Safety Policy
3. Inmarsat Service Provider
4. Integrated Service Provider
5. In-System Programmable
6. Information Service Platform
7. ISDN Signal Processor
ISPBX Integrated Services Private Branch Exchange
ISPC 1. International Sound Program Center
2. International Signaling Point Code
ISPT Instituto Superiore delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni
(Italy)
ISR 1. Intermediate Session Routing (routing algorithm)
2. Interrupt Service Routine (computer)
3. International Simple Resale
ISRO Indian Space Research Organization (India)
ISS 1. Inter-Satellite Service
2. Intelligent Services Switch
3. International Space Station (NASA)
4. Integrated Satellite Solutions Corporation
ISSA Information Systems Security Association
ISSI Inter-Switching System Interface
ISSLL Integrated Services over Specific Link Layers (QoS)
ISSS Information Society Standardization System (ICT)
ISSN Integrated Special Services Network
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IST 1. Initial Service Term
2. Independent Sideband Transmission
3. Information Society Technologies
ISTF Integrated Services Test Facility
ISU 1. Initial Signal Unit
2. Iridium Subscriber Unit
ISUP ISDN User Part (SS7)
ISV Independent Software Vendor (ICT)
ISVC Inmarsat Standard Voice Codec
IT 1. Information Technology (ICT)
2. Inter-Toll Trunk
IT&T Information Technology and Telecommunication
ITA 1. International Telegraph Alphabet
2. Integrated Trunk Access
3. Industrial Telecommunications Association
ITA1 International Telegraph Alphabet No.1 (ITU)
ITA5 International Telegraph Alphabet No.5 (ITU)
ITAA Information Technology Association of America
(standards)
ITAB Information Technical Advisory Board
ITAC 1. Information Technology Association of Canada
2. ISDN Terminal Adapter Circuit
Italsat Italian Domestic Satellite System
ITANZ Information Technology Association of New Zealand
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations (U.S. State
Dept.)
ITB Intermediate Block Character (transmission)
ITC 1. International Transit Center
2. Independent Television Commission (broadcasting)
3. Information To Controller
4. International Teletraffic Congress
ITCA International Tele-Conferencing Association (U.S.A.)
ITCC International Telecommunications Clearing
Corporation
ITCI-DC Internet Training Centers Initiative for Developing
Countries (ITU)
ITCO Independent Telephone Company
ITDM Intelligent Time-Division Multiplexer
ITESF Internet Traffic Engineering Solution Forum
(Telcordia Co.)
ITF Interframe Time Fill
ITFS 1. Instructional Television Fixed Service
2. International Toll Free Service
ITG Integrated Telemarketing Gateway (AT&T)
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ITI 1. Interactive Terminal Interface (X.25)
2. Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure (U.S.A.)
3. Iran Telecommunication Industries
4. Idle Trunk Indicator
ITIC Information Technology Industry Council (U.S.A.)
iTIP iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability
Protocol
ITM Information Technology Management
ITMC 1. International Transmission Management Center
2. Iran Telecommunications Manufacturing Company
ITMN Integrated Transmission Management Network
ITN 1. Independent Telephone Network
2. Inter-office Transport Network
ITO International Telecommunication Organization
ITORP IntraLATA Toll Originating Responsibility Plan
ITPD Iran Telephone Planning and Development Company
ITR 1. International Telecommunication Regulations (ITU)
2. Internet Talk Radio
ITRC 1. Information Technology Research Center
2. Iran Telecommunication Research Center
ITS 1. Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (U.S.A.)
2. Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITSec Information Technology Security
ITSO International Telecommunications Satellite
Organization
ITSP Internet Telephony Service Provider
ITT 1. International Telephone and Telegraph (company)
2. Invitation To Tender (contracts)
ITU International Telecommunications Union (standards
organization)
ITU-D ITU-Telecom Development Sector
ITU-R ITU-Recommendation Sector
ITU-SB ITU Standardization Bureau
ITU-TS ITU-Telecommunication Standardization Sector
ITUR Italy–Turkey–Ukraine–Russia (fiber optic cable
consortium)
ITUSA Information Technology User’s Standards Association
ITV Interactive Television (broadcasting)
ITXC Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier
IU Interface Unit
IUA ISDN User Adaptation Layer
IUS Interim Upper Stage
IUT Implementation Under Test
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IUW ISDN Users Workshop
IV Interactive Video (ICT)
IVAN International Value-Added Network
IVC Inmarsat Voice Codec
IVCP Installation Verification Certification Program
IVD 1. International Volume Discount
2. Inside Vapor Deposition (optical fibers)
3. Integrated Voice/Data
IVDM Integrated Voice and Data Multiplexer
IVDS Interactive Video Data Service (FCC)
IVDT Integrated Voice/Data Terminal
IVHS Intelligent Vehicle Highway System
IVI Intel Video Interactive
IVMS In-Vehicle Multiplexing System (standard)
IVN Intervening Network
IVoD Interactive Video-on-Demand
IVPN International Virtual Private Network
IVPO Inside Vapor Phase Oxidation process (optical fibers)
IVR Interactive Voice Response
IVS 1. Interactive Voice Service
2. Interactive Video Services
IW 1. Inside Wiring (telephone wire)
2. intraworking
3. interworking
4. Information Warfare
5. Intelligent Workstation
IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee
IWA Intelligent Workstation Architecture
IWF 1. Interworking Function (PLMN)
2. Internet Watch Foundation
IWG Intersessional Working Group (Inmarsat)
IWS Intelligent Work-Station
IWTA International Wireless Telecommunications
Associations
IWU 1. Internet Working Unit
2. Interworking Unit
IWV Impulse Wahlverfahren (German pulse dialing)
IX Internet Exchange
IXC Inter-Exchange Carrier (long-distance telephone
company)
IXM Inter-Exchange Mileage
IXO Information Exploitation Office (DARPA)
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J j
J Symbol for Joule (unit of work and energy)
J Box Junction Box
J-Carrier Japanese equivalent of T-Carrier
J-hook J-shaped hook connector
J-SAC Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE)
J0 Regeneration section trace byte (MUX)
J1 Path trace byte (MUX)
J2 Path overhead byte (MUX)
J2ME Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
JABWT Java Applets for Bluetooth Wireless Technology
JAD Joint Application Design
JAE Java Application Environment
JAM Jini Technology Access Module
JAMSAT Japanese affiliate of AMSAT (satcom)
JANet Joint Academic Network (U.K.)
JAR Java Archive
JARL Japan Amateur Radio League, Inc.
JAROS Japan Resources Observation System (organization)
JASC Japan Sea Cable
JASREP Japan Ship Reporting system
JATE Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications
Equipments
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( Japan)
J
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JB7 Jam Bit 7
JBIG Joint Bitonal Image Group
JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks (storage technology)
JCALS Joint Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics
Support
JCC Joint Call-back Center
JCL Job Control Language (IBM mainframes)
JCSA Japan Computer Security Association
JDAP Java Directory Access Protocol
JDBC Java DataBase Connectivity
JDC Japanese Digital Cellular System
JDK Java Development Kit
JDS Japanese Digital Standard
JEC Jahan Electronic Company (Iran)
JECF Java Electronic Commerce Framework
JECS Job-by-Email Control System
JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
(standards)
JEDI Joint Electronic Document Interchange
JEIDA Japan Electronic Industry Development Association
JEMA Japan Electronic Messaging Association
JEPI Joint Electronics Payments Initiative (W3C)
JERS Japanese Earth Resource Satellite (remote sensing)
JES Job Entry Subsystem
JESSI Joint European Semiconductor Silicon Initiative
JET Just-Enough-Time (protocol)
JF Junction Frequency
JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor (semiconductors)
.jfif Name extension for JPEG File Interchange Format
(computer)
JHTML Java and HTML (programming)
JI Junction Isolation (electronics)
JIOA Japan Institute of Office Automation
JIPS JANET Internet Protocol Service
JIS Japanese Industrial Standard
JISA Japan Information Service Association
JISC 1. Joint Information Systems Committee (U.K. ICT)
2. Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JIT Just-In-Time (product manufacturing)
JIVN Joint Intelligence Virtual Network
JMA Japanese Meteorological Agency
JMAPI Java Management Application Programming Interface
JMOS Junction MOS (semiconductors)
JMTS Jordanian Mobile Telephone System
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JMTSS Joint Multichannel Trunking and Switching System
(military)
JNT Joint Network Team
JOFX Java Open Financial Exchange
JOLT Java Open Language Toolkit (project)
JOSS Johnniac Open Shop System (programming language)
JOTP Java Open Trading Protocol
JOVIAL Junior Officer’s Version of an Incomprehensible
Arithmetic Language (programming)
JPC Joint Procurement Consortium
JPCD Just Perceptible Color Difference
.jpeg Name extension for Joint Photographic Expert
Group files
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group (image format)
.jpg Name extension for JPEG format Images files
(computer)
JPIX Japan Internet Exchange
JPS Joint Product Specification
JPSA Japan Personal Computer Software Association
JRC Japan Radio Company
JRCC Joint (aeronautical and maritime) RCC (COMSAR)
JRG GII Joint Rapporteur Group Global Information
Infra-structure
JSAT Japan Satellite Systems (broadcaster)
JSC Johnson Space Center (U.S.A)
JSD Justification Service Digit
JskyB Japan sky Broadcasting (company)
JSP 1. Jackson Structured Programming (specifications)
2. Java Server Pages (specifications)
JST Japan Solderless Terminal
JT Jordan Telecom (operator)
JTAC Japanese Total Access Communications
JTACS Japanese Total Access Communications System
JTAG Joint Test Action Group (IEEE)
JTAPI Java Telephony API
JTC Joint Technical Committee
JTC3A Joint Technical Command, Control, and
Communications Agency
JTEC Japanese Technology Evaluation Center
JTFA Joint Time-Frequency Analysis (DSP)
JTG Jordan Telecom Group
JTIDS Joint Technical Information Distribution System
JTK Java Tool Kit
JTM Job Transfer and Manipulation (file transfer)
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JTRB Joint Telecommunications Resources Board
JTRS Joint Tactical Radio Systems (U.S. Army)
JTSSG Joint Telecommunications Standards Steering Group
JUG Joint Users Group
JUNET Japan Unix Network
JUNOS Juniper Networks Operating System
JUTCPS Joint Uniform Telephone Communications Precedence
System
JVC Victor Company of Japan
JVM Java Virtual Machine (software)
JvNCnet John von Neumann Center Network
JWICS Joint Worldwide Intelligent Communications System
JXML Java XML (programming language)
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K k
k 1. Symbol for kilo denoting 1000 or 103
2. Symbol for kilo or 1024 of data elements
3. Symbol for a constant value (mathematics)
K 1. Symbol for Kelvin degree (unit of temperature)
2. Symbol for Cathode (circuit diagrams)
3. Symbol for Coefficient of absorption (fiber optics)
K&R C Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie C programming
Language
K-band Radio frequency band ranging from 10.9 to 36 GHz
kA kiloampere
Ka-band Radio frequency band ranging from 18 to 22 GHz
KACST King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (Saudi
Arabia)
KADS Knowledge Analysis and Design System (ICT)
KAFOS KARA Daniz Fiber Optic System (Turkey)
KAI Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd
KARI Korean Aerospace Research Institute (South Korea)
kb kilobit, which is 1000 bits (transmission)
kB kilobyte, which is 210 or 1024 bytes (computer)
KBC Korean Broadcasting Commission (South Korea)
kBd kilobaud (1024 baud)
KBHCA Thousand Busy Hour Call Attempts
kb/s kilobits per second
K
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kbps kilobits per second
kB/s kilobytes per second
kBps kilobytes per second
KBS Knowledge-Based System (ICT)
kc kilocycle
kCHAR kilocharacter
kCi kilocurie
KCI Kerman Cable Industries (Iran)
KCL Kirchhoff’s Current Law (electronics)
KDC Key Distribution Center
KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa Company, Ltd ( Japan)
KDDI Kokusai Denshin Denwa International ( Japan)
KDE Kool Desktop Environment project (Linux)
KDR Keyboard Data Recorder (computer)
KDT Keyboard Display Terminal
KEA 1. Key Exchange Algorithm
2. Key Encryption Algorithm
keV kiloelectronvolts
KEYB keyboard
KFPA K-band Full Performance Antenna
kft kilofeet or one thousand feet
kg kilogram
kG kilogauss
kHz kilohertz (103 Hz)
KIF Knowledge Interchange Format
KIS Knowbots Information Service
kLm kilolumen
KLY klystron (tube)
km kilometer
km/s kilometer per second
km/h kilometer per hour
KM Knowledge Management (ICT)
KMBA Knowledge Management Benchmarking Association
(ICT)
KMID Key Material Identifier
KMS Knowledge Management System (ICT)
KNet Kangaroo Network product
KNI Katmai New Instructions set (Intel)
KU Kiloohm (electronics)
KOMPSAT Korea Multipurpose Satellite program
KP Key Pulsing
KPA Klystron Power Amplifier
KPI Key Performance Indicator
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KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
(programming)
KS Kearney System
KSIA Korean Semiconductor Industry Association
ksps kilosymbols per second
KSR Keyboard Send and printer Receive (device)
KSU Key Service Unit
Kt knot
KT 1. Symbol for Boltzman’s Constant-time Temperature
2. Korea Telecom
KTA Key Telephone Adapter
KTF Korea Telecom FreeTel (South Korea)
KTI Key Telephone Interface
KTILA Development Center for Telecommunications (Greece)
KTN Kernel Transport Network
KTS Key Telephone System
KTU Key Telephone Unit
Ku-band Radio frequency band ranging from 11 to 14.5 GHz
kV 1. kilovolt
2. Key Voice (telephone)
kVA kilovoltampere
kVAC kilovolt Alternating Current
kVDC kilovolt Direct Current
KVL Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (electronics)
KVM K Virtual Machine (J2ME)
KVM Switch Keyboard Video Mouse Switch
kVp kilovolt peak
kVp-p kilovolt peak-to-peak
kVr.m.s kilovolt r.m.s
kW kilowatt
kWh kilowatt-hour
KWIC Key word-In-Context (index)
KWOC Key word Out of Context (index)
K k & 177
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L l
L 1. Symbol for an inductor or inductance (coil)
2. Symbol for Lambert (unit of luminance)
3. Symbol for Liter (unit of volume)
4. Symbol for Length (mathematics)
L-ADM Linear Add/Drop Multiplexer (MUX)
L-band Radio frequency band in the spectral region of 1.5 GHz
L-to-C L-band to C-band
L1 cache Level 1 cache (memory)
L2F Layer 2 Forwarding protocol (Cisco)
L2 FET Logic Level FET (semiconductors)
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (VPNs)
L2TPext Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Extension (Cisco)
L3 Layer 3 switching
LA 1. Location Area
2. Line Adapter
3. Listed Address (Internet)
LAA Locally Administered Address
LAAS Local Area Augmentation System (GPS)
LAB Logic Array Block
LAC 1. Loop Assignment Center
2. Location Area Code (GSM)
LACE Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment
LACN Local Area Control Network
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LAD 1. LATA Architecture Database
2. Life After Death (satcom)
3. Linear Amplitude Dispersion
ladar 1. laser detection and ranging
2. laser radar
LADS Local Area Data Service
LADT Local Area and Data Transport (transmission)
LAE Liquid Apogee Engine (satellites)
LAGEOS Laser Geodynamics Satellite (U.S.A.)
LAI Location Area Identity (GSM)
LAIIX Los Angeles International Internet Exchange
LAM 1. Liquid Apogee Motor (satellites)
2. Line Adapter Module
3. Lobe Attachment Module
LAMA Local Automatic Message Accounting
LAMAR Large-Area Modular Array of Reflectors (antennas)
LAMM Large-Antenna Mini-M terminal (Inmarsat)
LAMMR Large-Antenna Multifrequency MW Radiometer
LAMP Large Advanced Mirror Program
LAN Local Area Network
LANAC Laminar Navigation Anti-Collision (aviation)
LANalyzer LAN analyzer (networking)
LANCE Local Area Network Controller for Ethernet
LANDA Local Area Network Dealers Association (Canada)
LANE LAN Emulator (ATM)
LANNET Large Artificial Neuron Network
LANS Local Area Network Services
LAP 1. Link Access Protocol
2. Link Access Procedure
LAP-B Link Access Procedure-Balanced (X.25)
LAP-D Link Access Procedure for D channel (ISDN)
LAP-F Link Access Procedure for Frame Relay
LAP-M Link Access Procedure for Modems
LArc 1. Lempel–Zive data Archiving program
2. Livermore Automatic research computer
LAS Low-Altitude Observation Satellite
LASA Large-Aperture Seismic Array (antennas)
LASCR Light-Activated Silicon-Controlled Rectifier
(electronics)
LASCS Light-Activated Silicon-Controlled Switch (electronics)
laser Light Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation
LASINT Laser Intelligence
LASS Local Area Signaling Services (PBX)
LASSI Low-Altitude Satellite Studies of Ionosphere
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LAST 1. Local Area Systems Technology
2. Large-Aperture Scanning Telescope
Lat latitude
LAT 1. Local Area Transport (transmission)
2. Local Area Terminal
3. Local Area Transit (DEC protocol)
LATA 1. Local Access and Transport Area (U.S. telephone)
2. Local Area Transport Arrangement
LATNET Latvian Network
LATTIS Local Area Transport Tariff Information System
LAU Lobe Access Unit
LAVC Local Area VAX Cluster
LAWN Local Area Wireless Network
LAWRS Limited Airport Weather Station
Lb Symbol for pound (unit of weight)
LB 1. Loop-Back
2. Leaky Bucket (ATM)
LBA Logical Block Addressing (enhanced IDE)
LBC 1. Linear Block Coding
2. Linked Boundary Condition
LBEN Low-Byte Enable
LBI Load Balance Index (telephone company)
LBO Line Build Out (cables)
LBRV Low-Bit-Rate Voice
LBS 1. Location-Based Services (wireless and cellular
networks)
2. Load-Balancing System
LBT Listen Before Talk
LC 1. Line Card
2. Line Clock
3. Leased Circuit
4. Lead Channel
5. Local Company
6. Local Channel
7. Inductance–Capacitance (circuit diagrams)
LCA 1. Logical Channel Assignment
2. Local Calling Area
LCAS Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
LCC Leadless Chip Carrier (circuit board mounting)
LCD 1. Liquid Crystal Display (electronics)
2. Loss of Cell Delineation (ATM)
3. Linear Collider Detector
LCE Line Conditioning Equipment
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L
LCI 1. Logical Channel Identifier (X.25)
2. Line-Conducted Interference
LCL Longitudinal Conversion Loss
LCM 1. Line Control Module
2. Least Common Multiple
3. Line Concentrating Module
LCMS Learning Content Management System (e-learning)
LCN 1. Logical Channel Number (ISDN)
2. Local Communication Network
LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon (semiconductors)
LCP 1. Link Control Protocol (OSI model)
2. Left Circularly Polarized (antennas)
LCPGA Low-Cost Pin-Grid Array (microchips)
LCR 1. Least Cost Routing (service)
2. Line Concentrating Ratio
3. Level Crossing Rate
4. Inductance–Capacitance–Resistance (circuit
diagrams)
LCS 1. Low-order Connection Supervision
2. Live Call Screening (feature)
3. Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT University)
LCT Large Capacity Trunk
LCU 1. Lightweight Computer Unit
2. Line Control Unit
LCV Line Code Violation (data encoding)
LD 1. Long Distance
2. Line Driver
3. Laser Diode
4. Loop Disconnect
LD-AAC Low-Delay Advanced Audio Compression
LD-CELP Low-Delay Code-Excited Linear Prediction (voice
coding)
LDA Long-Distance Alerting
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (network
management)
LDB 1. Local Database
2. Long-Distance Bypass (switching)
LDBS Local Database Services
LDD Limited Distance Dialing
LDDC Long-Distance Direct Current (dialing system)
LDE Long-Delayed Echo
LDF 1. Local Distribution Frame
2. Lightwave Distribution Frame
LDGPS Local Differential GPS
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LDIP Long-Distance Internet Provider
LDL Long-Distance Line
LDM Limited Distance Modem
LDMC Loop Data Maintenance Center
LDMOS Laterally Diffused MOS (semiconductors)
LDMS Local Multipoint Distribution Service
LDN Listed Directory Number (PBX)
LDP Label Distribution Protocol (MPLS)
LDR Light-Dependent Resistor (semiconductors)
LDS Local Digital Switch
LDT 1. Line appearance on a Digital Trunk
2. Lightning Data Transfer bus
LDTV Low-Definition Television
LDU 1. Line Director Unit
2. Local Distribution Utility
LE 1. Local Exchange
2. LAN Emulator
3. Link Encapsulation
LE ARP LAN Emulator Address Resolution Protocol
LEA 1. Law Enforcement Authority
2. Longitudinally Excited Atmosphere (laser)
LEAF 1. Law Enforcement Access Field
2. Large Effective Area Fiber
LEAP Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
LEAPS Long-term Equipment Anticipation Securities
LEAS LATA Equal Access System
LEC 1. LAN Emulation Client (ATM)
2. Local Exchange Carrier (company)
3. Local Engineering Circuit
4. Loop Electronic Coordinator
LECID LAN Emulation Client Identifier (ATM)
LECS LAN Emulation Configuration Server (ATM)
LED Light-Emitting Diode (electronics)
LEED Low-Energy Electron Diffraction
LEF Library-Exchange Format
LEMS Low-Emission Mobile System
LEN 1. Line Equipment Number
2. Low-Entry Networking (SNA)
LEO Low Earth Orbit (satellite)
LEOS Low Earth Orbit Satellite
LEOW Low-cost Exploration Operator Workstation (image
processing)
LEP 1. Large Electron Positron Collider
2. Light-Emitting Polymer
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3. Left Elliptically Polarized (antennas)
LER Label Edge Router (MPLS)
LERG Local Exchange Routing Guide (Telcordia
Technologies)
LES 1. Land Earth Station (Inmarsat)
2. LAN Emulation Server (ATM)
3. Loop Emulation Service (ATM)
4. Label Edge Switch
5. Lincoln Experimental Satellite
6. Line Errored Second
LES-SIG Land Earth Station Signaling channel (Inmarsat)
LESA Land Earth Station Assignment channel
LESD Land Earth Station Data channel
LESI Land Earth Station Interstation signaling channel
LESO Land Earth Station Operator (Inmarsat)
LESV Land Earth Station Voice channel
LETN Law Enforcement Television Network (broadcaster)
LF 1. Low-Frequency (30–300 KHz range)
2. “Linefeed” (character control code)
LFA Loss of Frame Alignment
LFACS Loop Facility Assignment and Control System
LFAP Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol
LFB Look-ahead-For-Busy (information)
LFI Link Fragmentation and Interleave (VoIP)
LFC Large Format Camera (remote sensing)
LFN Long File Name (Microsoft standard)
LFOV Limited Field-Of-View (radar)
LFSR Linear Feedback Shift Register
LFSS Link Failed Signal State
LG Line Group
LGA Low-Gain Antenna
LGC Line Group Controller
LGCI ISDN Line Group Controller
LGE Loop and Ground start Exchange card
LGN 1. Logical Group Node (ATM)
2. Logical Group Number
LGRS Local Government Radio Service
LGS Loop and Ground start Subscriber card
LHARC Lempel–Zive and Huffman data Archiving program
LHC Long-Haul Communications
LHCN Long-Haul Communications Network
LHCP Left-Hand Circular Polarization (microwave)
LHEP Left-Hand Elliptical Polarization (microwave)
LHMC Long-Haul Mileage Calculation
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LHOTS Long-Haul Optical Transmission Set
Li-Ion Lithium-Ion (battery)
LIB Label Information Base (MPLS)
LIC 1. Light guide Interconnect Cable
2. Lowest Incoming Channel
LID Line Identification/Information Database
LIDAR 1. Light Detection And Ranging (remote sensing)
2. Laser Infrared radar
LIDB Line Information Database
LIF 1. Location Interoperability Forum
2. Logarithmic Intermediate Frequency (amplifier)
3. Low Insertion Force (sockets)
LIFO Last-In, First-Out (buffer memories)
LIGBT Lateral Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor
(semiconductors)
LightSAR Light Synthetic Aperture Radar
LIJP Leaf Initiated Joint Parameter (ATM)
LILO Linux Loader
LIM 1. Line-access Interface Module (Ericsson)
2. Link Interface Module
3. Lotus Intel Microsoft (committee)
LIM-EMS Lotus Intel Microsoft—Expanded Memory
Specification
LIMS 1. Legal Interception Management System
2. Laboratory Information Management System
LINC Laboratory Instruments Computer (MIT University)
LINCOMPEX Linked Compressor and Expander
LINCS Leased Interfaculty National Airspace Communications
System
LINE Logistic Information Network Enterprise
LINX London Internet Exchange
LIP 1. Loop Initialization Protocol
2. Large Internet Packet (networking)
LIPS 1. Lightweight Internet Person Schema (information
retrieval)
2. Linear Inferences Per Second (AI machines)
3. Language Independent Program Subtitling Group
(India)
LIS 1. Link Interface Shelf
2. Local Interconnection Service
3. Label Interface Structure (ISDN)
4. Logical IP Sub-network
5. Lightning Imaging Sensor (remote sensing)
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LISN 1. Line Impedance Stabilization Network
2. Low-Incidence Support Network
LISP List Processing (programming language)
LISS 1. Linear Imaging Self-Scanner (remote sensing)
2. Low-Imaging Sensing Satellite (remote sensing)
LIST SERV List Server (Internet)
LIT 1. Line Insulation Test
2. Logic Integrity Test
LIU Line Interface Unit
LIU7 Line Interface Unit for CCS 7
LL 1. Leased Line
2. Link Level
3. Long Lines
LLA 1. Logical Layered Architecture
2. Low-Level Amplifier
LLB 1. Line Loop-Back (function)
2. Local Loop-Back
LLC 1. Logical Link Control (OSI model)
2. Leadless Chip Carrier method (chip mounting)
LLC2 Logical Link Control 2
LLD Low-Level Dispatcher
LLDP Local Loop Demarcation Point
LLF 1. Line Link Frame
2. Low-Layer Function
LLIF Linear LIF (amplifier)
LLM L-band Land Mobile
LLP Low-level Protocol
LLWAS Low-Level Wind-shear Alarm System
lm lumen (unit of luminous flux)
lm/ft2 lumen per square foot
lm/m2 lumen per square meter
lm/W lumen per Watt
lms lumen second
LM 1. Linear Modulation
2. Line Monitor
3. Long-distance Marketer
LMCS Local Multipoint Communications System
LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service (Telcordia
Technologies)
LME Layer Management Entity
LMEI Layer Management Entity Identifier
LMES Land Mobile Earth Station
LMF Language Media Format
186 &
LMGT Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
(company)
LM Hosts LAN Manager Hosts (Windows file)
LMI 1. Local Management Interface (frame relay)
2. Logical Modem Interface
LMOS Loop Maintenance Operations System
LMP Link Manager Protocol
LMR Land Mobile Radio
LMS 1. Land Mobile Service (ITU)
2. Land Mobile Station
3. Learning Management System (e-learning)
4. Library Management System
5. Loop Monitoring System
6. Local Measured Service
7. Local Message Switch
8. Location and Monitoring Service
9. Least Mean Square Error (algorithm for filters)
LMSS Land Mobile Satellite Service
LMST Lightweight Multiband Satellite communications
Terminal
LMU Line Monitor Unit
ln 1. natural logarithm (mathematics)
2. Neperian logarithm (mathematics)
3. Napierian logarithm (mathematics)
LN Linear Network
LNA 1. Low-Noise Amplifier (satcom)
2. Launch Numerical Aperture (fiber optics)
LNB Low-Noise Block down-converter (satcom)
LNBF Low-Noise Block Feed (satcom)
LNC Low-Noise Converter (satcom)
LND Last Number Dialed
LNMF Local Network Management Function
LNNI LANE Network-to-Network Interface (ATM)
LNP Local Number Portability (cellular networks)
LNPA Local Number Portability Administration
LNR 1. Low-Noise Receiver
2. linear
LNRU Like New Repair and Update
LO 1. Local Oscillator (electronics)
2. Local Operator
LO-FERF Low-Order Far-End Receive Failure alarm (MUX)
LOA Letter Of Agency
LOAD Laser Opto-Acoustic Detection
LOB Line Of Bearing (radio direction finding)
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LOC 1. Loss Of Cell Delineation (ATM)
2. Large Optical Cavity (diode)
3. Lead-On-Chip package (microchips)
LOCAL TV Launching Our Communities Access to Local
Television (Act)
LOD Letter Of Disconnect
LODE Large Optics Demonstration Experiment
LOF 1. Loss Of Frame (MUX)
2. Lowest Operating Frequency
LOFAR Low-Frequency Array (antennas)
log natural logarithm (mathematics)
logFTC logarithmic Fast Time Constant (algorithm)
logamp logarithmic amplifier
LOH Line Overhead (SONET)
LOI Letter Of Intend
LOM 1. Loss Of Multiframe (MUX)
2. List Of Materials (contracts)
LON Local Operating Network
LONAL Local Off Network Access Line
Long Longitude
LOP 1. Loss Of Path
2. Loss Of Pointer (MUX)
3. Low-Order Path
4. Line Of Position
LOPA Lower Order Path Adaptation
LOPSN Lower Order Path Sub-Network (MUX)
LOPT Lower Order Path Termination (MUX)
Lorac Long-range-accuracy (radio system)
Loran Long-range aid to navigation system
LORG Large-size Organizations (Microsoft)
LORO Lobe On Receive Only (radar)
LOS 1. Line-Of-Sight (microwave path)
2. Loss Of Signal
3. Launch On Schedule
LOTOS Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
LOVC Lower Order Virtual Container (MUX)
LOW 1. Launch On Warning
2. Link Order Wire
LP 1. Linear Polarization (wave)
2. Line Printer
3. Low-Pass
4. Low-Power
5. Low-Pressure
6. Long-Play (recording)
7. Log-Periodic (antenna)
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LPA 1. Lower order Path Adaptation (MUX)
2. Linear Power Amplifier
LPAC Lossless Predictive Audio Compression
LPC 1. Linear Predictive Coding
2. Lower order Path Connection (MUX)
LPD 1. Line Pointer Daemon
2. Link Protocol Discriminator (GSM)
3. Low Probability of Detection (radio and optical
signals)
LPDT Low-Power Distress Transmitter
LPE Liquid Phase Epitaxy (semiconductors)
LPES Land Portable Earth Station
LPF Low-Pass Filter
LPFM Low-Power FM (radio station)
LPI 1. Low Probability of Interception
2. Lines Per Inch (facsimile machine)
LPIC IntraLATA Primary Interexchange Carrier
LPM 1. Lines Per Minute (printer speed parameter)
2. Library of Parameterized Modules (standard)
LPMUD Lars Pensjo Multiuser Dungeon
Lport Logical port
LPP 1. Link Peripheral Processor
2. Lightweight Presentation Protocol
LPRF 1. Low-Power Radio Frequency
2. Low-Pulse-Repetition Frequency
LPS 1. Line Profile System
2. Line Protection Switching (MUX)
3. Lightning Protection Subsystem
LPT 1. Lower order Path Termination (MUX)
2. Line Print Terminal (PC parallel port)
LPTV Low-Power Television (service)
LQA Link Quality Analysis
LQR Linear Quadratic Regulator
LR Location Register
LRB Least Reliable Bit
LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check (transmission)
LRE 1. Low-bit-Rate Encoding
2. Line Regenerating Equipment
3. Lightwave Repeating Equipment
4. Long Reach Ethernet (Cisco)
LRF Laser Range Finder
LR FAX Low-Resolution Facsimile
LRIC Long-Run Incremental Cost
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LRIT Long-Range Identification and Tracking of ships (IMO)
LRL Line-Reflect-Line (calibration)
LRM 1. Line-Reflect-Match (microwave)
2. Line Route Map
LRN Location Routing Number
LRR Long-Range Radar
LRRM Line-Reflect-Reflect-Match (calibration)
LRS Line Repeater Station
LRU 1. Line Replaceable Unit
2. Least Recently Used
LS 1. Local Switch
2. Linear Systems
3. Loop-Start (signal)
LS Trunk Loop-Start Trunk
LSA 1. Leased Space Agreement
2. Limited Space-charge Accumulation
3. Link-State Advertisement (routing)
4. Local Service Agency
LSA diode Limited Space-charge Accumulation diode
LSAP Link Service Access Point (ATM)
LSAS Line Side Answer Supervision
LSB 1. Least Significant Bit (in a byte)
2. Lower Sideband (modulation)
LSC 1. Least Significant Character (in a string)
2. Lambda-Switched Capable (GMPLS)
3. Local Switching Center
LSCH Low-Speed Channel
LSCIE Light guide Stranded-Cable Interconnect Equipment
LSCIM Light guide Stranded-Cable Interconnect Module
LSCIT Light guide Stranded-Cable Interconnect Terminal
LSD Low-Speed Data (Inmarsat)
Least Significant Digit (in a number)
LSDU Link Layer Service Data Unit
LSE 1. Local Support Element
2. Local System Environment (OSI model)
3. Line Supervisory Equipment
LSG Large Signal Gain (nonlinear devices)
LSI 1. Large-Scale Integration (microchips)
2. Line Status Identification
LSIC Large-Scale Integrated Circuit
LSL Link Support Layer (networking)
LSMA Large-Scale Multicast Applications
LSMS Local Service Management System
LSN Local Signal Network
190 &
LSNG Large-Scale Networking Group
LSO 1. Local Service Office
2. Laser Shut Off
LSOA Local Service Order Administration system
LSOD Laser Shut Off Disable
LSOG Local Service Ordering Guidelines
LSP 1. Local Service Provider
2. Learning Service Provider (e-learning)
3. Link-State Packet (routing)
4. Label-Switched Path (MPLS)
LSR 1. Label Switching Router (MPLS)
2. Line Service Request
3. Local Service Request
4. Leaf Setup Request (ATM)
LSS Local Switching System
LSSC Lower Sideband Suppressed Carrier
LSSD Level-Sensitive Scan Design
LSSGR LATA Switching System General Requirements
LSSU Link Status Signal Unit (SS7)
LSSW Low-Speed Switch
LSTP 1. Linear Search & Track Processor
2. Local Signal Transfer Point (mobile)
LSTTL Low-power Schottky Transistor-to-Transistor Logic
(digital electronics)
LSU 1. Link-State Update (routing)
2. Logical Storage Unit
3. Line Switching Unit
LSV Line Status Verifier
LT 1. Line Terminal (MUX)
2. Logical Terminal
3. Lower Tester (ATM)
LTA Line Turn-Around (time)
LTAC Lossless Transform Audio Coding
LTB Last Trunk Busy
LTC 1. Line Trunk Controller
2. Line Traffic Coordinator
3. Longitudinal Time Code (satcom)
4. Longitudinal Transmission Check
LTCC Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (substrate
technology)
LTCI Line Trunk Controller of ISDN
LT CLASS Logical Terminal Class (ISDN terminal)
LTCN Long-Term Care Network (TV broadcaster)
LTCS Label Traffic Control System
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LTDP Line Terminator type DP
LTE 1. Line Terminating Equipment (MUX)
2. Long-Term Evolution (3GSM)
LTG Line Timing Generator
LTGRP Logical Terminal Group (ISDN)
LTI Linear Time Invariant
LTID Logical Terminal Identifier (ISDN)
LTN Local Transport Network
LTNUM Logical Terminal Number (ISDN)
LTO Linear Tape-Open storage technology (HP and IBM)
LTP 1. Line Test Position
2. List Transmission Path
LTPA Line Terminator type PA
LTPB Line Terminator type PB
LTR 1. Line Terminal Regenerator
2. Local Transport Restructuring (FCC)
LTRS Letters Shift
LTS 1. Loop Testing System
2. Lightwave Transmission System
LTSA Linear Taper Slot Antenna
LTSN Learning and Teaching Support Network (e-learning)
LTSP Linux Terminal Server Project
LTTB Line Terminator Test Board
LU 1. Line Unit
2. Local Unit (SNA access port)
3. Logical Unit (networking)
4. Local Use flag
5. Location Update (GSM)
LU6.2 Logical Unit interface, Version 6.2 (IBM protocol)
LUF Lowest Usable Frequency
LUHF Lowest Usable High Frequency
LULT Line-Unit-Line Termination (fiber optics)
LUM Line Utilization Monitor
LUN Logical Unit Number (computer)
LUNI LANE User Network Interface (ATM)
LUNs Logical Unit Numbers
LUNT Line Unit Network Termination (fiber optics)
LUT 1. Local User Terminal (aviation)
2. Look Up Table
LUXPAC Luxemburg Packet-Switched Network
LVCMOS Low-Voltage Complementary MOS (semiconductors)
LVD Low-Voltage Differential (SCSI card)
LVDM Low-Voltage Differential Multipoint
LVDS Low-Voltage Differential Signal
192 &
LVDT Linear Variable-Differential Transducer
LVTTL Low-Voltage Transistor-to-Transistor Logic (digital
electronics)
LW Long-Wave (radio broadcast band)
LWER Lightweight Encoding Rules (data encoding)
LWT Listen While Talk
lx lux (unit of illumination)
LX Local Exchange
LXC Long-distance Carrier
LZ77 Lempel–Ziv compression method developed in 1977
LZARI Lempel–Ziv Arithmetic (data compression method)
LZB Lempel–Ziv Bell (data compression method)
LZFG Lempel–Ziv–Fiala–Green (data compression method)
.lzh Name extension for files compressed with Lempel–Ziv
(computer)
LZHUF Lempel–Ziv–Huffman (data compression method)
LZJ Lempel–Ziv–Jakobsson (data compression method)
LZJH Lempel–Ziv–Jeff–Heath (data compression method)
LZMW Lempel–Ziv–Miller–Wegman (data compression
method)
LZP Lempel–Ziv Prediction (data compression method)
LZR Lempel–Ziv–Roden (data compression method)
LZS Lempel–Ziv–Stac (data compression method)
LZSS Lempel–Ziv–Sorer–Szymanski (data compression
method)
LZW Lempel–Ziv–Welsh (data compression method)
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M m
m 1. Symbol for prefix milli-, denoting one-thousandth or
10K3
2. Symbol for meter
mA milliampere (electronics)
mbar millibar
mcd millicandela
mCi millicurie
m2 square meter
m3 cubic meter
m3/s cubic meters per second
M 1. Symbol for prefix mega-, denoting 220 or 106
2. Mobile, radiodetermination, and amateur services
(ITU-T)
M bauds Megabauds
M bit Mark bit
M hop M-shaped hop (satellite transmission)
M port Master port (FDDI Architecture)
M VTS Marconi Video Telephone Standard
M&C Monitor and Control
M-ES Mobile End System
M-Learning Mobile Learning (e-learning)
M-PSK M-ary Phase Shift Keying (modulation)
M-quad Mini-quad (antenna)
M
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M/V Motor Vessel (navigation)
M/W microwave
M/Yr Millions per Year
M1 Management interface 1
M2M Machine To Machine (interface)
M12 Multiplex DS 1-to-DS 2
MA 1. Multiple Access
2. Memory Address
3. Mobile Allocation (GSM)
MAA 1. MAC Access Arbitration
2. Maximum Acceptance Angle (optical waveguides)
MAAP Maintenance And Administration Panel
MAC OS Macintosh Operating System
MAC 1. Media Access Control (MPLS)
2. Media-specific Access Control (protocol)
3. Monitoring, Alarm, and Control
4. Multiplexed Analog Components (TV broadcast
format)
5. Maritime Air Communications
6. Mobile Advisory Council
7. Multiply Accumulate function (computer operations)
8. Macintosh computer
9. Message Authentication Code
MACE Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion
MACs Moves, Adds, and Charges (phone system installation)
MACSAT Multiple Access Communications Satellite
MacTCP A Macintosh extension that allows Macintosh
computers to use TCP/IP
MAD 1. Magnetic Anomaly Detector
2. Mean Average Difference
3. Monitoring And Diagnostic unit (Intelsat)
MADAR Malfunction, Analysis, Detection, And Recording
(avionics)
MAdCaP Model for Advanced Capital Planning
MADN Multiple Appearance Directory Number (ISDN)
MADRE Magnetic Drum Receiving Equipment (radar)
MAE 1. Metropolitan-Area Exchange
2. MERIT Access Exchanges
3. Macintosh Application Environment
MAF Management Application Function
196 &
MAFET Microwave and Analog Front End Technology project
MAG magnetometer
magamp magnetic amplifier
MAGIC Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit
Internetwork Consortium
MAGLEV Magnetically Levitated transportation system
magram magnetic radar absorbing material
mAh milliampere-hour
MAHO Mobile-Assisted Hand-Off (wireless)
MAI 1. Mobile Allocation Index
2. Multiple Access Interference
3. Message Alignment Indicator
MAINT maintenance
MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset (GSM)
MAJ major (alarm)
MALLOC Multicast Address Allocation (IETF protocol)
MAM Major Account Manager
MAMA Multiple ALOHA Multiple Access
MAMI Modified Alternate Mark Inversion (code or signal)
MAMS Marine Automatic Meteorological Station
MAMSK Multitone Auxiliary Manual Select Keyboard
MAN 1. Metropolitan-Area Network
2. manual
MAO Maintenance, Administration, and Operations
MAP 1. Manufacturing Automation Protocol (General
Motors)
2. Mobile Application Part (GSM)
3. Maintenance and Administration Panel
4. Media Access Project
5. Maximum Power
MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
(Windows)
MAPOS Multiple Access Protocol Over SONET
MAPS Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellite
MAR 1. Memory Address Register (computer)
2. Major Account Representative
MARECS 1. Maritime European Communication Satellite
2. Maritime Experimental Comsat System
MARISAT Maritime Satellite Communications System (U.S.A)
MARS 1. Multicast Address Resolution Server (ATM)
2. Military Affiliated Radio System (U.S. Army)
MARSIS Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospher
Sounding
MARTIAN Mis-Addressed or Routed Telepacket In A Network
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MAS 1. Multiple Address Systems (microwave)
2. Multi-agent Systems Laboratory
3. Multi-administration Satellite System
4. Mobile Application Subsystem
5. Minimum Average Surcharge
MAS Lab Multi-agent Systems Laboratory (Massachusetts
University)
MASC 1. Major Accounts Service Center
2. Multicast Address Set Claim (IETF)
maser microwave amplification by simulated emission of
radiation
MASG Master Address Street Guide (database)
MASP Mediated Attribute Store Protocol
MASQ masquerade (IP)
MASS Major Account Support Specialist
MASTER Minimal Access Surgery by Telecommunication and
Robotics
MAT Meridian Administration Tools
(Northern Telecom)
MATC Major Account Technical Consultant
MATD 1. Maximum Acceptable Transit Delay
2. Multiple Antenna Transmit Diversity
MATE Modular Automatic Test Equipment (standard)
MATEL Multiplex Automatic Telephone system
MATR Minimum Average Time Requirement
MATSE Mobile Automatic Telephone System-Europe
MATV Master-Antenna TV system
MAU 1. Media Access Unit (LANs)
2. Medium Attachment Unit (transceiver)
3. Multistation Access Unit (networking)
4. Math Acceleration Unit
MAX 1. Media Access Exchange
2. maximum
MaxCR Maximum Cell Rate
MAYPAC X.25 Packet-switched network of Malaysia
mb millibarn
Mb Megabit, equal to 106 bits (transmission)
mbar millibar
Mbar Megabar
MB 1. Megabyte, which is 220 or 1024 times kilobytes
(computer)
2. Macro Block
MBA Multibeam Antenna
Mbaud Megabaud
198 &
MBB 1. Magnetic Blow-out Breaker
2. Moisture Barrier Bag
MBCO Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)
MBE Molecular-Beam Epitaxy (semiconductors)
MBG Multilocation Business Group
Mb/s Megabit per Second
MB/s Megabyte per Second
MBGP Multicast Border Gateway Protocol
Mbits Megabits
MBM Magnetic-Bubble Memory
Mbone Multicast backbone (Internet)
MBPA Multi beam Phased Array (antennas)
Mbps Megabit per second
MBps Megabyte per second
MBR 1. Master Boot Record (hard disk or CD)
2. Memory Buffer Register (computer)
MBTS Micro Base Transceiver Station (Motorola)
Mbus 1. Message bus
2. Multiprocessor bus
MByte Megabyte
MBR 1. Memory Buffer Register
2. Minimum Bend Radius (optical waveguides)
MBS 1. Maximum Burst Size (ATM)
2. Mobile Broadband System
3. Marine Broadcast Station
MBSAT Multimedia Broadcasting Satellite (Japan)
MBSR Mini BTS Sub-Rack (GSM)
MBWA Management By Walking Around (Hewlett–Packard)
MBZS Maximum Bandwidth Zero Suppression
Mc Megacycle (electronics)
MC 1. Maintenance Center
2. multicarrier
3. Matrix Controller
4. Main Cross-connect
MC-MVIP Multichassis MVIP
MCA 1. Microchannel Architecture (IBM PCs)
2. Maximum Calling Area (access)
MCAS Multichannel Access System
MCB Media Control Board
MCC 1. Mission Control Center
2. Maintenance Control Center
3. Maintenance Control Circuit
4. Mobile Control Channel
5. Mobile Country Code (GSM)
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6. Mobile Communications Company (Iran)
7. Miscellaneous Common Carrier
8. Multiplex Control Computer
9. Microelectronics and Computer Technology
Corporation
MCCS Mechanized Calling Card Service
mcd millicandela (light intensity)
MCD 1. Magnetic Circular Dichroism
2. Manipulative Communications Deception
MCDN MicroCellular Data Network
MCDU Master Control and Display Unit
MCDV Maximum Call Delay Variance (ATM)
MCE Manufacturing Cycle Efficiency
MCEB Military Communications Electronics Board (U.S.A)
MCEF Military Common Emergency Frequency
MCF 1. Multimedia Communication Forum
2. Message Confirmation Frame
3. Meta-Content Format
MCG Magnetocardiograph (medicine)
MCGA Multicolor Graphics Adapter (monitor resolution)
MCH Multipacket Command Handler
MCHG Mass Change
MCHI Mobile Communications Holdings Inc.
MCHO Mobile Controlled Hand-Off
mCi millicurie
MCi Megacurie
MCI 1. Media Control Interface (Windows application
programming)
2. Mobile Company of Iran
3. Microwave Communications Inc. (U.S.A)
MCID Malicious Call Identification
MCIF Miniature Card Implementer’s Forum
MCIT Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology (Iran)
MCL 1. Mercury Communications Ltd. (U.K.)
2. Microstrip Constrained Lens
MCLD Modifying Calling Line Disconnect
MCLR Maximum Cell-Loss Ratio (ATM)
MCM 1. Multichip Module (IC design)
2. Multicarrier Modulation
MCMI Modified Coded Mark Inversion (data encoding)
MCN 1. Master Customer Number
2. Monitoring and Control Network
MCNC Microelectronic Center of North Carolina
200 &
MCNS Multimedia Cable Network System
MCP 1. Microsoft-Certified Professional
2. Master Control Program
MCPA Multicarrier Power Amplifier
MCPC Multiple Channel Per Carrier
MCPW Microstrip Co-planar Waveguide (microwave)
MCR Minimum Cell Rate (ATM)
MCRL Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory
(Bell)
MCS 1. Maritime Communication System
2. Master Control System
MCSE Microsoft-Certified System Engineer (Microsoft)
MCSP Microsoft-Certified Solution Provider (Microsoft)
MCT 1. MOS-Controlled Thyristor (semiconductors)
2. Mobile Communications Technologies company
(Iran)
MCTD Maximum Cell Transfer Delay (ATM)
MCU 1. Multipoint Control Unit
2. Microcontroller Unit
3. Microcomputer Unit
MCVF Multichannel Voice-Frequency
MCVFT Multichannel Voice-Frequency Telegraph
MCW Modulated Continuous Wave
MCXO Microcomputer-Compensated Crystal Oscillator
MD 1. Mini-Disk
2. Mediation Device
3. Message Display
4. Message Digest
5. Manufacturer Discontinued
6. Management Domain (X.400)
MD-IS Mobile Data Intermediate System
MD5 Message Digest Version 5 (algorithm)
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
MDAC Multiplying Digital-to-Analog Converter (electronics)
MDAS Multiple Database Access System
MDB Modified Duo-Binary (data encoding)
MDBS Mobile Database Station
MDC 1. Meridian Digital Centrex (Northern Telecom)
2. Manipulation Detection Code (algorithm)
MDCT Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (mathematics)
MDDB Multidrop Data Bridge
MDF Main Distribution Frame (telephone exchange)
MDHCP Multicast DHCP (protocol)
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MDI 1. Medium-Dependent Interface
2. Multiple-Document Interface
MDIS Meta Data Interchange Specification
MDK Modem Developer’s Kit
MDLP Mobile Data Link Protocol (cellular networks)
MDM 1. Modulator-Demodulator (modems)
2. Modulation Division Multiplexing
MDMF Multiple Data Message Format
MDN Managed Data Network
MDNS Managed Data Network Service
MDPE Medium Density Polyethylene
MDQ Market-Driven Quality (IBM)
MDR Mission Data Recorder (remote sensing)
MDRAM Multibank Dynamic RAM (memory)
MDS Multipoint Distribution System (Telcordia
Technologies)
MDSI 1. Message Delivery Service Interoffice
2. Mobile Data Solutions, Inc. (company)
MDSL Moderate-speed DSL (access)
MDSP Microwave Digital Signal Processor
MDT 1. Mobile Data Terminal
2. Mean Down-Time
3. Manufacturer Delegated Testing
MDTRS Mobile Digital Trunked Radio System
MDU 1. Message Display Unit
2. Multiple Dwelling Unit
MDUS Medium-scale Data Utilization Station (remote sensing)
MDVC Mobile Digital Voice Channel (cellular network)
MDWDM Metropolitan Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
ME Mediation Equipment (TMN)
MEA 1. Metropolitan Economic Area
2. Messaging Enabled Applications
MEB Megabit Erlang Bit rate
MEBS Middle East Broadcast and Satellite (magazine)
MEC 1. Mobile E-Commerce
2. Middle East Communications (magazine)
MECAB Multiple Exchange Carrier Access Billing
MECAL Master Event Calendar
MECCA Multiple Engineering Control Center Activity
MECL Motorola Emitter-Coupled Logic (digital electronics)
MECOD Multiple Exchange Carriers Ordering and Design
MED Manipulative Electronic Deception
MEDIA Missile Error Data Integration Analysis
MEE Multiple Equipment Engineering
202 &
MEECN Minimum Essential Emergency Communications
Network
MEF Maintenance Entity Function (TMN)
Megapel Megapixel
MELCAS Mercury Exchange Limited Channel Associated
Signaling
MEM Macroencoded Message (Inmarsat)
MEMO Multimedia Environment for Mobiles (broadcasting)
MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems (microwave)
MENIDS Manufacturer’s ENIDs (Inmarsat)
MEO Medium Earth Orbiting (satcom)
MEP Multiple Equipment Provisioning
MERCAST Merchant ship broadcast system
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (remote
sensing)
MERS Most Economic Route Selection
MES 1. Mobile Earth Station (Inmarsat)
2. Master Earth Station
MES-SIG Mobile Earth Station-Signaling channel (Inmarsat)
MESA Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications
MESC Molecular Equipment Subcommittee for
Communications
MESD MES Data channel (Inmarsat)
MESFET Metal-Epitaxial Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
MESHCO Matn Ertebat Shabake Company (Iran)
MESRP MES Response channel (Inmarsat)
MESRQ MES Request channel (Inmarsat)
MESS message
MESSR Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
MESV MES Voice channel (Inmarsat)
METAREA Metrological Area (IMO)
METEOSAT Meteorological Satellite
METOP Meterological Operational Polar-orbit (weather
satellite)
METRAN Managed European Transmission Network
MeV Megaelectronvolt
MEW Microwave Early Warning
MEWS Missile Early Warning System
MEXE Mobile Extension Environment (wireless)
MF 1. Medium Frequency (300–3000 kHz range)
2. multifrequency
3. multiframe
4. multifunction
MFAS Multiframe Alignment Signal
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MFC 1. Multifrequency Coding
2. Microsoft Foundation Class
MFD 1. Microfarad (capacitance)
2. Mode Field Diameter (fiber optics)
MFJ Modification of Final Judgment (AT&T)
MFlop Megaflop (computer speed)
MFLOPS Million Floating-point Operations Per Second
(computer speed)
MFM 1. Modified Frequency Modulation
2. Magnetic Field Modulation
MFN Metropolitan Fiber Network
MFOS Multifunction Operations System (AT&T)
MFP Multifunction Peripherals
MFS 1. Metropolitan Fiber Systems
2. Macintosh File System
3. Modem Fault Simulator
MFSK Multiple Frequency Shift Keying (modulation)
MFTP Multicast File Transport Protocol
MFV Mehr Frequenz Verfahren (German for Tone Dialing)
mg milligram
mG milligauss
MG 1. Master Group (MUX)
2. Megagauss
MBG Multilocation Business Group
MGC 1. Manual Gain Control
2. Media Gateway Controller
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol (VoIP)
MGD MOS Gate Driver (electronics)
Mget Multiple get (Computer command)
MGIF Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum
MGN Multigrounded Neutral (conductors)
MGT Multi-Gigabit Transceiver
MGTS Message Generator Traffic Simulator
mH millihenry (electronics)
MH Modified Huffman (data compression method)
MHD magnetohydrodynamics
MHDL Mimic Hardware Description Language (microwave)
MHEC Midwestern Higher Education Commission
MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding
Expert Group
MHEMT Metamorphic High-Electron Mobility Transistor
(microwave)
MHF Mobile Home Function
MHI Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
204 &
MHIC Microwave Hybrid Integrated Circuit
MHM Multiplexed Hierarchical Modeling
MHP Multimedia Home Platform (broadcasting)
MHS 1. Message Handling System/Service (e-mail)
2. Microwave Humidity Sounder (remote sensing)
MHT Mean Holding Time (telephone call)
MHTML MIME encapsulation of aggregate HTML
(programming)
MHW Magnetohydrodynamic Wave
MHz Megahertz (1,000,000 or 106 Hz)
mi mile (unit of length)
mi2 square mile
mi/h mile per hour
MI 1. Multiple Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
2. Micromodge Industries (Iran)
MI-DFB Modulator Integrated-Distributed Feed-Back (laser
diode)
MIA Media Interface Adapter
MIB 1. Management Information Base (ICT)
2. Module Interface Bus
MIBD Minimum In-Band Dispersion
MIBS Minimum BER Strategy
MIC 1. Microwave Integrated Circuit (microwave)
2. Monolithic Integrated Circuit
3. Minimum Ignition Current
4. Microphone (electronic diagrams)
5. Mode Indicate Common
6. Media Interface Connector
7. Mutual Interface Chart
MICE Mobile Interworking Control Element
MICR 1. Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition (scanners)
2. Magnetic-Ink Character Reading (scanners)
micro microcomputer
MID 1. Maritime Identification Digits (Inmarsat)
2. Message Identifier (ATM)
3. Minimum Dispersion
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile (J2ME)
MIDR MES Identification Record
MIDS Multifunction Information Distribution System
MIF 1. Management Information File
2. Minimum Interworking Functionality
MIFR Master International Frequency Register (ITU-R)
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MII 1. Media Independent Interface (Ethernet)
2. Ministry of Information Industry (China)
Mike Slang term for Microphone
MIL Military specification
MIL-STD Military Standard
MILNet Military Network (ARPANet)
Milstar Military strategic and tactical relay (network)
MIM 1. Mechanically Induced Modulation
2. Metal–Insulator–Metal (capacitor)
MIMD Multiple-Instruction, Multiple-Data stream (parallel
processing)
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (e-mail
attachments)
MIMIC Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit
MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MIN 1. Mobile Identification Number (cellular networks)
2. minor (alarm)
3. minimum
MIP Medium Interface Point
Mips Millions of instructions per second (processor speed)
MIR 1. Multiplex Input Router
2. Microwave Impulse Radar
MIRAN Missile Ranging
MIS 1. Management Information Systems (ICT)
2. Management Information Services (ICT)
3. Metal-Insulator Semiconductor
4. Mobile Internet Service
MISFET Metal Insulator Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MISR Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (remote
sensing)
MISSI Multilevel Information Systems Security Initiative
MITS Microinstrumentation and Telemetry Systems
MITT Ministry of Information Technology and
Telecommunications
MIU Modem Interface Unit
MIX 1. mixer
2. Multinational Internet Exchange
3. Multicasting International Exchange
MJ Modular Jack (telephone cable)
MJU Multijunction Unit
MKDIR Make a new Directory (MS DOS Command)
MKS Meter-kilogram-Second (parametric unit)
MKSA Meter-kilogram-Second-Ampere (parametric unit)
mL milliliter
206 &
MLA 1. Mail List Agent
2. Microwave Link Analyzer
MLB Multilayer Board
MLC 1. Multilevel Coding
2. Monolithic Multilayer Capacitor (electronics)
MLCM Multilevel Coded Modulation
MLD 1. Maximum Likelihood Decoding
2. Multilevel Coded Modulation
3. Median Level Depressions fading
MLE Maximum Level Error algorithm
MLHG Multiline Hunt Group
MLI Multiple Link Interface (networking)
MLID Multiple Link Interface Driver (networking)
MLK Mail List Key
MLL 1. Monthly Leased Line
2. Multimedia Learning Lab (e-learning)
mlm millilumen
MLM 1. Meridian Link Module
2. Multilongitudinal Mode (laser)
MLP 1. Multilevel Precedence
2. Micro Leadframe Package (microwave)
MLPP Multilevel Precedence and Preemption
MLS Microwave Landing System
MLSC Multiple Low-Speed CSU (PBX)
MLST Minimum Line Scan Time
MLT 1. Mechanized Line Testing equipment
2. Mechanical Loop Test
MLT-3 Multilevel Transmit-3 levels
MLTS Multiple Language Text System (TV subtitles)
MLU Mobile Locator Unit (GSM)
mm millimeter (10K3 meter)
MM 1. Man–Machine
2. Mobility Management (GSM)
3. Mutimedia
MMAC Multimedia Mobile Access Communication
MMB 1. Multimaster Bus
2. Millimetric Band (ETSI)
3. Mass Media Bureau (FCC)
MMC 1. Maintenance, Monitoring, and Control
2. Man–Machine Communication
3. Mobile Multimedia Communication project
4. Mobile Maritime Committee (U.S. Coast Guard)
5. Multimedia Multiparty Conferencing
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6. Multimode Communications
7. Multimedia Card (Flash memory)
MMCA Multimedia Card Association
MMCD Multimedia Compact Disk
MMCF Multimedia Communication Forum
MMCX Multimedia Communication Exchange
MMDC 1. Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center (U.S.A)
2. Multimedia and Digital Communications laboratories
3. Multimedia Desktop Collaboration (software)
4. Multimedia Development Center
5. Multimode Data Compression
6. Multiple Module Data Computer
7. Multiservice Multicarrier Distributed
Communications
MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
MME 1. Mobility Management Entity
2. Multimedia Message Entity
3. Microsoft Mobile Explorer
4. Mobile Meteorological Equipment
MMEG Multimedia Expert Group (WAP Forum)
mmf magnetomotive force (voltage)
MMF 1. Mobile Management Forum
2. Multimode Fiber
3. Maximum Modulating Frequency
MMFD micromicrofarad (electronics)
MMFS Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMI 1. Man-to-Machine Interface
2. Multimedia Interface
MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
MMITS Modular Multifunction Information Transfer System
MMJ Modified Modular Jack (computer)
MML Man–Machine Language (programming)
MMM 1. Multimedia Messaging
2. Multimedia Mail
MMMS Multimedia Mail Service
MMMSec Multimedia Mail Security
MMN Multimedia Network
MMP Man–Machine Processor
MMPS Milstar Message Processing System
MMR 1. Mobile Marine Radio Inc.
2. Modified Modified Read (compression method)
MMS 1. Multimedia Messaging Service (GSM)
2. Multiplex Management System (TV access)
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3. Maritime Mobile Service
4. Modular Measurement System
5. Meteorological Measurement System
6. Manufacturing Message Specification (ISO)
MMSC Multimedia Messaging Service Center (GSM)
MMSE 1. Minimum Mean Square Error
2. Multimedia Messaging Service Environment
MMSER Minimum Mean Square Error Reception
MMSI 1. Maritime Mobile Service Identity code (Inmarsat)
2. Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
MMSK Modified MSK (modulation)
MMSP Modular Multisatellite Preprocessor
MMSS Maritime Mobile Satellite Service
MMSU Modular Metallic Service Unit
MMT Multimedia Terminal
MMTA Multimedia Telecommunications Association
(standards)
MMTF Mean Mission Time to Failure
MMU 1. Manned Maneuvering Unit (U.S. space shuttle)
2. Memory Management Unit (processors)
MMUSC Multiparty Multimedia User Session Control (IETF)
MMVF Multimedia Video File (NEC)
MMW millimeter Wave (microwave)
MMX 1. Multimedia Extension (processors)
2. Matrix Math Extensions (processors)
MNA Multimedia Network Applications
MNA7 Multiple CCS7 Network Addresses
MNC Mobile Network Code (GSM)
MNLP Mobile Network Location Protocol (cellular network)
MNO Mobile Network Operator
MNOS Metal-Nitride-Oxide Semiconductor
MNP 1. Microcom Networking Protocol (data compression)
2. Mobile Number Portability (cellular network)
MNP10 Microcom Networking Protocol Class 10 (cellular
networks)
MNRP Mobile Network Registration Protocol (cellular
network)
MNRU Modulated Noise Reference Unit
MNRZ Modified Non-Return-to-Zero level (data encoding)
MNS Master of Network Science (3COM)
.mn.us Internet domain name extension for the addresses
located in Minnesota, United States
.mo Internet domain name extension for the addresses
located in Macao
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MO 1. Magneto-Optical
2. Master Oscillator
MOA Mobitex Operators Association (Korea)
MobMan Mobility Management system (Inmarsat)
Mobo Motherboard (computer)
MOC Mobile Originating Call (GSM)
MOCT Multiorder Cancellation Technique (microwave)
MOCVD Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Decompression
(semiconductors)
MOD 1. modulator
2. Magneto-Optical Disk
modec modem and codec (device)
modem modulator and demodulator (device)
MODFET Modulated-Doped FET (semiconductors)
MODIS Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer (remote
sensing)
MOEMS Micro-Optical Electromechanical Systems
MOF Magneto-Optical Filter Development Group
MOH Music On Hold (PBX)
mU milliohm (electronics)
MU Megaohm (electronics)
MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory (satcom)
MOM 1. Master Oscillator Module
2. Message Originated Middleware
MOMA Message Originated Middleware Association
(standards)
MOMBE Metal-Organic Molecular-Beam Epitaxy
(semiconductors)
MONET 1. Multiwavelength Optical Network
2. Mobile Internet
MOO MUD Object-Oriented
MOON Magneto Optical On Network
.moov Name extension for QuickTime MooV video files
(computer)
MooV The file format for QuickTime Movie files (computer)
MOP 1. Method Of Procedure (SONET)
2. Maintenance Operations Protocol
MOPA Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier (electronics)
MOPS 1. Minimum Operational Performance Standards
2. Millions of Operations Per Second (processors)
MOPTT Ministry Of Post Telegraph and Telecommunications
(Lebanon)
MOR Multiwavelength Optical Repeater
MORC Multi-output Resonant Converter
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morphing metamorphosing (graphics)
MOS 1. Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (integrated circuits)
2. Mean Opinion Score (voice quality)
3. Marine Observation Satellite
MOSFET Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET (semiconductors)
MOSIGT Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Insulated-Gate Transistor
MOSPF Multicast OSPF (routing protocol)
MOSS MIME Object Security Services
MOST Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Transistor (semiconductors)
MOTIS Message-Oriented Text Interchange System (ISO)
MOTO Mail Order Telephone Order
MoU 1. Minutes of Use
2. Memorandum of Understanding
.mov Name extension for Movie file in Apple’s QuickTime
format
MOV Metal-Oxide Varistor (semiconductors)
MOVPE Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (semiconductors)
MP 1. Multiport
2. Multilink Protocol
MPC Multilink Protocol Plus
MP-MLQ Multipulse-Maximum Likelihood Quantization
MP/M Multitasking Program for Microcomputers (operating
system)
MP1 MPEG layer-1 (audio encoding)
MP2 MPEG layer-2 (video encoding)
MP3 MPEG layer-3 (audio encoding)
MP4 MPEG layer-4 (video encoding)
MPC 1. Multiport Cluster
2. Multiport Card
3. Multimedia Personal Computer
4. MPOA Client (ATM)
MPDS Mobile Packet Data Service (Inmarsat)
.mpeg Name extension for MPEG image files (computer)
MPEG Motion-Pictures Experts Group (data compression
standard)
MPFM Motion-Picture File Manager
mpg File extension for encoded data streams containing
compressed information using MPEG format
MPG 1. Microwave Pulse Generator
2. Multiple-image Portable Graphics
MPI 1. Multi Path Interface
2. Media Platform Interface
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (IETF)
MPM Master Processor Module
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MPML Main Profile Main Level (MPEG-2)
MPMP Microwave Point to Multipoint
MPN 1. Mode-Partition Noise
2. Manufacturer’s Part Number
MPoA Multiprotocol over ATM
MPOE Minimum Point Of Entry
MPOP 1. Minimum Point Of Presence
2. Metropolitan Point Of Presence
MPP 1. Multichannel Point-to-point Protocol
2. Massively Parallel Processor
MPPP Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol
MPPS Million Packets Per Second (LANs and WANs)
MPR Maximum Pulse Rate
MPS 1. Multipage Signal
2. Mobile Positioning Service
MPSC Multiprotocol Serial Controller
MPSK Multiple Phase-Shift Keying (modulation)
MPT Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (Lebanon)
MPTN Multiprotocol Transport Networking (IBM)
MPTy multiparty (GSM supplementary service)
MPU 1. Main Processor Unit (computer)
2. Microprocessor Unit (computer)
3. Message Processor Unit
MPX multiplex
MQA Multiple Queue Assignment (PBX)
MQFP Metric-pitch Quad Flat-Pack (microchips)
MQW Multiple-Quantum Well structure (semiconductors)
mR milliroentgen
MR 1. Message Router
2. Modem Ready (modem light)
3. Magnetic Resonance
mrad milliradian
MRAM Magnetic RAM (memory)
MRC 1. MF Receiver Card
2. Microwave Radio Communications (company)
MRCC Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (COMSAR)
mrd millirad
mrem millirem
mrep millirep
MRFR Master Reference Frequency Rack
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging (medicine)
MRN 1. Mobile Roaming Number
2. Maritime Radio Navigation (ITU)
MRNS Maritime Radio Navigation Service (ITU)
212 &
MRNSS Maritime Radio Navigation Satellite Service (ITU)
MROP Marine Radio Operator Permit (FCC)
MRP 1. Multiservice Route Processor (Cisco)
2. Materials Resource Planning
MRR Monthly Recurring Revenue
MRSC Maritime Rescue Coordination Sub-Center (COMSAR)
MRSII Minimum Request Sequence Initiation Interval
MRTIE Maximum Relative Time Interval Error
MRU 1. Maximum Receive Unit
2. Mountain Rescue Unit (COMSAR)
ms millisecond (10K3 of a second)
mS millisiemens
MS 1. Mobile Station (GSM)
2. Mobile Service
3. Message Storage
4. Message Switch
5. Multiplex Section (MUX)
6. Microprocessor System
7. Microsoft (company)
8. Military Standard
MS-AIS Multiplex Section, Alarm Indication Signal (MUX)
MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System
MS-FF Master-Slave Flip-Flop (digital electronics)
MS-SPRing Multiplex Section-Shared Protection Ring (MUX)
MSA 1. Metropolitan Statistic Area (cellular networks)
2. Message Service Application
3. Multiplexer Section Adaptation
MSAN MultiService Access Node
MSAS MTSAT Satellite-based Augmentation System (Japan)
MSat Mobile Satellite (AMSC of Canada)
MSATCOM Mobile Satellite Communications
MSAU Multistation Access Unit (networking)
MSB Most Significant Bit (in a byte)
MSBVW Magneto-Static Backward Volume Waves (microwave)
MSC 1. Most Significant Character (in a string)
2. Mobile Services Switching Center (GSM)
3. Management Services Contractor
4. Meteorological Satellite Center (remote sensing)
5. Maritime Safety Committee (IMO)
6. Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor
MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server (Windows NT)
MSD 1. Medium Speed Data (Inmarsat)
2. Most-Significant Digit (in a number)
MSDN Multiservice Data Network
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MSDSL Multirate Symmetrical DSL (access)
MSE 1. Mobile Subscriber Equipment
2. Mean Square Error (MUX)
msec millisecond
MSED Minimum Squared Euclidean Distance
MSF 1. Mobile Serving Function
2. Multiservice Switching Forum
MSFVW Magneto-Static Forward Volume Waves (microwave)
MSG Message
MSI 1. Maritime Safety Information (COMSAR)
2. Medium-Scale Integration (microchips)
3. Modular Station Interface
MSIN Mobile Station Identification Number
MSISDN Mobile Subscriber ISDN number
MSIX Metered Service Information Exchange
MSK Minimum-Shift Keying (modulation)
MSL 1. Mirror Server Link (networking)
2. Multisatellite Link (satcom)
MSME Multiplexing and Signaling Management Equipment
MSMQ Microsoft Message Queuing
MSMT Micro Surface-Mount Technology (electronics)
MSN 1. Microsoft Network
2. Mobile Station Number (GSM)
3. Multiple Subscriber Numbering (ISDN)
MSNF Multisystem Networking Facility
MSO 1. Multiple System Operator (cable TV)
2. Marine Safety Office (U.S.A.)
MSOH Multiplex Section Over head (MUX)
MSOP Micro Small Outline Package
MSP 1. Message Security Protocol (Internet)
2. Mixed Signal Processor
3. Multiplexer Section Protection switching (MUX)
4. Metropolitan Service Provider
MSPP Mobile Solutions Partner Program (Microsoft)
MSPS Million of Samples Per Second
MSR 1. MES Status Record
2. Microwave Scanning Radiometer (remote sensing)
3. Magnetic-inductance Super Resolution
4. Maximum Stuffing Rate (data communications)
MSRN Mobile Station Roaming Number (GSM)
MSS 1. Mobile Satellite Services (ITU)
2. Multispectral Scanner (remote sensing)
3. MAN Switching System
MSSC Maritime Satellite Switching Center
214 &
MSSE Master of Science in Software Engineering
MSSW Magneto-Static Surface Wave
MST 1. Multiplexer Section Termination function (MUX)
2. Maintenance Support Terminal
MST-RR Multiplex Section Termination for Sub-STM-1 Radio-
Relay (MUX)
MSTS Mobile Subscriber Test System
MSTU Main Signal Transmission Unit
MSTV Association for Maximum Service Television
MSU 1. Message Signaling Unit (SS7)
2. Microwave Sounding Unit (remote sensing)
3. Mobile Subscriber Unit
4. Mobile Satellite Unit
5. Modem Sharing Unit
MSUA Mobile Satellite Users Association
MSV Master Supervisory Equipment
MSW Magneto-Static Wave
MSX Mobile Switching Exchange (cellular networks)
MSymbol/s Mega Symbols per second (TV)
MT 1. Message Transfer
2. Message Type (ATM)
3. Machine Translation (computer)
4. Maroc Telecom (Moroccan operator)
5. Mobile Termination
MTA 1. Message Transfer Agent (X.400)
2. Macintosh Telephony Architecture
3. Major Trading Area
4. Microwave Transition Analyzer
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures (production rating)
MTBM Mean Time Between Maintenances (production rating)
MTBO Mean Time Between Outages (production rating)
MTBPM Mean Time Between Preventive Maintenances
MTC 1. Mobile Terminating Call (GSM)
2. Mobile Telecommunications Company (Kuwait GSM
operator)
MTD 1. Memory Technology Driver
2. Moving-Target Detection (radar)
MTF Modulation Transfer Function (optical fiber)
MTFT Multilayer Thick-Film Technology
MTG Multiplexer Timing Generator
MTI Moving-Target Indicator (radar)
MTIE Maximum Timing Interval Error
MTL 1. Merged-Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
2. Message Transfer Layer
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MTM 1. Maintenance Trunk Monitor
2. Mean Time of Maintenance (production rating)
3. McLintock Theater Model
MTP 1. Message Transfer Part (SS7)
2. Media Termination Point (VoIP)
3. Many-Time Programmable memory
MTPI Multiplexer Timing Physical Interface (MUX)
MTPT Ministry of Transportation, Post and
Telecommunications
MTR Master Time Reference
MTS 1. Message Telecommunications Service (regulation)
2. Message Transfer Service
3. Message Telephone System
4. Multichannel Television Sound
5. Microsoft Terminal Server
6. Member of Technical Staff
MTSAT Multifunctional Transport Satellite
MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTSR Mean Time to Service Restoral (production rating)
MTTF Mean Time To Failure (production rating)
MTTR Mean Time To Repair (production rating)
MTTSR Mean Time To Service Restoral (production rating)
MTU 1. Maximum Transmission Unit (data packets)
2. Multiple Tenant Unit
3. Maintenance Termination Unit
MTV Magyar Television (broadcaster)
MTX Mobile Telephone Exchange (Northern Telecom)
MU Monitoring Unit (wireless)
MUA Multiuser Agent
MUD 1. Multiuser Dungeon (Internet games)
2. Multiuser Domain (Internet games)
MUF Maximum Usable Frequency
MULDEM Multiplexer-Demultiplexer
MULTICS Multiplexed Information and Computing System
MUMPS Massachusetts Utility Multiprogramming System
MUNDIS Multiplexed Network for Distributed and Interactive
Services
MUP Management of User Part
MUS Marine Utility Station
MUSA Multiple-Unit Steerable Antenna
MUSE 1. Multiple-SubNyquist Sampling Encoding
(compression)
2. Multi-User Simulation Environment
216 &
MUSICAM Masking Pattern Adapted Universal Sub-band Integrated
Coding And Multiplexing (Audio broadcasting)
MUSR Maximum User Signaling Rate
MUT Multiuser Talk (chat program)
MUX multiplexer
MUXER multiplexer
MUXing multiplexing
mV millivolt
mVAC millivolt Alternating Current
mVDC millivolt Direct Current
MV 1. Megavolt
2. macrovision
MVA Megavoltampere
MVBR multivibrator (digital circuit)
MVDDS Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service
MVDS Multipoint Video Distribution System
MVIP Multivendor Integration Protocol (Telcordia
Technologies)
MVL 1. Multiple Virtual Lines (access technology)
2. Multimedia Virtual Laboratory (Japan)
3. Multimedia and Visualization Laboratory (Original of
MLL)
MVNE Mobile Virtual Network Enabler
MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator
MVP 1. Multichannel Video Programming
2. Multimedia Video Processor
MVPD Multichannel Video Programming Distribution
(cable TV)
MVPN Mobile Virtual Private Number
MVS Multiple Virtual Storage (IBM mainframes)
mW milliwatt (10K3 Watts)
MW 1. Megawatt (106 Watts)
2. Medium Wave (radio broadcast band)
3. microwave
MWh Megawatt-hour
MWI Message Waiting Indicator (telephone set)
MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
MWR Microwave Radiometer (test equipment)
MWV Maximum Working Voltage
Mx Maxwell (unit of magnetic flux)
MXB Matrix Board
MXR 1. multiplexer
2. mixer
MZI Mach–Zehnder Interferometer
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N n
n 1. Symbol for prefix nano-, denoting one-billionth or
10K9
2. Symbol for an integer number (mathematics)
nA nanoampere (electronics)
N 1. Symbol for Newton
2. Symbol for any integer Number bigger than 1
(mathematics)
3. Symbol for Noise
4. Symbol for Negative (semiconductors)
5. Symbol for Narrow-band
N&SS Network and Systems Support
N-AMPS Narrow-band AMPS
N-ISDN Narrow-band ISDN
N-MOS N-channel MOS (semiconductors)
N-Port Node Port
N-TACS Narrow-band TACS (Motorola)
N/A 1. Not Available (documents)
2. Not Applicable (documents)
N/I Noise-to-Interference (ratio)
N/m2 Newton per square meter
NA 1. Network Administration
2. Numerical Aperture (antenna)
NA-TDMA North American TDMA
N
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NAB 1. National Association of Broadcasters (U.S.A.)
2. National Alliance of Business
NABTS North American Basic Teletext Specification
NAC 1. Network Access Center
2. Network Access Control
3. Network Applications Consortium
4. Numbering Advisory Committee
5. Null Attachment Concentrator
NACC North American Calibration Cooperative
NACD Network Autonomous Commanding Display
NACIC National Counterintelligence Information Center
NACISA NATO Communications and Information Systems
Agency
NACK Negative Acknowledged (control character)
NACME National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
NACN North American Cellular Network
NACS Network Analysis Control Surveillance
NACSEM National Communications Security Emanation
Memorandum
NACSIM National Communications Security Information
Memorandum
NAD Network Access Domain
NADC North American Dual-mode Cellular system
NADF North American Directory Forum
NADN Nearest Active Downstream Neighbor (LANs)
NADP North American Directory Plan
NADTP National Association of Desktop Publishers
NAEC Novell Authorized Education Center (Novel, Inc.)
NAK Negative Acknowledgement (control character)
NAL 1. National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan)
2. Network Access Line
NAM 1. Number Assignment Module (cellular networks)
2. National Account Manager
3. National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.A.)
NAMAS National Measurement Accreditation Service
NAMPS Narrow-band Advanced Mobile Phone System (cellular
networks)
NAMTS Nippon Advanced Mobile Telephone System (Japan)
NANC North American Numbering Council
NAND A combination of a NOT and an AND gate (digital
electronics)
NANOG North American Network Operator’s Group (U.S.A.)
NANP North American Numbering Plan
220 &
NANPA North American Numbering Plan Administration
NAOM National Accounts Operations Manager
NAP 1. Network Access Point (Internet backbone)
2. Network Access Provider
3. National Attachment Point (Internet)
NAPI Numbering/Addressing Plan Identifier
NAPLPS North American Presentation-Level Protocol Syntax
NAPP National Aerial Photography Program
NAPT Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc.
NAR Network Access Register (Centrex)
NARS Network Audio Response System
NARSAP National Advanced Remote Sensing Application
Program
NARTE National Association of Radio and Telecommunications
Engineers (U.S.A.)
NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
(U.S.A.)
NAS 1. NetWare Access Server
2. Network Access Server
3. Network-Attached Storage (storage device)
4. National Academy of Science (U.S.A.)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.A.)
NASC 1. National Aeronautics and Space Council (U.S.A.)
2. Number Administration and Service Center
NASCOM NASA Communications Network (U.S.A.)
NASDA National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NASDAQ National Association of Security Dealers Automated
Quotation
NASTD National Association of State Telecommunications
Directors
NAT Network Address Translation (VPNs)
NATA 1. North American Telephone Association
2. National Association of Testing Authorities
NATD National Association of Telecommunications Dealers
NATI Not A Telecom Issue
NATOA National Association of Telecommunications Officers
and Advisors (U.S.A.)
NAU Network Addressable Unit (IBM SNA)
NAUCS Network Access Usage and Cost System
NAUN Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor (LANs)
NAV 1. Network Applications Vehicle
2. Network Allocation Vector
3. Net Asset Value
NAVAR Navigation And Ranging (radar)
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NAVAREA Navigational Area (IMO)
NAVSAT Navy Satellite system (U.S.A.)
NAVSTAR Navigation System using Time And Ranging (satellite)
Nax Network Faxing
NB 1. Narrow-Band
2. Normal Burst
NBA Nominated Barring Authority (Inmarsat)
NBC 1. National Broadcasting Company
2. Network Bus Controller
3. Non-Backward Compatible (softwares)
NBDP Narrow-Band Direct-Printing
NBF Net BIOS Frame
NBFCP Net BIOS Frames Control Protocol
NBFM Narrow-Band Frequency Modulation
NBFP Net BIOS Frame Format Protocol
NBH Network Busy Hour
NBMA Non-Broadcast Multiple Access
NBP 1. Name Binding Protocol (networking)
2. Net BIOS Protocol
NBPM Narrow-Band Phase Modulation
NBRVB Narrow-Band Radio Voice Bandwidth
NBRVF Narrow-Band Radio Voice Frequency
NBS National Bureau of Standards (now NIST)
NBSP Non-Breaking Space (HTML command)
NBSV Narrow-Band Secure Voice (system)
NC 1. Network Computer (Sun Microsystems)
2. Network Control
3. Numerical Control system
4. Normally Closed (relay or switch contacts)
5. No Connection (diagrams)
NC&A Network Construction and Administration
NCA 1. Number of Calls Abandoned
2. National Convergence Alliance (U.S.A.)
NCACHE Negative Cache
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCAS Non-Call-path Associated Signaling
NCB Network Control Block (networking)
NCBS New Commercial Billing System
NCC 1. Network Control Center (Inmarsat)
2. Network Color Code (GSM)
3. National Coordination Committee
4. National Communications Committee
5. National Computer Conference
NCCF Network Communications Control Facility (IBM SNA)
222 &
NCCS Network Control Center System
NCD Non-linear Control Design
NCE Nomadic Computing Environment (PC standard)
NCEO Non-Compliant End Office
NCH Number of Calls Handled
NCHD National Customer Help Desk
NCHPC National Consortium for High-Performance Computing
NCI Network Channel Interface
NCIA Native Client Interface Architecture (Cisco)
NCITS National Committee for Information Technology
Standardization
NCL Network Control Language (programming)
NCMS National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
NCO 1. National Coordination Office
2. Neutral Central Office
3. Numerically Controlled Oscillator
NCOP Network Code Of Practice
NCP 1. NetWare Core Protocol (networking)
2. Network Control Protocols (Internet)
3. Network Control Point (AT&T)
4. Network Control Program (IBM SNA)
5. Network Configuration Process (Northern Telecom)
NCPS National Customer Product Support
NCRA National Cellular Resellers Association (U.S.A.)
NCS 1. Network Coordination Station (Inmarsat)
2. Network Control System
3. Network-based Call Signaling
4. Network Computing System
5. National Communications System (U.S.A.)
NCSA 1. National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(U.S.A.)
2. National Computer Security Associations
NCSANet National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Network
NCSC 1. National Computer Security Center (U.S.A.)
2. National Communications Security Center (U.S.A.)
NCTA National Cable Television Association (U.S.A.)
NCTE Network Channel-Terminating Equipment
NCU Node Control Unit
NCUG National Centrex Users Group
NDA 1. Non-Disclosure Agreement (contracts)
2. National Directory Assistance
NDAC National Database Administration Center
NDC National Destination Code (ISDN number)
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NDCDB National Digital Cartographic Database
NDCS 1. Network Data Control Station
2. Network Data Control System
NDD NetWare Directory Database (networking)
NDDS Network Data-Delivery Service
NDE Network Design Engineering
NDF New Data Flag (MUX)
NDIR Non-Dispersive Infrared
NDIS 1. Network Driver Interface Specification (networking)
2. Network Design Interface Specification
(networking)
NDLO-CIS Norwegian Defense Logistic Organization—Communications
and Information Systems
NDM Network Data Mover
NDMP Network Data Management Protocol
NDN Non-Delivery Notification (Inmarsat)
NDO Network Design Order
NDOD Near-Data-On-Demand (service)
NDP Neighbor Discovery Protocol (new Internet)
NDR 1. Non-Destructive Readout (memory)
2. News Datacom Research, Ltd
3. Negative Differential Resistance (transistor)
NDRO Non-Destructive Read-Out (memory)
NDS 1. Network Desired State
2. NetWare Directory Services (networking)
NDSF Non-Dispersion Shifted Fiber
NDT No Dial Tone
NDVD Non-Determination in Deductive Databases
NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (remote
sensing)
Nd-YAG Neodymium-doped Yttrium–Aluminum Garnet (laser)
NE Network Element (MUX)
NE&I Network Engineering and Implementation
NEAP Novell Education Academic Partner (e-learning)
NEAR Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Spacecraft
NEARNet New England Academic and Research Network
NEBE Near-End Block Error
NEBS Network Equipment Building Standard (Telcordia
Technologies)
NEC 1. Nippon Electric Company (Japan)
2. National Electric Code (U.S.A.)
NECA National Exchange Carrier Association (standards
organization)
NECP Network Element Control Protocol
224 &
NECTAR Network for Effective Collaboration Through
Advanced Research
NECTAS Network Equipment Craft Terminal Application
Software
NEDA National Electronics Distributors Association
NEDT Noise-Equivalent Differential Temperature (electronics)
NEF Network Element Function (MUX)
Negatron Negative electron
NEI Network Entity Identifier (cellular network)
NEL Network Element Layer
NEM Network Element Management (MUX)
NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NEMAS Network Management and Administration System
NEMKO Norges Elektriske Material Kontroll (Norway)
NEMO Not Emanating from Main Office (broadcasting)
NEMP Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse
NEMS Network Element Managment Server
NENA National Emergency Numbering Association (U.S.A.)
NEP Noise Equivalent Power (electronics)
NEPA National Environment Policy Act
NES Noise Equivalent Signal
NESC National Electrical Safety Code (IEEE)
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service
NET 1. Internet
2. network
3. Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
4. Normes Europeénne de Te´lećommunications
NetPOP Network Point Of Presence
NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface (networking)
NetBIOS Network BIOS (networking)
NetBSD A free version of BSD UNIX operating system
NetBT NetBIOS over TPC/IP
netcast A broadcast by using the Internet
NETCOM 1. Network Enterprise Technology Command (U.S.
Army)
2. Network Command (information systems)
NETCONSTA Network Control Station
NETDDE Network Dynamic Data Exchange (Windows feature)
NETI Network Information Table
NETIPC Network Interprocess Communications
netiquette network etiquette
netizen network citizen
NETOPS Network Operations System
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NetWare SFT NetWare System Fault Tolerance (networking)
NEU Network Extension Unit (AT&T)
.newsr Name extension for UNIX-based news readers files
(computer)
NEXT Near-End Cross-Talk (cables)
nF nanofarad (electronics)
NF Noise Figure (satcom)
NFA Noiseless Feedback Amplifier
NFAR Network File Access Routine
NFAS Non-Facility Associated Signaling (ISDN)
NFB No-Fuse Circuit-Breaker
NFCB National Federation of Community Broadcasters
(U.S.A.)
NFM 1. Network Fault Management (Motorola)
2. Noise Figure Meter
NFOEC National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
NFPA National File Protection Association (U.S.A.)
NFR Normal Frequency Reference unit
NFS 1. Network File Server
2. Network File System (Unix standard)
NFSP NetWare File Service Protocol
NFT Network File Transfer
NGA Noise Gain Analyzer
NGDC National Geographical Data Center
NGDLC Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier
NGFL National Grid For Learning (e-learning)
NGI Next Generation Internet
NGIN Next Generation Intelligent Network
NGN Next Generation Network
NGNP Non-Geographic Number Portability
NGOSS New Generation Operating System and Software
NGP Network Group
NGSO Non-Geostationary Orbit (satellites)
NGSO-FSS Non-Geostationary Orbit—Fixed Satellite Service (ITU)
NGT New Generation Transceiver
nH nanohenry (electronics)
NH National Host
NHAP National High-Altitude Photography
NHK Nippon Hose Kyokai (Japanese broadcaster)
NHRP Next Hop Routing Protocol (IETF)
NHS Next Hop Server
NI 1. Network Interface
2. Network Implementation
3. National ISDN
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NI-1 National ISDN-1
NIA Network Interface Adapter (IBM)
NIC 1. Network Interface Card (networking)
2. Network Information Center
3. Network Interface Controller
4. National ISDN Council
5. Near-Instantaneous Companding
NiCAD Nickel–Cadmium (battery)
NICAM Near-Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex
NiCd Nickel–Cadmium (battery)
NICE Network Information and Control Exchange
NICI National Information and Communications
Infrastructure (Africa)
NICS NATO Integrated Communications System
NICT National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (Japan)
NICTA National Iranian ICT Agenda (locally known as TAKFA)
NID 1. Network Inward Dialing (feature)
2. Network Interface Device
3. Network Information Database
NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System
NIF Network Interface Function
NIH National Information Highway
NII National Information Infrastructure
NIM 1. Network Interface Module (standard)
2. National Instrumentation Module (standard)
NIMA National Imagery Mapping Agency
NIMBY “Not In My Back Yard” (cellular networks)
NiMH Nickel-Metal-Hydride (battery)
NIMS Network Information Management System
NIOD Network Inward/Outward Dialing
NIPO Negative-Input Positive-Output (digital electronics)
NIS 1. Network Information Services (UNIX systems)
2. Network Imaging Server
3. NATO Identification System
NISP National ISP (Internet Service Provider)
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.A.)
NIT Network Information Table (broadcasting)
NITF National Image Transfer Format
NIU Network Interface Unit
NIUF North American ISDN Users’ Forum (standards
organization)
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NIVT Network Integration Verification Test
NJE Network Job Entry (IBM)
NL 1. New Line (control character)
2. Network Layer
NLA Network Layer Address (LAN packet)
NLANR National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
(U.S.A.)
NLDC Non-Linear Directional Coupler
NLDM Network Logical Data Manager (IBM)
NLES Navigational Land Earth Station
NLETS National Law Enforcement Telecommunication
System
NLM NetWare Loadable Module (networking)
NLO Non-Linear Optical material
NLOS Non-Line-Of-Sight (transmission)
NLP 1. Neuro-Linguistic Programming
2. Natural Language Processing (language recognition)
3. Network Layer Packet
NLPI Network Layer Protocol Identifier (LANs)
NLPID Network Layer Protocol ID
NLQ Near-Letter-Quality (printers)
NLS 1. Name Lookup Service
2. Natural-Language Support (voice recognition)
3. Non-Linear Schrodinger (equation)
NLSP NetWare Link Services Protocol (networking)
nm nanometer
NM Network Management
NMA 1. Network Management Architecture
2. Network Monitoring and Analysis system
NMAA National Multimedia Association of America
NMACS Network Monitor And Control System
NMAR Network Management and Access Routine
NMB Network Memory Bus
NMC 1. Network Management Center
2. Network Monitoring and Control
3. Non-Metallic Sheathed Cable
NMCC Network Management Control Center (networking)
NMCCC Network Management Command and Control Center
NMCM Network Management Communications Manager
NMCN Network Management Communications Network
NMEA National Maritime Electronics Association
NMF 1. Network Management Forum (standards
organization)
2. Network Management Function
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NMI 1. Non-Maskable Interrupt (PC chat)
2. Network Management Interface
NML Network Management Layer (TMN)
NMM Network Management Module
NMOS N-channel MOS (semiconductors)
NMP 1. Network Management Processor (AT&T)
2. Network Management Protocol (networking)
NMPA National Music Publishers’ Association
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (microwave)
NMRR Normal-Mode Rejection Ratio
NMS 1. NetWare Management System (networking)
2. Network Management System
NMSE 1. Network Management System Engineering
2. Normalized Mean Square Error
NMSI National Mobile Station Identification number
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone system (Nordic Countries)
NMTC National Mobile Telecommunications Company
(Kuwait)
NMU 1. Network Management Unit
2. Noise Measurement Unit
NMVT Network Management Vector Transport
NN 1. National Network
2. National Number
3. Network Node
NNBS NetView Network Billing System
NNC Neural Network Council (IEEE)
NNCDE Nortel Networks Certified Design Expert
NNCNA Nortel Networks Certified Network Architecture
NNCSE Nortel Networks Certified Support Expert
NNCSS Nortel Networks Certified Support Specialist
NNG National Number Group
NNI 1. Network Node Interface (MUX)
2. Network-to-Network Interface (ATM)
3. Neural Notwork Interface
4. Nearest Neighbor Interpolation (remote sensing)
NNM National Network Management
NNMC National Network Management Center (TPC/IP)
NNS 1. National Network Support
2. Network Node System
NNSC National Network Surveillance Center
NNSS Navy Navigational Satellite System
NNTM National Network Trouble Management
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol (TPC/IP)
NNX Network Numbering Exchange
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NO 1. Network Object
2. Normally Open (relay or switch contacts)
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(satellite)
NOBIS Network Operations Business Information System
NOC Network Operations Center (Inmarsat)
NOCC Network Operations Control Center
NOCTAS Network Office Craft Terminal Application Software
NOD Network Outward Dialing (feature)
NODS Near Obstacle Detection System
NOH Network Operations Handbook (Inmarsat)
NOI Notice Of Inquiry (FCC)
NOIS Netscape, Oracle, IBM, and Sun Microsystems
(Microsoft)
NOF Network Operator Facility
NOMDA National Office Machine Dealers Association
Non-Div Non-Diversity
Non-GSO Non-Geostationary Orbit (satellites)
NO-OP No-Operation (instruction)
NOP Network Operations Protocol
NOPS New Order Processing System
NOR Gate A combination of a NOT and an OR Gate (digital
electronics)
NORC Network Operations Research Committee
NRE Non-Recurring Engineering
NORM Nack-Oriented Reliable Multicast
NOS Network Operating System (LAN software)
NOSC Naval Ocean Surveillance Center
NOST NASA Office of Standards and Technology
NOTAM Notice to Airmen (COMSAR)
NOTHS Network Operations Trouble Handling System
NOV News Overview
Novin 3Com Novin Comprehensive Communication Company
(Iran)
Np Neper (unit of ratio of two voltages, two currents, or
two power values in a logarithmic manner)
NP 1. Number Portability
2. Negative–Positive (semiconductors)
NP&D Network Planning and Design
NP0 Negative–Positive-Zero (materials)
NPA 1. Numbering Plan Area (Bell)
2. Network Performance Analyzer (IBM)
3. Network Professionals Association (U.S.A.)
4. National Pricing Agreement (AT&T)
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NPAC 1. Number Portability Administration Center
2. Number Portability Access Center
NPBA National Public Broadcasting Archives (Maryland
University)
NPC 1. Network Parameter Control
2. Network Processing Card
NPD 1. Network Protection Device (PBX)
2. Noise Power Density
NPDA Network Problem Determination Application (IBM)
NPDN Nordic Public Data Network
NPDU Network Protocol Data Unit
NPI 1. Network Product Implementation
2. Not Plugged In
3. Null Pointer Indicator (MUX)
NPL Network Planning
NPM 1. Non-Penetrating Mount
2. Network Process Monitor
NPN 1. Negative–Positive–Negative (semiconductors)
2. Network Provider Network
NPNP Negative–Positive–Negative–Positive
(semiconductors)
NPO Network Performance Objectives
NPR 1. National Public Radio
2. Noise Power Ratio
3. New Product Return (number)
NPRM Notice of Proposed Rule Making (regulatory)
NPS 1. Network Product Support
2. Number Portability Surcharge
NPSI NCP Packet Switching Interface (X.25)
NPSP Network Products and Systems Planning
NPSTC National Public Safety Telecommunications Council
NPU Numeric Processing Unit
NQR Nuclear Quadruple Resonance
NR 1. Number (Morse code transmissions)
2. Nyquist Rate
NRAM Non-volatile RAM (memory)
NRC 1. Non-Recurring Charge
2. National Research Council (U.S.A.)
3. Network Reliability Council
NRCE Non-Redundant Common Equipment
NRD Network Reconciliation Descriptor
NRDA National Routing and Database Administration
NREN National Research and Education Network (e-learning)
NRI Net Radio Interface
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NRIC Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (FCC)
NRM 1. Normal Response Mode (HDLC)
2. Network Resource Manager
NRMS Network Reference and Monitor Station
NRS 1. Network Routing System
2. National Relay Service
3. Network Reconfiguration System
NRSC National Radio Systems Committee
NRT Near-Real-Time
NRTC National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative
NRTL Nationally Recognized Test Laboratory
NRUG National Rolm User Group
NRZ Non-Return-to-Zero level (data encoding)
NRZ-1 Non-Return-to-Zero level, one (data encoding)
NRZ-C Non-Return-to-Zero level, Change (data encoding)
NRZ-I Non-Return-to-Zero level, Inverted (data encoding)
NRZ-L Non-Return-to-Zero, Level (data encoding)
NRZ-M Non-Return-to-Zero, Mark (data encoding)
NRZ-S Non-Return-to-Zero, Space (data encoding)
NS-CPE Non-Standard Customer Premise Equipment
NSA 1. National Security Agency
2. Network Service Address
3. Normalized Site Attenuation (microwave)
NSAI National Standards Authority of Ireland
NSAP Network Service Access Point (OSI model)
NSAPI Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
NSB National Science Board
NSC 1. Network Service Center
2. Non-Standard Command
NSCAT NASA Scatterometer (remote sensing)
NSCP National Scalable Cluster Project
NSDETP Network System Development Electronic Transaction
Processing
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure (U.S.A.)
NSDP Non-Signaling Data Protocol
NSDP-B&S Non-Signaling Data Protocol for Billing and
Settlements
NSDP-F Non-Signaling Data Protocol for Fraud
NSDU Network Service Data Unit (OSI model)
NSE 1. Network Support Element (networking)
2. Network Surveillance Engineer
3. Network System Engineer
NSE/OES Network Support Element and Operations Evaluation
System
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NSESS Network Systems Engineering Systems Support
NSF 1. National Science Foundation
2. Network Specific Facilities
NSFNet National Science Foundation’s Network
NSG National Systems Group
NSI Network Solutions, Inc.
NSIC National Storage Industry Consortium
NSIE Network Security Information Exchange
NSIF Network and Services Integration Forum (ATIS)
NSInet NASA Science Internet
NSLOOKUP Name Server Lookup
NSMD Non-Solder Mask Defined
NSN Network Service Node
NSO 1. National Standards Organization
2. National Services Organization
3. National Switch Operations
NSOM Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
NSP 1. Network Service Provider
2. Network Service Protocol
3. Network Service Point
4. Network Supervisory Processor
5. Native Signal Processing
NSPE National Society of Professional Engineers
NSPIXP Network Service Provider Internet Exchange Point
NSR 1. Network Status Record
2. Non-Source Routed
3. Nyquist Sampling Rate
NSS 1. Network and Switching Subsystem (PLMN)
2. Network Status Subsystem
3. Network Support System
4. Network Software Support
5. National Standards System (Canada)
6. Non-Standard Setup (command)
NSSN National Standard System Network
NSTAC National Security Telecommunications Advisory
Committee
NSTS Network Systems Technical Support
NSU Network Synchronization Unit
NT 1. Northern Telecom
2. Network Terminal (ISDN)
3. New Technology (Windows NT)
4. Windows New Technology
NT1 Network Terminator type 1 (ISDN)
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NT2 Network Terminator type 2
NTACS Narrow TACS (cellular networks)
NTAS 1. Network Traffic Analysis System
2. Windows NT Advanced Server
NTB Net-Top-Box (PC)
NTC 1. National Telecommunications Commission
(Thailand)
2. National Telecoms Corporation (Sudan)
3. Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistors)
NTCA National Telephone Cooperative Association
NTDPC National Telecommunications Damage Prevention
Council (U.S.A.)
NTDS 1. Naval Tactical Data System
2. National Television Design Standards
NTE 1. Network Termination Equipment (BT)
2. Network Transmission Elements
NTELOS NetView Traffic Engineering Line Optimization System
NTF No Trouble Found
NTFS New Technology File System (Windows NT)
NTI Network Terminating Interface
NTIA Network Telecommunications and Information
Administration
NTIS National Technical Information Service Technology
Administration (U.S.A.)
NTL National Transcommunications, Ltd.
NTM 1. Network Traffic Management (Telcordia
Technologies)
2. Notice To Mariners (shipping)
NTN Network Terminal Number (X.25)
NTO Network Terminal Option (IBM)
NTP 1. Network Time Protocol (TCP/IP)
2. Network Termination Point
NTS 1. Network Test System
2. Number Translation Services
3. Non-Traffic Sensitive
NTSC National Television Standards Committee (TV
broadcast format)
NTSC STD NTSC Standard (TV broadcasting)
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
( Japan)
NTTC National Transportable Telecommunications Capability
(comsat)
NTU Network Terminating Unit
NTV Non-linear Thickness Variation (IC wafer)
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NU 1. Network Unit
2. Network Unavailable
NUA Network User Address
NuBus New Bus
NUDET Nuclear Detonation Evaluation Technique
nudome nuclear radome (nuclear radiations)
NUI 1. NetWare Users International (networking)
2. Network User Identifier
NUID Network User Identification
NUL “NULL” (character control code)
NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access (architecture)
nV nanovolt (electronics)
NV Network Video
NVI Normalized Vegetation Index (remote sensing)
NVIS Near-Vertical Incident Skywave
NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
NVM Non-Volatile Memory
NVoD Near-Video-on-Demand (service)
NVP Network Voice Protocol (ARPANet)
NVRAM Non-Volatile RAM (memory)
NVS Non-Volatile Storage
NVT Novell Virtual Terminals (Novell NetWare)
nW nanowatt (electronics)
NWADMIN NetWare Administrator (Novell NetWare)
NWAT New Wireline Access Technology
NWDM Narrow-Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
NWL Non-Wireline (cellular networks)
NWRA National Wireless Resellers Association (U.S.A.)
NWS Network Services
NXX identifies the central office exchange allocated within
the NPAs
NYIIX New York International Internet Exchange
NYNEX New York New England Exchange (AT&T)
NZCS New Zealand Computer Society
NZDSF Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber
NZSA New Zealand Software Association
NZWDF New Zealand Wireless Data Forum
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O&M Operations and Maintenance
O-ADM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (MUX)
O-band Optical Frequency wavelength ranging from 1260 to
1310 nm
O-QPSK Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (modulation)
O/E Optical-to-Electric converter
O/P output
O/R Originator and Recipient (X.400)
OA 1. Office Automation
2. Optical Amplifier
OA&M Operations, Administration and Maintenance
OAA Open Avionics Architecture
OACSU Off-Air Call Setup (GSM)
OAD Optical Admittance Diagram
OADM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (MUX)
OAI Open Application Interface
OAM 1. Off-Air Monitoring
2. Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
3. Operations and Maintenance
OAM&P Operations, Administration, Maintenance and
Provisioning
OAMS Operation Alarms and Measurement System
OAMT Operations, Administration and Maintenance Terminal
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OAN Optical Access Node
OAO Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OAs Operations Applications (AINs)
OATS Open Area Test Site
OAU Operator Access Unit
OB Outside Broadcasting (Intelsat)
OBC On-Board Computer
OBCS On-Board Communications Station
OBE Out-of-Band Emission (Intelsat)
OBF Ordering and Billing Forum
OBI 1. Open Buying on the Internet Consortium
(standards)
2. Omni-Bearing Indicator (instrument)
OBL Local Loop Operator of France
OBN Out-of-Band Noise (Intelsat)
OBO Output Back-Off
OBP On-Board Processing (Intelsat)
OBS 1. Outdoor Base Station
2. Out-of-Band Signaling
3. Optical Burst Switching
4. Omni-Bearing Selector (instrument)
OBSAI Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
OBU On-Board Unit
OBWR On-Board Waveform Regenerator (Intelsat)
OC 1. Optical Carrier
2. Open Circuit
3. Open Collector (circuits)
OC-1 Optical Carrier level-1
OCA Optical Channel Analyzer
OCB Oil Circuit-Breaker
OCC 1. Operations Control Center (Inmarsat and Intelsat)
2. Other Common Carrier (Intelsat)
3. Optical Cross-Connect (MUX)
OCDMA Optical CDMA (access)
OCE 1. Open Collaboration Environment (Macintosh)
2. On-Call Engineer (Intelsat)
OCG Operational Coordination Group (ETSI)
OCH Optical Channel
OCIR Overcoat Incident Recording
OCL Office Code Location
OCN Operating Company Number
OCO Oven Controlled Oscillator
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OCP 1. Operator Control Panel
2. Optical Control Plane (Cisco)
OCPAR Optically-Controlled Phase-Array Radar
OCR 1. Optical Character Recognition (scanners)
2. Optical Character Reader (scanners)
3. Outgoing Call Restriction
OCRI Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation (Canada)
OCS On-board Communications Station
OCT Office Craft Terminal
OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (remote
sensing)
OCU Orderwire Control Unit
OCUDP Office Channel Unit Data Port
OCVCXO Oven-Controlled/Voltage-Controlled Crystal
Oscillator
OCW 1. OpenCourseWare (ICT)
2. Oscillator Control Word
OCXO Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillator
OCX OLE Custom Control
OD 1. Optical Density
2. Optical Demultiplexer
ODA 1. Office Document Architecture (ISO)
2. Object Definition Alliance (Oracle)
ODAPS Oceanic Display and Planning System
ODAS Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (UNESCO)
ODB 1. Operator Determined Barring (GSM)
2. Open Dual Bus
ODBC Open Data-Base Connectivity
ODBMG Object Data-Base Management Group
ODC Open Development Consortium
ODF Optical Distribution Frame
ODI 1. Open Data-Link Interface (networking)
2. Operational Data Integrator (MCI)
ODIF Office Document Interchange Format
ODIN Optical Digital Integrated Network
ODINSUP Open Data-link Interface/Network Support
(networking)
ODIS Oceanographic Data Interrogating Station
ODLC Optimum Data-Link Control (protocol)
ODMG Object Database Management Group
ODP 1. Open Distributed Processing
2. Optical Distribution Point
ODR Optical Document Recognition
ODSI Open Directory Services Interface
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ODTR Office of the Director of Telecommunications
Regulation (Ireland)
ODU Out-Door Unit (VSAT)
O/E Optical-to-Electrical (converter)
Oe Oersted (magnetic field strength)
OE Office Equipment
OEIC Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuit
OEL Organic Electro luminescent (display technology)
OELR Overall Echo Loudness Rating
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer (products)
OEO Optical-to-Electrical-to-Optical regeneration
OES Operations Evaluation System (MCI)
OF Optical Fiber
OFA Optical Fiber Amplifier
OFBG Optical Fiber Bragg Grating
OFC 1. Open Financial Connectivity (interface)
2. Optical Fiber Cable
OFCP Optical Fiber Conductive Plenum
OFCR Optical Fiber Conductive Riser
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(transmission)
OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
OFHC Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity (copper wire)
OFM Operational Fixed Microwave
OFN 1. Optical Fiber Network
2. Optical Fiber Non-conductive
OFNP 1. Optical Fiber Non-conductive Plenum
2. Optical Fiber Network Plenum
OFNR 1. Optical Fiber Non-conductive Riser
2. Optical Fiber Network Riser
OFR Office of the Federal Register (U.S.A.)
OFS 1. Operational Fixed Service
2. Out-of-Frame Seconds (MUX)
OFSCFC Optical Fiber Cable and Solar Cell Fabrication
Company (Iran)
OFTA Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Hong
Kong)
OFTEL The Office of Telecommunications (U.K.)
OFX Open Financial Exchange
OGM Out-Going Message
OGT Out-Going Trunk
OH overhead (MUX)
OHA Overhead Access (MUX)
OHB Overhead Byte (MUX)
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OHD Optical Hard Drive
OHG Operators Harmonization Group (cellular
networks)
OHI 1. Overhead Interface
2. One-Horn Interferometer
OHQ Off-Hook Queue
OHR 1. Optical Handwriting Recognition
2. Overhead Router
OHVA Off-Hook Voice Announce
OIC Optical Integrated Circuit
OICETS Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test
Satellite
OID 1. Originating ID
2. Object Identifier
OIDA Optoelectronics Industry Development Association
OIF Optical Interworking Forum
OIR Online Insertion and Removal (equipment
components)
OJT On-the-Job Training
OK-QPSK Offset-Keyed QPSK (modulation)
OLA 1. Open-Library Architecture
2. Optical Line Amplifier
OLAP On-Line Analytical Processing (ICT)
OLC Optical Loop Carrier
OLE Object Linking and Embedding (software
technology)
OLEC Originating Local Exchange Carrier
OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode (display technology)
OLI Optical Loop Interface
OLIU Optical Line Interface Unit
OLNS Originating Line Number Screening
OLO Other Licensed Operators
OLOS Obstructed-Line-Of-Sight (transmission)
OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiance (remote sensing)
OLRU Optical Line Regenerating Unit
OLS 1. Originating Line Screening
2. On-Line Services
3. Optical-Label Switching (networking)
OLT Optical Line Terminal
OLTC Optical Line Terminal Controller
OLTE Optical Line Terminal Equipment
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing (ICT)
OLTS Optical Loss Test Set
OLTU Optical Line Terminal Unit
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OM 1. Operational Measurement
2. Old Man or radio officer of ship (Morse code
transmissions)
3. Optical Multiplexer
OM-1 Open MPEG Consortium
OMA 1. Object Management Architecture
2. Open Mobile Alliance
OMAB Object Management Architecture Board
OMAN Optical Metropolitan Area Network
OmanTel Oman Telecommunications Company (operator)
OMAP 1. Open Multimedia Applications Protocol (Texas
Instruments)
2. Operations and Maintenance Applications Part
OMAT Operational Measurement and Analysis Tool
OMC Operations and Maintenance Center
OMC-Env Operations and Maintenance Center for Environment
OMC-IN Operations and Maintenance Center for Intelligent
Network
OMC-M Operations and Maintenance Center for Mobile
OMC-Misc Operations and Maintenance Center for
Miscellaneous purposes
OMC-R Operations and Maintenance Center for Radio
OMC-S Operations and Maintenance Center for Switching
OMC-T Operations and Maintenance Center for Transmission
OMC-WAN Operations and Maintenance Center for Wide Area
Network
OMF Open Model Forum
OMG Object Management Group (U.S. software standards)
OMI Open Microprocessor Initiative (European)
OMJ Ortho-Mode Junction
OML Operations and Maintenance Link (GSM)
OMP Optimized Multipath (routing service)
OMR Optical Mark Recognition (scanners)
OMS Operations and Maintenance Station
OMT Orthogonal-Mode Transducer
OMUX Output Multiplexer
ONA Open Network Architecture (Bell packet networks)
ONAC Operations Network Administration Center
ONAL Off-Network Access Line
ONC Open Network Computing
ONI 1. Optical Network Interface
2. Operator Number Identification
ONMS Open Network Management System
ONP Open Network Provision
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ONPT Office Nationale des Postes des Telecommunications
(Morocco)
ONT 1. Open Network Terminal
2. Optical Network Tester
3. Office National de Te´le´diffusion (Morocco)
ONTC Open Networks Technology Consortium
ONU Optical Network Unit
OO Object-Oriented
OOCM Object-Oriented Call Model
OODB Object-Oriented Data-Base
OOF 1. Out-Of-Frame (transmission)
2. Out-Of-Franchise
OOK On–Off Keying (modulation)
OOO 1. Optical-to-Optical-to-Optical regeneration
2. Optical-Oriented Operation (TMN)
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
OOPS Open Outsourcing Policy Services (IETF)
OOR Out Of Region
OORE Operations Order Review
OOS Out Of Service
OOT Object-Oriented Technology (software)
OP operator (Morse code transmissions)
opamp operational amplifier
OPAC 1. Outside Plant Access Cabinet
2. Online Public Access Catalog (ICT)
OPB Optical Power Budget
OPBO Output Power Back-Off
OPC 1. Originating Point Code (SS7)
2. On-Premises Cabling
3. Optical Phase Conjugator
opcode operation code
opcom optical communication
OPDAR Optical radar
OpenGL Open Graphics Language (Silicon Graphics)
Opeval Operational evaluation
Opex Operations expenditures
OPGW Optical Ground Wire
OPIP Output Power Intercept Point (microwave)
OPL Optical Path Length
OPLL Optical Phase-Locked Loop
opm operations per minute
OP MODEL Operations Model
OPP Object Push Profile (Bluetooth)
OPPV Order-ahead Pay Per View (pay TV)
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OPS 1. Off-Premises Station
2. Open Profiling Standard
3. Optical Sensor
4. Operator Services
OPSEC Operational Security
OPSEC-A Operational Security Assessment
OPSEC-S Operational Security Survey
Opt optional
OPSK Octal PSK (modulation)
OPTIS Overlapped Phase Trellis-code Interlocked Spectrum
Optisolator optically coupled isolator
OPW On-Premises Wiring
OPX Off-Premises Extension (PBX adapter)
OQPSK Offset Quadrature PSK (modulation)
OR 1. Off-Route (aeronautical mobile service)
2. Ocean Region
3. Operations Research
4. Optical Repeater
5. Outage Ratio
ORB 1. Object Request Broker (CORBA interface)
2. Office Repeater Bay
ORBCOMM Orbital Communications Corporation (company)
ORDIG Open Regional Dialog on Internet Governance
ORM Optically Remote Module (AT&T)
ORPTR Optical Repeater
ORR Ocean Region Registration signal
ORS Omni-directional Range Station
ORSA Operations Research and Systems Analysis
ORU Orbital Replacement Unit (remote sensing)
OS 1. Operating System (computer)
2. Operator Services (telephony)
3. Optical Section
OS/2 Operating System version 2 (IBM)
OSA 1. Open System Architecture
2. Optical Spectrum Analyzer
3. Optical Society of America
OSC 1. oscillator
2. Out-band Signaling Channel
3. Optical Supervisory Channel
OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
OSD On-Screen Display
OSDM 1. Optical Spatial-Division Multiplexing
2. Optical Space-Division Multiplexing
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OSF 1. Open Software Foundation
2. Operation Support Function
OSF1 Open Software Foundation version 1
OSI Open Systems Interconnection (network architecture
model)
OSI-TP Open Systems Interconnection-Transport Protocol
OSI-RM Open Systems Interconnection-Reference Model (ISO)
OSI-SD Open Systems Interconnection-Service Definition
OSI-SM Open Systems Interconnection-System Management
OSIE Open Systems Interconnection-Environment (ISO)
OSINet OSI Test Network
OSJ Optical Society of Japan
OSMINE Operations Systems Modifications for the Integration of
Network Elements
OSN Open Systems Networking
OSNS Open Systems Network Support
OSP Operator Service Provider
OSPF Open Shortest Path First (routing protocol)
OSPFIGP Open Shortest Path First Internet Gateway Protocol
OSPR Optical Shared Protection Ring
OSPS Operator Services Position System (AT&T)
OSR 1. Optical Solar Reflector
2. Over Sampling Ratio (ADC)
OSRI Originating Station Routing Indicator
OSS 1. Operations Support Systems (TMN)
2. Operations Sub-Systems (GSM)
3. Operational Service State
OSS7 Operator Services Signaling System Number 7
OSSI Operations Support System Interface
OSSN Originating Station Serial Number
OSSP Object Serialization Stream Protocol
OST Office of Science and Technology
OSTA Optical Storage Technology Association (U.S.A.)
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
OSW Out-band Service Word
OT 1. Office of Telecommunications
2. Orascom Telecom (operator)
OTA 1. Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.A.)
2. Orascom Telecom of Algeria
3. Over-The-Air activation of services
OTAM Over-The-Air Management (HF network nodes)
OTAR Over-The-Air Rekeying
OTASP Over-The-Air Service Provisioning
OTC Operating Telephone Company
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OTDOA Observed Time Difference of Arrival (GSM)
OTDR Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (test equipment)
OTF Optimum Transmission Frequency
OTGR Operations Technology Generic Requirements
OTH Over-The-Horizon (microwave)
OTIA Office of Telecommunications and Information
Applications
OTM Optical Translation Measurement
OTN 1. Optical Transport Network
2. Omam TradeNet
OTO One-Time-Only (memory)
OTP 1. Office of Telecommunications Policy
2. Open Trading Protocol
3. One Time Programmable (memories)
OTQ Outgoing Trunk Queuing
OTS 1. Operations Technical Support
2. Off-The-Shelf
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier (Ethernet)
Outbox Outgoing mails box (e-mail)
OutWATS Outward Wide-Area Telephone Service
OVD 1. Optical Video Disk
2. Outside Vapor Deposition process (optical fibers)
OVP Over-Voltage Protection (power)
OVPO Outside Vapor Phase Oxidation process (optical fibers)
OVS Open Video System
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
OVTG Optical Virtual Tributary Group (SONET)
OW Order-Wire (signaling circuit)
OWM Order-Wire Message
OWS 1. Operator Work station
2. Optical Wavelength Switch
OWT Operator Work Time
OXC Optical Cross-Connect
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P p
p Symbol for prefix pico-, denoting one-trillionth or 10K12
P 1. Symbol for prefix peta-, denoting 250 or 1015
2. Symbol for prefix pseudo-, denoting false or
deceptive
3. Symbol for electrical permeance (electronics)
4. Symbol for power
5. Symbol for pound (unit of weight)
6. Symbol for positive (semiconductors)
7. Symbol for primary winding (circuit diagrams)
8. Symbol for plate (anode of electron tubes)
P-band Radar Frequency band ranging from 0.22 to 0.39 GHz
(SAR)
P-channel Packet-mode channel
P-Code 1. Protected Code
2. Precise Code
3. Pseudo-Code
P-Frame Predictive Frame
P-MAC Packet Media Access Control
P-machine Pseudo-machine
P-MOS P-channel MOS (semiconductors)
P-P Peak-to-Peak (alternating quantity)
P-picture Predictive-coded picture
P-rating Performance rating
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P region Positive region or holes (semiconductors)
P-TMSI Packet-Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
P/A Peak-to-Average (ratio)
P/E Ratio Price-to-Earnings Ratio
P/P Point-to-Point
P/S Parallel-to-Serial (converter)
P1dB Power at one dB gain compression
P1dBin P1dB referenced to the input
P1dBout P1dB referenced to the output
P2P 1. Peer-to-Peer (networking)
2. Point-to-Point (networking)
3. Person-to-Person communication
P2MP Point-to-Multipoint (networking)
P2T Push-to-Talk
P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
P4 Photolithographic Pattern Plated Probe
P5 586 Pentium Microprocessor (Intel)
P54C Official part number for Pentium processor (Intel)
P55C Official part number for Pentium processor with MMX
(Intel)
P6 Pentium Pro Processor (Intel)
pA picoampere (electronics)
Pa Symbol for Pascal unit (1 PaZ1 N/m2)
PA 1. Pre-Assigned (access)
2. Preamble (FDDI)
3. Power Amplifier (electronics)
4. Pooling Administrator
PA-RISC Precision Architecture - Reduced Instruction Set
Computing (Hewlett-Packard)
PA system Public Address system
PAA Phased-Array Antenna (microwave)
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange (switching)
PAC 1. Platform Azimuth Control
2. Perceptual Audio Coder
PAC-E Pacific ocean region East (Inmarsat)
PACA 1. Priority Access and Channel Assignment
2. Pacific and Asian Communication Association
3. Picture Agency Council of America
PACS Personal Access Communications System (U.S. version
of PHS)
PACT 1. Public Access Cordless Telephony
2. PBX And Computer Testing (Siemens)
3. Personal Air Communications Technology
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PACVD Plasma Activated Chemical Vapor Deposition (optical
fibers)
PACX Private Automatic Computer Exchange
PAD 1. Packet Assembler/Disassembler (X.25)
2. Personal Authentication Device
3. Program Associated Data (broadcasting)
4. Programmable Address Decoder
PAE Power-Added Efficiency
PAG Procedures Advisory Group
PAGEOS Passive Geodetic Earth-Orbiting Satellite (NASA)
PagP Port aggregation Protocol (LANs)
PAIS Path Alarm Indication Signal
PakTel Pakistan Telecommunications company Ltd
PAL 1. Phase Alternation by Line (TV broadcast format)
2. Public Access Line
3. Paradox Application Language (programming)
4. Programmable Array Logic (digital electronics)
5. Proprietary Algorithm
PAL-M Phase Alternation by Line-Modified version (TV format)
PALC Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal (display)
PALI Pseudo-Automatic Location Identification
PALR Precision Approach and Landing Radar (aviation)
PALSAR Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
PalTel Palestine Telecommunications Company
PAM 1. Pulse-Amplitude Modulation
2. Payload Assist Module (Intelsat)
3. Port Adapter Module (Cisco)
PAM/FM Pulse-Amplitude Modulation on Frequency-
Modulation
PAMA 1. Pre-Assigned Multiple Access (satcom)
2. Pulse Address Multiple Access (satcom)
PAMR Public Access Mobile Radio (service)
PAMS Perceptual Analysis Measurement System
PAN 1. Personal-Area Network
2. Public Access Network
Panamsat Pan-American Satellite
PANI Pseudo-Automatic Number Identification
PANS Pretty Amazing New Service
PAP 1. Public Access Provider (Internet)
2. Public Access Profile (DECT)
3. Plug-And-Play (computer hardware)
4. Pre-assignment Access Plan
5. Password Authentication Protocol
6. Printer Access Protocol (AppleTalk)
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PAR 1. Positive Acknowledgement plus Retransmission
2. Precision Approach Radar
3. Packet-to-Average Ratio
4. Performance Analysis and Review
paramp parametric amplifier
PARC Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox)
PARD Periodic And Random Deviation (power)
PARs Purchase of Accounts Receivables
PARS Playback And Recording System
ParsTel Pars Telephone company (Iran)
PAS 1. Public Address System
2. Personal Accountability System
3. Priority Access Service
4. Private Aircraft Station
5. Profile Alignment System
PASC Perceptual Audio Sub-band Coding
PASL Primary Area Switch Locator
PAT 1. Port Address Translation (LANs)
2. Program Association Table
PATU Pan-African Telecommunication Union
PAX Private Automatic Exchange
Payphone Pay Telephone system
Pb Petabit, equal to 1015 or 250 bits (transmission)
Pbps Petabits per second
PB 1. Petabyte, which is 250 or 1024 times terabytes
(computer)
2. Plesiochronous Buffer
3. Primary Body (orbits)
PBA 1. Personalized Basic Service
2. Printed Board Assembly
PBC Polarization Beam Combiner (laser)
PBER Pseudo-Bit Error Ratio
PBGA Plastic Ball-Grid Array (microchips)
PBGAM Plastic Ball-Grid Array Multilayer (microchips)
PBN Packet Backbone Network
PBNM Policy-Based Network Management
PBO Polymorphic Buffer Overflow (Internet)
PBP Packet Burst Protocol (networking)
PBS 1. Personal Base Station (PCS)
2. Public Broadcasting Service
3. Polarization Beam Splitter
PBT 1. Push-Button Telephone
2. Polybutylene Terephthalate (optical fibers)
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PBX Private Branch Exchange (switching equipment)
pC pico-Coulomb (electronics)
PC Carrier Power (transmission)
PC 1. Personal Computer (IBM)
2. Personal Communications
3. Programmable Controller
4. Power Control
5. Protocol Control
6. Printed Circuit
7. Primary Center (switching)
8. Primary Channel
9. Project Coordinator (AT&T)
PC-AT Personal Computer AT (IBM)
PC-QFP Printed-Circuit Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
PC-XT Personal Computer XT (IBM)
PCA 1. Point of Closest Approach (satcom)
2. Protective Connecting Arrangement
3. Protective Coupling Arrangement
4. Protection Channel Access
5. Premises Cabling Association
PCAS Personal Communications Access System (cellular)
PCB 1. Printed Circuit Board (electronics)
2. Power Control Box
3. Power Circuit Breaker
4. Process Control Block
5. Protocol Control Block
PCC 1. Product Control Center
2. Personal Companion Computer
3. Prepaid Calling Card (INs)
4. Plastic Chip Carrier
PCCA Portable Computer and Communications Association
(U.S.A.)
PCCH Physical Control Channel
.pcd Name extension for kodak Photo CD format files
(graphics)
PCD Personal Communications Device
PCF 1. Physical Control Field (LANs)
2. Print Coordination Function
PCH Paging Channel (GSM)
PCI 1. Peripheral Component Interconnect (computer bus)
2. Peripheral Component Interface (computer bus)
3. Protocol Control Information (OSI model)
4. Pre-connection Inspection
5. Paya Communication Industries (Iran)
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PCI SIG PCI Special Interest Group
PCI-X Peripheral Component Interconnect-Extended
(computer)
PCIA Personal Communications Industry Association (U.S.
standards)
PCL 1. Printer Control Language (Hewlett-Packard)
2. Product Computer-module Load
PCLEC Packet Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
PCM 1. Pulse-Code Modulation
2. Phase Conjugation Mirror
3. Process Control Monitor
PCM-IM Pulse-Code Modulation—Intensity-Modulation
PCM/FM Pulse-Code Modulation on Frequency-Modulation
PCM-30 2.048 Mbps T-1 (E-1)
PCMC PCM Controller
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory-Card International
Association
PCMDI PCM Drop Insert
PCMIA Personal Computer Manufacturer Interface Adapter
PCN Personal Communications Network
PCO 1. Public Call Office
2. Point of Control and Observation
3. Private Cable Operator
PCOM Private Communications
PCP 1. Predictor Compression Protocol
2. Private Carrier Paging
3. Post Call Processing
PCR 1. Peak Cell Rate (ATM)
2. Program Clock Reference (TV broadcast)
3. Phase Change Rewritable (memory)
4. Processor Configuration Register
PCRA Proportional Control Rate Algorithm (ATM)
PCs Personal Computers
PCS Personal Communications System (wireless and
cellular)
PCS-1900 Personal Communications Systems operating at
1900 MHz
PCSA Personal Computing System Architecture
PCSC Palestine Commercial Services Company
PCSN Private Circuit Switching Network
PCSR Parallel Channel Signaling Rate
.pct Name extension for macintosh PICT format files
(graphics)
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PCT 1. Personal Communications Technology
2. Portable Control Terminal (Mux tester)
3. Program Comprehension Tool (software)
PCTA Personal Computer Terminal Adapter (ISDN)
PCTE Portable Common Tool Environment
PCTS Public Cordless Telephone Service (Canada)
PCU 1. Packet Control Unit (GPRS)
2. Peripheral Control Unit
PCWG Personal Conferencing Work Group
.pcx Name extension for PC Paintbrush image files
(graphics)
PD 1. Phase Detector
2. Photo-Detector
3. Photo-Diode
4. Pulsed Doppler (radar)
5. Pre-Distortion
6. Protocol Discriminator (GSM)
7. Product Distributor (Inmarsat)
PD-channel Packet-mode Data channel
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDAIA PDA Industry Association (U.S. standards organization)
PDAS Product Document Archiving System
PDAU Physical Delivery Access Unit
PDBM Pulse-Delay Binary Modulation
PDC 1. Personal Digital Cellular system (Japan)
2. Personal Digital Cellular (standard)
3. Personal Digital Communications
4. Program Delivery Control (broadcasting)
5. Primary Domain Controller (Windows NT)
PDC-P Personal Digital Cellular-Packet technology
PDCH Physical Data Channel
PDD 1. Post Dial Delay (phone calls)
2. Portable Digital Document (graphic file)
PDE Product Document Exchange
PDEF Physical Design Exchange Format
.pdf Name extension for PDF format Adobe files
(computer)
PDF 1. Portable Document Format (files format)
2. Pulse Duty Factor (parameter)
3. Probability Distribution Function
4. Power Distribution Frame
PDG Program Data Generator (TV broadcast)
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (MUX)
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PDI 1. Picture Description Instructions
2. Personal Data Interchange (format)
3. Perspective Dark-field Imaging (semiconductor
wafer)
PDIAL Public-access Dial-up (Internet)
PDIF P-CAD Data Interchange Format
PDIP Plastic Dual Inline Package (microchips)
PDL 1. Page-Description Language (programming)
2. Positioning Data Link
PDLC Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal (display)
PDM 1. Pulse-Duration Modulation
2. Plain-Dress Message
3. Personal Data Module
4. Product Data Management
PDM/FM Pulse-Duration Modulation on Frequency-Modulation
PDM/PM Pulse-Duration Modulation on Pulse-Modulation
PDN 1. Packet Data Network
2. Public Data Network
3. Premises Distribution Network
4. Primary Directory Number (ISDN)
PDO 1. Packet Data Optimization
2. Portable Distributable Objects (computer)
PDP 1. Power Distribution Panel
2. Public Dispersion Parameter (optical fibers)
3. Plasma Display Panel (television set)
4. Programmed Data Processor (Digital Equipment
Corporation)
5. Packet Data Protocol (GPRS)
PDPS Photographic Data Processing System
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PDS 1. Premises Distribution System (Lucent Technologies)
2. Primary Distribution System
3. Power Distribution System
4. Program Data Source
5. Protected Distribution System (U.S. federal government)
6. Payload Data Segment (satcom)
7. Processor Direct Slot (Macintosh)
8. Parallel Data Structure (computer)
PDT 1. Position Determination Technology
2. Programmable Data Terminal
3. Prototype Debug Tool (Tektronics)
PDTS Public Data Transmission Service
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PDU Protocol Data Unit (OSI model)
PDUS Primary Data User Station
PDV Path Delay Value
PE 1. Peripheral Equipment
2. Phase-Encoded (recording)
3. Processing Element
4. Protocol Emulator
5. Polyethylene (cable)
PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PEB PCM Expansion Bus
PEBB Power Electronic Building Block
PEC 1. Photo-Electric Cell (electronics)
2. Perfect Electrical Conductor
PECC Partially Error-Controlled Connections
PECL Positive Emitter-Coupled Logic (digital electronics)
PECVD Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
PED 1. pedestal (antenna)
2. Phase Error Detector
PEDC Pan European Digital Communications (GSM)
PEEC Partial Element Equivalent Circuit
PEEK Partners Early Experience Kit (Taligent)
PEG Public Educational or Government access (cable TV)
PEG Ratio Price to Earning Growth Ratio
PEL Picture Element (pixel)
PEM 1. Privacy Enhanced Mail (Internet)
2. Peripheral Equipment Module
PEP 1. Packet Error Probability
2. Packet Ensemble Protocol
3. Packet Exchange Protocol
4. Payment Extension Protocol
5. Peak Envelope Power (electronics)
6. Policy Enforcement Point
7. Primary Entry Point
8. Partitioned Emulation Programming (IBM)
PEPCI Protocol for Exchange of Policy Information (IETF)
PER 1. Packet Error Rate
2. Packet Encoding Rules
Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language (programming)
PERT Project Evaluation and Review Technique (ICT)
PES 1. Personal Earth Station
2. Packetized Elementary Stream (MPEG)
3. Packet over Ethernet over SONET
4. Program Elementary Stream
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PESIS Photo Electron Spectroscopy of Inner-Shell electrons
PESOS Photo Electron Spectroscopy of Outer-Shell electrons
PESQ Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality
PET 1. Portable Earth Terminal
2. Positron-Emission Tomography (medicine)
PEW Packet over Ethernet over WDM
pF picofarad (electronics)
PF 1. Presentation Function (TMN)
2. Packing Fraction (fiber optics)
3. PBX Function
4. Power Factor (electronics)
PF Xfer Power Failure Transfer (electronics)
PFC Power Factor Correction (PC power supply)
PFD 1. Power Flux-Density
2. Phase/Frequency Discriminator
PFM 1. Pulse-Frequency Modulation
2. Proto-Flight Model
PFN Pulse-Forming Network
PFOC Pending the Firm Order Commitment
PG 1. Pre-Group (MUX)
2. Power Gain
PGA 1. Pin-Grid Array (microchips)
2. Programmable Gain Amplifier
3. Professional Graphics Adapter (IBM)
PGBM Pulse-Gated Binary Modulation
PGD Professional Graphics Display (IBM)
PgDn Page Down key (PC keyboard)
PGI Parameter Group Identifier (ISO)
PGL Peer Group Leader
PGM Pragmatic General Multicast (Cisco)
PGP Pretty Good Privacy (encryption software)
PGP fone PGP Telephone Protocol
PgUp Page Up key (PC keyboard)
PGS Primary Guard Station
PG Telecom Payam Gostar Telecom Company (Iran)
ph phot (unit of illumination)
pH picohenry (electronics)
PH Packet Handler (ISDN)
PHB Per-Hop-Behavior
PHEMT Pseudomorphic High-Electron Mobility Transistor
(semiconductors)
PHF Packet Handling Function
PHI PBX-to-Host Interface
PHILCOM Philippine Global Communications Inc.
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phone 1. telephone
2. headphone
PHOTINT Photographic Intelligence
photocell photoelectric cell
phototube photoelectric tube
PHP Personal Handy-Phone (Japan)
PHS Personal Handyphone System (Japan)
PHY Physical layer (OSI model)
PHz Petahertz (1015 Hertz)
pi filter p-shaped filter
PI 1. Presentation Indicator
2. Parameter Identifier (ISO)
3. Protection Interval
PIA 1. Personal Information Appliance
2. Peripheral Interface Adapter
PIAFS PHS Internet Access Forum Standard (Japan)
PIC 1. Primary Interexchange Carrier
2. Photonic Integrated Circuit
3. Plastic Insulated Conductor
4. Picture Image Compression (graphics)
5. Personal Intelligent Communicator
6. Programmable Interrupt Controller (computer)
7. Program Integration Control (TV broadcast)
8. Programmable Integrated Circuit (ICs)
PICC Primary Interexchange Carrier Charge
PICH Pilot Channel
PICMG PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (U.S.A.)
PICS 1. Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
2. Plug-in Inventory Control System
3. Product Inventory Control System
4. Platform for Internet Content Selection
.pict Name extension for PICT format image files
(computer)
PICT Picture Format
PID 1. Protocol Identifier
2. Packet Identifier
PIDB Peripheral Interface Data Bus (AT&T)
PIE Personal Interactive Electronics
PIECE Productivity, Information, Education, Creativity,
Entertainment
PIF 1. Personal Communications Services Industry Forum
2. Public Inspection File
3. Program Information File (MS Windows)
PILC Performance Implication of Link Characteristics
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PILOT Programmed Inquiry, Learning Or Teaching
(e-learning)
PIM 1. Passive Intermodulation
2. Personal Information Manager (software)
3. Personal Information Management
4. Plug-in ISDN Module
5. Protocol-Independent Multicast (IETF)
6. Presence and Instant Messaging
PiMF Parts in Metal Foil
PIMP Passive Inter-Modulation Product
PIMS Program Information Management System (TV
broadcast)
PIN 1. Personal Identification Number (GSM)
2. Positive-doped/Intrinsic/Negative-doped diode
(semiconductors)
3. Public Infrastructure Network
4. Procedure Interrupt Negative (fax machine)
5. PN junction with Isolated region (sold state)
PIN(BB) PIN used on the Base-Band Level (bluetooth)
PIN-FET PIN (diode) Field Effect Transistor (semiconductors)
PIN(UI) PIN used on the User Interface Level (bluetooth)
PIND Particle Impact Noise Detection
PING 1. Packet Internet Gopher (software utility)
2. Process-Improvement Networking Group
PINT PSTN and Internet Interworking
PINX Private Integrated Network Exchange
PIO Programmed Input/Output (hard drives)
PIP Procedural Interface Protocol
PIRS Positioning Inertial Reference System
PISD Planned In-Service Data
PIP 1. Picture In Picture
2. Path Independent Protocol
.pit Name extension for PackIT files (computer)
PIU Path Information Unit
PIV Peak Inverse Voltage (electronics)
PIX Private Internet Exchange (Cisco)
Pixel Picture element
PIXIT Protocol Implementation extra Information for Testing
pJ picojoule (physics)
PJ/NF Projection-Join Normal Form
PJCM Pointer Justification Count Minus (MUX)
PJCP Pointer Justification Count Plus (MUX)
PJE Pointer Justification Event (MUX)
PJS Pointer Justification Seconds (MUX)
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PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards
PKE Public-Key Encryption
PKES Public-Key Encryption System
PKI Public-Key Infrastructure (ICT)
PKM Perigee Kick Motor (satellite)
PKZIP PKWARE, Inc.’s ZIP (data compression)
PL 1. Private Line
2. Programming Language
PL/1 Programming Language 1 (IBM)
PL/M 1. Programming Language for Microcomputers
2. Programming Language for Microprocessors
PLA Programmable Logic Array (digital electronics)
PLAR Private Line Automatic Ringdown
PLB Personal Locator Beacon (COMSAR)
PLC 1. Programmable Logic Controller
2. Power Line Carrier
3. Problem Logging Control
4. Planar Lightwave Circuit
PLCC Plastic Leaded-Chip Carrier method (chip mounting)
PLCP Physical-Layer Convergence Procedure (networking)
PLD 1. Programmable Logic Device (digital electronics)
2. Phase Lock Detector
3. Pulsed Laser Deposition
PLDT Philippine Long-Distance Telephone
PLF Polarization Loss Factor (microwave)
PLI Programmable Language Interface
PLL Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
PLLC Professional Limited Liability Corporation
PLLN Public Leased Lines Network
PLM 1. Public Land Mobile (network)
2. Pulse-Length Modulation
3. Power-Line Modulation
4. Perfectly Matched Layer
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network (cellular networks)
PLMR Private Land Mobile Radio
PLN Private Line Network
PLO Phase-Locked Oscillator
PLP 1. Packet Layer Protocol
2. Packet Loss Probability
3. Packet Level Procedure (X.25)
PLR Pulse Link Repeater (signaling)
PLS 1. Physical Layer Signaling (network architecture)
2. Premises Lightwave System (fiber optic)
3. Programmable Logic Sequencer (digital electronics)
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PLSC Private Line Service Center
PLT Power Line Telephony
PLTS Private Line Transport Service
PLU Percent Local Usage
PM 1. Phase Modulation
2. Pulse Modulation
3. Processor Module
4. Packet Mode
5. Polarization Maintaining (optical fiber)
6. Preventive Maintenance
7. Performance Monitoring (MUX)
8. Permanent Magnet
9. Presentation Manager (IBM)
10. Physical Medium sublayer (ATM)
PMA 1. Prompt Maintenance Alarm
2. Physical Medium Attachment
PMARS Police Mutual Aid Radio System
PMB Pilot Make-Busy (circuit)
PMBS Packet Mode Bearer Service
PMC 1. Public Mobile Carrier
2. Perfect Magnetic Conductor
PMCM Plastic Multichip Module
PMD 1. Physical Medium Dependent (protocol sublayer)
2. Polarization Mode Dispersion (fiber optics)
PMI 1. Project Management Institute
2. Property Management Interface
PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit (PC chip)
PMOS P-channel MOS (semiconductors)
PMP 1. Point-to-Multipoint (radio system)
2. Project Management Professional
PMR 1. Private Mobile Radio
2. Poor Man’s Routing (packet switching)
3. Professional Mobile Radio
PMRS Private Mobile Radio System
PMS 1. Pantone Matching System (programming language)
2. Picturephone Meeting Service (AT&T)
3. Property Management System (software)
PMT 1. Photo Multiplier Tube
2. Photo Mechanical Transfer
3. Personal Mobile Telecommunications
4. Program Map Table (TV broadcast)
PMU Parametric Measurement Unit
PN 1. Personal Number
2. Positive-Negative Junction (semiconductors)
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PNC Police National Computer
PNdB Perceived Noise level in dB
PNF 1. Portable Network Frame
2. Planar Near-Field (range)
.png Name extension for PNG format files (graphics)
PNG Portable Network Graphics (file format)
PNI Permit Next Increase (ATM)
PNM Public Network Management
PNN Probabilistic Neural Network
PNNI Private Network-to-Network Interface (ATM)
PNO Public Network Operator
PnP Plug and Play (computer standard)
PNP 1. Positive-Negative-Positive (semiconductors)
2. Permanent Number Portability
PNPN Positive-Negative-Positive-Negative junction (semiconductors)
PNS Personal Number Service
PNT Private Network Termination
PO Point of Origin
PoC Push-to-talk over Cellular
POC Point Of Contact
POCSAG Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group
(protocol)
POD 1. Piece Of Data
2. Processing Of Data
3. Point Of Deployment (cable TV)
4. Personal Operable Device
PODA Priority Oriented Demand Assignment
PODP Public Office Dialing Plan
POEM Polar-Orbit Earth Observing Mission (remote sensing)
POF Plastic Optical Fiber
POFS Private Operational Fixed Service (microwave)
POGO Post Office Goes Obsolete
POH 1. Path Overhead (MUX)
2. Power-On Hours (production rating)
POI 1. Point Of Interconnection
2. Point Of Interface (LATA)
3. Parallel Optic Interfaces
POL 1. polarizer
2. polarization
POLDER Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s
Reflectance
POLSK Polarization Shift Keying (modulation)
PON Passive Optical Network
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PoP Point of Presence (networking)
POP Post Office Protocol (e-mail)
POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3 (e-mail)
POPS Post Office Protocol-Secure
POR Pacific Ocean Region (Inmarsat)
PoS Packet over SONET
POS 1. Pacific Ocean Satellite
2. Point Of Service
3. Point Of Sale (electronic transactions)
4. Personal Operating Space (IEEE)
POS-PHY Packet Over SONET-Physical layer
POSI Promoting Conference for OSI (Japan)
POSIT Profiles for Open Systems Internetworking Technology
Positron Positive electron
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Unix
environment
POST Power-On Self-Test (computers)
Pot Potentiometer (electronics)
POT 1. Plain Old Telephony (service)
2. Point Of Termination
3. Point Of Train (transmission)
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
POTS-C Plain Old Telephone Service-Centralized (ADSL)
POTS-R Plain Old Telephone Service-Remote (ADSL)
POTV Plain Old TV (Microsoft)
POV Peak Operating Voltage (electronics)
Power Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISK
(processor)
Power PC Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISK Personal
Computer
PP 1. Portable Part
2. Pointer Processor
3. Polarization-Preserving (optical fiber)
PPA Production Photographic Area
PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (UK)
PPBM Pulse-Polarization Binary Modulation
PPCP PowerPC Platform
PPD 1. Partial Packet Discard (ATM)
2. Pay Per Download (software download)
PPDN Public Packet Data Network
PPDR Public Protection and Disaster Relief (service)
PPDU PLCP protocol data unit
PPG Pulse Pattern Generator
PPGA Plastic Pin-Grid Array (microchips)
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ppi pixels per inch (displays)
PPI 1. Plan Position Indicator (radar)
2. PDH Physical Interface
PPL Pioneer Preference Licensees (wireless)
ppm pages per minute (printers)
PPM 1. Pulse-Position Modulation
2. Pulse-Phase Modulation
3. Pulse Per Minute (parameter)
4. Parts Per Million (data errors)
5. Periodic Permanent Magnet
6. Pseudo-Permanent Magnet
7. Periodic Pulse Metering
PPN Processor Port Network
PPO Peak Power Output
PPP 1. Point-to-Point Protocol
2. Phased Project Planning
PPP/MP Point-to-Point Protocol/Multilink Protocol
PPPI Precision Plan-Position Indicator
PPPoA Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (DSL)
PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (DSL)
pps 1. packets per second
2. pulses per second
PPS 1. Path Protection Switch
2. Precise Positioning Service (GPS)
3. Peripheral Power Supply
4. Permanent Presentation Status
PPSN Public Packet-Switched Network (frame relay)
PPSR Path Protection Switched Ring (MUX)
PPSS 1. Public Packet-Switched Service (frame relay)
2. Positron Public Safety Systems (U.S.A.)
PPT Precision Pad Technology
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (VPNs)
PPV Pay-Per-View (TV broadcasting)
PQA 1. Path Quality Analysis
2. Palm Query Application (PDAs)
PQFP Plastic Quad-leaded Flat Pack (microchips)
PQSCADA Power Quality SCADA (remote control)
PR 1. Precipitation Radar
2. Pulse Rate
3. Pseudo-Range (microwave)
4. Performance Rating (processing power)
5. Pattern Recognition
PRA Primary Rate Access (ISDN)
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
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PRAM Programmable RAM (memory)
PRB 1. Primary Reference Burst
2. Private Radio Bureau
PRBA Portable Rechargeable Battery Association
PRBS Pseudo-Random Bit-Sequence (data encoding pattern)
PRC 1. Protection, Restoration, Combination
2. Primary Reference Clock (networking)
PRD Preamble Detector
Preamp Pre-amplifier (electronics)
Pre-emph Pre-emphasis (frequency modulation)
Prefs preferences
PREP PowerPC Reference Platform (specification)
PREST Center for Policy Research in Engineering, Science and
Technology. U.K. group
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency (radar)
PRG Preamble Generator
PRI 1. Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)
2. Primary Rate ISDN (service)
3. Public Radio International
PRI-EOP Procedure Interrupt-End Of Page (fax machine)
PRI-MPS Procedure Interrupt-Multipage Signal (fax machine)
PRIDE Police Regionalized Information and Data Entry
(Canada)
PRISM Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo
Mapping
PRK Phase-Reversal Keying (modulation)
PRM Pulse-Rate Modulation
PRMA Packet Reservation Multiple Access
PRMD Private Management Domain (X.400)
PRML Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood (disk storage)
PRN 1. Logical device name for Printer
2. Pseudo-Random Noise
PRNG Pseudo-Random Noise Generation (bluetooth)
PRO Precision RISC Organization
PROFS Professional Office System (software)
Prolog Programming logic (programming language)
PROM Programmable ROM (memory)
PROSIGN Procedure Sign
PROTEL Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language
(software)
Protn protection
PROWORD Procedure Word
PRR Pulse Repetition Rate (parameter)
264 &
PRS 1. Premium Rate Service
2. Personal Radio Service
3. Primary Reference Source (network clock)
4. Pattern Recognition System
PRSL Primary Rate Switch Locator
PRSM Post Release Software Manager
PRT Planar Resistor Technology
PrtSc Print Screen (PC keyboard)
.ps Name extension for PostScript printer files (computer)
ps picosecond (10K12 second)
PS 1. Power Supply
2. Paging System
3. Phase Shift
4. Portable Station
5. Packet Switching
PS-ACR Power Sum-Attenuation-to-Crosstalk Ratio
PS-NEXT Power Sum-Near-End CrossTalk
PS/2 Personal System/2 (IBM PCs)
PSA 1. Point of Service Activation (Inmarsat)
2. Protected Service Area (FCC)
3. Public Service Agreement (Inmarsat)
4. Polysilicon Self-Aligned (bipolar transistor)
PSAI Processor-to-Switch Applications Interface (AT&T)
PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
PSB Pink-Slip Blizzard (microwave)
PSC 1. Public Services Committee (IMSO)
2. Packet-Switched Capable (GMPLS)
3. Public Services Commission (U.S.A.)
4. Path Switching Count
5. Permanent-Split Capacitor (motors)
PSCS Personal Space Communication Service
PSD 1. Power Spectral Density (carrier frequency)
2. Phase Sensitive Detector
PSDN Public-Switched Data Network
Packet-Switched Data Network
PSDS Public-Switched Data Service (AT&T)
PSDTS Public-Switched Data Transmission Service (AT&T)
PSE 1. Packet Switching Exchange
2. Please (Morse code transmissions)
psec picosecond
PSELFEXT Power Sum Equal Level Far-End CrossTalk
PSG Programmable Sound Generator
psi pounds per square inch (telephone cables)
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PSI 1. Packet Switching Interface
2. Program Specific Information (broadcasting)
PSID Private System Identifier (signaling)
PSK Phase-Shift Keying (modulation)
PSL Physical Signaling Sublayer (LANs and MANs)
PSM 1. Phase-Shift Modulation
2. Pulse-Spacing Modulation
3. Power Supply Module
PSMBS Public-Safety Mobile Broadband Specifications
Psmc-channel Packet-mode channel for system management and
control
PSMM Pilot Strength Measurement Message
PSN 1. Packet-Switched Network
2. Packet Switching Node
3. Public-Switched Network
4. Processor Serial Number (Intel Pentium III)
PSNEXT Power Sum NEXT (cabling)
PSO 1. Public Service Obligations
2. Ports and Shipping Organization (Iran)
PSOP Plastic Small Outline Package (microchips)
PSP 1. PCS Service Provider
2. Payphone Service Provider
3. Purchase Service Provider
4. Programmable Signal Processor
5. Power Supply Production company (Iran)
PSPDN Packet-Switched Public Data Network
PSPP Public Safety Partnership Project
PSQM Perceptual Speech Quality Measure
PSR 1. Petabit Switch Router
2. Professional Satellite Receiver
PSRAM Pseudo-Static RAM (memory)
PSRCP Public Safety Radio Communication Project
PSRR Power Supply Rejection Ratio
PSS 1. Packet-Switched Service
2. Packet-switched Streaming Service
3. Physical Signaling Sublayer (OSI model)
PSS1 Private Signaling System number 1
PSTLXN Public-Switched Telex Network
PSTN Public-Switched Telephone Network
PSU 1. Power Supply Unit
2. Packet Switch Unit
PSW Path Switch
PSWAC Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee
PSWN Public Safety Wireless Network
266 &
PT 1. Payload Type (ATM)
2. Personal Telecommunications
3. Path Termination
PTA Programmable Tracking Antenna
PTC 1. Portable Teletransaction Computers
2. Personal Telecommunications Center
3. Pacific Telecommunications Council (U.S.A.)
4. Positive Temperature Coefficient (thermistors)
5. Public Telecoms Corporation (Yemen)
PTCE Permanent Test Control Element
PTCL Pakistan Telecoms Company Ltd
PTE Path Terminating Element (SONET)
PTF 1. Patch and Test Facility
2. Polymer Thick-Film
PTFE Polytetrafluoroethylene (cables)
PTI 1. Payload Type Indicator (ATM)
2. Power Terrestrial Interface
3. Primary Terrestrial Interface
PTK Pars Telephone Kar company (Iran)
PTM 1. Pulse-Time Modulation
2. Path Trace Mismatched (MUX)
3. Packet Transfer Mode
PTMPT Point-To-Multipoint
PTN Public Telecommunications Network
PTNX Private Telecommunications Network Exchange
PTO 1. Public Telephone Operators
2. Public Telecommunications Operator
3. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S.A.)
PTP Point-To-Point (microwave)
PTR 1. pointer (MUX)
2. Problem Tracking Report
PTS 1. Personal Telecommunications System
2. Profile Test Specification
3. Proceed To Select tone (Inmarsat)
4. Presentation Time Stamp (MPEG2 encoder)
PTSE PNNI Topology State Element (ATM)
PTSP PNNI Topology State Packet (ATM)
PTT 1. Post, Telephone and Telegraph administrations
2. Push-To-Talk (wireless systems)
PTTI precise time and time interval
PTTC Paper Tape Transmission Code
PTY party
PU 1. Physical Unit (IBM SNA)
2. Power Unit
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pub short for public (directory)
PUC 1. Public Utilities Commission
2. Personal Unlocking Code
PUCP Physical Unit Control Point (SNA)
PUK PIN Unblocking Key (GSM)
PUMA Product Upgrade Manager
PUP PARC Universal Packet
PUT Programmable Unijunction Transistor (semiconductors)
pV picovolt (10K12 Volt)
PV Photovoltaic (electronics)
PVA Perigee Velocity Augmentation (satellite)
PVC 1. Permanent Virtual Circuit (frame relay)
2. Private Virtual Circuit
3. Permanent Virtual Connection
4. Polyvinyl Chloride (cables)
5. Premises Visit Charge
PVCC Permanent Virtual Channel Connection (ATM)
PVD 1. Peak Voltage Detect
2. Physical Vapor Deposition
PVDF Polyvinyl Diflouride (cables)
PVDM Packet Voice Data Module
PVN Private Virtual Network
PVPC Permanent Virtual Path Connection (ATM)
PVR Personal Video Recorder
PVT Performance Verification Test
PvtDN Private Data Network
pW picowatt (10K12 Watt)
PWB Printed Wiring Board
PWD Print Working Directory
PWL Pass word Listing (file)
PWM Pulse-Width Modulation
pWp picowatt, psophometrically weighted
PWR power (electronics)
PWS Power Supply
PWT 1. Personal Wireless Telecommunications
2. Personal Wireless Telephony
PX Private Exchange
PXE Preboot Execution Environment
PXI PCI Extension for Instrumentation
PXML Private Exchange Master List
PXP Packet Exchange Protocol
PZT Piezoelectric Transducer (electronics)
268 &
Q q
q 1. Symbol for quantum value
2. Symbol for electric charge in coulomb
Q 1. Symbol for Quality factor (electronics)
2. Queue
Q Bit Qualifier data Bit (X.25 packet switching)
Q factor Quality factor
Q.SIG Q Interface Signaling
Q&A Question and Answer (teleconferencing)
Q-band Radio frequency band ranging from 36 to 46 GHz
Q-Tel Qutar Telecommunications Company (operator)
QA 1. Quality Assurance (hardwares)
2. Queued Arbitrated (SMDS)
QAM 1. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
2. Quaternary Amplitude Modulation
3. Quadrature Asynchronous Multiplexer (Timeplex)
4. Queued Access Method
5. Quad Asynchronous I/O Module (Intelsat)
QAPSK Quadrature Amplitude PSK (modulation)
QAS Quick Arbitrate and Select
QASK Quadrature ASK (modulation)
QBE Query By Example (databases)
QBF “Quick Brown Fox” (test text message)
QC 1. Quality Control (of products)
2. Quantum Cascade (laser)
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QCELP Qualcomm Codebook Excited Linear Prediction (voice
coding)
QCIF Quarter-Common Intermediate Format (video
compression)
QCPSK Quadriphase Coherent PSK (modulation)
QCT Qualcomm CDMA Technologies
QD Queuing Delay
QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System (Microsoft)
QDR Quad Data Rate
QDU Quantizing Distortion Unit (voice quality)
QE Quantum Efficiency (photomultiplier)
QFA Quick File Access
QFB Quad Flat Butt-leaded package (microchips)
QFC Quantum Flow Control (ATM)
QFD Quality Function Deployment
QFM Quadrature Frequency Modulation
QFP Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge (tape storage)
QICC 1. Quad Integrated Communications Controller
(microchips)
2. Quad International Communications Corporation
QIFM Quadrature Intermediate Frequency Mixer
QIP 1. Quadritek Internet Protocol (software)
2. Quad In-line Package (microchips)
QJDP QIP Joint Developer Program
QL Query Language (programming)
QLLC Qualified Logical Link Control (X.25)
QM 1. Quadrature Modulation
2. Qualification Model
3. Quantum Mechanics
4. Queue Management
QML Qualified Manufacturers List (of products)
QMS Queue Management System
QO Quartz Oscillator
QO-CDMA Quasi-Orthogonal CDMA (access)
QoR Query-on-Release (databases)
QoS Quality of Service
QoSR Quality of Service Routing (IETF)
QPAM Quadrature Phase-Amplitude Modulation
QPL 1. Qualcomm Pure-Voice Library
2. Qualified Products List
QPM Quasi-Phase-Matched
QPR Quadrature Partial Response
QPRS Quadrature Partial Response Shift
270 &
QPSK Quadrature PSK (modulation)
QPSX Queued Packet Synchronous Exchange (LANs)
QR 1. Queuing Requirements
2. Quasi-Random
QRA Quick Response Alarm
QRNS Quadratic Residue Number System
QRSS 1. Quasi-Random Sequence Signal
2. Quasi-Random Signal Source
QS Quasi-Synchronous
QSAM Quadrature Sideband Amplitude Modulation
QSDG Quality of Service Development Group
QSIG Q-Interface Signaling (protocol)
QSL Morse Question code for ‘Do you Acknowledge
Receipt of a good Signal Level of my station?’ (Ham
Radio)
QSLing The act of receiving QSL card of a short wave radio
station by a listener (Ham Radio)
QSLs QSL cards of a short wave radio station (Ham Radio)
QSM 1. Quad Synchronous Module
2. Queued Serial Module
QSOP Quad Small-Outline Package (microchips)
QSS Quasi-Stellar Radio Source (Intelsat)
.qt Name extension for Quick Time files (computer)
QT Qualification Test
QTAG Quality Test Action Group
QTAM Queued Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)
QTC Quick Time Conference (Apple Macintosh)
QTCP Quad Tape Carrier Package (microchips)
QTSS Quick Time Streaming Server
QTVR Quick Time Virtual Reality
QuAD Quorum Associate Distributor
Quad IW Quad Inside-Wire
QUALDIR Qualification Directive (wireless)
QUICC Quad Integrated Communications Controller
QUIL Quad In-Line (microchips)
QUIP Quad In-line Package (microchips)
QVGA Quad Video Graphics Array (monitors standard)
QW Quantum Well
QWERTY Q,W,E,R,T,Y (left side, top row of letter keys on the
keyboard)
QWIP Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector
QWR Quarter-Wave Rule
QZSS Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (Japan)
Q q & 271
Q
R r
r Symbol for revolution
r/m revolutions per minute
r/s revolutions per second
R 1. Symbol for Resistor or Resistance (electronics)
2. Symbol for Roentgen (unit of X-rays exposure dose)
R&D Research and Development
R&E 1. Research and Education
2. Research and Engineering
R&O Report and Order
R&QA Reliability and Quality Assurance (Intelsat)
R&S Research and Statistics
R&TTE Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment
directive
R-BGAN Regional BGAN terminal (Inmarsat)
R-channel Random-access channel
R/T 1. Receive and Transmit
2. Real-Time
R/W Read and Write (memories)
RA 1. Real Audio
2. Return Authorization
3. Rate Area
4. Remote Access
5. Routing Area
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RA# Return Authorization number
RA-EN Radio Amateur Emergency Network
RA/TDMA Random-Access mode TDMA (access)
RAAN Right Ascension of the Ascending Node (satcom)
RAB Radio Advertising Bureau
RABAL Radiosonde Balloon (meteorology)
RABC Radio Advisory Board of Canada
RAC 1. Radio Amateurs of Canada
2. Remote Access Concentrator
3. Repeat Automated Command
RACE 1. Research in Advanced Communications in Europe
2. Random-Access Computer Equipment
RACES Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
RACF 1. Resource Access Control Facility
2. Radio Access Control Function (PCS)
RACH Random-Access Channel (GSM)
RACON Radar transponder beacon
RACS 1. Remote Access Control Services
2. Remote Access Calibration Services/System
3. Remote Access Computing Services/System
rad radian (unit of angle)
RAD 1. Rapid Application Development (SQL databases)
2. Radiation Absorbed Dose (medicine)
3. Radiance
4. Random-Access Device
5. Recorded Answering Device
6. Remote Antenna Driver
RADA Random-Access Discrete Address (Intelsat)
RADAN Radar Doppler Automatic Navigation system
radar radio detecting and ranging
RADARSAT Radar Satellite (Canada)
RADB Routing Arbiter Database
RADHAZ Radiation Hazard (electromagnetism)
RADIAC Radioactivity Detection, Identification,
And Computation
RADINT Radar Intelligence
RADIR Random-Access Document Indexing and Retrieval
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (ISPs)
RADL 1. Radio Laboratory
2. Reticular Agent Definition Language (programming)
RADNOS Radio fadeout (no signal) caused by Solar explosions
radome radar dome
RADP Remote Access Data Processing
RADSL Rate-Adaptive DSL (access)
274 &
RADTR radiator
RAE Rafsanjan Asre Electronic company (Iran)
RAF Rate Adjustment Factor
RAG Request Handling and Assignment Generation
(Intelsat)
RAI Remote Alarm Indication
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks (data storage)
RAIM Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (GPS)
RAIN Redundant Array of Independent Networks
RAIS Redundant Array of Independent Systems
RAM 1. Random-Access Memory (data storage)
2. Radar-Absorbing Material (microwave)
3. Remote Access Multiplexer
4. Reliability, Accessibility, and Maintainability
RAMAC Random Access (IBM)
RAMARK Radar Marker
RAMDAC Random-Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter
RAMS Random-Access Measuring System
RAN 1. Regional Area Network
2. Recorded trunk Announcement
3. Return Authorization Number (defective hardware)
RAND 1. Random number (GSM)
2. Rural Area Network Design
3. Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (licensing)
RANP Regional Air Navigation Plan (aviation)
RAO 1. Radio Astronomy Observatory
2. Revenue Accounting Office
RAP 1. Remote Access Point
2. Route Access Protocol
3. Radar-Absorbing Paint (microwave)
RAPCON Radar Approach Control
RAPID Reserved Alternate Path with Immediate Diversion
(frame relay)
RARC Regional Administrative Radio Conference (Intelsat)
RARE Re´seaux Associe´s pour la Recherche Europeénne
(France)
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (networking)
RAS 1. Radio Astronomy Station
2. Remote Access Server
3. Remote Access Service
4. Random-Access Storage
5. Registration, Admission, and Status (protocol)
6. Row Address Strobe (logic signal)
7. Russian Academy of Sciences
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RASC 1. Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation of North
America
2. Royal Astronomy Society of Canada
raser radio amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
RASSP Rapid prototyping of Application Specific Signal
Processors
RAT Remote Access Trojan (network computer)
RATCC Radar Air Traffic Control Center
RATP Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol
RATS Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society
RATT Radio Teletypewriter
RAVE Real-time Audio/Visual Environment
RAW Read After Write (memories)
rawin 1. radar wind
2. radio wind
RAWOL Radar Without Line-of-sight
RAX Rural Automatic Exchange
RAYDAC Raytheon Digital Automatic Computer
RAYNet Radio Amateur Emergency Network
RB 1. Reference Burst
2. Radar Beacon
3. Reverse Battery
RB1 Reference Burst 1
RB2 Reference Burst 2
RBB Residential Broadband (service)
RBBS Remote Bulletin Board System
RBC Radiation Boundary Conditions
RBDS Radio Broadcast Data System
RBER Residual Bit-Error Rate (transmission)
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RBR Radar Bind Range
RBS 1. Robbed-Bit Signaling
2. Radio Base Station
3. Radar Bind Speed
RBT Receive Burst Timing
RBV Return Beam Vidicon camera (remote sensing)
RBW 1. Reverse Band Working
2. Resolution Band width (oscilloscopes)
RBWG Residential Broadband Working Group (ATM)
RbXO Rubidium-Crystal Oscillator
RC 1. Remote Control
2. Radio Control
3. Resource Controller
4. Restricted Channel
276 &
5. Reference Clock
6. Reflection Coefficient (fiber optics)
7. Rate Center
8. Resistance–Capacitance (electronic circuits)
RCA 1. Regional Calling Area (of a telephone company)
2. Remote Control Access
3. Radio Corporation of America cables (company)
RCAT Radio Communications Analysis Test
RCC 1. Rescue Coordination Center (COMSAR)
2. Rectangular Chip Carrier
3. Radio Common Carrier (cellular networks)
4. Regional Commonwealth in the field of
Communications
5. Radiocommunications Consultative Council
(Australia)
6. Reduced Complexity Computing
RCDD Registered Communications Distribution Designer
RCEE Resource Control Execution Environment (Telcordia
Technologies)
RCF 1. Radio Control Function (PCS)
2. Radio Chre´tiennes en France (broadcaster)
3. Remote Call Forwarding (service)
4. Remote Control Facility
RCG Reverberation-Controlled Gain (circuit)
RCI Remote Card Identifier
RCIT Research Center Information Technology
RCL Restrictive Cabling License (Australia)
1. recall (cellular phone)
2. Runtime Control Library
RCM 1. Remote Carrier Module
2. Release Complete Message
3. Radar-Countermeasure (electronics)
RCP 1. Remote Copy Protocol
2. Remote Copy Program (Berkeley UNIX)
3. Remote Control Panel
4. Radar Communication Processor
5. Real-time Control Program
6. Radio Control Point
7. Right-Circular Polarization (antennas)
RCS 1. Revision Control System
2. Remote Control System
3. Radar Cross-Section
4. Radio Corporation of Singapore (broadcasting)
5. Radio Communications Service
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RCT 1. Remote Craft Terminal
2. Reduced Carrier Transmission
RCTL Resistor–Capacitor–Transistor Logic (digital
electronics)
RCU Remote Concentration Unit
RCV receive
RCVO Receive Only (satcom)
RCVR receiver
rd rad (unit of absorbed radiation exposure dose)
Rd-channel Random-access channel (data communication)
RD 1. Routing Domain (ATM)
2. Routing Diagram
3. Routing Directory
4. Directional Radiobeacon
5. Received Data (logic signal)
6. Reflection Density (fiber optics)
RDB 1. Receive Data Buffer
2. Remote Database
RDBMS Relational Database Management System
RDBS Routing Database System
RDC 1. Remote Digital Concentrator
2. Redirect Confirm packet (CDPD)
RDCCH Reverse Digital Control Channel (cellular networks)
RDF 1. Radio Direction Finder/Finding (equipment)
2. Rate Decrease Factor (ATM)
RDI 1. Remote Defect Indication (ATM)
2. Restricted Digital Information
3. Restricted Digital Information (ISDN)
RDIST Remote file Distribution Program
RDM Receive Driver Module
RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
RDMS Relational Database Management System (ICT)
RDN Radio Data Network
RDO Remote Data Objects (Visual Basic)
RDP 1. Radar Data Processing
2. Reliable Data Protocol
RDPC Remote Data Port Card
RDQ Redirect Query packet (CDPD)
RDR Redirect Request packet (CDPD)
RDRAM Rambus Dynamic RAM (memory)
RDS 1. Radio Data System
2. Radio Determination Service
RDSI The Spanish equivalent for ISDN
RDSS Radio Determination Satellite Service (ITU-T)
278 &
RDT 1. Recall Dial Tone
2. Remote Digital Terminal
3. Request Data Transfer (control character)
4. Romanian Domestic Telephony
RE Radio Exchange
REA Rural Electrification Administration
REAC Reeves Electronic Analog Computer
READ Relative Element Address Designate
Rec recommendation (ITU)
RECAPSS Remote Cable Pair Switching System
ReCCIT Research Center for Communications and Information
Technology
RECO Resources (people), Equipment, Circuits, and Other
(IBM)
RECON Reconnaissance
RECT rectifier (electronics)
RED 1. Random Early Detection (QoS)
2. Reflection Electron Diffraction (crystals)
REED Restricted Edge-Emitting Diode
REG 1. Range Extender with Grain (transmission)
2. Regenerator
REGEDIT Registry Editor
REGNOT Registration Notification (wireless)
REJ Reject (link protocol command)
REL release (message)
RELP Residually Excited Linear Prediction (voice coding)
RELURL Relative URL
REM 1. Remote Equipment Module
2. Ring Error Monitor (LANs)
3. Roentgen Equivalent Man
Remod remodulation
REMOS Resources Management Online System
REN 1. Ringer Equivalence Number (telephone set)
2. Rename the current file (MS DOS Command)
REO Removable Erasable Optical
Rep repeater
REP 1. Roentgen Equivalent Physical
2. Right-Elliptical Polarization (antennas)
REPACCS Remote Cable-Pair Cross-Connect System
REPROM Reprogrammable ROM (memory)
REQ request
RES 1. Remote Earth Station
2. Regional Earth Station
3. Residential Enhanced Service
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4. reserved (ATM)
5. Radio Equipment and System
RET return
RETMA Radio-Electronics-Television Manufacturers
Association
REV reverse
REW rewind
REX Routine Exercise
REXX Restructured Extended Executor (programming
language)
RF 1. Radio Frequency (10 kHz to 3 MHz range)
2. Reference Frequency
3. Range Finder
4. Rating Factor
5. Raster File
RFA 1. Radio Frequency Allotment
2. Request For Action
3. Receive Frame Acquisition
4. Remote File Access
RFAC Restricted Forced Authorization Code
RFB Radio Frequency Board
RFBP Request For Business Plan (contracts)
RFC 1. Request For Comments (Internet)
2. Required For Compliance
3. Radio Frequency Choke (electronics)
RFCA Radio Frequency Channel Allotment
RFCOH Radio Frame Complementary Overhead bit
RFD Request For Discussion (Internet)
RFE Radio Free Europe (broadcaster)
RFF 1. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
2. Raster File Format
RFHMA Random Frequency Hopping Multiple Access
RFI 1. Request For Information (contracts)
2. Radio Frequency Interference
3. Radio France Internationale (broadcaster)
4. Remote Failure Indication
RFICs Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RFMD RF Micro Devices company (China)
RFMU Radio Frequency Monitoring Unit
RFO Reseaux France Outre-mer (broadcaster)
RFOI Radio Fiber Optic Integration
RFP 1. Request For Proposal (contracts)
2. Radio Fixed Part (GSM)
280 &
RFQ Request For Quotation (contracts)
RFS 1. Receive Frame Synchronization
2. Request For Service
3. Ready For Service
4. Remote File Sharing (networking)
5. Radio Frequency System
6. Radio Frequency Simulator
7. Radio Frequency Shift (broadcasting)
8. Range Finding System
9. Real File Store
RFT 1. Radio Frequency Transceiver
2. Receive Frame Timing
RFT DCA Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture
RFTS Remote File Transfer System
Radio Frequency Test Set
RFU Radio Frequency Unit
RG 1. Radio Guide
2. Ring Generator
RGB Red–Green–Blue (TV and CRT monitors)
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory
RGP Raster Graphics Processor
RGS Route Guidance System
RH 1. Request Header
2. Response Header
RHC Regional Holding Company
RHCP Right-Hand Circular Polarization (microwave)
RHEED Reflected High-Energy Electron Diffraction
RHEP Right-Hand Elliptical Polarization
RHET Resonant-tunneling Hot-Electron Transistor (semiconductors)
Rhm Roentgen-per-hour-at-one-meter
RHP Reconfigurable Hardware Products
RHR 1. Radar Horizon Range
2. Radio Horizon Range
RI 1. Ring-Indicator (RS232)
2. Radio Interference
3. routing indicator
RIA Routing Indicator Allocation
RIAA Recording Industry Association of America
RIACS Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
RIAS Research Institute for Advanced Studies
RIB 1. Routing Information Base (BGP)
2. RenderMAN Interface Bytestream
RIBE Reactive Ion Beam Etching
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RIC 1. Regional Information Center
2. Rafsanjan Industrial Complex (Iran)
RIE Reactive Ion Etching
RIF 1. Routing Information Field (LANs)
2. Rate Increase Factor (ATM)
RIFF Raster Image File Format
RII Routing Information Indicator
RILD Remote ISDN Line Drawer
RIM 1. Remote Integrated Multiplexer
2. Research In Motion
RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange
RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module (Macintosh, PCs.)
RIMPATT Read IMPATT (diode)
RIMS Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Station (navigation)
RIN Relative Intensity Noise
RIO Reusable Information Object
RIP 1. Routing Information Protocol (networking)
2. Remote Imaging Protocol
3. Raster Image Processor
4. Refractive Index Profile (waveguides)
RIPE Reseaux IP Europeens (a group)
RIPL Remote Intelligent Parallel Load (method)
RIPscript Remote Imaging Protocol script (language
programming)
RIPSO Revised Interconnection Protocol Security Option
RIR Regional Internet Registries
RIS Retroreflector In Space (remote sensing)
RISC 1. Reduced-Instruction-Set Computing (processor
chips)
2. Reduced Instruction Set Chip
RISLU Remote Integrated Services Line Unit (Lucent
Technologies)
RISR Remote Interrupt Service Routine
RiSU Remote indoor Service Unit (cable telephony)
RIT Rate of Information Transfer
RITL Radio In The Loop (cable telephony)
RIU Ring Interface Unit
RJ Registered Jack
RJE Remote Job Entry (terminal)
RJEP Remote Job Entry Protocol
RKA Rossiskaja Kosmitaska Agentura (Russian Space
Agency)
RL 1. Return Loss
2. Radio Locator
282 &
3. Rotating Linear (antenna pattern)
4. Resistor-Coil (circuit)
RLAN Radio LAN
RLB Remote Loop-Back
RLC 1. Release Complete message
2. Resistance–Inductance–Capacitance (electronic
circuits)
3. Run Length Coding
4. Remote Line Concentrator
RLCE Remote Line Concentrate Equipment
RLCM Remote Line Concentrating Module
RLCS Remote Live Call Screening (Panasonic phone)
RLE 1. Run Length Encoding (data compression)
2. Research Laboratory of Electronics
RLES Regional Land Earth Station (Inmarsat)
RLG Ring Laser Gyroscope
RLIN Research Libraries Information Network
RLL 1. Run Length Limited (data encoding)
2. Radio Local Loop
RLLS Radio Location Land Station
RLMS Radio Location Mobile Station
RLN Remote LAN Node
RLOGIN Remote Log-In application
RLP 1. Radio Link Protocol (TIA)
2. Resource Location Protocol
RLQ Rate-Limiting Queues
RLR Receive Loudness Rating
RLS 1. release button (telephone set)
2. Remote Live Screening (telephone feature)
RLSD Received Line Signal Detect
RLT Release Link Trunk
RM 1. Resource Management (ATM)
2. Reference Model (OSI model)
RMA 1. Radio Manufacturers Association
2. Random Multiple Access
3. Remote Memory Access
4. Returned Merchandise Authorization code
5. Returned Merchandise Authorization Number
RM-Cell Resource Management Cell (ATM)
RMAS Remote Memory Administration System
RMATS Remote Maintenance And Test System
RMCP Remote Mail Checking Protocol
RME Remote Mediation Equipment
RMF Remote Management Facility
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RMI 1. Radio Magnetic Interference
2. Resource Manager Interface
RMII Reduced Media Independent Interface
RMM Real-Mode Mapper (Windows)
RMON Remote Network Monitoring (networking)
RMOS Refractory Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
RMP Roving Monitor Port
rms root-mean-square (output power parameter)
RMS Record Management System
RMS-D1 Remote Measurement System Digital 1
RMTP Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol
RMU Remote Mask Unit
RMW Read-Modify-Write (software)
RNA 1. Ring No Answer (modems)
2. Remote Network Access
RNC Radio Network Controller (cellular networks)
RNCC Regional Network Control Center
RND Radio Network Design
RNE Railway Network Exchange
RNG Random Number Generator
RNLS Radio Navigation Land Station
RNMS Radio Navigation Mobile Station
RNO Radio Network Optimization
RNP Radio Network Planning
RNR Receiver Not Ready (link protocol command)
RNS Radio Navigation Satellite (ITU)
RNSS Radio Navigation Satellite Service (ITU)
RNX Restricted Numeric Exchange
RO 1. Routing Organization (Inmarsat)
2. Receive-Only (earth station)
3. Read-Only (ATM)
4. Remote Operation
5. Recovery Operation
6. Ring-Off
R/O Radio Officer (shipping)
ROA Recognized Operating Agency (ITU)
ROADS Robust Open Architecture Distributed Switching
ROBO Remote Office/Branch Office market
ROC 1. Ring Operations Center
2. Rate Of Convergence
3. Record Of Comments
4. Regional Operating Company (Bell)
ROD Rewritable Optical Disk
RODB Runtime Object Data Base
284 &
ROE Return On Enquiry
ROH 1. Receiver Off Hook (telephone set)
2. Ringer Off Hook
ROHS Restriction Of Hazardous Substances (directive)
ROI Return On Investment
RoIP Radio over IP (service)
ROLC Routing Over Large Clouds
ROM 1. Read-Only Memory (data storage)
2. Rough Order of Magnitude
ROM BIOS Read-Only Memory Basic Input/Output System
RON Routing Organization Number
ROP Raster Operation (graphics)
RORA Region Oriented Resource Allocation
ROS 1. Read-Only Storage (data storage)
2. Remote Operations Service
ROSAT Roentgen Satellite
ROSE Remote Operations Service Element (protocol)
ROTA rotating schedule (call centers)
ROTHR Relocatable Over-The-Horizon Radar
ROTL Remote Office Test Line
ROTS 1. Rotary Out-Trunk Switch
2. Rugged Off-The-Shelf
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
ROW Remote Order-Wire
RP 1. Registration Point
2. Radio Part (GSM)
3. Range Processor
4. Rapid Prototyping
RPAD Remote Playout And Distribution
RPC Remote Procedure Call (programming)
RPDU Response Protocol Data Unit
RPE Radio Paging Equipment
RPE-LTP Regular Pulse Excitation—Long-Term Prediction
(GSM)
RPF Reverse Path Forwarding (Internet)
RPG Report Program Generator (programming language)
RPI Radio Physical Interface
RPL 1. Remote Procedure Load
2. Remote Program Load
3. Repair Parts List
rpm revolutions per minute (hard drives)
RPM 1. Remote Packet Module
2. Red-hat Packet Manager (files)
RPN 1. Reverse Polish Notation (as in HP calculators)
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2. Residual Phase Noise
RPOA Recognized Private Operating Agency (common
carrier)
RPOL Role Playing Online
RPOP Remote Post Office Protocol
RPQ Request for Price Quotation (contracts)
RPR Resilient Packet Ring
RPRINTER Remote Printer (Novell NetWare)
rps revolutions per second
RPS 1. Repetitive Pattern Suppression (data compression)
2. Ring Protection Switching (SONET)
3. Radar Processing System
4. Radio Protection Switch
RPT repeat
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RQC Repair and Quick Clean (in industry)
RQS Rate Quote System
RR 1. Radio Regulations (ITU)
2. Radio Resource
3. Receiver Ready (link protocol command)
4. Return Rate
5. Rural Route
6. Round Robin (Internet)
RRC 1. Radar Resolution Cell
2. Raised-Root Cosine (mathematics)
RRD Remote Reconciliation Descriptor
RRE 1. Receive Reference Equivalent
2. Radar Range Equation
RREI Radio-Relay Equipment Interface
RRI Request Randomization Index
RRM Radio Resource Management (UMTS)
RRME Radio Resource Management Entity (AT&T)
RRN Routing Recording Number (AT&T)
RROCP Restricted Radio Operator’s Certificate of Proficiency
(shipping)
RROP Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit (FCC)
RRPI Radio-Relay Physical Interface (MUX)
RRR Radio-Relay Regenerator (MUX)
RRRP Radio-Relay Reference Point (MUX)
RRS 1. Remote Radar Station
2. Radio-Relay System
RRSF RACF Remote Sharing Facility (PCS)
RRSP Resource Reservation Setup Protocol
RRST Radio Regenerator Section Termination
286 &
RRT Radio-Relay Terminal
RS 1. Remote Site
2. Reduced Slope (optical fiber)
3. Remote Station
4. Regenerator Section (MUX)
5. Recommended Standard
6. Read Solomon code (error correction)
7. Record Separator (character control code)
8. Radio Satellite
9. Remote Single-layer (ATM)
RS-1 Russian amateur Satellite 1
RSA 1. Reliable Service Area (cellular networks)
2. Rural Service Area
3. Rural Statistical Area (FCC)
4. Remote Storage Area
5. Repair Service Answering (AINs)
6. Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (encryption algorithm)
RSAC Recreational Software Advisory Council
RSB Repair Service Bureau
RSC 1. Remote Switching Center
2. Repair Service Center
3. Radio Station Central
RSCC Russian Satellite Communication Company
RSCH Radio Service Channel Unit
RSD Remote Specific Descriptor
RSE 1. Remote Subscriber Equipment
2. Remote Single-layer Embedded test method
(ATM)
RSF Rostered Staff Factor (call centers)
RSFG Route Server Functional Group (ATM)
RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain
RSH Remote Shell (UNIX)
RSID Residential System Identifier (cellular networks)
RSL 1. Request and Status Link (PBXs)
2. Received Signal Level (radio receiver)
3. Radio Signaling Link (GSM)
RSM 1. Remote Switching Module (AT&T)
2. Radio Subsystem Management (wireless)
Rsmc-channel Random-access channel for system management and
control
RSN 1. Radio Station Nodal
2. Robust Security Network (802.11i)
RSOH Regenerator Section Overhead (MUX)
RSPI Radio SDH Physical Interface (MUX)
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RSPX Remote Sequenced Packet Exchange (Novell NetWare)
RSRB Remote Source Route Bridging
rss root sum square
RSS Remote Switching System
RSSI 1. Received Signal Strength Indicator
2. Received Signal Strength Intensity
RST 1. Radio Station Terminal
2. Regenerator Section Termination (MUX)
3. Readability, Strength, and Tone (Ham Radio)
4. Running Status Table (broadcasting)
RST-RR Regenerator Section Termination for STM-1 Radio-
Relay (MUX)
RSU 1. Remote Subscriber Unit
2. Remote Service Unit (cable telephony)
3. Remote Switching Unit
RSUP Reliable SAP Update Protocol (Cisco)
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
RSW 1. Rotary Switch
2. Relative Spectral Width
RSZI Regional Subscription Zone Identity (GSM)
RT 1. Radio Telephony
2. Real-Time
3. Rise-Time (pulses)
4. Runtime
5. Remote Terminal or Termination (DLC)
6. Recorder Tone
7. Routing Table
RT-VBR Real-Time Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTANI Real-Time ANI
RTB Regional Test Bed
RTC 1. Receive Timing Controller
2. Runtime Control (SCSA)
3. Runtime Code
4. Remote Tunable Combiner
5. Real-Time Clock
RTCA 1. Requirements and Technical Characteristics for
Aviation
2. Radio Technical Commission of Aeronautics
RTCP Real-Time Conferencing Protocol
RTD 1. Round-Trip Delay (ATM)
2. Resonant-Tunneling Diode
3. Real-Time Display
4. Resistance-Temperature Detector (probe)
288 &
RTDF Radio Telephone Distress Frequency
RTDM 1. Real-Time Data Migration
2. Rough Terrain Diffusion Model
RTDMS Real-Time Database Management System
RTDP Radar Target Data Processor
RTDS Real-Time Data System
RTE 1. Registered Terminal Equipment
2. Remote Terminal Emulation
RTF 1. Rich Text Format
2. Radio Terminal Function
RTFD Recommended Technical Framework Document
RTFS Remote Throttled First Service (ATM)
RTG Radio Telegraphy
RTI 1. Radiation Transfer Index (transmission)
2. Real-Time Interrupt (electronics)
RTIP Real-Time IP
RTK Real-Time Kinematic Surveying (GSM)
RTL 1. Resistor–Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
2. Relative Transmission Level
3. Radio Television Luxemburg (broadcaster)
4. Runtime License
RTM 1. Ready To Manufacture
2. Runtime Monitor
RTMA Radio–Television Manufacturers Association
RTML 1. Real-Time Markup Language (programming)
2. Rich Text Markup Language (programming)
3. Robotic Telescope Markup Language (programming)
4. Remote Telescope Markup Language (programming)
RTMOS Room Temperature MOS (semiconductors)
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (networking)
RTN Routing Transport Number (AT&T)
RTNDA Radio–Television News Directors Association
RTNDF Radio–Television News Directors Foundation
RTNR Ring Tone No Reply
RTO-IS Ready To Order—In Service
RTOS Real-Time Operating System
RTP 1. Real-time Transport Protocol (IETF)
2. Rapid Transport Protocol (IETF)
3. Routing Table Protocol (Banyan Systems)
4. Release To Pivot
5. Radio E Televisao de Portugal (broadcaster)
RTS 1. Request-To-Send (RS232 signal)
2. Real-Time System
3. Reliable Transfer Service (OSI model)
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RTSE Reliable Transfer Service Element (OSI model)
RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol (IETF)
RTSU Remote Terminal Sub-Unit
RTT 1. Round-Trip Time (ATM)
2. Radio and Telecommunications Terminal
3. Radio Transmission Technologies
4. Remote Traffic Terminal
RTTU Remote Trunk Test Unit
RTTY Radio Teletype
RTU 1. Remote Terminal Unit
2. Remote Termination Unit
3. Remote Telemetry Unit
4. Right To Use
RTV Real-Time Video
RTX Request to Transmit
RU 1. Request Unit
2. Response Unit
3. Rack Unit
RUA Remote User Agent (X.400)
RUBS Resource Usage Billing System (Inmarsat)
RUC Resource Utilization Charge (Inmarsat)
RUR Repair, Update, and Refurbish (in industry)
RURL Relative Uniform Resource Locator
RUS Rural Utilities Service
RVA 1. Recorded Voice Announcement
2. Reactive Volt–Ampere (electrical engineering)
RVC Reverse Voice Channel
RVDT Rotary Variable Differential Transducer
RVE Reference Vector Equalization
RVP Remote Voice Port
RVPC Remote Voice Port Card
RVPP Revenue Volume Pricing Plan (finance)
RW 1. Read and Write (data storage)
2. Re-Writable (compact disks)
3. Remote Workstation
RWhois Referral Whois (service)
RWI 1. Radio and Wire Integration
2. Radio-Wire Interface
RWR Radar Warning Receiver
RWT Recorder Warning Tone
RWW Read-While-Write (data storage)
RX Receiver or Reception
RXD Receive-Data (RS-232 signal)
RXLEV Receiving Level on the air-interface (GSM)
290 &
RXQUAL Receiving Quality on the air-interface (GSM)
RZ Return-to-Zero level (data encoding)
RZ-AMI Return-to-Zero level–-Alternate Mark Inversion (data
encoding)
RZL Return-to-Zero Level (data encoding)
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s 1. Symbol for second (of time)
2. Symbol for synchronous
S 1. Fixed-Satellite service (ITU-T)
2. Symbol for Strength of a signal
3. Symbol for Source (FETs)
4. Symbol for Siemens (unit of conductance)
5. Symbol for Surface area
S port Slave port (FDDI Architecture)
S SEED Symmetric Self Electro-optic Effect Device (switching)
S&F Store-and-Forward (messaging technique)
S&H Sample-and-Hold (PCM)
S&R Store-and-Retrieve (messaging technique)
SCNCD Signal plus Noise plus Distortion
SCN/N Signal plus Noise-to-Noise (ratio)
S-ALOHA Slotted ALOHA (protocol)
S-band Radio frequency band ranging from 1700 to 2360 MHz
S-BCCH System Broadcast Control Channel
S-CDMA Synchronous CDMA (access)
S-DAB Satellite Digital Audio Broadcasting
S-HTTP Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
S-ISUP Satellite ISDN User Part (SS7)
S-PCN Satellite Personal Communications Network
S-Video Super Video
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S/C Signal-to-Cross talk (ratio)
S/D 1. Synchro-to-Digital (electronics)
2. Signal-to-Distortion (ratio)
S/DMS SONET Digital Multiplex System
S/EOS Standard Earth Observation Satellite
S/H Sample-and-Hold (ADC)
S/I Signal-to-Interference (ratio)
S/MAIL Secure MAIL
S/MIME Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (e-mail
attachments)
S/N Signal-to-Noise power (ratio)
S/P Serial-to-Parallel
S/P DIF Sony and Philips Digital Interface Format
S/Q Signal Quality Value (Intelsat)
S/R Symbol Rate (satellite TV broadcasting)
S/S Stop and Start (control character)
S/W Software
S/WAN Secure Wide Area Network
SA 1. Service Agent
2. Source Address (LANs)
3. Section Adaptation Function (MUX)
4. Space Application and meteorology service (ITU-T)
5. Selective Availability (GPS)
6. Security Associations
SA-RR Section Adaptation for STM-1 Radio-Relay (MUX)
SAA 1. Supplemental Alert Adapter (AT&T)
2. Systems Application Architecture (IBM standard)
3. Standard Association of Australia
SAAL Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer
SABER Situation Awareness Beacon Reply
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode command (X.25)
SABME Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended (X.25)
SAC 1. Satellite Access Controller
2. Single Attached Concentrator (FDDI or CDDI)
3. Single Attachment Concentrator (FDDI)
4. Service Access Code (INs)
5. Special Area Code
6. STN-to-ATM Converter (MUX)
7. Shelf Alarm Card
8. Special Access Code (Inmarsat)
9. Subscriber Acquisition Cost
SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel (GSM)
SACD Supper-Audio Compact Disk
SAD Serial Analog Delay Line
294 &
SADL Synchronous Auto Dial Language (Racal Vadic)
SAE Society of Automotive Engineering
SAF-TE SCSI Accessed Fault—Tolerant Enclosures
SAFDT Store And Forward Data Transmission
SAFE Security And Freedom through Encryption (Act)
SAFEAct Security And Freedom through Encryption Act
SAFENet Survivable Adaptable Fiber Optic Embedded Network
(U.S. Navy)
SAG Self-Aligned Gate technology
SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (air defense)
SAI 1. Serving Area Interface
2. Status Computer Application Interface (PBX switch)
3. Standards Australia International Ltd.
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
(U.S.A.)
SAID Speech Activated Intelligent Dialing
SAIL Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
SAIS Section Alarm Indication Signal (MUX)
SAM 1. Self-Administered Maintenance (technology)
2. Serving Area Multiplex
3. Service Activation Manual (Inmarsat)
4. Switched Access with Multiplexer
5. Serial Access Memory
6. Subscriber Access Management
SAMA Spread ALOHA Multiple Access
SamaCom Sama Communications Company (U.A.E.)
SAN 1. Storage Area Network (Cisco)
2. Satellite Access Node (Inmarsat)
SANZ Standard Association of New Zealand
SAP 1. Service Access Point (Internet)
2. Satellite Access Provider (Satcom)
3. Service Advertizing Protocol (networking)
4. Session Announcement Protocol
5. Secure Audio Path (Microsoft)
6. Server Application Programming
7. Software Acquisition Planing
SAPI 1. Service Access Point Identifier (ISDN)
2. Speech Application Programming Interface
SAPS Service Access Processing System
SAR 1. Search And Rescue (IMO)
2. Search And Replace (softwares)
3. Segmentation And Reassembly (ATM)
4. Synthetic-Aperture Radar (remote sensing)
5. Specific Absorption Rate (radio wave exposure)
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6. Surface-Array Recording (optical discs)
SARA Software Architecture for Reuse in Access
SARAH Search And Rescue And Homing
SARBE Search And Rescue Beacon
SAREX Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
SARFT State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television
(China)
SARM Set Asynchronous Response Mode (X.25)
SARP Search And Rescue Processor
SARPs Standards And Recommended Practices and
Procedures (ICAO)
SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking
SART Search And Rescue Transponder
SARTS Switched Access Remote Test System
SAS 1. Satellite Access Station (Inmarsat)
2. Survivable Adaptive System
3. Subscriber Alerting Signal
4. Single Attached Station (FDDI)
5. Simple Attachment Scheme
6. Silicon Asymmetrical Switch
7. Severely errored frame/Alarm indication Signal
8. Switched Access Service
SASE Specific Application Service Element
SASG Special Autonomous Study Group (ITU-T)
SASI Shugart Associates System Interface
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer (Internet)
SASMO Syrian Arab Standardization and Metrology
Organization
SASO Saudi Arabian Standards Organization
SASS Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer (remote sensing)
SAT 1. satellite
2. Site Acceptance Tests
3. Stand-Alone Terminal
4. Subscriber Access Terminal (SMDS)
5. Supervisory Audio Tone (cellular networks)
SATA Serial ATA (specification)
SATAN Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
(networking)
SATCOM Satellite Communications
SatMex Satelites Mexicanos
SatNav Satellite Navigation
satphone satellite telephone
SatVOD Satellite Video-On-Demand (service)
SAU Signaling Access Unit
296 &
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave (filter)
SB 1. Synchronous Burst (GSM)
2. Secondary Body (orbit)
3. Signal Battery lead
SB-ADPCM Sub-Band Adaptive Differential PCM (modulation)
SBAN Services-oriented Building Area Network
SBAS Satellite-Based Augmentation System (navigation)
SBC 1. Sub-Band Coding
2. Subsequent Bill Company
3. Single-Board Computer
SBCA Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association
(U.S.A.)
SBCF Single-Bit Cipher Feedback
SBCS Satellite-Based Cellular System
SBD Smart Battery Data
SBE Society of Broadcast Engineers
SBIC Shared Bus Interface Controller
SBM 1. Shared Buffer Memory (Alcatel)
2. Subnet Bandwidth Manager (signaling scheme)
SBO Service-Based Operator (VPNs)
SBR 1. Spaceborne Radar
2. Subsystem Backup Routing
SBRC Subsystem Backup Routing Control
SBS 1. Satellite Base Station (Inmarsat)
2. Smart Battery System
3. Shift Bit Select
SBTS Sistema Brasilero de Telecomunicaceos por Satellite
(Brazil)
SBUR Software Blocking/Unblocking Reception
SBus Sun Microsystems data Bus
SBUS Software Blocking/Unblocking Sending
SBUV Solar Backscatter Ultra-Violet Experiment (remote
sensing)
SC 1. Service Channel
2. Sub-Committee (ISO)
3. Suppressed Carrier (modulation)
4. scrambler
5. System Controller
6. Secondary Center (switching)
SC242 Slot Connector 242
SC330 Slot Connector 330
SCA 1. Selective Call Acceptance
2. Signal Communications Axis (military)
3. Supplemental Communications Authority
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4. Subsidiary Communications Authorization (FCC
regulation)
5. Sub-Carrier Adapter
6. Special Customer Arrangement (billing)
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (remote
control)
SCAI Switch to Computer Applications Interface (protocol)
SCAM SCSI Configured Automatically (scuzzy card devices)
SCAN Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCAP Silicon Capacitive Absolute Pressure (sensor)
SCAPI SCSA Application Programming Interface
SCbus SCSA bus (computer architecture)
SCC 1. Satellite Control Center (Inmarsat)
2. Satellite Communications Control System
3. Serial Communications Controller
4. Supercomputing Center
5. Specialized Common Carrier (AT&T)
6. Signal Channel Codec
7. Signal Communications Center
8. Smart-Card Chip
9. Space Communications Corporation (Japan)
10. Saudi Communications Commission (Saudi Arabia)
11. System Control Computer (CATV)
12. Standards Council of Canada
SCCE Service Circuits Control Element
SCCP Simple Client Control Protocol
SCCS 1. Secure Code Control System
2. Switching Center Control System
SCD 1. Signaling Channel Descriptor
2. Source-Controlled Drawing (semiconductors)
SCDMA Synchronous CDMA (access)
SCDPI SCSA Device Programming Interface (computer
architecture)
SCE 1. Service Creation Environment (INs)
2. Storage Control Element
SCEF Service Creation Environment Function (INs)
Scelbi Scientific, electronic, and biological (early computers)
SCEP Service Creation Environment Point (INs)
SCF 1. Shared Channel Feedback (wireless)
2. Service Control Facility
SCFL Source-Coupled FET Logic (digital electronics)
SCH Synchronization Channel (GSM)
SCI 1. Scalable Coherent Interface (transmission)
2. Serial Communication Interface
298 &
SCI-PHY Saturn-Compliant Interface—Physical (protocol)
SCIA Smart-Card Industry Association
SCICT Supreme Council of ICT (Iran)
SCIM Single-Chip Integration Module
SCL 1. Supervisory Control Language (programming)
2. Space-Charge Layer
3. Serial Clock
SCM 1. Subscriber Carrier Module
2. Service Circuit Module
3. Single-Chip Module
4. Station Class Mark (cellular networks)
SCMS 1. Smart-Card Manufacturing System
2. Serial Copyright Management System
(TV broadcasting)
SCOI Standing Communications Operating Instruction
SCONUL Society of College, National and University Libraries
(U.K. ICT)
scope 1. oscilloscope
2. radarscope
SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model
SCOT Sealed Chips On Tape
SCOTS 1. Surveillance and Control of Transmission Systems
2. Switched Circuit-Oriented and Tracking System
(MCI)
SCP 1. System Control Processor
2. Satellite Communications Processor (Northern
Telecom)
3. Session Control Protocol
4. Service Control Point (INs)
5. Switching Control Point (GSM)
6. Signal Control Point (AINs)
SCPC Single Channel Per Carrier
SCPC-FM SCPC Frequency Modulation
SCPC-PSK SCPC Phase Shift Keying (modulation)
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
SCR 1. Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (semiconductors)
2. Sustainable Cell Rate (ATM)
3. System Clock Reference
4. SCSA Call Router
SCR NRZ Scrambled Non-Return-to-Zero (data encoding)
SCRL Signal Corps Radio Laboratories
SCS 1. Silicon-Controlled Switch (semiconductors)
2. Structured Cabling System
3. Scattering Cross Section
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4. Split Charging Service
5. Syrian Computer Society
SCSA Signal Computing System Architecture
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface (scuzzy card)
SCSI3 SCSI version 3 (scuzzy card)
SCSR Single-Channel Signaling Rate
SCSU Supervisory, Control & Switching Unit
SCT 1. System Control Terminal
2. Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes
(Mexico)
SCTE 1. Society of Cable Television Engineers, Inc.
(standards)
2. Serial Clock Transmit External (modems)
ScTP Screened Twisted Pair (cabling)
SCTP 1. Simple Computer Telephony Protocol (Internet)
2. Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SCU 1. System Control Signal Unit
2. Service Channel Unit
3. Signaling and Control Unit
4. Signaling Channel Unit
5. Selector Control Unit
SCVF Single-Channel Voice Frequency
SCWD Spontaneous Call Waiting Display
SCXI Signal Conditioning Extension for Instrumentation
SD 1. Space-Diversity (MUX)
2. Signal Degrade (MUX)
3. Starting Delimiter (LANs)
SDAP Service Discovery Application Profile (Bluetooth)
SDARS Satellite Digital Audio Receiver Service
SDBGA Super-Dissipation Ball-Grid Array (microchips)
SDC 1. Synchro-to-Digital Converter
2. Security Database Computer
SDCA Short Distance Charging Area
SDCC Section Data Communication Channel (MUX)
SDCCH Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel (GSM)
SDCD Secondary Data Carrier Detect
SDCM Serial Data Converter Modules
SDE 1. Synchronization Distribution Expander
2. Submission and Delivery Entity (X.400)
3. Secure Data Exchange (IEEE)
SDF 1. Specialized Database Functions
2. Standard Delay Format
3. Standard Delay File
4. Sub-Distribution Frame (trunk cable and LAN)
300 &
5. Service Data Function
6. Service Definition Function
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (MUX)
SDI 1. Serial Data Interface
2. SDH physical Interface
3. Synchronization Distribution Interface
SDIO Secure Digital Input/Output
SDIP Shrink Dual Inline Package (microchips)
SDK System Developer’s Kit (ICT)
SDL Specification and Description Language (ITU-T)
SDLA Successive Detection Log Amplifier
SDLC 1. Synchronous Data Link Control (protocol)
2. Software Description Language C
SDLLC Synchronous Data Logical Link Control (Cisco)
SDLT Super DLT (tape data format)
SDLVA Successive Detection Log Video Amplifier (microwave)
SDM 1. System Definition Manual (Inmarsat)
2. Sub-rate Data Multiplexing
3. Space Division Multiplexing
4. SuperNode Data Manager
SDMA 1. Space Division Multiple Access
2. Station Detail Message Accounting
SDMF Single Data Message Format
SDMI Secure Digital Music Initiative
SDN 1. Software Defined Network
2. Secondary Distribution Network
SDNP Sustainable Development Networking Program
(Bangladesh)
SDNS Secure Data Network System
SDOs Standard Development Organizations
SDP 1. Session Description Protocol (IETF)
2. Service Data Point (INs)
3. Service Delivery Point
4. Service Discovery Protocol (INs and Bluetooth)
5. Simple Discovery Protocol (Martin Hamilton)
6. SAR Data Provider (COMSAR)
7. Severely Disturbed Period (MUX)
SDPC Synchronous Data Port Cluster
SDR 1. Software Defined Radio (FCC)
2. Signal-to-Distortion Ratio
3. Session Detail Record
4. Special Drawing Right (billing)
SDRAM Synchronized Dynamic RAM (memory)
SDRP Source Demand Routing Protocol
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SDS 1. Short Data Service (TETRA)
2. SDH Data Sub-network
SDSAF Switched Digital Services Applications Forum
SDSC Standards and Data Services Committee
SDSL 1. Symmetrical DSL (access)
2. Single-line DSL (access)
SDT 1. Structured Data Transfer
2. Service Description Table (broadcasting)
SDTI Serial Data Transport Interface (data standard)
SDTP Serial Data Transport Protocol
SDTV Standard-definition Digital Television (broadcasting)
SDU 1. Service Data Unit (OSI model)
2. Satellite Data Unit (Inmarsat)
SDUS Small-scale Data Utilization Station (remote sensing)
SDV Switched Digital Video (network architecture)
SDVB Switched Digital Video Broadcasting
SDVN Switched Digital Video Network
SDX Storage Data Acceleration (technology)
SDXC Synchronous Digital Cross Connect (MUX)
SE 1. Switching Element (ATM)
2. System Engineering
3. Software Engineering
.sea Name extension for self-extracting Macintosh archive
files
SEA–ME–WE South East Asia–Middle East–West Europe
(cable consortium)
SEA Self-Extracting Application
SEAC Standard Eastern Automatic Computer
SEAL Simple and Efficient Adaptation Layer (ATM)
SEC 1. SDH Equipment Clock
2. Synchronous Equipment Clock
3. Security Encoding Computer
4. Service Entrance Cable
SECABS Small Exchange Carrier Access Billing Specifications
SECAM Sequential Color And Memory (French TV broadcast
format)
SECC Single Edge Contact Cartridge (processor cartridge)
SECO Sequential Control
SECOR Sequential Collation Of Range
SECORD Secure voice CORD board (no more exists)
SECS Semiconductor Equipment and Material International’s
Communications Standard
SECTEL Secure Telephone
SED Smoke-Emitting Diode
302 &
SEDFB Surface-Emitting Distributed Feedback (laser)
SEED Self-Electro-optic Effect Device (switches)
SEF 1. Support Entity Function
2. Severely Errored Framing (SONET)
3. Secure Explicit Forwarding (transmission)
SEFS Severely Errored Framing Seconds
SEI 1. Software Engineering Institute
2. Secondary Electron Imaging
3. Shiraz Electronics Industries
SEL 1. selector (ATM)
2. Surface-Emitting Laser
Selcall Selective calling
SELED Surface-Emitting Light-Emitting Diode
Selsyn Self-synchronous
SELV Safety Extra Low Voltage
SEM 1. Space Environment Monitor (remote sensing)
2. Scanning Electron Microscope
3. Synchronous Equipment Management (MUX)
4. Standard Electronic Module
SEM-E Standard Electronic Module E-type (avionics)
SEMF Synchronous Equipment Management Function (MUX)
SEMI Semiconductor Equipments and Materials
International
SEP Symbol Error Probability
SEPP 1. Secure Electronic Payment Protocol (bank card
transactions)
2. Software Engineering for Parallel Processing
(project)
SEPT Signaling Endpoint Translator (SS7)
SEQUEL Structured English Query Language (programming)
SER Satellite Equipment Room
SERN Software Engineering Research Network
SERVORD Service Order
SES 1. Ship Earth Station (Inmarsat)
2. Satellite Earth Station
3. Source End Station (ATM)
4. Severely Errored Seconds (MUX)
SESR Severely Errored Seconds Ratio (MUX)
SET 1. Secure Electronic Transaction (protocol)
2. Secure Encryption Technology
3. Single Electron Transistor
SETA Southeastern Telecommunications Association
SETAMS System Engineering, Technical assistance And
Management Services
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SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SETS Synchronous Equipment Timing Source
SEU Single Event Upset
SEVAS Secure Voice Access System
SF 1. Single-Frequency (signaling)
2. Secondary Frequency
3. Shared Frequency (ITU-T)
4. Super Frame
5. Signal Failure (MUX)
SFBI Shared Frame-Buffer Interface
SFC 1. Switch Fabric Controller
2. Shannon–Farro Coding (data compression)
SFD 1. Saturation Flux Density
2. Start Frame Delimiter
SFDR Spurious Free Dynamic Range (receiver)
SFG Simulated Facility Group
SFH Slow Frequency Hopping (GSM)
SFINX Service for French Internet Exchange
SFM Synthesizer Filter Module
SFN Single-Frequency Network (broadcasting)
SFQL Structured Full-text Query Language (programming)
SFR Socie´te´ Française du Radiote´le´phone (French GSM
operator)
SFROM Smart Flash ROM (memory)
SFS Standard Frequency and Time signal Satellite (ITU)
SFT 1. Single-Frequency Tone
2. System Fault Tolerance
SFTA Scalable Fault Tolerance Architecture
SFTP Simple File Transfer Protocol
SFTS Standard Frequency and Time Signal
SFU Store-and-Forward Unit (Inmarsat)
SG 1. Super Group (MUX)
2. Study Group (ITU-T)
3. Signaling Gateway
4. Signal Ground
SG2 Study Group 2 (ITU-T)
SGA Solder-Grid Array (microchips)
SGCC Shahid Ghandi Communication Cable Company (Iran)
SGCP Simple Gateway Control Protocol (Telcordia
Technologies)
SGDF Super-Group Distribution Frame
SGI Silicon Graphics Incorporated (company)
SGLS Space Ground Link System
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.sgm The MS-DOS/Windows3.x name extension for SGML
files
.sgml Name extension for SGML files (computer)
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
(programming)
SGMP Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol
SGRAM Synchronous Graphics RAM (memory)
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node (cellular networks)
SGW Service Gateway
SHA 1. Secure Hash Algorithm (digital signature)
2. Sidereal Hour Angle (earth rotation)
3. Sample-and-Hold Amplifier (ADC)
SHARP Self-Healing Alternate Route Protection (SONET)
SHDSL Single-pair High-bit-rate DSL (access)
SHF Super-High Frequency (3–30 GHz range)
SHG Second Harmonic Generator
SHIELD Silicon Hybrids with Infrared Extrinsic Long-wavelength
Detector
SHIRAN S-band High-accuracy Ranging
SHOALS Scanning by Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar
Survey
SHODOP Short-range Doppler
shoran short-range aid to navigation
SHOT Society for the History Of Technology
SHP Signaling Handoff Point (SS7 networks)
SHPD Sample and Hold Phase Detector
SHPO State Historic Preservation Officer
SHR Self-Healing Ring
SHT 1. Short Hold Time
2. Suppressed High-level differential Transfer (circuit)
SHTML Server-parsed HTML (programming)
SHVIA Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act
Si Silicon (semiconductors)
Si-APD Silicon Avalanche Photo Diode (semiconductors)
Si–Ge Silicon–Germanium (semiconductors)
Si3N4 Silicon Nitride (semiconductors)
SI 1. Shift-In (character control code)
2. Service Indicator (SS7)
3. Systeme´ International D’unites (French)
4. International System of Units
5. Semi-Insulator
SIA 1. Satellite Industry Association (standards organization)
2. Securities Industry Association
3. Semiconductor Industry Association (U.S.A.)
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SIBB Service Independent Building Blocks (Telcordia
Technologies)
SIBH Semi-Insulated Buried Heterostructure (laser)
SiC Silicon Carbide (semiconductors)
SIC 1. System Interface Cluster
2. Station Identification Code
3. Selectively Implanted Collector
4. Service Initiation Charge
5. Service Information Compiler (TV broadcast)
6. Standard Industrial Classification (numbering code)
SICL Standard Instrument Control Library
SID 1. System Identifier
2. Security ID
3. Silence Descriptor (GSM)
4. Society for Information Display
SIDN Security Industry Digital Network
SIDR SES ID Record
SIF 1. Standard Image Format (video images)
2. SONET Interoperability Forum (U.S. standards
organization)
3. Signaling Information Fields (SS7)
.sig Name extension for the e-mail signature files
(computer)
SIG 1. signal (transmissions)
2. Special Interest Group (SDR Forum)
3. SMDS Interest Group
SIGCOMM Special Interest Group on data Communications
SiGe Silicon–Germanium (semiconductors)
SIGGRAPH Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics
SIGINT Signal Intelligence
SII System Integration Interface (NTT)
SIIA Software & Information Industry Association
SILC Selective Incoming Load Control
SILO Signal Intercept from Low Orbit
SILS Standard for Interoperable LAN Security (IEEE)
SIM 1. Subscriber Identity Module (GSM)
2. Single Interface Module (NEC)
3. Society for Information Management
SIMD Single-Instruction, Multiple-Data (processor
instruction)
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module (Macintosh PCs)
SiN Silicon Nitride (semiconductors)
SINAD Signal-to-Noise-And-Distortion (ratio)
SINCGARS Single-Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems
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SingTel Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (company)

SinoSat Sino Satellite Communications (company)
SINPO Signal strength, Interference, Noise, Propagation, and
Overall quality (signal quality rating system for radio
signals)
SINS Ship’s Inertial Navigation System
SiO 1. Silicon Oxide (semiconductors)
2. Serial Input and Output (port)
3. Scientific or Industrial Organization (ITU)
4. Service Information Octet (SS7)
SIP 1. SDMS Interface Protocol
2. Session Initiation Protocol
3. Single Inline Package (microchips)
4. SMDS Interface Protocol
SIPO Serial-In Parallel-Out (port)
SIPP 1. Simple Internet Protocol Plus
2. Single Inline Pinned Package (microchips)
SIR 1. Sustained Information Rate (SMDS)
2. Substrate-Incident Recording
3. Serial Infrared data transmission system (Hewlett-
Packard)
4. Speaker Independent Recognition
5. Signal-to-Interference Ratio
6. Surface Insulation Resistance
7. Stepped Impedance Resonator
SIS 1. Sound-In-Sync (transmission)
2. Standardiseringen I Sverige (Sweden)
SISO Soft Input–Soft Output technique (FEC)
.sit Name extension for a Macintosh file compressed with
StuffIT
SIT 1. Simple Internet Transition (protocol)
2. Satellite Interactive Terminal
3. Special Information Tone
SITA Socie´te´ Internationale de Te´lećommunication
Aeronautique
SIVR Speaker Independent Voice Recognition
SK Telecom South Korea Telecom (company)
SKAM Skills, Knowledge, Access, and Motive
SKED Schedule (Morse code transmissions)
SKIP Simple Key management for Internet Protocol
SKU Stock-Keeping Unit (E-Commerce)
SKW Satellite-Keeping Window (satcom)
SL 1. satellite
2. Synchronous Line
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3. stripline
4. Session Layer
SLA Service Level Agreement (contracts)
SLAM Scanning Laser Acoustic Microscope
SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLARP Serial Line Address Resolution Protocol (Cisco)
SLC 1. Subscriber Loop Carrier
2. Subscriber Line Charge
3. Signaling Link Code (SS7)
4. Straight-Line Capacitance (electronics)
5. System Life Cycle
6. Simple Line Code (transmission)
7. Single Layer Ceramic
8. Surface Laminar Circuit
SLCC 1. Subscriber Line Carrier Circuit
2. Subscriber Loop Carrier Circuit
SLD 1. Super Luminescent Diode
2. Secure Level Debugger
SLDRAM Sync Link Dynamic RAM (memory)
SLE Satellite Link Emulator
SLED 1. Single Large Expensive Disk
2. Single Large Expensive Drive
3. Superluminescent LED
SLEE Service Logic Execution Environment (AINs)
SLF 1. Super Low Frequency
2. Straight-Line Frequency (electronics)
SLI Service Logic Interpreter (INs)
SLIC 1. Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (VoIP)
2. Subscriber Line Interface Card
3. Standard Linear Integrated Circuit (electronics)
Slicc Slightly larger than IC carrier (microchips)
SLICE Simulation Language for Integrated Circuit Emphasis
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLIP/PPP Serial Line Internet Protocol to Point-to-Point Protocol
SLM 1. Service Level Management
2. System Load Module
3. Signal Label Mismatched (SONET)
4. Spatial Light Modulator
5. Single Longitudinal Mode (laser)
SLMQW Strained Layer Multiple Quantum Well
SLOs Service Level Obligations (contracts)
SLP 1. Service Location Protocol (IETF)
2. Service Logic Program
SLR 1. Send Loudness Rating
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2. Source Local Reference (SS7)
3. Service Level Reporter
SLS 1. Signaling Link Selection code (SS7)
2. Softlanding Linux System
SLSA Single-Line Switching Apparatus
SLSI Super Large-Scale Integration (microchips)
SLT 1. Single-Line Telephone
2. Subscriber Line Terminal
3. Subscriber Line Test
SLTE Subscriber Line Terminal Equipment
SLW Straight-Line Wavelength (electronics)
SM 1. Switch Module
2. Service Module (ADSL)
3. Single Mode (optical fiber)
4. Synchronous Multiplexer (MUX)
5. Spectrum Management (ITU-T)
6. Session Management
SMA 1. Spectrum Management Agency
2. Semiconductor Manufacturers Association (U.K.)
3. Surface-Mounted Assembly
SMAE System Management Application Entity
SMAP Service Management Access Point (INs)
SMART 1. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
2. Stress-Marginality and Accelerated-Reliability Testing
3. Standard Module Avionics Repair and Test (software)
SMAS Switched Maintenance Access System
SMASE System Management Application Service Entity
SMATV Satellite Master-Antenna Television
SMB 1. Server Message Block (networking protocol)
2. Shared-Memory Buffer
SMBus System Management Bus (Intel standard)
SMC 1. System Management Center
2. Standard Management Committee
3. Surface-Mount Components (electronics)
4. SAR Mission Coordinator (COMSAR)
5. Subscriber Management Center
SMCC Sun Microsystems Computer Company
SMD 1. Surface-Mount Device (electronics)
2. Solder Mask Defined
3. Storage Module Drive
SMDA Station Message Detail Accounting
SMDI 1. Station Message Desk Interface (data link)
2. Simplified Message Desk Interface (data link)
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SMDR Station Message Detail Recording
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Services (MANs)
SMDSU Switched Multimegabit Data Service Unit
SME 1. Signaling Management Equipment
2. Security Management Entity
3. Small-to-Medium Enterprise
SMEMA Surface-Mount Equipment Manufacturers Association
SMF 1. Service Management Function (TMN)
2. Single-Mode Fiber
3. Sub-Multiframe (MUX)
SMFA Specific Management Function Area
SMG 1. Super Master Group (MUX)
2. Special Mobile Group (former name of GSM)
SMI 1. Structure of Management Information
2. Small- and Medium-sized Industries
3. System Management Interrupts (power)
4. Sample Matrix Inversion
SMII Serial Media Independent Interface
SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language
(programming)
SMIP Strategic Management Information Plan
SMIS Society for Management Information Systems
SMM System Management Mode (power)
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SMMS Spatial Metadata Management System
SMN Synchronous Management Network
SMO Stabilized Master Oscillator
SMOBC Solder Mask Over Bare Copper
SMOP Small Matter Of Programming
SMP 1. Service Management Point (INs)
2. Symmetric Multiprocessing (ICT)
3. SCSA Message Protocol
4. Simple Management Protocol
5. Sub-Miniature Push-on (connectors)
6. Surface-Mount Package (microchips)
SMPGA Surface-Mount Pin-Grid Array (microchips)
SMPI SCSA Message Protocol Interface
SMPP Short Message Peer-to-Peer (networking protocol)
SMPS Switched-Mode Power Supply
SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
(U.S.A.)
SMR Specialized Mobile Radio
SMRP Simple Multicast Routing Protocol
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SMRT 1. Single Message-unit Rate Timing
2. Surface-Mount and Reflow Technology
SMS 1. Short Message Service (GSM)
2. Satellite Multiservice
3. Subscribers Management System
4. Service Management System (INs)
5. SDH Management Sub-network
SMS-MO SMS Mobile Originated (GSM)
SMS-MT SMS Mobile Terminated (GSM)
SMS-PP SMS Point-to-Point (GSM)
SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (FCC)
SMSC Short Message Service Center (GSM)
SMSCB SMS Cell Broadcast (GSM)
SMSCH Short Message Service Channel (GSM)
SMSK Serial MSK (modulation)
SMSR Side-Mode Suppression Ratio (fiber optics)
SMT 1. Surface-Mount Technology (electronics)
2. Simultaneous Multitasking
3. Station Management (FDDI Architecture)
SMTA 1. Single-line Multiextension Telephone Apparatus
2. Surface-Mount Technology Association
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (Internet)
SMU 1. Subscriber Carrier Module-100 URBAN
2. Surface-Measure Unit
SMU-R Subscriber Carrier Module-100 URBAN—Remote
SMUG Spokane Microcomputer User Group
SN 1. Switching Node
2. Services Node (AINs)
3. Subscriber Number
4. Sequence Number (ATM)
SNA 1. Systems Network Architecture (IBM)
2. Scalar Network Analyzer
3. SDH Network Aspects (MUX)
SNAC 1. Single Network Access Code (Inmarsat)
2. SMS/800 Number Administration Committee
SNACP SNA Control Protocol
SNADS SNA Distribution Services (IBM)
SNAP 1. Sub-Network Access Protocol (IEEE)
2. Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power
SNC Sub-Network Connection (MUX)
SNC/I Sub-Network Connection with Inherent Monitoring
(MUX)
SNC/N Sub-Network Connection with Non-intrusive Monitoring
(MUX)
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SNCP 1. Satellite Network Control Processor
2. Sub-Network Connection Protection (MUX)
.snd Name extension for Sun and Next Machine audio files
SND send (cellular language)
SNDCF Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Function
SNDCP Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNEK Satellite Network node computer
SNES Special Network Exchange Small
SNet SONET Network (Northern Telecom)
SNET Southern New England Telephone Corporation
SNG Satellite News Gathering system
SNI 1. System Network Interconnection (IBM)
2. Subscriber Network Interface (SMDS)
SNIR Signal-to-Noise plus Interference Ratio (signal quality)
SNM Sub-Network Management
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (networking)
SNOBOL String-Oriented Symbolic Language (programming)
SNOC Satellite Network Operations Center
SNPA Sub-Network Point of Attachment
SNPP Simple Network Paging Protocol (IETF)
SNR 1. Signal-to-Noise Ratio (signal quality)
2. Sub-Network Router
3. Saved Number Redial
SNRM Set Normal Response Mode (command)
SNVT Standard Network Variable Type
SO 1. Shift Out (character control code)
2. Serving Office
3. Serial Output
4. Small-Outline
SO-DIMM Small Outline-Dual In-line Memory Module (Maintosh
PCs)
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOB Small-Outline Butt-leaded package (microchips)
SOC 1. System Operator Console
2. Statement Of Compliance
3. State Of Charge
4. System-On-a-Chip (microchips)
SoD Service-on-Demand
SOD Source-Over-Drain (FETs)
SOF Start Of Frame (TDMA)
SOFAR Sound Fixing And Ranging
SOG Source-Over-Gate (FETs)
SOH 1. Start Of Header (control character)
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2. Section Overhead (MUX)
SOHO 1. Small Office, Home Office (computer market)
2. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
SOI 1. Signal Operating Instruction
2. Silicon-On-Insulator (semiconductors)
3. Second-Order Intercept
SOIC Small-Outline Integrated Circuit package (microchips)
SOJ Small-Outline ICs with J-leads (microchips)
SOLA Short, Open, Load, and Air-capacitor
SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea (IMO convention)
Solion Solution ION (electrochemical device)
SOLR Short-Open-Line-Reciprocal (calibration)
SOLT Short-Open-Load-Through (calibration)
SOLV Solenoid Value (electronics)
SOM 1. Start Of Message
2. System Object Model (IBM architecture)
SOMO Small Office, Medium Office (computer market)
SON Service Order Number (local exchange carrier)
sonar sound navigation and ranging
SONET Synchronous Optical Network (standard)
SONIA Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corp., Netscape Corp., IBM,
Apple, Inc.
SOP 1. Standard Operating Procedure
2. Small-Outline Package (microchips)
SOPC System On a Programmable Chip (microchips)
SOR Start Of Record
SORA Satellite-Oriented Resource Allocation
SORF 1. Start Of Receive Frame
2. Small-Outline Radio Frequency (microchips)
SORMF Start Of Receive Multiframe
SOS 1. Save Our Souls or Ship (international distress signal)
2. Silicon-On-Sapphire (semiconductors)
SOSCARD Secure Operating System CARD
SOSIC Silicon-On-Sapphire Integrated Circuit
(semiconductors)
SOSTEL Solid-State Electronic Logic (digital electronics)
SOSUS Sound Surveillance System
SOT Small-Outline Transistor (semiconductors)
SOTF Start Of Transmit Frame
SOTMF Start Of Transmit Multiframe
SOVA Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithms
SP 1. Service Provider
2. Support Processor
3. Stream Protocol
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4. Signal Processor
5. Span Processor
6. Signaling Point
7. Signal Present
8. Switch Port (Ericson)
SP3 Third-order Suppression
SP3T Single-Pole 3 Throw (switches)
SPA 1. Special Photographic Area
2. Software Publishers Association (U.S. standards
organization)
3. Shared Printer Access (ISDN)
Spacecom Space Communications Corporation
SPACH SMS messaging, Paging, and Access response Channel
SPADATS Space Detection And Tracking System
SPADE SCPC PCM Multiple Access Demand—assignment
Equipment
SPAG Standard Promotion and Application Group (Europe)
SPAM Specialized Automated Mail (e-mail)
SPAN Switched Port Analyzer (Cisco)
SPAP Secure Password Authentication Protocol
SPARC Scalable Processor Architecture (Sun Microsystems)
SPARS Society of Professional Audio Recording Studios
SPATA Speech And data
SPB 1. Satellite Processor Board
2. Synchronous Port Block (MUX)
SPBX Satellite Private Branch Exchange
SPC 1. Stored Program Control (telephone system)
2. Semi-Permanent Connection
3. Signaling Point Code (SS7)
4. Statistical Process Control
SPCAS SPC Allocation Service
SPCM Subscriber PCM (modulation)
SPCP Spectrum Cellular error-correction Protocol
SPCS Stored Program Controlled Switch
SPD 1. Security Production Development
2. Serial Presence Detect (SDRAM memories)
3. spreader
SPDIP Shrink Plastic Dual Inline Package (microchips)
SPDM Scalable Polynomial Delay Model
SPDT Single-Pole Double-Throw (switches)
SPDU Session Protocol Data Unit
SPE 1. Semi-Public Environment
2. Switch Processing Element
3. Signal Processing Element
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4. Synchronous Payload Envelope (MUX)
spec specification
SPEC 1. Speech Predictive Encoded Communication
2. Standard Performance Evolution Corporation
SPECT Single-Photon Emission-Computed Tomography
(medicine)
SPF 1. Shortest Path First (routing algorithm)
2. Stateful Packet Filtering
SPG Signal Processing Gain
SPHIGS Simple PHIGS
SPI 1. Service Provider Interface
2. Serial Peripheral Interface (Motorola)
3. Serial-to-Parallel Interface (electronics)
4. Security Parameters Index
5. Synchronous Public Input
6. Synchronous Pixel Interface
7. SDH Physical Interface (MUX)
8. Stateful Packet Inspection (firewall monitoring
system)
Spice Simulation program with integrated circuits emphasis
SPID 1. Service Profile Identifier (ISDN)
2. Service Protocol Identifier (ISDN)
SPIE 1. Society of Photometric Industry Engineers
2. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation
Engineering
SPIN Service Provider Identification Number
SPINA Subscriber Personal Identification Number Access
SPINI Subscriber Personal Identification Number Intercept
SPIRIT 1. Special Purpose Integrated Remote Intelligence
Terminal
2. Secure Planning and Integrated Resources for
Information Technology (PHS of Japan)
SPIROU Signalization Pour l’ Interconnexion des Reseaux
Ouverts
SPISN Security Protocols to explore security Issues in Sensor
Networks
SPITE Switching Processing Interface Telephony Event
SPKR speaker
SPL Sound Pressure Level (sound power)
SPLD Simple Programmable Logic Device (digital electronics)
SPLIC Special Purpose Linear Integrated Circuit (electronics)
SPM 1. Self-Phase Modulation
2. Satellite Propulsion Module
3. Spectrum Peripheral Module
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4. Service Provider Messages
5. Subscriber Private Meter
6. Scanning Probe Microscope
SPMT Single-Pole Multiple-Throw (switches)
SPN 1. Service Provider Networks
2. Subscriber Premises Network
SPNA Secure Public Networks Act (U.S. Senate)
SPNE Signal Processing Network Equipment
SPNI Service Provider Network Identifier
SPOC 1. SAR Point Of Contact (COMSAR)
2. Single-Point-Of-Contact
SPOI Signaling Point Of Interface (SS7)
SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operations Online
SPOT 1. Sequential Proxy Optimization Technique
2. Secondary-location Point of Termination
3. Smart Personal Object Technology (Microsoft)
SPP 1. Service Provision Point (IN)
2. Scalable Parallel Processing (multiprocessing
architecture)
3. Sequenced Packet Protocol
4. Signal Processing Platform
5. Serial Port Profile (Bluetooth)
SPRE 1. Special Prefix code
2. Satellite Position Reporting Equipment
SPS 1. Standard Positioning Service (GPS)
2. Signaling Protocol and Switching
3. Sound-Processing Software
4. Standby Power System
5. Samples Per Second
SPST Single-Pole Single-Throw (switches)
SPT Stationary Plasma Thruster
SPTS Single-Program Transport Stream (MPEG-2)
SPU Satellite Position Uncertainty
SPUD Small Planned Unit Development
SPUDT Single-Phased Uni-Directional Transducer
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange (protocol)
Sq Square (SI Units)
SQAM 1. Staggered Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
2. Sound Quality Assessment Material
SQC Statistical Quality Control (products)
SQCIF Sub-Quarter Common Intermediate Format (video
compression)
SQE Signal Quality Error (Ethernet)
SQFP Shrink Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
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SQL Structured Query Language (databases)
SQPSK Staggered Quadrature PSK (modulation)
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
sr steradian
SR 1. Set and/or Reset (flip-flops)
2. Scanning Radiometer
3. Spectral Responsivity
4. Shift Register (digital electronics)
5. Secondary Radar
6. Speech Recognition
7. Source Routing
8. Selective Repeat
SRA System Reliability Architecture
SRAM Static RAM (memory)
SRAPI Speech Recognition Application Programming
Interface
SRB 1. Secondary Reference Burst
2. Source Route Bridging (LANs)
3. Synchronization Reference Burst
SRC 1. Strategic Review Committee (ETSI)
2. Stupid Rich Customer (telecom products)
3. Semiconductor Research Corporation
SRD Super-Radiant Diode
SRD Industries Saamaaneh Rahe Dour Industries (Iran)
SRDC Sub-Rate Digital Cross connect
SRDM Sub-Rate Data Multiplexer
SRE Send Reference Equivalent
SREJ Selective Reject
SRES Signed Response (GSM)
SRF 1. Special Resource Function (AINs)
2. Specifically Routed Frame
SRGF Speech Recognition Grammar Format
SRGP Simple Raster Graphics Package (software)
SRI Sorry (Morse code transmission)
SRL 1. Structured Return Loss (cable)
2. Shift Register Latch (microchips)
SRM 1. Sub-Rate Multiplexing
2. Service Resource Management
3. Selective Ringing Module
4. Signaling Route Management
SRMS Service Request Management System
SRO Standards Related Organization
SRP 1. Spatial Reuse Protocol (fiber optics)
2. Source Routing Protocol
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3. Suggested Retail Price
SRR Search and Rescue Region (COMSAR)
SRS 1. Space Research Service
2. Statistical Repository System
3. Shared Registry System
4. Stimulate Roman Scattering (optical fiber)
SRSC Silkroad Refractive Synchronization Communication
SRT 1. Station Ringing Transfer
2. Source Route Transparent bridging (Ethernet, Token
Ring)
SRTS 1. Synchronous Residual Time Stamp (clock recovery)
2. Secondary Request To Send
SRTT Saco River Telegraph & Telephone Company
SRU Search and Rescue Unit (COMSAR)
SS 1. Supplementary Services (GSM)
2. Spread Spectrum
3. Satellite Switching
4. Selection Signal
5. Subscriber Station
SS-CDMA Spread-Spectrum CDMA (access)
SS-LORAN Skywave-Synchronized LORAN
SS-TDMA 1. Spread-Spectrum TDMA (access)
2. Satellite-Switched TDMA (access)
SS1 Signaling System Number 1
SSA Serial Storage Architecture (IBM)
SSAC13 Signaling System Alternating Current No. 13
SSAC15 Signaling System Alternating Current No. 15
SSAP Session Service Access Point
SSAS Ship Security Alarm System (IMO)
SSAT System Software Acceptance Test
SSB 1. SingleSideband (modulation)
2. Superframe Short Burst
SSB-SC Single-Sideband Suppressed Carrier (modulation)
SSB/AM Single-Sideband operation with Amplitude
Modulation
SSBW Surface-Skimming Bulk Wave
SSCC Selective Sequence Control Computer (IBM)
SSCF Service Specific Coordination Function (ISDN)
SSCOP Service Specific Connection-Oriented Protocol (ATM)
SSCP 1. Service Switching and Control Point (INs)
2. System Services Control Point (networking)
SSCS Service Specific Convergence Sublayer (ATM)
SSCSG Spread-Spectrum Code Sequence Generator
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SSD 1. Shared Secret Data
2. Service Selection Dashboard (Cisco)
3. Simultaneous Signal Detection
4. Solid-State Disk
5. Solid-State Drive
6. Stop–Start Distortion
SSDA Sequential Similarity Detection Algorithm (remote
sensing)
SSDH Satellite SDH
SSDR Stop–Start Distortion Ratio
SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel processors)
SSET Switching System Exchange Termination
SSF 1. Service Switching Function (INs)
2. Sub-Service Field (SS7)
SSFDC Solid-State Floppy Disk Card
SSG Small-Signal Gain
SSH 1. Secure Shell
2. Security Server Host
3. Simultaneous Sample-and-Hold (data acquisition)
SSI 1. Small-Scale Integration (microchips)
2. Server Side Includes (code)
SSID Ships’ Station Identification number
SSL Secure Sockets Layer (Internet)
SSM 1. Second Surface Mirror
2. Synchronous Status Message
SSMA Spread-Spectrum Multiple Access
SSMF Standard Single-Mode Fiber
SSML Speech Synthesis Markup Language (programming)
SSMM Solid-State Mass Memory
SSMP Simple Screen Management Protocol
SSMS Space Spectrum Monitoring System
SSN 1. Subsystem Number (SS7)
2. Station Serial Number
SSO 1. Single Sign-On (networking)
2. Sun Synchronous Orbit (Sun Microsystems)
SSOG Satellite System Operations Guide (Intelsat)
SSOP Shrink Small-Outline Package (microchips)
SSP 1. Service Switching Point (INs)
2. Signal Switching Point (AINs)
3. Storage Service Provider
4. Service Signaling Point
SSPA Solid-State Power Amplifier
SSPE Single Solid-Phase Epitaxy
SSPI Society of Satellite Professionals International (U.S.A.)
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SSR 1. SES Status Record
2. Solid-State Relay (electronics)
3. Secondary Surveillance Radar
4. Surface Search Radar
5. Scalable Sampling Rate
SSRM Space Segment Resources Management
SSRP Simple Server Redundancy Protocol
SSRT Sub-Second Response Time
SSS Switching Subsystems
SST 1. Spread-Spectrum Technology
2. Solid-State Technology
3. Simultaneous Self-Test
4. Standard Star Tracker (remote sensing)
SSTL 1. Stub-Series-Terminated Logic (digital electronics)
2. Surrey Satellite Technologies Ltd (U. K.)
SSTO Single Stage To Orbit
SSTP Switched Services Transport Protocol
SSTV Slow-Scan Television
SSU 1. Subsequent Signal Unit
2. Synchronization Source Unit
3. Stratospheric Sounding Unit
4. Session Support Utility
SSUC Space Segment Utilization Charge
SSUPS Solid-State UPS (power)
SSUS Solid Spanning Upper Stage
SSV Sub-Supervisory equipment
ST 1. Signaling Terminal
2. System Test
3. start (signal)
4. Stuffing Table (broadcasting)
5. Scheduled Transfer
6. Straight Tip (connectors)
ST2C Stream protocol version 2C
ST-Bus Serial Telecom Bus
STA 1. Spanning Tree Algorithm (IEEE)
2. Science and Technology Agency
3. Special Temporary Authority
STALO Stablized Local Oscillator (electronics)
STAR 1. Speech Technology And Research Laboratory
2. Special Telecommunications Action for Regional
Development
STAR TAP Science, Technology, And Research Transit Access
Point
STATMUX Statistical Multiplexer
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STB Set-Top Box (integrated TV receiver decoder)
STC 1. Sub-Technical Committee (ETSI)
2. Society of Telecommunications Consultants
3. Saudi Telecoms Company (Saudi Arabia)
4. System Time Clock
5. Sensitivity Time Control
6. Supplemental Type Certification (aviation)
STD 1. Subscriber Trunk Dialing (telephone exchange)
2. Synchronous Time Division
3. standard
4. State Transition Diagram
STDM 1. Statistical Time-Division Multiplexing (transmission)
2. Synchronous Time-Division Multiplexing
(transmission)
STE 1. Spanning Tree Explorer
2. Special Test Equipment
3. Section Terminating Equipment (SONET)
4. Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (Syria)
STECS Synchronous Terminal Equipment Control System
STEP Short-Term Error Performance
STEREO Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory
STFS Standard Time and Frequency Signal (service)
STG Scale To Gray (graphics)
STI 1. Secondary Terrestrial Interface
2. Speech Transmission Index
STICI Self-Teaching Imperative Communicating Interface
(E-learning)
STID Service Termination Identifier (ISDN)
STK SIM Toolkit (GSM)
STL 1. Standard Template Library (CCC programming)
2. Studio-to-Transmitter Link (broadcast)
3. Schottky Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
4. Standard Telegraph Level
STM 1. Synchronous Transport Module (MUX)
2. Service Traffic Management
STM-0 Synchronous Transport Module level-0 (51.48 Mb/s
MUX)
MUX)
MUX)
MUX)
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STM-N Synchronous Transport Module level-N
STM-NC Synchronous Transport Module level-N Concatenated
STM-RR Synchronous Transport Module for Radio-Relay
(MUX)
STMR Sidetone Masked loudness Rating
STN Super-Twisted Nematic display (LCD)
STOP Satellite Tracking of Polluters
STP 1. Shielded Twisted Pair (cable)
2. Signaling Transfer Point (SS7)
3. Spanning Tree Protocol (Ethernet switching)
STP-A Shielded Twisted Pair-A
STPC Southwest Technical Products Corporation
STR Symbol Timing Recognition
STRADIS Structured Analysis, Design, and implementation of
Information Systems
STRICOM Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command
(U.S. Army)
STRIFE Stress and life (testing)
STS 1. Satellite Transportation System
2. Space Transportation System
3. Synchronous Transport Signal (SONET)
4. Shared Tenant Services
STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal 1 (SONET)
STS-3 Synchronous Transport Signal 3 (SONET)
STS-n Synchronous Transport Signal n (SONET)
STSC 1. Software Technology Support Center
2. Station-To-Station Connectivity
3. Scandinavian Telecommunications Satellite Comittee
STSK Scandinavian Telecommunications Satellite Committee
STSP Solar Terrestrial Science Programme (remote sensing)
STT 1. Secure Transaction Technology (ICT)
2. Set-Top Terminal
STTL Schottky Transistor-to-Transistor Logic (digital
electronics)
STU 1. Secure Telephone Unit
2. Set-Top Unit (TV reception)
STU-III Secure Telephone Unit 3rd generation
STUN Serial Tunnel
STV 1. Subscriber TV
2. Subscription TV
STW Surface Transverse Wave (microwave)
STX 1. Start of Text (control character)
2. Start Transmission
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SU 1. Signaling Unit (RF modem)
2. Subscriber Unit
3. Service User
SUB substitute (character control code)
subNMS sub-Network Management System
SUERM Signal Unit Error Rate Monitor (SS7)
SUI Speech User Interface (multimedia)
SUIRG Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group
SUMAC Super-HIPPI Media Access Controller
SunOS Sun Microsystems’ variety of Operating System
SUPARCO Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
(Pakistan)
SUPV Supervision
SUS 1. Station Unit Sharing
2. Silicon Unilateral Switch
SUT 1. System Under Test (ATM)
2. Service User Table
SV Supervisory Unit
SVC 1. Switched Virtual Circuit (ATM and frame relay)
2. Switched Virtual Connection
3. Smart Virtual Circuit
4. Soft Virtual Circuit
SVCC Switched Virtual Channel Connection
SVCD Super Video Compact Disk
SVD Simultaneous Voice and Data
SVGA Super Video Graphics Adapter (800!600 pixels
monitor)
SVHS Super VHS (video format)
SVHS-C Super VHS—Compact (video format)
SVID System V Interface Definition
SVIIX Silicon Valley International Internet Exchange
SVN Subscriber Verification Number (ISDN)
SVOD Standard Video-On-Demand
SVP Surge Voltage Protector
SVPC Switched Virtual Path Connection
SVS 1. Short Voice Service (GSM)
2. Switched Voice Service
SVU Siran Virtual University (Syria)
Sw switch
SW 1. Short Wave (radio broadcast)
2. Standing Wave
3. Station Wire
4. switch
SWAC Standard Western Automatic Computer
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SWACT Switch of Activity
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAN Satellite WAN (networking)
SWAP 1. Simple Workflow Access Protocol
2. Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SWATS Standard Wireless AT command Set
SWC Service Wire Center
SWDL Software Download
SWEDAC Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation
SWHK Switch Hook
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunications
SwiftBB Swift64 Broadband (Inmarsat)
SWIGs Special Working Interest Groups
SWIP Shared Who is Project (ARIN)
SWIR Short Wavelength Infrared Radiometer (remote
sensing)
SWL Short Wave Listener (amateur radio)
SWLing Short Wave Listening (amateur radio)
SWLs Short Wave Listeners (amateur radio)
SWM Software Module
SWR Standing-Wave Ratio (transmission lines parameter)
SWS Structured Wiring System
SWVR Standing-Wave Voltage Ratio (transmission lines)
SXGA Super-extended Graphics Adapter (1600!1200 pixel
monitors)
SXGAC Super-extended Graphics Adapter Plus (1800!1440
monitors)
SXS 1. Step-by-Step Switching (telephony)
2. Synchronous Cross-connect System
SYLK file Symbolic Link file (spreadsheet data)
symlink symbolic link
SYN Synchronous idle (character control code)
Sync 1. Synchronization
2. Synchronous Control Character
synchro synchronous
synth synthesizer
.sys Name extension for system configuration files
(computer)
sysop systems operator (BBS)
SYSREQ System Request
systray system tray (Windows taskbar)
SYU Synchronization signal Unit
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T t
t time (mathematics)
T 1. Symbol for prefix tera-, denoting 240 or 1012
2. Symbol for Tesla (unit of magnetic induction)
3. Symbol for Trunk level
4. Symbol for Transformer (circuit diagrams)
T Carrier Trunk Carrier
T Connector T-shaped Connector
TPAD Terminal Packet Assembler/Disassembler
T&A Test and Accept
T&C Telemetry and Command (satcom)
T&E Technology and Evaluation Lab
T&EC Tests and Evaluation Center (Intelsat)
T&L Teaching and Learning (e-learning)
T&M Test and Measurement
T&T Thrane and Thrane (company)
T-Berd Another name for T-1 Carrier
T-BGA Tape Ball Grid Array (microchips)
T-Bird Another name for T-1 Carrier
T-Carrier Trunk Carrier (T-1 and T-2)
T-CCS Transparent Common Channel Signaling
T-channel TDMA channel
T-Load Technology Load
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T-1 The North American Trunk Carrier level-1 transmission
T-1 CAS T-1 Channel-Associated Signaling
T-1C Trunk level-1 Combined
T-2 The North American standard for Digital Signal level-2
transmission line operating at 6.312 Mbps
T/H Track and Hold
T/R Transmit and Receive
T/V Thermal Vacuum
T2L Transistor–Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
T3POS Transaction Processing Protocol for Point Of Sale
TA 1. Terminal Adapter (ISDN)
2. Terminal Acquisition
3. Timing Advance (GSM)
4. Technical Assembly (ETSI)
5. Technical Advisory (Telcordia Technologies)
6. Telecommunication Administration
7. Transistor Amplifier
TAAPM Two-Axis Antenna Positioning Mechanism (Intelsat)
TAB 1. Tone Above Band
2. Tape-Automated Bonding
3. Technical Application Bulletin
TABS Telemetry Asynchronous Block Serial protocol (AT&T)
TAC 1. Test Access Controller
2. Terminal Access Controller
3. Type Approval Code (GSM mobile station)
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
(IETF)
tacan tactical air navigation (military)
TACC Tracking And Control Center
TACOS Transmission Accurate-purchase Control System
TACS Total Access Communications System (cell phone
standard)
TACSAT Tactical Satellite (U.S.A.)
TACSIM Tactical Simulation (military)
TACT Trend Analysis for Circuit Troubles
TAD Telephone Answering Device
TADIL Tactical Data Information Link (military)
TADIXS Tactical Data Information Exchange System (military)
TADM Traffic Analysis Data Management
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TADS 1. Teletypewriter Automatic Dispatch System
2. Test And Display System
TADSS Tactical Automatic Digital Switching System
(messaging)
TAE Trans-Asia Europe (Cable Consortium)
TAF 1. Targeted Accessibility Fund
2. Terminal Adaptation Function (GSM)
TAFAS Trunk Answer From Any Station
TAG Technical Advisory Group (GSM)
TAI International Atomic Time
TAL Telephone Acoustic Loss
TALI Tekelec Adaptation Layer Interface (Tekelec)
TAM 1. Telephone Answering Machine
2. Telephone Account Management
3. Telephony Access Module
4. Telecommunication Access Method
5. Total Assignment Message (Intelsat)
TANC 1. Thrust Actuated Nutation Damping Control (Intelsat)
2. Thruster Active Nutation Control (Intelsat)
TANDM Traffic Analysis Data Management
TANE Telephone Association of New England
TAO 1. Telephony Application Object
2. Track At Once (CD data storage)
TAP 1. Transit Access Point
2. Test Access Part
3. Transferred Account Procedure (GSM)
4. Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (messaging)
5. Terrain Analysis Package (software)
6. Two-step Approval Process (ETSI)
TAPAC Terminal Attachment Program Advisory Committee
TAPI Telephony Application Program Interface
TAPS TETRA Advanced Packet Service
.tar Name extension for the TAR program files (computer)
TAR 1. Total Accounting Rate
2. Tape Archive
TARD Towed Active Radar Device
TARE Telegraph Automatic Relay Equipment
TARGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter
TARM Telephone Answering and Recording Machine
TARP Target ID Address Resolution Protocol (SONET)
TARS Turn Around Ranging Station
TAS 1. Telecommunication Authority of Singapore
2. Telephone Answering Service
3. Terminal Acquisition Support
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TASC Telecommunications Alarm, Surveillance, and
Control system
TASI Time Assignment Speech Interpolation (telephone
technique)
TASO Television Advisory Standards Organization
TAT Trans-Atlantic Telephone (cable)
TAV Transverse Acoustic-wave Voltage
TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Transmitter and
Receiver Interface
Tb Terabit (240 or 1024 times gigabit)
TB 1. Terabyte
2. Traffic Burst
3. Transparent Bridging (ATM)
TB/s Terabyte per second
TB1 Traffic Burst 1
TBn Traffic Burst n
TBA 1. Transmit Burst Acquisition
2. To Be Announced later on
TBB 1. Transnational Broadband Backbone
2. Telecommunications Bonding Backbone
TBBIBC TBB Interconnecting Bonding Conductor
TBC To Be Confirmed later on
TBD 1. To Be Defined later on
2. To Be Decided later on
TBE Transient Buffer Exposure (number of cells)
TBM Transport Bandwidth Manager (Northern Telecom)
TBOP Transparent Bit-Oriented Protocol
TBOS Telemetry Byte-Oriented Serial (protocol)
TBR 1. Technical Basis for Regulation (ETSI)
2. Timed Break
TBS Transmit Burst Synchronization
TC 1. Transmission Control code
2. Transmission Convergence (ATM)
3. Tandem Connection
4. transcoder
5. Terrestrial Channel
6. Toll Center
7. Temperature Coefficient (electronics)
8. telecommand
9. Time Committed (frame relay)
10. Timing Clock
11. Telecommunications Closet
12. Technical Committee (ETSI)
13. Transmission Coefficient (parameter)
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TC SMG Technical Committee, Special Mobile Group (ETSI)
TC&F Telecom Certification & Filing, Inc.
TC&R Telemetry, Command, and Ranging
TCA 1. Telecommunications Association (U.S.A.)
2. Target Channel Adapter (fiber optics)
3. Threshold Crossing Alert
TCAM Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part (SS7)
TCAS 1. T-Carrier Administration System
2. Traffic Alert and Collision and Avoidance System
TCB Trusted Computer Base
TCC 1. Trunk Control Circuit
2. Temperature Coefficient of Capacitance
(electronics)
3. Telephone Country Code
TCCF Tactical Communications Control Facility
TCCGB Telephone Card Club of Great Britain
TCCM Total Country Connectivity Measure
TCE 1. Thomson Consumer Electronics (company)
2. Technical Computing Environment
3. Thermal Coefficient of Expansion
TCF 1. Training Check Frame
2. Technical Control Facility
TCG Teleport Communications Group (SONET)
TCH Traffic Channel (GSM)
TCI 1. Telecommunications, Inc. (company)
2. Telecommunications Company of Iran (operator)
TCIC 1. Telecommunication & Computer Industries
Consortium (Iran)
2. Trunk Circuit Identification Code (SS7)
TCIF Telecommunications Industry Forum (standards
organization)
TCL 1. Tool Command Language (programming)
2. Terminal Coupling Loss
TCLw Weighted Terminal Coupling Loss
TCL/TK Tool Command Language Toolkit
TCLE Temperature Coefficient of Linear Expansion
TCM 1. Trellis-Coded Modulation
2. Time-Compression Multiplexing (transmission)
3. Traveling Class Mark
4. Telecommunications Manager
TCM-4D Trellis-Coded Modulation 4-Dimensional
TCN Table of Collective Numbers
TCNS Thomas Conrad Networking System
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TCO 1. Tandem Connection Overhead (SONET)
2. Total Cost of Ownership (Network Computer)
TCP 1. Transmission Control Protocol (ARPAnet)
2. Termination Connection Point
3. Tape Carrier Package (microchips)
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(DARPA)
TCPA Telephone Consumer Protection Act
TCR 1. Transaction Confirmation Report
2. Telemetry, Command, and Ranging (Intelsat)
3. Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (electronics)
4. Tagged Cell Rate (ATM)
TCS 1. Transmission Convergence Sublayer (ATM)
2. Tactical Communications System
3. Traffic Control System
TCSF Telecommunications and Customer Service Forum
(Canada)
TCTS Trans-Canada Telephone System
TCU 1. Timing Control Unit
2. Teletypewriter Control Unit
3. Telematics Control Unit
4. Table of Closed User group
TCUA Terminal Control Unit for A-interface
TCV Table of Address Conversion
TCVXO Temperature-Compensated Voltage-controlled Crystal
Oscillator
TCW Taping Command Word
TCXO Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator
(electronics)
TD 1. Time Division
2. Time Delay
3. Tunnel Diode (electronics)
TD-CDMA Time Division CDMA (access)
TD-SCDMA Time Division Synchronous CDMA (access)
TDAC Time Domain Alias Cancellation
TDAS Traffic Data Administration System
TDC 1. Time Division Controller
2. Table of Dial Codes
TDCS Theater Deployable Communications System
TDD 1. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
2. Time Division Demultiplexed (cellular networks)
3. Time Division Duplexing (transmission)
TDDRA Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act
TDDS Time Division Duplex System
330 &
TDE Time Delay Equalizer
TDEL Technical Development and Evaluation Laboratory
TDEV Time Deviation
TDF 1. Trunk Distributing Frame
2. Transborder Data Flow
3. Telediffusion de France
TDHS Time Domain Harmonic Scaling
TDI 1. Trade Data Interchange
2. Transmit Digital Intertie
TDM 1. Time Division Multiplexing (transmission)
2. Trunk Data Module
TDM0 Primary NCS TDM carrier (transmission)
TDM1 Secondary NCD TDM carrier (transmission)
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDMA/RA TDMA with Random Assignment (access)
TDMA/SS TDMA with Satellite Switching (access)
TDMA-3 A TDMA system supporting 3 calls in a single carrier
(access)
TDMA-6 A TDMA system supporting 6 calls in a single carrier
(access)
TDMQPSK Time Division Multiplex Quadrature PSK (modulation)
TDMS 1. Time Division Multiplex System
2. Technical Document Management System
3. Transmission Distortion Measuring Set
TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival (radio direction finding)
TDP 1. Telocator Data Protocol
2. Tag Distribution Protocol
3. Transmit Digital Processing (circuit)
TDQM Total Data Quality Management
TDR 1. Time-Domain Reflectometer (test equipment)
2. Temperature-Dependent Resistor (electronics)
TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (remote sensing)
TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (NASA)
TDS 1. Test-case Definition System
2. Time Division Switching
3. Terrestrial Data Service
4. Terrestrial Digital Service
5. Transmission Data Service
TDSAI Transit Delay Selection And Indication
TDT 1. Total Delay Time
2. Time and Data Table (broadcasting)
TDU 1. Tape Drive Unit
2. Topology Database Update
TDWR Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
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TE 1. Terminal Equipment (ISDN)
2. Terminal Endpoint
3. Transit Exchange
4. Trunk Exchange
5. Telecom Egypt (operator)
6. Transverse Electric waveform (waveguides)
TE1 Terminal Equipment type 1 (ISDN)
TE2 Terminal Equipment type 2 (ISDN)
TEA Transferred Electron Amplifier (electronics)
TEA laser Transversely-Excited Atmospheric-pressure laser
TEC 1. Total ionospheric Electron Content
2. Thermo-Electric Cooler
3. Thermal Electric Cooler
4. Telecommunications and Electronic Consortium
TECF Traffic Editor Control File
TED 1. Threshold Extension Demodulator
2. Transferred Electron Device
3. Transmission Electron-Diffraction contrast
microscopy
4. Traffic Engineering Database (fiber optics)
5. Trunk Encryption Device
TEDIS Trade Electronic Data Interchange System (ICT)
TEF Telecommunications Entrance Facility
TEFG Terminal Endpoint Functional Group
TEGFET Two-dimensional Electron Gas FET (semiconductors)
TEHO Tail End Hop-Off (traffic engineering)
TEI Terminal Endpoint Identifier (ISDN)
TEK Traffic Encryption Key
TEL telephone
TELCOs Telephone Companies
TELEC Telecom Engineering Center (company)
telecast television broadcast (transmission)
Telecom telecommunications
Telecoms telecommunications
TELESA Telecom Services Association ( Japan)
TELESAT Canadian Domestic Satellite Telecommunications
System
teleran television radar air navigation
Telex Teletypewriter exchange (service)
TELNet Teletypewriter Network protocol (DARPA)
TELRIC Total Element Long-Run Incremental Cost
TELSET Telephone Set
TEM 1. Transverse Electromagnetic waveform (waveguides)
2. Transmission Electron Microscope
332 &
TEMCO Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing
Company (Iran)
tempco temperature coefficient
TEN 1. Transformer Exciting Network
2. Trans-European Telecommunications Network
TENet Texas Educational Network (e-learning)
TEO 1. Transferred Electron Oscillator
2. Telephone Equipment Order
TERENA Trans-European Research and Education Networking
Association (e-learning)
TERM 1. Telegraph Error Rate Measuring (equipment)
2. Terminal Mode
TERRA Tandem Accelerator for Environmental and Radar and
Radiolocation Analysis (remote sensing)
TES Test Execution System
TESC Technology Sub-Committee
TESP Telecommunications Electric Service Priority
TET Telegraph End Terminal (equipment)
TETRA 1. Terrestrial Trunked Radio (new name)
2. Trans-European Trunked Radio system (old name)
TeV Teraelectronvolt (1012 eV)
TEW Trapped Electromagnetic Wave
Texel Texture element (textured 3D objects)
TF 1. Time signals and Frequency standards emission
2. Transfer Function (mathematics)
TFD Thin-Film Detector (semiconductors)
TFEL Thin-Film Electro-luminescent (semiconductors)
TFF Thin-Film Filter
TFJ Te´le´vision Française Juvie (broadcaster)
TFL Thin-Film Laser
TFLOPS Tera (one trillion) Floating-point Operations
(computer speed)
TFM Tamed Frequency Modulation
TFOM 1. Thin-Film Optical Modulator
2. Thin-Film Optical Multiplexer
TFOS Thin-Film Optical Switch
TFOW Thin-Film Optical Waveguide
TFT Thin-Film Transistor (semiconductors)
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System
TFU Time and Frequency Unit
TG 1. Task Group (IEEE)
2. Trunk Group (switching)
3. Terminator Group
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.tga Name extension for Targa format files (graphics)
TGA Short form for Targa (raster graphics file format)
TGB 1. Trunk Group Busy (switching)
2. Telecommunications Grounding Busbar
TGC Transmission Group Control (IBM SNA)
TGE Terminator Group—type E
TGF 1. Terminator Group—type F
2. Through Group Filter
TGM Trunk Group Multiplexer
TGS Test-case Generation System
TGW Trunk Group Warning
TH Transmission Header (SNA)
THAAD Theater High-Altitude Area Defense
THB Temperature Humidity Bias
THD Total Harmonic Distortion (parameter)
THDCN Total Harmonic Distortion plus Noise
THEOS Thai Earth Observation System (Thailand)
thermistor thermal resistor (electronics)
THF Tremendously High Frequency (300–3000 GHz
range)
THI Telephone Handset Integrator
thicknet thick Ethernet coaxial cable
thinnet thin Ethernet coaxial cable
THL Trans-Hybrid Loss
THz Terahertz (1012 Hz)
TI 1. Terrestrial Interface
2. Transaction Identifier (GSM)
TIA 1. Telecommunications Industry Association (U.S.A.)
2. Time-Interval Analyzer
3. International Atomic Time
TIB Tone-In-Band (modulation)
TIBS Tactical Information Broadcast Service
TIC 1. Terminal International Center
2. Token-Ring Interface Coupler (IBM)
3. Telecommunications Infrastructure Company
(Iran)
TIC Trunk Tandem InterLATA Connecting Trunk
TICL Temperature-Induced Cable Loss
TID 1. Terminal Identification (ISDN)
2. Target Identifier
TIE 1. Telephone Interconnect Equipment
2. Terrestrial Interface Equipment
3. Trusted Information Environment (encryption)
4. Time-Interval Error
334 &
TIES 1. Time Independent Escape Sequence (modems)
2. Telecom Information Equipment and Services
.tif Name extension for TIF image files (graphics)
TIF 1. Tagged Image File (image format)
2. Terminal Interface node
TIFF Tagged Image File Format (graphics)
TIFF-F Tagged Image File Format—Fax (graphics)
TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture
TIIAP Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure
Assistance Program
TIM 1. Terrestrial Interface Module
2. Teletyper Input Method
3. Telecom Italia Mobile
4. Trace Identifier Mismatch
5. Te´lecom Italia Mobile (Italian GSM operator)
TIMA The Interactive Media Alliance
TIMS Transmission Impairment Measurement Set
TiN Titanium Nitride (semiconductors)
TINA Telecommunications Information Networking
Architecture (TMN)
TINA-C Telecommunications Information Networking
Architecture Consortium (TMN)
TINS Thermal Imaging Navigation Set
TIP 1. Transaction Internet Protocol
2. TETRA Interoperability Profile
3. Terminal Interface Processor
TIPHON Telecommunications and IP Harmonization Over
Networks (ETSI)
TIPI Telephone Industry Price Index
TIQ Telrate International Quotations
TIR Total Indicated Reading
TIRKS Trunks Integrated Records Keeping System (Telcordia
Technologies)
TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite (U.S.A.)
TIS Technical Information Sheet
TISOC Telecom Industry Services Operating Center (Bell
Atlantic)
TISSS Tester Independent Software Support System (DoD
program)
TIU Terrestrial Interface Unit
TJF Test Jack Frame (PBX)
TL 1. Tie Line (power system)
2. Transmission Level
3. Transport Layer
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TL1 Transaction Language 1
TLB 1. Terminal Loop-Back
2. Test Loop-Back
3. Translation-Look-aside Buffer
TLD Top-Level Domain (Internet)
TLDN Temporary Local Directory Number (wireless
networks)
TLEC Terminating Local Exchange Carrier
TLF Trunk Link Frame (crossbar exchanges)
TLI Transport Layer Interface
TLM 1. telemetry
2. Transmission Line Matrix
3. Triple-Layer Metal
TLMA Telematic Agent (X.400)
TLP Transmission Level Point
TLS 1. Transparent LAN Service
2. Transport Layer Security (protocol)
3. Telemetry Land Station
TLSU Token-Ring LAN Service Unit (ATM)
TLV Type-Length-Value (encoding rules)
TLX telex
TM 1. Tracking Module
2. Traffic Management (network events)
3. Trouble Management (ATM)
4. Transverse Magnetic waveform (waveguides)
5. Terminating Multiplexer (SONET)
6. Terminal Mobility
7. Thematic Mapper (remote sensing)
8. telemetry
9. Transverse Magnetic (wave)
TM/TC Telemetry and Telecommand
TMA 1. Telecommunication Managers Association
2. Tower Mounted Amplifier
TMC 1. Timeslot Management Channel (cordless messaging)
2. Tracking Mode Coupler (antenna, earth station)
3. Traffic Management Center
4. Transfer Mode Converter
TMD Tactical MAP Display
TME Telocator Message Entry (protocol)
TMF Telemanagement Forum (U.S. standards organization)
TMGB Telecommunications Main Grounding Busbar
TMGT telemanagement
TMI TRMM Microwave Imager (remote sensing)
TMIB Traffic Message Interchange Bus
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TML Telephony Markup Language (programming)
TMN 1. Telecommunications Management Network
2. Telecomunicaçoes Moveis Nacionais (Portugal GSM
operator)
3. Traffic Management Network
TMP 1. Test Management Protocol (ATM)
2. Theoretical Mid-Point (private line circuit)
TMR Trunked Mobile Radio
TMRC Technology Marketing and Research Council
TMRS Traffic Measurement and Recording System
TMS 1. Time Multiplexed Switch (AT&T)
2. Times Microwave Systems (company)
3. TOPS Message Switch
4. Trouble Management System
5. Teleport Monitoring System (Intelsat)
6. Transmission Measuring Set
TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (GSM)
TMSL Test and Measurement Systems Language
TMU Terminal Make-Up
TMUX transmultiplexer
TN 1. Telephone Number
2. Time slot Number (GSM)
3. Terminal Number (Nortel)
4. Transit Network
5. Twister Nematic (display technology)
TNA Telematics Network for Administrations
TNC Treaded Naval Connector
TNDS Total Network Data System
TNID Terrestrial Network Identification code
TNL Terminal Net Loss
TNLCD Twisted-Nematic Liquid-Crystal Display
TNPP Telocator Network Paging Protocol
TNR Transmission Not Ready
TNS Transit Network Selection (ATM)
TNSP Transmission Network Service Provider
TNT Transparent Networking Transport (service)
TNX 1. Tetra Node Exchange
2. Thanks (Morse code transmissions)
TO 1. Telecommunication Operator
2. Transmit Only
3. Tandem Office
4. Toll Office
5. Time Out (protocols)
TOA/NPI Type Of Address/Numbering Plan Identifier
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TOC Technical Operating Center
TOCC Technical and Operational Control Center (Intelsat)
TOD Time Of Day
TOF 1. Time Out Factor (ATM)
2. Top-Of-File
TOGAF The Open Group Architectural Framework
TOH Transport Overhead (SONET)
TU Teraohm (electronics)
TOI Third-Order Intercept
TOK Test Okay
TOM 1. Thin-film Optical Modulator
2. Thin-film Optical Multiplexer
3. Telecom Operations Map
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOP 1. Technical and Office Protocol (Ethernet)
2. Thin Outline Package
TOPS 1. Traffic Operator Position System (Northern
Telecom)
2. Transfer Orbit and Payload-testing Support
ToS Type of Service (DARPA)
TOS 1. Transfer Orbit Stage (satcom)
2. Thin-film Optical Switch
TOSR Telecommunications Office of Shovak Republic
TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (remote sensing)
TOW Thin-film Optical Waveguide
TP 1. Twisted Pair
2. Transport Protocol (ISO)
3. Tunneling Protocol (VPNs)
4. Transition Point
5. transponder (satcom)
6. Test Point
7. Toll Plant
8. Transaction Processing
TP monitor Transaction Processing monitor
TP-DDI Twisted-Pair Distributed Data Interface
TP-MIC Twisted-Pair Media Interface Connector
TP-PMD Twisted-Pair Physical Media Dependent technology
TP0 Transmission Protocol 0 (OSI model)
TP4 1. Transmission Protocol 4 (OSI model)
2. Transport Protocol class 4 (ISO)
TPA Telephone Pioneers of America
TPAD Terminal Packet Assembler/Disassembler
TPC 1. Turbo Port Card
2. TOPS Position Controller
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3. Transaction Processing Council
4. Transmit Power Control
TPC-D Transaction Processing Council Benchmark-D
TPCC Third-Party Call Control (ATM)
TPDDI Twisted-Pair Distributed Data Interface
TPDU Transport Protocol Data Unit (OSI model)
TPEX Twisted-Pair Ethernet Transceiver
TPF Twists Per Foot (wires and cables)
TPG Test Pattern Generator (TV broadcast)
TPI 1. Tracks Per Inch (data recording parameter)
2. Telephone Plant Index
TPM 1. Traffic Processor Module
2. Total Productive Maintenance
3. Teleprocessing Monitor
4. Terminating Point Masterfile
5. Transactions Per Minute (ICT)
TPMR Trunked Professional Mobile Radio
TPN Totally Private Network
TPOA Telecommunications Private Operating Agency
TPON Telephony over Passive Optical Network
TPOS Training, Planning & Operational Support (NCS)
TPQFP Test-Pad Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
TPR transponder
TPRC Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
TPS 1. Telephone Preference Service
2. Te´le´vision Par Satellite (France)
TPU Time Processor Unit
TPV Third-Party Verification (FCC)
TPWG Technology Policy Working Group
TQ Toll Quality
TQC Total Quality Control (of products)
TQFP Thin Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
TQM Total Quality of Management (ICT)
TR 1. Technical Requirement
2. Token Ring (LANs)
3. Trouble Report
4. Technical Reference (Telcordia Technologies)
5. transistor (circuit diagrams)
6. Transfer Request
7. Transmit–Receive
8. Transient Response
TR tube Transmit–Receive tube
TRA 1. Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Egypt)
2. Telecommunications Resellers Association (U.S.A.)
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TRAC Technical Recommendations Application Committee
tracert trace route (routing)
TRACON Terminal Radar Approach Control
TRADACOMS Trading Data Communications
TRAM 1. Transputer RAM (memory)
2. Transimpedance Amplifier
transceiver transmitter and receiver
TRANSEC Transmission Security
transistor transfer resistor
transponder transmitter responder (satcom)
transputer transistor computer
TRAP 1. Tandem Recursive Algorithm Process
2. Tactical Receive Application Protocal (military)
TRAPATT Trapped Plasma Avalanche Triggered Transitor
(semiconductors)
TRAU Transcoding and Rate Adaptation Unit (GSM voice
coding)
TRC 1. Transit Routing Control Table
2. Transverse Redundancy Check (data streams)
TRCO Trouble Reporting Central Office
TRD Technical Requirement Document
TRE Telecommunications Research Establishment
TREE Transient Radiation Effects on Electronics
TREES Tropical Ecosystems Environment observation by
Satellite
TREX Transmission Expert
TREG Telecommunications Regulatory E-mail Grapevine
TRF 1. Tracking & Receiving Facility
2. Tuned Radio Frequency (circuit)
TRFR transfer
TRG Technical Review Group
TRI-CWDM Tri-Color Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (fiber
optic lines)
triac triode AC (semiconductor switch)
TRIB tributary
TRIBES Tri-Band Earth Station (CMI)
triode A three-electrode electron tube
TRIP 1. Telephone Routing over IP (protocol)
2. Token-Ring Interface Processor
TRIS Tactical Reconnaissance Intelligence Service
TrL Transmission Line
TRL 1. Transistor–Resistor Logic (digital electronics)
2. Through-Reflect-Line (calibration)
TRM 1. Technical Reference Model
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2. transmitter
3. terminal
4. Terminal Mode
5. Terminal Multiplexer
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (remote sensing)
TRMS Transmission Resource Management System
TRN Token-Ring Network
TRO Temporary Restraining Order
TRS 1. Telecommunication Relay Service
2. Telephone Relay Service
3. Trunked Radio System
4. Tip, Ring, Sleeve (cables)
TRT Timing Reference Transponder
TRU Tone Receiver Unit (telephone set)
TRX 1. transceiver (Transmitter and Receiver)
2. Transmission and Reception Unit
TRxxx Technical Reference number
TS 1. Transport Stream (ATM)
2. Traffic Shaping (ATM)
3. Technical Specification
4. Time Stamp (ATM)
5. Time Slot (switching)
6. Time Sharing
7. Transaction Server
8. Transmission Scheme
9. Toll Switch
TS3 Time Stamp version 3 (ATM)
TSA 1. Time Slot Allocation
2. Time Slot Assignment
3. Tapered-Slot Antenna
4. Telecommunications System Architecture
TSAC Time-Slot Assigner Circuit
TSACC Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of
Canada
TSAG Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group
TSAP Transport Service Access Point (OSI model)
TSAPI Telephony Services Application Programming
Interface (AT&T)
TSAT T-1 Small Aperture Terminal (satcom)
TSB 1. Telecommunications Standardization Bureau
(ITU-T)
2. Telecommunications System Bulletin
TSC 1. Transit Switching Center
2. Training Sequence Code (GSM)
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3. Transport Stream Combiner (TV broadcast)
4. TDM-Switched Capable (GMPLS)
5. Two-Six Code
6. Transmission System Construction
7. Technical Service Centers
TSCM Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
TSDU Transport Service Data Unit (OSI model)
TServer Telephony Server
TSF 1. Through Supergroup Filter
2. Te´lećoms Sans Frontie´rs (France)
3. Trail Signal Failure (MUX)
TSG Time Signal Generator
TSI 1. Time Slot Interchange
2. Transmitting Subscriber Information
3. Telecommunication System Integration
TSIC Time Slot Interchange Circuit (PCM)
TSIU Time Slot Interchange Unit (switching)
TSK Transmission Security Key
TSM 1. TDMA System Monitor
2. Terminal Server Manager
3. Telecommunications System Management
4. Topology-Specific Module (networking)
TSO 1. Time Sharing Operation
2. Time Sharing Option (IBM)
3. Telecommunications System Operator
4. Technical Support Operations
TSOP Thin Small-Outline Package (microchips)
TSP 1. Telecommunications Service Priority (FCC)
2. Technical Support Planning
3. Transport Stream Processor
4. Temperature-Sensitive Parameter
5. Telematics Service Provider
TSPS Traffic Service Position System
TSR 1. Terminate-and-Stay-Resident (programs)
2. Telephone Service Representative (agent)
3. Telecommunications Service Request
4. Tag Switching Router
TSRM Telecommunication Standards Reference Manual
TSS 1. Telecommunication Support System
2. Telecommunication Standard Section (ITU)
3. Traffic Scheduling System
4. Time Space Switch
TSSI Time Slot Sequence Integrity
TSSOP 1. Thin-Scaled Small-Outline Package (microchips)
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2. Thin-Shrink Small-Outline Package (microchips)
TST 1. Time–Space–Time system (switching)
2. test
TSTN Triple Super-Twisted Nematic (display technology)
TSTS Transaction Switching and Transport Service
TSU Tone Sender Unit (telephone set)
TSW Transmit Switch
TT 1. Traffic Terminal
2. True Type (Windows fonts)
3. Touch-Tone
4. Transaction Time
5. Tunisie Telecom (Tunisia)
6. Tu¨ rk Telecom (operator)
TT&C 1. Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (satellites)
2. Telemetry, Tracking, and Control Center (Intelsat)
TT&P Technical Training and Publications
TTA Telecommunications Technology Association
TTAB Transparent Tone Above Band
TTC 1. Transmit Timing Controller
2. Telecommunications Technology Committee (Japan)
3. Time-To-Collection (data acquisition)
TTC&M Telemetry, Tracking, Command, and Monitoring
(satellites)
TTCP Test TCP
TTD True Time Delay (phase shifters)
TTF Transport Termination Function
TTI 1. Transmit Terminal Identification (fax machine)
2. Team Telecom International
TTIA Telecommunications Technology Investment Act
TTIB Transparent Tone In Band
TTL 1. Transistor–Transistor Logic (digital electronics)
2. Time-To-Live (packet data transmission)
TTMF Trunk Type Master File (MCI)
TTP 1. Trail Termination Point
2. Trusted Third Party (contracts)
TTR Touch-Tone Receiver
TTRT Target Token Rotation Time (FDDI)
TTS 1. Text-To-Speech Synthesis
2. Transaction Tracking System (networking)
TTTN Tandem Tie Trunk Network
TTX Teletypewriter Exchange (service)
TTY teletype (or teletypewriter)
TTY OW Teletypewriter Order-Wire
TU 1. Traffic Unit
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2. Transmit Unit
3. Terminal Unit
4. Tributary Unit (MUX)
5. Traveling User (SDNS)
TUA Telecommunications Users Association (U.K.)
TUANZ Telecommunications Users Association of New
Zealand
TUBA TCP and UDP with Bigger Address (Internet)
TUC 1. Total User Cell (ATM)
2. Total User Calls
TUG 1. Telecommunication User Group
2. Tributary Unit Group (MUX)
TUI Telephone User Interface
TUP 1. Telephone User Part (SS7)
2. Transponder Uplink system (satcom)
TUR 1. Traffic Usage Recorder
2. Trunk Utilization Report
TURN The Utilities Reform Network
TUST Tunneling and Underground Space Technology
TUV Technischer Uberwachungs-Verein (Germany)
TV 1. television
2. Technical Vulnerability
TV/PC TV with PC smarts (Microsoft)
TVC Trunk Verification by Customer
TVE Transversal Equalizer
TVI Television Interference
TVM Time-Varying Media (SCSA)
TVOR Terminal VHF Omni-Range
TVRO Television Receive-Only (broadcasting)
TVS 1. Trunk Verification by Station
2. Transient Voltage Suppressor
TVSS Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor
TWA 1. Traveling-Wave Amplifier (electronics)
2. Two-Way Alternate (communication system)
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Interesting Name
(scanners standard)
TWAT Traveling-Wave Amplifier Tube (electronics)
TWC Two-Wire Circuit
TWS 1. Two-Way Simultaneous (transmission)
2. Track-While-Scan
TWT Traveling-Wave Tube (microwave)
TWTA Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier
TWX Teletypewriter Exchange (service)
TX 1. transmit or transmission
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2. transmitter
3. Transit Exchange (switching)
4. Terminal Exchange
TXD Transmit-Data (RS232 signal)
Tx/Rx Transmitter and Receiver
.txt Name extension for ASCII text files (computer)
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U u
U Symbol for radiation intensity (antennas)
U Frame Unnumbered Frame
U Plane User Plane (ATM)
U-band Optical Frequency band ranging from 1625 to 1675 nm
U-C User Central (ADSL)
U-NII Unlicensed-National Information Infrastructure
U-R User Remote (ADSL)
U/C Up-Converter (satcom)
U/D Up/Down Chain (Intelsat)
U/L Up-Link
UA 1. Unnumbered Acknowledge response (X.25)
2. User Agent (OSI Application)
UAC User Agent Client (OSI Application)
UADSL Universal Asymmetrical DSL (access)
UAE 1. User Access Equipment
2. User Agent Entity (message systems)
UAEnic United Arab Emirates network information center
UAF Universal Active Filter (electronics)
UAL User Agent Layer (OSI model)
UAMPT Union of African and Malagasy Post and
Telecommunications
UAN Universal Access Number (INs)
UAPT Union of African Post and Telecommunications
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UARS Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver–Transmitter
(computer chips)
UARTO United Arab Republic Telecommunications
Organization
UAS 1. User Agent Server (OSI Application)
2. Unified Antenna Structure
UASs Unavailable Seconds
UAT User Acceptance Testing
UAV 1. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2. Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
UAWG Universal ADSL Working Group
UAX Unit Automatic Exchange
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate (ATM)
UBS Uninterruptible Battery System
UC 1. Unified Communications
2. Universal Controller
3. Unit Controller
4. Unit Call
5. User Channel
UCA Utility Communications Architecture
UCAID University Corporation for Advanced Internet
Development
UCB Unit Control Bus
UCC Uniform Commercial Code
UCD Uniform Call Distributor
UCF UNIX Computing Forum
UCITA Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act
UCM 1. Universal Call Model (SS7 routing)
2. Universal Controller Module
UCS 1. Uplink Control System (software)
2. Universal Character Set
UCT Universal Coordinated Time
UDC 1. Universal Digital Carrier
2. Universal Device Connector
3. Universal Data Classification
UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration
(e-commerce)
UDF Universal Disk Format (GIS imaging)
UDI Unrestricted Digital Information (ISDN)
UDK Universal Dialing Keyset (GTE)
UDLC 1. Universal Digital Loop Carrier
2. Universal Data-Link Control (protocol)
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UDLR Uni-Directional Link Routing
UDLT Universal Digital Loop Transceiver
UDMA Ultra-DMA
UDOP Ultimate Dumb, Open Programmable (switches)
UDP 1. User Datagram Protocol (Internet)
2. Unacknowledged Datagram Protocol (Internet)
UDP/IP User Datagram Protocol /Internet Protocol
UDPU Universal Data Patch Unit
UDSL Unidirectional High bit-rate DSL (access)
UDT Uniform Data Transfer (OLE technology)
UDTS Universal Data Transfer Service (Intelsat)
UDTV Ultra-Definition Television (broadcasting)
UDWDM Ultra-Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
UECT Universal Encoding Conversion Technology
UEM Universal Equipment Module (Northern Telecom)
UEPS Unit Eruptible Power Supply
UER Undeleted Error Ratio
UET Unattended Earth Terminal
UFB Unfit For Broadcast (Intelsat)
UFMOP Unintentional Frequency Modulation On Pulse
UFO UHF Follow-On
UFOs Unidentified Flying Objects
UFSS Upstream Failed Signal State
UG Under-Ground
UGWG User Glossary Working Group (Internet)
UHF Ultra-High Frequency (300 MHz to 3 GHz range)
UHTP Unidirectional Hypertext Transfer Protocol
UHV 1. Ultra-High Voltage (power)
2. Ultra-High Vacuum
UI 1. User Interface (GSM)
2. Unnumbered Information
3. Unix International (consortium)
UICC Universal Integrated Circuit Card
UID User ID
UIFN Universal International Freephone Number
UIL User Interface Language
UIM Universal Identity Module
UIR 1. Upper flight Information Region (aviation)
2. Uniform Impedance Resonator
UIS Universal Information Services (AT&T)
UIT Union Internationale Des Telecommunications
UJT Uni-Junction Transistor (semiconductors)
UKERNA United Kingdom Education and Research Networking
Association (e-learning)
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UKISC United Kingdom Industrial Space Committee (U.K.)
UKNet University of Kentucky’s campus Network
UKOLN U.K Office for Library and Information Networking
(ICT)
UL Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (U.S. standards
organization)
ULANA Unified Local Area Network Architecture (U.S. Air
Force)
ULF Ultra-Low-Frequency (300–3000 Hz range)
ULH Ultra-Long-Haul (fiber optics)
ULL Ultra-Low-Loss (optical fibers))
ULP Upper Layer Protocol (OSI model)
ULS User Location Service
ULSI Ultra-Large-Scale Integration (microchips)
UM 1. Unified Messaging
2. Unit Manager
3. Unintentional Modulation
UMA 1. Upper Memory Area (computer)
2. Unlicensed Mobile Access
UMB Upper Memory Block (computer)
UME UNI Management Entity (ATM)
UMIB Utility Message Interchange Bus
UMIG Universal Messaging Interoperability Group
UML Unified Modeling Language (programming)
UMS 1. Universal Messaging Service
2. Unified Messaging Service
UMSP Unified Memory Space Protocol
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Europe)
UMTSF UMTS Forum (wireless)
UN United Nations
UNA Unified Network Architecture
UNC Universal Naming Convention (file naming)
UNCOPUOS United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space
UNE Unbundled Network Elements
UNE-P Unbundled Network Elements—Platform
UNI User-to-Network Interface (frame relay)
UNI-RZ Unipolar—Return-to-Zero (data encoding)
UNIBOL Unix version of COBOL (programming)
UNII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
(wireless)
UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer
UNIX Universal Network Information Exchange (operating
system)
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UNMA Universal Network Management Architecture
UNMR Universal Network Management Record
UNO Universal Networked Objects
UNTDI United Nations Trade Data Interchange
UOI Utilities Operating Instructions
UPC 1. Uplink Power Control
2. Usage Parameter Control (ATM)
3. Universal Product Code (bar code naming)
UPCS Unlicensed Personal Communications Services
(FCC)
UPI User Protocol Interface
UPM 1. Utility Processor Module
2. Ultra-Portable Multiplexer
UPN Universal Personal Number (GSM)
UPnP Universal Plug and Play (computer standard)
UPP Universal Payment Preamble
UPS 1. Uninterruptible Power Supply (power)
2. Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
UPSR Unidirectional Path-Protection Switched Ring
(MUX)
UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications
UPTAA UPT Access Address
UPTAC UPT Access Code
UPTAN UPT Access Number
UR 1. ultrared
2. your (Morse code transmissions)
URA Uniform Resource Agent (Internet)
URC 1. Uniform Resource Characteristic (Internet)
2. Uniform Resource Citation (Internet)
URE User Range Error
URFS Up-link RF System (TV satellite broadcast)
URI Uniform Resource Identifier (Internet)
URL Universal Resource Locator (Web page address)
URM User Request Manager
URN Uniform Resource Name (Internet)
URSEC Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones
(Uroguay)
US Unit Separator (character control code)
USAC Universal Service Administrative Company
USACII U.S.A Standard Code of Information Interchange
USAN Unites States Advanced Network
USART Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/
Transmitter
USAT Ultra-Small Aperture Terminal (satcom)
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USB 1. Universal Serial Bus (computer)
2. Unified S-Band
3. Upper Side-Band (modulation)
USCM Universal Service Component Model
USD Universal Synchronous Data
USDC United States Digital Cellular
USDLA United States Distance Learning Association
(standards)
USDN United States ISDN
USEDA Users Society for Electronic Design Automation
USENET User’s Network (networking)
UserID User Identification
USF 1. Universal Single Frequency
2. Universal Service telephone Fee (U.S.A.)
USGS United States Geological Survey
USHR Unidirectional Self-Healing Ring
USIIA United States Internet Industry Association
USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module (cellular networks)
USITA United States Independent Telephone Association
USKA 1. Union Schweizerischer Kurzwellen-Amateure
2. Union of Swiss Shortwave Amateurs (Switzerland)
USNO United States Naval Observatory
USO Universal Service Obligations
USOA Uniform System Of Accounts (FCC)
USOC Universal Service Order Code (AT&T)
USOP User Service Order Profile
USOS United States On-orbit Segment
USP 1. Universal Service Plan
2. Usage Sensitive Pricing (tariff)
USPID User Service Profile Identifier
USPTO United States Potent and Trademark Office
USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver-Transmitter
(computer chip)
USS 1. Unstructured Supplementary Services (GSM)
2. Unilateral Synchronization System
USSA United States Suppliers Association
USSB United States Satellite Broadcasting (company)
USSC Upper Sideband Suppressed Carrier (modulation)
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Subscriber Data (GSM)
USSI Universal Synchronous Serial Interface
USTA United States Telephone Association (U.S.A.)
USTSA United States Telephone Suppliers Association (U.S.A.)
USTTI United States Telecommunications Training Institute
(standards)
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UT 1. Universal Time
2. User Terminal
3. Upper Tester (ATM)
UTA Utilities Telecommunications Association (U.S.
standards)
UTAM Unlicensed Transition And Management (microwave)
UTC 1. Universal Time Coordinated
2. United Telecom Council
UTDR Universal Trunk Data Record
UTF-8 UCS Transformation Format-8
UTOPIA Universal Test and Operations Interface for ATM
UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair (cables)
UTQFP Ultra-Thin Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
UTR Universal Tone Receiver
UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
UTS Universal Telephone Service
UTSOP Ultra-Thin Small-Outline Package (microchips)
UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol
.uud Name extension for the binary files translated to ASCII
format using UUDecode (computer)
UUD UNIX-to-UNIX Decoding (computer)
UUDECODE Unix-to-Unix Decoding (computer)
.uue Name extension for the binary files translated to ASCII
format using UUEncode (computer)
UUE UNIX-to-UNIX Encoding (computer)
UUENCODE Unix-to-Unix Encoding
UUI 1. Unified User Interface
2. Unique User Identifier
3. User-to-User Indicator (ATM)
4. User-to-User Information (ISDN)
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
UUT Unit Under Test
UV 1. Ultra-Violet
2. Unified Voice
UV-PROM Ultra-Violet erasable PROM (memory)
UVA Ultra-Violet Alpha
UVB Ultra-Violet Beta
UVLO Under Voltage Lock-Out (thresholds)
UW Unique Word
UWB Ultra-Wide-Band
UWC Universal Wireless Communications
UWCC Universal Wireless Communications Consortium
UXGA Ultra-Extended Graphics Array (monitors standard)
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V v
v Symbol for velocity
V 1. Symbol for Volt (unit of voltage or potential
difference)
2. Symbol for Vertical polarization (satcom)
3. Symbol for Voltmeter or an electron Vacuum tube
4. Vocabulary and related subjects (ITU-T)
V.Chip Violence Chip (TV filter)
V.ASVD Version Analog Simultaneous Voice and Data (modems)
V.AVD Version Alternating Voice and Data (modems)
V.DSVD Version Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (modems)
V.fast Version Fast-speed (modems)
V.FC Version Fast Class (modems)
V.PCM Version Pulse-Code Modulation (modem)
V&H Vertical & Horizontal
VCD Voice Plus Data
V-band Radio frequency band ranging from 40 to 75 GHz
(radar)
V-Commerce Voice Commerce
V-MOS V-groove MOS (semiconductors)
V-pol Vertical polarization
V-root Virtual root
V/D Voice and Data
V/F Voltage-to-Frequency converter (electronics)
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V/m Volts per meter (electric field gradient)
V/T Virtual Time (Internet)
VA Volt–Ampere (electronics)
VAB 1. Value-Added Business partner (Hewlett-Packard)
2. Voice Answer Back
3. Vehicle Assembly Building (Kennedy Space Center,
Florida)
Vac Volts Alternating Current (electronics)
VAC 1. Voice Activity Compression
2. Vehicle Access Control
3. Value-Added Carrier
VACC Value-Added Common Carrier
VAD 1. Voice Activated Dialing
2. Voice Activity Detector (GSM)
3. Value-Added Dealer
4. Vapor-phase Axial Deposition process (optical
fibers)
VADIS Voice And Data Integrated System
VADS Value-Added Data Service
VADSL Very-high-speed Asymmetrical DSL (access)
VAFC VESA Advanced Feature Connection
VAIVR Voice Activated Interactive Voice Response
VAM 1. Value-Added Module (fiber optics)
2. Versatile Access Multiplexer
VAN Value-Added Network (Intelsat)
VANA Vector Automatic Network Analyzer
VANS Value-Added Network Service (data transmission)
VAP 1. Value-Added Process (networking)
2. Vector Adaptive Predictive (coding)
3. Virtual Assembly Program
VAPD Voice Activated Premier Dialing
VAPN Voice Access to Private Network
VAR 1. Value-Added Reseller (ICT)
2. Visual-Aural Range
3. Volt-Ampere-Reactive (power generators)
4. variable
varactor variable reactance diode (semiconductors)
varicap variable capacitance diode (semiconductors)
varistor variable resistor (semiconductors)
VARTI Value-Added Reseller Telephone Integrator (PC
telephony)
VAS Value-Added Service
VASP Value Added Service Provider
VASCAR Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder
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VAX Virtual Address Extension (minicomputers)
VB Visual Basic (software)
VBA Visual Basic for Applications (computer)
VBD Voice-Band Data
VBE VESA BIOS Extensions
VBI Vertical Blinking Interval (TV signal)
VBNS Very-high-speed Backbone Network Service (optics)
VBR 1. Variable Bit Rate (ATM)
2. Breakdown Voltage (FETs)
VBRE Variable Bit Rate Encoding
VBS Variable Bit-rate Service
VBScript Visual Basic Scripting edition (software)
VBW Video Bandwidth
VBX Visual Basic Extension
VC 1. Virtual Channel (SONET and ATM)
2. Virtual Container (MUX)
3. Virtual Circuit (X.25)
4. Virtual Connection (ATM)
5. Virtual Call (X.25)
6. Video Cipher
7. Video Conferencing
VCA 1. Voice Connecting Agreement
2. Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (electronics)
3. Virtual Channel Adaptation (MUX)
VCACHE VFAT driver CACHE (Windows 95)
vCalendar virtual Calendar
VCAPS Vertical Cavity Amplifying Optical Switch
vCard Virtual Card
VCC 1. Virtual Channel Connection (ATM)
2. Supply Voltage—positive
VCCS Voltage-Controlled Current Source (electronics)
VCD 1. Video Compact Disk
2. Variable Capacitance Diode (electronics)
3. Vector Correlation Detection
VCD IC Vector Correlation Detection Interference Canceller
VCEP Video Compression/Expansion Processor (chip)
VCF Virtual Card File
VCFU Video Crypt Feedback Unit (TV broadcast)
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier (ATM)
VCL 1. Virtual Channel Link (ATM)
2. Visual Component Library (Borland Delphi
products)
VCM 1. Voice Coding Module
2. Virtual Channel Memory
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VCN 1. Virtual Corporate Network
2. Virtual Circuit Number (X.25)
VCO Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (electronics)
VCOMM Virtual Communications (device driver)
VCOS Visible Caching Operating System
VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface (MS-DOS programs)
VCPU Video Compression Processor Unit
VCR Video-Cassette Recorder
VCS Virtual Communications System
VCSEL Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
VCSELD Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Diode
VCSN Virtual Channel Sub-Network
VCT Virtual Channel Termination (MUX)
VCVA Voltage-Controlled Variable Attenuator
VCVS Voltage-Controlled Voltage Source (electronics)
VCXC Virtual Circuit Cross-Connect (MUX)
VCXO Voltage-Controlled Crystal Oscillator (electronics)
VD Virtual Destination
VDAP Voice and Data Access Point
VDB Visitor Database
VDC Volts, Direct Current (electronics)
VDD Virtual Device Driver
VDD Voltage Drain-Drain (electronics)
VDDD VNET International Direct Distance Dialing (feature)
VDE 1. Visual Development Environment
2. Video Decompression Engine
VDF Voice Distribution Frame
VDI 1. Video Device Interface
2. Virtual Device Interface
VDIF VESA Display Information Forum
VDISK Virtual DISK
VDL Vienna Definition Language (programming)
VDM 1. Voice Data Multiplexer
2. Video Display Metafile
VDO Voltage Drop-Out
VDPC Voice Data Port Card
VDRV Variable Data Rate Video
VDS Variable-Depth Sonar
VDSL Very-high-data-rate DSL (access)
VDT 1. Video Display Terminal (CRT)
2. Video Dial Tone (service)
VDU 1. Video Display Unit (computer monitor)
2. Visual Display Unit
VEN Virtual Ethernet Network
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VERONICA Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index to
Computerized Archives (Internet)
VERT Vertical (polarization)
VES Virtual Environment Software
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VESDA Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm
VF 1. Voice Frequency (signal or channel)
2. Variance Factor (ATM)
3. Vacuum Fluorescent (display)
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table (computer)
VFC 1. Version Fast Class (modems)
2. Voltage-to-Frequency Converter (electronics)
VFCTG Voice Frequency Carrier Telegraph
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VFDF Voice Frequency Distribution Frame
VFDN Voice Frequency Directory Number (Northern
Telecom)
VFET Vertical FET (semiconductors)
VFG Virtual Facilities Group
VFIP Voice File Interchange Protocol
VFO Variable-Frequency Oscillator (electronics)
VFRAD Voice Frame Relay Access Device
VFS 1. Virtual File Store
2. Virtual File System
VFTG Voice Frequency Telegraph
VG 1. Videotex Gateway
2. Voice Grade (local loop)
VGA 1. Video Graphics Adapter (640!480 pixel monitors)
2. Video Graphics Array (monitors standard)
3. Video Graphic Accelerator (circuit)
4. Variable Gain Amplifier (electronics)
VGC 1. Voice Grade Channel
2. Voice Grade Circuit
VGE 1. Voluntary Group of Experts (ITU)
2. Voice Grade Equivalent
VGF Voice Grade Facility
VGPL Voice Grade Private Line
VGrep Visual Grep (UNIX utility)
VHADSL Very High-bit-rate Asymmetric DSL (access)
VHD Very High Density (data storage)
VHDCI Very High Density Cable Interconnect (PC cable)
VHDL 1. Very High-speed IC hardware Description Language
2. VHSIC Hardware Description Language
(programming)
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3. Very High-Density Logic (digital electronics)
VHDSL Very High-bit-rate DSL (access)
VHE Virtual Home Environment (GSM)
VHF Very High Frequency (30–300 MHz range)
VHI Virtual Host Interface
VHLL Very High-Level Language (programming)
VHS Video Home Systems (video format)
VHSD Very High-Speed Data
VHSIC Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit
VI Virtual Instrument
VIA 1. Vendors ISDN Association
2. Virtual Interface Architecture
VIC Voice Interface Card (Cisco)
VIDA Voice, Interoperability, Data and Access
VIDF Vertical Intermediate Distributing Frame
VIEWS Visualizing Impacts of Earthquakes With Satellite
(Japan)
VIL Vertical Inline
VIM 1. Voice Interface Module
2. Vendor Independent Messaging
VINES Virtual Networking Software (networking)
VIP 1. Versatile Interface Processor (Cisco)
2. Virtual Internet Protocol (Cisco)
VIPA 1. Virtual Image Phased Array
2. Virtual Internet Protocol Addressing
VIPR 1. Virtual Internet Protocol Routing (Cisco)
2. Voice over IP Router
VIR Vertical Interval Reference (video)
VIRR Visible and Infrared Radiometer (remote sensing)
VIRS Visible and Infrared Scanner (remote sensing)
VISA 1. Virtual Instrument Software Architecture
2. VXI System Alliance (standard)
VisiCalc Visible Calculator (historic software)
VISSR Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer (remote
sensing)
VISTA VLSI Integrated Set Top Architecture (broadcasting)
Visual JCC Java Visual programming environment (Microsoft)
VITA 1. Volunteers In Technical Assistance
2. VME International Trade Association
Vital VHDL Initiative Toward ASIC Libraries (organization)
VITC Vertical Interval Time Code (VCR)
VITS Vertical Interval Test Signal
VIU Voice Interface Unit
VL Bus VESA Local Bus (computer)
360 &
VLAN Virtual LAN
VLB VESA Local Bus (computer)
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry (remote sensing)
VLC Variable Length Coding
VLD 1. Variable Length Decoding
2. Vehicle Location Detection system
VLDB Very Large Database
VLF Very Low Frequency (10 Hz–30 KHz range)
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word (microprocessor
architecture)
VLM 1. Virtual Loadable Module (networking)
2. Very Large Memory
VLN Visitor Local Number (GSM)
VLR Visitors Location Register (cellular networks)
VLRE Very Low Rate Encoding
VLS 1. Virtual Library System
2. Virtual LAN Link State protocol (Cabletron Systems)
VLSI Very Large-Scale Integration (microchips)
VLSIC Very Large-Scale Integrated Circuit
VLSM Variable-Length Subnet Mask
VLT Video Look-up Table
VM 1. Voice Mail
2. Voice Messaging
3. Virtual Memory
4. Virtual Machine
VMC VESA Media Channel (bus)
VME 1. Virtual Machine Environment (operating system)
2. Versa Module Eurocard
VMEbus Versatile Modular E-bus
VMEC Voice Messaging Educational Committee (e-learning)
VMF Validation Message Fraud
VMI 1. V Series Modem Interface
2. Vehicle Management Information
VMOS Vertical MOS (semiconductors)
VMR Validation Monitoring and Removal
VMS 1. Voice Mail Service
2. Voice Messaging Service (fix and mobile)
3. Virtual Messaging Service (fix telephony)
4. Virtual Memory System (operating system)
5. Vessel Monitoring System (shipping)
VMTP Versatile Message Transaction Protection
VMUIF Voice Messaging User Interface Forum
VMWI Visual Message Waiting Indicator
VMX Voice Message Exchange
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VN Virtual Network
VNA 1. Vertical Network Analyzer
2. Vector Network Analyzer
VNET Virtual private Network (MCI)
VNIR Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer (remote sensing)
VNL Via Net Loss (transmission)
VNLF Via Net Loss Factor (parameter)
VNN Voice News Network (broadcaster)
VNS 1. Virtual Network Service
2. Virtual Network System
VO Verification Office
VOA 1. Variable Optical Attenuator
2. Voice Of America (broadcaster)
VoATM Voice over ATM (service)
VoBB Voice over Broad-Band
VOC Virtual Operator’s Console
vocoder voice coder
VoD Video-on-Demand (service)
VODAS Voice Operated Device Anti-Sing (telephone circuits)
VODER Voice Operation Demonstrator
VoDSL Voice over DSL (service)
VoFR Voice over Frame-Relay (service)
VOGAD Voice-Oriented Gain-Adjusting Device
VoHDLC Voice over HDLC (service)
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (service)
VoIPF Voice over Internet Protocol Forum
VOL volume control (circuit diagrams)
VOLCAS Voice-Operated Loss-Control And Signaling (device)
VOM Volt-Ohm-Milliameter (test equipment)
VoMBN Voice-over-Multiservice Broadband Network
VON Voice-On-the-Net (service)
VoP Voice-over-Packet (service)
VOR VHF Omnidirectional Range (navigation system)
VORC Voice-Operated Relay Circuit
VORDAC VHF Omnidirectional Range and Distance-measuring
equipment for Area Coverage
Vortac VHF omnidirectional range tacan (air navigation)
VORTAC VOR collocated and/or combined with TACAN
VOST VESA Open Set Top (group)
VOTS VMS OSI Transport Service
VOW Voice Order Wire
VOX 1. Voice-Operated Transmit
2. Latin word for Voice meaning Telephone number
other than that of Fax number (on business cards)
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Voxel Volume pixel (3D image)
VoxML Voice Markup Language (programming)
VP 1. Voice Port
2. Virtual Path (MUX)
3. Video Processor
VP PBX Voice Port PBX
VP TEL Voice Port Telephone
VPA 1. Variable Power Attenuator
2. Virtual Path Adaptation
3. Voice Port Adapter
VPACK Vertical Package
VPAR Voice Port Adapter Rack
VPC 1. Voice Port Cluster
2. Virtual Path Connection (ATM)
VPCI Virtual Path Connection Identifier
VPD 1. Variable Phase Divider
2. Virtual Printer Device driver
3. Vapor-Phase Dissolution (semiconductors)
VPDN Virtual Private Data Network
VPDS Virtual Private Data Service (MCI)
VPE Vapor-Phase Epitaxy (semiconductors)
VPEC Virginia Power Electronics Center (U.S.A.)
VPI 1. Variable Path Identifier (ATM)
2. Virtual Packet Identifier (MPLS)
VPIM Voice Profile for Internet Messaging
VPL Virtual Path Link (ATM)
VPM Voice Processing Module (Sprint)
VPN Virtual Private Network (Internet)
VPO Pinch-Off Voltage (FETs)
VPOTS Very Plain Old Telephone Service
VPP VXI Plug-and-Play
VPS 1. Variable Phase Shifter
2. Vapor-Phase Soldering
VPSN Virtual Path Sub-Network
VPT 1. Virtual Path Termination
2. Virtual Private Trunking
3. Virtual Printer Technology
VPU 1. Virtual Physical Unit
2. Voice Processing Unit
VPXC Virtual Path Cross-Connect (MUX)
VQ Vector Quantization
VQFP Very-fine-pitch Quad Flat Pack (microchips)
VQL Variable Quantizing Level
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VR 1. Virtual Reality (ICT)
2. Voice Recognition
3. Voltage Regulator (electronics)
VRAM Video RAM (memory)
VRC Vertical Redundancy Check (transmission)
VRD 1. Virtual Ring Down
2. Virtual Retina Display
VRID Virtual Router Identifier
VRM Voice Recognition Module
VRML 1. Virtual Reality Modeling Language (programming)
2. Virtual Reality Markup Language (programming)
Vrms Volt root-mean-square (electronics)
VROOMM Virtual Run-time Object-Oriented Memory Manager
VRPRS Virtual Route Pacing Response in SNA
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (IETF)
VRU Voice Response Unit
vs versus (technical curves)
VS 1. Virtual Scheduling (ATM)
2. Virtual Source
3. Virtual Storage
4. Vertical Synchronization
VS&F Voice Store and Forward (service)
VS/VD Virtual Source/Virtual Destination
VSA Virtual Scheduling Algorithm
VSAC Very Small Aperture Check
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (satcom)
VSB 1. Vestigial Side-Band (modulation)
2. VME Subsystem Bus
VSC 1. Vertical Service Code (telephony)
2. Virtual Switch Controller (telephony)
3. Variable Speech Control (tape recording)
VSE Voice Services Equipment
VSELP Vector Sum Excited Linear Predictive coding (voice
coding)
VSIM Virtual Surface Image Memory
VSM Vestigial-Sideband Modulation
VSNET Virtual SS7 Network
VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam, Ltd (Indian operator)
VSO Very Small Outline
VSOP Very Small Outline Package (Japanese)
VSR Very Short Reach (fiber optics)
Vss Voltage Source-Source (electronics)
VSS 1. Voice Server System
2. VHDL System Simulator
364 &
VSW Voice Switcher
VSWR Voltage Standing-Wave Ratio (transmission)
VSX Verification Suite for X/open
VSYNC Vertical Sync (video signals)
VT 1. Virtual Tributary (SONET)
2. Virtual Terminal (ISO)
3. Virtual Trunk
4. Vertical Tabulation (character)
5. Video Teleconferencing
VT fuse Variable-Time fuse
VT2 Virtual Tributary-2
VT6 Virtual Tributary-6
VTA 1. Video Terminal Adapter (ISDN)
2. Virtual Trunk Agent
VTAC Vermont Telecommunications Applications Center
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (IBM PCs)
VTC Video Tele-Conference (U.S. Air Force)
VTCO Voltage–Temperature Cut-Off (battery charging)
VTD Virtual Timer Device driver
VTG 1. Voltage Timing Generator
2. Virtual Tributary Group
VTI Vietnam Telecom International
VTIR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer (remote
sensing)
VTM 1. Voltage-Tunable Magnetron
2. Voltage Transformation Module
3. Vessel Traffic Management (shipping)
VTN Vendor Type Number
VTNS Virtual Telecommunications Network Services
VTO Voltage Tuned Oscillator
VToA Voice and Telephony over ATM (service)
VTOH Virtual Tributary Overhead
VTP 1. Virtual Trunking Protocol (Ethernet)
2. Virtual Terminal Protocol (ISO)
VTPP Variable Term Pricing Plan (AT&T)
VTR Video-Tape Recorder (equipment)
VTS 1. Vehicular Technology Society
2. Vessel Traffic Service (navigation)
3. Virtual Terminal Service
VTTH Video To The Home
VTU 1. Voucherless Top Up
2. Video Teleconferencing Unit
VTU-C VDSL Transmission Unit—Central Office
VTU-O VDSL Transmission Unit—ONU
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VTU-R VDSL Transmission Unit—Remote
VTVM Vacuum-Tube Voltmeter (test equipment)
VTX Videotex
VVA Voltage-Variable Attenuator
VU Volume Unit (speech power parameter)
VU Meter Volume Unit Meter
VUG Voice User Group
VUI Video User Interface
VVA Voltage-Variable Attenuator (microwave)
VWP Variable Wavelength Path
VxD Virtual device Driver
VXI VME Extension for Instrumentation
VXIbus VME bus Extension for Instrumentation
VXML Voice XML (programming language)
VXO Variable Crystal Oscillator (electronics)
VY Very (Morse code transmissions)
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W w
W 1. Symbol for Watt (unit of electric power)
2. Symbol for wideband
3. Wait (Hayes compatible modems)
W-band Radio frequency band ranging from 75 to 110 GHz
(radar)
W-CDMA Wideband CDMA (access)
W-DCS Wideband Digital Cross-connect System
W-OFDM Wideband OFDM (transmission)
W/G Waveguide
W/sr Watt per steradian
W3 World-Wide Web
W3C World-Wide Web Consortium (standards organization)
W3C2 World-Wide Web Conference Committee
WA DSP Wideband Acquisition—Digital Signal Processing
WAA Wireless Advertising Association
WAAS Wide-Area Augmentation System (navigation)
WABI Windows Application Binary Interface (software)
WAC Wireless Access Controller
WACK Wait before transmitting positive Acknowledgement
WACS White Alice Communications System (AT&T)
WADP Wireless Application Delivery Platform
WADS Wide-Area Data Service
WAE Wireless Application Environment
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WAG Wireless Application Group (WAP Forum)
WAGPS Wireless Assisted Global Positioning System
WAIP Wireless Application Infrastructure Provider
WAIS Wide-Area Information Server (Internet)
WAM Wireless Spam
WAN Wide-Area Network
WANMC WAN Management Center
WAP 1. Wireless Application Protocol
2. Wireless Access Point
WAPvert An advertisement on a WAP device
WAR Wireless Application Reader (WAP)
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference (ITU events)
WARC-G WARC—General (ITU)
WARC-ST WARC for Space Telecommunications
wares softwares (ICT)
WAS Wireless Access System
WASI Wide-Area Service Identifier
WASO Western-Area Switch Operations
WASP Wireless Application Service Provider
WATM Wireless ATM
WATS Wide-Area Telephone Services (AT&T)
WATSS Wide-Area Telephone Service System
WATTC World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone
Conference
.wav Name extension for Windows waveform audio
format files
WAW Waiter-Actor-Webmaster
WAWS Washington Area Wideband System
Wb Weber (unit of magnetic flux)
WB 1. Wide-Band
2. Wire Bonded
WBA Wireless Broadcast Access
WBC 1. Wide-Band Channel (FDDI)
2. Wide-Band Combiner
WBCS 1. Wide-Band Communications Service
2. Wide-Band Communications System
WBD Wide-Band Data (channel)
WBEAF Wide-Band Earth station Antenna Feed (Intelsat)
WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management (network
management)
WBFH Wide-Band Frequency Hopping (FCC)
WBFM Wide-Band Frequency Modulation
WBMCS Wireless Broadband Multimedia Communications
Systems
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WBPA Wide-Band Power Amplifier (Intelsat)
WBPM Wide-Band Phase Modulation
WBT Web-Based Training (e-learning)
WBTIC Web-Based Training Information Center (e-learning)
WBVTR Wide-Band Video Tape Recorder
WC Wireless Consortium
WCA 1. Web Clipping Application
2. Wireless Communications Association
WCAPs Wireless Competitive Access Providers
WCAV Web Clipping Application Viewer
WCBC West Coast Billing Center
WCC Wireline Common Carrier
WCCP Web-Cache Control Protocol
WCDMA Wideband CDMA (IMT-2000 access)
WCP 1. Wireless Certificate Profile (WAP Forum)
2. Wireless Communication Platform/Product
3. Wireless Communications Protocol
4. Web Clipping Proxy (server)
WCS Wireless Communications Services
WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty
WCV Weighted Call Value
WD 1. Withdrawn and Deleted
2. Wavelength Division
WDA Wireless Digital Assistant
WDCS Wideband Digital Cross-connect System
WDEF Windows Definition Function (Macintosh application)
WDF Wireless Data Forum
WDGPS Wide-area Differential GPS
WDL Windows Driver Library
WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WDMA Wavelength-Division Multiple Access
WDMUX Wavelength Demultiplexer
WDP 1. Workforce Development Program
2. Wireless Datagram Protocol (WAP Forum)
WDT Watch-Dog Timer
WDU Winchester Drive Unit
Web World-Wide Web
Webcam Web digital video camera
Webcast A Broadcast by using World Wide Web
Webinar Web-based seminar
WebNFS Web Network File System (client/server protocol)
Webphone Internet telephone
WebTV A Web access device for that uses a TV as a display
Webzine Web-based magazine
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WEC Western Electric Company
WECA Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
WECC Web-Enabled Contact Center
WECO Western Electric Company
WEEE Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
directive
WELL Whole Earth Lectronic Link (Web site)
WEP Wired Equivalency Privacy (LANs)
WESTAR Western-states Air Resources Council
WFC Winchester Floppy Controller
WFM Wired For Management Baseline (Intel)
WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing (data transmission)
WFS Woodstock File Server (Xerox)
WFW Windows For Workgroups
WFWG Windows For Work-Groups
WG Working Group (IEEE)
WGDTB Working Group on Digital Television Broadcasting
WGET Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications
(ITU)
WGIG Working Group on Internet Governance (United
Nations)
WGIH Working Group on Information Highway (TSACC)
WGN White Gaussian Noise
WGS Worldwide Geodetic System
Wh Watt-hour (power)
WH 1. West Hemispheric beam
2. Western Host
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity (IEEE)
Wi-Fi5 Wireless Fidelity at 5 GHz range (IEEE)
Wi-LAN Wireless LAN
WIA 1. World Internetworking Alliance (Internet)
2. Wireless Institute of Australia
WIC WAN Interface Card (Cisco)
WID 1. Wireless Integration Device
2. Wireless Interface Device
WIDS Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
WIFS Wide-Field Sensor (remote sensing)
WIG Wireless Interoperability Group (WAP Forum)
WiLL Wireless Local Loop system (Motorola)
WIM 1. WAP Identity Module
2. Wireless Instant Messaging (cellular networks)
WiMAX Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access
(standard)
WIMP Windows Icons Menus Pointing device (ICT)
370 &
WIN 1. Wireless Intelligent Network
2. Wireless In-building Network
WIN95 Windows 95
WIN98 Windows 98
WIN2000 Windows 2000
WIN CE Windows CE
Windows ME Windows Millennium Edition
Windows NT Windows New Technology
WINDS Wideband Inter Networking engineering test and
Demonstration Satellite (Japan)
WINF Wireless Information Networks Forum, Inc
WinG Windows games
WinISDN An ISDN communications API designed for Windows
(interface)
WINS Windows Internet Naming Service
WinSock Windows Socket API (program)
Wintel A computer using Windows Operating System and
Intel’ CPU
WIP 1. Washington Internet Project
2. Work In Process (equipment)
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva)
WISP Wireless Internet Service Provider
WIT Washington International Teleport
WITS 1. Wireless Interface Telephone System
2. Washington Integrated Telecommunications System
(U.S.A.)
WITSA World Information Technology and Services Alliance
WIXC Wavelength Interchanging Cross-Connect (fiber
optics)
wizywig Same as WYSIWYG
WLAN Wireless Local-Area Network
WLANA Wireless LAN Alliance (U.S. standards organization)
WLI Wireless LAN Interoperability
WLIF Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum
WLL Wireless Local Loop
WLNP Wireless Local Number Portability
WLRL Wireless LAN Research Laboratory (U.S.A.)
WM Wavelength Modulation
.wma Name extension for Windows Media Audio files
(computer)
WMAN Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network
WMATV Wireless Master Antenna TV system
.wmf Name extension for WMF files (graphics)
WMF 1. Windows Metafile Format (Image format)
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2. Wireless Multimedia Forum
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation (Microsoft)
WML 1. Wireless Markup Language (programming)
2. Website Meta Language (programming)
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WMPN World’s Most Powerful Network (consortium)
WMUX Wavelength Multiplexer
.wmv Name extension for Windows Media Video files
(computer)
WOL Wake-On-LAN (computer motherboard)
WOM Write-Only Memory (data storage)
WORA “Write Once, Run Anywhere” (Java slogan)
WORM Write Once, Read Many times (optical memory disks)
WORN Write Once, Read Never (as a joke)
WOS Wholesale Operator Service
WOSA Windows Open System Architecture
WOTAN Wavelength-Agile Optical Transport and Access
Network project
WOTS Wireless Office Telecommunications System
.wp Name extension for Word Perfect word processor files
(computer)
WP 1. Word Processing
2. Wire Photo
WP/8B Working Party 8B (ITU-R)
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPABX Wireless PABX
WPAD Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (protocol)
WPAN Wireless Personal-Area Network
WPBX Wireless Private Branch Exchange
.wpg Name extension for WordPerfect Graphics format files
(graphics)
WPG Wireless Protocols Group (WAP Forum)
WPKI 1. Wireless Public Key Infrastructure
2. Wearable Public Key Infrastructure
WPM Words Per Minute (parameter)
WPS 1. Words Per Second (parameter)
2. Wireless Priority Services
3. Work Place Shell (OS/2)
WQAM Weighted Qaudrature Amplitude Modulation
WR 1. Withdrawn and Replaced
2. Write (logic signal)
WRAM Windows RAM (memory)
WRBYV White, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Violet (telephone cable)
WRC World Radiocommunications Conference (ITU)
372 &
WREC Web Replication and Caching
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection (QoS)
.wri Name extension for Microsoft Write format files
(computer)
WRL Wireless Rural Loop
WRS Worldwide Reference System (Landsat)
WRSS Western Region Switch Support
WRU “Who Are You” (telex control character)
Ws Wattsecond (power)
WS Work Station
WS-ANI Wireless Subscriber—Automatic Number Identification
WSA Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company
WSC 1. Wireless Switching Center
2. Wireless Server Certificate
WSDL Web Service Description Language (programming)
WSEAS World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society
WSF Work Station Function block
WSG Wireless Security Group (WAP Forum)
WSI 1. Wireless Systems International
2. Wafer Scale Integration (microchips)
WSIS World Summit on the Information Society
WSP 1. Wireless Service Provider
2. Wireless Session Protocol
WST 1. WAP Security Toolkit
2. Wireless Subscriber Terminal
WSTA Wall Street Telecommunications Association
(standards)
WSW World Space Week (events)
WSXC Wavelength Selective Cross-Connect (fiber optics)
WT Wireless Telephony
WTA Wireless Telephony Application (WAP Forum)
WTAC World Telecommunications Advisory Council (ITU)
WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (FCC)
WTDC World Telecommunications Development Conference
WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security (WAP Forum)
WTN Working Telephone Number
WTNG Waiting
WTO World Trade Organization (Switzerland)
WTP Wireless Transaction Protocol
WTPF World Telecommunication Policy Forum
WTSC World Telecommunications Standardization
Con-ference
WU-ATS Western Union—Advanced Transmission Systems
WUD Would (Morse code transmissions)
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WUI 1. Web User Interface (GUI)
2. Western Union International (MCI)
WUT Wafer Under Test
WV Working Voltage (electronics)
WVDC Working Volts DC (power)
WVI Web Voice Integration
WVTR Wideband Video Tape Recorder
WW 1. Wire-Wound (electronics)
2. Wire-Wrap (electronics)
WWAN Wireless Wide-Area Network
WWDD World-Wide Direct Dialing
WWDM Wide Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (GBE)
WWDSA World Wide Digital System Architecture
WWMCCS World Wide Military Command and Control System
WWNWS World-Wide Navigational Warning Service (IMO)
WWV World-Wide Vacuum
WWW 1. World-Wide Web (Internet)
2. World Weather Watch (remote sensing)
WWWC World-Wide Web Consortium
WX Weather Report (Morse code transmissions)
Wz West Zone beam
WZ1 World Zone 1
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X x
X 1. Symbol for exchange or interchange
2. Symbol for extension
3. Symbol for words commencing with letters sounding
like ‘X’ such as DBx which stands for Data Base
Accelerator
4. Sign for cross or cross-connection or coupling
5. Sign of prefix trans- (from one place or state to
another)
6. Symbol for a Crystal component
7. Symbol for an unknown quantity or distance
X.25 ITU protocol standard for WAN communications
X-Band Radio Frequency band (8 GHz–12 GHz)
X-MOS High-speed MOS (semiconductors)
X-Off Control character to stop information flow
X-On Control character to start information flow
X-On/X-Off Transmitter On and Transmitter Off
X-strap Cross-strap (Intelsat)
XA 1. Extended Architecture (CD-ROM)
2. Exchange Access
XA-SMDS Exchange Access—SMDS
XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association
XAUI 10GbE Attachment Unit Interface
Xbar Crossbar
X
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XC Cross-Connect (MUX)
XCA Extended Communication Adapter
XCE 1. Transponder Command Electronics
2. Transponder Control Electronics
XCM 1. Cross-Connect Module (MUX)
2. Cross-Connect Multiplexer (MUX)
XCMD External Command (hyper card)
XCOPY Copy Extended (MS-DOS Command)
XCVR Transceiver (Morse code transmissions)
XDCR Transducer (electronics)
XDF Extended Distance Feature
XDI XRI Data Interchange
XDMA Xing Distributed Media Architecture (Xing
Corporation)
XDMCP X Display Manager Control Protocol
XDP Extra Device Port (Panasonic)
XDR 1. External Data Representation
2. Exchange Data Representative
xDSL A generic term for DSL technologies (access)
xEMS xDSL Element Manager System
XENIX Microsoft version of UNIX for microprocessors (OS)
XFCB Extra-Fast Complementary Bipolar
XFCN External Function (hyper card)
XFN X/Open Federated Naming (Sun Microsystems)
XFR Transfer
XGA 1. Extended Graphics Adapter (1024!768 pixel
monitors)
2. Extended Graphics Array (monitors standard)
XGL Extended Graphics Library
XHTML 1. XML—compatible Version of HTML (programming)
2. Extensible HTML (programming)
XID Exchange Identification
XIF XPD Improvement Factor
XIP Execute-In-Place (graphics)
XIPS Xenon Ion Propulsion Subsystem
XIWT Cross-Industry Working Team
xLC xDSL Line Card
XL Symbol for Inductive Reactance
XLib X Library (Windows System)
XLIU X.25/X.75 Link Interface Unit
XLL Extensible Linking Language (programming)
XLR X-Series Lockheed Rubber (connectors)
XMA Extended Memory Access
Xmission Transmission (Ham radio)
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Xmit Transmit (Ham radio)
Xmitter Transmitter (Ham radio)
XMF eXtensible Music Format
XML Extensible Markup Language (programming)
XMP X/Open Management Protocol
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS Extended Memory Specification
XMS API X.400 Message Store Application Program Interface
XMSN Transmission
XMT Transmit (Ham radio)
XMTR Transmitter (Morse code transmissions)
XMUX Transmultiplexer
XnLC XDSL Line Card in Access node Express
XNS Xerox Network Systems (protocol)
XO Crystal Oscillator
XOFF Transmitter Off (control character)
XOMAPI X.400 OSI data Manipulation Application Program
Interface
XON Transmitter On (control character)
XON/XOFF Transmitter On and Transmitter Off (protocol)
XOR Exclusive-OR gate (digital electronics)
Xover Crossover
XPAD External Packet Assembler/Disassembler
XPC Extended Processing Cabinet
XPD 1. Transponder
2. Cross-Polarization Discrimination
3. Cross-Polarization Decoupling
XPDR Transponder
XPG X/Open Portability Guide (standard group)
XPI 1. Cross-Polarization Isolation (Intelsat)
2. Cross-Polarization Interference (Intelsat)
XPIC Cross-Polarization Interference Canceller
(Intelsat)
XPL Cross-Polarization Level
XPM 1. Extended Peripheral Module
2. Cross-Phase Modulation
X-POL 1. Cross-Polarized (Intelsat)
2. Cross-Polarization (antennas)
Xponder Transponder
XPS X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
XRB Transmit Reference Burst
Xref Cross-reference
XRF 1. Extended Recovery Facility
2. X-Ray Fluorescence (spectroscopy)
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XSG 1. Extended Service Group
2. X.25 Service Group
XSL Extensible Style-sheet Language (programming)
XSMP X Session Manager Protocol
XT 1. Crosstalk
2. Extended Technology (IBM PCs)
Xtal Crystal
Xtalk Crosstalk
XTELs Teleservices protocol (Sun Solaris)
Xterm A terminal for the X Windows system
XTI X/Open Transport Interface
XTL Teleservices architecture for Sun Solaris (Sun
Microsystems)
XTP 1. Express Transport Protocol
2. Express Transfer Protocol
XUI X Windows System User Interface (toolkit)
XWA Experimental Wireless Apparatus
XWS X Windows System
XXX Triple X (protocol)
XXXX The last four digits of a telephone number
XYL Former Young Lady (morse code transmission)
378 &
Y y
y Symbol for prefix yocto-, denoting 10K24 or 2K80
Y 1. Symbol for prefix yotta-, denoting 1024 or 280
2. Symbol for admittance (electronics)
3. Symbol for Yttrium
4. Symbol for luminosity
Y cable A Y-shaped cable
Y/C luminosity and Color splitter (color image encoding)
Y2K Year 2000 (Millennium Bug)
YAG Yttrium–Aluminium Garnet crystalline material (laser
electronics)
YAHOO 1. Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle (Web
portal)
2. Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle (Web
portal)
YB Yottabyte, which is 1024 or 1024 times zettabyte
YBCO Yttrium–Barium–Copper–Oxide (microwave devices)
yd yard (unit of area)
yd2 square yard
YEL yellow
YIG Yttrium–Iron Garnet crystalline material (microwave
devices)
Y
379
YL Young Lady (Morse code transmissions)
YP Yellow Pages (British Telecom)
YTF YIG Tuned Filter (microwave)
YTO YIG-Tuned Oscillator
380 &
Z z
z Symbol for prefix zepto-, which is 10K21 or 2K70
.z Name extension for UNIX files compressed with the g
zip
Z 1. Symbol for prefix zetta-, which is 1021 or 270
2. Symbol for impedance (electric circuits)
3. Zulu time
Z time Zebra time
Z-CAL Zero Range Calibration (Intelsat)
Z-marker Zone marker
Z0 Characteristic Impedance (transmission line)
Z80 An 8-bit microprocessor developed by Zilog Company
ZAK Zero Administration Kit (software)
ZAW Zero Administration Windows (operating system)
ZB Zettabyte, which is 1021 or 1024 times Exabytes
ZBTSI Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange (control technique)
ZCS 1. Zero Code Suppression
2. Zero Current Switching
ZD Zero Defects
ZDNet Ziff Davis Network
ZDSF Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber
ZDW Zero Dispersion Wavelength
ZIF socket Zero Insertion Force socket (Intel)
ZiffNet See ZDNet
Z 381
Zin Input Impedance
.zip Name extension for archive files compressed by PKZIP
Zip zipped
ZIP 1. Zone Information Protocol
2. Zone Information Plan
3. Zigzag Inline Package
Ziv Lempel–Ziv
Zl load Impedance
ZnO Zinc Oxide (semiconductors)
.zoo Name extension for archive files Zoo compression
utility
Zout output Impedance
ZRL Zero Relative Level
ZRT Zero Range Transponder (Intelsat)
Zs source Impedance
zsh Z shell (UNIX)
ZT Zone Time (Intelsat)
ZTLP Zero Transmission Level Point (telephony)
ZUM Zone Usage Measured
ZV Zoomed Video
ZVA Zero Voltage Activated circuit (electronics)
ZVS Zero Voltage Switching
382 &
Annex-A (Special
Characters)
. dot or period sign
’ 1. apostrophe or quote sign
2. meaning “feet” used when defining length of
something
3. meaning “minutes” used when defining latitude and
longitude
" 1. Quotation mark (called ditto)
2. meaning “inches” used when defining dimensions
of something
3. meaning “seconds” used when defining latitudes
and longitudes
4. the same word as above
“ Double opening quote
” Double closing quote
‘ Single opening quote
’ Single closing quote
— Em dash
d 1. En dash (also called hyphen)
2. meaning “to” when defining ranges of values
/ 1. Oblique stroke or Forward slash (also called
diagonal)
2. Fraction sign meaning “to” or “conversion to”
\ Backward Slash (also called back slash)
: Colon
; Semicolon
383
Z Equals; is the same as (mathematics)
s Does not equal; is different from
# Sign of “number” (also called Hash)
z Is approximately equal to (mathematics)
O Is more than (mathematics)
! Is less than (mathematics)
8 Symbol for degree (plane angle)
8C Symbol for degree Celsius
8F Symbol for degree Fahrenheit
8R Symbol for degree Rankine (absolute temperature
scale)
& Sign of “and” (called Ampersand)
@ “At” sign (Internet e-mail addresses)
D Greek letter “delta” (sign of refractive index contrast)
D-b Delta–Beta (switch)
D-l Delta–Lambda (spectral width)
D-S Delta–Sigma (modulation)
3 Greek letter “epsilon” (sign of electrical permittivity)
l Greek letter “Lambda” (sign of wavelength)
l0 Zero-dispersion wavelength (fiber optics)
lcc cutoff wavelength (fiber optics)
m 1. Greek Letter “mu”
2. Symbol for permeability
3. Sign of prefix micro-, (one-millionth or 10K6)
mA microampere (electronics)
mbar microbar
mC microcomputer
mCi microcurie
mF microfarad (electronics)
mH microhenry (electronics)
mLx microlux
mm micrometer or micron
mmho micromho (electronics)
mU microohm (electronics)
mp microprocessor
mrd microrad
mR microroentgen
mrem microrem
mrep microrep
ms microsecond
mS microsiemens
mV microvolt (electronics)
mm micromicro (pico-)
mW microwatt (power)
384 &
u Greek letter “omega”; symbol for angular frequency
U 1. Greek letter “omega”
2. Sign of ohm (unit of resistance and impedance)
U/V ohm per Volt
[ Upside-down capital omega (unit of conductivity
‘mho”)
4 Greek letter “phi” (sign of angle of phase)
FM Phase Modulation
p Greek letter “pi”, symbol for the number 3.1416
(mathematics)
? Question mark
r Greek letter “rho” (unit of electric charge density)
s Greek letter “sigma” (unit of electrical conductivity)
* Symbol for marking an important point (called asterisk,
splat, star)
q Copyright
w Registered
e Trademark
$ U.S. Dollar (currency)
£ Pound Sterling (currency)
V Euro (currency)
¥ Yen (currency)
% Percent
Annex-A (Special Characters) & 385
Annex-B (Metric Prefixes)

Symbol Prefix Numerical Exponential
Y yotta- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 1024
Z zetta- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 1021
E exa- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 1018
P peta- 1,000,000,000,000,000 1015
T terra- 1,000,000,000,000 1012
G giga- 1,000,000,000 109
M mega- 1,000,000 106
k kilo- 1000 103
h hecto- 100 102
da deca 10 101
d deci- 0.1 10K1
c centi- 0.01 10K2
m milli- 0.001 10K3
m micro- 0.000,001 10K6
n nano- 0.000,000,001 10K9
p pico- 0.000,000,000,001 10K12
f femto- 0.000,000,000,000,001 10K15
a atto- 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 10K18
z zepto- 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,001 10K21
y yocto- 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 10K24
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Blackout An event where the video streaming content is blacked out so that viewers within a certain region
are not able to see any video.
DataStage ETL software/ environment hosting VAM batch processes
DBR DataBase Request
EPG Electronic Programming Guide
ETL Extract, Transform and Load process
FTP File Transfer Protocol
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
IPTV Internet Protocol Television
MSTV Microsoft Television
SimSub Simultaneous Substitution - An event where the video streaming content is substituted with a
different video content.
TCS Traffic Control System. California company called SunUp that provides PPV programming information.
TV Guide TV Guide Canada that provides TV listings
VAM Video Administration Manager application used for scheduling and creating blackout, simultaneous
substitutions and electronic programming guide.
Viper Application used for IPTV Activation and Service Assurance
CRO: Compensation Reports Online
CRT: Compensation Reports Table ?
• MultiVu – Approximately 2,500 users, located as follows:

o BellTV Call Centeres at Wynford Drive, Toronto and Boul. Bouchard, Montreal
o External Call Centres in Canada, Philipines and India
o Bell Canada Direct Marketing Centre (DMC) in Toronto and Montreal
• BellTV Online (BTVO) – VisionMax, 1 L2 Application support person. Also includes the Remote PVR Group
• Telus (UFO) - through VuGuide web interface
ACAP Advanced Consumer Analytics Platform

ACCESS Inventory of TN, OE, SA, Serv.
ACMS Amdocs Canada Management Services
ADS Application Delivery Services
AIN Advanced Intelligent Networks - AIN is composed of 4 services; Service Finder, Service Re-Direct, Service
Access and Local Information Service (LIS).
AMS Application Maintenance and Support
APT AnyMedia Provisioning Tool
ARICS Accounts Receivable Information Collection System
ARPS Average Revenue Per Sale
ASOS Automated Service Order System
ASTRA Automated Switching Trouble Report Analysis
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Automated Teller Machine
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATOM Advanced Telecommunication Order Management
BAN Billing Account Number
BAR Backup And Recovery
BARC Bell Alliant Regional Communications
BARC Bell Aliant Regional Communications
BB Broad Band
BCAT Business Communications Analysis Tool - BCAT is the Corporate measurement system for Data and Integrated
Voice (IX) services for Service Assurance. Customer trouble reports for these services are sent from the
COPS-TM (trouble management) system on a daily basis. The results that are produced are used by all levels
and departments within Bell Canada.
BCE Bell Canada Enterprise
BCH Bell Canada Holding
BCH Bell Canada Holding
BCRIS Bell Customer Record Information System (Bell Canada Wireline Voice products/services)
BCRIS Bell Customer Record Information System
BCV Batch Control Verification (AMDOCS replicated database which is the source for BCH feeds)
BDI Bell Distribution Inc.
BDI Bell Distribution Inc
BEDGE Lost or winback Business
Bell Nexxia Operates IP Broadband services for Large Businesses using fibre-based high bandwidth solutions
BOOST Bell Online Order and Sales Tool
BOOST Bell On-Line Ordering and Sales Tools
BPL Business Presentation Layer
BRS Bell Residential Services
BTEQ Basic TEradata Query
BUP Business Unit Processes
CAS Conditional Access System
CBSS Customer Billing Services System
CCAR Call Center Analysis and Reporting
CCAT Customer Contact Analysis Tool
CDG Component Dependency Graph
CDR Call Detail Record
CEDGE PIC activity Segmentation
ChIP Channel Integration Processor
CICM Customer Integration and Customer Matching
CIMS Customer Information Management System
CIT/MAX Plus Customer Integration Tool
CLLI Common LanguageLocation Identifier
CMF Customer Master File
CO Central Office
COBI Customer Information Management System
Conso Consolidator aka OneBill
CONSO (Amdocs) It receives billing inputs from Bell and all the other BCH companies (i.e. Sympatico,
Mobility, Express Vu) and consolidate the charges and mail the consolidated one bill to the customer. Conso
will maintain the customer’s outstanding balance and process the payments. When the customer’s payment
arrives, it will disburse the amount owing to each of the BCH companies.
COPS-TM Circuit Order Provisioning System: Provisioning and Trouble Management (TM) tool for legacy data
(Bell Canada) services from dial up to ATM
CPC Customer Payment Center
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
CPMF Client Partnership Management Framework
CRAMER-NRMS A software product chosen by Bell Canada as the platform of choice to house and manage a
variety of network inventory. Stage 1 of the NIM Program resulted in two Cramer instances NRMS-OE and NRMS-
ONMP.
CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission
CRTC Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission
CSAP Client Satisfaction Assessment Program
CSB Communication Service Business
CSC Customer Service Center
CSC Customer Self Care - allows members to view usage and registration information (AMDOCS)
CSD Customer Service Desk
CSG Carier Services Group
CSM Customer Service Management - The customer service management module within Amdocs / Ensemble, which
includes customer, contact and address information
CSM Customer Service Management - The customer service management module within Amdocs / Ensemble, which
includes customer, contact and address information
CSR Customer Service Representative
CTI Computer Telephony Integration (Max Plus server)
CTN Cellular Telephone Number
CUG Closed User Group
DCD Data Collection and Distribution
DEEP Data Enhanced Experience Project
DIS Downstream Interface System
DMC Direct Marketing Channel
DOT Department Of Telecommunication
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
EAS Extended Area Service
eBCC e-Business and Customer Care (Bell.ca, OrderMax, MaxPlus, eBCCS,BCRIS)
EBCCS Electronic Bell Customer Contact
EDE-LSR Electronic Data Exchange - Local Service Request (EDE-LSR)
EDE-WIN Electronic Data Exchange - Winback (EDE-WIN)
EDIRIS Electronic Data Interchange Remmitance Integrated System
EDP Employee Discount Plan
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse
EIPOT
eMOVE This application allows customers to transfer their Bell Canada wireline, ExpressVu, Mobility and
Sympatico services (where applicable) from their existing address to a new address.
ENDEVOR ENvironment for DEVelopers and OpeRations
Ensemble Integrated Ordering and Billing Platform provided third party vendor AMDOCS
EOM Enterprise Order Manager (Dedicated/Integrated Model - IP-VPNE order Contracts)
eTOM enhanced Telecom Operations Map
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FID Field Identifier
FOCUS Future Operations Customer Universal Services - Remedy based application that provides an IP inventory of
routers and other customer premise equipment. There is on FOCUS / ARS application per product. It acts as an
Order Management application and a Trouble Management application (all used for IP)
FWFM Federated Work Force Management - System used to dispatch and manage technicians to customer premise for
voice and High Speed service.
GDM Global Delivery Model
HOTS Wholesale High Speed Order Tracking System (Wholesale)
IA Impact Assessment
IAF Internet Administration Framework - The front end web access for both internal users and members. It
stores information about customers, products, price plans and rates. It's online functionality includes auto
registration, customer self care, and customer care tools. (AMDOCS)
IAF Integrated Hub – Middleware application capable of connecting legacy systems or newly installed systems
that need to talk to each other.
IBAM/NetCool IBAM receives alarms from network sevices and forwards to NetCool which then filters these
alarms, forwarding only specific ones to Access Care
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IES Interface to External Systems (AMDOCS Document for interfacing with BCH applications)
IGDC India Global Delivery Centre
iHUB Integrated HUB. Middleware application capable of connecting legacy systems.
Ind Co Independent Company
IOM Integrated Order Manager
IOM Integrated Order Management - Provides order validation, order management, order decomposition and order
tracking functionality for the DSL order requests originating in the OTS systems or Competitator Digital
Network service orders
IPAIRS Integrated Plant Assignment Record System
IPCD IP Connect Dedicated (previous name for BID)
IP-HOTS Internet Protocol Highspeed Order Tracking System (Business )
IPOTS IP Order Tracking System - The ability for new BIHSE (teleworker) customers to order the new 1.5M/320 K
service
IP-OTS Internet Protocol Order Tracking System (Business - Dedicated Services)
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network
ISP Internet Service Provider
IXC Inter Exchange Carrier - long distance carrier
Lantern "The Lantern system provides the Bell Canada test centers, Bell Nexxia and Sympatico help desks with
a ""Thin Client"" Web Based interface to the Alcatel AMS, Lucent NAM, Lucent NAD as well as to Nortel’s xEMS
EMSs.
This simplifies the testing and trouble diagnosis process of DSL high speed services, and provides support for
larger user communities, "
LD Long Distance
LDM Logical Data Model
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LNP Local Number Portability
LOB Lines Of Business
LRN Local Routing Nunmber - Industry (LRN-used for routing call to recipient switch for ported number)
assignment guidelines to ensure proper routing and rating.
LSC Local Service confirmation received from carrier
LSO Local Serving Office???
LSP-ID Local Service Provider is the same as the OCN (Operating Company Number)
LSR Local Service Request
M&S Marketing & Sales
MFAS Mechanized Frame Administration System
MPMF Member Partnership Management Framework
MSA Message Service Application
MSAP Member Satisfaction Assessment Program
MSOI Mechanized Service Order Input
NGC New Growth Customer
NIBS New Integrated Billing System
NIM Network Inventory Management - A multi-year multi-Stage program concerning the management of Bell Canada
network inventory. This entails organizing existing network inventories currently managed in multiple legacy
systems and consolidating them in platforms that will support increasingly complex network and service
management requirements
NM Network Mediation, Nexxia Mobility
NPA Numbering Plan Area
NSC(Hub) Network Services Configuration (Hub)
NVP NIBS Voice Pricing - The Nibs Voice Pricing application processes the pricing, re-rating and journal
reporting for the Nibs Voice Pricing Tolls.
OBM Online Bill Manager
OBOT One Bill Ordering Tool
OCI "Online Customer Information - – can be accessed via the MY ACCOUNT tab on bell.ca, links LOB accounts to
a BUP, has its own DB and makes use of lots of other application DBs. OCI will give customers the ability to
view in the OCI dashboard, their BCH portfolios (Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Sympatico, and ExpressVu).
Also, providing a single point of access to all BCH web self-serve service applications
All residential customers have the capability to register their account from Bell.ca and access their Bell
Canada profile online. All registered customers are provided with a personalized web space, which has been
named the “OCI dashboard”."
OFA Order Fullfilment Agent
OMG/CIB Order Management Group (in french CIB)
OMS/SODB Order Management System/Shared Order Data Base - SODB is a group of DB2 databases that receive a
feed of Service Orders from the BCRIS system. These orders are loaded into the Shared Order Database (SODB)
tables.
One RT Online Recommendation Tool
OPMF OPerations Management Framework
OSCAR Outright Sale Customer Account Record
OSS Operations Support Systems
PAD Pre Authorized Debit
PAIRS-IA Plant Assignment and Inventory System Information Access - Part of TIAS is to be replaced by CRAMER-
IA
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PD Predictive Dialer
PDM Physical Data Model
PDS Process Design Specifications
PIC Primary Interexchange Carrier
PM Permission Marketing
PODN Port Out Directory Number - An intercept that informs the person calling that number is not active any
more. It is set when a customer disconnects his line , moves to CLEC/WSP, etc.
POI Point Of Interconnection - Single POI between LECs for exchange of traffic within an LIR
POL Person on loan
POP Point Of Presence
PPI Partitioned Primary Index
PPV Pay Per View
PPV Pay Per View
PRS Hub Problem Resolution System Hub
PSQT Pre Sales Qualification Tool - Tool to determine if a telephone, address or Access System ID qualifies
for High Speed
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTM Pulse Tone Modulation
PVC-OARS Permanent Virtual Circuit Order Routing System - The provisioning and logical assignment inventory
database and application for the Bell Canada Broadband services. It also serves as a source of information
for Broadband Service Assurance
Rate Center Exchange as "administrative area" established by telephone companies. Exchange may include a
single town, a suburb, or a city center where people call each other "Without Paying Long Distance Charges"
RIM Research In Motion (Blackberry), Remote Infrastructure Management(services)
RMG Resource Management Group
SAC Special Assembly Code
SAS Statistical Analysis System
SCM Supply Chanin Managament, Software Configuration Management
SCNM Stentor Canadian Network Management
SCV Single Circuit View
SHOTS Sympatico High Speed Order Tracking System (Consumer customers)
SIA System Interface Agreement
SLA Service Level Agreement
SMARTER Sales Measurement And Revenue Tracker Enhanced Reporting (for Bell Residential Services)
SNO Stentor National Overlay - This application creates the CBSS print ready files based on the NCBS
(Advantage Vision) and MEGA (Advantage Preferred) files coming from ACCI/MSA.
SO Service Order
SOI Service Order Item
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
SRS System Requirements Specification
SSAM Special services Administration & Management
STM Synchronous Transfer Mode
STS Smart Touch Services
T&C Terms & Conditions
TCLT Total Competition Liaison Team - Receives SODB extract from Toll LSP. Inputs PIC request for the Rebiller
Elite Toll Plan in the Toll LSP Application.
TCTS Trans-Canada Telephone System
TIAS-II Trunk Information Access System - Fully functioning information access environment (comprised of
PAIRS-IA, TARS-IA, CRAMER-IA, NIM-IA) that provides just-in-time results for various groups within Bell
Canada. These clients include over 1500 users in such districts as Marketing, Trunk Provisioning and Access
Network.
Tier 1 Infrastructure, Servers, H/W e.g. IS/IT
Tier 2 Application Support, Maintenance, Incident Management
Tier 3 Development
Tier 4 Staff Augmentation, BPO
TIM Trouble Information Management - The existing TIM (COPS-TM) system is a Trouble Reporting and Management
system. The users are the Data Service Assurance groups in both Ontario and Quebec, who take client trouble
reports and track the trouble “fixes” over the life of the report. Other groups use the statistics gathered
in this system to gather information on Bell’s overall Trouble Management system.
TSQM Total Software Quality Management
TTS Text to Speech
UCB_CD UCB - Universal Class of Business Code identifies the type of business carried on by the customer.
Is assigned on the initial BCRIS service order, and is used by Teledirect to place the business name in the
correct section of the Yellow Pages Directory.
UMT User Managed Table
USOC Universal Service Order Code
USOC/SAC Universal Service Order Code/Special Assembly Code
USOC/SAC Universal Service Order Code/Special Assembly Code
USODS Universal Service Order Distribution System
USSO Universal System Service Order
VAS Value Added Services
VAS Value Added Service - A service that the customer has the option of ordering over and above the basic
service offering, usually with additional charges associated with it.
VHLE Very High Level Estimate
Vitria (Data) Transformer The component of a connector that converts data into BusinessWare events using
BusinessWare API methods or custom plug-in methods.
VNET Virtual NETwork
VoIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
WFMS Work Force Management System
WLP WebLogic Portal
WNP Wireless Number Portability
WSP Wireless Service Provider
xMS Exception Management System (Order Care)
CMA Configuration Management Administrator
SLM Standard Lifecycle Model (Harvest SCM)
SCM Software Configuration Management
PIS Post Implementation Support (aka Normalization)
WARF Work Authorization Request Form
1LR Single Line Residence
1X Browsing on mobulity network
1XRTT Interexchange Radio Transmission Technologies
1XRTT aka 1X 1 Times Radio Transmission Technologies
2SD 2 Step Delivery
3D Decide, Design, Deliver
911-WEB-EFT 911 Electronic File Transfer-Web
A/P Accounts Payable
A/R Accounts Receivable
A2A Any to Any
AA Administrative Assistant
ABAP Advanced Business Applicaiton Programming
ABBM Advanced BroadBand Management
ABC Activity Based Costing
ABM Automatic Banking Machine
ABM-PH2TC Advantage Business Market-Phase 2-Total Competition
ABM-TRACK Advantage Business Market-Tracking
ABR Area Border Router
ABR Available Bit Rate
ACAP Advanced Customer Analytics Platform
ACB Air Circuit Breaker
Account The method by which Sympatico categorizes customers when they are registering
ACI Access Control Item
ACID Agent Circuit ID
ACL Access Control List
ACM Administrative Control Module
ACMS Amdocs Canadian Managed Services Inc.
ACS Automated Conferencing Service
ACSFU Automated Customer Service Follow Up
ACT Action Campaign Transcript
Activation The action that initiates service to the subscriber
ACUT Access Care Universal Ticket
ACUT Access Care Universal Ticketing
AD Active Directory
ADA Application Design Assistant
ADA Application Design Associate
ADB Agent Data Base
ADD Amdocs Document Designer
Adjustment The total of all adjustments processed since the last bill date.
ADS Active Data Store
ADS Application Design Specialist
ADS Application Distribution System
ADT Application Development Team
adv advice
ae Account Executive
AEI Auxiliary Equipment Inquiry
AER Aerial
AFC Advance Facility Check
AFDA allowance for doubtful accounts
AFRA allowance for revenue account
AFT-PAD Automated Funds Transfer Pre-Authorized Debit
AFWFM Automated Field Work Force Management
AGM Absored Glass Mat - Battery Technology
AGPS Assisted Global Positioning System
AGTP ADDITIONAL GUARANTEED TEMPORARY PENSION
AHT Account Handling Time
ai Adaptive Infrastructure
AIBN Advantage Internet Business Network
AKA Also Known As
ALA Additional Line Aquisition
ALQT Address Location Qualification Tool
ALQT ADSL Loop Qualification Tool
ALT Application List Tool (by SystemWorks)
ALV ABAP List Viewer
AMA Anypath Migration Application
AMAS Any Media Access System
AMAS AnyMedia Access System
AMC Annual Monetary Commitment
AMS Application Managed Services
AMT Application Management Tool
AMUC Annual Minute Usage Commitment
ANE Access Network Engineering
ANSP ACCESS NETWORK SERVICE PROVISIONING
ANTS Application & Networking Technology Support
AO Additional Offer
AO Associated Order
AP Access Point
APCR Application Promotion Change Request
APKL Application Portfolio Knowledge Library
APM Amdocs Partner Manager
APRA Anticipated Problem Resolution Approach
APT Anymedia Provisioning Tool
ARG Acknowledge, Response & Go
ARMS Audit & Risk Management Service
ARMS Activation Resolution Management System
ARO Asset Retirement Obligation
ARR Access Remote Routing
ARRA Accounts Receivable Reconciliation and Aging
ARS Account Resolution Specialist
ASAP Automated Service Activation Program
asap as soon as possible
ASAP Automated Service Activation Program
ASDL Atomic Service Description Layer
ASG Advanced Services Gateway
ASN Ariba Supplier Network
asp Active Server Pages
ASPIRE Actimedia Service Performance Internet Reporting Environment
Assoc Associated
ASSURE Administration System Support Universal Report Environment (by SystemWorks)
ATA Analog Telephone Adapter
ATA Asset Transfer Agreement
ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
ATL Automated Tape Library
ATOM Advanced Telecommunication Order Manager
ATRG Automatic Trouble Report Generator
ATT Average Talk Time
ATU ADSL Terminal Unit
AU Accumulated Usage (Ensemble)
AVCC Activation, validation and configuration center
AVR Assignment Verification Request
AW Activity Window (same as Maintenance Window)
AWFM Automated Work Management System
AWI Admin Web Interface (part of FWFM)
AYCW All You Can Watch
B-PASS Bell Provisioning & Access Self-Serve
B-RAS Broadband Remote Access Server
B2B Business to Business
BA Bell Aliant
BA Billing Adjustment
Backout Reversing a payment transaction (e.g., a dishonored check).
BAD Building, Access & Demarcation (by SystemWorks)
BAI Bell ActiMedia
BAO Business Acceleration Office
BARC Bell Aliant Regional Communications
BART BART ALIANT REGIONAL TRUST
BASE Billing Account Structure Engine
BB Broadband
BB Black Berry device
BBC BTN / BAN / CID
BBH Bell Better Home
BBL Be back later
BBM BlackBerry Messenger
BBM Bell Business Market
BBNE BroadBand Network Engineering
BBNOC Broadband Network Operations Centre
BBO Broadcast Business Office (in relation to EOM)
BBP Bell Business Portal (often referred to as the ePortal)
BBS Bell Business Solutions
BBS Bell Business Services
BBSI Bell Business Solutions Inc.
BBSP Bell's Business Solution Process
BCAT Business Communication Analysis Tool
BCECS Bell Canada Enterprises - Corporate Services
BCM Business Communications module
BCM Business Continuity Management (fr: PCA)
BCMS Bell Carrier Management System
BCOE Billing Center of Expertise
BCOM Bell Canada Operations Methods
BCON Bell Canada Operations Notification
BCOP Business Convergent Operations Portal
BCRIS-VNET Bell Customer Records Information System-Virtual Network
BCRP Bell Customer Reference Program
BCRP Business Continuity and Resumption Plan (PCRA)
BCT Business Collection Tool
BCT Bell Collection Tool
BCV Business Continuity Volume
BDF Biller Declaration File
BDMS Bell Dexit Merchant Service
BDN Building Network Design
BDR Bell Don't Ring
BDS Business Decision Support
BDT Battery Discharge Test
BDT Broadband Distribution Terminal
BDU Broadcast Distribution Utility
BDV Bell Digital Voice
BDVL Bell Digital Voice Lite
BEATS Bell ExpressVu Asset Tracking System
BEBN Bell Electronic Business Network
BEBN Bell Electronic Business Network
BEC Building Emergency Coordinator
BEC Building Emergency Coordinator
BECS Bell Enhanced Customer Service
BEG Building Emergency Guide (GMUI)
bell.ca Bell website to promote products and services and provide online channels
Bellnet Bell Canada's Internetworking/Data maintenance agreement for the Outright Sale M
BEM Business Engagement Model
BEMRA Billed Earned Market Revenues Assignment
BEO Building Emergency Organzisation (OMUI)
BEP Bell EntryPoint
BES Bell Entertainment Service (Also: FoHE; IPTV)
BETA Back End Transport Adaptors
BEV Bell ExpressVu
BFD Bi-Directional Failure Detection
BFI Business Features Information
BFS Bell Fleet Solutions
BGMI Bell Globemedia Interactive
BI Bell Internet
BI Business Intelligence
BI Bell Interactive (a.k.a. Bell.ca team)
BIA Business Internet Automation
BIB Business Internet Basic
BICT Bell Information and Communications Technology
BICT Bell Information Communications Tecnology
BID Business Initiative Document
BID Bell Internet Dial
BID Billing Identification (related to SID)
BIDA Bell Internet Dial Access
BIE Business Internet Enterprise
BIHS Bell Internet High Speed
BIHS Business Internet High Speed
BIHSE Bell Internet High Speed Entreprise
billingcycle The invoice date that the member is charged on.
Billplex Billplex
BIMS Bell Internet Management Services
BIOS Bell ICT Outsourcing Solutions
BIP On Line Building Infrastructure Planning On Line (by SystemWorks)
BIPS Bell IP Solutions
BIPV Business IP Voice
BIPV Business IP Voice (Fr: VIPA)
BIS Business Intelligence Services
BISA Business Information Security Advisor
BitE Bell in the East (Ontario and Quebec)
BitW Bell in the West (Bell West)
BIU Business Internet Unplugged
BIWS Bell Internet Web Service
BLEC Building Local Exchange Carrier
BLING Bell London Interactive Network Generator (by SystemWorks)
BLING Bell London Integrated Network Generator
blvd boulevard
BLVD Battery Low Voltage Disconnect
BM Bell Mobility
BMIC Bell Microsoft Innovation Centre
BMS Bell Monitoring Services (Bell New Ventures service, www.bellhomemonitoring.ca)
BMS-IA Business Management System / Information Access
BMTNON Brampton, Ontario
BMW Bavarian Motor Works
BMWOF Bell Mobility Web Order Form
BNOC Bell Network Operations Centre
BNS Broadband Network Solution
BO Base Offer
BO Back Office
BOA Bulk of Adjustments
BOBS Back Office Billing System
BOD Battery On Discharge
BOGO Buy One Get One
BOID Bell Ordering Interface Distributor
BOL Business OnLine
BOL Buzz on line
BOMP Bell OnStar Mating Plan
BOP Begining of Period
BOR Business Operation Review
BOS Broadband Operating Supervisor
BOS Back Office & Support
BP Binding Post
BP Billing Period
BPASS Bell Provisioning Access Self Serve
BPD Business Process Document
BPD Business Process Document
BPG Building Principal Ground
BPM Business Process Manager
BPM Business Process Model
BPMT Business plan tracking tool
BPN Bill Paying Number
BPS Business Policy Switch
BR Blue Room
BRAA Bells ring after answering
BRAS Broadband Remote Access Server
BRASS Broadcast Reporting and Analysis Support System
BRB Be Right Back
BRC Business Review Counsel
BRES Bell Real Estate Services
BRF Business Requirement Form
BRP Business Recovery Plan
BRPHMS Bell Remote Patient Health Monitoring Service
BRR Battery Return Reference
BRS Bell Residential Services
BRS BUSINESS REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION
BRT Bulk Request Template
BRT Business Request Template
BRT Bell Regional Trust
BSA Business Solutions Advisor
BSA Business Systems Analyst
BSA Bell Solutions Advisor
BSAM Broadband Service Access Multiplexer
BSB Business & Systems Boundary
BSC Business Service Center
BSEF Basic Service Extension Feature
BSI Billing System Interface
BSM Billing Solutions Manager
BSP Business Solutions Practice
BSR Bell Sales Representative
BSTW Bell Systems Technology West
BT Battery Test
BTA Bill-To-Account
BTAC Bell Technical Assistance Ctr.
BTP Bill Track Pro
BTS Bell Technical Solutions
BTS Bell Team Survey
BTTH Broadband To The Home
BTV Bell TV
Bullseye Database that stores and maintains HSE full-install appointment information
BUN Business Unit Name
BUP Bell Username and Password
BUR Buried
BUS Abbreviation of BUSINESS
BUSEDGE Business Edge
Buy-Bot Online systems used to collect upgrade orders from existing Sympatico customers
BVA Business Value Added
BVES Bell Video Exchange Service
BVIS Bell's Voice Identification System
BW Business Warehouse
BW Business Warehouse Reporting Tool
BW Bell West
BW Bell Western Region
BWA Bell Wireless Alliance
BWAS Bell Wireless Alliance Support
BWH Bell Web Hosting
BwM Bandwidth Management
BWS Bell Web Solutions (formerly CESART)
C Completed
c2c Contract to Cash - step x step process from sale to bill
C2C Concept 2 Customer
CAB Cabinet
CAC Customer Account Coordinator
Cache The cache layer acts as an API for both InterMail and LDAP
CAD Cable Assistance Desk
CAH Consumer Assurance Hardening (project name)
CALL-CARD Customer Calling Card System
CAMM Call Answer Message Manager
CAMP Customer Appointment Management Plan
CAP Control Advisory Prime
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
CAPR Cable Pair
CaRS Call Routing Strategy
CAS Cisco Advanced Services
CATS Customer Advanced Technical Solutions
CBF Central Business Functions
CBF Centralized Business Functions (by SystemWorks)
CBM CUSTOMER BASE MANAGEMENT
CBN Common Bonding Network
CBO Chief Brand Officer
CBRD Customer Billing Requirements Document
CBSS Platform in Bell Quebec that receives the Advantage Preferred invoices
CBWFQ Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing
CC Customer Care and Billing
CC&B Customer Care & Billing
CCA Customer Contract Assurance
CCAD Central Control Automated Distribution
CCAR Call Centre Analysis and Results
CCC Corporate Client Care
CCC Customer Contact Centres
CCDA Cisco Certified Design Associate
CCDP Cisco Certifier Design Professional
CCI Common Customer Identifier
CCI&S Customer Care Infrastructure and Services
CCIE CISCO CERTIFIED INTERNETWORK EXPERT
CCIP Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
CCM Contact Center Manager
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
CCNCS Client Care National Channel Support
CCNP Cisco Certifier Network Professional
CCO Chief Corporate Officer
CCOPR Computerized Central Offices Power Records (by SystemWorks)
CCR Channel Communication Request
CCR Client Care Representative
CCS Cable Control System
CCS Consumer Credit Services
CCS Consumer Credit Services
CCSP Cisco Certifier Security Professional
CCT Customer Care Taskforce
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CCVT Customer and CSR Validation Team
CCWT Came Clear While Tracing
CD PAD Converged Desktop Preferred Answering Device
CDC Career and Development Centre
CDMA Code Division Multiplexed Access
cdna Competitive Digital Network Access
CDO Commercial Dealership Outlet
CDOT Critical Dates Order Tracking
CDP Customer Design Package
CDS Customer Delivery Services
CDS Consumer Direct Sales
CDUT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
CE Customer Experience
CE Corporate External
CEC Corporate Emergency Coordinator (fr: CPMUE)
CEC Canadian Electrical Codes
CEIA Client Experience Insight and Action
CEOC Corporate Emergency Operations Center
CEOC Corporate Emergency Operations Centre (fr: CMUE)
CES Contivity Extranet Switch
CES Centralized Enterprise Storage
CET Customer Experience Training
CFA Circuit Facility Assignment
CFDP Circuit Facilities Design and Provisioning
CFG Customer Facing Group
CFIM Cable Field Inventory Management
CFP Customer Facing Port
CFR Customer Facing Reports
CGRND Centre de Gestion Réseau National des Données
CGRND NDNC (National Data Network Center) in english
CGSC Carrier Group Service Center
CH Customer Hierarchy
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHM Customer Hierarchy Management
CI Customer Insight
CI Composite Index score
CI Corporate Internal - and account type assigned only to BCE companies or accounts
CI Configuration Item (ITIL terminology)
CIA Confidentiality Integrity Availability
CIBER CELLULAR INDUSTRY BILLING EXCHANGE RECORD
CIC Co-ordinated Installation Commitment
CIC/CAMP Co-ordinated Installation Commitment/Customer Appointment Management Plan
CICM Centrex IP Client Manager
CIP Clear Informaiton Promise
cIPAG Consumer IP Applications Gateway
CLAT Call Listening Analysis Tool
CLID Caller Identification
CLM Customer Loyalty Measures
CLO Chief Legal Officer
CLONES Central Location On Line Entry System (context: CLLI/Telcordia)
CLS Company Lookup Service
CLS Company Lookup Service
CLSS Common Language Service System (context: CLLI/Telcordia)
CLT Coverage Locator Tool
CM Change Management
CMA Change Management Administrator
CMA Canadian Marketing Association
CMA Civic Municipality Amalgamation (often in relation to updates in Access)
CMAR Consumer Marketing At Retail
CMAS Centre for Minimal Access Surgery
CMC Community Mail Center
CMDB Configuration Management Database
CMF Customer Master File
CMM Capacity Maturity Model
CMMS Centralized Management and Monitoring System
CMO Current Mode of Operation
CMS Configuration Management System (ITIL terminology)
CMS Content Management System
CN Confirmation Number
CNER Canadian National Exchange Record
CNS Cisco Networking Services
co-lab exCITE! Co-Lab face-to-face facilitated session
COA Cost of Acquisition
COD Class On Demand
CODD Coordinated Due Date
COL Confirmation of learning
Collections The department and function that collects the amount owing on a delinquent acct
COLT Central Office Line Termination
COM Cost of maintenance
COM Portal City Of Mississauga Portal
COM Portal City Of Mississauga Portal
COMPAS Competitive Market and Product Analysis System
Conso Consolidator "One Bill" billing system
COOL Customer Order Optimization Linkage
COP Control Optics Processor
COPS Customer Order Provisioning System
COPS-TM Circuit Order Provisioning System-Trouble management
COR Corner
CORDS Customer Order Request Delivery System
COS Class of Service
COV Control Over Voice
COW Central Office Work
CP&D Capacity provisioning and design
CPB Call Processing Busy
CPC Cost Per Call
CPI Cable Pair Inquiry
CPIC Canadian Police Information Centre
CPJ Corporate Processing Job
CPL Common Photonic Layer
CPMUI Coordonnateur de planification des mesures d'urgence de imeuble (BEC)
CPS Claims Preparation System
CPS Cost Per Subscriber
CPS Channel Payment System
CPTSP Competitive Pay Telephone Service Provider
CPTSP-800 Competitive Pay Telephone Service Provider-800
CQQ Customer Quote Questionnaire
CQT charges quoted to
CR Cable Repair
CR Change Request
CR Compact remote
CRA Customer Relation Advisor
CRD Customer Requested Date
CRE Certen Reporting Environment
Credits If customer has an issue with their dial-up service, next bill is credited
CRO Complete with Related Order (CRO)
CRON Job scheduling software
CRT Customer Reporting Tool
CRT Carrier Relations Team
CRUD Create Read Update Delete
CRW Customer Report Web
CS2K Call Server 2000
CSA Customer Specific Arrangement
CSAP Customer Specific Application
CSAP Customer Specific Adaptive Process
CSARS Carrier Services Accounts Receivable System
CSB CGI Services to BCE
CSC Correctional Services Canada
CSC Converged Service Center (monitoring and test, PBX, VoIP)
CSC Customer Self Care
CSC Reports Customer Service Centre Reports
CSDC Converged Services Desktop Consolidation
CSDL Common Service Description Layer
CSE Customer Service Engineer
CSEM Corporate Security - Emergency Management (fr: SEGU)
CSG Cable Services Group
CSK CableSHARK
CSO Converged Services Operation
CSOM Communications Server Operational Measurements Tool
CSP Central Splitting Point
CSQ Customer Service Queue
CSR Customer Service Request
CSS Corporate Self Serve
CSSM Corporate Systems Service Management
CSTAR Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics
CTC Critical to Customer or Critical to Client
CTDI Communications Test Design Inc
CTN Cellular Telephone Number
CTO Chief Talent Officer
cust customer
CVC Credit Validation Centre
CVP Customer Value Proposition
CVT Customer Voice Team
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexed
CWNPG Canadian Wireless Number Portability Group
D2D Day To Day
DAA Directory Assistance Automation
DAD DMS Application Data (Web application)
DAD DMS Alarm Data (by SystemWorks)
DAL Dedicated Advertising Location
DART Dispatch Activation Repair Tool (device)
DAS Distributed Antenna System
Dbtr Debtor
DBV Dynamic Brand Variable
DC Data Circuit
DCS Detailed Conceptual Solution
DDM DataMultimedia (by SystemWorks)
DDOS Distributed Denial of Service
DDRC Due Date Reason Code
DDS Detailed Design Specification
DE Discount Engine (Ensemble)
Debt Adjustment for debt will increase the amount of the member's next bill
DEC District Emergency Coordinator (fr: CPMUD)
DELT Dual Ended Line Test
DELT Dual Ended Loop Test
DEOC District Emergency Operations Centre (fr: CMUD)
DG Discount Group
Dial Service Sympatico service accessed by dialing into an ISP using a phone line and modem
Digitek System used to queue up orders collected by online order Buy-Bot systems
DIPE Dual IP Edge (Separate VLAN for Internet and IPTV)
Discounts Incentive for customer to retain their Sympatico service
DIT Data Integration Testing
DIT Data Integration Team
DL Directory Listing
DLR Design Layout Record
DLR Display Line Record
DM Direct Mail
DM Data Management
DMA Define Measure Analyze
DMAIC Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
DMCR Direct Marketing Center Representative (RMD in French)
DMP Device Methods and Procedures
DMS Dealer Management System (DMS)
DMSR Revised Service Due Date (RSDD)
DMT Device Modeling Template
DN Destination Number
DNA Do Not Abbreviate
DNC Do Not Call
DNIA Number used by the Faneuil Channel Group associated with the 1-800 number
DNSR Data Network Service Renewal
doc the functional requirement document number
DOC Microsoft Office Document
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOD Depth of Discharge
DP Designer Patch
DPCRC Damage Prevention Cost Recovery Center
DPI Deep Packet Inspection
DPO DWDM Pluggable Optics
DPT Dynamic Packet Trunking aka SIPT
DR Distribution Router
DSA Data Subject Area
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DSE Data Service Engineer
DSF Digital Service Fee
DSI Dispatch Service Interface (FWFM)
DSN Database Source Name, a data structure used to describe a connection to a databa
DSO Distributed Systems Operations
DSS Document Storage Service
DSSSL Document Style Semantics & Specification Language
DTA ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNIQUE DOCUMENTATION
DTAC Data Test & Activation Centre
DTD Dial Tone Delay (by SystemWorks)
DTG Data to Go
DTH Direct To Home
DTTA Direct Talk Technology Adapter (in relation to the MSP/IVR)
DU Dial Up
DUAP Delivery Unit Assessment Prime (Bell IS/IT)
DV Digital Voice
DVACS Data Verification Access & Control System
DVAT Data, Voice, Answer, Testing
DVN Digital Video Network
DWO DIspatchable work order
E-KM Enterprise - Knowledge Management (Now renamed: ECC)
E2E End-to-end
E2E CLR End to End Circuit Layout Record
EA Enterprise Architecture
EA&N&SS Enterprise Architecture and Network & Security Services
EADB Equal Access Data Base
EAM Event Account Manager
EAM Event Access Manager (download event on mobility)
EAN Enhanced Application Network
EAN&SS Enterprise Architecture and Network & Security Services
EAP Extended Authentication Protocol
EAP Early Adopter Program
EAR Emergency Advanced Replacement
EAUM Engagement annuel d'utilisation en minutes
EBIDTA Earnings Before Interest Depreciation Taxes and Amortization
EBP Enterprise Buyer Professional P55 Portal
EC Enterprised Configurator
ECC Enterprise Collaboration Centre (previously E-KM, KMT)
ECC ExpressVu Control Center
ECD Express Consent Database
ECD Enterprise Convergent Desktop
ECEO Enterprise Customer Experience Organization
ECLR Enhanced Circuit Layout Record
ECM Enterprise Contract Management
ECQ EOM Check Quality Tool
ECR Employee Coaching Report
ECRL Enhanced Circuit Record Layout
ECS Event Correlation System (pertaining to IBAM)
ED Enterprise Directory
EDC Equipment Damage Charge (fr = FDM)
EDE-LSR Electronic Data Exchange Local Service Request
EDG Exception Dispatch Group
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EDI811 Electronic Data Interchange feed
EDIOMS EDI Gateway Order Management System
EDP Employee Discount Plan
EDS ExpressVu Data Service
EE Employment Equity
EFAP Employee and Family Assistance Program
EFAS Electronic Frame Admistration System
EFM Ethernet in the First Mile
EFRC Extended Flat Rate Calling
EHD Enterprise Help Desk
EHD External Hard Drive
EHP Escalation Help Desk
EI Ethernet Internet
EI&O Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations
EIA Enhanced Information Access
EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EIO Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations
EIP Ethernet Interconnection Panel
EIS Enterprise Infrastructure Services
ELA Enterprise License Agreement
ELIM Enhancement Line interface module
Elite Sales tracking system for consumer and small business
ELX Extended Long haul
EMA Engagement Monétaire Annuel
EMAAK Electronic Management of Assignment and Activation Kickouts
EMP Electromagnetic Pulses
ENS Ensemble
Ensemble Functionality includes billing queries, acct management, and collections
EO&A Enterprise Operations & Applications
EOA Enterprise Operations & Applications
EOD End of Day
eoe Enhanced Optical Ethernet
EOG Equipment Ordering Group
EOL End Of Life
EOM Entry Order Management
EOM Enterprise Order Manager
EOM E-portal Order Management
EOM Enterprise Order Management
EOP End of Period
EOWC Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus
EPE Eastern Primed Enterprise (Western sales use)
ePO Enterprise Policy Orchestrator
EPP Employee Purchase Plan
EQ Equalize Charging
ERA Emergency Recovery Area
ERS Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)
ERX Edge Routing Switch
ESC External Sales Channel
ESC Escort
EServices HTML web based front end that links customers to the IAF self-care system
esf/b8zs extended super frame/biopolar 8 zero substitution
ESI EOM System Interface
ESL Early Start Letter (a short term, 3 months, agreement)
ESM Ethernet Service Module
ESPP Employee Safety Protection Plan
ESPP Employee Safety Protection Plan (by SystemWorks)
ESS Employee Self Serve
ESU Ethernet Service Unit
ETA Employee Transfer Agreement
ETAMS Electronic Telco Access Management System
ETAP Extended Test Access Point
ETAP/STAP Extended test access point/Simple test access point
ETC Early Termination Charge
ETE Equipement Telecommunication Equipment
ETF Early Termination Fee
ETOM Electronic Toll Only Management
eTOM Enhanced Telecom Operations Map
ETP Early Termination Penalty
ETS Ethernet Transport service
EULA End User Licencing Agreement
EUT End User Training
EV Employee Value
EV-DO Evolution - Data Optimized / technologie réseau de données mobile 3G
EVA Enterprise Virtual Array
EVDO Evolution, Data Optimized
EVDO RevA Evolution Data Optimized Revision A
EVDO RevB Evolution Data Optimized Revision B
EVP Executive Vice-President
EVU ExpressVu - provides customers with satellite television viewing
EWM Enterprise Workflow Management
EWM Entreprise Workforce Management
EWN Enterprise Workflow Management
EWP Extended Warranty Plan - Voice Maintenance Agreement
EWT Enhanced Wholesale Tools
EXC Ethernet X-Connect
exvu ExpressVu
f Frequency
F2F Face To Face
FAB Feature Added Benefits
FAP Fibre Aggregation Point of Presence
FBF Flexible Bill Formatter (Ensemble)
FC Foreign Carrier (other than Bell Mobility)
FC Fixed Count
FCCO Fraud Control Center Ottawa
FCI Frame Circuit Inquiry
FCR First Contact Resolution
FDS ePortal File Distribution Service
FDSSH Fiber Drop Slack Storage Housing
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class
FEE Finance Enhancements and Enablers
FGHD Federal Government Help Desk
FGMS Federal Government Managed Solutions
FHE Future Home Entertainment
FI Full Install
FID Field Identifier on a BOOST order
FIM Fiber Interface Module
FIOS Fibre Optic Service
FIST Field Interactive Support Team
FIT FWFM Interface for Technicians
FK Foreign Key
FL Float Charging
FLOSS Free, Libre and Open Source Software
flt Float
FM Free Minutes
FMB Full Money Box
FMS Field Management Services
FMT Fiber Management Tool (by SystemWorks)
FMV fair market value (accounting term)
FOA First Office Application
FOC Firm order Commitment
FoHE Future of Home Entertainment
FoHE Futur of Home Entertainment
FORDS Flanker Order Request Delivery System
FORDS Flanker Order Request Delivery System
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FRD-ver-doc- identifier used to uniquely identify a Functional requirement
FRDB Frame Relay Database
FRG Fix Running Gateway
FRLS Force Release
FS&S file storage and sharing - 3rd party provider that allows file store and share
FSI Free Standing Insert
FSLAM Fiber Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
FSS Field Services Specialist
FSTC Final Ship To Confirmation
FTE Full Time Equivalent
FTS Full time student
FTTP Fiber To The Premises
FU Follow up
FW Field Work
FW Frame Work
FWFM Field Work Force Management
G Conductance Measured in Mhos for Battery
GAS Gateway Access Service
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converters
GDD Global Data Definition (Ensemble)
GEM Government, Education & Medical - Market Segment
GES Global eSecurity
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GIF Generic Interface File
gIPVPN Global IP Virtual Private Network
GL General Ledger (for billing)
GLB GRADE LEVEL BOX
GMA Greater Montreal Area
GMS Graphic Management Systems
GoO-CALLCARD Government of Ontario-Calling Card
GP Group President
GPL General Public License
GPON Gigabit Passive Optical Network
GPRS General Packet Radio System
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GROID Get Resource Order Item Detail
Groupkey Entity which combines a Parent Account and Promotion
GSA GOOGLE-like Search Application (by SystemWorks)
GSDC Global Service Delivery Center
GSFN General Signalling Function
GSM Global System for Mobile
GSM GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile circa 1982
GTA Greater Toronto Area
GTAA Greater Toronto Airport Authority
GUID Global Unique Identifier
GWC Gate Way Controllers
GWP Gift With Purchase
HAS High Speed Access System
HASU Hardware Assigned, Software Unassigned
HBA Host Bus Adapter (connects computer to storage on SAN)
HC Head Count
HCSA High Cost Serving Areas
HD High Defenition
hepa high efficiency particulate aerosols
HF Home Free
HGE HTML Generator Engine
HHLT Household Loyalty Team
HHRQ House Hold Retention Queue
HIPCC Hosted IP Contact Centre (by SystemWorks)
HIPS Host Intrusion Prevention System
HIPT Hosted Internet Protocol Telephony
HIPV Hosted Internet Protocol Voice
HM Homing Matrix
HOMER Philippe Halleux
HOTS High Speed Order Tracking System
HP Hydro Pole
HRLOP Human Resources Line Operations
HSA High Speed Access
HSA High Speed Assurance (spreadsheet)
HSC High Speed Center (formally the COE, Center of Excellence)
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSELD High Speed Edition Long Distance Bundle
HSEULD High Speed Edition Unlimited Long Distance Bundle
HSM High Speed Metro
HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) – Norme de transmission de données mobiles 3G
HSPA+ Evolved HSPA
HSSP High Speed Service Provider
HST High Speed Trail (SONET)
HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access
HTS Hiring and Training Specialist
HUG Hardware Upgrade
I & A Infrastructure & Architecture
I and A Infrastructure and Architecture
I&A Infrastructure & Architecture
IA Impact Assessment
IA Infrastructure and Architecture
IBAM Integrated Broadband Alarm Management (by SystemWorks)
IBM International Bell Machines
IBN Isolated Bonding Network
IBP Integrated Business Plan
IC Individual Completion
IC Incident/CALRS
ICEC Investment Council Executive Committee
ICO Independent Company (A LEC not affiliated with a BOC)
ICR Intelligent Call Routing
ICRSG Intelligeant Call Routing Server Gateway
ICS Internet Connect Service
ICT Improved Continuation Training
ICT Information Communications Tecnology
ICT Integrated Communication Technology
ICU Internet Check-Up
ID-ah! ID-ah! online collaborative innovation system
IDA Independant Dealer Association
IDC INSTALLATION DISPLACEMENT CONNECTOR
IDL Interactive Distance Learning
IDL Idle
IdM Identity Management
IDR Invoice Data Repository
IDR Invoicing Data Repository
IDS Internet Delivery Services
IDS Intrusion Detection System
IG Internet Gateway
IHG In Home Gateway
IIP Installation In Place
IIP Instrument in Plan
IIRC If I Recall Correctly
IIT International Institute of Telecommunications
IM Instant Messaging
IM Implementation Manager
IMAC Install Move Add Change
IMAKS Investment Management Advanced Knowledge System
IMC Integrated Message Centre
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMIS Integrated Managed Infrastructure Services
IMS Internetworking Management System
IN Individual Customers
IN Incident/NETS
INMC Intelligent Network Maintenance Centre
iNOC Internet Network Operations Centre
instld installed
InterMail The Sympatico email system that manages email accounts and mailboxes
INUTS International Network Usage Tracking System
INX Inter-Network Exchange
IOC Internetworking Order Control
IOG Intercept Order Group
IOM Integrated Order Management
IOTA IP-Based Over-the-Air Provisioning
IP TV IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television servi
IP&P Infrastructure Planning and Performance
IPAA Internet Protocol Automatic Activation
IPACT IP Assigning Control Tool
IPACT IP Activity Control Tool
IPAG IP Application Gateway
IPBB Internet Protocal Broadband
IPC Information Protection Center
IPCD Internet Protocal Control Desk
IPDPC IP Development and Provisioning Centre
IPHOTS Internet Product High Speed Order Tracking System
IPIS IP Initiation Series
IPLA IP Location Architecture: correlates IP address to civic address
IPM Infrastructure Program Management
IPOMS Internet Protocol Operational Measurements System
IPP Infrastructure Planning and Performance
IPS Intrusion Prevention System
IPTC Internet Protocol Technology Center
iptv internet protocol tv
IPTV IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television servi
IQ Integrated Quality Team (formely IV&V)
IRC Investment Review Council
IRC Inbound Respond Call (Call Volume)
IRIS Front-end ordering tool used by Bell World to capture sales orders
IRU Irrevocable Right of Use
IS Internet Service
IS In Service - Profile information on the products and services a customer has
IS Information Security
IS-95 Interim Standard 95
ISA Information Security Advisor
ISBD Infrastructure services/Business development
ISC Implementation and Service Coordination
ISCP Intelligent Service Control Point
ISD Internet Sharing Device
ISHD Infrastructure Solutions Help Desk
ISIT Information Systems Information Technology
ISIT Integrated Switch Image Tool
ISMS Information Security Management Services
ISN IP Services Network
ISP Integrated Services Platform
ISPR In Store Price Reduction
ISR Integrated Services Router
ISR Infrastructure Specification Requirements
ISSD issued
IST Inter Switch Trunk
ITFACE Interface
ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library
ITS Integrated Telephone System
ITS Inmate Telephone System
ITSM IT Service Management
IWR Interactive Web Reservation
IWS Identity Web Server
IYS In Year Support
IZ Info Zone
J Jeopardy
J2EE Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
JAM ID-ah! JAM - On-Line Collaboration Event
JANS Joint Alarming Notification System
JESS Journal Entry Self Serve
jmpr jumper
JNI Jumper Network Interface (also OPI)
JOR Joint Operating Relationship
JORGE Just Outrageously Reaching Great Expectations
JPC Joint Profile Committee
JTPOR (Bell-Cisco) Joint Testing Plan of Record
KANA Email Tool
KIM Knowledge Intranet Management
KM Knowledge Management
KMT Knowledge Management Tool (Now renamed: ECC)
KPI Key Performance Indicators
KSR Key Senior Representative
L2TP Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol
LAC L2TP Access Concentrator
LAG Line Access Gateway
LAG Link Aggregation Group
LAN Based Systems or information provided over a Local Area Network (LAN)
LBGUPRS Learn Buy Get Use Pay Repair Serve
LBS Location Based Services
LCA Local Calling Area
LCC Lucent Combo Card
LCT Local Craft interface
LCWB Local Winback
LDVI Long Distance Vulnerability Index
LDVT Long Distance Validation Tool
LE Leadership Essentials
LER Label Edge Router
LFA Local Forborne Area
LIA Leadership in Action
LIB Label Information Base
LIR Local Interconnection Region
LIS Location Information Server: used for E911 service
LITS Line Installation Test (LIT, LITS)
LL Local Link
LLVD Load Low Voltage Disconnect
LMAO Laugh my ass off
LMC Local Migration Centre
LMPS Legacy Message Processing System.
LMS Letter Management System.
LMS Learning Management System
LNPOM Local Number Portability Opeartional Measurements
LNS L2TP Network Server
LOA Letter of Agreement
LOC Large Organizational Centrex
LOI Letter of Intent
LOI Letter Of Instruction (by SystemWorks)
LOI Laugh On Inside
lol Laugh Out Loud
LPM Line Protection Module
LPR Lumension Patch Remediation (this is the Patchlink replacement)
LRP Long-Range Planning
LS/GS Loop Start/Ground Start
LSC Local Service Confirmation
LSMS Local Service Management System (NPAC)
LSP Label Switch Packet
LSR Label Switch Routers
LSR Local Service Request
LST Line Service Type
LTC Long Term Contract
LTCC long term cancellation charges
LTCC Long term Contract Cancellation
LTE Long Term Evolution
LTFC lead time for change
LTM Left Turn Manager (WAC)
LTO limited time offers
LTOK Line Test Okay
LV Low Voltage
LVD Low Voltage Disconnect
LVPS Low Voltage Power Supply
LX Long haul
MACAM Measures & Analysis Centre d'Analyse & Mesures
MAN Mobility Account Number
Market Company's operational entity responsible for providing services to an area
MAS Maturity Assessment Tool
Max Plus Web based portal that brings all customer information and history together
MBI MIN Block Identifier (WNP)
MBM Mass Busniness Market
MCANT Master Communication Agreement for non Tariff Services
MCAT Master Communication Agreement for Tariff services
MCB Miniature Circuit Breaker
MCC Montreal Call Center
MCCB Moulded Case Circuit Breaker
MCE Management CE
MCF Message Centre Fax feature.
MCIP Megalink Customer Information Package
MCPM Masters Certificate in Project Management
MCS5200 Multimedia Communications Server 5200
MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MCT Milestones, Commitments and Thresholds
MCU Multiple Control Unit
MCU Multipoint Control Unit
MDB Microsoft Database
MDC Master Clock Board
MDF Main Distribution Frame (by SystemWorks)
MDM Master Data Management
MDM Multi-Media Distribution Management
MDPU Maximize DSL Port Utilization
MDR Merchant Discount Rate
MDRR Modified Deficit Round Robin
MDU Multi Dwelling Unit
ME Management Evaluation
MediaLinx The system by which Sympatico distributes the NetLife magazine
MEE Month End Expectation
MEF Metro Ethernet Forum (Standard) : metroethernetforum.org
MEID Mobile Equipment Identifier
MEM Mitel Express Messenger
MER Minor Enhancement Request
MerchantLink System by which Sympatico connects to a financial institution to approve payment
MERS Metro Ethernet Routing Switch
MERT Minor enhancements Request Template
MESA Maintenance and Equipment Service Assurance Tool
MEU Municipal Electric Utilities
MGCP media gateway control protocol
MigT Migration Team
MIP Masters in IP
MIP Mobile IP
MIPT Managed IP Telephony
MIR Mail In Rebate
MKC Market Knowledge Center
MKM Maintenance Spare Management
MLC Mechanized Line Card
MLFR Multi Link Frame Relay
MLT Marginal Line Tool
MLT Marginal Line Tool
MLT Multi-Link Trunking
MMR Meet Me Room
MO Middle Office
MOI Manage object Instance
MOM Manager of Managers
MOS Mean Opinion Score
MPHH Multi Product Household
MPSC Multi Product Solution Center
MR Monitoring and Reporting
MRA More Recent Authorization
MRC Monthly Recurring Charge
MRT Metrics Reporting Tool
MS Managed Services
MSA Modular Storage Array
MSE Management Service Edge
MSID Mobile Subscriber or Station Identifier
MSP/IVR Multiple Services Platform/Integrated Voice Response
MSPP Multi Service Provisioning Platform
MSSP Managed Security Services Provider
MSTR MicroStrategy software application
MTA Master Toll Agreement
MTS Manitoba Telecom Services
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
MTU Multi Tenant Unit
MTW My Telecom Warehouse
MUSH Municipalities, Universities, Schools, Hospitals
MVIE Multi-Vendor Interface Equipment
MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator
MVP Mapel Voice Portal
n the unique requirement identifier within the document
N&T&VP Network & Telecom Ops and Voice Planning
N&TVP Network & Telecom Ops and Voice Planning
NAD Navis Access DSL (Element Management System) for Stinger
NAD National Assign & Design (fka LPAG)
NAG Number Account Group (Ensemble)
NAI Network Access Identifier
NAM Navis Anymedia (Element Mgmt. System) for AMAS Shelf
NANI North American Network Integration
NARC Network Access Resource Center
NARCS National Access Router Configuration Services
NATS Network Activity Tracking System (by SystemWorks)
NBCA New Bell.ca (2005 - Project Gemini)
NBI North Bound Interface
NBO New Business Opportunity
NCM Network Cost Management
NCMS National Consolidation of Maintenance Spares
NCMS Network Customer Maintenance System
ncp Network Call Park
NDD Network Design Document
NDSD Next Day Same Day
NDW Network Data Warehouse
NEC National Electrical Code
NENA National Emergency Number Association
NERF National Extended Reverse Flow
NET National Events Team
NET Network Escalation Team
NEW30 New customer - less than 30 days active account within BEV
NEWTT Network Engineering Workload Tracking Tool (by SystemWorks)
NFC notification of change
NGCE Next Generation Carrier Ethernet
NGI Next Generation Internet
NGR Next Generation Rater
NI National Installation
NICE National IP Core Engineering
NICL Network Infrastructure Certification Lab
NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System
NIM Network Inventory Management (Project that brought in NRMS)
NITS NARCS Integrated Tool Set
NJF No Job Found
NLC Next Level Communications
NM Number Management system.
NMI Northwestel Mobility Inc.
NML Network Management LAN
NMO New Mode of Operation
NMSA Network Management Service Agreement
NNOC-Flash National Network Operation Center-Flash (by SystemWorks)
NNSS National Network Solution Services
NOC National Occupationnal code
NOCC National Operation Control Centre
NPA North American Area Code
NPAT Network Path Analysis Tool (by SystemWorks)
NRIA (Bell-Cisco) Network Reliability Internal Audit
NRMS Network Resources Management System
nrms-l Network Resource Managment System - Logical
nrms-p Network Resouce Management System - Physical
NRT Near Real Time
NRVS Network Resource Visualization System
NSC Network and Service Configuration (Hub)
NSCG Network Systems Completion Group (Mega)
NSE Non-Salary Expense
NSTS Network and Services Technical Support
NTA Number Transfer Ability
NTF New To Footprint
NTI New Technology Introduction
NTVP Network & Telecom Ops and Voice Planning
NWA Network Assignment
OA&F Order Aquisition and Fulfillment
OANI Ontario Access Network Implementation
OBAM Online Business Account Management
OBC Open Border circuit (a toll free product)
OBM Online Bill Manager
OBO (Fr ISC) Originating Business Office (also BO)
OBTM OutBound TeleMarketing
OC Ontario Provincial
OCA Order Control Application
OCC Ontario Control Centre
OCD Order Control Desk
OCD Order Control Desk (F: Bureau de contrôle des commandes)
OCI Optical Channel Interface
OCLD Optical Channel Laser Detector
OCLD Optical Channel Laser and Detector
OCN Operating Carrier Number
OCS Order Control System
OCUDP Office Channel Unit Dataport
OCV Open Circuit Voltage
ODM Advanced Telecommunications Order Manager
ODMR Official DSL MTTR Results
ODS Order Dispatch System
OE Operational Effectiveness
OEL2 Optical Ethernet Layer 2
OEM Operational Effectiveness or Efficiency Manager
OFF-T Operations Financial Forecasting Tool (by SystemWorks)
Offer In IAF, an offer is a set of pricing elements
OFS Order Fulfillment Service
OFSE Order Flow Streamlining Enhancement
OGIS On-Going Integrated Support - operational support group for Sympatico services
OID OBJECT IDENTIFIER
OLH On Line Help
OLIM Optical Line Interface Modules
OM Order MAX
OM Order Manager
OME Optical Multiservice Edge
OMEA Optical Manager Element Adapter
OMF Order Management Framework
OMI Order Management Improvement
ONT Optical Network Terminals
OOA Ongoing Operations Agreement
OOR Out of Release
OOS Out of Scope
OPAN Ontario Provincial Access Network
OPB Order passed by
OpenWave the Sympatico email system that manages email accounts and mailboxes
OPI Operations Process Improvement
OPI-DSLAM Mini central office that brings internet service closer to home
OPM Operation Project Manager
ORCA Order Receipt and Circuit Archiving
ORCA-ISCC Order Receipt and Circuit Archiving for International Service Control Centre
ORCA-NUI Order Receipt and Circuit Archiving for Network User Interface
ORPS Order Report Presentation System
OSCSS Operator Service Customer Satisfaction Survey
OSS Outright Sales & Solutions
OSS Open Source Software
OST Operations Solutions Team
OT Opportunity Template
OT&S Operations Technical & Systems Support
OT&SS Operations Technical & Systems Support
OTC One Time Charge
OTCC One time credit card payment
OTCC One Time Credit Cut Payment
OTR Optical Transponder
OTS Outage Tracking System
OTSS Operations Technical Systems Support
OTWAON Ottawa, Ontario
OVIS Occasional Video Infrastructure Stabilization
OVM Online Voice Mail
OVO OpenView Operations
OVPI Open View Performance Instance
P Pending
P Active Power in Watts
P&CC People & Culture Change Team
P&CCT People & Culture Change Team
P&L Profit and Loss
P2MP Point to Multi Point
P2P People 2 People
pabs provisioning and billing server
PAC Process Advisory Council
PAC Process And Control
PACR Post Activation Call Reduction
PAP PreAuthorized Payment
PASS Partner Assurance Support Services (Avaya)
PBC Preliminary Business Case
PBP Performance Bonus Plan
PC Product Catalogue
PCache provisioning Cache
PCARD Purchasing Card
PCCS Post Call Customer Survey
PCE Performance Coaching Evolution
PCI Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
PCI Payment Card Industry
PCI Pending Circuit Inquiry
PCM People Change Management
PCS[G] Progistix Customer Service [Group]
PCT People & Culture Change Team
PD People Development
PD Project Delivery
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDQ Pre-defined Query Search
PDR Product Development Request
PDT Project Delivery Tool
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard
PED Pedestal
PEP Product Enhancement Package - AKA a Nortel Patch
PET Production-like Environment Testing
PI Project Implementation
PI Port-In.
PIAT Project Initiation Assessment Template
PIC Physical Interface Card
PIC-CARE Preferred Interexchange Carrier-Customer Account Record Exchange
PIS Post Implementation Support
PK Primary Key
PL PatchLink
PLIM Physical Layer Interface Module
PLO Plant Lock Out
PLus PatchLink Upate Server
PM Preventative Maintenance
PM Permission Marketing (bell.ca)
PM Plant Maintenance
PM Problem Management
PMBoK Project Management Body of Knowledge
PMC Port Management Centre
PMI Privilege Management Infrastructure
PMR Performance Management Reporting
PMS Performance Management System
PO Port-Out.
po previously on
POC Proof of Concept
PoE Power of Ethernet
POM Punch-O-Matic door lock (Unican)
PONR Point Of No Return
POP Point of Purchase
PORT Personal/Organization Resource Tool
PP Proactive Patching
PPA Partner Performance Analyst
PPM Partner Performance Manager
PPPoA Point to Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoEoA Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet over ATM
PPT Microsoft Power Point Presentation
PPV Pre-Port Validation. Determines eligibility for porting into Mobility.
PQAS Pre Qualification All Services
PRAG The Performance Reporting & Analysis Group
PREM PREMISES (Customer Location)
PRL Preferred Roaming List
PRM Performance Reporting Management
Promotion A function of billing that allows a member to be billed only for time used
PRPS Product Rationalization and Product Simplification
PS Power Sharing
PS ALI Private Switch Automatic Location Identification Service
PS&I Professional Services & Infrastructure
PSA Partial System Agreement
PSD Provisioning Status Data
PSI Progistix Solutions Incorporated
PSP Product and Service Provisioning
PSP Preside Service Provisioning
PSP Prevention Support Portal
PSRT Project Status Reporting Tool
PTOC Payment To Other Carriers
PTP Process Transformation Program
PTT Push to Talk
PTY Party
PVC OARS Permanent Virtual Circuit Order Assignment Record System
PVG Packet Voice Gateway
PWCC Prepaid Wholesale Calling Card
PWCC Prepaid Wholesale Calling Card
Pweb Personal Web - provisioning tool used in customer self care
PYA Pick Your Appointment (Unique time slots for 310 move orders)
Q Reactive Power in VARS
QDN Query Directory Number
QFD Quality function deployment
QLEN Query Line Equipment Number
qlen Query Line Equipment Number
QPM Quad Port Module (as it relates to switches)
QTD Quarter to Date
R&R Roles & Responsibilities
R.F.S. Ready For Service
RAC Oracle Real Application Clusters
Radius A system that collects and provides the raw data records (i.e. usage)
RAN Radio Access Network
RARM Residential accounts receivable management
RAS Responsible Assignment Sequence Code
RBA Richard Bassinet & Associates - 3rd party Ethernet card installer
RCW Rap Collins Worldwide - the firm acting as the reward broker for Bell
RD Route Descriptor
RD Remote Dealer (WAC)
RE Resolution Experts
Refund A refund cheque is automatically sent to member when services are discontinued
Remedy system that creates and manages trouble tickets, used by Sympatico help desk
REMM Repatriation of Expertech Minor Materials
REMM Repatriachate Expertech Material Management
RFA Request for Assessment
RFC Request for Change
RFJ Remote Feeder Junction
RFO Reason For Outage
RFS Ready For Service
RFW REQUEST FOR WORK
RG Residential Internet Gateway
RICI CI Repair information–Customer Information Customer Information
RIM Research in Motion - maker of the BlackBerry device
RIM Reference Information Management
RLIM Remote Link Interface Module
RLQ Record Loop Qualification
RM Remark
RMT Requirement Management Tool
RMTE Remote
rmvd removed
RNC Radio Network Controller. A network component of the 3G IMT-2000 standard.
ROADM Remotely reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer
ROC Requisition on Contract
rod Record of Decision
ROD Record of Decision
ROH Rings Off Hook
ROM Regional Operating Manager
RPCN Revenue Per Call - Net
RPM Rational Portfolio Manager
RPT Repeat customer - IVR routing; same call reasons within a determined time frame
RPTG Reporting
RRT Regional Resolution Team
RSD Recording Session Document
RSD Report Specifications Document
RSS Record Storage System (by SystemWorks)
RSTA Route Specific Term Agreement (Digital Private Lines)
RT Recommedation Tool
RT Reference Table (Ensemble)
RTA Reporting tool Availability
RTFM Read The Fine Manual
RTIS Repair Tracking Information System
RTM REMOTE TEST MODULE
RTS Return to Service
RTU Right To Use
RU Rack Unit = 1¾ inches, the amount of space taken up by equipment in a rack
Rx Receive (Data)
RYAN Real Yonderly and Napiform
S Apparant Power in VA
S&CS Security and Corporate Security
S&CS Security and Corporate Security
SA Sales Associate
SAA Service Assurance Agent
SAAP Service as a Product
SAC SAP Access Control (Group)
SAF system access fee
SAFARI Service Address Flowthrough Access Restore Inventory
SAI Service Address Inquiry
SAI Special Activating Instructions
SAID Service Address ID
SAMM Say Anything Main Menu
SAP SAP
SAP 3rd party accounting software package used to capture capital and expense
SAP BW SAP Business Warehouse
SAS System Analysis Specification - high level design document produced by CGI
SAS Solution Architecture Specification
SBA Special Business Approval
SBC Session Border Controller
SBM Small Business Market
SBSS Special Billing Self Serve
SC Secure Channel
SC Sales Consultant (Pre-Sales – previously known as SRC) a.k.a CSC in QR
SC Subscriber Connector
SC&A Servuce Configuration & Activation
SCBO Secure Channel Business Office
SCCS Symposium Call Center Server
SCE Secondary Cost Element
SCM Station Configuration Management
SCM-APPL Station Configuration Management-Application
SCM-WEB Station Configuration Management-Web
SCM-WEB Station Configuration Management-Web
SCO Supply Chain Operations
SCRR Small Change Requirements Request
SCS Sympatico Customer Service
SCV Single Circuit View
SDC Social Development Canada
SDD System Design Document
SDDC Self Defining Data Concept
SDE Single Digit Error
SDI Serial Digital Video Interface
SDP Service Delivery Point
SDT Solutions Delivery Team
SDU Single Dwelling Unit
SEC Service Expertise Center
SELT Single Ended Loop Test
SEM Security Event Management
SEO Search Engine Optimization
ServiceLayer Online ordering tool for new customers or upgrades from dial-up
SFI Servicing, Forecasting and Interconnection
SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable
SFP Small Form Pluggable
SFT System Functional Testing
SFU Single Family Unit
SG&A Sales, General and Administrative expenses
SHOTS Sympatico High Speed Order Tracking System
SI Systems Integrator
SI Self Install
SI Tool Service Identification Tool (by SystemWorks)
SI Tool Service Identification Tool
SIBER System to Input Billed / Earned Revenue
SIM Systems Insight Manager (HP monitoring tool)
SIMON Simple Intelligent Mechanized Order Navigator
SIMON Simple Intelligent Mechanized Order Navigator
SIMPle Sympatico Integrated Management Platform
SIP Service Improvement Program
SIP-IPP Service Improvement Program-Installment Payment Plan
SIP-LPP Service Improvement Program-Loan Prepayment Plan
SIPE Single IP Edge (Single VLAN for Internet and IPTV)
SIPT Session Initiated Protocol Trunking
SIR Service Improvement Request
SL Service Level
SLE Service Level Expectation
SLED Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLID Service Line Indentifier
SLIW single line inside wire
SLM Solutions LIfecycle Management
SLO Second Line Offer
SLT SONET Line Trail
SM SiteMinder (a Netegrity identity managemet product)
SMC Storage Maintenance Cabinet
SMLT Split Multi-Link Trunking - (SMLT) is an improvement over Multi-Link Trunking
SMOS Sympatico Order Management Systems
SMP Solutions Management Practice
SMS July Innou
SMS Short Message Service
SMS Sympatico Member Services
SMSC Short Message Service Centre
SMSN Sympatico MSN
SNET Sympatico Network Escalation Team
SNOC Switching Network Operations Centre
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOBA Sales Operations Business Analyst (OR)
SOD Segregation of Duties (Violation)
SOG Speed Optimization Group
SOL Specs On Line (by SystemWorks)
SOL Shit Out of Luck
SOP Standard Operating Principle
SOS Dealer Help Desk Team
SOW Scope of work
SOx Sarbanes-Oxley (Act, 2002)
SPE Shadow Provider Edge
SPI Codes Sales Potential Index Codes
SPID Service Provider Id. Identifies a WNP Trading Partner at NPAC.
SPIN Sympatico Personal Identification Number - used to identify a customer
SPMP Supplier Performance Measurement Program
SPR Special Pricing Request
SPT Solutions Planning Team
SRDU Satellite Relay Distribution Undertaking
SRF Siebel Repository File
SRM Service Request Manager
SRO See Related Order
SRP Switch & Route Processor
SRP Suggested Retail Price
SRS Software Rule Sets
ss Subscriber Says
SS Service Site
ss Shared Services
SS&B Service Selection & Billing
SSA Support Structures Access
ssc Security Event Management
SSC Security Solution Center
SSD Solution Support Desk
SSE Solution Sales Executive
SSO Single Sign On
SSPA Security Solutions Portal Application
SSVE Self Serve Vision Engine
SSW Self-Serve Wireless
st street
STA Status
STAP Simple Test Access Point
Station CM Station Configuration Management
STG Spanning Tree Group (related to NRMS-L)
STP Set Top Box
SU Service Update - (patching related)
Subscriber Entity that identifies the "owner" of one service instance
SURF System Usage for Reverse Flow
SUS Service Update Supplement (patching related)
SVC San Volume Controller
SVP Subscriber Validation Protocol (Symantec)
SVP Senior Vice-President
SVP Senior Vice-President
SWAG Scientific Wild A... Guess
SWT Switch
SX Short haul
Sym Sympatico
sys save your service
T&S Tools and Solutions (BTAC)
T's and C's Terms and Conditions
T2M Take to Market
TAC Technical Assistance Center
TAS Target Account Selling
TBB Telecom Bonding Backbone
TBS Ticket Backup System (by SystemWorks)
TBS Total Business Solution (MetaSolve-Oracle Product)
TBT Turn-By-Turn
TC Traffic Controller
TCC Toronto Call Center
TCIC Trunk Circuit Identification Code
TCLT Total Competition Liaison Team
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TCV Total Contract Value
TD Test Director (from Mercury)
TD Technology Development
TD-VIEWER TD Bank Billing Report Viewer
TDI Transparent Domain Identifier (related to NRMS-L)
TE Traffic Engineering
TEAM Togeather Everyone Achieves More
test test
test test
TEST Test
test123 test123
TF Toll Free
TFID Toll Free Internet Directory
TFN Toll Free Number
TG Tunnell Guard
TGB Telecommunication Grounding Bar
TIER Total Inventory of Employee Resources
TIM Ticket Information Management
TIM Targeted IVR Messaging
TIMS Technical Inventory Management System
TIP Technology in IP
TJP TRAIN JOB PERFORMER
TL Team Leader
TLC Total Load Control
TLD Top Level Domain
TM Trouble Management
TMA Time Management Application (by SystemWorks)
TMA TOO MANY ACRONYMS
TMGB Telecom Main Grounding Busbar
TMO Temporary Mode of Operation
TMS Ticket Management System
TMSCC Tele-Messaging Service Control Centre
TMSCC Tele-Messaging Service Control Centre
TNOC Transport Network Operations Centre
TNPP Telocator Network Paging Protocol
ToIP Total IP
TOL Telecom Ottawa Limited
TOLL/LSP Toll/Local Service Provider
Toll/LSP Toll/Local Service Provider
TOMI Task Order Management Interface
TOR Transfer of Responsibility
tor toll only residential
ToR Terms of Reference
TOROON Toronto, Ontario
TP Test Plan
TPS Trade Payment Services
TPS Temporary Programming Suspension
TPSDA Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture
TPV third party vendor
TRA Threat Risk Assessment
TRNO Time Reporting No Order
TROOP Toll Rebiller Online Ordering Portal
TROOP Toll Rebiller Online Ordering Portal
TRS Technical Resolution Specialist
TRS Tax Reasonability System
TS Terminal Server
TSDF Term Subscriber Deactivation Fee
TSF Telephone Service Factor ( F: IQS)
TSM Telephony Service Module
TSM Tivoli Storage Manager
TSOA Task simulation oriented approach (F:OST)
TTM Time to Market
TTT Train The Trainer
TTT Train the Trainer
TTT Training Tracking Tool (by SystemWorks)
TTYL Talk to you later
TUX technical unified experience
TVSS Transient Voltage Surge Suppression
twi Technician Web Interface
UAC Unified Access Control (Mobility)
UBB Usage Based Billing
UBL Unbundled Loop
UC Use Case
UCC Universal Conference Control
UCDDN User Call Directory Dialling Number
UCFDR Universal Concentration Feeder
UD Bell Sympatico unlimited dial service
UDLD Unlimited Dial Long Distance Bundle
UDULD Unlimited Dial Unlimited Long Distance Bundle
UEA Universal Ethernet Access
UI User Interface
ULR Update Line Record
UMB Ultra Mobile Broadband
UMT User Managed Table
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNE Unbundled Network Element
Unigistix 3rd party distributor that packages and ships out bundled kits
UNISTIM Unified Network IP Stimulus – Nortel Proprietary Protocol
UOM Unit of Measure
UP User Provisioning
UPS Universal Provisioning Service (Ensemble)
URI Universal Resource Identifier
US Usage
USAM Universal Service Access Multiplexer Shelf Assembly
User refers to any person who is authorized to access the Amdocs system's online
User ID Identifies a "User" within the Amdocs system
UTOS Unregulated Terms of Service
V-TAZ Video - Triple A Zone
VARS Value Added Re-Sellers
VASPOS Value Added Service Point of Sale
vat vinyl asbestos tiles
vbt jim leone
VC Virtual Classroom
VC Voice Circuit
VCAT Virtual Concatenation
VCCEP Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project
VCID Virtual Circuit Identifier
VCOE Voice Centre Of Expertise
VCT VDSL Characterization Tool (by SystemWorks)
VDC Voice Design Centre
VDSL Video Digital Subscriber Line
ver the version of the CC&B software
VHO Video Hub Office
VIR Volume Incentive Rebates
VIS Voice Interface Solutions
VIS Voice Identification System
VISP Voice Internet Service Provider
Vista 350 Interface tool used to register email addressed only
VLC Virtual Leadership Centre
VLIM VDSL2 Link Interface Module
VMI Vendor Manage Inventory
VMIP Virtual Mechanized Information Package
VMRS Voice Messaging Reporting System (by SystemWorks)
VMRS Voice Managed Reporting Service (by SystemWorks)
VMS VoIP Managed Services (by SystemWorks)
VMS Voice Over IP Managed Services
VNSA Voice Network Service Assurance (itech)
VNSS Voice Network Services/Support
VO Virtual Office
vpbocs Vice President Bell Ontario Credit Services
VPIP Variable Pay Incentive Program
VPLS Virtual private LAN service
VPNSS Virtual Private Network Solutions Suite
VPOD Virtual Product on Demand
VR Voice Recognition
VRLA Valve Regulated Lead Acid
VRMS VoIP Managed Services (by SystemWorks)
VSAC Voice Service Assurance Center
VSEM VDSL Sealed Expansion Module
VSLM Vendors Service Level Management
VSO Video Serving Office
VSP Voice Services Processor
VSTT Voice Segment Transfer Tool
VT Vertical
VTS Virtual Tape Server (Mainframe)
VWC Virtual Water Cooler
WAC Wireless Activation Centre
WARF Work Authorization Request Form
WAT Workload Assessment Tool (by SystemWorks)
WB Web Brochure - also known as Point Net Brochure
WBT Web Based Training
Web Based systems provided using an intranet or internet and accessed using a browser
Web Server This is a computer that delivers (serves up) web pages
Web-X EV Web Exchange Enterprise Version
WebRCA Web Root Cause Analysis (by SystemWorks)
WebRCA Web Application "Root Cause Analysis"
Webreg Term used to reference registering for Dial Service via 1-800 CD
WEBXEV Web Exchange Enterprise Version
WEP Wireless Encryption Protocol
WFAS Work Force Assignment System
WFM Work Force Management
WFR Work Force Required (Code)
WFTS Waiting for Technician/Switch
WG Walled Garden
WGP Walled Garden Portals
whn wirless home networking
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WI-SLB Web Interface - Server Load Balancing
WiFi Wireless Fidelity (local wireless network)
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WINGS Wholesale Information & Notification Generator System
WLNP Wireless Local Number Portability (aka WNP)
WLS Wavelength Select service
WLSF Wholesale Local Service and Features (WLSF)
WNEO Wireless Network Engineering Office
WNNOCC Wireless National Network Operations Control Center
WNOC Wireless Network Operation Centre
WNP Wireless Number Portability
WNS Wireless Network Secutiry
WNSD Wireless Network Service Desk
WO Work Out
WORP Work Order Responsible Person
WOSP Work Order Support Person
WOW Workforce On Waiting
WP Work Program
WPC WebSphere Product Center
WPC Wireline Product Catalogue
WPES Wholesale Primary Exchange Service
WPS Wireless Payment Services
WR Western Region (Bell West Calgary/Vancouver/Edmonton)
WRED Weighted Random Early Detection
wrkg working
wrkld work load
wrld work load
WRROWS West Region Right Of Way System (by SystemWorks)
WS Web Services
wsb wall mounted splice box
WSIS Work Station Infrastructure Services
WSS Wavelength Selective Switch
WTC Wireless Technology Centre (a division of the Test Centre)
WTN / NTS Working Telephone Number / Numéro Téléphone en Service
WTNPSQT Working Telephone Number Pre-Sales Qualification Tool
WUS Web User Edit - application used to view and manage Hotmail email accounts
WVOC Wireline Video Operations Center
WVOC Wireline Video Operations Center
X Reactance
Xacct A mediation device used to gather, validate, and sort using records
XLS Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
XMS eXception Management System
XRoads Cross Roads
xSLAM Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer at the CO or Remote Locations
YoY Year over Year
ytb you're the best
ZN Zone
ZX Very long haul
(CM and CFM) In fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI), that portion of connection management that
provides for the configuration of physical layer protocol (PHY) and media access control (MAC) entities
within a node. See also accounting management, fault management, performance management, and security
management.
(Email or e-mail)
(LNM) 2. The IBM proprietary network management software for Token Ring networks. Typically running on a
PC, it monitors SRB and Token Ring devices, and can pass alerts up to NetView.
(PEL and pixel)
100BaseFX 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification using two strands of multimode fiber-optic cable per
link. To guarantee proper signal timing, a 100BaseFX link cannot exceed 1312 feet (400 meters) in length.
Based on the IEEE 802.3 standard. See also 100BaseX, Fast Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
100BaseT 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification using UTP wiring. Like the 10BaseT technology on which
it is based, 100BaseT sends link pulses over the network segment when no traffic is present. However, these
link pulses contain more information than those used in 10BaseT. Based on the IEEE 802.3 standard. See also
10BaseT, Fast Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
100BaseT4 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification using four pairs of Category 3, 4, or 5 UTP wiring. To
guarantee proper signal timing, a 100BaseT4 segment cannot exceed 328 feet (100 meters) in length. Based on
the IEEE 802.3 standard. See also Fast Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
100BaseTX 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification using two pairs of either UTP or STP wiring. The first
pair of wires is used to receive data; the second is used to transmit. To guarantee proper signal timing, a
100BaseTX segment cannot exceed 328 feet (100 meters) in length. Based on the IEEE 802.3 standard. See also
100BaseX, Fast Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
100BaseX 100-Mbps baseband Fast Ethernet specification that refers to the 100BaseFX and 100BaseTX standards
for Fast Ethernet over fiber-optic cabling. Based on the IEEE 802.3 standard. See also 100BaseFX, 100BaseTX,
Fast Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
100VG-AnyLAN 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet and Token Ring media technology using four pairs of Category 3, 4, or 5
UTP cabling. This high-speed transport technology, developed by Hewlett-Packard, can operate on existing
10BaseT Ethernet networks. Based on the IEEE 802.12 standard. See also IEEE 802.12.
10Base-T Ethernet twisted pair connection
10Base2 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using 50-ohm thin coaxial cable. 10Base2, which is part of
the IEEE 802.3 specification, has a distance limit of 606.8 feet (185 meters) per segment. See also
Cheapernet, Ethernet, IEEE 802.3, and Thinnet.
10Base5 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using standard (thick) 50-ohm baseband coaxial cable.
10Base5, which is part of the IEEE 802.3 baseband physical layer specification, has a distance limit of 1640
feet (500 meters) per segment. See also Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
10BaseF 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification that refers to the 10BaseFB, 10BaseFL, and 10BaseFP
standards for Ethernet over fiber-optic cabling. See also 10BaseFB, 10BaseFL, 10BaseFP, and Ethernet.
10BaseFB 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using fiber-optic cabling. 10BaseFB is part of the IEEE
10BaseF specification. It is not used to connect user stations, but instead provides a synchronous signaling
backbone that allows additional segments and repeaters to be connected to the network. 10BaseFB segments can
be up to 1.24 miles (2000 meters) long. See also 10BaseF and Ethernet.
10BaseFL 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using fiber-optic cabling. 10BaseFL is part of the IEEE
10BaseF specification and, while able to interoperate with FOIRL, is designed to replace the FOIRL
specification. 10BaseFL segments can be up to 3280 feet (1000 meters) long if used with FOIRL, and up to
1.24 miles (2000 meters) if 10BaseFL is used exclusively. See also 10BaseF, Ethernet, and FOIRL.
10BaseFP 10-Mbps fiber-passive baseband Ethernet specification using fiber-optic cabling. 10BaseFP is part of
the IEEE 10BaseF specification. It organizes a number of computers into a star topology without the use of
repeaters. 10BaseFP segments can be up to 1640 feet (500 meters) long. See also 10BaseF and Ethernet.
10BaseT 10-Mbps baseband Ethernet specification using two pairs of twisted-pair cabling (Category 3, 4, or
5): one pair for transmitting data and the other for receiving data. 10BaseT, which is part of the IEEE
802.3 specification, has a distance limit of approximately 328 feet (100 meters) per segment. See also
Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
10Broad36 10-Mbps broadband Ethernet specification using broadband coaxial cable. 10Broad36, which is part of
the IEEE 802.3 specification, has a distance limit of 2.24 miles (3600 meters) per segment. See also
Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
10DIG-SUPP 10 Digits
1FB Individual Flat Rate Business
1FL Individual Business Line
1FLCP Individual Business Line (terminating on customer provided equipment)
1FR Individual Flat Rate Residence
23B+D Twenty-Three Bearer Channels Plus a Data Channel
23B+D twenty-three B channels + one 64 kbps D channel
2962 LOADING LAYOUT SHEET
2B+D Two Bearer Channels Plus a Data Channel
2B+D two 65 kbps B (or bearer) channels + one 16 Kbps D (or data) channel
2B1Q Two Binary One Quaternary
2B1Q 2 binary 1 quaternary. Encoding scheme that provides a 2 bits per baud, 80-kbaud per second, 160-kbps
transfer rate. The most common signaling method on ISDN U interfaces. This protocol is defined in detail in
1988 ANSI spec T1.601.
2D 2 Dimensional, 2 Dimension
2D-OEIC 2D-Optoelectronic IC
2W Two Wire
2X90 DMS peripheral equipment where CALRS or MAP test lines connect to sub line
30B+D Thirty Bearer Channels Plus a Data Channel
3600 Newbridge Mainstreet Node
3888A Transmission Design Tool
3D Demand Driven Deployment (f: 3D; DDD)
3D distribution dictée par la demande (e: 3D)
3D DEMAND DRIVEN DEPLOYMENT
3D-OCC 3 Dimensions Optically Coupled Common Memory
3D-ORAM 3D Optical RAM
3PTYNNX 3rd Party NNX
3WC 3-Way Call
3WC Three-Way Calling aka Conference Calling 3-way. See Local Voice Service Guide.
4141 OFFICIAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES-REQUEST
4568 OUTSIDE PLANT DEFERRABLE PLUG-IN FORECAST
4601 Newbridge Mainstreet Network Management Software
4602 Newbridge Mainstreet Intelligent Network Station
4B/5B local fiber 4-byte/5-byte local fiber. Fiber channel physical media used for FDDI and ATM. Supports
speeds of up to 100 Mbps over multimode fiber. See also TAXI 4B/5B.
4GL 4 Generation Language
4GL Fourth Generation Language
4W Four Wire
4wap Four Wire Access Point
611 process incl ivr
611 RSB response service bureau
6BONE The internet's experimental IPv6 network.
800 PLUS Service 800 Plus
802.x Set of IEEE standards for the definition of LAN protocols.
8508/BFI Form that contains Station features for CENTREX/MICROLINK
8508U Centrex Data Order Form
879 II 879 System Version #2
879 II 879 - Special Service
879/OFSE 879
8B/10B local fiber 8-byte/10-byte local fiber. Fiber channel physical media that supports speeds up to
149.76 Mbps over multimode fiber.
9-1-1 E911 G 9-1-1 General Purpose Complex
9-1-1 MS 9-1-1 Management System
9-1-1 MS Mgmt Sys. Builds and maintains selective rtg database
9-1-1 PERS 9-1-1 Public Emergency Routing Service
900 900
911 GGM Gestion Geofile Manager Defines 911 emerg svcs zones
911 GPC 911 General Purpose Complex
911 MS 911 Management System
9911 Report of Safety Hazard (BC9911)
A Ampère (e: A)
A Ampere (f: A)
A&B bit signaling Procedure used in T1 transmission facilities in which each of the 24 T1 subchannels
devotes 1 bit of every sixth frame to the carrying of supervisory signaling information. Also called 24th
channel signaling.
A&E Account and Equipment (f: C&E)
A&EU Accounts and Equipment Update (f: MJC&E)
A&TI Architecture and Technology Integration
a-law ITU-T companding standard used in the conversion between analog and digital signals in PCM systems.
A-law is used primarily in European telephone networks and is similar to the North American mu-law standard.
See also companding and mu-law.
A-link SS7 access link. Dedicated SS7 signaling link not physically associated with any particular link
carrying traffic.
A/ Acting
A/C Account (f: cpte)
A/D Analog to digital (f: A/N)
A/N Analogique-numérique (e: A/D}
A/P Annuity from present value factor (f: An/A)
A/R Account resystemization
A/UX Apple/UniX
AA Access arrangement
AA Allocation area (f: SA)
AAA Analogue access arrangement (f: ARA)
AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
AAA Authentication, authorization, and accounting. Pronounced "triple a".
AAB Auto Answer Back
AABS Automated Alternate Billing System (f: SFA)
AABS Automated Alternate Billing System
AACS Automated Calling Card Service
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
AAL / AALA Asyncronous transfer mode (ATM) Adaptation Layer. Service-dependent sublayer of the data link
layer. The AAL accepts data from different applications and presents it to the ATM layer. A series of
protocols enabling ATM to be compatible with virtually all of the commonly used standards for voice, data,
image and video.
AAL 3/4 ATM adaption layer 3/4. One of four AALs (merged from two initialy distinct adaptation layers)
recommended by the ITU-T. AAL3/4 supports both connectionless and connection-oriented links, but is
primarily used for the transmission of SMDS packet over ATM networks. See also AAL.
AAL1 ATM adaptation layer. One of four AALs recommended by the ITU-T. AAL1 is used for connection-oriented,
delay-sensitive services requiring constant bit rates, such as uncompressed video and other ischronous
traffic. See also AAL.
AAL2 ATM adaptation layer 2. One of four AALs recommended by the ITU-T. AAL2 is used for connection-oriented
services that support a variable bit rate, such as some isochronous video and voice traffic.
AAL5 ATM adaptation layer 5. One of four AALs recommended by the ITU-T. AAL5 supports connection-oriented VBR
services and is used predominantly for the transer of classical IP over ATM and LANE traffic. AAL5 uses SEAL
and is the least complex of the current AAL recommendations. It offers low bandwidth overhead and simpler
processing requirements in exchange for reduced bandwidth capacity and error-recovery capability. See also
AAL and SEAL.
AAM Alarm access manager
AAPS A GUI activation front-end to LINK
AAPS Automated Activation Processing System
AAR Automatic Alternative Routing. A system for providing continued telecommunications service in the event
that a primary transmission route fails catastriphically (e.g., when a FOTS is cut).
AARP AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol. Protocol in the AppleTalk protocol stack that maps a data-link
address to a network address.
AARP probe packets Packets transmitted by AARP taht determine if a randomly selected node ID is being used
by another node in a nonextended Apple Talk network. If the node ID is not being used, the sending node uses
that node ID. If the node ID is being used, the sending node chooses a different ID and sends more AARP
probe packets. See also AARP.
AAS Adjustment Auditing System
AATARS Trunk Administration Recors System
AB&R Accounts Billing and Reports (f: CFR)
AB&R Accounts Billing and Reports - system
AB&R II Account billing & Reports II
AB&R1 Account Billing and Report 1 (f: CF&R)
ABA Alternate Billing Arrangement (for 900 service)
ABACS Automated Broadbend Alarm & Control Center
abbreviated dialing (AD) Preprogramming a caller's telephone system or long-distance company's switch to
recognize a two- to four-digit number as an abbreviation for a frequently dialed number. The telephone
system or switch automatically dials the whole number when the caller enters the programmed two- or four-
digit number. Synonym: speed dialing above the line Revenues and expenses on a utility's Statement of Income
that are generally taken into account when setting rates. Abstract Syntax Notation-1 (ASN-1) A formal
language used for describing and implementing International Standards Organization (ISO) open system
interconnection (OSI) protocols used in the automated implementation of protocol software. The protocol data
units of most Application Layer standards like ACSE, FTAM, MMS, are defined using ASN-1.
ABBT Automatic Board to Board Testing (f: VACC)
ABC Access Basic Code
ABC American Broadcasting Company
ABC Account Billing Control
ABCD Association of Business Computer Dealers
ABCD signaling 4-bit telephony line signaling coding in which each letter represents 1 of the 4 bits. This is
often associated with CAS or robbed-bit signaling on a T1 or E1 telephony trunk.
ABEND ABnormal END of task
ABEND Abnormal end (of a program)
ABF Application by form (f: ABF)
ABH Average busy hour (f: MHD, TMHD)
ABI Application Binary Interface
ABIOS Advanced Basic Input/Output System
ABM Accunet Bandwidth Manager
ABM Advantage Business Market (f: MAA)
ABM Access Bandwidth Manager
ABM Accunet Bandwith manager
ABM Advantage Business Market
ABM Activity Based Management
ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode. HDLC (and derivativeprotocol) communication mode supporting peer-oriented,
point-to-point communications between two stations, where either station can initiate transmission.
ABR Available Bit Rate. QoS class defined by the ATM Forum for ATM networks. ABR is used for connections that
do not require timing relationships between source and destination. ABR provides no guarantees in terms of
cell loss or delay, providing only best-effort service. Traffic sources adjust their transmission rate in
response to information they receive describing the status of the network and its capability to successfully
deliver data. Compare with CBR, UBR, and VBR. 2. area border router. Router located on the border of one or
more OSPF areas that connects those areas to the backbone network. ABRs are considered members f bothe the
OSPF backbone and the attached areas. They therefore maintain routing tables describing both the backbone
topology and the topology of the other areas.
ABR Accounts Billing and Records
ABREDI Automated Bank Reconciliation Edi System
ABS Automated Billing Service (f: SFA)
ABS Alarm battery supply
ABSBH Average busy season busy hour (f: MHPSP)
ABSS Automated Broadband Surveillance System
ABT Average busy time (f: DMO)
ABU Analysis By Usage (identifies DS1 system to assoc project)
ABU Analysis By Usage
ABU Autonomous Business Unit
AC Access carrier (f: TI)
AC Alternate carrier (f: AT)
AC Alternating current (f: CA)
AC Assignable count (f: PA)
AC/DC A common way of signaling a telephone. An alternating current (AC) rings the phone bell and a direct
current (CD) is used to work a relay to stop ringing when the called person answers.
ACA Anisotropically Conductive Adhesive
ACA Application Control Architecture
ACA Automatic call analyser (f: AAA)
ACA Automated Circuit Assignment
ACB Account Code Billing
ACB Automatic Call Back
ACBP Association of Computer Business in the Philippines
acceptance mask A collection of thresholds assigned to circuit performance parameters. When used during
circuit testing, it automatically reports whether a particular performance parameter has failed.
access 1. The method, time, circuit, or facility used to enter the network 2. The service provided by local
exchange carriers or alternate access providers, that connects an interexchange carrier with its customers.
Switched access provides such service over the public switched network; special access provides dedicated
access for private line services and sometimes at the closed end of switched services. 3. To retrieve
information from a storage medium, such as videodisc, CD-ROM, computer disc or videotape
ACCESS Database provides Service Address Information
ACCESS Replacement of PAIRS
ACCESS (NOT AN ACRONYM)
access code A digit or digits presented to telecommunications equipment that permits the user to connect
to a given service. In private branch exchange (PBX) operation, access code is the digits that are dialed
connecting a telephone user to a specific trunk group or to a special service such as paging or dictation.
The term is also frequently applied to the "1" dialed in many local telephone company areas for the
completion of an interexchange toll call.
access coordination The design, ordering, installation, preservice testing, turn-up and maintenance on local
access services.
access device Hardware component used in your signaling controller system: access server mux.
access line A communications line interconnecting a frame-relay-compatible device to a frame-relay switch.
access list List kept by routers to control access to or from the router for a number of services (for
example, to prevent packets with a certain IP address from leaving a particular interface on the router).
access method 1. In local area networks, the technique and/or program code used to arbitrate the use of the
communications medium by granting access selectively to individual stations. Examples are carrier sense
multiple access/collision detection (CSMA/CD) and Token Passing. 2. Software within an SNA processor that
controls the flow of information through a network.
access rate (AR) The data rate of the user access channel. The speed of the access channel determines how
rapidly (maximum rate) the end user may inject data into the network.
access server Communications processor that connects asynchronous devices to a LAN or WAN through network
and terminal emulation software. Performs both synchronous and asynchronous routing of supported protocols.
Sometimes called a network access server. See also communication server.
access unit See AU.
Access Voice Channels Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
ACCI Accumulate Calculated Customer Information
ACCI Accumulate Customer Calculated Information
Account Codes The additional digits dialed by the calling party that provides information about the call.
Account codes are typically used by professionals such as accountants and lawyers to bill clients, projects,
and so forth. Synonym: bill-back codes
accounting management One of five categories of network management defiend by ISO for management of OSI
netwroks. Accounting management subsystems are responsible for collecting network data relating to resource
usage. See also configuration management configuration management, fault management, performance management,
and security management.
ACCQA Access Question and Answers
ACCS Automated Calling Card Service (f: SCAA)
ACCS Automated Calling Card Service
ACCT The Account screen in LINK and CNBS
ACD Automatic call distribution (f: DAA)
ACD Automatic call distributor (f: DAA)
ACD Alarm control and display (f: ACD)
ACD Automatic Call Distribution
ACD Automatic Call Distributor
ACD Automatic Call Distribution. Device or service that automatically reroutes calls to customers in
geographically distributed locations served by the same CO. See also CO.
ACD distributor Automatic Call Distribution distributor. A specialized phone system, or the service it
provides, for handling many incoming calls. Typically used by airlines and hotels, it recognizes and answers
incoming calls according to instructions in a database, before sending the call to an operator or agent. It
also offers management information on the type and volume of calls and efficiency of the agents.
ACDI Asynchronous Communication Device Interface
ACDMAX REFL AUTOMATIC CALL DISTRIBUTOR (MERIDAN MAX) REFLECTOR
ACDNR ACD Not Ready.
ACE Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
ACE Advanced Certificate Engineering
ACE Advanced Communication Enhancement
ACE Advanced Computing Environment
ACE Adverse Channel Enhancements
ACE Automated Circuit Engineering (f: CAC)
ACE Automated Circuit Engineering
ACE-SUPP AUTOMATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING
ACELP algebraic code excited linear prediction.
ACES Automatic Circuit Engineering System (f: SCAC)
ACES Annualized Cost Evaluation System (f: SECA)
ACF Access Control Facility (f: ACF)
ACF Advanced Communications Function. A group of SNA products that provides distributed processing and
resource sharing. See also ACF/NCP.
ACF/NCP Advanced Communications Function/Network Control Program. The primary SNA NCP. ACF/NCP resides in
the communications controller and interfaces with the SNA access method in the host processor to control
network communications. See also ACF and NCP.
ACF2 Access Control Facility 2 (f: ACF2)
ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
ACIS Alan Charles & Ian's System
ACIS ACademic Information Systems
ACK Acknowledgement
ACK Acknowledgement (f: ACK)
ACK See acknowledgment.
acknowledgment Notification sent from one network device to another to acknowledge that some event (for
example, receipt of a message) occurred. Sometimes abbreviated ACK. Compare to NAK.
ACL Access Control List
ACL Line card provisionning order
ACL ADMINISTRATION des CARTES de LIGNE
ACL/VM Approved Contractor List
ACM Address Complete Message
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACME Application Creation Made Easy
ACMS Access Control and Management System
ACMS Advanced Call Management Services (Accès total)
ACNA Access Customer Name Abbreviation
ACO Alarm Cut-off
ACOLI Advanced Circuit Order Layout Information
ACOM Term used in G.165, "General Characteristics of International Telephone Connections and International
Telephone Circuits: Echo Cancellers." ACOM is the combined loss achieved by the echo canceller, which is the
sum of the echo return loss, echo return loss enhancement, and nonlinear processing loss for the call.
ACOP Aggregate Central Office Provisioning (f: AETE)
ACOT Analogue Central Office Terminal
ACOU Additional Call Offering - Unrestricted.
ACP Advanced Core Protocol
ACPA Audio Capture and Playback Adapter
ACPDP Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel
ACPR Annual Construction Program Review (f: AAPC)
ACR Accounting Classification Ruling (f: DCC)
ACR Clerical Support Group
ACR Allowed Cell Rate. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. ACR varies between the
MCR and the PCR, and is dynamically controlled using congestion control mechanisms. See also MCR and PCR.
ACRS Abnormal Condition Reporting System
ACS Accounting Control System
ACS Advanced Connecting System
ACS Accounting Control System
ACSE Association Control Service Element
ACSE Association Control Dervice Element. OSI convention used to establish, maintain, or terminate a
connection between two applications.
ACT Absolute Congestion Threshold
ACTA Accounting for Competitive Terminal Activity
ACTC Automatic Collect and Bill to Third Calls
ACTFEL Alternating Current Thin Film ElectroLuminescent
active hub Multiported device that amplifies LAN transmission signals.
active monitor Device responsible for managing a Token Ring. A network node is selected to be the active
monitor if it has the highest MAC address on the ring. The active monitor is responsible for such management
tasks as ensuring that tokens are not lost, or that frames do not circulate indefinitely. See also ring
monitor and standby monitor.
ActiveX Microsoft's Windows-specific non-Java technique for writing applets. ActiveX applets take
considerably longer to download than the equivalent Java applets; however, they more fully exploit the
features of Windows 95. ActiveX is sometimes said to be a superset of Java. See also applet, Java.
ACTL Access Customer Terminal Location
ACTLU Activate Logical Unit
ACTPU Activate Physical Unit
ACTS Advanced Communications Technologies and Services
ACTS Association of Competitive Telecom. suppliers (f: ACTS)
ACTS Advanced Cost Tracking System (f: STCC)
ACU Array Control Unit
ACU Automatic Calling Unit (f: UAA)
ACV Access Control and Verification
AD Authorized Distributor
AD Administrative Domain. Group of hosts, routers, and networks operated and managed by a single
organization.
ADA Advanced Disk Array
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADAC Contracts management tool Processes BC8110 related to contract work
ADACC Automated Directory Assistance Call Completion
ADACC Automatic Directory Assistance Call
ADAD Automatic Dialing and Announcing Device (f: DCAA)
ADAM BMC’s IVR Customer Service system
ADAPSO Association of DAta Processing Service Organizations
adapter See NIC.
adaptive differential pulse code modulation See ADPCM.
adaptive routing See dynamic routing
ADAS Automated Directory Assistance System
ADAS+ Automated Directory Assistance System Plus
ADB Accident Disability Benefits (f: IIA)
ADB Apple Desktop Bus
ADC Analog to Digital Converter (f: CAN)
ADCAMS Advanced Data Collector and Management System
ADCCP Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure
ADCCP Advanced Data Communications Control Protocol. ANSI standard bit-oriented data link control
protocol.
ADCR Alternate Destination Call Redirection
ADCU Association of Data Communications Users
ADD Advanced Development Dictionary
ADDOM Admin. & Distribution of DMS Operational Measurements
ADDOM Admin. and Distrib. of DMS Oper. Meas. System (oss)
ADDOM Adm & Dist of DMS Operational Measurements
address 1. A set of numbers that uniquely identifies something: a workstation on a LAN, a location in
computer memory, or a packet of data traveling through a network. 2. A designator defining the unique ID of
a terminal, peripheral device, or other nodal component in network
Address See either IP Address or Email Address.
address mapping Technique that allows different protocols to interoperate by translating addresses from one
format to another. For example, when routing IP over X.25, the IP addresses must be mapped to the X.25
addresses so that the IP packets can be transmitted by the X.25 network. See also address resolution.
address mask Bit combination used to describe which portion of an address refers to the network or subnet
and which part refers to the host. Sometimes referred to simply as mask. See also subnet mask.
Address Mask 32-bit-long address mask is used to identify the parts of an IP address that correspond to the
different sections (separated by dots). It's also known as the "subnet mask" since the network portion of an
address can be determined by the encoding inherent in an IP address.
address resolution Generally, a method for resolving differences between computer addressing schemes.
Address resolution usually specifies a method for mapping network layer (Layer 3) addresses to data link
layer (Layer 2) addresses. See also address mapping.
Address Resolution Protocol See ARP.
Address translation 1. The process of converting external addresses into standardized network addresses and
vice versa. 2. Interconnection of multiple networks that each have their own address plan, adjusted ring
length. When a segment of Token Ring (in practice a dual ring) trunk cable fails, a function known as the
Wrap connects the main path to the backup path. In the worst case the longest path would occur if the
shortest trunk cable segment tailed, so ARL is calculated during network design to ensure the system will
always work.
address translation gateway See ATG.
addressed call mode Mode that permits control signals and commands to establish and terminate calls in
V.25bis. See also V.25bis.
ADE Ada Development Environment
ADECS ALR Downsized Enterprise Computing Solutions
ADEP Accumulated Depreciation Accruals (f: AC)
ADF Automatic Document Feeder
ADF Adapter Description File
ADF Application Development Facility (f: OCA)
ADI Application Data Interchange
ADI Autodesk Device Interface
ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation
adjacency Relationship formed between selected neighboring routers and end nodes for the purpose of exchanging
routing information. Adjacency is based upon the use of a common media segment.
adjacent nodes 1. In SNA, nodes that are connected to a given node with no intervening nodes. 2. In DECnet
and OSI, nodes that share a common network segment (in Ethernet, FDDI, or Token Ring networks).
ADM Add Drop Multiplexer. In OSS, a multiplexer that allows a signal to be added into or dropped out of a
SONET span. See also SONET.
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer
ADM Alarm Display Module
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer
ADMA AMA Disk Monitoring and Administration
ADMD Administration Management Domain. X.400 Message Handling System public carrier. The ADMDs in all
countries worldwide together provide the X.400 backbone. See also PRMD.
ADMIN Administration
administrative distance Rating of the trustworthiness of a routing information source. Administrative
distance is often expressed as a numerical value between 0 and 255. The higher the value, the lower the
trustworthiness rating.
Administrative Domain See AD.
administrative weight See AW and PTSP.
admission control See traffic policing.
ADN Advanced Data Network (f: RDE)
ADN Advanced Digital Network
ADNS ARINC Data Network Service
ADP Adapter Description Program
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (f: MICDA)
ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. Process by which analog voice samples are encoded into
high-quality digital signals.
ADR Automatic Data Retrival
ADRM Applied Data Resource Management
ADS AutoCAD Development System
ADSI Analog Display Services Interface
ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Analog Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line access technologies. Recasts POTS into a mult
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL asymmetrical digital subscriber line
ADSL asynchronous digital subscriber loop
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. One of four DSL technologies. ADSL is designed to deliver more
bandwidth downstream (from the central office to the customer site) than upstream. Downstream rates range
from 1.5 to 9 Mbps, while upstream bandwidth ranges from 16 to 640 kbps. ADSL transmissions work at
distances up to 18,000 feet (5,488 meters) over a single copper twisted pair. See also HDSL, SDSL, and VDSL.
ADSL Advanced Digital Subscriber Line (Netspeed)
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (common but incorrect)
ADSM ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
ADSTAR ADvanced STorage And Retrieval (IBM subsidiary)
ADSU ATM DSU. Terminal adapter used to access an ATM network via an HSSI-compatible device. See also DSU.
ADSX1 VTX Positions DSX (See DSX/VTX)
ADT Application Development Tool (f: OCA)
ADTC/ADRC Accumulated Deferred Tax/Revenue Credit (f: RCIC/RCRC)
ADTS Advanced Digital Terminal System
ADTS Automatic Data Test System
ADTS Automated Data Test System
ADTS Automated Digital Terminal System
ADTV Advanced Definition TV
Advanced Communications Function See ACF.
Advanced CoS Management Advanced Class-of-Service Management. Essential for delivering the required QoS to
all applications. Cisco switches contain per-VC queuing, per-VC rate scheduling, multiple CoS queuing, and
egress queuing. This enables network managers to refine connections to meet specific application needs.
Formerly called FairShare and OptiClass.
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET A pioneering long-haul network funded by what's now-
called DARPA (formerly known as ARPA). It was the foundation on which the Internet was built.
advertising Router process in which routing or service updates are sent at specified intervals so that
other routers on the network can maintain lists of usable routes.
ADW Application Development Workbench
AE Automotive Equipment (f: EA)
AEA American Electronics Association
AEA Asynchronous Emulation Adapter
AEB Analog Expansion Bus
AEC Analog Echo Canceller
AEC Annual Equivalent Cost (f: CAE)
AEC Architectural Engineering and Construction
AEC Authorized Education Center
AECR Achieving Extraordinary Customer Relations
AECVSD Amdahl-Enhanced Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation
AEIMP Apple Event Interprocess Messaging Protocol
AEM Automatic Emulation Management
AEMS Automotive Equipment Management Systems (f: SGEA)
AEP AppleTalk Echo Protocol. Used to test connectivity between two AppleTalk nodes. One node sends a packet
to another node and receives a duplicate, or echo, of that packet.
AES Application Environment Specification
AES ATM Edge Switch
AESP Alternate Enhanced Service Provider
AEVT Application Environment Verification Test
AF Alternate route final trunk group (f: AF)
AFAS Automated Feature Activation System (f: SAMIS)
AFC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (f: PFC)
AFC Associate Funding Council
AFC ALLOWANCE FOR FUNDS DURING CONSTRUCTION
AFC Additional Function Call
AFCS Agreement for Cellular Service
AFF Advanced Function Feature
AFI Authority and Format Identifier
AFI Authority and Format Identifier. Portion of an NSAP-format ATM address that identifies the type and
format of the IDI portion of an ATM address. See also IDI and NSAP.
AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFIS Advanced Financial Information System
AFM automated fault management (f: GAD)
AFM Automatic Font Management
AFMS The MSAT version of the AFCS
AFN Access Feeder Node
AFP Advanced Function Printing
AFP Apple File Program
AFP AppleTalk Filing Protocol
AFP Advanced Function Printing (f: AFP)
AFP AppleTalk Filing Protocol. Presentation-layer protocol that allows users to share data files and
application programs that reside on a file server. AFP supports AppleShare and Mac OS File Sharing.
AFRAP Absence Free Recognition Award Program (f: PAPA)
AFS Acer Fast File System
AFS Advanced File System
AFS Andrew File System
AFSFLC Anti Ferroelectricity Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crysta
AFT Active Files Table
AFX Accelerated graphics
AFX Application Frameworx
AG Activation Gateway
AG Activations Gateway (Cellular Provisioning System)
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGENT Interfaces with all tandem services to transmit customer info for registration
agent 1. A person or organization that acts on behalf of another. In the telecommunications industry,
agents typically are independent individuals or companies that market the services of a carrier as if they
were employees of that carrier. 2. A software process running on a communications or networking device that
allows that device to participate in a network management system. For example, an SNMP agent running on a
router provides the ability for the router to exchange information with an SNMP network management system
through the use of the SNMP protocol
Agent The part of a system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of an application.
aggregate The total bandwidth of channel carrying a multiplexed bit stream.
aggregate discount A discount applied to multiple services based on the total dollar value of those
services.
aggregator 1. An independent entity that brings several subscribers together to form a group that can
obtain long-distance service at a reduced rate. Subscribers are billed by the original interchange carrier
(IXC). The aggregator only provides the initial set-up of the plan, and usually provides no service after
that. An aggregator is not a reseller. 2. Any person or business that makes telephones available to the
public or to transient users of its premises. This includes hotels, motels, universities operating
dormitories, hospitals, and pay telephone operators
AGNES Aggregate network evolution simulator (f: MGDR)
AGP Large Project Adjustment (same as Formulaire AGP)
AGRAS AntiGlare and Reflection, Anti-Static
AGS Advanced Graphics System
AGT Alberta Government Telephone
AHPCRC Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHSSPI Agregated High Speed Service Provider Interface
AHT Average Handle Time
AHT Average holding time (f: DMO)
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group
AIB Anti-Inflation Board
AIC Access Interface Card
AIDS Automated Implementation and Distribution System
AIE Ada Integrated Environment
AIF Annual Information Form
AIM AIM Technology
AIM Architecture of Information Management
AIM Automatic Interface Management
AIM Scheduling System - NPSF Interface
AIM AUTOMATED INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
AIMS Address Information Management System (f: SGA)
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network (f: RIE)
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network
AIN Advanced Intelligent Network. In SS7, an expanded set of network services made available to the user, and
under user control, that requires improvement in network switch architecture, signaling capabilities, and
peripherals. See also SS7.
AIN PC Advanced Intelligent Networks Billing System
AIN-SROUTE Mechanizes order processing templates for AIN Smart Route services
AINSF ADVANCED INTELLIGENT NETWORK SERVICE FINDER
AIO Asynchronous input/output.
AIOD Automatic Identification of Outward Dialling
AIOD - Automatic Identified Outward Dialing An option on a PBX that specifies the extension number,
instead of the PBX number on outward calls ( for internal billing).
AIP ATM Interface Processor. ATM network interface for Cisco 7000 series routers designed to minimize
performance bottlenecks at the UNI. The AIP supports AAL3/4 and AAL5. See also AAL3/4 and AAL5.
AIP See AIP (ATM Interface Processor) in the "Cisco Systems Terms and Acronyms" section.
AIP ATM Interface Processor
AIP Achievement Incentive Plan (was Team Award)
AIR Advanced Integration Research
AIR Automatic Image Refinement
irtime Time spent talking on a cellular network to calculate billing.
AIS Alarm Indication Signal. In a T1 transmission, an all 1s signal transmitted in lieu of the normal signal
to maintain transmission continuity and to indicate to the receiving terminal that there is a transmission
fault that is located either at, or upstream from, the transmitting terminal. Also known as a Blue Alarm
which signals that an upstream failure has occured. See also T1.
AIS Alarm Indication Signal
AIS Account Information Services
AIS Automatic Intercept System (f: SIA)
AIS Account Information Service
AIS Alarm Indication Signal
AIS alarm indicator signalling
AISPO As Is Software Products and Offerings
AIT American International Telecommunications Inc
AITS Automatic Intercept Testing System (f: AITS)
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive
AIX/ESA AIX/Enterprise System Architecture
AL Artificial Intelligence
AL-1631 Alcatel Digital Cross-Connect (input= DS1, output= DS3)
AL-1631 Répartiteur numérique d'Alcatel (entrée = DS1, sortie = DS3)
AL-1631SX Alcatel Digital Cross-Connect (input= DS1, output= DS1)
AL-1631SX Répartiteur numérique d'Alcatel (entrée = DS1, sortie = DS1)
AL-1633 Alcatel Digital Cross-Connect (input= DS3, output= DS3)
AL-1633 Répartiteur numérique d'Alcatel (entrée = DS3, sortie = DS3)
ALAP Appletalk Link Access Protocol
alarm A real-time indication or a signal of an abnormal situtation or event. SNMP message notifying an
operator or administrator of a network problem. See also event and trap.
alarm indication signal See AIS.
ALC Additional License Certificate
ALC A La Carte
ALDP Alternate Long Distance Provider
ALE Applications Link Enabling
ALERTS ALERTS
ALEXAS ALEX Accreditation System
ALG Adjustable Locking Granulity
ALGOL ALGOrithm Language
ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
algorithm Well-defined rule or process for arriving at a solution to a problem. In networking, algorithms are
commonly used to determine the best route for traffic from a particular source to a particular destination.
ALH Average length of haul
ALI Automatic Location Identification (f: AAA)
ALI Automatic Location Information
ALI Emergence 911 for ALI comp
alias See entity.
alias A type of nickname (usually short and easy to remember) that refers to a type of network resource.
Aliases are used so you won't have to remember the long and difficult names typical of network resources.
ALICE Artisoft LAN Interface Chip for Ethernet
alignment error In IEEE 802.3 networks, an error that occurs when the total number of bits of a received frame
is not divisible by eight. Alignment errors are usually caused by frame damage due to collisions.
ALIT Automatic Line Insulation Test (f: EAIL)
all-rings explorer packet See all-routes explorer packet.
all-routes explorer packet Explorer packet that traverses an entire SRB network, following all possible paths
to a specific destination. Sometimes called all-rings explorer packet. See also explorer packet, local
explorer packet, and spanning explorer packet.
ALLC Automatic Logical Link Connection
ALLC Automatic Logical Link Connection
allowed cell rate See ACOM.
ALM AppWare Loadable Modules
ALO transaction ATP transaction in which the request is repeated until a response is received by the requester
or until a maximum retry count is reached. This recovery mechanism ensures that the transaction request is
executed at least once. See also ATP.
alphanumeric A set of characters that contains both letters and numbers - either individually or on
combination.
ALR Advanced Logic Research Inc
ALRMFIBR Monitor Fiber alarms
ALRMMEGA Monitor Megastream alarms
ALRMMONTOR Monitor alarms
ALS Ada Language System
ALS Application Layer Structure
ALS Average life Span (f: DEUM)
ALSP Alternate Local Service Provider
alternate access A form of local access where the provider is not the local exchange carrier (LEC) but is
authorized or permitted to provide local access service.
alternate access carriers Local exchange carriers that compete directly with the regional Bell operating
companies (RBOCs). They are normally found only in the larger metropolitan areas. Examples are Teleport and
Metropolitan Fiber Systems.
alternate mark inversion See AMI.
alternate operator service provider A party, other than telephone companies, which provides operator services
for long distance calls.
alternate provider of long distance services A company, other than a telephone company, that provides
telecommunications services between exchanges that are not in the same toll-free calling area.
alternate route (AR) A secondary communications path to a destination when the primary path is unavailable.
alternate use (AU) The ability to switch communications facilities from one type to another, such as voice
to data.
alternate voice data (AVD) A single transmission facility that can be used for either voice or data.
alternative operator services (AOS) Operator services provided by a company other than a local exchange
carrier (LEC), regional Bell operating company (BOC), or AT&T that is authorized to provide operator
service.
ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
ALU Automatic Loopback Unit
AM Access Manager
AM Access Module
AM Amplitude Modulation
AM Access Module (access side) within the Datapac Network
AM access module (ISDN)
AM SAP Fixed Asset Management Package
AM Amplitude Modulation. Modulation technique whereby information is conveyed through the amplitude of the
carrier signal. Compare with FM and PAM. See also modulation.
AM&L Accommodation, Meals and Lodging
AM2000 Access Manager 2000
AMA Automatic Message Accounting (f: CAA)
AMA Automatic Message Accounting
AMA Automatic Messaging Accounting. In OSS, the automatic collection, recording, and processing of
information relating to calls for billing purposes.
AMA record Automatic Message Accounting record.
AMADNS AMA Data Networking System. In OSS, the next generation (formerly Bellcore) system for the
collection and transport of AMA data from central office switches to a billing system. See also AMA.
AMAMOD Automatic Message Accounting Modernization
AMAT Automatic Message Answering Transmitter
AMATPS AMA Teleprocessing System
AMATPS AMA Teleprocessing System. In OSS, the Bellcore legacy system for collecting and transporting AMA
data from central office switches to a billing system. The AMATPS consists of an AMA transmitter and a
collector. See also AMA.
AMC Automatic Mail Collection
AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
AMH Advanced measurement head (f: CME)
AMH Advanced Measurement Head
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
AMI American Megatrends Inc
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion (a system of line coding to provide echo cancellation)
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion. A signal carrying binary digits in which successive "marks" are normally
positive or negative but equal in amplitude, and in which "space" (no value) is of zero amplitude. Synonym:
bipolar Line-code type used on T1 and E1 circuits. In AMI, zeros are represented by 01 during each bit cell,
and ones are represented by 11 or 00, alternately, during each bit cell. AMI requires that the sending
device maintain ones density. Ones density is not maintained independently of the data stream. Sometimes
called binary coded alternate mark inversion. Compare with B8ZS. See also ones density.
AMID Analogue Meridian Integration Device
AML Actual Measured Loss
AML Added Main Line
AMLCD Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMMP Availability of Materiel Measurement Plan (f: PEDM)
AMP Access Module Processor
AMP Advanced MultiProcessing
amp Ampere (f: A)
amplitude Maximum value of an analog or a digital waveform.
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
AMPS American Mobile Phone Standard
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service. A wireless communication analog standard
AMPTS Automatic Mobile Public Telephone System
AMR Automatic Meter Reading
AMS Alert Management System
AMS Arbitrage Management System
AMS ALARM Management System BQ only)
AMSC American Mobile Satellite Corporation
AMSS Aeronautical Mobile Satellite System
AMTS Automatic Mobile Telephone Service (f: SRMA)
AMTS Automated Mobile Telephone System
AN Access node (f: NA)
AN Access Node
ANA Automatic Network Analyzer
ANAC Automatic Number Announcer Circuit (f: ANOA)
ANAL Analogue
ANALIT Analysis of Line Insulation Test (f: AEIL)
analog Telephone transmission and or switching which is not digital.
analog transmission Signal transmission over wires or through the air in which information is conveyed
through the variation of some combination of signal amplitude, frequency, and phase.
ANALYSIS Analysis Reports from ASTRA on VM
ANAS Average Network Access Services
ancillary charges Charges for supplementary services comprised of optional features, which may consist of
both non-recurring and monthly charges.
ancillary equipment Equipment not directly controlled by the processing unit. Synonym: auxiliary equipment
ancillary features Marketing options of products and services.
ANCS AT&T NetWare Connect Servers
ANDC Access Network Dependabilty Centre
ANDF Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ANET Asynchronous Network
ANI Automatic Number Identification (f: EAN)
ANI automated number identification
ANI Automatic Number Identification
ANI Automatic Number Identification. SS7 (signaling system 7) feature in which a series of digits, either
analog or digital, are included in the call, identifying the telephone number of the calling device. In
other words, ANI identifies the number of the calling party or billing number, versus the originating party.
ANM Answer Message
ANN Announcement
ANODE Access Node
anonymous FTP Allows a user to retrieve documents, files, programs, and other archived data from anywhere on
the Internet without having to establish a userid and password. By using the special userid of anonymous,
the network user will bypass local security checks and will have access to publicly accessible files on the
remote system. See FTP.
Anonymous FTP By using the word "anonymous" as your user ID and your email address as the password when you
login to an FTP site, you can bypass local security checks and gain limited access to public files on the
remote computer. This type of access is available on most FTP sites, but not all.
ANP Automatic Numbering Plan.
ANP Access Network Provisioning
ANR Average Not Ready
ANS Advanced Network & Services
ANS American National Standard
ANS Answer
ANS Automatic Network Synchronization
ANS1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANSI American National Standards Institute. Voluntary organization composed of corporate, government, and
other members that coordinates standards-related activities, approves U.S. national standards, and develops
positions for the United States in international standards organizations. ANSI helps develop international
and U.S. standards relating to, among other things, communications and networking. ANSI is a member of the
IEC and the ISO. See also IEC and ISO.
ANSI X3T9.5 See X3T9.5.
Answer back (AB) A signal or sequence of signals from a receiving device indicating that it is ready to
accept or acknowledge receipt of data. The signal can be received audibly through a loudspeaker at the
transmitting end for manual operation, or electronically for automatic operation.
Answer supervision (AS) An electrical signal the local telephone company at the distant end of a long-
distance call sends back up the line to indicate positively the call has been answered by the called party.
The signal tells billing equipment to start timing the call.
ANTC Advanced Networking Test Center
ANX Automotive Network Exchange
anycast In ATM, an address that can be shared by multiple end systems. An anycast address can be used to
route a request to a node that provides a particular service.
AO Alarm Override
AOC ATM Operations Centre
AOC ATM Operations Centre (works on opposite side of NMC)
AOCE Apple Open Collaboration Environment
AOCP Average original cost price (f: COM)
AOE Application Operating Environment
AOM Acusto-Optic Modulator
AOQ Abuse Originator Quarantine
AOR Application Owned Regions (cics)
AOS Advanced Operating System
AOS American Optometric Association
AOS Alternate Operator Services (Providers)
AOSP Alternate Operator Services Provider
AOSS Auxiliary Operator Services System (f: AOSS)
AOSS Auxiliary Operator Services System (Directory Assistance & Intercept)
AOSS MPP Auxiliary Operator Services System (multi Purpose Position)
AOSS-VR Auxiliairy Operator Services System - Voice Response
AOW Asia-Oceanic OSI Workgroup
AOW Asia and Oceania Workshop. One of the three regional OSI Implementors Workshops. See also EWOS.
AP Accounts Payable
AP Action Point
AP Adjunct Processor
AP Administration Practice
AP Application Processor
AP Advantage Preferred
AP accounts payable
APA All Points Addressable
APA All-Points Addressable (f: APA)
APAR Authorized Program Analysis Report (f: APAR)
APaRT Automated Packet Recognition/Translation. Technology that allows a server to be attached to CDDI or
FDDI without requiring the reconfiguration of applications or network protocols. APaRT recognizes specific
data link layer encapsulation packet types and, when these packet types are transferred from one medium to
another, translates them into the native format of the destination device.
APB All Points Bulletin
APC American Power Conversion
APC Automatic Power Control
APC Adjacent Point Code. The point code of the next hop in the system for the bearer channels; usually it is
the STP (signal transfer point).
APCUG Association of PC User Groups
APD Avalanche Photodiode
APD Advanced Products Dealer
APD Applications Planning and Development
APDA Apple Programmers and Developers Association
APDU Application Protocol Data Unit
APF Application Processing Function
APF Assigned Pair Fill
API Application Programming Interface
API Assigned Plant Investment (f: ITC)
API Asynchronous Polling Interface
API Application Programmer Interface (f: API)
API application program interface
API asynchronous polling interface
API APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
API ASSIGNED PLANT INVESTMENT
API ASYNCHRONOUS POLLING INTERFACE
API Application Programming Interface. Specification of function-call conventions that defines an interface
to a service.
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APL A Programming Language
APL A Programming Language (uses character & special symbols for interactive appl'ns
APLD Access Pole Line Design Calculator
APLDS Alternate Provider of Long Distance Service
APLDS Alternate Provider of Long Distance Services
APLM Application Program Library Management
APM Advanced Power Management
APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Center. Nonprofit Internet registry organization for the Asia
Pacific region. The other Internet registries are currently IANA, RIPE NCC and InterNIC.
Apollo Domain Proprietary network protocol suite developed by Apollo Computer for communication on
proprietary Apollo networks.
APON ATM Passive Optical Network
APP Accident Prevention Plan
APP Apparatus
APP Appendix
APPC Advanced Program to Program Communications (f: APPC)
APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communications
APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communication. IBM SNA system software that allows high-speed communication
between programs on different computers in a distributed computing environment. APPC establishes and tears
down connections between communicating programs. It consists of two interfaces: programming and data-
exchange. The programming interface replies to requests from programs requiring communication; the data-
exchange interface establishes sessions between programs. APPC runs on LU 6.2 devices. See also LU 6.2.
APPC/VM Advanced Program to Program Communication / Virtual Machine
applet Small program, often used in the context of a Java-based program, that is compiled and embedded in
an HTML page. See ActiveX and Java.
AppleTalk Series of communications protocols designed by Apple Computer consisting of two phases. Phase 1, the
earlier version, supports a single physical network that can have only one network number and be in one
zone. Phase 2, supports multiple logical networks on a single physical network and allows networks to be in
more than one zone. See also zone.
Application 800 PC
application (s) Program that performs a function directly for a user. FTP and Telnet clients are examples of
network applications. Sometimes known as a client or an "app" it's a program that performs a specific
function. FTP, Mail, Gopher, Mosaic, and Telnet clients are the most common examples of Internet
applications.
application layer Layer 7 of the OSI reference model. This layer provides services to application processes
(such as e-mail, file transfer, and terminal emulation) that are outside of the OSI model. The application
layer identifies and establishes the availability of intended communication partners (and the resources
required to connect with them), synchronizes cooperating applications, and establishes agreement on
procedures for error recovery and control of data integrity. Corresponds roughly with the transaction
services layer in the SNA model. See also data-link layer, network layer, physical layer, PQ, session layer,
and transport layer.
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking. Enhancement to the original IBM SNA architecture. APPN handles session
establishment between peer nodes, dynamic transparent route calculation, and traffic prioritization for APPC
traffic. Compare with APPN+. See also APPC.
APPN Advanced Peer to Peer Networking
APPN+ Next-generation APPN that replaces the label-swapping routing algorithm with source routing. Also
called high-performance routing. See also APPN.
Appr. en Lot Mgmt of the list of equip being part of batch provisioning in BQ
APR Accounts Payable Resystemization (1983)
APR Application Performance Reporting (Maintenance benchmarking process). This is a
APS Adobe PhotoShop
APS Automatic Protection Switch(ing)
APS Automatic Protection Switching (used in Sonet technology)
APS Automated Protection Switching
APS Automatic Protection Switching. SONET switching mechanism that routes traffic from working lines to
protect them in case of a line card failure or fiber cut.
APSE Ada Programming Support Environment
APSS Accounts Payable Self Serve
APTC Automatic Paper Thickness Control
APTC-EFT APTC (EFT)
AR Accounting Revenue (f: RC)
AR Accounts Receivable
AR Assigning responsibility (f: RA)
AR Assigning Responsibility group
AR accounts receivable
AR Automatic Recall.
AR-OTDR Automated Remote Optical Time Domain Reflectometer(cancelled)
ARA AppleTalk Remote Access
ARA AppleTalk Remote Access. Protocol that provides Macintosh users direct access to information and
resources at a remote AppleTalk site.
ARAM Application Re-engineering and Migration
ARAP AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol
ARB Bus Arbitrator
ARC Advanced RISC Computing
ARC American Radio Corporation
ARC American Research Corporation
ARC Architecture Review Committee for technical project reviews
ARCC Automatic Reverse Call Charging
ARCHI Account Record Customer History Interface
Archie System that provides lists of anonymous FTP archives. See Gopher, WAIS, and World Wide Web.
Archie You'll usually hear this term referred to in the phrase archie search. Archie is a way of
automatically gathering, indexing and sometimes even retrieving files on the Internet. Most good archie
clients are able to FTP files once you've found the information you're looking for.
Architecture The manner or structure in which hardware or software is constructed. Architecture defines how
a system or program is structured, how various components and parts interact, as well as what protocols and
interfaces are used for communication and cooperation among modules and components of the system.
Archive A collection of files stored on an Internet machine. FTP sites are known as archives.
ARCnet Attached Resource Computer Network. 2.5-Mbps token-bus LAN developed in the late 1970s and early
1980s by Datapoint Corporation.
ARCs Additional Resource Charges
ARCTIC Advanced RF Cellular Telephone Interface Circuit
ARD Automatic Ring Down
ARDIS Advanced Data Radio Information Service (IBM/Motorola)
area Logical set of network segments (CLNS-, DECnet-, or OSPF-based) and their attached devices. Areas are
usually connected to other areas via routers, making up a single autonomous system. See also autonomous
system.
Area code (AC) A three-digit number that identifies each of more than 150 geographic areas of the United
States, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands, and a portion of Mexico. Area codes permit direct distance
dialing to these areas. A similar global numbering plan has been established for international subscriber
dialing.
Area code restriction The ability of a switching system to identify specific three-digit area codes and
allow or deny calls to those codes.
Area code routing The routing of calls based on the originating area code or automatic number
identification/numbering plan area (ANI/NPA).
Area of service (AOS) The geographical area supported by a communications service. 800 numbers using AOS
"CC" are using complex call routing.
AREDB Access Remote Equipment Database
AREDB Access Remote Equipment Data Base
AREDB Access Remote Equipment Database
AREXX Amiga REXX
ARICS Accounts Receiv Bill Inquiry and Collection Syst (f: CAPRICE
ARICS Account Receivable Inquiry Collection System
ARICS Accounts Receivable Billing Inquiry and Collection System
ARICS Accounts Receivable Inquiry Collection System
ARIES Project tracking app
ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers. Nonprofit organization established for the purpose of
administrating and registrating IP numbers to the geographical areas currently managed by Network Solutions
(InterNIC). Those areas include, but are not limited to, North America, South America, South Africa, and the
Caribbean.
ARINC Aeronautical Radio Inc
ARL Access Rights List
ARLL Advanced RLL
ARM Account Resource Manager
ARM Advanced RISC Machine
ARM Access Remote Module
ARM Advanced RISC Machines
ARM Application Recovery Manual
ARM Accounts Receivable Management (for 900 service)
ARM Asynchronous Response Mode. DLC communication mode involving one primary station and at least one
secondary station, where either the primary or one of the secondary stations can initiate transmissions. See
also primary station and secondary station.
ARMIS Accounts Receivable Management Information System
ARMS Application Recovery Manuals
AROM Alterable Read Only Memory
AROR Accounting Rate of Return (f: TDRC)
AROR accounting rate of return
AROTDR Automated remote optical time domain reflectometer
ARP Advanced Replacement Program
ARP Access Remote Provisioning
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARP Address Resolution Protocol (TCP/IP communications protocol)
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARP Address Resolution Protocol. nternet protocol used to map an IP address to a MAC address. Defined in RFC
826. Compare with RARP. See also proxy ARP.
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency. Research and development organization that is part of DoD. ARPA is
responsible for numerous technological advances in communications and networking. ARPA evolved into DARPA,
and then back into ARPA again (in 1994). See also DARPA.
ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. andmark packet-switching network established in 1969.
ARPANET was developed in the 1970s by BBN and funded by ARPA (and later DARPA). It eventually evolved into
the Internet. The term ARPANET was officially retired in 1990. See also ARPA, BBN, DARPA, and Internet.
ARPANET See Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
ARPM Average Revenue Per Message
ARPS Advanced Regional Prediction System
ARPS Administrative Reporting and Planning System
ARPU Average Revenue Per Unit
ARQ Automatic Retransmission Request
ARQ Automatic Request for Repetition
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request. Communication technique in which the receiving device detects errors and
requests retransmissions.
ARRI Annual Revenue Requirement Impact (f: IBAR)
ARS Automatic Route Selection (f: SAA)
ARS Alarm Reporting System
ARS/ESN alternate route selection/electronic switched network
ART (Cell) Actual Retransmission Time
ARTIC A RealTime Interface Coprocessor
ARU Audio response unit (f: URV)
ARU Auxiliary repeater unit (f: RA)
ARU Audio response Unit (f: URV)
ARU Alarm Relay Unit.
ARUM Application Resources Utilization Monitor
ARW Automatic Roaming Wide
AS Automated Scheduling (f: OA)
AS Application System (f: AS)
AS Application System
AS See autonomous system.
AS/400 Application System/400
AS2000 Verilink Access System 2000
ASA Advanced SCSI Architecture
ASA Advanced Systems Architecture
ASA American Standard Association
ASAM ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer. A telephone central office multiplexer that supports SDL ports over a
wide range of network interfaces. An ASAM sends and receives subscriber data (often Internet services) over
existing copper telephone lines, concentrating all traffic onto a single high-speed trunk for transport to
the Internet or the enterprise intranet. This device is similar to a DSLAM (different manufacturers use
different terms for similar devices).
ASAP All Services and Products
ASAP Asynchronous Serial Application Processor
ASAP Automatic Self Allocating Processors
ASAPS Auxiliary Station Auto. Prot. I.F. Switch
ASBR Autonomous System Boundary Router
ASBR Autonomous System Boundary Router. ABR located between an OSPF autonomous system and a non-OSPF network.
ASBRs run both OSPF and another routing protocol, such as RIP. ASBRs must reside in a nonstub OSPF area. See
also ABR, non-stub area, and OSPF.
ASC Apple Sound Chip
ASC ASynchronous Communications
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII American national Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. 8-bit code for character representation (7 bits
plus parity).
ASCS Alarm Surveillance and Control System
ASCU Agent-Set Control Unit.
ASD Advanced Systems Division
ASD Application Specific Discretes
ASD Application Solutions Division
ASDS Accunet Spectrum of Digital Services
ASE Application Service Element
ASE AutoCAD SQL Extension
ASERT Advanced Services Remote Test System
ASET Automated Security Enhancement Tool
ASF Automatic Sheet Feeder
ASF Advanced Server Farm
ASHRAE Amer. Soc. of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Cond'ing Engineer
ASI Address Space Identifier
ASI Aquarius Systems International
ASI Accelerated Service Introduction
ASI Alternate Space Inversion (reverse AMI)
ASI Assets and Service Inventory
ASI ATM Service Interface.
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuits
ASK Access Security Key
ASK Advantage Sales Kit
ASL Average Service Life (f: DVM)
ASLAM ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer (Alcatel DSLAM)
ASM Allocation System Management
ASM Automated Storage Management
ASMP Asymmetric MultiProcessing
ASMS Advanced Service Management System
ASN Accessory Serial Number
ASN Auxiliary Signal Network.
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One. OSI language for describing data types independent of particular
computer structures and representation techniques. Described by ISO International Standard 8824. See also
BER, basic encoding rules.
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ASN.1 BER ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules
ASN1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASOS Automated Service Order System
ASP Analog Switching Provisioning
ASP Association of Shareware Professionals
ASP Attached Support Processor
ASP Application Service Provider
ASP Average Speed of Call (f: DMR)
ASP AppleTalk Session Protocol. Protocol that uses ATP to provide session establishment, maintenance, and
teardown, as well as request sequencing. See also ATP. 2. Telecommunications: Auxiliary signal path. Link
between TransPaths that allows them to exchange signaling information that is incompatible with the PSTN
backbone network used to provide feature transparency.
ASPEN Automatic Speech Exchange Network
ASPEN Automatic System for Performance Evaluation of Network
ASPEN Automated System for Performance Evaluation of Networks
ASPEN Voice mail operating system. Aka OCTEL
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASQC American Society for Quality Control
ASR Automatic Send/Receive
ASR Automatic Speech Recognition
ASR Automatic System Recovery
ASR Access Service Request
ASR Automatic Send-Receive
ASR Activation Service Representative
assigned numbers RFC [STD2] documents the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in
network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically, and current information can be obtained
from the IANA. If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket,
port, protocol, and so forth, contact the IANA to receive a number assignment. See IANA and STD.
association control service element See ACSE.
associative memory Memory that is accessed based on its contents, not on its memory address. Sometimes
called content addressable memory (CAM).
ASSP Application Specific Standard Products
ASSURE Administration System Support Universal Report Environment
AST Advanced Screen Telephony
AST AST Research, Inc
AST Automatic Spanning Tree. Function that supports the automatic resolution of spanning trees in SRB
networks, providing a single path for spanning explorer frames to traverse from a given node in the network
to another. AST is based on the IEEE 802.1 standard. See IEEE 802.1 and SRB.
ASTA Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms. Component of the HPCC program intended to develop software
and algorithms for implementation on high-performance computer and communications systems. See also HPCC.
ASTC Advanced Systems Test Center
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ASTRA Automated Service & Trouble Report Analysis
ASTRA Automated Service Trouble Report Analysis (f: ASTRA)
ASTRA Automated Subscriber Trouble Report Analysis
ASTRA Automated Switching Trouble Report Analysis
Astra PC Astra
ASTRS Automated Service and Trouble Reporting System
ASV Assurance of Voluntary Compliance
ASVP Atm Sonet Virtual Path
ASW All Seems Well
async Subset of tty.
asynchronous A form of concurrent input and output communications transmission with no timing relationship
between the two signals. Slower-speed asynchronous transmission requires start and stop bits to avoid a
dependency on timing clocks (10 bits to send on an eight-bit byte). Contrast with synchronous.
asynchronous communications A method of transmitting data in which each transmitted character is sent
separately. The character has integral start and finish start and stop bits so that the character can be
sent at an arbitrary time, and separate from any other character. It is the most rudimentary type of
communication as the originating and receiving machines do not have to be synchronized. Cheap, reliable and
common among PCs and minicomputers, its disadvantage is the large number of extra bits needed for the data
to be interpreted.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode A transfer method that dynamically allocates bandwidth using a fixed-size packet, or
cell. Also known as fast packet. An international integrated services digital network (ISDN) high-speed,
high-volume, packet-switching transmission protocol standard. ATM uses short, uniform, 53-byte cells to
divide data into efficient, manageable packets for ultrafast switching through a high-performance
communications network. The 53-byte cells contain 5-byte destination address headers and 48 data bytes. ATM
is the first packet-switched technology designed from the ground up to support integrated voice, video, and
data communications applications. It is well-suited to high-speed wide area network (WAN) transmission
bursts. ATM currently accommodates transmission speeds from 64 Kbps to 622 Mbps. ATM may support gigabit
speeds in the future.
Asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer (AAL a A series of protocols enabling asynchronous transfer
mode (ATM) to be compatible with virtually all of the commonly used standards for voice, data, image, and
video.
asynchronous transmission Term describing digital signals that are transmitted without precise clocking. Such
signals generally have different frequencies and phase relationships. Asynchronous transmissions usually
encapsulate individual characters in control bits (called start and stop bits) that designate the beginning
and end of each character. Compare with isochronous transmission, plesiochronous transmission, and
synchronous transmission.
AT Advanced Technology
AT Autre télécommunicateur (e: AC)
AT Access Tandem
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph
at-least-once transaction See ALO transaction.
ATA Adobe TypeAlign
ATA Analogic terminal adapter (f: ATA)
ATA AT Attachment
ATA analog terminal adaptor
ATACS Automated Test & Administration Control System
ATACS Automated Testing and Administrative Control System
ATACS Automated Test & Administrative Control System
ATACS Automated Testing & Adm Control Sytem
ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface
ATASPI AT Attachment Software Programming Interface
ATC Access to Carrier
ATC Alternative Telecom Carriers (European term for IXC)
ATCP AppleTalk Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes and configures AppleTalk over PPP, as defined in
RFC 1378. See also PPP.
ATD Audio Tone Detector
ATDE Adaptive Time Domain Equalization
ATDM Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing
ATDM Asynchronous Time-Division Multiplexing. ethod of sending information that resembles normal TDM, except
that time slots are allocated as needed rather than preassigned to specific transmitters. Compare with FDM,
statistical multiplexing, and TDM.
ATDN Advanced Technology Deminstration Network
ATEMIS Alston Traffic Engineering Management Information System
ATEMIS-DCS Alston Atemis Data Collection System
ATF Automated Transaction Facility
ATG Address Translation Gateway. Cisco DECnet routing software function that allows a router to route
multiple, independent DECnet networks and to establish a user-specified address translation for selected
nodes between networks.
ATG Address Translation Gateway
ATH ATtention Hangup.
ATLM Advanced Telecommunications Module
ATM Adobe Type Manager
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode (multiplexers)
ATM Automatic Teller Machine
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode (f: MTA)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode (155 MegaBits/sec bandwidth)
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
ATM automated teller machine
ATM automatic trunk maintenance
ATM ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode. International standard for cell relay in which multiple service types (such
as voice, video, or data) are conveyed in fixed-length (53-byte) cells. Fixed-length cells allow cell
processing to occur in hardware, thereby reducing transit delays. ATM is designed to take advantage of high-
speed transmission media such as E3, SONET, and T3. See Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
ATM adaptation layer See AAL.
ATM adaptation layer 1 See AAL1.
ATM adaptation layer 3/4 See AAL3/4.
ATM ARP server Device that provides address-resolution services to LISs when running classical IP over ATM.
See also LIS.
ATM data service unit See ADSU.
ATM endpoint Point in an ATM network where an ATM connection is initiated or terminated. ATM endpoints
include ATM-attached workstations, ATM-attached servers, ATM-to-LAN switches, and ATM routers.
ATM Forum International organization jointly founded in 1991 by Cisco Systems, NET/ADAPTIVE, Northern Telecom,
and Sprint that develops and promotes standards-based implementation agreements for ATM technology. The ATM
Forum expands on official standards developed by ANSI and ITU-T, and develops implementation agreements in
advance of official standards.
ATM Interface Processor See AIP.
ATM interface processor See AIS.
ATM layer Service-independent sublayer of the data link layer in an ATM network. The ATM layer receives the
48-byte payload segments from the AAL and attaches a 5-byte header to each, producing standard 53-byte ATM
cells. These cells are passed to the physical layer for transmission across the physical medium. See also
AAL.
ATM management See ATMM.
ATM network Traditional Cisco ATM network built around BPX switches.
ATM network interface card ESP card that is used as the OC-3 interface to the BPX's BXM.
ATM service interface. See ASCU.
ATM UNI See UNI.
ATM user-user connection Connection created by the ATM layer to provide communication between two or more ATM
service users, such as ATMM processes. Such communication can be unidirectional, using one VCC, or
bidirectional, using two VCCs. See also ATM layer, ATMM, and VCC.
ATM/CBT ATM softw. Service Requests/Responses
ATMM ATM Management. Process that runs on an ATM switch that controls VCI translation and rate enforcement.
See also ATM and VCD.
ATMS Automatic Transmission Measuring System
ATO AutoSIG
ATOM gestionnaire des commandes de services de télécommunications
ATOM Advanced Communication Order Manager
ATOMM Advanced super Thin layer and high Output Metal Media
ATP All Test Pass
ATP AppleTalk Transaction Protocol
ATP AppleTalk Transaction Protocol. Transport-level protocol that provides a loss-free transaction service
between sockets. The service allows exchanges between two socket clients in which one client requests the
other to perform a particular task and to report the results. ATP binds the request and response together to
ensure the reliable exchange of request-response pairs.
ATS Acquisitions Technical Services
ATT Attended public telephone (f: TPD)
ATT Automatic trunk testing (f: VACT)
Attached Resource Computer Network See ARCnet.
attachment unit interface See AUI.
attenuation A loss of signal strength in a lightwave, electrical, or radio signal that is usually related
to the distance the signal must travel. For example, fiber-optic transmission must be regenerated
approximately every 30 miles. Fiber-optic attenuation is caused by transparency of the fiber, bending the
fiber at too small of a radius, nicks in the fiber, splices, or poor fiber-optic terminals (FOTs).
Electrical attenuation is caused by the resistance of the conductor, poor or corroded connections, poor
shielding, induction, radio frequency interference (RFI), and similar conditions. Radio signal attenuation
may be due to atmospheric conditions, sun spots, antenna design or positioning, and line-of-sight obstacles.
Attenuation is usually expressed as a ratio in decibels (Db).
ATTRCLF Attendant Recall Flash
attribute Form of information items provided by the X.500 Directory Service. The directory information base
consists of entries, each containing one or more attributes. Each attribute consists of a type identifier
together with one or more values.
ATTS Automatic Trunk Test System
ATW Actual time worked (f: TRT)
AU Address Unit
AU access unit. Device that provides ISDN access to PSNs. See also PSN.
AUC Autentication Center
AuC Authentication Center
AUCC Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (f: AUCC)
AUD Automatic Dial
AUD Automatic Dial.
AUI Attachment Unit Interface. IEEE 802.3 interface between an MAU and a NIC. The term AUI can also refer to
the rear panel port to which an AUI cable might attach. Also called transceiver cable. See also IEEE 802.3,
MAU, and NIC.
AUI Attachment Unit Interface
AUL Automatic Line
AUL Automatic line (f: LD)
AUL Automatic Line
AUL Automatic Line
AUN Acorn Universal Networking
AUP Acceptable Usage Policy
AUP Acceptable Use Policy. Many transit networks have policies that restrict the use to which the network can
be put. Enforcement of AUPs varies with the network. See Acceptable Use Policy.
AURP AppleTalk Update-Based Routing Protocol. Method of encapsulating AppleTalk traffic in the header of a
foreign protocol, allowing the connection of two or more discontiguous AppleTalk internetworks through a
foreign network (such as TCP/IP) to form an AppleTalk WAN. This connection is called an AURP tunnel. In
addition to its encapsulation function, AURP maintains routing tables for the entire AppleTalk WAN by
exchanging routing information between exterior routers. See also AURP tunnel and exterior router.
AURP tunnel Connection created in an AURP WAN that functions as a single, virtual data link between
AppleTalk internetworks physically separated by a foreign network (a TCP/IP network, for example). See also
AURP.
AUSM ATM user service module.
authentication In security, the verification of the identity of a person or process.
Authentication Any process that ensures that users are who they say they are. When you type your name and
password, you are authenticated and allowed access.
authority zone Associated with DNS, an authority zone is a section of the domain-name tree for which one name
server is the authority. See also DNS.
Authorization code (AC) A 5- to 14-digit security number that provides access to an interexchange carrier's
network. Authorization codes are inherently required for all Feature Group A and Feature Group B circuits
without automatic number identification (ANI) reporting. Authorization codes are also required for travel
service and cut-through capabilities on Feature Group D circuits.
Authorization process Before an alternate long distance company can approach Bell Canada Carrier Services
to implement a change to a customer's long distance service, it must obtain appropriate authorization from
the customer. That authorization can take one of three forms: verbal, written, or electronic.
Auto answer (AA) A machine feature that allows a transmission-control unit or station to automatically
respond to a call that it receives.
Auto-answer When a modem has the ability to automatically pick up the phone when the phone rings and then
attempt to connect with another computer.
AUTOCAD Automatic computer aided design
AUTOLST Automatic Line Station Transfer
Automated Packet Recognition/Translation See APaRT.
Automatic alternative routing (AAR) A system for providing continued telecommunications service in the event
that a primary transmission route fails catastrophically (e.g., when a FOTS is cut).
Automatic answer A machine answers a call to an unattended telephone line.
automatic call distribution See ACD.
automatic call reconnect Feature permitting automatic call rerouting away from a failed trunk line.
Automatic callback A feature that allows a caller to request a call back when encountering an internal
station busy signal. The caller dials a one or two-digit code and hangs up. When both parties are free, the
system automatically rings and connects the parties. While activated, this feature does not prevent the
calling station from either initiating or receiving calls
Automatic number identification (ANI) 1. The number associated with the telephone station(s) from which
switched calls are originated or terminated. 2. A software feature associated with Feature Group D and
optional on Feature Group B circuits. ANI provides the originating local telephone number of the calling
party. This information is transmitted as part of the digit stream in the signalling protocol, and is
included in the Call Detail Record for billing purposes. 3. ANI may also be used to refer to any telephone
number. 4. On long-distance calls, ANI is the process by which the local telephone company passes a caller's
local billing telephone number to the long-distance company when a 1+ or 10-XXX call is made. With ANI, a
caller's long-distance carrier knows the telephone number to bill without requiring the caller to enter any
extra identifying digits. 5. A feature that automatically identifies a calling station for customer-dialed
calls.
automatic protection switching See APS.
automatic repeat request See ARQ.
Automatic ring down (ARD) A private line connecting a station instrument in one location to a station
instrument in a distant location with automatic two-way signaling. The automatic two-way signaling used on
these circuits causes the station instrument on one end of the circuit to ring when the station instrument
on the other end goes off-hook. This circuit is sometimes called a "hot-line" because urgent communications
are typically associated with this service. ARD circuits are commonly used in the financial industry. ARD
circuits also have one-way signaling, where station A rings station B when station A goes off hook, but
station B cannot ring station A.
Automatic Routing Management Formerly AutoRoute. Connection-oriented mechanism used in Cisco WAN switches
to provide connectivity across the network. Switches perform a connection admission control (CAC) function
on all types of connections in the network. Distributed network intelligence enables the CAC function to
automatically route and reroute connections over optimal paths, while guaranteeing the required QoS.
automatic spanning tree See AST.
autonomous confederation Group of autonomous systems that rely on their own network reachability and routing
information more than they rely on that received from other autonomous systems or confederations.
autonomous switching Feature on Cisco routers that provides faster packet processing by allowing the ciscoBus
to switch packets independently without interrupting the system processor.
autonomous system Collection of networks under a common administration sharing a common routing strategy.
Autonomous systems are subdivided by areas. An autonomous system must be assigned a unique 16-bit number by
the IANA. Sometimes abbreviated as AS. See also area and IANA.
autonomous system boundary router See ASAM.
AutoRam Interface to RAMIS
autoreconfiguration Process performed by nodes within the failure domain of a Token Ring network. Nodes
automatically perform diagnostics in an attempt to reconfigure the network around the failed areas. See also
failure domain.
AutoSpec Mechanization of spec writting process
AUTOSPEC AUT Database for spec writing which will provide consistency amongst user groups
AUTOVON Automatic Voice Network
AUX Auxiliary
available bit rate See ABR.
Available Se Available Services
AVC Audio Visual Connection
AVC Audio-Visual Connection
AVE AutoCAD Visualisation Extension
AVeL-TECH A value-added solution provider partnering with BMC to provide real-time vehicle
average rate Average rate, in kilobits per second (kbps), at which a given virtual circuit will transmit
AVGA Accelerated VGA
AVGG Advantage Vnet Global Gateway
AVI Audio Video Interleave
AVM Receives info downloaded from audio conferencing HP workstation
AVM ATM voice multiplexer.
AVON Ncs Advantage Vnet Online
AVP Assistant Vice-President (f: VPA)
AVR Automatic Voice Recognition
AVR Automatic Voltage Regulation
AVS Application Visualisation System
AVS Business Office Liaison team
AVSS Audio/Visual Support System
AVT AntiVirus Toolkit
AVVID Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data
AW Administrative Weight. Value set by the network administrator to indicate the desirability of a network
link. One of four link metrics exchanged by PTSPs to determine the available resources of an ATM network.
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWG American Wire Gauge (f: AWG)
AWG American wire gauge
AWI Animation Works Interactive
AWM Advanced Wave Memory
AWS ADSL WORK STATION
AWT Actual working time (f: TPA)
AWT Average work time (f: TMA)
AWT average work time (used in Operator Services)
AXS Advantage Xbase Server
AYFR Average year of final retirement (f: AMDR)
AYP Average year of placing (f: AMMP)
AZO All Zero Octet
B Bearer Channel
B channel Bearer channel. In ISDN, a full-duplex, 64-kbps channel used to send user data. Compare to D
channel, E channel, and H channel.
B&AR Billing and Accounts Receivable
B&C Billing & Collections
B&K Bill & Keep
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
B/L By-link
B/S Bits Per Second
B2K Bill 2000
B3ZS Binary 3-Zero Substitution
B8ZS Binary 8-Zero Substitution
B8ZS Bipolar 8-Zero Suppression
B8ZS bipolar with 8 zero substitution
B8ZS Binary 8-Zero Substitution. Line-code type, used on T1 and E1 circuits, in which a special code is
substituted whenever 8 consecutive zeros are sent over the link. This code is then interpreted at the remote
end of the connection. This technique guarantees ones density independent of the data stream. Sometimes
called bipolar 8-zero substitution. Compare with AMI. See also ones density.
BA Buffer Allocation
BA Business Assessment
BA Billing Address
BA Business Analyst
BAARS Bell Atlantic Automated Record System
BABS British Airways Booking System
BAC Burst Admission Control
BAC Bell Advanced Communications
back end Node or software program that provides services to a front end. See also client, FRF.11, and server.
back pressure Propagation of network congestion information upstream through an internetwork.
backbone 1. The network of broadband connections between switches. Usually refers to the vertical medium used
for data transmission. 2. A high-capacity network that links together other networks of lower capacity. A
local backbone network would typical y be an fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) network acting as an in
building backbone to link together multiple LANs. A wide area backbone network would typically use digital
leased circuits and multiplexers or routers.
backoff The (usually random) retransmission delay enforced by contentious MAC protocols after a network node
with data to transmit determines that the physical medium is already in use.
backplane Physical connection between an interface processor or card and the data buses and the power
distribution buses inside a chassis.
backward explicit congestion notification See BECN.
backward learning Algorithmic process used for routing traffic that surmises information by assuming
symmetrical network conditions. For example, if node A receives a packet from node B through intermediate
node C, the backward-learning routing algorithm will assume that A can optimally reach B through C.
BAE BON AUX ESSAIES (E: TESTED GOOD WITH SUB)
BAF Bellcore Ama Format
BAF-AMA Belcore AMA Format
BAL Basic Assembler Language
balanced configuration In HDLC, a point-to-point network configuration with two combined stations.
balanced, unbalanced See balun.
ballot A release form that authorizes a customer's long-distance telephone service to be switched to
another long-distance carrier or reseller.
balun balanced, unbalanced. Device used for matching impedance between a balanced and an unbalanced line,
usually twisted-pair and coaxial cable.
BAM basic access module
BAM business analyst methods
band 1. The range of frequencies between two defined limits. 2. In reference to wide area telecommunications
service (WATS), one of the five geographic areas defined by the carrier.
banded rates Tariffed rates that may be changed by the carrier within a specified range. Frequently, state
commissions require notice before each change. Banded rates are being used less frequently today. Compare
with range rate tariffs
bandwidth Difference between the highest and lowest frequencies available for network signals. The term is
also used to describe the rated throughput capacity of a given network medium or protocol.
Bandwidth This refers to the difference (measured in Hz), between the highest and lowest frequencies of a
transmission. Bandwidth is the total frequency spectrum, in Hertz or cycles per second, that is allocated or
available to a channel. It is also the amount of data that can be carried, in bits per second (bps), by a
channel. Most people loosely refer to bandwidth as the amount of data that can be transferred over a network
connection.
bandwidth allocation See bandwidth reservation.
bandwidth reservation Process of assigning bandwidth to users and applications served by a network.
Involves assigning priority to different flows of traffic based on how critical and delay-sensitive they
are. This makes the best use of available bandwidth, and if the network becomes congested, lower-priority
traffic can be dropped. Sometimes called bandwidth allocation. See also call leg.
BankRec Bank Reconciliation
Banyan VINES See VINES.
BAP business analyst process
BAPS Bell Advanced Properties Solutions
BARC BCS Application Review Committee
BARC BAR CODE
BARIS Budget and Results Information System
BARRNet Bay Area Regional Research Network. Regional network serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The BARRNet
backbone is composed of four University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Santa Cruz, and San
Francisco), Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and NASA Ames Research Center.
BARRNet is now part of BBN Planet. See also BBN Planet.
BARS Basic Automatic Route Selection
BARS Business Analysis and Research System (f: BARS)
BARS Business Analysis & Research System
BARS Business Analysis Research System
BARTS Budget and Results Tracking System
BAS business analyst systems
BAS Broadband Access Server
BAS BCRIS Administrative Support
base rate The nondiscounted, per-minute charge for measured service.
baseband Characteristic of a network technology where only one carrier frequency is used. Ethernet is an
example of a baseband network. Also called narrowband. Contrast with broadband.
bash Bourne-again shell. Interactive UNIX shell based on the traditional Bourne shell, but with increased
functionality. See also root account.
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BASIC Beginners All -Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (standardized program language)
basic encoding rules See BER.
basic rate 1. Three digital signals over a single pair of copper wires. 2. Voice and fax on a single pair
of wires. 3. Two voice (B) channels and one signalling (D) channel
Basic Rate Access (BRA) BRA provides ISDN users with access to two 64Kbit/s data channels, It is defined in
ITU-TS Recommendation I.420 which covers a 2B + D-channel where the B channel is a 64Kbit/s channel, and the
D-channel is a 16Kbit/s signaling channel.
Basic Rate Interface See BRI.
Basic Research and Human Resources See BRHR.
BAT Battery
batch file transfer This is when more than one file is sent at a time by a file transfer protocol.
batch oriented A system that groups input into subsets and processes them periodically rather than in real-
time. Contrast with event driven.
baud The number of signaling elements that can be transmitted per second on a circuit. For example, when a
modem is used to send digital information on an analog line, baud refers to the speed that the circuit can
change from the tone used to represent a binary zero to the tone used to represent a binary one, or vice
versa. In an average data stream, one baud is roughly equivalent to one bit per second on a digital
transmission circuit. This is an older term, being replaced by bps or bits per second.
BAUD Signal Element Changes per Second
baud rate The number of bits per second on a serial link.
Bay Area Regional Research Network See BARRNet.
Bb Channel 64 kbps channel that carries B channel packet data (ISDN)
BB/IP Broadband / Internet Protocol
BBB Better Business Bureau
BBB Bell Business Back-up
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BBDP Broad Band Design Package
BBG Basic Business Group
BBI Begin Bracket Indicator
BBLED Broad Band LAN Extension Device
BBM Budget Building Model
BBN Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. High-technology company located in Massachusetts that developed and
maintained the ARPANET (and later, the Internet) core gateway system. See also BBN Planet.
BBN Planet Subsidiary company of BBN that operates a nationwide Internet access network composed in part
by the former regional networks BARRNet, NEARNET, and SURAnet. See also BARRNet, BBN, NEARNET, and SURAnet.
BBNS BroadBand Network Services
BBPL BroadBand Private Line
BBR Bad-Block Replacement
BBR Broadband Restoration System
BBS Bulletin Board System
BBS See Bulletin Board System.
Bc Committed Burst. Negotiated tariff metric in Frame Relay internetworks. The maximum amount of data (in
bits) that a Frame Relay internetwork is committed to accept and transmit at the CIR. See also Be and CIR.
BC Bearer Capability
BC Bearer Capability
BC Before Christ
BC Book Cost (f: CC)
BC Business Communications (f: CA)
BC Committed Burst Size
BC1263 Invoice Prog. Utilities/Tracks chargebacks
BC1386 (PC) Engineering hours reporting tool
BC1386 (VM) Engineering Time Reporting
BC3512 Mechanization of form BC3512
BC4044C Time Reporting for Associates. Provides for upload to ICM
BC4044M Time Reporting for Management. Provides for upload to ICM
BC4568A Differable plug-in request
BC608 Mechanized form BC608 to track cable opening in cable repair. Creates trouble ti
BC6319A see F6319
BC8110 Expenses account
BC8110A Expenses account on credit card
BC995 Mechanized access script providing execution of ONC report
BCAT Business Communications Analysis Tool
BCC Bell Canada Centre
BCC Bellcore Client Company
BCC Block Character Check
BCC Block Check Character
BCC Block Check Code
BCCC Bell Canada Corporate Centre (f: SGBC)
BCCC Broadband Custor Care Center
BCCD Bell Canada Collection Division
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel
BCCI Business Common Customer Identity
BCCS Bell Canada Client Services
BCCS Bell's customer contact system (f: SOCC)
BCCS Bell Canada Communication Services
BCCS Bell Canada Customer Services
BCCS Bell Customer Contacts System - client workstation
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCE Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. (f: BCE)
BCE Bell Canada Enterprises
BCEWG Business Communication Engineering Working Group
BCG Business Communications Group (f: GCA)
BCG Boston Consulting Group
BCH Bell Canada Holdings
BCI Begin Chain Indicator
BCI Bell Canada International
BCI Bit Count Integrity
BCI Bell Canada International
BCIC Bell Canada Innovation Centre (f: CIBC)
BCL Binary Compatibility Layer (for OS/2 2.0)
BCLC BC Lottery Corporation
BCLID Bulk Calling Line Indentification
BCM Bit Compression Mux
BCM Business Communications Management (f: GTA)
BCM Business Communications Management
BCM-PI Business Communication Management Pilot Integrator
BCMC Bell Canada Management Corporation (f: CGBC)
BCN Backbone Concentrator Node (f: NCRP)
BCNX Backbone Concentrator Node Switch
BCOC Business Communications Operations Concept
BCOG Business Communication Operation Group
BCOG Business Communications Group (Telecom Tier B group)
BCONSS Business Communications Operations Network Support Systems
BCOP Business Communications Operations Plan
BCP Bell Canada Practice (f: PBC)
BCP Business Continuity Plan
BCP Byte Controlled Protocols
BCP Bell Canada Practice
BCP Best Current Practices. The newest subseries of RFCs that are written to describe BCPs in the Internet.
Rather than specifying a protocol, these documents specify the best ways to use the protocols and the best
ways to configure options to ensure interoperability between various vendors' products.
BCR Benefit/cost Ratio
BCRIS Bell Canada Record Information System
BCRIS Bell Customer Record Information System (f: BCRIS)
BCRIS – RF BCRIS – Remote Forms
BCRIS-NMS BCRIS - Network Management System
BCRIS/BOOST Bell Customer Records Information System
BCRIS/OSI Bell Customer Records & Information System/Operator Services Intfc
BCRL B.C. Rail/Lightel
BCRP Business Continuity/Recovery Plan
BCS Batch Change Supplement (f: BCS)
BCS Binary Compatibility Standard
BCS Block Check Sequence
BCS Boston Computer Society
BCS British Computer Society
BCS Business Communication System
BCS Business communications system (f: SCA)
BCS Batch Change Supplement (generic of a DMS switch)
BCS Billing and Credit Services -previously AIS
BCS block check sequence
BCS Business Communication Service
BCS Batch Change Supplement
BCS(3) Binary Synchronous Communication (3)
BCSC Business Centrex Service Centre
BCSC Business Communications Service Centre (f: CSCA)
BCSC Business Customer Service Centres
BCSI Bell Communications Systems Inc. (f: BCSI)
BCT Blue Chip Technology
BCTEL British Columbia Telephone
BD Billing Date
BD Business Development
BD Business Development (f: PM)
Bd Channel 64 kbps channel that carries one or more D channels (ISDN)
BD or BP Bill Date or Bill Period - used synonymously
BDAM Basic Direct Access Method
BDC Bad debt cost (f: CCI)
BDCS Broadband Digital Cross-connect System
BDCS Broadband Digital Cross-Connect System. SONET DCS capable of cross-connecting DS-3, STS-1 and STS-3c
signals. See also DCS.
BDDN Bell Data Distribution Network
BDF Bulk Data Format
BDFB Battery distributing fuse board (f: PFDA)
BDFB Battery distribution Fusebay
BDI Bell Distributing Inc
BDI Bell Distributed Inc
BDI Bell Distribution Inc
BDM Billing Data Management
BDMC business direct marketing center
BDMC Business Direct Marketing Centre
BDP Best Demonstrated Practices (f: MP)
BDP Business/Deployment Plan
BDR Back-up Designated Router
BDRY Boundary
BDS Broadband Distribution Shelf
BDT Billing Data Tape
BDT Bulk Data Transmission (f: TDHD)
BDX Business Document Exchange
BE Bachelor of Engineering
BE Begin End (tag)
BE Excess Burst Size
Be Excess Burst. Negotiated tariff metric in Frame Relay internetworks. The number of bits that a Frame
Relay internetwork will attempt to transmit after Bc is accommodated. Be data is, in general, delivered with
a lower probability than Bc data because Be data can be marked as DE by the network. See also Bc and DE.
beacon Frame from a Token Ring or FDDI device indicating a serious problem with the ring, such as a broken
cable. A beacon frame contains the address of the station assumed to be down. See also failure domain.
bearer channel See B channel.
BEAST Building Extension Avoidance Study Team
BEBN Bell Emergis Business Network
BEC Bell Exchange Company
Because It's Time Network See BITNET.
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification. Bit set by a Frame Relay network in frames traveling in the
opposite direction of frames encountering a congested path. DTE receiving frames with the BECN bit set can
request that higher-level protocols take flow control action as appropriate. Compare with FE.
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BEDO Burst EDO
Bell Communications Research See Bellcore.
Bell customer code A three-digit numeric code, appended to the end of the main billing telephone number,
that is used by local exchange carriers (LEC)s to provide unique identification of customers
Bell operating company See BOC.
BELL-REF/BEL Bell Reference
BELLACRO Bell Canada Acronyms
BELLCORE Bell Communications Research
Bellcore Bell Communications Research. Organization that performs research and development on behalf of the
RBOCs.
Bellman-Ford routing algorithm See distance vector routing algorithm.
BELLSRC CBC/Stentor digital aduio switch
BELVISOE Bell & Northern New Products
BEM Bus Expansion Module
BEMS Business Exchange Measured Service
BER Bit Error Rate
BER Bit Error Ratio
BER 1. Bit Error Rate. Ratio of received bits that contain errors. 2. basic encoding rules. Rules for
encoding data units described in the ISO ASN.1 standard. See also ASN.1.
Berkeley Internet Name Domain See BIND.
Berkeley lnternet Name Domain An early version of a DNS server developed by the University of California at
Berkeley. Most Internet hosts run a version of BIND.
Berkeley Standard Distribution See BSD.
BERT Bit Error Rate Tester. Device that determines the BER on a given communications channel. See also BER,
bit error rate.
BERT Bit Error Rate
BERT Bit Error Rate Test(er)(ing)
BERT bit error rate test
BES Bell Express Service
BES BELL EXPRESS SYSTEM
BESI Bell Enterprises Systems Infrastructure
BESI Bell Enterprise Systems Infrastructure (Desktop office Services Environment)
BESI Bell Enterprise Systems Infrastructure
BESI BELL ENTERPRISE STANDARDS INFRASTRUCTURE
best-effort delivery Describes a network system that does not use a sophisticated acknowledgment system to
guarantee reliable delivery of information.
Beta test A secondary product test performed before general release of the product by a selected set of "early
support" end users or customers under special contract.
BETS Billing EMI Translation System
BFC Billing Foreign Country
BFCO Broadband Facility Control Office (f: CVILB)
BFCO Broadband Facilities Control Office (Surv Centre in Barrie)
BFCO Broadband Facilities Commissioning Office
BFCO Broadband Facilities Control Office (now PNCC)
BFCV Binary Facility Coding Value
BFD Basic File Directory
BFE Billing Front End (f: BFE)
BFE Billing Front End
BFI Business Feature Information
BFS Basic File System
BFT Binary File Transfer
BG Battery and Ground
BGA Ball Grid Array
BGNO Bell Global Network Operations
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BGP Border Gateway Protocol. Interdomain routing protocol that replaces EGP. BGP exchanges reachability
information with other BGP systems. It is defined by RFC 1163. See also BGP4 and EGP.
BGP4 BGP Version 4. Version 4 of the predominant interdomain routing protocol used on the Internet. BGP4
supports CIDR and uses route aggregation mechanisms to reduce the size of routing tables. See also BGP and
CIDR.
BGR Bus Grant
BGR Manage appoints for installation technicians (BQ)
BGS Bell Global Solutions
BHBS Busy Hour of Busy Season
BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempt
BHME Bell Hosted Microsoft Exchange
BHS Bell Horizon Services
BI Business Intelligence
BIA Burned-In MAC Address.
BIB Backward Indicator Bit
BIBS BRATS International Billing System
BICI Broadband Inter-Carrier Interface. ITU-T standard that defines the protocols and procedures needed for
establishing, maintaining, and terminating broadband switched virtual connections between public networks.
BiCMOS Bipolar CMOS
BiCMOS Bipolar Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
BICS Bitstream International Character Set
BICS Building Industry Consulting Services (f: SCIB)
BID Business Internet Dedicated
BIDJ Billing Information Date Jeopardy
BIE Bell Internet Email
BIG Billing Information Group
BIG Billing Interface Group
big-endian Method of storing or transmitting data in which the most significant bit or byte is presented
first. Compare with little-endian.
BIGA Bus Interface Gate Array. Technology that allows the Catalyst 5000 to receive and transmit frames from
its packet-switching memory to its MAC local buffer memory without the intervention of the host processor.
bill A notice of charges for products and services rendered to a customer.
Bill Distrib Customer Billing Service System Bill Distribution
Bill-To-Room (BTR) A billing option associated with operator assisted calls that allows callers to bill a
call to their hotel room. With this option, the carrier is required to notify the hotel of the time and
charges upon completion of the call.
BILL2000 BILL 2000
billable calls Any call that is billed to the appropriate party.
billable minutes The number of minutes it takes to make and complete a billable call.
Billed Service Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
BILLFRMT BILL FoRMaT
billing The accounting process of accumulating cost and usage data and preparing the customer invoice.
Billing Account Number (BAN) A number used by telephone companies to designate the customer or customer
location that will be billed. A single customer may have multiple billing accounts.
Billing Name and Address (BNA) Billing name and address information; usually used to refer to BNA information
related to an automatic number identification (ANI) or calling card number.
Billing Telephone Number (BTN) The telephone number associated, for billing purposes, with the working
telephone number.
binary Numbering system characterized by ones and zeros (1 = on, 0 = off).
binary 8-zero substitution See B8ZS.
binary code The representation of a quantity in a base-2 number system
binary coded alternate mark inversion See AMI.
binary digit The smallest entity of digital information possible.
binary synchronous communication See BSC.
Binary Synchronous Communication Protocol See bisync.
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain. Implementation of DNS developed and distributed by the University of
California at Berkeley (United States). Many Internet hosts run BIND, which is the ancestor of many
commercial BIND implementations.
BinHex Binary Hexadecimal. Method for converting binary files into ASCII for transmission by applications,
such as e-mail, that can only handle ASCII.
BINS Bell Internet Network Server
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIP Bit Interleaved Parity
BIP Breaker interface panel
BIP Batch Interface Program
BIP bit interleaved parity. In ATM, a method used to monitor errors on a link. A check bit or word is sent in
the link overhead for the previous block or frame. Bit errors in the payload can then be detected and
reported as maintenance information.
BIP-N Bit Interleaved Parity - N
BIPD Bell Institute for Professional Development (f: IFPB)
BIPD Bell Institute for Professional Development
biphase coding Bipolar coding scheme originally developed for use in Ethernet. Clocking information is
embedded into and recovered from the synchronous data stream without the need for separate clocking leads.
The biphase signal contains no direct current energy.
bipolar Electrical characteristic denoting a circuit with both negative and positive polarity. Contrast with
unipolar.
bipolar 8-zero substitution See B8ZS.
BIS Bell Information Systems (f: SIB)
BIS Built in Signalling
BIS Business Information Systems
BIS Bell Information Systems
BIS Business Information Systems
BISCOM Business Information System Communications
BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BISDN Broadband ISDN
BISDN Broadband ISDN. ITU-T communication standards designed to handle high-bandwidth applications such as
video. BISDN currently uses ATM technology over SONET-based transmission circuits to provide data rates from
155 to 622 Mbps and beyond. Contrast with N-ISDN. See also BRI, ISDN, and PRI.
BISIP Bell Information System - Information Provisioning
BISOS Bell Information Systems - Outright Sales
BIST Built-In Self-Test
BISYNC Binary Synchronous Protocol (IBM)
BISYNC Binary Synchronous Communication
bisync Binary Synchronous Communication Protocol. Character-oriented data-link protocol for applications.
Contrast with Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC).
bit The smallest amount of information that can be transmitted. In binary digital transmission, a bit is
either a 0 or 1. A combination of bits indicates an alphabetic character, a numeric digit, or perform a
signaling, switching, or other function.
Bit BInary digiT
bit duration The time it takes for one bit to pass a point on a transmission medium. Bit duration is used
to measure delay times, usually in high-speed communications.
bit error count The total number of bit errors counted during a timed interval.
bit error rate See BER.
bit error rate tester See BERT.
bit interleaved parity See BIP.
bit rate Speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed in bits per second.
Bit Time Amt of space that a single bit physically occupies on a line
bit-oriented protocol Class of data link layer communication protocols that can transmit frames regardless
of frame content. Unlike byte-oriented protocols, bit-oriented protocols provide full-duplex operation and
are more efficient and reliable. Compare with byte-oriented protocol.
BITA Bell Information Technology Architecture (f: ATIB)
BITA Bell Information Technology Architecture
BitBLT Bit BLock Transfer
BITES Bell Institute Training and Education System (f: SIGDEF)
BITNET Because It's Time to NETwork
BITNET Because It's Time Networking Services. Low-cost, low-speed academic network consisting primarily of
IBM mainframes and 9600-bps leased lines. BITNET is now part of CREN. See also CREN.
Bitnet A computer network devoted to academic use that provides email and file transfer services using a
store-and-forward protocol. It is based on the IBM Network Job Entry protocols. A more recent version of
Bitnet (known as Bitnet-II) encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP packets.
BITNET III Dial-up service providing connectivity for members of CREN. See also CREN.
BITS Building Integrated Timing Supplies
BITS Building Integrated Timing Supply
BITS Bell Internetworking Technical Services
bits per second Abbreviated bps. See also bit rate.
BIU Basic Information Unit
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BIX Building Integrated Cross Connect
BIX building internal cross-connect
BK Bank
BL Bridge Lifter
BLA See Building Lease Agreements
black hole Routing term for an area of the internetwork where packets enter, but do not emerge, due to
adverse conditions or poor system configuration within a portion of the network.
BLAs See Building Lease Agreement .
BLAST Blocked ASynchronous Transmission
BLAT BroadBand Local Access Team
BLD business long distance
BLDG Building
BLF Busy Lamp Field (f: TVO)
BLF busy lamp field
BLF Busy Lamp Field
BLIF Basic Listing Inter-exhange File
BLIS Bell Law Information System
BLIS Business Line Information System
BLIS Système de données juridiques Bell
BLK Block
BLN Backbone Link Node
BLOB Binary Large OBject
BLOB Binary Large OBjects
block multiplexer channel IBM-style channel that implements the FIPS-60 channel, a U.S. channel standard. This
channel is also referred to as OEMI channel and 370 block mux channel.
blocked calls Calls prevented from reaching the requested destination. May be due to network problems such
as outage or overload, or by customer request. Calls may be blocked from or to certain numbering plan areas
(NPAs), NXXs, States, or local access transport areas (LATAs).
blocking In a switching system, a condition in which no paths are available to complete a circuit. The term
is also used to describe a situation in which one activity cannot begin until another is completed.
blower Internal cooling fan used in larger router and switch chassis.
BLSR Bidirectional Line Switch Ring. SONET ring architecture that provides working and protection fibers
between nodes. If the working fiber between nodes is cut, traffic is automatically routed onto the
protection fiber. See also SONET.
BLSR Bi-directional line switched ring (versus UPSR)
BLSR Bi-Directional Line Switched Ring versus UPSR. UPSR NOT used. Bell Canada uses B
BLU Basic Link Unit
BLUE CARD Blue Card Access
BLV Busy Line Verification
BLV/I Busy Line Verification/Interruption
BLW BaseLine Wander
BM Bachelor of Medicine
BMAT Business Marketing Action Team
BMC Bell Canada Management Corporation (f: CGBC)
BMC Bell Mobility Cellular
BMMI Bilingual Man/machine Interface (f: IHMB)
BMO Bank Of Montreal
BMP Bitmap
BMP Business Market Planning
BMP Billing Measurement Plan
BMP Billed Message Printout
BMP Billed Messages Printout
BMPC Business Market Planning Committee
BMPS Billing Measurement Plan System
BMS Bandwidth Management Service
BMS Bandwidth Management System
BMS Business Marketing Services
BMS Business Management System (f: SGDC)
BMS Business Management System
BMS FRUT BMS Frame Relay
BMS IA Business Management System / Information Access
BMSIA Billing Management System Information Analysis
BN Blank Number
BNA Base Network Architecture
BNA Burroughs Network Architecture
BNAP Bell Neutral Answering Point
BNAS Bell Neutral Answering Service
BNC Bayonet Naval Connector
BNC connector Standard connector used to connect IEEE 802.3 10Base2 coaxial cable to an MAU.
BNCS Bell Network Centric Services
BND Building Network Design
BNDFMS Building Network Design Facility Management System
BNDFMS BND File Management System (CRBSTF en francais)
BNDS Business Network Design System
BNE Bell Network Engineering
BNE Business Network Engineering
BNE Bell Network Engineering
BNEI Bell Network Engineering and Installation
BNEWS Business Network Engineering Wrap Sheet
BNF Backus-Naur Form
BNI Bell Network Installation
BNI Broadband Network Interface.
BNIJIS BNI Job Information Sheet
BNM Business Network Management (f: GRA)
BNM Business Network Management (used in NT's DNC family's equivalent to CTX-CSM)
BNM Broadband Network Module.
BNMS Broadband Network Management System
BNN Bridged Night Number
BNN Boundary Network Node. In SNA terminology, a subarea node that provides boundary function support for
adjacent peripheral nodes. This support includes sequencing, pacing, and address translation. Also called
boundary node.
BNO Bell Network Operations
BNP Bell Northern Practice
BNR Bell Northern Research
BNR Bell-Northern Research Ltd (f: BNR)
BNS Billed Number Screening (f: VNF)
BNTH Blank Number Thousands or Hundreds
BNX Backbone Concentrator Switch (f: CCRP)
BNX Backbone Node Switch
BNX Backbone Node Switch eg Wellfleet BNX switch for HyperStream
BNX Bay Networks (Hyperstream Frame Relay)
BO Back Order
BO Building Out
BO Business Office (f: SC)
BO Busy Out
BOA Business Opportunity Assessment
BOBI Break-Out/Break-In. VNS feature that allows interworking between Euro-ISDN (ETSI) and other VNS-supported
signaling variants, such as DPNSS and QSIG.
BOBIS Bell Ontario Business Internet Services
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOC Bell operating company (US)
BOC Build Out Capacitance
BOC Bell operating company (in the U.S.)
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOC Bell Operating Company. Twenty-two local phone companies formed by the breakup of AT&T. See RBOC.
BOCB Business Office Copy of the Bill
BOD bandwidth on demand
BOE Bell Ontario Engineering
BOE Business Order Enhancement
BOEMP Business Office Efficiency Measurement Plan
BOETRAX Engineering time Forecasting
BOFM Bell Operations and Financial Model
BOI Blind Operator Interface
BOI-MTCE Blind Operator Interface System Maintenance
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. See BBN.
BOM Beginning of Message
BOMIS Business Office Management Information System (f: SIGESC)
BOMP Business Office Measurement Plan
BONDS Bell Open Network Data Security
BONT Broadband Optical Network Termination
BOOKEXP Book Expense (f: DEPCOMPT)
BOOST Bell On-line Ordering and Sales Tools
BOOST Bell Online Ordering and Sales Tools
BOOST Business Office Order Sales Tools
BOOST Bell On Line Ordering and Sales Tool
BOOST Bell On Line Ordering and Sales Tools
BOOST Bell On-Line Ordering & Sales Tool
BOOST Bell On-Line Ordering and Sales Toll
BOOST Bell On-Line Ordering and Sales Tool
BOOST Bell On-line Ordering and Sales Tool - see BCRIS
BOOST order system in conjunction with BCRIS
BOOST BELL ONLINE ORDERING & SALES TOOLS
boot programmable read-only memory See boot PROM.
boot PROM boot Programmable Read-Only Memory. Chip mounted on a printed circuit board used to provide
executable boot instructions to a computer device.
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol. Protocol used by a network node to determine the IP address of its Ethernet
interfaces, in order to affect network booting.
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
Bootstrap Protocol See BOOTP.
BOP Bit Oriented Protocol
BOP Business Office Practice
BOPP Bell Ontario Priority Planning
BOR Build Out Resistance
border gateway Router that communicates with routers in other autonomous systems.
Border Gateway Protocol See BGP.
BORSHT Battery Feed Over Voltage Protection Ringing Signalling Test
BOS Bull Operating System
BOS Billing Output Specifications
BOSS Building Office System Services
BOT Beginning of Tape
BOT Bell Official Telephone
BOT Block of Time
BOTG Business Office Training Guide
BOTI Bell Office Technology Incorporated
Bottleneck A system capacity constraint that reduces traffic during peak load conditions.
Bounce If you send email and it fails to arrive at its intended recipient for any reason (incorrect user
name, network failure, etc.), the message "bounces" and returns to you. The subject line in a bounced
message usually says something like: Undeliverable Mail or Message Undeliverable.
boundary function Capability of SNA subarea nodes to provide protocol support for attached peripheral
nodes. Typically found in IBM 3745 devices.
boundary network node See BNN.
boundary node See BNN.
BP Business Planning
BP Business Prime
BPAM Basic Partitioned Access Method
BPAT Business Planning Action Team
BPCS Business Planning and Control System
BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit. Spanning-Tree Protocol hello packet that is sent out at configurable intervals
to exchange information among bridges in the network. See also PDU.
BPI Baseline Privacy Interface.
BPI Business Performance Indicators
BPL Business Presentation Layer (Data structure used by MicroStrategy)
BPO Billing Purposes Only
BPOT Bank Payment on Tape (f: PBSB)
BPOT Bank Payment On Tape
BPP Business Planning and Performance
BPR Business Process Reengineering
BPR Business Process Re-engineering
BPS Bits Per Second
Bps Bits per second (upper/lower case is significant)
BPS (8-bit) bites per second
BPSR Bidirectional Line Switch Ring
BPT Best Power Technology
BPU Branch Prediction Unit
BPV Bipolar Violation
BPV BiPolar Violations (line performance parameter)
BPV bipolar violation
BPV BiPolar Violation.
BPX Service Node Closely integrated BPX switch, AXIS interface shelf, and extended services processor
designed to support ATM and Frame Relay switched virtual circuits, as well as traditional PVCs.
BQA British Quality Association
BR Before Relief
BR Branch
BR&P Budget Results and Portfolio
BRA base rate area (f: STB)
BRA Base Rate Area
BRA basic rate access
BRA basic rate area
BRASS Billed Revenue Analysis Support System
BRATS Billing Record Analysis and Transport System
BRATS Billing Record Analysis &Transport System
BRB Base Rate Boundary
BRD Business Requirements Document
break-out/break-in See BOBI.
BRET Bell Retrieval of EMAIL by Telephone
BRF Bridge Relay Function.
BRG Baud Rate Generator
BRHR Basic Research and Human Resources. Component of the HPCC program designed to support research, training,
and education in computer science, computer engineering, and computational science. See also HPCC.
BRI Basic Rate Interface. ISDN interface composed of two B channels and one D channel for circuit-switched
communication of voice, video, and data. Compare with PRI. See also BISDN, ISDN, and N-ISDN.
BRI Basic-Rate ISDN
BRI Basic Rate Interface
BRI ISDN Basic Rate Interface. BRI is 2B+1D channels
BRI basic rate interface (2 ISDN B & 1 D channel)
bridge 1. Device that connects and passes packets between two network segments that use the same
communications protocol. Bridges operate at the data link layer (Layer 2) of the OSI reference model. In
general, a bridge will filter, forward, or flood an incoming frame based on the MAC address of that frame.
See also relay. 2. A local area network (LAN) internetworking device that filters and passes data between
LANs based on layer 2 (media access control (MAC) layer) information. Bridges do not use any routing
algorithms. Compare with router. Contrast with gateway.
bridge forwarding Process that uses entries in a filtering database to determine whether frames with a
given MAC destination address can be forwarded to a given port or ports. Described in the IEEE 802.1
standard. See also IEEE 802.1.
bridge group Bridging feature that assigns network interfaces to a particular spanning-tree group. Bridge
groups can be compatible with the IEEE 802.1 or the DEC specification.
bridge number Number that identifies each bridge in an SRB LAN. Parallel bridges must have different bridge
numbers.
bridge protocol data unit See BPDU.
bridge static filtering Process in which a bridge maintains a filtering database consisting of static
entries. Each static entry equates a MAC destination address with a port that can receive frames with this
MAC destination address and a set of ports on which the frames can be transmitted. Defined in the IEEE 802.1
standard. See also IEEE 802.1.
BRIP Billed Revenue Information Provisioning
BRISC Bell-northern Reduced Instruction Set Computing
broadband 1. A term to originally describe a channel with more bandwidth than a standard voice grade channel
that is a 48 KHz link, the equivalent to twelve voice grade channels. These channels are gradually being
superseded by digital circuits. Broadband has multiple frequency channels, operating independently of each
other, that can carry voice, data, and video. This is usually achieved by frequency division multiplexing
(FDM) which modulates each channel to a particular frequency level in the cable. 2. An analog circuit
providing greater bandwidth than a voice-grade telephone line, operating at a frequency of 20 KHz or higher.
Broadband channels are used for high-speed voice and data communications, radio and television broadcasting,
some local area networks (LANs), and many other communications applications. Synonym: wideband 3. A high-
capacity communications circuit or path. It usually implies a speed greater than 1.544 Mbps. 4. A data-
transmission technique that allows multiple signals to share the same transmission bandwidth. 5. Having a
bit-rate of more than 2 Mbps.
Broadband ISDN See BISDN.
Broadband Network Interface See BNI.
Broadband Network Module See BNM.
Broadband Switch Module See BXM.
broadcast Data packet that will be sent to all nodes on a network. Broadcasts are identified by a broadcast
address. Compare with multicast and unicast. See also broadcast address.
broadcast address Special address reserved for sending a message to all stations. Generally, a broadcast
address is a MAC destination address of all ones. Compare with multicast address and unicast address. See
also broadcast.
broadcast and unknown server See BUS.
broadcast domain Set of all devices that will receive broadcast frames originating from any device within
the set. Broadcast domains are typically bounded by routers because routers do not forward broadcast frames.
broadcast search Propagation of a search request to all network nodes if the location of a resource is
unknown to the requester. See also directed search.
broadcast storm Undesirable network event in which many broadcasts are sent simultaneously across all network
segments. A broadcast storm uses substantial network bandwidth and, typically, causes network time-outs.
BROR Baldwin Rate of Return
brouter Concatenation of "bridge" and "router." Used to refer to devices which perform both bridging and
routing functions. A device that combines the dynamic routing capability of an internetwork router with the
ability of a bridge to interconnect local area networks.
browser GUI-based hypertext client application, such as Internet Explorer, Mosaic, and Netscape Navigator,
used to access hypertext documents and other services located on innumerable remote servers throughout the
WWW and Internet. See also hypertext, Internet, Mosaic, and WWW.
BRP Bell Recommended Products (new name for POE) (f: PRB)
BRR Billed Revenue
BRR Billed Recurring Revenue
BRS Bell Relay Service
BRS Bell Relay Service
BRS-MTCE Bell Relay System Maintenance
BRSA Boundary Routing System Architecture
BRT Business Redesign Team
BRZ Bipolar Return to Zero
BSA Business Software Alliance
BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
BSAS Benefits and Services Administration System (f: BSAS)
BSC Base Station Controller
BSC Binary Synchronous Communications (= Bisynchronous = Bisync
BSC Broad Service Category (f: GCS)
BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
BSC binary synchronous communication
BSC binary synchronous communication. Character-oriented data link layer protocol for half-duplex
applications. A form of telecommunication line control that uses a standard set of transmission control
characters and control character sequences, for binary synchronous transmission of binary-coded data between
stations. Often referred to simply as .
BSD Berkeley Standard Distribution. Term used to describe any of a variety of UNIX-type operating systems
based on the UC Berkeley BSD operating system.
BSD Basic Study Date
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSD Berkeley System Distribution
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution responsible for disseminating the UNIX Operating
BSD bit sequence dependent
BSD Business Specification Document
BSE Basic Service Element
BSE Basic Service Extension
BSE Business Services Engineering
BSE Marketing Training Manual
BSFF Basic Span Facility File
BSI Binary Synchronous Interface
BSI British Standard Institute
BSI Binary Synchronous Interface
BSI bit sequence independent
BSI British Standards Institute
BSIMS Business Services Information Management System
BSISP Business Sales Information System Planning
BSIXS Business Services IntereXchange System
BSM Billing Services Management
BSM Business Services Manual (f: GSA)
BSM Billing Service Measurement
BSMP Billing Service Measurement Plan
BSMS Billing Service Measurement System
BSN Backward Sequence Number
BSO Business Sales & Operations
BSP Bell System Practice
BSP Business Services Provisioning
BSPS Business Segment Profile System
BSRF Basic System Reference Frequency
BSRT Business Sales Results Tracking system
BSS Base Station Subsystem
BSS Basic Station System
BSS Broadband Special Services
BSS Business Sales and Services
BSS Business Systems Service
BSS Business Sales and Service
BSS Bank Sort System
BSS Business Sales and Services
BST Broadband - Service Terminal
BST Bell Systems & Technology
BSTD Business Services Technology Development
BSTS BELL SYGMA TELECOM SOLUTIONS
BSTUN Block Serial Tunneling.
BSW Buried Service Wire
BSW Bus Switch
BT Bridge Tap
BT British Telecom
BT Business & Technology
BT British Telecom
BT Burst Tolerance. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. For VBR connections, BT
determines the size of the maximum burst of contiguous cells that can be transmitted. See also VBR.
BTA Buried Tape Armour
BTAM Basic Telecommunication Access Method
BTG British Technology Group
BTI Betrieve Technologies, Inc
BTMS Bell Trouble Management System
BTN Bell Television Network
BTN Billing telephone number (f: NTF)
BTN Billing tracking number (f: NTF)
BTN Bell Television Network
BTN Billed Telephone Number
BTN billing telephone number
BTN Billing Telephone Number. The primary telephone number used for billing regardless of the number of phone
lines associated with that number.
BTO Business Transformation Organization (f: GTE)
BTO Business Transformation Organization
BTOP Business Terminal Operations Practice
BTOS Business Tranformation of Outright Sales
BTOS Business Transformation of Outright Sales project
BTPMIS Business Transformation Project Management Information Syste
BTS Bell Trinity Square
BTS Batch Terminal Simulator
BTS Bell Technical Service (BIS/BCS Group)
BTS Business Transformation Support
BTSI Bell Technical Services Incorporated
BTT Billed to Third
BTU British Thermal Unit
BTU Basic Transmission Unit
BTU British Thermal Unit
BTU British Thermal Units.
BTW By The Way. One of many short-hand phrases used in chat sessions and e-mail conversations.Seen mostly in
IRC sessions. See also IMHO.
BU Bring Up
BU Bus Unit
BUC Business Unit Contribution
BUF Bring Up Facility
buffer Storage area used for handling data in transit. Buffers are used in internetworking to compensate
for differences in processing speed between network devices. Bursts of data can be stored in buffers until
they can be handled by slower processing devices. Sometimes referred to as a packet buffer.
BUFR Backup Failure Route
BUFR Backup Failure Routes
BUG Refers to an insect being trapped in the 1st computer causing it to fail
build Create flat files that are ready for use by the signaling controller database.
Building Lease Agreement BLAs are considered final upon signature of the agreement by GT and by the building
owner. BLAs are classified into 3 categories based on the size of the building. The categories are as
follows: Tier-1: Building > than 120,000 square feet Tier-2: Building between 60,001 and 119,999 square feet
Tier-3: Building < than 60,000 square feet
Bulletin Board System A computer which typically provides email services, file archives, and announcements
of interest to the bulletin board system's operator (known as a sysop). BBS's started out as hobbies for
computer enthusiasts, and were mostly accessible by modem. Recently, however, more and more BBS's are being
connected to the Internet.
BULLETINS IN Detailed Engineering Bulletins
bundled rates Several services comined into one combined offering for one charge.
BUR Buried
BURS Business unit reporting system
burst A sequence of signals counted as one unit in accordance with some specific criterion or measure.
burst mode The transmission of bulk data in large, continuous blocks over a channel that is used
exclusively for the extent of the transmission.
burst tolerance See BSTUN.
burst traffic Data that is transmitted in bursts, instead of continuously.
Bursty Communications characterized by high volumes of data transmitted intermittently, as opposed to
steady-stream data.
BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server. Multicast server used in ELANs that is used to flood traffic addressed to
an unknown destination and to forward multicast and broadcast traffic to the appropriate clients. See also
ELAN.
bus Common physical signal path composed of wires or other media across which signals can be sent from one
part of a computer to another. Sometimes called highway. See bus topology.
bus and tag channel IBM channel, developed in the 1960s, incorporating copper multiwire technology. Replaced
by the ESCON channel. See also ESCON channel and parallel channel.
Bus Interface Gate Array See BIGA.
bus topology Linear LAN architecture in which transmissions from network stations propagate the length of
the medium and are received by all other stations. Compare with ring topology, star topology, and tree
topology.
BUSINESS CAS Cornerstone of Capital Investment Process (CIP)
busy out To cause a line to return a busy signal to a caller. Busying out lines going into a computer is
useful when the computer is not available. This way, callers do not get connected to a modem where the
computer is not available. Also known as taking the phone off the hook.
Butt-set A hand-carried test telephone used to monitor, dial, and talk on conventional analog telephone
lines. So named because the craft person could clip onto a telephone line and "butt in" to a conversation.
BUUG Bell UNIX Users Group
BVA Billing validation
BVB Budesverband der Buero und Informations-Systeme
BVI Bridge group Virtual Interface.
BW Bandwidth
BW Buried Wire
BWC Build With Customer
BWS BandWidth Select Service
BX.25 AT&T implementation of X.25. See also X.25.
BXM Broadband Switch Module.
BXOP Business Extension Off-Premises
BXVU Bell ExpressVu
Bypass (BP) 1. The direct connection to customer-premises equipment by an interexchange carrier (IC). This
occurs when an IC connects its own facilities, or facilities leased from a non-Bell operating company,
directly to an end user's premises, circumventing the Bell operating company's (BOC) network. 2. The ability
of a station or port to be optically or electronically isolated from a ring network while maintaining the
integrity of the ring.
Bypass circuitry A group of devices that restore failed network links and equipment.
bypass mode Operating mode on FDDI and Token Ring networks in which an interface has been removed from the
ring.
bypass relay Allows a particular Token Ring interface to be shut down and thus effectively removed from the
ring.
Bypass service 1. Facilities bypass. The use of facilities other than those of the local exchange carrier
(LEC) to connect a customer premises to a point of presence (POP) or another customer premise. 2. Service
bypass. The use of operating telephone company private lines to connect a customer premises to a POP or
another customer premise
byte Term used to refer to a series of consecutive binary digits that are operated upon as a unit (for
example, an 8-bit byte).
byte reversal Process of storing numeric data with the least-significant byte first. Used for integers and
addresses on devices with Intel microprocessors.
byte-oriented protocol Class of data-link communications protocols that use a specific character from the
user character set to delimit frames. These protocols have largely been replaced by bit-oriented protocols.
Compare with bit-oriented protocol.
C Capacitance
C Capacitor
C Capital
C Conservative (f: S)
C&CT Cooper & Chyan Technology
C&S Calendaring and Scheduling
C-EDGE – SPI Consumer -EDGE - Sales Potential Index
C-ISUP Proprietary Cisco protocol based on ISUP.
C-NOS Customer Network Operating System
C-PLANE Control Plane
C-SERVER Control Server
C.A.T. Citizen Acoustic Technology
C.O.D. Cashed On Delivery
C/B Call Back
C/C Carbon Coils
C/QPP Canada/Québec Pension Plan (f: RRQ/RPC)
C/RBIT Command Response Bit
C/S Client/server
C/S Client Server
C12102 COE update location codes
C3I Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence
CA Cable
CA Cable Acceptance
CA Cellular Access
CA Certification Authority
CA Computer Animation
CA Computer Associates International, Inc
CA Control Agent
CA Customer Acceptance
CA Cost Alignment
CA Certificate Authority
CA CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE
CA 1. Certification Authority 2. Telecommunications: Call Appearance
CA/CNA Customer Address / Customer Name and Address
CAA Computer Aided Administration
CAATS Computed Assisted Auditing Techniques
CAATTS Computed Assisted Auditing Tools and Techniques
CABA Canadian Automated Buildings Association (f: ACAB)
cable Transmission medium of copper wire or optical fiber covered by a flexible, water-proof sheath.
cable cut Service outage caused by cutting or damaging a cable.
cable loading Adding coils of wire at specific intervals along a cable in order to improve transmission
quality. Cable pairs are often unloaded before they can be used for high-speed applications.
cable plant The installed cabling, connectors, splices, and patch panels within a given network.
cable range Range of network numbers that is valid for use by nodes on an extended AppleTalk network. The
cable range value can be a single network number or a contiguous sequence of several network numbers. Node
addresses are assigned based on the cable range values.
cable television See CATV.
CABLECAD Cable Computer Assisted Drafting
CABLECAD OP Computer assisted drawing tool
CABLO Site WEB division de K.Knox
CABLO1 Cable of cable dist. attach
CABLOSS Cable Transmission Loss
CABS Centralized Access Billing System
CABS Carrier Access Billing System
CAC Carrier Access Code
CAC Connection Admission Control
CAC Consumer Association of Canada (f: ACC)
CAC Customer Assistance Centre
CAC Carrier Access Code
CAC Customer Assistance Centre
CAC 1. Connection Admission Control. Set of actions taken by each ATM switch during connection setup in order
to determine whether a connection's requested QoS will violate the QoS guarantees for established
connections. CAC is also used when routing a connection request through an ATM network. 2. Carrier Access
Code. The sequence an end user dials to obtain access to the switched services of a carrier. Carrier access
codes for Feature Group D are composed of five digits, in the form 10XXX, where XXX is the carrier
identification code (CIC)
CACC Centralized Assignment & Control Centre
CACH Call-Appearance Call Handling.
caching Form of replication in which information learned during a previous transaction is used to process
later transactions.
CACS Centralized Assignment & Control System
CACs Competitive Action Centres
CACTAS Customer Assistance Centre Track Accreditation System
CAD Cabling Diagram
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAD Computer Aided Dispatch
CAD Computer Aided Drafting (f: DAO)
CAD Computer-Aided Design
CAD Computer Aided Design (f: CAO)
CAD computer aided design
CAD/CAM Computer Assist Design / Manufacture (f: CFAO)
CAD/CAM Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CADD Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
CADE Computer Assisted Data Entry
CADES NORTEL application used for switch implementation
CADEX Customs Automated Data Exchange System
CAE Common Applications Environment
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAE Computer Aided Examination
CAE Computer-Aided Engineering
CAF Controllable ATM Fabric.
CAG Central Administration Group
CAG Centralized Administrative Group
CAG Contract Administration Group
cage Piece of hardware into which cards are installed.
CAGR Compound annual growth rate (f: TCAC)
CAGR Compounded Annual Growth Rate
CAI Computer-Assisted Instruction
CAI Contrôleur d'accès intégré (e: IAC)
CAIA Customer Account Information Access
CAIENF CA Inc. Event Notification Facility
CAISSF CA Inc. Standard Security Facility
CAL Computer-aided learning (f: EAO)
CAL Computer-assisted learning (f: EAO)
California Education and Research Federation Netwo See CERFnet.
call A completed switched communication, at a specified bandwidth, between two stations on a network. A call
is originated by a "calling party", "calling station", or "caller". The destination or termination of a call
is the "called party," "called station (s)," or "destination node" on the network.
call back modem A modem that stores one or more passwords and telephone numbers. When a call is received, the
modem prompts the user for a password, hangs up, and redials the preprogrammed telephone number associated
with the password.
call back queuing The user's extension rings when a non-busy trunk is available if outgoing calls cannot be
completed due to busy trunk groups, signaling that the call can now be placed.
call blocking The restriction of extensions from making calls to other extensions with the same option by
the attendant activating this feature. See Local Voice Service Guide.
Call Detail Record (CDR) An accounting record, produced by the switches that tracks call type, time,
duration, facilities used, originator, destination, and so forth. CDRs are used for customer billing, rate
determination, network monitoring, and facility capacity planning. CDRs represent unrated calls that are to
be processed by rating. Contrast with toll, or rated calls.
call diversion A device that intercepts calls from a certain number and connects them to a different, pre-
determined line.
call duration The period of time that begins with answer supervision, or destination off hook, and ends when
the call is terminated.
call forwarding-all calls The user instructs the private branch exchange (PBX), usually by dialing an access
code followed by the number to which calls are to be forwarded, to ring another station. Calls directed to
the user's number are automatically sent to the reassigned number. See Local Voice Service Guide.
call forwarding-busy If the user extension is busy, all calls directed to that station are forwarded to the
attendant or a selected extension within the private branch exchange (PBX). See Local Voice Service Guide.
call forwarding-do not answer (or no answer) If the original station is not answered within a specific
period of time, the call is automatically directed to another location. See Local Voice Service Guide.
call leg Discrete segment of a call connection. A call leg is a logical connection between the router and
either a telephony endpoint over a bearer channel, or another endpoint using a session protocol.
call monitoring Circuit allowing for the listening in on the attendant's conversation in order to determine
the quality of the attendant's response to customers.
call park A feature that enables calls to be transferred to a busy extension; the call can be connected to the
extension when it is free.
call pick-up Calls directed to one station can be picked up by another station line within a preset pickup
group by dialing a special code.
call priority Priority assigned to each origination port in circuit-switched systems. This priority defines
the order in which calls are reconnected. Call priority also defines which calls can or cannot be placed
during a bandwidth reservation. See also bandwidth reservation.
call processing The sequence of operations performed by a switching system from the acceptance of an incoming
call to the final disposition of a call.
call processing data Information sent to the service management system (SMS) to define specific 800 service
features, such as call routing data based on: time of day, day of week, state of call origination, or load
balancing.
call progress tones Audible signals returned to the station user by the switching equipment to indicate the
status of a call; dial tones and busy signals are common examples.
call record All recorded data pertaining to a single call; often a private branch exchange (PBX) feature.
Call Reference Value See CRV.
call restriction override Deactivates call restriction feature.
call restrictor Equipment inserted in an outgoing dial trunk that restricts calls to forbidden or unauthorized
codes.
call routing tree A graphical display of complex call routing decision logic. Call routing trees document
function usage, to be used for change impact analysis.
call setup time Time required to establish a switched call between DTE devices.
call splashing A practice in which a customer requesting operator service is handed off ("splashed") to their
preferred operator service provider at a servicing center located in a city other than where the customer
is. This usually results in incorrect information about the originating location of a long distance call and
in overcharging. This practice has been a particular problem in the U.S., and is associated with a
proliferation of alternate operator service providers in that country.
call transfer See Local Voice Service Guide.
call waiting A busy station receiving another call is notified by a tone burst while the new call is held;
the station user can either hang up to receive the new call or place the existing call on hold and alternate
between the two calls. See Local Voice Service Guide.
called line identification A facility provided by a switched network in which the network confirms for the
calling terminal, the telephone number of the line to which the call has been connected.
called station The telephone number to which a call is directed or terminated.
caller ID A service available on digital phone networks that tells the person being called which number is
calling them. The central office equipment identifies the phone number of the caller, enabling information
about the called to be sent along with the call itself.
Calling Card Customer calling card system
Calling Line Identification (CLI) A service available on digital phone networks that tells the person being
called which number is calling them. The central office equipment identifies the phone number of the caller,
enabling information about the caller to be sent along with the call itself. Synonymous with ANI (Automatic
Number Identification).
Calling Seconds (CS) A measure of communications traffic.
calling station The telephone number or automatic number identification (ANI) that initiates a call.
CALRS Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System
CALRS Centralized Automated Loop Reporting System
CALRS Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting Systems
CALRS Centralized Automated Loop Reporting System
CALRS Centralized Automated Loop Reporting System The trouble reporting system maintai
Calrs Script Display/Reports of Calrs Info
CALRS WEB CENTRALIZED AUTOMATED LOOP REPORTING SYSTEM
Calrs-Fsos R routes CALRS information
CALRS-MLTU CALRS multi-line test unit
CALS Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System
CALS Computer Aided Acquisition, Logistics and Support
CAM Centralized Automatic Message Accounting (f: CCA)
CAM Common Access Method
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAM Content Addressable Memory
CAM Customer Account Management
CAM computer aided module
CAM computer-aided manufacturing
CAM 1. Cisco Access Manager. 2. content-addressable memory. See associative memory.
CAMA Centralized automatic message accounting (f: CAA)
CAMD Computer Aided Molecular Design
CAMI Computer Aided Medical Intervention
CAMIA Customer Account Management Information Access - see COBRA/CBSS
CAMIS Capital Activity Management Information System
CAMIS Construction Activity Management Information System
CAMM Call Answer Message Manager
CAMMS Centralized Access Maintenance & Monitoring Systems
CAMMS Controller Assisted Multiplex Maintenance System
CAMMS Centralized Access Maintenance & Monitoring System
CAMMU Cache and Memory Management Unit
CAMP Corporate Association for Microcomputer Professionals
CAMS Carrier Access Management System
CAMS Centralized Administration and Maintenance System (f: CAMS)
CAMS Carrier Access Management System
CAMSS Computer Aided Marketing Sales and Service
CAN Campus Area Network
CAN CANcel
CAN Customer Account Number
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications C The federal regulatory authority for commercial radio
and television broadcasters, cable system operators and telecommunications common carriers. Its primary
objective is to preserve and enhance the communications system in Canada in the interest of all Canadians.
Canadian Standards Association See CSA.
CANARIE Cdn Ntwk for Advancement of Research, Industry and Education
CANYPS Canadian Yellow Pages Service
CANYPS Canadian National Yellow Pages
CAP Capacity
CAP Capital Cash Flows (f: FMC)
CAP Card Access Program
CAP Commercial Administrative Practice
CAP Complementary Application Program
CAP Computer Aided Planning
CAP Centralized Application Provisioning (toll-free)
CAP Comité d'approbation des projets (e: OAG)
CAP CAP RUC
CAP 1. Call Appearance. 2. Competitive Access Provider. Independent company providing local
telecommunications services mainly to business customers in competition with an area's BOC or IOC. Teleport
and MFS are the two major CAPs operating in major metropolitan areas in the United States. See also BOC and
IOC.
CAPACENT Central offices capacity
capacity The highest possible reliable transmission speed that can be carried on a channel, circuit, or piece
of equipment. Capacity may be expressed as raw speed or as net throughput.
CAPI Common ISDN API
CAPIS Contract and Price Information System
CAPIS CONTRACT AND PRICING INFORMATION SYSTEM
CAPNET Captive Network
CAPS Computer Aided Product Selection
CAPS Competitive Access Providers
CAPS Corporate Accounting Planning System
CAQ Computer Aided Quality Assurance
CAR Call Request
CAR Change Action Report
CAR Current Analysis Report
CAR Capital Asset Request
CARE Carrier Access Records Exchange
CARE Computer Aided Reverse Engineering
CARE Customer Account Record
CARM Customer Accounts Receivable Management - see COBRA/CBSS
carrier 1. A steadily-transmitted frequency that can be modulated or impressed with a second signal carrying
information. See also modulation. 2. A long-distance company that uses primarily its own transmission
facilities, as opposed to resellers that lease or buy most or all transmission facilities from carrier
Carrier Access Code (CAC) The sequence an end user dials to obtain access to the switched services of a
carrier. Carrier access codes for Feature Group D are composed of five digits, in the form 10XXX, where XXX
is the carrier identification code (CIC)
carrier circuit Higher level circuits, such as DS-1, DS-3, or transmission systems, that carry lower-level
circuits, such as DS-0 and DS-1 systems.
Carrier Common Line Charge (CCLC) A per-minute charge paid by long-distance companies to local telephone
companies for the use of local public switched networks at either or both ends of a long-distance call.
Carrier Detect See CD.
Carrier Identification Code (CIC) 1. The three-digit number that uniquely identifies a carrier. The CIC is
indicated by XXX in the carrier access code (CAC). The same code applies to an individual carrier throughout
the area served by the North American numbering plan. 2. A three-digit number used with feature groups B and
D to access a particular interexchange carrier's (IEC's) switched services from a local exchange line. One
or more CIC codes are assigned to each carrier; there may be multiple CICs per access carrier name
abbreviation (ACNA)
Carrier Sense multiple access collision detect See CSI.
Carrier Services (CS) A wholesaling organization within Bell Canada, created in November 1992, that
provides telecommunications services -- at arm's length from the rest of the company -- to the intermediary
telecommunications market (from "intermediate" suppliers to end-users who purchase basic services from Bell
and then modify or repackage them for resale to their customers). These suppliers include: carriers and
resellers; cellular and personal communications systems providers; terminal equipment providers; the cable
TV industry; and the message exchange industry (e.g., alarm, paging, answering service, voice messaging
providers).
carrier signal The underlying frequency or frequencies that are to carry information. They are modulated
through one or more modulation techniques to impose information on the signal.
carrier split Use of 800 service call routing features to divide 800 calls between two or more interexchange
carriers (IECs). Split may be by percent allocation, origination, or time of day.
carrier system (CS) A system for providing several communications channels over a single path.
CARS Centralized AMA recording system (f: CARS)
CARS Computerized AMA Recording System
CARS Centralized AMA Recording System
CARS Computerized AMA Recording System
CARS Computer AMA Recording System
Cartes Désig Equipment identification cards-
CAS Channel Associated Signalling
CAS Communicating Applications Specification
CAS Computer Aided Signmaking
CAS Craft Administration System
CAS Customer Account Services
CAS Customer Attitude Survey
CAS BCTel Customer Access System
CAS CUSTOMER ACCOUNT SERVICES
CAS Channel Associated Signaling.
CASA Connecting Arrangement for Switched Access
CASCADE Compact And SCAlable Dedicated Ethernet
CASE Common Application Service Elements
CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CASE Common Application Service Element
CASE computer assisted software engineering tool
CASH Payment Cheque Reconciliation
CASS Customer Automated Services System (f: SADA)
casual call 1. A call placed through a carrier network when the caller dials the 10XXX access code. XXX
represents the carrier identification code. 2. A call placed through equipment programmed for a specific
carrier access code. 3. When any automatic number identification (ANI) not entered into an operator services
billing system uses operator services, the call will appear as casual, unidentified traffic until it is
identified and entered into the proper customer account.
casual customer Any person or organization that dials any carrier identification code (CIC). It is not
necessary to presubscribe to the carrier.
CAT Carrier Access Tariff
CAT Change Action Team
CAT Computer Aided Technology, Inc
CAT Computer Aided Training
CAT Computer Aided Translation
CAT Computer-Assisted Training
CAT Computerized Axial Tomography
Category 1 cabling One of five grades of UTP cabling described in the EIA/TIA-586 standard. Category 1
cabling is used for telephone communications and is not suitable for transmitting data. Compare with
Category 2 cabling, Category 3 cabling, Category 4 cabling, and Category 5 cabling. See also EIA/TIA-586 and
UTP.
cabling is capable of transmitting data at speeds up to 4 Mbps. Compare with Category 1 cabling, Category 3
cabling, Category 4 cabling, and Category 5 cabling. See also EIA/TIA-586 and UTP.
cabling is used in 10BaseT networks and can transmit data at speeds up to 10 Mbps. Compare with Category 1
cabling, Category 2 cabling, Category 4 cabling, and Category 5 cabling. See also EIA/TIA-586 and UTP.
cabling is used in Token Ring networks and can transmit data at speeds up to 16 Mbps. Compare with Category
1 cabling, Category 2 cabling, Category 3 cabling, and Category 5 cabling. See also EIA/TIA-586 and UTP.
cabling can transmit data at speeds up to 100 Mbps. Compare with Category 1 cabling, Category 2 cabling,
Category 3 cabling, and Category 4 cabling. See also EIA/TIA-586 and UTP.
catenet Network in which hosts are connected to diverse networks, which themselves are connected with
routers. The Internet is a prominent example of a catenet.
CATS Consortium for Audiographic Teleconferencing Standards
CATS Customer Access to TRIHS System
CATS Cash Analysis Tracking System
CATS Structures and Access Application
CATS Cellular Automated Tracking System
CATS Cross Applications Time Sheet
CATS Customer Access to TRIHS System
CATTS Centralized Automatic Transmission Test System
CATTS Centralized Automatic Trunk Test(ing) System
CATTS Computerized Automated Trunk Testing System
CATV Cable Access TeleVision
CATV Cable Television
CATV Community Antenna Television
CATV CAbleTeleVision. Communication system where multiple channels of programming material are transmitted to
homes using broadband coaxial cable. Formerly called Community Antenna Television.
CAU Controlled Access Unit (Token-Ring Network)
CAV Constant Angular Velocity
CAV-LD Constant Angular Velocity - Laser Disk
CAVE Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
CB Carbon Block
CB Channel bank (f: EE)
CB Circuit Breaker
CB Coin Box
CB Channel Bank
CB Call Back
CB&R Corporate Budget & Results
CB4G Call Before Going
CBA Canadian Bar Association
CBAC Context-Based Access Control. Protocol that provides internal users with secure access control for each
application and for all traffic across network perimeters. CBAC enhances security by scrutinizing both
source and destination addresses and by tracking each application's connection status.
CBB Channel Between Building
CBC Cache Bus Controller
CBC Can't Be Called
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBCA Canada Business Corporation Act (f: LSCC)
CBD Corporate Business Development
CBDR Cross Border Discounting & Report System
CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Services
CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service. European high-speed, packet-switched, datagram-based WAN
networking technology. Similar to SMDS. See also SMDS.
CBDT Can't break dial tone
CBE Deny Forwarding of External Calls for CFB
CBEMA Canadian Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBF Views/Forecasts by Month/RUC/Actuals
CBGA Ceramic Ball Grid Array
CBI Deny Forwarding of Intragroup Calls for CFB
CBI Critical Business Issue
CBI CHANNEL BANK - INTELLIGENT
CBIA Customer Billed Information Access
CBM Corporate Business Model
CBM Customer Billing Management - see COBRA/CBSS
CBMS Computer Based Message System
CBN Competitive Business Networks (f: RAC)
CBN Call Back Number
CBNS Competitive Business Networks Services
CBO Cesium Beam Oscillator
CBO Continuous Bit Stream Oriented
CBQ Call Back Queuing
CBQ Call Back Queuing
CBQMP Call Back Queuing Maximum Priority
CBQPPT Call Back Queuing Priority Promotion Timer
CBQRA Call Back Queuing Route Advance
CBQRAT Call Back Queuing Route Advance Time
CBQSP Call Back Queuing Start Priority
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CBR Constant Bit Rate. QoS class defined by the ATM Forum for ATM networks. CBR is used for connections that
depend on precise clocking to ensure undistorted delivery. Compare with ABR, UBR, and VBR.
CBRS Canadian Bond Rating Service (f: SCEC)
CBS Corporate Business Server
CBSP Contribution Based Salary Program
CBSS Customer Billing Services System (f: CBSS)
CBSS billing system (customer billing service system?)
CBSS Customer Billing & Support System
CBSS Customer Billing Service System
CBSS Customer Billing & Support System
CBSS Billing Horaire CBSS
CBSS Invoici Customer Billing Service System Invoicing
CBSS Pricing Customer Billing Service System – Pricing
CBSS Referen Customer Billing Service System Reference
CBT Computer Based Training
CBT Computer-Based Training
CBT Computer Based Training
CBTA Canadian Business Telecommunications Alliance (f: ACTE)
CBX Computerized Branch Exchange
CC Category Digits
CC Central Control
CC Coin Control
CC Commercial Circular
CC Composite Clock (64/8 KHz)
CC Computer Communications
CC Call Centre
CC central control (DMS)
CC country code (International Numbering Plan)
CC Credit Class
CC Customer Contact
CC COMPOSITE CLOCK
CC Came Clear
CC MIS Call Centre Management Information System
CC02 Customer Access Project (also NCAS: National Customer Access Solution)
CC03 National Electronic Commerce Gateway Project
CCA Capital cost allowance (f: ACC)
CCA Channel Connector Assembly
CCA Collaborative Compression Architecture
CCA Casual Calls
CCB Call Condense Block
CCB Collect Call Billing
CCB Call Control Block.
CCB Customer care and Billing system
CCC Central Control Complex (f: CCC)
CCC Change and Configuration Control
CCC Clear Channel Capability
CCC Clear Channel Capacity
CCC Clear channel capacity (RNIS) (f: CCL)
CCC Construction control centre (f: CCT)
CCC clear channel capability
CCC CALL CARRYING CAPACITY
CCCARD Customer Calling CARD system
CCCard Customer Calling Card
CCCCP Committee on Computer-to-Computer Communication Protocols
CCCH Common Control Channel
CCCMIS Corporate Cost Center Management Information System
CCD Call Completion Delay
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCD Coaxial Cable Distribution
CCD Community Cable Distribution
CCD Corporate Communications Directory
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCD charge couple device (a type of integrated circuit used in computers)
CCDI Coded Character Data Interchange
CCDN Co-axial Cable Distribution Network
CCDS Client Computing Development and Support (formerly UCG)
CCE Colaborative Computing Environment
CCE Commission des Communautés européennes (e: CEC)
CCF Custom Calling Features (f: STS)
CCF Coin Collection File
CCF Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now known as NDP)
CCF Coin Collection File
CCF Custom Calling Features
CCF+ Custom Calling Features Plus (f: STS Plus)
CCFNA Custom Calling Feature Now Available (f: STS - essai gratuit
CCFT Cold-Cathode Fluorescent Tube
CCG Computer Communications Group
CCH Control Channels
CCI Common client interface (f: IUS)
CCI Common Customer Identity
CCI carrier-to-carrier interface interconnection
CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert.
CCII Capital Contract Invoice Inventory
CCIR Comite Consultatif International des Radiocommunications
CCIR Consultative Committee International Radio
CCIRN Coordinating Commitee for Intercontinental Networking
CCIRN See Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks.
CCIS Common Channel Inter-Office Signalling
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITR See Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique.
CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone. International organization
responsible for the development of communications standards. Now called the ITU-T. See ITU-T.
CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telegraph&Telephone
CCITT Internat. Telegraph and Telephone Consult. Com. (fr:CCITT)
CCL C-bus II Connection Logic
CCL Code de classe de ligne (e: LCC)
CCL Credit Class Limit Table
CCL Customer Confirmation Letter
CCL Config W CCL Table update and Screen configuration tool
CCLB Canadian Common Language Bureau
CCLO Calling Card Line Operations
CCLR Came Clear
CCM Common Control Module
CCM Computer Communications Memorandum
CCM Contact Closure Multiplexer
CCM Customer Control and Management
CCMC Computer Communications Maintenance Centre
CCMCAP Corp RUCMED Results
CCMECH Control Center Mechanization
CCN Current Cost New (f: CAEN)
CCNA Contracting Customer Name Abbreviation
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate.
CCNM Customized Customer Network Measurement
CCO Can't Call Out
CCOHS Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (f: CCHST
CCOPR Computerised Central Office Power Records
CCOPR Centralized Central Office Power Provisioning Records
CCOT Cross Office Transfer Time.
CCR Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery. OSI application service element used to create atomic operations
across distributed systems. Used primarily to implement two-phase commit for transactions and nonstop
operations.
CCR Centre de contrôle du réseau (PCO)
CCR Customer Controlled Reconfiguration
CCR Change Control Request
CCR Custom Call Routing feature
CCRP Composite Clock Reduction Program
CCS Common Channel Signalling
CCS Common Command Set
CCS Common Control Switch
CCS Continuous Composite Servo
CCS Customer Contact System
CCS Centum (100) Call Seconds
CCS Custom Calling Services (f: STS)
CCS Common Communications Support (of SAA)
CCS Console Communication Services
CCS 100 call seconds; a measurement of traffic volume; 36 ccs = 1 hour
CCS common channel signaling. Signaling system used in telephone networks that separates signaling
information from user data. A specified channel is exclusively designated to carry signaling information for
all other channels in the system. See also SS7.
CCS Customer Care Systems
CCS#7 Common Channel Signalling (system 7)
CCS7 Common channel signalling system no. 7 (f: SS7)
CCS7 Common Channel Signalling 7
CCS7 common channel signalling 7 (SS7)
CCS7 COMMON CHANNEL SIGNALLING SYSTEM 7
CCS7 Common Channel Signaling No. 7.
CCS7-NM CCS7 Interim Surveillance System
CCS7-NM CCS7 Network Maintenance System
CCS7-NM CCS7 Interim Surveillance System
CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement
CCSA Common Controlled Switching Arrangement
CCSA access A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that allows a user to gain entry to a common control
switching arrangement (CCSA).
CCSC Computer Communication Service Center
CCSID Code Character Set ID
CCSS Cost of Custom Services Sold
CCT Circuit
CCT Control Concentrator Terminal
CCT Circuit
CCTA Canadian Cable Television Association (f: ACTC)
CCTA Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency
CCTA The Government Centre for Information Systems
CCTC Common Control Test Centre
CCTO Call Completion with Trunk Optimization.
CCTSW Circuit Switch
CCU Computer Crime Unit
CCU Communication Control Unit
CCUAP Computerized Cable Upkeep Administrative Program (f: PIEC)
CCV Customer Circuit View
CCW Channel Command Word
CD Calls Deflecting
CD Carrier Detect
CD Circuit Description
CD Clock Distributor
CD Collision Detect
CD Compact Disk
CD Customer Delay
CD Completion Date
CD Customer Deal (formerly ICB)
CD Carrier Detect. Signal that indicates whether an interface is active. Also, a signal generated by a modem
indicating that a call has been connected.
CD-A Compact Disk - Audio
CD-DOCS NTP's/ECIA fiche replacement
CD-E Compact Disk - Erasable
CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive
CD-RE Compact Disk - ?
CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CD-ROM drive A device that read from and writes to CD-ROMs. A CD-ROM drive can be installed in the computer
(internal drive), or it can be connected to the computer (external drive.) A CD-ROM drive lets you store
data or play sound directly from the drive.
CD-ROM extended architecture (CD-ROM XA) An extension of the CD-ROM standard that permits sound and video
data to be combined and synchronized with animation.
CD-V Compact Disk Video
CD-WORM Compact Disk - Write Once Read Many
CDA Compound Document Architecture
CDA Customer Data Assembler
CDC Central Data Collection (f: SCCD)
CDC Central Data Controller
CDC Congestion data collection (f: CDE)
CDC Control Data Corporation
CDC Corporate Data Control
CDC Call Directing Code
CDC Customer Data Change (f: CDC)
CDC call directing code (used in selective calling systems)
CDC Central Data Collector
CDC Centralized Data Collection
CDC Centralized Data Collector
CDC Centralized Data Collection
CDC-PC Centralized Data Collector - PC
CDC_QR & CDC CDC Affinite/ Ambassador
CDD Customer Distribution Device
CDD Corporate Data Dictionary
CDD/D Corporate Data Dictionary / Directory
CDDA Compact Disk Digital Audio
CDDC CALRS Data Distribution Centre
CDDC Calrs Data Distribution System
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface. Implementation of FDDI protocols over STP and UTP cabling. CDDI
transmits over relatively short distances (about 90 yards [100 meters]), providing data rates of 100 Mbps
using a dual-ring architecture to provide redundancy. Based on the ANSI TPPMD standard. Compare with FDDI.
CDDS Circuit Switched Digital Data Service
CDE Capital Driven Expense
CDE Cellular Data Enforcer
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDE Cooperative Development Environment
CDE Deny Forwarding of External Calls for CFD
CDF Collection Data File
CDF Combined Distributing Frame
CDF Cumulative Distribution Failure
CDF Conventional Disk Format
CDF Channel Definition Format. Technology for "push" applications on the World Wide Web. CDF is an
application of XML. See XML.
CDFS Compact Disk File System
CDH Coin Discount Handicapped
CDI Change Direction Indicator
CDI Deny Forwarding of Intragroup Calls for CFD
CDID Customer Direct Information Delivery
CDID Customer Direct Information Delivery;
CDIF CASE Data Interchange Format
CDK Cyberspace Developer Kit
CDL Component Design Life
CDL Customer Designated Location
CDLC Combined Digital Loop Carrier
CDM Code Division Multiplex
CDM Command Message Distribution
CDM Corporate Data Model
CDM Customer Data Management - Bell ActiMedia Listing System
CDM 331 Command Message Distribution 331 Character Multiplexer
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDMC Consumer Direct Marketing Centre
CDN Customer Design Network
CDN customer digital network
CDN Customer Network Design
CDN Called-Party Number.
CDO Community Dial Office
CDP Coordinated Dialing Plan
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol. Media- and protocol-independent device-discovery protocol that runs on all
Cisco-manufactured equipment including routers, access servers, bridges, and switches. Using CDP, a device
can advertise its existence to other devices and receive information about other devices on the same LAN or
on the remote side of a WAN. Runs on all media that support SNAP, including LANs, Frame Relay, and ATM
media.
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol.
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data. Open standard for two-way wireless data communication over high-frequency
cellular telephone channels. Allows data transmissions between a remote cellular link and a NAP. Operates at
19.2 Kbps.
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDR Constant Density Recording
CDR Call Detail Recording (f: EDC, EDA)
CDR call detail report
CDR Call Detail Record. VNS record of voice or data SVCs, which includes calling and called numbers, local
and remote node names, data and timestamp, elapsed time, and Call Failure Class fields.
CDRS Call Detail Recording System (f: EDC, EDA)
CDRS Call Detail Recording System (federal Gov't Call Detail Accounting)
CDS Clock Distribution System
CDS Copper Distribution Shelf
CDS Called Party Sub-address
CDSF Customer Discount Service File
CDSL Co-operatives Data System Limited
CDT Calculation Definition Tables
CDTV Commodore Dynamic Total Vision
CDV Cell Delay Variations
CDV Cell Delay Variation. Component of cell transfer delay, which is induced by buffering and cell
scheduling. CDV is a QoS delay parameter associated with CBR and VBR service. See also CBR and VBR.
CDVT Cell Delay Variation Tolerance. In ATM, a QoS parameter for managing traffic that is specified when a
connection is set up. In CBR transmissions, CDVT determines the level of jitter that is tolerable for the
data samples taken by the PCR. See also CBR and PCR.
CDW Wide Area Paging feature
CE Capital expenditures (f: DC)
CE Channel End (flag)
CE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT
CE Customer Edge
CEAC Corporate Electronic Authorization Committee (f: CAE)
CEAC Correlation of Edge Alarms to Customer
CEBI Conditional End Bracket Indicator
CeBIT Centrum, Buero, Information, Telekommunikation
CEBUS Consumer Electronics Bus: An Eia Standard
CEC Commission of the European Communities (f: CCE)
CED Corporate Electronic Directory
CED Customer Effective Discount
CED Customer Eligible Discount (for Advantage Plan)
CED Customer Effective Discount
CED Customer Eligible Discount
CEDGE Consumer EDGE
CEDPI Le Comite Europeen pour la Defense de Propriete Industrielle
CEE Centre Expertise Exploitation
CEENET Central and East European Networking Association
CEF Cisco express forwarding.
CEG Continuous Edge Graphics
CEI Comparatively Efficient Interface
CEIF Cost & Expense Increase Factors
CEIS Centralized Equipment Inventory System
cell Basic data unit for ATM switching and multiplexing. Cells contain identifiers that specify the data
stream to which they belong. Each cell consists of a 5-byte header and 48 bytes of payload. See also cell
relay.
cell delay variation See CDV.
cell delay variation tolerance See CDVT.
cell loss priority See CLP.
cell loss ratio See CLR.
cell payload scrambling Technique using an ATM switch to maintain framing on some medium-speed edge and
trunk interfaces.
cell relay Network technology based on the use of small, fixed-size packets, or cells. Because cells are
fixed-length, they can be processed and switched in hardware at high speeds. Cell relay is the basis for
many high-speed network protocols including ATM, IEEE 802.6, and SMDS. See also cell.
cell transfer delay See CTD.
CELLNET The old name for Mobility Canada
cells per second Abbreviated CPS.
Cellular Digital Packet Data See CDPD.
cellular radio Technology that uses radio transmissions to access telephone-company networks. Service is
provided in a particular area by a low-power transmitter.
CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction compression. Compression algorithm used in low bit-rate voice encoding.
Used in ITU-T Recommendations G.728, G.729, G.723.1.
CEMF Counter Electro-Motive Force
CEMP Commercial Efficiency Measurement Plan (f: PMRSC)
CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation
CENELEC Comite Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
CENET Corporate Education Network
CENIC Centrex Implementation Center
CENTRACS Centrex Trouble Tracking Analysis Control System
CENTRACS Centrex III Trouble Analysis and Control System
CENTRACS Centrex Trouble Reporting Analysis & Control System
Central Office See CO.
Centralized attendant service (CAS) The ability of attendants at one location to answer and service calls for
other telephone systems within the same geographic area.
Centralized automatic message accounting (CAMA) All toll calls are recorded at a centralized point.
Centrex 1. A service that is functionally similar to a customer-premises private branch exchange (PBX), but
is provided by means of equipment located in a central office (CO). 2. A telephone company service providing
direct-inward and outward dialing for private branch exchange (PBX) extensions. See also CO and LEC
Centrex customer station rearrangement (CCSR) A feature that allows Centrex users to make their own moves
and changes. CCSR requires the use of customer-premise equipment (CPE).
CENTS Contractual Expert for Negotiating Technology Solution
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEP Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (f: SCEP)
CEP Preventive maintenance analysis program (see OPFR for OR)
CEPA Canadian Environmental Protection Act (f: LCPE)
CEPE Confirmed Engineering Production Estimate
CEPIS Council of European Informatics Societies
CEPT Conference Europeenne Des Post et Telecommunications
CEPT European Council on Postal and Telecommunications
CEPT Conférence Européenne des Postes et des Télécommunications. Association of the 26 European PTTs that
recommends communication specifications to the ITU-T.
CER Cell Error Ratio. In ATM, the ratio of transmitted cells that have errors to the total cells sent in a
transmission for a specific period of time.
CER Centralized Equipment Records
CERFnet California Education and Research Federation Network. TCP/IP network, based in Southern California,
that connects hundreds of higher-education centers internationally while also providing Internet access to
subscribers. CERFnet was founded in 1988 by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and General Atomics, and is
funded by the NSF.
CERL Constructions Engineering Research Laboratories
CERN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Birthplace of the World Wide Web.
CERT See Computer Emergency Response Team. Chartered to work with the Internet community to facilitate its
response to computer security events involving Internet hosts, to take proactive steps to raise the
community's awareness of computer security issues, and to conduct research targeted at improving the
security of existing systems. The U.S. CERT is based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (United
States), Regional CERTs are, like NICs, springing up in different parts of the world.
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CERVANT1 Centralized Engineering Records and Visual Adm. of Ntwk. T
CES Certified Education Specialist
CES Circuit Emulation Service. Enables users to multiplex or concentrate multiple circuit emulation streams
for voice and video with packet data on a single high-speed ATM link without a separate ATM access
multiplexer.
CET Central European Time
CET Corporate Extract Table (f: TEC)
CETI Central European Telecom Investment
CETRA China External Trade Development Council
CEV Controlled Environmental Vault
CEV Controllers Environment Vault (f: VEC)
CFA Carrier Failure Alarm
CFB Call Forward Busy
CFB See Call Forwarding Busy
CFBA Consumers Fight Back Association
CFC ChloroFluoroCarbon
CFC ChloroFluoroCarbons
CFC Chloro-Flouro-Carbons
CFCA Communications Fraud Control Association
CFD Call Forward No Answer
CFD Common Fault Desk
CFD See Call Forwarding, Don't Answer
CFDC Control Focus Discount Coordinator
CFDS Call Feature Display Set
CFE Call Forward Exempt
CFGDA Call Forward Group Don't Answer
CFGR Configure
CFI Call Forward Intragroup
CFI Call Forward Intragroup
CFIB Canadian Federation of Independent Business
CFIC Combined Interface Facility Card
CFL Current Facility Layout
CFL Current Facility Layout for InterToll T3+ circuits
CFM Corporate Function Model
CFMO Corporate Future Mode of Operation (f: FMFE)
CFMO Bell Canada's Corporate Future Mode of Operation
CFN Centrex Feature Networking
CFO Customer Fulfillment Option
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFP Channel Frame Processor
CFP Current Facility Plan
CFRAD See Cisco FRAD.
CFROI Cash Flow Return On Investment
CFSN Canadian Forces Switching Network
CFT Circuit Facility Table
CFU Call Forward Universal
CFU Call Forward Universal
CFX Call Forward
CG Control Group
CG Customer Gateway
CGA Carrier Group Alarm
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGA Colour Graphics Adapter
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGAAP Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (f: PCGRC)
CGCS-Auto-PO Nightly automatic activation of services orders in DMS
CGF Computer Graphics Forum
CGH Computer Generated Hologram
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Computer Graphics Interface
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGI Common Gateway Interface. Set of rules that describe how a Web server communicates with another
application running on the same computer and how the application (called a CGI program) communicates with
the Web server. Any application can be a CGI program if it handles input and output according to the CGI
standard.
CGITS Corporate Geospatial Information Technology Strategy
CGL Customer Gateway Light(fewer cards)
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
CGN Calling Party Number
CGO Control Group O
CGS Customer Group Service
CGS Communications Ground Segment
CGS CUSTOMER GROUP SERVICE
CHA Canadian Hospital Association
chaining SNA concept in which RUs are grouped together for the purpose of error recovery.
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) An authentication method that can be used when
connecting to an Internet Service Provider. CHAP allows you to login to your provider automatically, without
the need for a terminal screen. It is more secure than the Password Authentication Protocol (another widely
used authentication method) since it does not send passwords in text format.
channel 1. Communication path between two locations in a network. Multiple channels can be multiplexed over
a single cable in certain environments. Generically refers to the user access channel across which frame
relay data travels. Within a given T1 or E1 physical line, a channel can be one of the following, depending
on how the line is configured - unchannelized, channelized, or fractional. 2. In IBM, the specific path
between large computers (such as mainframes) and attached peripheral devices. 3. Specific frequency
allocation and bandwidth. Downstream channels are used for television in the United States are 6 MHz wide.
channel aggregator Channel aggregators, also known as inverse multiplexers, are devices that allow very
large amounts of data to be sent down the narrow band channels of ISDN. The aggregator effectively pulls
together ISDN channels at one end to form a higher bandwidth and then re-synchronizes the information at the
other end. Re-synchronization is necessary because during transmission the ISDN channels may send the
information along different routes, meaning it arrives at its destination at fractionally different times.
channel bank A multiplexer that merges 24 voice grade analog and/or data circuits into a single T1 (DS-1)
digital communications format.
channel capacity A measure of the maximum amount of data that a channel can manage.
Channel Definition Format. See CDF.
channel grade The relative bandwidth of a channel: narrowband, voice grade, or wideband.
Channel Interface Processor See CIP.
Channel Service Unit See CSU.
channel-attached Pertaining to attachment of devices directly by data channels (input/output channels) to
a computer.
channelize To subdivide or break out a broadband transmission system into multiple communications
channels.
channelized E1 Access link operating at 2.048 Mbps that is subdivided into 30 B-channels and 1 D-channel.
Supports DDR, Frame Relay, and X.25. Compare with channelized T1.
channelized T1 Access link operating at 1.544 Mbps that is subdivided into 24 channels (23 B-channels and 1
D-channel) of 64 Kbps each. The individual channels or groups of channels connect to different destinations.
Supports DDR, Frame Relay, and X.25. Also called fractional T1. Compare with channelized E1.
CHAP See Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. Security feature supported on lines using PPP
encapsulation that prevents unauthorized access. CHAP does not itself prevent unauthorized access, it merely
identifies the remote end. The router or access server then determines whether that user is allowed access.
Compare to PAP.
CHARLIE local loop characteristics - used with MCCDS system
CHARM Character Motif
chat Another term for IRC . Also, an acronym meaning Conversational Hypertext Access Technology.
chat script String of text that defines the login "conversation" that occurs between two systems. Consists
of expect-send pairs that define the string that the local system expects to receive from the remote system
and what the local system should send as a reply.
CHB Communications Handbook
cheapernet Industry term used to refer to the IEEE 802.3 10Base2 standard or the cable specified in that
standard. Compare with Thinnet. See also 10Base2, Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
checksum Method for checking the integrity of transmitted data. A checksum is an integer value computed from
a sequence of octets taken through a series of arithmetic operations. The value is recomputed at the
receiving end and compared for verification.
cherry picking Call Centre term used to describe when incoming calls are identified in some way (via caller
ID or caller touchtone input). The identity of the caller is displayed to the person accepting the call,
allowing that person to pick and chose whether or not they take that call or accept the next call in the
queue.
CHG Charge Cost Identifier
child peer group Peer group for which another peer group is the parent peer group. See also LGN, peer
group, and parent peer group.
CHIPS Cheque Image Processing System
CHNL Channel
choke packet Packet sent to a transmitter to tell it that congestion exists and that it should reduce its
sending rate.
CHOSP Canadian Home Ownership Stimulation Program (f: PCEAP)
CHOTS Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
CHP Customer Home Page
CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform
CHS Chassis
CHS Cylinder, Head, Sector
CHV Channel Horizontal Vertical
CI Capital Inward
CI Clock Input
CI Coded Information
CI Command Interpreter
CI Computer Interconnection
CI Craft Interface
CI Customer Information
CIA Central Intelligence Access
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Classical IP over ATM. Specification for running IP over ATM in a manner that takes full advantage of the
features of ATM. Defined in RFC 1577.
CIAF Common Information Access Facility
CIAP Customer Information Access Program
CIBC Centre d'innovation de Bell Canada (e: BCIC)
CIBER Cellular Industry Billing Exchange Roamer
CIC Carrier Identification Codes
CIC Carrier identifier code (f: CIT)
CIC Competitive Intelligence Centre (f: CEC)
CIC Carrier Identification Code
CICA Canadian Industrial Communications Assembly (f: CCCI)
CICA Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (f: ICCA)
CICC Circuit Installation Control Centre
CICC Control Installation Control Centre (f: CIPP)
CICC Circuit Installation Co-ordination Centre
CICNet Regional network that connects academic, research, nonprofit, and commercial organizations in the
Midwestern United States. Founded in 1988, CICNet was a part of the NSFNET and was funded by the NSF until
the NSFNET dissolved in 1995. See also NSFNET.
CICS Customer Information Control System. IBM application subsystem allowing transactions entered at remote
terminals to be processed concurrently by user applications.
CICS Norstar Compact Intergrated Communications System
CICS Customer Information and Control System
CICS Customer Information Control System
CID Configuration, Installation, Distribution
CID Cost Inquiry Directive
CID Customer Identifier
CID CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION
CID 1. Craft Interface Device. Terminal or PC-based interface that enables the performance of local
maintenance operations. 2. Channel ID. Designates the Frame Relay subchannel ID for Voice over Frame Relay.
CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing. Technique supported by BGP4 and based on route aggregation. CIDR allows
routers to group routes together in order to cut down on the quantity of routing information carried by the
core routers. With CIDR, several IP networks appear to networks outside the group as a single, larger
entity. With CIDR, IP addresses and their subnet masks are written as 4 octets, separated by periods,
followed by a forward slash and a 2-digit number that represents the subnet mask. See also BGP4.
CIDS Corporate Information Distribution System (used for distribution of US data ord)
CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
CIF Cost Increase Factor (f: FAC)
CIF Cost increase factor (f: FAC)
CIF Customer Information File (f: FDA)
CIF Customer Information File
CIF Customer Intelligence Facility
CIG Centralized Input Group
CIG Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group
CIGOS Canadian Interest Group for Open Systems
CIID Card Issuer Identification Codes
CIL Châssis interface de liaison (e: LIS)
CIL Customer Interface LAN
CIM CompuServe Information Manager
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIM Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
CIMS Customer Information Management System
CIN Customer Identification Number
CIO Chief In Operation
CIO Chief Information Officer
CIOS Cisco's Internetwork Operating System
CIP Corporate Investment Planning
CIP Customer Interface Panel
CIP Customer Interface Point
CIP Corporate Information Planning
CIP Capital Investment Process
CIP Customer Interface Panel
CIP CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROCESS
CIP Customer Interaction Program
CIP Channel Interface Processor. Channel attachment interface for Cisco 7000 series routers. The CIP is used
to connect a host mainframe to a control unit, eliminating the need for an FEP for channel attachment.
CIP/ICIMS Capital Bus. Case Info/Tracking System
CIPA Canadian Information Productivity Awards
CIPS Canadian Information Processing Society
CIR Circular Hunt
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIR Customer Information Report
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIR 1. Circular Hunt. 2. Committed Information Rate. Rate at which a Frame Relay network agrees to transfer
information under normal conditions, averaged over a minimum increment of time. CIR, measured in bits per
second, is one of the key negotiated tariff metrics. See also Bc.
CIRAS Canadian Integrated Routing Assignment System
circuit 1. A switched or dedicated communications path with a specified transmission speed or bandwidth
capacity. 2. A path for the transmission of electromagnetic signals to include all conditioning and
signaling equipment. Synonym: facility
circuit group Grouping of associated serial lines that link two bridges. If one of the serial links in a
circuit group is in the spanning tree for a network, any of the serial links in the circuit group can be
used for load balancing. This load-balancing strategy avoids data ordering problems by assigning each
destination address to a particular serial link.
circuit steering Mechanism used by some ATM switches to eavesdrop on a virtual connection and copy its
cells to another port where an ATM analyzer is attached. Also known as port snooping.
circuit switching Switching system in which a dedicated physical circuit path must exist between sender and
receiver for the duration of the "call." Used heavily in the telephone company network. Circuit switching
can be contrasted with contention and token passing as a channel-access method, and with message switching
and packet switching as a switching technique.
CIRN Calling In Regards to Number
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CIS CompuServe Information System
CIS Contract Information System (f: SGC)
CIS CALRS Interface Server
CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor
CISA Corporate Information System Architecture
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CISC Complex Instruction-Set Computer
CISC CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee
Cisco Discovery Protocol See CDP.
Cisco FRAD Cisco Frame Relay access device. Cisco product that supports Cisco IOS Frame Relay SNA
services and can be upgraded to be a full-function multiprotocol router. The Cisco FRAD connects SDLC
devices to Frame Relay without requiring an existing LAN. However, the Cisco FRAD does support attached LANs
and can perform conversion from SDLC to Ethernet and Token Ring. See also FRAD.
Cisco Frame Relay access device See Cisco FRAD.
Cisco Internet Operating System See Cisco IOS.
Cisco IOS Cisco system software that provides common functionality, scalability, and security for all products
under the CiscoFusion architecture. Cisco IOS allows centralized, integrated, and automated installation and
management of internetworks, while ensuring support for a wide variety of protocols, media, services, and
platforms. See also CiscoFusion.
Cisco Link Services See CLS.
Cisco Link Services Interface See CLSI.
Cisco-trunk (private line) call A Cisco-trunk (private line) call is established by the forced connection of a
dynamic switched call. A Cisco-trunk call is established during configuration of the trunk and stays up for
the duration of the configuration. It optionally provides a pass-through connection path to pass signaling
information between the two telephony interfaces at either end of the connection.
CiscoBus controller See SP.
CiscoFusion Cisco internetworking architecture that "fuses" together the scalability, stability, and
security advantages of the latest routing technologies with the performance benefits of ATM and LAN
switching, and the management benefits of VLANs. See also Cisco IOS.
CiscoView GUI-based device-management software application that provides dynamic status, statistics, and
comprehensive configuration information for Cisco internetworking devices. In addition to displaying a
physical view of Cisco device chassis, CiscoView also provides device monitoring functions and basic
troubleshooting capabilities, and can be integrated with several leading SNMP-based network management
platforms.
CISO Criminal Intelligence Service of Ontario
CISP Corporate Information System Plan
CITO Chief Information and Technology Office
CIV Component Information Viewer
CIX Commercial Internet Exchange (Trade assoc stnds body)
CIX Compulink Information eXchange
CIX Commercial Internet Exchange.I
CIX Commercial Internet Exchange. A connection point between the commercial Internet service providers.
Pronounced "kicks." See FIX and GIX.
CIXC Competitive Inter eXchange Carrier
CJP Cell Junction Point
CJS Current Job Sheet
CKL Circuit location (f: ADR ARR)
CKL Circuit Location
CKL Circuit Lines
CKT Circuit
CKT Circuit Number
CKT Circuit
CL Class
CL Common Language
cladding In fiber optics, one form of fiber (cladding) surrounds a center core.
CLASP Connecting Link for Applications and Source Peripherals
CLASS Custom(er,ized) Local Area signalling Services
CLASS Customized Local Access Signalling Services
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Services
Class A station See DAS.
Class B station See SAS.
class of service (CoS) 1. A numerical index assigned to each extension that determines trunk access and
features available to the user. The station is automatically routed to the attendant if a call is attempted
that is not authorized by its class of service. 2. A subgrouping of telephone customers or users for the
sake of rate distinction or limitation of service.
Classical IP over ATM See CIA.
Classless InterDomain Routing See CIDR.
CLAW Common Link Access for Workstations. Data link layer protocol used by channel-attached RISC System/6000
series systems and by IBM 3172 devices running TCP/IP off-load. CLAW improves efficiency of channel use and
allows the CIP to provide the functionality of a 3172 in TCP/IP environments and support direct channel
attachment. The output from TCP/IP mainframe processing is a series of IP datagrams that the router can
switch without modifications.
CLB Configurable Logic Block
CLC Canadian Labour Congress (f: CTC)
CLCI Common Language Circuit Identification (f: SUCAC)
CLCI Common Language Circuit Identifier (f: SUCAC)
CLCI Common Language Circuit Identifier
CLCI-MT Common Language Circuit Id (Message Trunks) (f: SUCAC-C)
CLCI-SS Common Language Circuit Id (Special Services) (fr:SUCAC-SS)
clear channel Channel that uses out-of-band signaling (as opposed to in-band signaling), so the channel's
entire bit rate is available.
Clear Channel Capability (CCC) The bandwidth of a data transmission path available to end users after control
and signaling bits are accounted for. For example, in a 64 K bps channel, all 64 K bps is available for data
transmission.
Clear To Send See CTS.
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier or Certified Local Exchange Carrier. A term coined for the deregulated
competitive telecommunications environment. CLEC's compete on a selective basis for local exchange service,
as well as long distance, international, internet access and cable TV tec. CLEC's buld their own local loops
- wired or wireless. They also lease these loops to ILEC's at wholesale rates for resale to end-users. See
CAP.
CLEC Certified Local Exchange Carrier
CLEC Certified Local Exchange Carrier
CLEI Common Language Equipment Identification
CLEUC Common Language Equipment Unit codes (f: SUCAEC)
CLFI Common Language Facility Identification (f: SUCAET)
CLFI Common Language Facility Identifier
CLGCA Common Language General Codes and Abbreviations (f: SUCAGA)
CLI Call Level Interface
CLI Calling Line Identification
CLI Command Language Interpreter
CLI Command Line Interface (IBM ES Database Manager)
CLI 1. Command Line Interface. Interface that allows the user to interact with the operating system by
entering commands and optional arguments. The UNIX operating system and DOS provide CLIs. Compare with GUI.
2. Command Language Interpreter. Basic Cisco IOS configuration and management interface.
CLID Calling Line Identification Display
CLID Calling Line Identifier
CLID Calling Line Identification
CLID Calling Line Identification (number)
CLID calling line identifier
client Node or software program (front-end device) that requests services from a server. See also back end,
FRF.11, and server.
Client In Internet terms, it's an application that performs a specific function, such as Telnet or FTP.
It's the front-end to an Internet process. In more general terms, a client is computer system or process
that requests a service of another computer system or process. The much talked about client-server
architecture refers to a workstation requesting the contents of a file from a server.
client server computing Term used to describe distributed computing (processing) network systems in which
transaction responsibilities are divided into two parts: client (front end) and server (back end). Both
terms (client and server) can be applied to software programs or actual computing devices. Also called
distributed computing (processing). Compare with peer-to-peer computing. See also RPC.
client/server model Common way to describe network services and the model user processes (programs) of those
services. Examples include the nameserver/nameresolver paradigm of the DNS and fileserver/file-client
relationships such as NFS and diskless hosts.
CLIF Calling Line Identification with Flash
CLIP Calling Line Identity Presentation
clipping The first words during a telephone conversation are broken off or "clipped," because the line is
being shared by many conversations. This usually occurs on overseas channels
CLIR Calling Line Identity Restriction
CLIST Command LIST
CLIT Customer Line Insulation Testing
CLK Clock
CLLI Common Language Location Identification (f: SUCAL)
CLLI Common Language Location Index
CLLI Common Language Location Identifier
CLLI COMMON LANGUAGE LOCATION IDENTIFICATION
CLLIC Common Language Location Identification Codes (f: SUCA)
CLLM Consolidated Link Layer Management
CLNE Customer Located Network Equipment
CLNP Connectionless Mode Network Protocol
CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol. OSI network layer protocol that does not require a circuit to be
established before data is transmitted. See also CLNS.
CLNS ConnectionLess Network Service. OSI network layer service that does not require a circuit to be
established before data is transmitted. CLNS routes messages to their destinations independently of any
other messages. See also CLNP.
CLNS ConnectionLess Network Service
CLNS ConnectionLess-mode Networking Service
CLOB Character Large Object
CLONES A Bellcore CLLI database
closed end The end of a line, such as a wide area telecommunications service (WATS) 800 or a foreign
exchange line, from which all calls are directed to or from a single point. Private lines normally have two
closed ends.
CLP Cell Loss Priority. Field in the ATM cell header that determines the probability of a cell being dropped
if the network becomes congested. Cells with CLP = 0 are insured traffic, which is unlikely to be dropped.
Cells with CLP = 1 are best-effort traffic, which might be dropped in congested conditions in order to free
up resources to handle insured traffic.
CLP Cell Loss Priority
CLP Command Line Processor
CLR Circuit Layout Record
CLR Cell Loss Ratio. In ATM, the ratio of discarded cells to cells that are successfully transmitted. CLR can
be set as a QoS parameter when a connection is set up.
CLRB Canada Labour Relations Board (f: CCRT)
CLRS Circuit Layout Record Subsystem
CLS Canada Labor Code
CLS Connectionless Servers
CLS Traffic Register Screen
CLS Class of Service Table
CLS Cisco Link Services. A front-end for a variety of data-link control services.
CLSI Cisco Link Services Interface. Messages that are exchanged between CLS and data-link users such as APPN,
SNA service point, and DLSw+.
CLSS An SCNM CLLI database
CLT Channel Liason Team
CLTP ConnectionLess Transport Protocol. Provides for end-to-end Transport data addressing (via Transport
selector) and error control (via checksum), but cannot guarantee delivery or provide flow control. The OSI
equivalent of UDP.
CLTS ConnectionLess Transport Service
CLU Communication Line Unit
cluster A group of terminals connected at a single point and managed by a terminal control unit called a
cluster controller.
cluster controller 1. Generally, an intelligent device that provides the connections for a cluster of
terminals to a data link. 2. In SNA, a programmable device that controls the input/output operations of
attached devices. Typically, an IBM 3174 or 3274 device.
CLV-LD Constant Linear Velocity - Laser Disk
CM Capital Management (f: GI)
CM Class Match
CM Common Memory
CM Completing Market
CM Computing Module (for Ecore)
CM Configuration Manager
CM Communication Manager
CM computing module
CM Contribution Management Budget Actuals/Forecasts
CM/2 OS/2 Communication Manager
CM2 Connection Machine 2
CMA Communications Managers Association
CMAC Centralized Monitoring and Assistance Centre
CMAC Central Monitoring and Assistance Centre (now known as MMC)
CMAS Construction Management Accounting System
CMBB Capital Management Bulletin Board
CMC Cache Bus Memory Controller
CMC Central Message Controller (f: CCE)
CMC Common Mail Calls
CMC Communication Manufacturing Company
CMC Communications Management Centre
CMC Communications Management Configuration
CMC Communication Management Centre
CMD Command Message Distributer(Tellabs 331)
CMDG Customer Master Data Group
CMDR Command Reject
CMDS Centralized Message Data System (f: CMDS)
CMDS Centralized Message Data System
CME Comprehensive Medical Expense Plan (f: RRFM)
CMF Communication Management Function
CMF Construction Management File
CMFTR Compelled Multifrequency Terminating Relays
CMG Customer Master Group
CMHC Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (f: SCHL)
CMI Commodore Marketing International
CMI Constant Mark, Inverted
CMI 1. Coded Mark Inversion. ITU-T line coding technique specified for STS-3c transmissions. Also used in DS-
1 systems. See also DS-1 and STS-3c. 2. Control Mode Idle?
CMIC Compute Module Interface Circuit
CMIN Consumer Market Issues Network
CMIP Common (network) Management Information Protocol
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol. OSI network management protocol created and standardized by ISO
for the monitoring and control of heterogeneous networks. See also CMIS.
CMIS Common Management Information Services. OSI network management service interface created and standardized
by ISO for the monitoring and control of heterogeneous networks. See also CMIP.
CMIS Common (network) Management Information Service
CMIS Common Management Information Specification
CMIS(E) Common Management Information Service
CMISP Capital Management Information Systems Plan
CMM Configuration Management Meeting for managing custmr changes
CMMU Cache Memory Management Unit
CMNS Connection-Mode Network Service. Extends local X.25 switching to a variety of media (Ethernet, FDDI,
Token Ring). See also CONP.
CMO Credit Management Optimization (f: OGC)
CMOINT Card Management & Order on Internet Project (f: SAME)
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CMOT Centrally Managed OSI protocol for TCP/IP
CMOT CMIP over TCP/IP
CMP Communication Management Processor
CMP Construction Management Program (f: PGT)
CMP Controlled Maintenance Plans
CMPS Corporate Measurement Plans System
CMR Centralized Mail Remittance
CMR Class Modem Resource
CMR Centralized Mail Remittance - see CPC
CMR Change Management Request
CMRS Customer Multi-line Request for Service
CMS Cable Monitoring System
CMS Cellular Mobile Switch
CMS Centrex Management System (e: PGA)
CMS Color Management System
CMS Consolidation management system (f: SCGR)
CMS Call Management Service (f: SGA)
CMS Conversational Monitor System
CMS call management services
CMS Contract Management System
CMS Customer Management System
CMT Capital Related Miscellaneous Tax Factor (f: IDC)
CMT Cartridge Magnetic Tape
CMT Connection ManagemenT. FDDI process that handles the transition of the ring through its various states
(off, active, connect, and so on), as defined by the ANSI X3T9.5 specification.
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System. Any DOCSIS-compliant headend cable router, such as the Cisco uBR7246.
CMTS Cellular Mobile Telephone System
CMU Carnegie-Mellon University
CMU Service de conversation multi-usagers (e: GAB)
CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation
CMY Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK
CN Coin
CN Common Name
CN Concentrator Node
CN Competitive Network
CN Contact Number
CNA Certified Novell Administrator
CNAB Customer Name and Address Bureau (f: BIT)
CNAC Customer Network Administration Centre
CNAC Central Network Administration Centres
CNAC Centralized Network Analysis Centre
CNAS Circuit Network Administration System
CNAS Customer Network Access Services (f: SAA)
CNBS Common National Billing System
CNBS Cellnet National Billing System (Corporate cellular billing system)
CNBS Cellnet National Billing System
CNC Computer Numerical Control
CNC Core Network Control
CNCA Carrier Non Compatible Applications
CNCA Carrier Non-Compatible Service Applications
CNCP Canadian National and Canadian Pacific
CNCS Carrier Non Compatible Services
CND Calling Name Display
CND Calling Number Delivery
CND Commodore Networking Division
CND Customer Network Design(er)
CND CANADIAN
CNDS Customer Network Design System
CNE Certified NetWare Engineer
CNet Control Network
CNET Customized Network database
CNF Station Controlled Conference
CNFGN Configuration (i.e. configuration code in TARS)
CNFGN Configuration ie configuration code in TARS
CNG Circuit Number Generator
CNI Certified NetWare Instructor
CNID Customer Network Information Database
CNIMS Customer Network Integrated Management System
CNM Communication Network Management
CNM Computer Network Management
CNM Customer Network Management
CNMID Customer Network Management Identifier
CNMS Common Network Management System
CNMS Customer Network Management System (f: CNMS)
CNMS Système de gestion des réseaux d'abonnés (e: CNMS)
CNO Customer Network Operations
CNOP Corporate Network Operations Plan (f: CNOP)
CNOP Corporate Network Operations Plan
CNS Complementary Network Services
CNS Comverse Network System
CNUM Customer Network Usage Management - see COBRA/CBSS
CNV Customer Network View
CO Central Office
CO Charge Order
CO Circuit Order
CO Contact Office
CO Cut Off
CO Plant Removed from Service for Reuse
CO Telephone Company Central Office
CO Central Office
CO SAP Controlling Package
CO Central Office. Local telephone company office to which all local loops in a given area connect and in
which circuit switching of subscriber lines occurs.
CO FRAD Central Office Frame Relay Access Device.
CO Table Central Office Table
CO-IPX Connection Oriented IPX. Native ATM protocol based on IPX under development by Novell.
CO-LAN Central Office Local Area Network
co-locate A competing local phone company can locate its switches within a local exchange company's (LEC)
central office.
CO-ORD Co-ordination (Co-ordinator)
CO2 Carbon Dioxide
COA Cost of Activation
COA Clear On Arrival
COAC Centralized Order Assignment Centre
COAM Customer Owned and Maintained (f: EPEA)
COARS Central(ized) Office Alarm Reporting System
COARS Centralized Office Alarm Reporting System (f: SRAC)
COARS Central Office Alarm and Reporting System eg CO door alarms
COARS Centralized Office Alarm Reporting System
COARS Coar Alarm Tracking System
COAX Coaxial
coax cable Type of cable used to connect Cisco equipment to antennas.
coaxial cable (COAX) 1. A transmission medium consisting of one or more central wire conductors, surrounded by
a dielectric insulator, and encased in either a woven wire mesh or extruded metal sheathing. The
electromagnetic wave travels between the outer shield and the conductor. COAX can carry a much higher
bandwidth than a wire pair. Two types of coaxial cable are currently used in LANs: 50-ohm cable, which is
used for digital signaling, and 75-ohm cable, which is used for analog signaling and high-speed digital
signaling. 2. A TV aerial type of cable that has a long history of use in the IBM environment, particularly
for connecting terminals and other devices that need high speed links. Coax is used in Ethernet as "thick"
and "thin" (cheaper) cable. Coax is also widely used to carry voice and video data simultaneously. However,
it has several disadvantages. It is difficult to add or remove devices from a coaxial LAN as the cable
itself is unwieldy and thick. It is now being encroached upon by twisted-pair which is cheaper and can cope
with transmissions of up to 10 Mbps and with Category Five cable, 100 Mbps.
COB Customer Offer Brief
COB Call Originator Billing (f: FAD)
COB Customer Originated Billing
COB Call Originator Billing
COBA MID Name of Bell benchmarking consultant
COBI Customer Order Billing Interface
COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language
COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language (a high level computer language)
COBRA Corporate Ordering and Billing Architecture
COBRA Corporate Order Billing Architecture - see COBRA and COBRA/CBSS
COBRA-VAL Corporate Order Billing Architecture VALidation – see COBRA VALidation
COBRA/VAL Customer Order Billing Architecture/Validation
COBS Call Originating Billing System
COC Central Office Connection
CoCom COordinating COMmittee for Multilateral Export Control
COCOM COordinating COmmittee for Multilateral Export Controls
COCS Central Office Communications Shelf
COCUS Central Office Code Utilization Survey for determining the timeframe when an NPA
Cocus NXX inventories
COD Cut-off on Disconnect
COD Concept of Operations Document
CODASYL COnference on DAta SYstems Languages
CODASYL The COnference on DAta SYstems Languages
CODC Central Office Data Collector
CODE Client/server Open Development Environment
code 1. A set of rules specifying the way in which data can be represented.
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) A form of digital cellular communications that assigns a unique numerical
code to each cellular conversation, allowing numerous calls to be transmitted simultaneously on one radio
frequency. CDMA uses a spread-spectrum technique to spread the digital signal over 1.25 MHz
codec coder-decoder. 1. Integrated circuit device that typically uses pulse code modulation to transform
analog signals into a digital bit stream and digital signals back into analog signals.Codecs allow voice and
video transmission over digital links. Codecs may also support signal compression. The acronym is from
enCOde/DECode. Contrast with modem 2. In Voice over IP, Voice over Frame Relay, and Voice over ATM, a DSP
software algorithm used to compress/decompress speech or audio signals.
CODEC Coder-decoder (f: CODEC)
CODEC COder/DECoder
CODEC Codeur-décodeur (e: CODEC)
Codec Compressor/decompressor
Coded Mark Inversion See CMI.
CODEF Customer Oriented Data Entry Facility
coder-decoder See CODEC.
CODES Central Office Data Engineering Systems (e: CODES)
CODES Customer On-Line Data Engineering System
CODES Système de traitement des données de centraux (f: CODES)
CODES Customer On-line Data Engineering System
CODES OP Codes DMS interface
CODES TM DMS datafill system
CODES-TM Central Office Data Engineering System - Translation Manager
CODES-TM Syst de trait des données de centraux - gestionnaire de trad
coding Electrical techniques used to convey binary signals.
CODP Central Office Data Processor (f: CODP)
COE central office equipment (f: EC)
COE Centre of Excellence
COE Centre of Expertise
COE Central Office Equipment
COE center of excellence
COE Center of Expertise
COE Centre of Excellence
COEES Central Office Equipment Estimating System
COER Central Office Equipment Report (f: REC)
COERS Central Office Equipment Reporting System (f: SEREC)
COERS Central Office Equipment Reporting System (part of FMS)
COEUI Central Office Equipment Utilization Indicator (f: INDUTEC)
COEVE Central Office Equipement Verification
COG Chip On Glass
COG Customer organization group (f: GOC)
COGS Cost of Goods Sold/Cost of Sales (f: CDMV)
COGS Cost of Goods Sold
COI Community of Interest (f: CI)
COIG Centralny OÃrodek Informatyki GÍrnictwa
COIN Coin Operational Information Network
COIN Coin Operation Information Network
COL Column
COLA Cost of living adjustment (f: IVC)
COLA Cost of Living Allowance
COLA Cost of living allowance (f: IVC)
COLA Cost of living adjustments
COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk
collapsed backbone Nondistributed backbone in which all network segments are interconnected by way of an
internetworking device. A collapsed backbone might be a virtual network segment existing in a device such as
a hub, a router, or a switch.
collect A call that is paid for by the receiving or destination telephone number. Collect calls require
approval or authorization of the person being called.
collect call A toll telephone call placed over the public switched telephone network requiring acceptance
by the called party for billing. Synonym: reverse charge call
collision In Ethernet, the result of two nodes transmitting simultaneously. The frames from each device impact
and are damaged when they meet on the physical media. See also collision domain.
collision detection See CSI.
collision domain In Ethernet, the network area within which frames that have collided are propagated.
Repeaters and hubs propagate collisions
collocation The placement of in-service, customer telecommunications equipment at a carrier's central
office (CO), point of presence (POP), or other network location.
COLOS Customer On-Line Order Status
CoLT Connecting Link Terminal
COLT Client Object Linking Technology
COM Common Object Model
COM Computer Output Microfilm
COM Continuation of Message
COM Computer Output Microfilm
COMAFRA COMputer Aided Flight Recording and Analysis
COMDEX COMputer Dealer EXposition
Comecon COuncil for Mutual ECONomic Assistance (Eastern Bloc)
COMET Transport network equipment management system
COMET Network Management Tool
COMIS Centrex III Operational Measurement Information System
Comité Consultatif International de Telegraphique French for International Telephone and Telegraph
Advisory Council.. It's an organization that plays a major role in the United National International
Telecommunications Union (ITU). The CCITT is responsible for making technical recommendations about
communications systems worldwide. Every four years, CCITT updates the standards, most recently in 1996.
Command Line Interface See CLI.
COMMCR Communication DMS via CASE RIXON
commercial customer A company that purchases products and services primarily for their own use.
Committed Burst See Bc.
committed information rate See CIR.
COMMON IBM 1130, 1620, 1800, S/360 User Group
Common Carrier (CC) A communications company that is regulated by appropriate local, state, or federal
agencies to provide communications services to the general public. Common carriers may vary rates based on
special considerations and may serve only a small fraction of the general public
Common Channel Signaling See CCS.
Common Gateway Interface See CGI.
Common Link Access for Workstations See CLAW.
Common Management Information Protocol See CMIP.
Common Management Information Services See CMIS.
Common Part Convergence Sublayer See CPCS.
Common Programming Interface for Communications See CPI-C.
Common Transport Semantic See CTS.
communication Transmission of information.
communication controller In SNA, a subarea node (such as an IBM 3745 device) that contains an NCP.
communication server Communications processor that connects asynchronous devices to a LAN or WAN through
network and terminal emulation software. Performs only asynchronous routing of IP and IPX. Compare with
access server.
communications line Physical link (such as wire or a telephone circuit) that connects one or more devices to
one or more other devices.
communications link A system of hardware and software connecting two end users.
community In SNMP, a logical group of managed devices and NMSs in the same administrative domain.
Community Antenna Television Now known as CATV. See CATV.
community name See community string.
community string Text string that acts as a password and is used to authenticate messages sent between a
management station and a router containing an SNMP agent. The community string is sent in every packet
between the manager and the agent. Also called a community name.
COMP Compensating
COMP Completed
companding Contraction derived from the opposite processes of compression and expansion. Part of the PCM
process whereby analog signal values are logically rounded to discrete scale-step values on a nonlinear
scale. The decimal step number is then coded in its binary equivalent prior to transmission. The process is
reversed at the receiving terminal using the same nonlinear scale. Compare with compression and expansion.
See also a-law and mu-law.
COMPAS Competitive Market and Product Analysis System
COMPAS Competitive Market & Product Analysis System
compatibility 1. In computers, compatibility exists when two computers produce comparable results when
running identical programs. 2. In equipment, peripherals and components are interchangeable with one
another. 3. In communications, signals can be exchanged without the addition of buffering, translative, or
similar devices.
Competitive Access Provider (CAP) A company other than a local exchange carrier (LEC), regional Bell
operating company (RBOC), or AT&T that is authorized to provide access service.
Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTe 1. An industry association of interexchange carrier
(IEC) that does not include AT&T, MCI or Sprint, but does include most medium-sized communications carriers.
2. One of the conventions sponsored by CompTel.
Complete Sequence Number PDU See CSNP.
Compressed Serial Link Internet protocol See CSI.
compression The running of a data set through an algorithm that reduces the space required to store or the
bandwidth required to transmit the data set. Compare with companding and expansion.
compression/ decompression 1. A method of encoding/decoding signals that allows transmission or storage of more
information than the media would otherwise be able to support. "Stacker" is a software for this purpose. The
software product more than doubles the storage capacity of a PC magnetic disk drive. Both compression and
decompression require processing capacity and time. But, with many products, the time is not noticeable. 2.
A means of increasing the number of subchannels in a circuit. Synonym: bit compression 3. A means of
increasing the ability of a channel or radio transmission to carry a type of signal, such as video of a
certain quality, or multiple signals.
COMPUS COMputing in the PUblic Sector
Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Computer control of manufacturing process. When computer aided design
(CAD) is connected with CAM it is sometimes called computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) The CERT was formed by DARPA in November 1988 in response to the
Internet worm incident. CERT exists to facilitate Internet-wide response to computer security events
involving Internet hosts and to conduct research targeted at improving the security of existing systems.
They maintain an archive of security-related issues on their FTP server at ftp.cert.org, their email address
is cert@cert.org, and their 24-hour telephone Hotline for reporting Internet security issues is (412) 268-
7090.
Computer Science Network See CSNET.
Computer telephony integration (CTI) 1. The integration of telephony functions with computer applications. 2.
A generic name for the technology automatically relating computers and PABXs via applications such as ACD,
power dialing, IVR and other customer facing or agent facing services. A so known by older, proprietary
names CIT (Computer Integrated Telephony) and CSTA (Computer Supported Telephony Applications).
COMS Central Office Monitoring System
CON Concentrator
concentration A technique used to get the most out of a composite multiplexer link. Usually a statistical
multiplexer, or concentrator, is used to focus channel inputs on to the composite ink by removing the
portions of the transmission carrying no data.
concentrator A network device used in fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) and token ring networks to
provide connections between multiple stations, allowing them to communicate with other stations on the
network. It provides a logical star topology while stations are physically connected as a ring. The
concentrator is the center of the star topology and can actively bypass a port connected to it. A fiber-
distributed data interface (FDDI) concentrator has at least two physical layer entities and may or may not
have one or more media access control (MAC) entities. In Ethernet networks, a similar function is performed
by a repeater. See hub.
CONF Configuration Failure. Resource is OOS because its provisioning information is inconsistent.
CONF3 3-way Conference.
CONF6 Station Flexible Controlled Conference
Conférence Européenne des Postes et des Télécommun See CEPT.
configuration 1. The relative arrangement, options, or connection pattern of a system and its subcomponent
parts or objects. 2. The process of defining an appropriate set of collaborating hardware and software
objects to solve a particular problem. 3. The combination of long-distance services and/or equipment that
make up a communications system.
configuration direct VCC In ATM, a bi-directional point-to-point VCC set up by a LEC to an LES. One of three
control connections defined by Phase 1 LANE. Compare with control distribute VCC and control direct VCC.
configuration management One of five categories of network management defined by ISO for management of OSI
networks. Configuration management subsystems are responsible for detecting and determining the state of a
network.
configuration register In Cisco routers, a 16-bit, user-configurable value that determines how the router
functions during initialization. The configuration register can be stored in hardware or software. In
hardware, the bit position is set using a jumper. In software, the bit position is set by specifying a
hexadecimal value using configuration commands.
configuration tool 1. Service management tool with a GUI. 2. Element management service tool with a GUI.
CONFIGURATOR Configuration of ADR data collection box
congestion Traffic in excess of network capacity.
congestion avoidance Mechanism by which an ATM network controls traffic entering the network to minimize
delays. In order to use resources most efficiently, lower-priority traffic is discarded at the edge of the
network if conditions indicate that it cannot be delivered.
congestion collapse Condition in which the retransmission of frames in an ATM network results in little or no
traffic successfully arriving at the destination. Congestion collapse frequently occurs in ATM networks
composed of switches that do not have adequate and effective buffering mechanisms complimented by
intelligent packet discard or ABR congestion feedback mechanisms.
CONN Connection
connection admission control See CAC.
connection management See CMT.
Connection-Mode Network Service See CMNS.
connection-oriented Term used to describe data transfer that requires the establishment of a virtual circuit.
See also connectionless and virtual circuit.
Connection-Oriented Network Protocol See CONP.
connectionless Term used to describe data transfer without the existence of a virtual circuit. Compare with
connection-oriented. See also virtual circuit.
Connectionless Broadband Data Service See CBDS.
Connectionless Network Protocol See CLNP.
Connectionless Network Service See CLNS.
CONP Connection-Oriented Network Protocol. OSI protocol providing connection-oriented operation to upper-layer
protocols. See also CMNS.
CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service.
CONS Connection Oriented Network Service
console DTE through which commands are entered into a host.
constant bit rate See CBR.
Consultative Committee for International Telegraph See CCITT.
content-addressable memory See associative memory.
contention Access method in which network devices compete for permission to access the physical medium.
Compare with circuit switching and token passing.
Context-based Access Control See CCB.
CONTOUR Tracks the work given to a contractor
CONTOURS Dispatch of Buried Wire Tecs
Contract A legally binding agreement between a vendor and a customer to provide Products, Serivices or
Features in a specified quantity and quality, for a specified price, during a specified period of time.
Contract Carraige The provision of regulated service pursuant to individually negotiated contracts, instead
of through public tariffs.
Contract Tariffs Services and rates based on contracts negotiated with individual customers, but
theoretically available to all customers. AT&T has filed several hundred contract tariffs.
Contribution Contribution Tie Trunks
control direct VCC In ATM, a bidirectional VCC set up by a LEC to a LES. One of three control connections
defined by Phase 1 LANE. Compare with configuration direct VCC and control distribute VCC.
control distribute VCC In ATM, a unidirectional VCC set up from a LES to a LEC. One of three control
connections defined by Phase 1 LANE. Typically, the VCC is a point-to-multipoint connection. Compare with
configuration direct VCC and control direct VCC.
Control Point See CP.
convergence Speed and ability of a group of internetworking devices running a specific routing protocol to
agree on the topology of an internetwork after a change in that topology.
convergence sublayer See CS.
conversation In SNA, an LU 6.2 session between two transaction programs.
COO Chief Operating Officer
cookie Piece of information sent by a Web server to a Web browser that the browser is expected to save and
send back to the Web server whenever the browser makes additional requests of the Web server.
Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Netwo See COSINE.
Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Resear A committee that provides a forum for North American and
European network research organizations to cooperate and plan.
COOS Commanded OOS. A resource is OOS because it was entered as a command.
COP Character Oriented Protocol
COP Common On-chip Processor
COP Comptrollers Operation Planning
COPA Central Office Power Availability
COPED Central Office Plan of Equipment Dedication
Copper Distributed Data Interface See CDDI.
COPS Common Open Policy Service. Quality-of-service (QoS) policy exchange protocol proposed as an IETF
standard for communicating network QoS policy information.
COPS Circuit Order Provisioning System
COPS Customer Owned Paging System
COPS Circuit Order Provisioning System
COPS Customer Owned Paging System
COPS-TM Centralized Order Provisioning System – Testing Module
CORA Census of Residence Accounts
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORBA Corporate Order and Billing Architecture (?)
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture. OMG's answer to the need for interoperability among the
rapidly proliferating number of hardware and software products available today. Simply stated, CORBA allows
applications to communicate with one another no matter where they are located or who has designed them. See
IIOP.
CORE Customer Order & Registration Entry
core gateway Primary routers in the Internet.
Core NTP Core Network Technology Plan
core router In a packet-switched star topology, a router that is part of the backbone and that serves as
the single pipe through which all traffic from peripheral networks must pass on its way to other peripheral
networks.
CORES Customer Office Data Engineering System
Corporation for Open Systems See COS.
Corporation for Research and Educational Networkin See CREN.
Corporation for Research and Educational Networkin An organization formed in October 1989, when Bitnet and
CSNET were combined. CSNET is no longer around, but CREN still operates Bitnet.
CoS Class of Service. Indication of how an upper-layer protocol requires a lower-layer protocol to treat its
messages. In SNA subarea routing, COS definitions are used by subarea nodes to determine the optimal route
to establish a given session. A COS definition comprises a virtual route number and a transmission priority
field. Also called ToS.
COS Corporation for Open Systems. Organization that promulgates the use of OSI protocols through conformance
testing, certification, and related activities.
COS Catalogue of Supplies
COS Central Office Scanner
COS Class of Service
COS Consumer Operating System
COS Corporation for Open Systems
COS Cray Operating System
COS Class of Service (f: CDS)
COS Change Orders
COS Class Of Service
COSAC Canadian Open Systems Applications Criteria
COSE Common Open System Environment
COSI Corporation for OSI
COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe. European project financed by the
EC to build a communication network between scientific and industrial entities in Europe. The project ended
in 1994.
COSOP Central Office Service Order Process
COSS Central Office Security Server
COSS CO Security Server
cost Arbitrary value, typically based on hop count, media bandwidth, or other measures, that is assigned by a
network administrator and used to compare various paths through an internetwork environment. Cost values are
used by routing protocols to determine the most favorable path to a particular destination: the lower the
cost, the better the path. Sometimes called path cost. See also routing metric.
COT 1. COntinuity Test. Requirement of the SS7 protocol specifications. It tests the bearer channels' status
using either loopback or tone detection and generation. Used to test individual DS0 channels via either
loopback or tone detection and generation. 2. Customer-Oriented Trace.
COT Central Office Table
COTA Central office traffic administration (f: GTC)
COTC Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corp. (f: SCTT)
COTRI Code Treatment Index
COTS Commercial Off the Shelf
COTS Commercial off the Shelf Software Package
COUG Central Ontario Users Group
count to infinity Problem that can occur in routing algorithms that are slow to converge, in which routers
continuously increment the hop count to particular networks. Typically, some arbitrary hop-count limit is
imposed to prevent this problem.
Country Code Two or three digit prefix codes used for International calls outside of the North American
Numbering Plan area codes. The prefix identifies the country you are calling. Dial: 011 + country code +
city code + local phone number. (e.g. "011+91+22+123-4567" 91 = India, 22=Bombay)
COV coefficient of variation (f: CDV)
COVE Captive Office Verification Environment (76 Adelaide)
CP Call Process
CP Call Processing
CP Central Processor
CP Control Point
CP Customer Premises
CP Customer Provisioning (f: SA)
CP Control Program
CP Call Processing
CP character plexor (asynchronous data multiplexor)
CP Contribution Path
CP CENTRAL PROCESSING
CP 1. Control Point. In SNA networks, element that identifies the APPN networking components of a PU 2.1
node, manages device resources, and provides services to other devices. In APPN, CPs are able to communicate
with logically adjacent CPs by way of CP-to-CP sessions. See also EN and NN. 2. Telecommunications: Control
Processor.
CP/M Control Program/Monitor Operating System
CPA Canadian Payment Association
CPA Common Programming API
CPA Capital Project Approval
CPAMS Cable Pressure Alarm Monitoring System
CPAMS Cable Pressure and Alarm Monitoring System
CPAMS Centralized Plant Administration and Maintenance System
CPAMS Cable Pressure and Alarm Monitoring System
CPAS Cable Pair Assignment System
CPB Call Processing Block
CPBS Call Processing Block Summary
CPC Customer Payment Center
CPC Customer Profile Centre
CPC Corporate Priority Council
CPC Canada Post Corporation
CPC Centralized Payment Centre (previously CMR)
CPC common product code (Nortel)
CPC Calling Party Category.
CPC Corporate Profile Centre
CPC611 Bank Rec 611
CPCOnline Customer Payment Center Online
CPCS 1. Common Part Convergence Ssublayer. One of the two sublayers of any AAL. The CPCS is service-
independent and is further divided into the CS and the SAR sublayers. The CPCS is responsible for preparing
data for transport across the ATM network, including the creation of the 48-byte payload cells that are
passed to the ATM layer. See also AAL, ATM layer, CS, SAR, and SSCS. 2. Telecommunications: Call Pprocessing
Control System.
CPD Corporate Policy Development
CPDP Cellular Digital Packet Data
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
CPE Customer Provided Equipment (f: EPA)
CPE Customer Provided Equipment
CPE customer provided/premises equipment
CPE Customer Premises Equipment. Terminating equipment, such as terminals, telephones, and modems, supplied
by the telephone company, installed at customer sites, and connected to the telephone company network.
CPEG Customer Provided Equipment Group
CPF Call Processor Facility
CPF computer-PBX interface - circuit provisioning form
CPG Circuit Pack Group
CPGA Ceramic Pin Grid Array
CPI Call taker Position Identification
CPI Cell Switch (CS) Protocol Information
CPI Characters Per Inch
CPI Common Programming Interface
CPI Computer-PBX Interface
CPI Consumer Price Index (f: IPC)
CPI Cycles Per Instruction
CPI Common Programming Interface (of SAA)
CPI Common Physical Interface
CPI-C Common Programming Interface for Communications
CPI-C Common Programming Interface for Communications. Platform-independent API developed by IBM and used
to provide portability in APPC applications. See also APPC.
CPIC Canadian Police Identification Computer
CPIC Common Programming Interface for Communications
CPIC Customer Profile Integrity Check
CPID Color Printing and Imaging Department
CPK Call Park
CPLD Complex PLD
CPM Channel Processor Module
CPM Collection Division Mechanization
CPM Critical Path Method
CPM Customer Premises Module
CPM critical path method
CPM Critical Path Methodology
CPM customer premises module
CPM Customer Profile Management - see COBRA/CBSS
CPMRS Cellular Public Mobile Radio Service
CPMS Cable Pressure Monitoring System
CPMS Capital Program Management System
CPMS Cable Pressure Monitoring System
CPN Custom Packet Network
CPN Customer Premises Node
CPNI Customer Proprietary Network Information
CPNIE Called Party Number Information Element.
CPO Computer Printout
CPO Computer Products Organization
CPO Corporate Performance Organization
CPO Corporate Productivity (Operations)
CPP Canada Pension Plan (f: RPC)
CPP Contingency Planning Program (f: PS)
CPP Control Policies Procedures
CPP Customer Purchase Plan
CPP Customer Premises Package
CPP Combinet Proprietary Protocol.
CPR Call Processing Record
CPR Continuing property record (f: DPB)
CPR Continuing Property Records
CPRB Connectivity Program Request Block
CPS Characters Per Second
CPS Communication Platform Services
CPS Cycles per Second
CPS Code de Projet Speciale (French equivalent to ABU)
cps cells per second.
CPSS Control Packet Switching System
CPT Corporate Project Team
CPTSP Customer Volume Pricing Plan
CPTSP Competitive Pay Telephone Service Provider
CPU Call Pickup
CPU Central Processing Unit (f: UCT)
CPU Central Processor Unit
CPU Central Processing Unit within a computer
CPU Central Processing Unit
CPU Call Pick-Up
CQ Custom Queuing.
CQS Cellular Query System
CR Carriage Return
CR Code Route
CR Commercial Record
CR Company Requirement
CR Contribution Revenue (f: RC)
CR Client Representative (f: RAC)
CR client rep
CR Client Representative
CR Client Representative (previously SR - Service Representative)
CR COMPANY REQUIREMENT
CR 1. Call Reference 2. Customer Record (SMS)
CRA Conditional Routing Arrangement
Cracker Substantially different from hackers, crackers are users who try to gain illegal access to
computers. They are usually malicious in their intentions.
craft interface device See CID.
crankback A mechanism used by ATM networks when a connection setup request is blocked because a node along a
selected path cannot accept the request. In this case, the path is rolled back to an intermediate node,
which attempts to discover another path to the final destination using GCAC. See also GCAC.
CRB Centralized Report Bureau
CRB Customer Records and Billing (f: CRB)
CRB Customer Records and Billing
CRB Customer Records and Billing - replaced by AIS
CRBO Customer Record Billing Office
CRC Carriage Return Character
CRC Centralized Reporting Centre
CRC Common Ringing Circuit
CRC Customer Report Centre
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC Cyclical Redundancy Check (f: CRC)
CRC Centralized Report Centre
CRC class responsibility collaborator
CRC Communications Research Centre
CRC Customer Response Centre
CRC cyclic(al) redundancy check
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check. Error-checking technique in which the frame recipient calculates a remainder by
dividing frame contents by a prime binary divisor and compares the calculated remainder to a value stored in
the frame by the sending node.
CRCC Cycle Redundancy Check Circuit
CRCD Customer Requested Circuit Diversity
CRDDDST Corp., Regional, Dept., Division, Dist., Sect., Terr
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking. The result of a merger of BITNET and CSNET. CREN is
devoted to providing Internet connectivity to its members, which include the alumni, students, faculty, and
other affiliates of participating educational and research institutions, via BITNET III. See also BITNET,
BITNET III, and CSNET.
CREUSER_R Reports from Creuser
CRF Consumer response factor (f: CRC)
CRF Customer reaction factor (f: FRA)
CRF Concentrator Relay Function CRMcell rate margin. One of three link attributes exchanged using PTSPs to
determine the available resources of an ATM network. CRM is a measure of the difference between the
effective bandwidth allocation per traffic class as the allocation for sustainable cell rate.
CRICS Canadian ROCC Initial Communications System
CRIS Customer Records Information System
CRIS Customer Record Information System
CRISC Complex Reduced-Instruction-Set Architecture
CRISP C-machine Reduced Instruction Set Processor
CRISP Corporate Revenue Information System Plan
CRL Certificate Revocation List.
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRM Card Reader Messages
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRMS Customer Relationship Management System
cross talk Interfering energy transferred from one circuit to another.
Crosskeys ATM Network medium-term surveillance solution
CRP Capacity Requirements Planning
CRP Common Resource Pool
CRP Common Resource Pooling-part of BNR TRM methodology in NetPro
CRR Call Request Retrieval
CRR Contribution Revenue Ratio
CRS Computer Reservation System
CRs Clent Representatives
CRSB Cable Repair Service Bureau
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRT Cathode-Ray Tube
CRT Computer Remote Terminal
CRTC Canadian Radio & Television & Telecommun. Commission
CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CRTC Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission
CRTC Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
CRTC Canadian Radio-Television Commission
CRTS Cable Repair Time System
CRV Coding Rule Violation
CRV Call Reference Value. Number carried in all Q.931 (I.451) messages that provides an identifier for each
ISDN call.
CRX Call Request Exempt
CS Call Store
CS Cell Switch
CS Circuit Switching
CS Class of Service
CS Convergence Sublayer
CS Copper-Steel
CS Corporate Services (f: SG)
CS Customer Services
CS Signal Channel
CS Client Services (f: SII)
CS Communications Services C2250
CS Customer Service
CS 1. Convergence Sublayer. One of the two sublayers of the AAL CPCS, which is responsible for padding and
error checking. PDUs passed from the SSCS are appended with an 8-byte trailer (for error checking and other
control information) and padded, if necessary, so that the length of the resulting PDU is divisible by 48.
These PDUs are then passed to the SAR sublayer of the CPCS for further processing. See also AAL, CPCS, SAR,
and SSCS. 2. Calling Seconds (a measure of communication traffic).
CS&M Customer Service and Maintenance group within Bell Sygma
CS-ACELP Conjugate Structure Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction. CELP voice compression algorithm
providing 8 Kbps, or 8:1 compression, standardized in ITU-T Recommendation G.729.
CS-ISP Customer Services - Information Systems Plan
CS03 Certification Standard 03
CSA Calendaring and Scheduling API
CSA Canadian Standards Association (f: ACNOR)
CSA Carrier Serving Area
CSA Carry Save Adder
CSA Circuit System Assembly (includes both CLCI and CLFI)
CSA Computer Security Association
CSA Customer Station Administration (Centrex III)
CSA Customer Station Assigning (f: AED)
CSA Customer System Administration
CSA Corporate Systems Assessment (f: EDSI)
CSA Customer/Supplier Agreement
CSA Customer Specific Arrangement
CSA Circuit System Assembly
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSA Cellular Service Agreement
CSA customer special arrangement
CSA customer specific agreement
CSA customer station administration
CSA Canadian Standards Association. Canadian agency that certifies products that conform to Canadian national
safety standards.
CSAB Call Store Address Bus
CSAC Corporate Security Access Control
CSAM Client/Server Application Migration
CSAP Client Satisfaction Assessment Program
CSAP Custom Solution Adaptive Process
CSAR Call Store Address Return
CSARS Carrier Services Account Receivables
CSARS MF (Be Carrier Services Accounts Receivable System Mainframe Application
CSB Call Store Basic
CSB Canada Savings Bonds (f: OEC)
CSB Channel Supervision Bit
CSBB Call Store Basic
CSBI Computer Systems for Business International Ltd
CSC Centrex Service Centre
CSC Computer Sciences Corp
CSC Customer Service Center (f: CSA)
CSC Customer Support Center
CSC Common Signaling Channel
CSC Centrex Service Centre
CSC channel service circuit
CSC Customer Sales and Service Center
CSC Customer Service Centre
CSCAN Customer Service Common Access Network
CSCC Customer Service Centre Corporate
CSD Component Status Display
CSD Corrective Service Diskette
CSD Customer Service Division (now National Service Division)
CSD Computer Service Desk
CSD Customer Service Desk
CSDDN Circuit Switched Digital Data Network
CSDDS Circuit switched digital data service (f: SDNCC)
CSDF Carrier System Design File
CSE Call Store Extension
CSE Customer Service Engineer
CSE Customer System Engineers
CSE Customer Systems Engineer
CSE Customer Services and Equipment
CSE customer systems engineer
CSEC Client Service Expertise Centre
CSES Customer Systems Engineering Specialist
CSF Cut Sheet Feeder
CSF Customer Summary File
CSFI Community Subsystem for Interconnection
CSG Carrier Services Group
CSG Service Aux Telecommutateurs (f: SAT)
CSG carrier service group
CSG Carrier Services Group
CSI Code Selection Indicator
CSI Cost Source Indicator
CSI Called Subscriber Identification. An identifier whose coding format contains the telephone number from a
remote fax terminal.
CSIR Customer Service Information Repository
CSIS Construction Scheduling Information System
CSK Computer Studio Kajkowski
CSL Client/Server Labs
CSL Centrex for the single line (f: SCM)
CSL Callable Services Libraries (f: CSL)
CSLIP Compressed Serial Link Internet Protocol. Extension of SLIP that, when appropriate, allows just
header information to be sent across a SLIP connection, reducing overhead and increasing packet throughput
on SLIP lines. See also SLIP.
CSM Call Switching Module.
CSM Channel Supervision Message
CSM Customer System Management
CSM Communications Service Management
CSM customer service module
CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access - Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense, Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CA CSMA with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Detect. Media-access mechanism wherein devices ready to
transmit data first check the channel for a carrier. If no carrier is sensed for a specific period of time,
a device can transmit. If two devices transmit at once, a collision occurs and is detected by all colliding
devices. This collision subsequently delays retransmissions from those devices for some random length of
time. CSMA/CD access is used by Ethernet and IEEE 802.3.
CSMB Call Store Maintenance Bus
CSMIS Customer Service Mgtmt Info System
CSMP Customer Service Measurement Plan
CSMS Comptrollers Staff Management System
CSMS 9-1-1 Centre de Surveillance et de Maintenance SPAU 9-1-1
CSN Card Selection Number
CSNET Computer Science Network. Large internetwork consisting primarily of universities, research
institutions, and commercial concerns. CSNET merged with BITNET to form CREN. See also BITNET and CREN.
CSNP complete sequence number PDU. PDU sent by the designated router in an OSPF network to maintain database
synchronization.
CSNS Customer Service Network Services
CSO Cellular Service Operators
CSO Computer System Operation
CSO Computer Systems Organization
CSO Corporate Systems Organization (f: GSE)
CSO Corporate Systems Operations
CSOP Customer Services Operations Planning (f: PESA)
CSP Customer Satisfaction Program (f: PESC)
CSP Cross System Product
CSP/AD Cross System Product / Application Development
CSP/AE Cross System Product / Application Execution
CSPDN Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CSR Continuous Speech Recognition
CSR COntrol and Status Registers
CSR Customer Service Report
CSR Centre de Surveillance du Research - Network Surveillance Centre in Quebec
CSR Corporate Systems Request (f: DSI)
CSR centre de surveillance du reseau
CSR Client Service Representative
CSR Customer Service Record
CSRB CENTRALIZED REPAIR SERVICE BUREAU
CSS Contact/Start/Stop
CSS Customer Services Support
CSS Corporate Systems Standards
CSS Customer Satisfaction Survey
CSS Consumer Sales and Service (Business Office)
CSSC Customer Sales and Service Center
CSSP Cisco Shared Support Program
CSSR Committee for Special Service Requirements
CSSR Cusyomer Sales and Service Center (f: SAC)
CST Customer Serving Time (sl-1) (f: TTA)
CSU Channel Service Unit
CSU Customer Service Unit
CSU Customer Serving Unit
CSU Channel Service Unit
CSU Channel Service Unit. Digital interface device that connects end-user equipment to the local digital
telephone loop. Often referred to together with DSU, as CSU/DSU. See also DSU.
CSU/DSU Channel Service Unit /Data Service Unit
CSU/DSU Customer Service Unit/Digital Service Unit
CSV Coma Separated Values
CSV Corporate Staff View
CSVC Continuous Switched Virtual Call
CSW Channel Status Word
CT Cable through (f: TC)
CT Cable transfer (f: TC)
CT Central Office Terminal
CT Competitive Terminal (f: STC)
CT Computer Technology
CT Control Terminal
CT Cut Through
CT Computer Telephony
CT2 Cordless Telephony Standard 2
CTA Competitive Telecommunications Association (f: CTA)
CTA Collection Tracking and Analysis System
CTA Collection Tracking Application
CTAC CSDDS Test & Access Computer
CTALL Call Transfer All Calls
CTAS Customer technical assistance service (f: SATC)
CTB Credit Teleboutique
CTC Cooperative Technology Center
CTC Channel to Channel
CTC control test centre
CTCA Channel to Channel Adapter
CTD Cell Transfer Delay. In ATM, the elapsed time between a cell exit event at the source UNI and the
corresponding cell entry event at the destination UNI for a particular connection. The CTD between the two
points is the sum of the total inter-ATM node transmission delay and the total ATM node processing delay.
CTEA Canadian Telephone Employees' Association (f: ACET)
CTI Centralized Traffic Investigation
CTI Centrex Temporary Intercept
CTI Computer Telephony Integration
CTI Customer Ticket Investigation
CTI Centralized Toll Investigation (f: CII)
CTI compagnies de téléphone indépendantes (e: ITC)
CTI Centralized Toll Investigation
CTI Computer / Telephone Integration
CTI computer telephony integration
CTI Installation work coordination
CTI 1. Computer Telephony Integration. Name given to the merger of traditional telecommunications (PBX)
equipment with computers and computer applications. The use of Caller ID to automatically retrieve customer
information from a database is an example of a CTI application. 2. Call Treatment Indicator.
CTI MECH Customer Toll Investigation Mechanization
CTIA Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
CTIF Cross-Team Issues Forum
CTINC Call Transfer Incoming Calls
CTLR Controller
CTM Cell Transfer Matrix
CTM&D Competitive Terminal (Multiline & Data)
CTMD Competitive Terminals Multiline and Data
CTO Compensating Time Off
CTO Competitive Terminal (Other)
CTOS Central Technician On Site (f: TCAP)
CTOUT Call Transfer Outgoing Calls
CTS Call Through Simulator
CTS Clear to Send
CTS Customer Test Service
CTS Clear to Send
CTS 1. Clear To Send. ircuit in the EIA/TIA-232 specification that is activated when DCE is ready to accept
data from a DTE. 2. Common Transport Semantic. Cornerstone of the IBM strategy to reduce the number of
protocols on networks. CTS provides a single API for developers of network software and enables applications
to run over APPN, OSI, and TCP/IP.
CTS Customer Technical Support
CTT Center-Tapped Termination
CTV Color TeleVision
CTX Centrex
CTX – IP Centrex – Internet Protocol
CTX-CSM Centrex-Customer System Management
CTX3 Centrex3
CTXPME/CTXPK Centrex orders
CU Common Update
CU Cooling Unit
CU coding unit. Type of access device. (See access device.)
CU/E Common Update Equipment
CUA Common User Access
CUA Computer Users Association
CUA Common User Access (fr : CUA)
CUBIS CUstomer Billing and Information System
CUBS Canada US Bulk Service
CUBS Columbia Ultimate Business System
CUBS Columbian Ultimate Business System
CUBS - OR Columbia Ultimate Business Systems – Ontario Region
CUBS - QR Columbia Ultimate Business Systems – Quebec Region
CUD Corporate User Directory
CUE Common Unix Environment
CUE Concrete Universal Enclosure
CUG Closed User Group
CUG Closed User Group (f: GFU)
CUG closed user group (in Datapac)
CUI Character User Interface
CUI Common User Interface
CUI Cabs Usage Interface
CUI Carrier Usage Interface
CUPID-32 Completely Universal Processor I/O Design
CUPS Customer's Unattended Password Server
CUST-SVCS Customer Services
customer An individual person or organization that purchases (orders, requests, or may be billed for)
service. A customer may be related to an entity that pays for products. For example, a subsidiary company
may have its own customer identification even though the parent company pays all charges. A billable
customer may be someone that merely acccepts an operator service call or a casual customer that dials a CIC
code (like 10555) without presubscribing. A service provider or an agent may act as ( or on behalf of ) a
customer. (Contrast with End User)
Customer Information Control System See CICS.
Customer Premises Eequipment See CPE.
CUT Control Unit Terminal
CUT circuit under test
cut-through packet switching Packet switching approach that streams data through a switch so that the
leading edge of a packet exits the switch at the output port before the packet finishes entering the input
port. A device using cut-through packet switching reads, processes, and forwards packets as soon as the
destination address is looked up and the outgoing port determined. Also known as on-the-fly packet
switching. Compare with store and forward packet switching.
CUTOVER Network Operations Cutover Tracking
CV Code Conversion
CV ComputerVision
CV Curriculum Vitae
CV-1 Cervant - 1
CVE Comparative value estimate (f: EVC)
CVI Customer Value Index
CVM Customer Value Management (f: GVC)
CVNIP Customer Voice Network Improvement Program(Project)
CVNIP Customer Voice Network Improvement Program
CVNM Customer Voice Network Monitoring
CVNS Concert Virtual Network Services
CVNS Concert Virtual Network Service
CVNS Concert Vitual Network Service
CVPP Customer Volume Pricing Plan
CVPP Customer volume pricing plan (f: PTDV)
CVPP Customer Volume Pricing Plan
CVS Computer Vision Syndrome
CVSD Continuously Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
CVSD continuously variable slope delta modulation
CW Call waiting (f: AA)
CW Continuous Wave
CWC Centre-Weighted Control
CWC Communications and Electrical Workers of Canada (f: STCC)
CWCS Canada World Calling Service
CWCS (EXPAT Canada Wide Calling Service
CWI Call Waiting Intragroup
CWO Circuit Work Order CXR
CWO Circuit Work Order. Usually means a DS0 circuit versus FWO
CWO CIRCUIT WORK ORDER
CWP Communicating Word Processor
CWQC Company wide quality control (f: GQT)
CWSI Cisco Works System Interface
CWT Cable & Wireless Telecommunications
CWT Call Waiting
CWT Call Waiting Tone (f: TAA)
CWT Call Waiting.
CX Composite Signalling
CxBus Cisco Extended Bus. Data bus for interface processors on Cisco 7000 series routers. See also SP.
CXI Common X Interface
CXR Carrier
CXR Call Transfer.
cyberspace Term coined by William Gibson in his fantasy novel Neuromancer to describe the "world" of
computers and the society that gathers around them. Often used to refer to the Internet, the World Wide Web,
or some combination thereof.
cycles per second See hertz.
Cyclic Redundancy Check See CRC.
CYOTN Carry Over Telephone Number
D Daily
D Data Channel
D Dead
D Delivery Date
D Delta Channel
D Digital
D Ship Date
D & A Digital and Analog
D channel 1. Data Channel. Full-duplex, 16-kbps (BRI) or 64-kbps (PRI) ISDN channel. Compare with B channel, E
channel, and H channel. 2. In SNA, a device that connects a processor and main storage with peripherals.
D.A.L. Data Access Language
D/A Digital to Analog
D/A Digital to analog (f: N/A)
D/A Drop and Add
D/C Directly Cabled
D/C Directly Cabled. Synonym is HardWired (HW)
D/I Drop and Insert
D/L Download
D/P Datapac
D/S Dataset
D1 D1 Channel Bank
D2D Design and Distribution
D4 Frame Format for T1
D4 framing See SF.
D5 D5 Channel Bank
DA Data Architecture
DA Destination Address
DA Digital Absorbing
DA Directory Assistance
DA Data Administration
DA Directory Advertising
DA-FDMA Demand Assignment-Frequency Division Multiple Access
DAA Data Access Arrangement
DAA Dataroute Access Arrangement
DABS Directory Assistance Billing System
DAC Datapac Area Code
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DAC Digital to analog converter (f: CNA)
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DAC Discretionary Access Control
DAC Dual Attached Concentrator
DAC Data Acquisition Controller
DAC Directory Assistance Call/Charge
DAC Directory Assistance Charge
DAC Dual-Attached Concentrator. FDDI or CDDI concentrator capable of attaching to both rings of an FDDI or
CDDI network. It can also be dual-homed from the master ports of other FDDI or CDDI concentrators.
DACS Digital Access and Crossconnect System. AT&T's term for a digital crossconnect system.
DACS Digital Access Cross-Connected System
DACS Directory Assistance Charging System (f: SFAA)
DACS Système d'accès et de répartition numérique
DACS AT&T Digital Access and Cross Connect System
DACS Directory Assistance Charging System (Operator Services)
DACS(-N) Digital Access and Cross-connect System (version number)
DACS(-N) Système d'accès et de répartition numérique (version)
DACS-MS DACS IV Management System (for Prov'g, Surveillance, Testing
DACSII DS1 AT&T Digital Access & Cross Connect System 2 (in=DS1,out=DS1
DACSII DS3 AT&T Digital Access & Cross Connect System 2 (in=DS3,out=DS3
DACSIV DS1 AT&T Digital Access & Cross Connect System 4 (output=DS1)
DACSIV DS3 AT&T Digital Access & Cross Connect System 4 (in=DS1,out=DS3
DAD Datapac Access Design (tool)
DAD DCC Access Device
DAD Desktop Application Director
DAD Digital Alarm Detectors
DAD Datapac access design
DADC Digital to Analog to Digital Converter
DADS Data Access Development System
DADS Distributed Ada Development System
DAE Distributed Application Environment
DAF Destination Address Field
DAF Direct Access Feature
DAG Directed Acyclic Graph
DAI Disbursements Accounting Instruction (f: DCG)
DAI Dynamic Application Integration
DAI&ARS Direct Access Intercept & Audio Response System
DAISY Directory Assistance & Intercept System
DAK Deny All Knowledge (f: NAFA)
DAK Denies All Knowledge - toll investigated by CTI
DAL Data Access Language
DAL Dedicated Access Line
DAL Direct Access Line
DAL dial access line
DALIS Datapac Access Line Inventory System
DAMA Demand Assignment Multiple Access
DAMIS Distributed Account Management Information System
DAMPS Digital AMPS
DANA Datapac Area Numbering Assistant
DANA Datapac Address Numbering Assistant
DANA Datapac Address Numbering Assistant (assigns Datapac ccts)
DANA Datapac Address Numbering Assistant
DANEIA Dynamic Automated Network Equipment Investment Allocator
DANEIA DYNAMIC AUTOMATED NETWORK INVESTMENT ALLOCATOR
DANIEA Investment tracking system
DAP Developer Assistance Program
DAP Directory Access Point
DAP Distributed Array Processor
DAP Developer Assistance Program
DAP Data Access Point
DAP Directory Access Protocol. Protocol used between a DUA and a DSA in an X.500 directory system. See LDAP.
DAQ Data AQuisition
DAR Dynamic Alternate Routing
DAR Dynamic Alternative Routing
DARCS DataRoute Alarm Reporting And Control System
DARPA Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. U.S. government agency that funded research for and
experimentation with the Internet. Evolved from ARPA, and then, in 1994, back to ARPA. See also ARPA.
DARPA Internet Obsolete term referring to the Internet. See Internet.
DARS Digital to Analog Recording System
DART Dialed Activity Reporting Terminal (Mitel)
DARTS Digital and Analog Remote Test System (f: DARTS)
DARTS Digital and Analogue Remote Test System
DARTS Digital Analog Remote Test System
DARTS Digital Analog Remote Test System (tests analog channel unit)
DARTS(-N) Digital & Analog Remote Test System (Version #)
DARTS-MTCE DIGITAL ANALOGUE REMOTE TEST SYSTEM
DAS 1. Dual Attachment Station. 2. Dynamically Assigned Socket. Socket that is dynamically assigned by DDP
upon request by a client. In an AppleTalk network, the sockets numbered 128 to 254 are allocated as DASs.
DAS Data Acquisition System
DAS Datapac Application Software
DAS Dial Assigning System
DAS Direct Access Service
DAS Directory Access System
DAS Disk Array Subsystem
DAS Dual Attached Station
DAS Ogiciels d'application Datapac (f: DAS)
DAS Datapac Access Software
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DASE Directory Access Service Element
DASHBOARD DASHBOARD multi functional monitoring system
DASS Digital Access Signalling System
DAT Digital Audio Tape
data Any coded information that can be processed or output by a computer or other machine.
Data Access Arrangement (DAA) Data communications equipment furnished or approved by a common carrier that
permits attachment of privately owned data terminal and communications equipment to the common carrier's
network.
data bits 1. The number of bits that the modem uses to represent one byte. This is usually 8, though it can be
7, since ASCII text characters need only 7 of the 8 bits. 2. The actual data bits within a byte being sent
through the phone lines.
data bus connector See DB connector.
data channel See D channel.
data circuit-terminating equipment See DCE.
data circuits Communication links that are optimized for digital transmission of computer information.
data collection The gathering of data from multiple points to a central point.
data communications The processes, equipment, and/or facilities used to transport signals from one data
processing device at one location to another data processing device at another location.
data communications equipment See DCE.
data compression A method of reducing the amount of data to be transmitted by applying an algorithm to the
basic data at source. A decompression algorithm expands the data back to its original state at the other end
of the link. Digital video requires up to 45 Mbps for reasonable performances but with compression can
achieve the same in one to three Mbps.
data concentrator A unit that allows a common transmission instrument to serve more data sources than there
are currently available channels.
Data conversion The process of converting data from one format to another.
Data Country Code See DCC.
data direct VCC In ATM, a bi-directional point-to-point VCC set up between two LECs. One of three data
connections defined by Phase 1 LANE. Data direct VCCs do not offer any type of QOS guarantee, so they are
typically used for UBR and ABR connections. Compare with control distribute VCC and control direct VCC.
Data Encryption Key (DEK) Much like an actual key used for locking and re-opening doors, DEKs are used for the
encryption and decoding of message text, sometimes in the form of a digital signature.
Data Encryption Standard See DES.
Data Encryption Standard (DES) A standardized encryption method widely used on the Internet.
Data exchange (DX) Data that is transmitted or recorded in a format.
Data Exchange Interface See DXI.
data flow control layer Layer 5 of the SNA architectural model. This layer determines and manages
interactions between session partners, particularly data flow. Corresponds to the session layer of the OSI
model. See also data-link control layer, path control layer, physical control layer, presentation services
layer, transaction services layer, and transmission control layer.
Data Line Interface (DLI) The connection point on a telephone system.
data line privacy A user-controlled feature that cancels activities such as an executive override,
attendant override, or a busy verification that could insert tones on the station line while in use. This is
generally used for station lines with computer terminals and facsimile machines.
data link A communications connection used to transmit data from a source to a destination.
Data Link Connection Identifiers (DLCI) 1. A frame relay header field that identifies the destination of a
packet. 2. An identifier for a link that consists of the terminal equipment identifier (TEI) and service
access point identifier (SAPI).
Data Link Control (DLC) The characters that manage transmission by performing error checking functions such
as connect, initiate, terminate.
data link layer The second layer of the open system interconnection (OSI) data communications model. The data
link layer defines frame construction, addressing, error detection, and other services to higher layers.
Data Link Switching (DLS) An enhancement to source routing which transports source route packets over a
resilient IP/OSPF network and provides local termination of LLC2 sessions to avoid LLC timeouts in large or
busy networks. It is the ideal mechanism for mixed LAN-to-LAN and interactive SNA traffic since it can
recover from network problems quickly using OSPF. It is rapidly becoming accepted as a major standard.
DATA LSP ID Data Local Service Provider Identification
data modem A modem that does not have the ability to send or receive fax transmissions.
Data movement processor See DMP.
Data Network Identification Code See DNIC.
Data Ports: INTERNET Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Data Ports: LAN Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
data service unit See DSU.
data set ready See DSR.
data sink Network equipment that accepts data transmissions.
data stream All data transmitted through a communications line in a single read or write operation.
data terminal equipment See DTE.
data terminal ready See DTR.
Data-Link Connection Identifier See DLCI.
data-link control layer Layer 2 in the SNA architectural model. Responsible for the transmission of data
over a particular physical link. Corresponds roughly to the data-link layer of the OSI model. See also data
flow control layer, path control layer, physical control layer, presentation services layer, transaction
services layer, and transmission control layer.
data-link layer Layer 2 of the OSI reference model. Provides reliable transit of data across a physical link.
The data-link layer is concerned with physical addressing, network topology, line discipline, error
notification, ordered delivery of frames, and flow control. The IEEE divided this layer into two sublayers:
the MAC sublayer and the LLC sublayer. Sometimes simply called link layer. Roughly corresponds to the data-
link control layer of the SNA model. See also application layer, LLC, MAC, network layer, physical layer,
PQ, session layer, and transport layer.
data-link switching See DLSw.
database A collection of data that is structured and organized in a disciplined fashion to facilitate
information retrieval.
database object Piece of information that is stored in a database.
Database server A database installed as a back-end or server component of a client-server system, which can be
accessed over a LAN by one or more client, or front-end applications through the use of query language,
typically SQL. The server part of the program is responsible for updating the records, ensuring that
multiple access is available to authorized users, protecting the data and communicating with other servers
holding relevant data. The client end of the program requests records and then modifies them, while the
server tracks records down for the client and adds new ones.
DATABASE2 See DB2.
Datafil Expe Populates the CODES database
datagram Logical grouping of information sent as a network layer unit over a transmission medium without
prior establishment of a virtual circuit. IP datagrams are the primary information units in the Internet.
The terms cell, frame, message, packet, and segment are also used to describe logical information groupings
at various layers of the OSI reference model and in various technology circles.
Datagram A block of data that is "smart" enough (actually, which carries enough information) to travel from
one Internet site to another without having to rely on earlier exchanges between the source and destination
computers (not to be confused with a Candygram).
Datagram Delivery Protocol See DDP.
datakit AT&T proprietary packet switching system widely deployed by the RBOCs.
DATEC Data Technical Support Group
DATU Digital Access Test Unit
DAV Data Above Voice
DAVAR Data Validation Report
DAVAR Anal./Comp. Cable Pairs to Records
DAVAR REGISTERED TRADEMARK (NOT AN ACRONYM)
DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council
DAVID Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder
DAVOX An outbound calling autodialer
DAX DaxCon
DB Decibel
DB Database (f: BD; BDD)
dB Decibel
DB Data Base
dB DeciBels.
DB connector Data Bus Connector. Type of connector used to connect serial and parallel cables to a data
bus. DB connector names are in the format DB-x, where x represents the number of wires within the connector.
Each line is connected to a pin on the connector, but in many cases, not all pins are assigned a function.
DB connectors are defined by various EIA/TIA standards.
DB-25 The 25 pin plug that connects an RS-232C cable to the RS-232 port. Modems generally use this
connector.
DB-9 The 9 pin plug that connects an RS-232C cable to the RS-232 port.
DB/DC systems DataBase/Data Communications systems.
DB2 IBM relational database management system.
DB2 Database 2
DB2 IBM's relational Data Base 2
DB25 25 pin connector for RS-232 Interface
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBA DataBase Administrator
DBA Database administrator (f: ABD)
DBA DB Adjusted
DB-9 The 9 pin plug that connects an RS-232C cable to the RS-232 port.
DB/DC systems DataBase/Data Communications systems.
DB2 IBM relational database management system.
DB2 Database 2
DB2 IBM's relational Data Base 2
DB25 25 pin connector for RS-232 Interface
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBA DataBase Administrator
DBA Database administrator (f: ABD)
DBA DB Adjusted
DBCS Double-Byte Character Set
DBL Direct Business Lines
DBM DataBase Manager (IBM OS/2 EE)
DBM Data Base Marketing
DBM DataBase Marketing
dBm DeciBles per Milliwatt.
DBM0 Decibel level relative to zero level
DBMIS Data Base Management Information System
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBMS Data Base Management System (generic term)
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBNL Dial Back-Up Network Link
DBOS Disk Based Operating System
DBRAD Data Base Relational Application Directory
DBRC DataBase Recovery Control
DBRN Decibels above reference noise
DBRNC Decibel level relat. to noise thru a C-weighted audio filter
DBRS Dominion Bond Rating Service (f: DBRS)
DBS Digital Broadcast Satellite
DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite
DBS Domestic Bulk Service
DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite
DC Device Controller
DC Device Controller (f: CD)
DC Direct Current
DC Directly Cabled
DC Distribution Centre
DC Device Control
DC Power Direct Power
DC/DT Data Collection/ Data Transferal
DCA Digital Communications Associates Inc
DCA Direct Customer Access or Detail Change Authorization
DCA Distributed Communications Architecture
DCA Document Content Architecture
DCA Document Contents Architecture
DCA Document Creation Architecture
DCA Defense Communications Agency. U.S. government organization responsible for DDN networks such as MILNET.
Now called DISA. See DISA.
DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility
DCB Disk Coprocessor Board
DCBI Directed Call Pickup with Barge-in
DCC Data Country Code. One of two ATM address formats developed by the ATM Forum for use by private networks.
Adapted from the subnetwork model of addressing in which the ATM layer is responsible for mapping network
layer addresses to ATM addresses. Compare with ICD.
DCC Data Communications Channel
DCC Digital Cross Connect
DCC Direct Connect Card
DCC Digital Cross Connect (f: RN)
DCC Digital Cross Connect
DCC Data Control Centre (Datapac)
DCC/DCS Digital Cross-connect (channel System)
DCCS système centralisé de traitement des données (e: DCCS)
DCCS Data Collection Centre System (f: DCCS)
DCCSA Data Center Collection System
DCCSA Digital Cross Connect Serving Area
DCCSA data control centre serving area
DCD Data Collection and Distribution (f: CED)
DCD Data Collection Device
DCD Digital Clock Distribution
DCD Digital Clock Distributor -applies to Stratum clock sync netwk
DCD Data Collection and Distribution
DCD DATA CLOCK DISTRIBUTOR
DCDB Domain Control DataBase migration utility
DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE Data Communication Equipment
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCE Digital Carrier Equipment Frame
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCE Data Communications Equipment (f: ETCD)
DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCE data circuit-terminating equipment
DCE distributed computing environment
DCE 1. Data Communications Equipment (EIA expansion). 2. Data Circuit-terminating Equipment (ITU-T
expansion). Devices and connections of a communications network that comprise the network end of the user-
to-network interface. The DCE provides a physical connection to the network, forwards traffic, and provides
a clocking signal used to synchronize data transmission between DCE and DTE devices. Modems and interface
cards are examples of DCE. Compare with DTE.
DCF Denied Call Forwarding
DCF Discounted cash flow (f: FMA)
DCF Dispersion Compensating Fibre
DCF Document Composition Facility
DCH D channel handler (ISDN)
DCH D-Channel Handler
DCH-ST D channel handler - signalling terminal (ISDN)
DCHI D-Channel Handler Interface
DCI Denied Code Intercept
DCI Display Control Interface
DCI Dynamic Control Interface
DCI Data Communication Interface
DCL Dialog Control Language
DCL Digital Command Language
DCM Digital Carrier Module (f: MMN)
DCM Digital Carrier Module
DCM Demand Chain Management (Relates to CRM)
DCMC Digital Carrier Maintenance Centre
DCMR Digital Carrier Module Remote (f: MMND)
DCMR DIGITAL CARRIER MODULE REMOTE (FRENCH MMND)
DCMS Distribution Centre Material System
DCMS Distribution Centre Management System (f: DCMS)
DCMS Dist.centre monitoring system
DCMS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE MATERIAL SYSTEM
DCN Data Communication Network
DCN Data Communications Network
DCO Data Centre Operations (f: TD)
DCO Digital central office (f: CN)
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model. Protocol that enables software components to communicate directly
over a network. Developed by Microsoft and previously called Network OLE, DCOM is designed for use across
multiple network transports, including Internet protocols such as HTTP. See IIOP.
DCOSG Desired Class of Service Group
DCOT Digital Central Office Termination
DCP Data Communications Processors
DCP Data Control Point
DCP Duration of Call Processing (f: TPA)
DCP Data Collection Processor
DCPC Digital Communication Processor Card
DCPDP Direct Current Plasma Display Panel
DCPIC Digital Carrier Peripheral Interface Card
DCPK Directed Call Park
DCPR Detailed Continuing Property Record (f: DDPB)
DCPR Detail Continuing Property Records for asset accounting
DCPR DETAILED CONTINUING PROPERTY RECORDS
DCPU Directedl Call Pickup
DCR Dynamically Controlled Routing
DCR dynamically controlled routing (runs on DMS and other stored program switches)
DCS Data Collection System (f: SCD)
DCS Database Connection Services
DCS Defect Control Systems
DCS Desktop Color Separation
DCS Digital Cellular System
DCS Digital Channel Service
DCS Digital Communication Systems
DCS Digital Cross-connect Switch/System
DCS Distributed Control System
DCS Data Collection System (sub-system of FMS)
DCS digital channel service
DCS Digital Crossconnect System. Network element providing automatic cross-connection of a digital signal or
its constituent parts.
DCSS Discontiguous Shared Segment
DCT Discrete Cosine Transform
DCT Discrete Cosine Transform.
DCTLT Download of cable transfer and line transfer from CALRS to PAIRS
DCU Data Control Unit
DCX Data concentration exchange (marque de commerce)
DD Delay Dial
DD Double Density
DD Due Date
DD LAMA
DD Data Dictionary
DD due diligence
DDA Dell Drive Array
DDA Distributed Database Architecture
DDA Dual Division Account
DDC Direct Digital Control
DDC Display Data Channel
DDC Digital Data Controller
DDC Digital Data Controller assoc with Realty Services
DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
DDCS/2 Distributed Database Connection Services/2
DDCS/2 Distributed Database Connection Services for OS/2
DDCS/2 IBM OS/2 Distributed Database Connection Services/2
DDD Direct Distance Dial(ing)
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DDD distribution dictée par la demande (e: 3D)
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DDE Ditributed Debbuging Environment, HP DDE
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDF Distributed Data Facility
DDI Device Driver Interface
DDI Due DateInstallation
DDIF Digital Document Interchange Format
DDIOS Digital Data Inter Office System
DDIOT Digital Data Inter Office Trunk
DDL Data Definition Language
DDL Data Description Language
DDLC Digital Data Line Card
DDM Distributed Data Management
DDM Distributed Data Management. Software in an IBM SNA environment that provides peer-to-peer communication
and file sharing. One of three SNA transaction services. See also DIA and SNADS.
DDN Defense Data Network. U.S. military network composed of an unclassified network (MILNET) and various
secret and top-secret networks. DDN is operated and maintained by DISA. See also DISA and MILNET.
DDN See Defense Data Network.
DDN Defense Data Network
DDN Digital Data Network (f: RDN)
DDN Directory dial number (f: NAD)
DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Services
DDO Designated Diversity Office (f: CADS)
DDO Direct Dialing Overseas
DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol
DDP Desktop Document Processor
DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol. AppleTalk network layer protocol that is responsible for the socket-to-socket
delivery of datagrams over an AppleTalk internetwork.
DDR Dial-on-Demand Routing. Technique whereby a router can automatically initiate and close a circuit-
switched session as transmitting stations demand. The router spoofs keepalives so that end stations treat
the session as active. DDR permits routing over ISDN or telephone lines using an external ISDN terminal
adaptor or modem.
DDR Dial-on-Demand Routing
DDR Date de disponibilité au réseau (e: PDR)
DDR Detailed Definition Report
DDR DASD Dump Restore program
DDR Datapac design request
DDS Data Dictionary System
DDS Digital Data Service
DDS Digital Data Storage
DDS Digital Data System
DDS Digital Dataphone Service
DDS Distributed Sniffer System
DDS Document Distribution System
DDS Digital Data Service (standard for sub-rate transmission on DS-0 at 56 or 64 kbp
DDS Digital Design Spec
DDS Direct Delivery System
DDS/SC Digital Data Service with Secondary Channel
DDS8 (DDS8 deferrable Plug-In card-assoc w/DVACS & channel banks)
DDS8 DDS8 deferrable Plug-In card-assoc w/DVACS and channel banks
DDSD Delay Dial Start Dial
DDSF Digital Data Services Forecast
DDST Division, District, Section, Territory (f: DDST)
DDST Division / District / Section / Territory
DDT Dialog Debug Technique
DDU Digital Data Unit
DDU Disk Drive Unit
DE Discard Eligibility
DE Discard Eligible. See tagged traffic.
de facto standard Standard that exists by nature of its widespread use. Compare with de jure standard. See
also standard.
de jure standard Standard that exists because of its approval by an official standards body. Compare with
de facto standard. See also standard.
DE2 DE-2 channel bank
DE2 DE2 Channel Bank
DE3 DE3 Channel Bank
DE3M DE-3M channel bank
DE3M DE3M Channel Bank
DE3SF DE-3SF channel bank
DE3SF DE3SF Channel Bank
DE3VICOM DE3VICOM channel bank
DE4E Digital Channel Bank Enhanced - 4E
DE4E Enhanced Digital Channel Bank
DEA Data Encryption Algorithm
DEA Digital Exchange Access (f: ALN)
DEA Digital Exchange Access
deadlock 1. Unresolved contention for the use of a resource. 2. In APPN, when two elements of a process each
wait for action by or a response from the other before they resume the process.
DEBAZ Office equipement availability A to Z
DEBTS Electronic Expense Forms
DEC Digital Echo Cancellers
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DECCO Defense Commercial Communication Office
DECconnect Digital Equipment's connectivity system for local area networks. It includes structured
cabling and 802.3/Ethernet-based active components.
Decentralized processing An environment in which one or more networked nodes assume responsibility for
processing applications and performing data processing functions.
DeciBel (Db) A unit of power, either sound, electrical, or optical amplification or attenuation that is
proportional to the exponential increase or decrease in power.
decibels Abbreviated dB.
DECMCC Digital Equipment Corporation Management Control Centre
DECmpp DEC multiprocessing, parallel
DECnet Group of communications products (including a protocol suite) developed and supported by Digital
Equipment Corporation. DECnet/OSI (also called DECnet Phase V) is the most recent iteration and supports
both OSI protocols and proprietary Digital protocols. Phase IV Prime supports inherent MAC addresses that
allow DECnet nodes to coexist with systems running other protocols that have MAC address restrictions. See
also DNA.
DECnet routing Proprietary routing scheme introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in DECnet Phase III. In
DECnet Phase V, DECnet completed its transition to OSI routing protocols (ES-IS and IS-IS).
decode The act of recovering the original information from an encoded signal. Contrast with encode.
decoder (DEC) A device that has multiple input and output lines. DECs can have multiple input signals, but
only one output signal at one time.
decompression To reverse the procedure conducted by the compression software algorithm to return data to its
original size and condition.
decryption Reverse application of an encryption algorithm to encrypted data, thereby restoring that data
to its original, unencrypted state. See also encryption.
DECT Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
DECT Digital European Cordless Telephony
DECUS Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
DED Dedicated service (f: SP)
Dedicated Access Line (DAL) An analog access line linked directly from a caller's equipment to a long-
distance company's switch or point of presence (POP). DAL is usually provided by a local telephone company.
The line may go through the local telephone company central office (CO). However, the local telephone
company does not switch calls on this line.
dedicated LAN Network segment allocated to a single device. Used in LAN switched network topologies.
dedicated line Communications line that is indefinitely reserved for transmissions, rather than switched as
transmission is required. See also leased line.
dedicatedlLine A communications line that is used solely for computer connections. If you buy an additional
phone line for your modem, that's a dedicated line. There are other types of dedicated lines (such as T3s
and T1s) that are used for larger network entities.
DEF Defective
default carrier Your regular Dial-1 carrier. Call 1-700-555-4141 to find your default carrier. Also see
Primary interexchange carrier (PIC)
default route Routing table entry that is used to direct frames for which a next hop is not explicitly
listed in the routing table.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency See DARPA.
Defense Communications Agency See dBm.
Defense Data Network See DDN.
Defense Data Network (DDN) A global communications network that serves the US Department of Defense. It is made
up of a network called MILNET, other portions of the Internet, and classified networks which are not part of
the Internet. The DDN is used to connect military installations and is managed by the Defense Information
Systems Agency. It was originally developed by DARPA.
Defense Information Systems Agency See DISA.
Defense Intelligence Agency See DIA.
DEK DataEencryption Key. Used for the encryption of message text and for the computation of message integrity
checks (signatures).
DEL Digital Entrance Link
delay Time between the initiation of a transaction by a sender and the first response received by the
sender. Also, the time required to move a packet from source to destination over a given path.
Delay announcements Pre-recorded messages to incoming callers stating that they are being delayed and placed
in an automatic call distributor (ACD) queue.
Delay dial A dialing configuration in which local dial equipment waits until the entire telephone number
is received before seizing a circuit to transmit the call.
Delay distortion A change in signal from the transmitting end to the receiving end resulting from the non-
uniform speed of transmission of various frequency signal components through a transmission medium.
Delayed ringing A system that rings a second telephone if the called telephone has not responded within a
preset number of rings.
DELTA (NOT AN ACRONYM)
Deluxe queuing An AT&T feature that permits incoming calls to be placed in a queue when all lines are busy.
The queue can be either a ringback queue (RBQ), or an off-hook queue (OHQ).
DEM Digital Equipment Minutes
DEMAND NAS Demand - Forecasts and Results
Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) The process of channel sharing by assigning capacity on demand to
an idle channel or an unused time slot.
demand priority Media access method used in 100VG-AnyLAN that uses a hub that can handle multiple transmission
requests and can process traffic according to priority, making it useful for servicing time-sensitive
traffic such as multimedia and video. Demand priority eliminates the overhead of packet collisions,
collision recovery, and broadcast traffic typical in Ethernet networks. See also 100VG-AnyLAN.
demarc Demarcation point between carrier equipment and CPE.
demodulation Process of returning a modulated signal to its original form. Modems perform demodulation by
taking an analog signal and returning it to its original (digital) form. See also modulation.
DEMP Employee Database for District Secretaries
demultiplexing Separating of multiple input streams that were multiplexed into a common physical signal back
into multiple output streams. See also multiplexing.
Denial 1. A call-blocking condition which occurs when the access to available circuits is restricted. For
example, local calling may be allowed and long distance calling denied. 2. A condition that occurs when no
circuits are available and a busy tone is returned to the calling party.
Denied-originating class A class of telephone service from which originating calls are excluded. Only
terminating calls are permitted. Synonym: terminating only.
dense mode PIM See PIM dense mode.
DEP Depreciation
Department of Defense See DoD.
Dependent LU See DLU.
Dependent LU Requester See DLUR.
Dependent LU Server See DLUS.
DES 1. Data Encryption Standard. Symmetric, single-key cryptographic algorithm encriptions developed by the
U.S. National Bureau of Standard for encrypting and decrypting data. 2. Destination End Station.
DES Data Encryption Standard
DES Datafill Expert System
DES Digital Echo Suppressor (f: SEN)
DES Display Editing System
DES Data Encryption Standard
DES Datafill Expert System
DESIGN & PRO This function will compare actual spending to amount authorized
DESIGN SPECI Detailed specs issued by Common Design & Project Mgr
designated bridge Bridge that incurs the lowest path cost when forwarding a frame from a segment to the
root bridge.
designated router OSPF router that generates LSAs for a multiaccess network and has other special
responsibilities in running OSPF. Each multiaccess OSPF network that has at least two attached routers has a
designated router that is elected by the OSPF Hello protocol. The designated router enables a reduction in
the number of adjacencies required on a multiaccess network, which in turn reduces the amount of routing
protocol traffic and the size of the topological database.
Designer7 Drawing tool for intertol ckts
destination address Address of a network device that is receiving data. See also source address.
destination MAC See DMAC.
destination service access point See DSAP.
DET Detection
DET Directory Entry Table
deterministic load distribution Technique for distributing traffic between two bridges across a circuit group.
Guarantees packet ordering between source-destination pairs and always forwards traffic for a source-
destination pair on the same segment in a circuit group for a given circuit-group configuration.
Deutsche Industrie Norm See DIN.
Deutsche Industrie Norm connector See DIN connector.
device See node.
DEX Disk Extender
DEXNTS Digital Electronic Network Test System
DF Direct Final
DF Distribution or Distributing Frame
DFB Distributed FeedBack
DFC Data Flow Control (layer)
DFC Date de fin de conception (e: ERD)
DFCC Digital Facility Control Card
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFDP Diagraphic for Data Processing
DFDS Demand Forecast Database System (GPF Reports)
DFF Disagregate Planning Forecast
DFIC Digital Facility Interface Card
DFLAG Autodisplay of DMS Line Troubles
DFMS Digital Facilities Monitoring System
DFN Deutsches Forschungsnetz (German research network)
DFS Distributed File System
DFT Design For Testability
DFT Distributed Function Terminal
DFX Trunks to a Foreign C.O
DGEM Data General Enterprise Management
DGL Drafix Graphics Language
DGPS Differential GPS
DGT Digitone
DGX Direct-coupled Graphics Xccelerator
DHCN Digital High Capacity Network
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Provides a mechanism for allocating IP addresses dynamically so that
addresses can be reused when hosts no longer need them.
DHF Deformed Helical Ferroelectric
DI Data Interchange
DI Debt Interest (f: ID)
DIA Document Interchange Architecture
DIA Document Interchange Architecture. Defines the protocols and data formats needed for the transparent
interchange of documents in an SNA network. One of three SNA transaction services. See also DDM and SNADS.
dial 1. To place a call on a switched network. The term "dial" is obsolete, based on rotary dial phones and
electromechanical relay switches, which are nearly non-existent in modern telephone systems. Touch Tone
service recognizes dual tones that are generated as each telephone key is pressed. Where Touch Tone service
is not available, telephones and switches electronically "pulse" signals that emulate the older rotary dial
telephones. The terms "place a call" or "originate a call" are more accurate than "dial". 2. A device that
transmits address digits to communications switching equipment. The dial may be rotary and transmit
electrical direct current (DC) pulses, or it may be push button and transmit dual tone multiple-frequency
(DTMF) tone digits. 3. The operation of a dial or a keyset to transmit address information to automatic
switching equipment.
dial access The connection through the public switched telephone network from a terminal to a service,
network or computer.
dial access to attendant A system that allows a station user to dial an operator call code to reach an
attendant.
dial backup Feature that provides protection against WAN downtime by allowing the network administrator to
configure a backup serial line through a circuit-switched connection.
Dial Level (DL) The selection of stations or services associated with a private branch exchange (PBX) using a
one to four digit code, such as dialing 9 for access to an outside line dial tone.
Dial Pulse (DP) A short, direct current signal which is produced by, or simulated to look like, the opening
and closing of contacts in a rotary-dial telephone when numbers are dialed. Dial pulses control the action
of telephone switching equipment.
dial repeating tie line A tie line arrangement that permits direct trunk to trunk connections without use of
the attendant.
dial tone The sound you hear whan you pick up the telephone receiver. Dial tone ic North America is an
unbroken signal from the local telephone company that is alive and ready to receive the number that you
dial. The dial tone comes from the switch to which a phone is connected.
Dial-on-Demand Routing See DDR.
dial-up line Communications circuit that is established by a switched-circuit connection using the
telephone company network.
DIALAN DMS Integrated Access Local Area Network
dialup A widely-used method of accessing the Internet. A dialup connection uses regular phone lines to
connect one computer to another via modem.
DIAMS DCPR Investment Allocation Mechanized System (f: SIESD)
DIAMS Detailed Investment Allocation Mechanization
DIAMS DCPR - Invest. Allocation Mech. System
DIAMS DETAILED INVESTMENT ALLOCATION MECHANIZED SYSTEM
DIB Device Independent Bitmap
DICNS Devise for Interim Core Network Surveillance
DICNS Device for the Interim Control of Network Surveillance
DICW Do in Conjunction With
DID Direct Inward Dial(ing)
DID Direct Inward Dialing (f: SDA)
DID Direct-Inward Dialing
DID X
DID Direct Inward Dialling
DID 1.Direct Inward/In Dial (bypass operator)
DIESEL Dump Interpretatively Evaluated String Expression Language
DIF Data Interchange Format
DIF Device Information File
DIF Digital Interface Frame (eg DIF Bay connect.Echo Canceller)
DIF Document Interchange Format
DIF Daily Interrogation File
DIF DIGITAL INTERFACE FRAME
differential encoding Digital encoding technique whereby a binary value is denoted by a signal change
rather than a particular signal level.
differential Manchester encoding Digital coding scheme where a mid-bit-time transition is used for
clocking, and a transition at the beginning of each bit time denotes a zero. This coding scheme is used by
IEEE 802.5 and Token Ring networks.
Diffusing Update ALgorithm See DUAL.
DIG Digital
digit stream The switch signalling protocol that contains information, such as information digits,
destination number, and originating automatic number identification (ANI). The digit stream is defined by
Bellcore standards.
digital A device or method that uses discrete variations in voltage, frequency, amplitude, and location to
encode, process, or carry binary (zero or one) signals for sound, video, computer data or other information.
For example, a digital clock displays the time as discrete numeric values, rather than angular displacement
of analog hands. Digital communications technology generally permits higher speeds of transmission with a
lower error rate than can be achieved with analog technology. When analog signals are received and amplified
at each repeater station, any noise is also amplified. However, a digital signal is detected and
regenerated, not amplified. Any noise less than a valid signal is eliminated by digital regeneration.
Digital Network Architecture See DNA.
digital signal level 0 See DS-0.
Digital Switched Network (DSN) A high-speed digital switched public network which allows business customers
to access a huge range of calling capabilities (e.g., international telecommuting, videoconferencing,
telemedicine, distance education and criminal identification) at prevailing long distance rates and
discounts. DSN, which is available to customers who subscribe to Digital Exchange Access Service, Centerx
Data or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), is available in several countries around the world
Dijkstra's algorithm See SPF.
DIM Data Interface Module
DIM Dial-In Modem
DIMA Direct Inward Mobile Access
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module
DIMM Dual-readout/dual-In-line Memory Module
DIMS DMS Information Management System
DIN Denied Incoming
DIN Denied Incoming Calls
DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm. German national standards organization.
DIN connector Deutsche Industrie Norm connector. Multipin connector used in some Macintosh and IBM PC-
compatible computers, and on some network processor panels.
DINOR Divided Bit Line NOR
DIP Document Image Processing
DIP Dual In-Line Package
DIP Dual Inline Package
DIP Dedicated Inside Plant
DIP Dual In-Line Position (toggle switch)
DIPP Data Interface Protocol Processor
DIRAD DIRectory ADvertising charges
DIRAD Directory Advertising
direct attachment The IBM term for linking a device or LAN directly to a host computer through an
appropriate Control Unit, like a cluster controller.
Direct Department Calling (DDC) A system where inward calls on a specific trunk or group of trunks are routed
to certain stations or group of stations
Direct Digital Interface (DDI) A system where trunks can be connected directly to T1 carriers.
Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) Any switched telecommunications service, such as 1+, 0++, that allows a call
originator to place long-distance calls directly to telephones outside the local service area without an
operator.
Direct Inward Dialing (DID) A private branch exchange (PBX) or Centrex feature that permits outside calls
to be placed directly to a station line without use of an operator.
Direct Memory Access See DMA.
directed search Search request sent to a specific node known to contain a resource. A directed search is used
to determine the continued existence of the resource and to obtain routing information specific to the node.
See also broadcast search.
directed tree Logical construct used to define data streams or flows. The origin of a data stream is the
root. Data streams are unidirectional branches directed away from the root and toward targets, and targets
are the leaves of the directed tree.
directory services Services that help network devices locate service providers.
DIRP Device Independent Recording Package (f: ENTD)
DIS Disable
DIS Disabled or Disabler
DIS Draft International Standard
DIS District Information System
DIS Downstream Interface System
DIS Downstream Interfacing Sub-System
DIS Downstream Interfacing Subsystem
DISA Data Interchange Standards Association
DISA Direct Inward System Access
DISA Defense Information Systems Agency. Formerly DCA. U.S. military organization responsible for implementing
and operating military information systems, including the DDN. See also DDN and dBm.
DISC Device For Integration of Surveillance & Control
DISC Device for Integration of Surveillance and Control (f: DISC)
DISC Disconnect
DISC Discontinued
DISC Device for Integrated Surveillance and Control
DISC Device for Integration of Surveillance & Control (DMS)
DISC Integrated DMS Control and Monitoring system (Dispositif Integre de Surveillance
Discard Eligible See DE.
DISCO Development of Information Services for Career Opportunities
discovery architecture APPN software that enables a machine configured as an APPN EN to automatically find
primary and backup NNs when the machine is brought onto an APPN network.
discovery mode Method by which an AppleTalk interface acquires information about an attached network from an
operational node and then uses this information to configure itself. Also called dynamic configuration.
DISG Datapro Information Services Group
DISK Document Imaging Systems Corporation
DISN Defense Information Systems Network
DIST Distribution
DIST District
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol See DVMRP.
distance vector routing algorithm Class of routing algorithms that iterate on the number of hops in a route
to find a shortest-path spanning tree. Distance vector routing algorithms call for each router to send its
entire routing table in each update, but only to its neighbors. Distance vector routing algorithms can be
prone to routing loops, but are computationally simpler than link state routing algorithms. Also called
Bellman-Ford routing algorithm. See also link-state routing algorithm and SPF.
distortion delay Problem with a communication signal resulting from nonuniform transmission speeds of the
components of a signal through a transmission medium. Also called group delay.
DISTREPTS Dist Month Reports
distributed computing (processing) See client/server computing.
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) An architecture based on standard programming interfaces,
conventions, and server functionalities used for distributing applications transparently across networks.
The DCE is controlled and promoted by the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium of vendors including
DEC, IBM and Hewlett Packard.
Distributed Data Management See DDM.
Distributed Director Method of distributing Web traffic by taking into account Web server availability and
relative client-to-server topological distances in order to determine the optimal Web server for a client.
DistributedDirector uses the Director Response Protocol to query DRP server agents for BGP and IGP routing
table metrics.
Distributed Queue Dual Bus See DQDB.
Distributed Relational Database Architecture See DRDA.
DIT Directory Information Tree. Global tree of entries corresponding to information objects in the OSI X.500
Directory.
DIU Data Integrity Unit
DIU Data Interface Unit
DIU Digital Interface Unit
DIU Data Integrity Unit
DIV Diversity
DIV Division
DIV Data in Voice
DIVA Data Input - Voice Answerback
DIVA Data Image Voice Application
DIVE Device-Independent Video Environment
DIVE Direct Interface Video Extension
DIX DEC, Intel, Xerox
DL Data Link
DL Delete Digit
DL Design Letter
DL Designer Letter
DL Dual-Layer
DL Digital Loopback
DLC Data Line Card
DLC Data Link Connection
DLC Data Link Control
DLC Data Link Control (layer)
DLC Digital Line Card
DLC Digital Loop Carrier
DLC data line card
DLC digital loop carrier
DLC-C/T Digital Loop Carrier - Control Terminal
DLC-R/T Digital Loop Carrier - Remote Terminal
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DLCI Data-Link Connection Identifier. Value that specifies a PVC or SVC in a Frame Relay network. In the basic
Frame Relay specification, DLCIs are locally significant (connected devices might use different values to
specify the same connection). In the LMI extended specification, DLCIs are globally significant (DLCIs
specify individual end devices). See also LMI.
DLCMI Data Link Connection Management Interface
DLD Display List Driver
DLD Direct Local Dialed
DLE Data Link Escape
DLH Distributed Line Hunt
DLH Distributed Line Hunt.
DLI Data Line Interface The connection point on a telephone system.
DLI Design Loop Length
DLI Dynamic Link Interface
DLL Dial Long Line
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DLL Dynamic Link Library.
DLM Distributed Lock Manager
DLR DOS LAN Requester
DLSA DataLink Serving Area
DLSAP Dial Line Services Analysis Program
DLSO DataLink Serving Office
DLSw Data-Link Switching. Interoperability standard, described in RFC 1434, that provides a method for
forwarding SNA and NetBIOS traffic over TCP/IP networks using data-link layer switching and encapsulation.
DLSw uses SSP instead of SRB, eliminating the major limitations of SRB, including hop-count limits,
broadcast and unnecessary traffic, timeouts, lack of flow control, and lack of prioritization schemes. See
also SRB and SSP (Switch-to-Switch Protocol).
DLSw+ Data-Link Switching Plus. Cisco implementation of the DLSw standard for SNA and NetBIOS traffic
forwarding. DLSw+ goes beyond the standard to include the advanced features of the current Cisco RSRB
implementation, and provides additional functionality to increase the overall scalability of data-link
switching. See also DLSw.
DLT Digital Linear Tape
DLT-1 Digital Line Termination Unit used with LD-1
DLTM Data Link Traffic Monitor
DLTU Digital Line Termination Unit
DLU Dependent LU. LU that depends on the SSCP to provide services for establishing sessions with other LUs.
See also LU and SSCP.
DLUR Dependent LU Requester. Client half of the Dependent LU Requestor/Server enhancement to APPN. The DLUR
component resides in APPN ENs and NNs that support adjacent DLUs by securing services from the DLUS. See
also APPN, DLU, and DLUS.
DLUR node In APPN networks, an EN or NN that implements the DLUR component. See also DLUR.
DLUS Dependent LU Server. Server half of the Dependent LU Requestor/Server enhancement to APPN. The DLUS
component provides SSCP services to DLUR nodes over an APPN network. See also APPN, DLU, and DLUR.
DLUS node In APPN networks, a NN that implements the DLUS component. See also DLUS.
DM Development Move
DM Device Manager
DM Dial Tome Marker
DM Dialog Manager
DM Disconnect(ed) Mode
DM Doctor of Medicine
DM&R Distance Mileage and Rate
DM12 DM12 Multiplexor
DM13 DM13 Multiplexor
DMA Data Manager Agent
DMA Digital Multiplex Assembly
DMA Digital Multiplexer (asynchronous)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMA Direct Marketing Associate
DMA Direct Memory Access. Transfer of data from a peripheral device, such as a hard disk drive, into memory
without that data passing through the microprocessor. DMA transfers data into memory at high speeds with no
processor overhead.
DMA1 Digital Multiplexer DS-A to DS-1
DMAC Design and Modeling Application Council
DMAC Digital Maintenance and Administration Center (f: CET)
DMAC Digital Maintenance Assistance Center (Ontario)
DMAC Destination MAC. The MAC address specified in the Destination Address field of a packet. Compare with
SMAC. See also MAC address.
DMAS Digital Maintenance and Administration System
DMAS Distribution Management Accounting System
DMC Diagnostic Maintenance Charge
DMC Digital Maintenance Centre
DMC direct marketing center
DMC Direct Marketing Centre
DMC Digital Maintenance Charges
DMC DATA MAINTENANCE CHARGES
DMCL Device Media Control Language
DMCX Delivery Mode Code Cross Reference
DMD Data Management Definition
DMD Digital Mirroring Device
DME Distributed Management Environment
DMF Data Migration Facility
DMH Data Message Handler
DMI Desktop Management Interface
DMI Digitally Multiplexed Interface
DMI Dun's Market Identifies file
DMI Direct Marketing Incentive
DMID Digital Meridian Interface Device
DMIG Double Metal-In-Gap
DML Data Management Language
DML Data Manipulation Language
DMM Data Management Mandate
DMM Data Multi Media
DMM Domain Management Module
DMO Data Modification Order
DMO Data Modification Order
DMO-PRO Data Modification Order Process
DMOA Data Management Operating Agent
DMOPRO DATA MODIFICATION PROGRAMME
DMOS Double Diffused MOS
DMP DU/modem pool
DMP Data Movement Processor. Processor on the Catalyst 5000 that, along with the multiport packet buffer
memory interface, performs the frame-switching function for the switch. The DMP also handles translational
bridging between the Ethernet and FDDI interfaces, IP segmentation, and intelligent bridging with protocol-
based filtering.
DMQS Display Mode Query and Set (IBM XGA/XGA-2)
DMR Dual Modular Redundant
DMS Data Management System
DMS Digital Multiplex System
DMS Digital Multiplex(ed) Switch
DMS Document Management Systems
DMS Digital Multiplex Switching System
DMS Data Management System
DMS Digital Multiplex System eg DMS 100
DMS Digital Multiplex System
DMS Access DMS Access
DMS-1 DMS Outside Plant Digital Concentrators
DMS-1 Family of Outside Plant Digital Concentrators 1st vintage
DMS-100 Digital Multiplex System - 100
DMS-10DAY DMS 1U 10 Day Managers Report
DMS-1POLL DMS 1U automatic polling for trouble reports
DMS-1U Digital Multiplex System - Urban Concentrator
DMS-1U DMS Digital Switch Urban
DMS-1U Digital Switch Urban
DMS-1U DMS 1U Ordering
DMS-1U DMS-1 urban
DMS-1U (SC DMS-1U Subscriber Carrier Module
DMS-1U RT- DMS-1U Remote Terminal - Central Terminal
DMS-1UF DMS-1U Fibre fed
DMS-1UF Digital Switch Urban Fiber feed
DMS-BUS DMS Bus Common Architecture
DMS-DT Digital Multiplex Switch Data Transfer System
DMS-ES Digital Multiplex System - Expert System
DMS-LS DMS Log Storage
DMS-MS DMS Matrix Switch
DMS-SCP DMS Service Control Point
DMS/DT DMS/Data Transferal
DMS/OS DASD Management System / Operating System
DMS1UI DMS-1U Subscriber Carrier Module (f: DMS1UI)
DMSC Digital Multiplex System Compact
DMSPDI DMS PDI
DMSSW DMS Software
DMSSWR DMS Ordering Guide
DMT Digital Multiplex Terminal
DMT Discrete Multi-tone
DMT300 DMT300 Multiplexor
DMTF Desktop Management Task Force
DMTS Digital Multiplex Terminal Surveillance System
DMUS De-Multiplexer
DMUX DeMUltipleXed
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DMZ In computer networks, a DMZ (demilitarized zone) is a computer host or small network inserted as a
"neutral zone" between a company's private network and the outside public network. It prevents outside users
from getting direct access to a server that has company data. (The term comes from the geographic buffer
zone that was set up between North Korea and South Korea following the war in the early 1950s.) A DMZ is an
optional and more secure approach to a firewall and effectively acts as a proxy server as well. In a typical
DMZ configuration for a small company, a separate computer (or host in network terms) receives requests from
users within the private network for access to Web sites or other companies accessible on the public
network. The DMZ host then initiates sessions for these requests on the public network. However, the DMZ
host is not able to initiate a session back into the private network. It can only forward packets that have
already been requested. Users of the public network outside the company can access only the DMZ host. The
DMZ may typically also have the company's Web pages so these could be served to the outside world. However,
the DMZ provides access to no other company data. In the event that an outside user penetrated the DMZ
host's security, the Web pages might be corrupted but no other company information would be exposed. Cisco,
the leading maker of routers, is one company that sells products designed for setting up a DMZ.
DN 1. Direct Number 2. Distinguished Name. Global, authoritative name of an entry in the OSI Directory
(X.500).
DN Digital Network Interconnecting Frame
DN Directory Number
DN Down
DN Directory Number
DNA Data Network Address
DNA Database Number of Trunks (Traffic)
DNA Datapac Network Address
DNA DataRoute Network Administrator
DNA Digital Network Access
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DNA Dynamic Network Architecture
DNA DATAPAC Network Address
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DNA Destination Network Address
DNA Digital Network Access
DNA Dynamic Network Architecture
DNA Digital Network Architecture. Network architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation. The
products that embody DNA (including communications protocols) are collectively referred to as DECnet. See
also DECnet.
DNC Direct Numerical Control
DNC Dynamic Network Controller
DNC Dynamic Network Controller (discontinued NT project)
DNCS Dynamic Network Control System
DND Department of National Defense
DND Do Not Disturb
DnD Drag and Drop
DND Do Not Distrub.
DNF Disposition Notice File
DNH Directory Number Hunt
DNH Directory Number Hunt.
DNHR Dynamic non-hierachical routing (f: AANH)
DNHR Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing
DNI Dialed Number Identifier (toll-free feature)
DNIC Data Network Identification Code. A four digit number used to identify public data networks. Part of an
X.121 address. DNICs are divided into two parts: the first specifying the country in which the addressed PSN
is located and the second specifying the PSN itself. See also X.121.
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
DNIC Digital Network Interface Circuit
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
DNIS Dialed Number Identification System
DNIS Dialled Number Identification Service
DNM DataSpan Network Manager
DNPPS Dynamic Network Planning - Provisioning System
DNPPS Dynamic Network Planning and Provisioning System
DNR DCE Not Ready
DNS Domain Name Server
DNS Domain Name Service
DNS Domain Name System
DNS Domain Name Service
DNS domain name server
DNS Domain Name System. System used in the Internet for translating names of network nodes into addresses.
The DNS is a static, hierarchical name service used with TCP/IP hosts, and is housed on a number of servers
on the Internet. Basically, it maintains a database for figuring out and finding (or resolving) host names
and IP addresses on the Internet. This allows users to specify remote computers by host names rather than
numerical IP addresses (if you've used UNIX, you may have heard the DNS referred to as the BSD UNIX BIND
service). For example, go to a DOS prompt in Windows 95, the % prompt in UNIX, or use a ping client for
Windows 3.1 or Mac, and type ping www.winfiles.com. This will check the DNS server you have configured, look
up the numerical IP address for www.winfiles.com, and then ping that server's IP address. The advantage of
the DNS is that you don't have to remember numerical IP addresses for all the Internet sites you want to
access. See also authority zone.
DNSC Digital Network Surveillance Centre
DNSC Divisional Network Surveillance Centre
DNSIX Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Network Security for Information Exchange.
Collection of security requirements for networking defined by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
DNSS Digital Network Surveillance System (f: SSRN)
DNSS Digital Network Surveillance System
DNTC Dialed Number Transport Capability
DNX Digital Network Cross Connect
DNX-100 Digital Network Cross Connect - 100
DNX-100 Digital Network Cross-Connect (switching component of DXCS)
DNX100 Digital Network Cross Connect
DNX33 DNX33 Dynamic X-Connect (DS3 to DS3)
DNX33 DNX33 Dynamic X-Connect
DO Dial Observing
DOA Dead On Arrival
DOC Department of Communications
DOC Dynamic Overload Control
DOC Department of Communications
DOCAID Documentation Aid
DOCPLAN Planning Documentation
DOCSIS Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications. Defines technical specifications for equipment at
both subscriber locations and cable operators' headends. Adoption of DOCSIS will accelerate deployment of
data-over-cable services and ensure interoperability of equipment throughout system operators'
infrastructures.
Document Interchange Architecture See DIA.
DoD Department of Defense. U.S. government organization that is responsible for national defense. The DoD has
frequently funded communication protocol development.
DOD Department Of Defense
DOD Direct Outward Dialing
DOD Direct Outward Dialling
DoD Intelligence Information System Network Securi See DNSIX.
DOE Distributed Object Environment
DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere
DOI Document Oriented Interface
DOM Dial-Out Modem
DOM Distributed Object Management
DOM Document Object Model
domain 1. In the Internet, a portion of the naming hierarchy tree that refers to general groupings of
networks based on organization-type or geography. 2. In SNA, an SSCP and the resources it controls. 3. In
IS-IS, a logical set of networks.
Domain Networking system developed by Apollo Computer (now part of Hewlett-Packard) for use in its
engineering workstations.
Domain A "logical" region of the Internet. People sometimes refer to them loosely as "sites." Generally, a
domain corresponds to an IP address or an area on a host.
domain name In networks using the TCP/IP, the full domain name consists of a sequence of names separated
by dots. All domain names have extensions such as .ca, .com, .ab, etc.
Domain Name System See DNS.
domain specific part See DSP.
DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility
DOMIS DMS) Operational Measurement Information System
DOMIS DMS Operational Measurement Information System
DOMIS Digital Operations Measurement Information System (replaced SUES; used with DMS)
DOMIS DMS Operational Measurement Information System
DOMIS DMS (DIGITAL MULTIPLEX SYSTEM) OPERATIONAL MEASUREMENT
DOMS Distributed Object Management System
DOP Dedicated Outside Plant
DOPX Digital Off-Premise Extender
DOR Denied Originating
DOR Denied ORigination.
DOS Disk Operating System
DOS/VSE Disk Operating System / Virtual Storage Extended
DOSC Data Operations Service Center (f: COSD)
DOSC Data Operations Service Centre (in BIS support centre)
dot address Refers to the common notation for IP addresses in the form n.n.n.n where neach number n
represents, in decimal, 1 byte of the 4-byte IP address. Also called dotted notation and four-part dotted
notation.
Dot Address (or Dotted Decimal Notation) The common notation for IP addresses of the form 1.2.3.4 where each
number represents one byte in the four-byte IP address.
dotted decimal notation Syntactic representation for a 32-bit integer that consists of four 8-bit numbers
written in base 10 with periods (dots) separating them. Used to represent IP addresses in the Internet, as
in 192.67.67.20. Also called dotted quad notation.
dotted notation See dot address.
DOV Data over Voice
DOW Direct OverWrite
downlink station See ground station.
downstream physical unit See DSPU.
DP Data Processing
DP Datapac
DP Dental Plan (f: RRFD)
DP Dial Pulse
DP Dial Pulse or Dial Pulsing
DP Double Precision
DP Deployment Plan
DP-3000 Datapac 3000 (CCITT X.25 on Datapac))
DP-3101 Datapac 3101 (ITI Line Protocol on Datapac))
DP-3201 Datapac 3201 (API/POS Line Protocol on Datapac))
DP-3303 Datapac 3303 (SDLC/SNA Line Protocol on Datapac))
DPA Demand Protocol Architecture (Microsoft)
DPA Distributed Print Application
DPAC Dedicated Plant Assignment Card (f: FEAD)
DPBX Data PBX
DPC Data Processing Centre
DPC Destination Point Code
DPC Destination Signal Transfer Point Code
DPC Direct Protocol Conversion
DPC Destination point code (f: CPD)
DPC DirecPC
DPCM Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DPDA DECmpp Parallel Disk Array
DPE Distributed Processing Environment (Nortel Sonet Bldg block)
DPE Distributed Processing Environment
DPF Disaggregate Planning Forecast
DPH Demarcation Point Hardware
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPITS Defective Plug-in Tracking System
DPL DECmpp Parallel Language
DPM Distributed Peripheral Module
DPM DNIC Processor Module
DPM Draft Plan Management
DPMA Data Processing Management Association
DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface
DPMS DOS Protected Mode Services
DPMS Display Power Management Specification
DPN DataPac Node (hardware -eg. DPN-100,makes up the ntwk)
DPN Digital Packet Network
DPN DataPac Node hrdw (eg DPN-100) makes up the Datapac network
DPN Digital Packet Network
DPN-100 Digital Packet Network - 100 Series
DPN-NMS Digital Packet Network - Network Management System
DPNSS Digital Private Network Signalling System
DPO Dial Pulse Originate
DPO Dial Pulse Originating
DPOA Data Presentation Operating Agent
DPOC designated point of contact (f: PDC)
DPP Deferred payment plan (f: PVD)
DPP Development Planning Practice
DPP Discounted Payback Period
DPP Distributed Peripheral Processor (f: PPR)
DPP Discounted Pay-Back Period
DPP discounted payback period
DPPE DECmpp Parallel Programming Environment
DPPX Distributed Processing Programming eXecutive
DPR Disaster Recovery Planning
DPR DMAC Problem Report
DPSA DataPac Serving Area
DPT Dial Pulse Terminate
DPT Dial Pulse Terminating
DPT Distributed Processing Technology
DPT Job Info. Memo between detailed engineering and Expertech
DPT DATA PORT
DPWG Data Planning Working Group
DPX Data Path Exchange
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual(Double) Bus
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus. Data-link layer communication protocol, specified in the IEEE 802.6 standard,
designed for use in MANs. DQDB, which permits multiple systems to interconnect using two unidirectional
logical buses, is an open standard that is designed for compatibility with carrier transmission standards,
and is aligned with emerging standards for BISDN. SIP is based on DQDB. See also MAN.
DQL DataEase Query Language
DQM Design Queue Module
DQS Distributed Queuing System
DQT Direct Queue Threshold
DR Digital Radio
DR Diverted Service Re-route
DR Division of Revenue
DR Development Review
DR DOS Digital Research Disk Operating System
DR1 Definite Response Indicator 1
DR2 Definite Response Indicator 2
DRA Digital Recorded Announcement
DRA Decision & Risk Analysis
DRAM Digital Recorded Announcement Machine (f: MMEN)
DRAM Dynamic RAM
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRAM Dynamic Random-Access Memory. RAM that stores information in capacitors that must be periodically
refreshed. Delays can occur because DRAMs are inaccessible to the processor when refreshing their contents.
However, DRAMs are less complex and have greater capacity than SRAMs. See also SRAM.
DRC Deferred revenue credit (f: RCR)
DRCNP Dynamic Routing Concept Network Processor
DRCS Dynamically Redefinable Character Set
DRCS Dynamically redefinable character set (f: JCDR)
DRCS Refers to NetPro's Document Revision Control System
DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture
DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture. IBM proprietary architecture.
DRE Directional Reservation Equipment
DRI Data Resources Inc
DRIE Department of Regional Industrial Expansion (f: MEIR)
DRIE Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (f: EMRAS)
DRIP Detailed Rollout Implementation Plan
DRIS Digital Reuse Inventory System
DRM Disaster Recovery Manual
DRMS Dataroute Remote Monitoring System
DRMS Digital Remote Monitoring System
DRMU Digital Remote Monitoring Unit
DRMU DataRoute Remote Monitor(ing) Unit
DRMU Digital Remote Monitoring Unit
DRMU Dataroute Monitoring Unit
drop Point on a multipoint channel where a connection to a networked device is made.
drop cable Cable that connects a network device (such as a computer) to a physical medium. A type of AUI.
See also AUI.
DRP Director Response Protocol. Protocol used by the DistributedDirector feature in IP routing.
DRP Disaster Recovery Plan (f: PRS)
DRP Disaster Recovery Plan
DRS Data Request Specification (NetPro wkstn request to m/f DB)
DRS Digital Radio System
DRS Division of Revenues Study
DRS Data Request Specification
DRS Digital Radio System (8 gHz)
DRS-8 Digital Radio System - 8 GHz
DRS-8 Digital Radio System
DRSA DataRoute Serving Areas
DRSE DataRoute Serving Exchanges
DRSEXTRAC DRS report extraction
DRTU Digital Remote Test Unit
DS Data Set
DS Data Store
DS Digital Signal
DS Design Standard
DS-0 Digital Signal -- Level Zero (64kb/s)
DS-0 Signal numérique d'ordre zéro (e: DS-0)
DS-0 digital signal level zero: 64 kbps channel; uses one time slot
DS-0 Digital Signal level 0. Framing specification used in transmitting digital signals over a single channel
at 64-kbps on a T1 facility. Compare with DS-1 and DS-3.
DS-0A Digital Signal -- Level Zero Single Rate Channel (eg 9600BPS
DS-0B Digital Signal -- Level Zero Multiple Sub-rate Channels
DS-1 Digital Signal-Level One (1.544 Mb/s in North America)
DS-1 Signal numérique d'ordre un (e: DS-1)
DS-1 digital signal level one: 1.544 mbps channel; uses one digroup
DS-1 Digital Signal level 1. Framing specification used in transmitting digital signals at 1.544-Mbps on a T1
facility (in the United States) or at 2.108-Mbps on an E1 facility (in Europe). Compare with DS-0 and DS-3.
See also E1 and T1.
DS-1 domestic trunk interface See DS-1/DTI.
DS-1/DTI DS-1 domestic trunk interface. Interface circuit used for DS-1 applications with 24 trunks.
DS-1C Digital Signal -- Level One (2 x T1's)
DS-2 Digital Signal -- Level Two (4 x T1's)
DS-2 Signal numérique d'ordre deux (e: DS-2)
DS-3 Digital Signal -- Level Three (44.736 Mb/s)
DS-3 Signal numérique d'ordre trois (e: DS-3)
DS-3 digital signal level three: 44.736 mbps channel
DS-3 Digital Signal level 3. Framing specification used for transmitting digital signals at 44.736 Mbps on a
T3 facility. Compare with DS-0 and DS-1. See also E3 and T.120.
DS-30 digital signal level 30A: balanced 2.56 mbps 32 channel serial speech bus betwee
DS-30A digital signal level balanced 2.56 mbps 32 channel serial speech bus between LGC
DS-A Digital Signal Level A = 56 KBS
DS-N Digital Signal (Level n)
DS0 Digital Signal -- Level Zero (64kb/s)
DS1 Digital Signal, Level 1 (1.544 MegaBits/sec - a baud rate)
DS1 Digital Signal-Level One (1.544 Mb/s in North America)
DS1-PM DS-1 Performance Monitoring (System from LOGIX for IXC-TRC)
DS1-PM DS-1 Performance Monitoring System from LOGIX for IXC-TRC
DS1-PM-ST DS1 Performance Monitoring
DS1-RMTS DS1 - Remote Monitoring Test System
DS2 Digital Signal -- Level Two (4 x T1's)
DS2 Digital Signal, Level 2 (4 x DS1 baud rate)
DS3 Digital Signal -- Level Three (44.736 Mb/s)
DS3 Digital Signal, Level 3 (44.736 MegaBits/sec - a baud rate)
DSA DataRoute Serving Area
DSA Digital Network Architecture
DSA Digital Service Area
DSA Digital Storage Architecture
DSA Distributed Systems Architecture
DSA Dynamic Scalable Architecture
DSA Distribution Serving Area (f: SD)
DSA Distribution Serving Area. Properties are subdivided into DSAs in the Access Net
DSA Dataroute serving area
DSA Directory System Agent. Software that provides the X.500 Directory Service for a portion of the directory
information base. Generally, each DSA is responsible for the directory information for a single organization
or organizational unit.
DSAP Destination Service Access Point. SAP of the network node designated in the Destination field of a
packet. Compare with SSAP. See also SAP (service access point).
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
DSAS DMS-100) Family Software Application System
DSC Direct Soldering Contact
DSC Discount Service Catalog
DSC Data Collection System (ATOMIS)
DSD Digital Switching Division (f: RNIQ)
DSD Digital Systems Data Base (InterToll planning System(T3+))
DSD Digital Systems Data Base
DSD Digital System Database
DSDL Data Storage Description Language
DSDM Dynamic Systems Development Method
DSE Database for Switch Evolution
DSE Data Switching Exchange
DSE dedicated services evolution
DSF Data Set Frame
DSG Desktop System Group
DSG Distributed Systems Gateway
DSGN Design
DSGN Designation
DSI Digital Speed Interpolation
DSI Display System Interface
DSI Digital Speech Interpolation
DSI digital speech interpolation (digital equivalent of TASI)
DSID SID without statistical generating capability
DSL Data Subscriber Link
DSL digital subscriber line (AT&T uses this term to refer to BRA)
DSL digital subscriber loop
DSL Digital Subscriber Loop/Line
DSL Digital Subscriber Lline. Public network technology that delivers high bandwidth over conventional copper
wiring at limited distances. There are four types of DSL: ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, and VDSL. All are provisioned
via modem pairs, with one modem located at a central office and the other at the customer site. Because most
DSL technologies do not use the whole bandwidth of the twisted pair, there is room remaining for a voice
channel. See also ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, and VDSL.
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Module
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSLO Distributed Systems License Option
DSM Distributed System Management
DSM Decentralized Systems Management
DSM-OD Distributed Systems Management-operations Development
DSMA Distributed Storage Management Architecture
DSMC Digital Switch(ing) Maintenance Centre
DSMN Directory Services Manager for NetWare
DSN Data Switched Network
DSN Digital Switched Network
DSN Double Shelf Network
DSN Digital Switched Network (f: RCN)
DSN DATA SWITCH NETWORK
DSO DataRoute Serving Office
DSO Digital Serving Office
DSO Days Sales Outstanding
DSO Dealer Service Option
DSODP Digital Signal Level Zero Data Port
DSOM Distributed SOM
DSOM Distributed System Object Model
DSP Data Set Protection (feature)
DSP Day Scheduled Paid
DSP Digital Signal Processor(ing)
DSP Directory System Protocol
DSP Display System Protocol
DSP digital signal processing
DSP digital signal processor
DSP Display System Protocol
DSP Domain Specific Part. Part of an NSAP-format ATM address that contains an area identifier, a station
identifier, and a selector byte. See also NSAP.
DSPF Double Sided Protection Frame
DSPU DownStream Physical Unit. In SNA, a PU that is located downstream from the host.
DSPU concentration Cisco IOS feature that enables a router to function as a PU concentrator for SNA PU 2
nodes. PU concentration at the router simplifies the task of PU definition at the upstream host while
providing additional flexibility and mobility for downstream PU devices.
DSR Data Set Ready. EIA/TIA-232 interface circuit that is activated when DCE is powered up and ready for use.
DSR Data Set Ready
DSR Design Standard Recommendation
DSR Data Set Ready
DSS Database for Special Services
DSS Daxcon Support System
DSS Decision Support System
DSS Digital Signature Standard
DSS Digital Support System
DSS Distribution Sub-System
DSS1 D-Channel Signalling System 1
DSSC Digital Switch Surveillance Centre
DSSE Directory System Service Element
DSSFS Data Special Services Forecasting System
DSSI Digital Storage Systems Interconnect
DST Daylight Saving Time
DST Double Super Twisted
DST District Table
DSTF Desktop Management Task Force
DSTN Digital Service Transport Network
DSTN Double Super Twisted Nematic
DSTP Data Services Technology Plan
DSU Data Service Unit
DSU Digital Service Unit
DSU Data Service Unit
DSU Data Service Unit. Device used in digital transmission that adapts the physical interface on a DTE device
to a transmission facility such as T1 or E1. The DSU is also responsible for such functions as signal
timing. Often referred to together with CSU, as CSU/DSU. See also CSU.
DSU/CSU Data Service Unit/Channel Service Unit
DSUA Data Service Unit
DSVD Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
DSW Device Status Word
DSX Digital Signal Cross-connect
DSX-1 Digital Signal Cross Connect Level 1
DSX-1 digital stream cross-connect at DS-1 rate
DSX-1 Crossconnection point for DS-1 signals.
DSX-N Digital Signal Cross Connect where n is Level eg 0A,0b,etc
DSX/VTX Positions DSXVTX (Guide DSX)
DSX10REQ DSX10 Requests
DSX3 Digital Signal X connect DS-3 rate
DSXREQ DSX Requests
DT Data Transfer
DT Dial Tone or Digi Tone
DTA Digital Trunk Array
DTA Disk Transfer Area
DTA Distributing Terminal Assembly
DTA digital test access
DTAD Dogital Telephone Answering Device
DTAU Digital Test Access Unit
DTB Data Translation Buffer
DTC Digital Terminal Controller
DTC Digital Trunk Controller (f: CCN)
DTC Digital Typeface Corporation
DTC Digital Trunk Controller (DMS)
DTC DIGITAL TRUNK CONTROLLER
DTC Digital Trunk Controller
DTCI Digital Trunk Controller Interface
DTCI ISDN Digital Trunk Controller
DTCI DIGITAL TRUNK CONTROLLER INTERFACE
DTCS Digital Teleconferencing System (Conf 400)
DTD Dial Tone Delay
DTD Document Type Definition
DTE Data Termina(l)(ting) Equipment
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTE Data terminal equipment (f: ETTD)
DTE Database for Trunk Evolution
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTE data/digital terminal equipment
DTE Data Terminal Equipment. Device at the user end of a user-network interface that serves as a data source,
destination, or both. DTE connects to a data network through a DCE device (for example, a modem) and
typically uses clocking signals generated by the DCE. DTE includes such devices as computers, protocol
translators, and multiplexers. Compare with DCE.
DTF Dial Transfer Call
DTG Digital Trunk Group
DTH Digital Test Head
DTH Digital test head (f: DEN)
DTH digital test head (equipment testing uses software)
DTH Digital Test Head
DTH-ROTL Digital Test Head-Remote Office Test Line (CATTS)
DTI Digital Tandem Interface
DTI Digital Trunk Interface
DTL Designated Transit List. List of nodes and optional link IDs that completely specify a path across a
single PNNI peer group.
DTM Denied Termination.
DTM Denied Termination
DTM Dial tone marker (f: MT)
DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency or Touch Tone
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DTMF Dual-Tone Modulated-Frequency
DTMF dual tone multi-frequency
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency Signals
DTMF Dual Tone MultiFrequency. Use of two simultaneous voice-band tones for dialing (such as touch tone).
DTMS Data Traffic Monitor System
DTO Direct Termination Overflow (f: RD)
DTOA Data Transport Operating Agent
DTOS Dedicated Technician on Site (f: TAP)
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DTR Data Terminal Ready
DTR Data Transfer Rate
DTR Digitone Receiver (f: RDT)
DTR Data Terminal Ready
DTR Data Terminal Ready. EIA/TIA-232 circuit that is activated to let the DCE know when the DTE is ready to
send and receive data.
DTS Dial Toll Switch
DTS Dial Tone Speed
DTS Digital Test Sequence
DTST Digital Time Slot Tester (f: VITN)
DTST Digital Time Slot Test card
DTU Data Termination Unit
DTU Digital Test Unit (ie a Protocol Test Unit)
DTU Digital Test Unit ie a Protocol Test Unit
DTV Digital Television
DTVC Desktop TV Conferencing
DTVC Desktop Video Conferencing
DTX De-Tax Table
DU Data Unit
DUA Directory User Agent. Software that accesses the X.500 Directory Service on behalf of the directory user.
The directory user can be a person or another software element.
DUAL Diffusing Update Algorithm. Convergence algorithm used in Enhanced IGRP that provides loop-free operation
at every instant throughout a route computation. Allows routers involved in a topology change to synchronize
at the same time, while not involving routers that are unaffected by the change. See also Enhanced IGRP.
Dual Attachment Station See DAS.
dual counter-rotating rings Network topology in which two signal paths, whose directions are opposite each
other, exist in a token-passing network. FDDI and CDDI are based on this concept.
dual homing Network topology in which a device is connected to the network by way of two independent
access points (points of attachment). One access point is the primary connection, and the other is a standby
connection that is activated in the event of a failure of the primary connection.
Dual IS-IS See Integrated IS-IS.
dual tone multifrequency See DTMF.
dual-attached concentrator See DAC.
dual-homed station Device attached to multiple FDDI rings to provide redundancy.
DULC Data Unit Line Card
DUN DCLI Umbrella Number
DUOW Distributed Unit Of Work
DUR Digital Unit Radio
DUR Duration
DUT Device Under Test
DUV Data Under Voice
DVA Distance Vector Algorithm
DVACS Digital Voice Access and Control System
DVACS Digital Voiceband Access and Control System
DVACS Application to create the DVACS Installation specifications form
DVACS Digital/Voice Access and Control System
DVB Digital Video Broadcast
DVC Digital VideoConferencing
DVC Digital Voice Cards
DVD Digital Video Disk
DVF Dump Viewing Facility
DVI Digital Video Interface
DVI Digital Video Interactive
DVM Disconnected Virtual Machine
DVMA Direct Virtual Memory Access
DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol. Internetwork gateway protocol, largely based on RIP,
that implements a typical dense mode IP multicast scheme. DVMRP uses IGMP to exchange routing datagrams with
its neighbors. See also IGMP.
DVP Digital Video Processor
DVS Data Voice System
DVST Direct View Storage Tube
DW/370 DisplayWrite 370
DWA Double Wire Armour
DWDM Dense Wave Division Multiplexer
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex
DWF Daily Work File
DWM DESQview Window Manager
DX Duplex
DX Duplex Signalling
DXC digital cross-connect (term used mostly outside Bell)
DXCS Digital Cross Connect System
DXCS digital cross-connect system (term used mostly outside Bell)
DXI Data Exchange Interface
DXI Data Exchange Interface. An SMDS interface between the customer and the network used at low speeds,
typically 64 kbps. The data passes through the interface in full frames. The carrier's equipment converts
the messages to small packets. ATM Forum specification, described in RFC 1483, that defines how a network
device such as a bridge, router, or hub can effectively act as an FEP to an ATM network by interfacing with
a special DSU that performs packet segmentation and reassembly.
DXT Data Extract (product avail. on MVS and VM)
DXTA Data Extract Assist Tool
DXTS Datapac Expert Test System
DYMSG-SODB Call Messenger
dynamic adaptive routing Automatic rerouting of traffic based on a sensing and analysis of current actual
network conditions, not including cases of routing decisions taken on predefined information.
dynamic address resolution Use of an address resolution protocol to determine and store address information on
demand.
Dynamic Buffer Management Frame Relay and ATM service modules are equipped with large buffers and the patented
Dynamic Buffer Management scheme for allocating and scaling traffic entering or leaving a node on a per-VC
basis. The WAN switch dynamically assigns buffers to individual virtual circuits based upon the amount of
traffic present and service-level agreements. This deep pool of available buffers readily accommodates large
bursts of traffic into the node.
dynamic configuration See discovery mode.
Dynamic IISP Dynamic Interim-Interswitch Signaling Protocol. Basic call routing protocol that automatically
reroutes ATM connections in the event of link failures. Dynamic IISP is an interim solution until PNNI Phase
1 is completed. Contrast with IISP.
Dynamic Random-Access Memory See DRAM.
dynamic routing Routing that adjusts automatically to network topology or traffic changes. Also called
adaptive routing.
E E Lead
E Estimate
E External
E channel Echo channel. 64-kbps ISDN circuit-switching control channel. The E channel was defined in the 1984
ITU-T ISDN specification, but was dropped in the 1988 specification. Compare with B channel, D channel, and
H channel.
E&M recEive and transMit (or ear and mouth). Trunking arrangement generally used for two-way switch-to-switch
or switch-to-network connections. Cisco's analog E&M interface is an RJ-48 connector that allows connections
to PBX trunk lines (tie lines). E&M is also available on E1 and T1 digital interfaces.
E&M Ear and Mouth Signalling
E&T Education and Training
E,F & I Engineered, Furnished and Installed
E-1 European Digital Signal Level 1 (2.048 Mbps)
e-mail electronic mail. Widely used network application in which text messages are transmitted
electronically between end users over various types of networks using various network protocols.
E.164 1. ITU-T recommendation for international telecommunication numbering, especially in ISDN, BISDN,
and SMDS. An evolution of standard telephone numbers. 2. Name of the field in an ATM address that contains
numbers in E.164 format.
E/C Error Check
E/W Equipped With
E1 Wide-area digital transmission scheme used predominantly in Europe that carries data at a rate of 2.048
Mbps. E1 lines can be leased for private use from common carriers. Compare with T1. See also DS-1.
E2A Legacy protocols for providing OAM&P functions between a network element and an operations support
system. See also OAM&P.
E3 Wide-area digital transmission scheme used predominantly in Europe that carries data at a rate of 34.368
Mbps. E3 lines can be leased for private use from common carriers. Compare with T.120. See also DS-3.
E3 Engineering Economic Evaluation Model (PC Based)
E9-1-1 Enhanced 9-1-1
E9-1-1 VFG Enhanced 9-1-1 Virtual Facilities Group (Virtual Trunk Group)
E911 Enhanced 911
E911MAINT Emergency 911 Maintenance
EA Equal Access
EA Extended Address
EA Extended Attributes
EA Economic Assessment
EABS Enhanced Alternate Billing System
EABS Exchange Area Billing Services
EACG European Association for Computer Graphics
EACS Electronic Access Control System (f: SCAE)
EADSC Enhanced Apple Digital Sound Chip
EAEO Equal Access End Office
EAFS Early Availability File System
EAI Enterprise Application Integration
EAISC Enterprise Application Integration Solution Center
EAP Early Availability Product
EAP Employee Assistance Program (f: PAE)
EAPROM Electrically Alterable Programable ROM
early packet discard See EPD.
early token release Technique used in Token Ring networks that allows a station to release a new token onto
the ring immediately after transmitting, instead of waiting for the first frame to return. This feature can
increase the total bandwidth on the ring. See also Token Ring.
EARN European Academic Research Network. European network connecting universities and research institutes.
EARN merged with RARE to form TERENA. See also RARE and TERENA.
EARN European Academic and Research Network
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
EARTH Enhanced Automated Retrieval of Toll History
EAS Expense Account Structure
EAS Extended Area Service (f: SR)
EAS Extended Area Service
EAS extended service area
EASI Epson All-in-one System Interface
EASI Electronic Administrative Services for the Individual
EASOR Extended Area Service - OR Rollout Plan
EB & F Equipment Blockage and Failure
eBackup A comprehensive set of services and facilities that provides for secure, automated protection of
business information. In addition to providing businesses with automated packup, recovery archive and
restores of customer information, the service provides a total physical environment that addresses stringent
customer requirements.
EBAF Extended Bellcore AMA Format
EBC Employee's Benefit Committee (f: CAS)
eBCCS Electronic Bell Customer Contacts System
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Ccode. Any of a number of coded character sets developed
by IBM consisting of 8-bit coded characters. This character code is used by older IBM systems and telex
machines. Compare with ASCII.
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBCR Enhanced Busy Call Return
EBD Effective Bill Date
EBED Enhanced Billing & Electronic Delivery
EBI End Bracket Indicator
EBIT Earnings Before Interest & Taxes
EBIT Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation & Amortization
EBITDA Earnings before Interest Tax Depreciation Amortization
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation & Amortization
EBNF Extended Backus - Naur Form
EBO Executive Busy Override
EBO Executive Busy Override
EBONE European Backbone. Pan-European network backbone service.
EBP Ethical Business Practices (GUIDE CONDUCT)
EBPP Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment
EBR Expertech Bâtisseur de réseaux (e: ENI)
EBS Electronic Business Set
EBS Enhanced Business Services (f: TAE)
EBS Enhanced Business Set
EBS electronic business set
EBS Enterprise Billing Startegy
EBT Electronic Benefits Transfer
EBT Executive Briefing Template
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EBX Executive Busy Override Exempted
EC Emergency Committee (f: CMU)
EC Exchange Carrier
EC European Commission
EC Exchange Carrier
EC European Community.
ECAD Electronic CAD
ECB Electrically Controlled Birefringence
ECB Event Control Block
ECC Emergency Control Centre (f: CCMU)
ECC Error Check Code
ECC Error Correction Coding
ECC Ethernet Cross Connect
ECCKT Exchange Company Circuit
ECCN Exchange Customer Cable Network
ECCR Exchange Customer Cable Record
ECCR exchange customer cable records
ECD ElectroChromic Display
ECD Enterprised Converged Desktop
ECDB Enhanced Customer Data Base
ECDM Error Correcting Data Multiplexor
ECDR Enhanced call detail recording (f: ECDC)
ECF Enhanced Connectivity Facility
ECFS Eastern Canada Facility Study
ECGB Enhanced Color Graphics Board
ECH Echo Cancelling Hybrid
ECH echo cancellation hybrid
ECHO Extended Control Hierarchy Object
echo canceller A circuit that turns off incoming signals while one end of the call is talking to avoid a
long-distance echo. It must be disabled for full duplex calls. An echo canceller does not turn off the voice
channel, as stated, but electronically removes unwanted echo, while maintaining a full-duplex channel. An
echo suppressor disables the channel in one direction or the other, depending on who is talking. Echo
cancellers must be disabled for some types of high speed modem calls, and for "clear channel" data calls,
such as integrated services digital network (ISDN).
echo channel See E channel.
echoplex Mode in which keyboard characters are echoed on a terminal screen upon return of a signal from the
other end of the line indicating that the characters were received correctly.
ECI End Chain Indicator
ECI évaluation de la contribution individuelle (e: ICA)
ECIA Equipment Cost & Investment Allocation
ECIA Equipment Cost and Investment Allocation (f: AGP)
ECIA Estimate, Costs, Investment and Allocation
ECIA EQUIPMENT COST INVESTMENT ALLOCATION
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECL Emitter-Coupled Transistor
ECLR Electronic Circuit Layout Record
ECM Error Correction Module
ECM Extended Call Management (f: GAE)
ECM Enterprise Configuration Management
ECM Environmentally controlled manhole (f: PAC)
ECM Error Correction Monitor
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association. Group of European computer vendors who have done substantial
OSI standardization work.
ECMR Enhanced Centralized Mailing System
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
ECO End Central Office
ECO Engineering Change Order
ECO Engineering Control Office
ECO Engineering control office (f: BIR)
ECO Engineering control office
eCommerce Electronic Commerce. A way of doing business on the world wide web by allowing customers to place
orders directly via an orginzation's web site.
ECORE Enhanced Core
ECP Extended Capabilities Port
ECP Enhanced Call Processing
ECR Employee Caused Report
ECRC European Computer Research Center
ECRC Extended Centralized Report Centre
ECS Enterprise Consolidation Service
ECSA Exchange Carrier Standards Association
ECSA Extended Common Storage Area
ECSA Exchange Carrier Standards Association (develops T1 standards for ANSI approval)
ECTF Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum
ECTR Eastern Canada Timing Region
ECU EISA Configuration Utility
ED Ending Delimiter
ED Engineering Date
ED Engineering Design Date
ED Equipment Drawing
EDA Electronic Design Automation
EDA Enhanced DataBase Access
EDA Enregistrement des données d'appels (e: CDR)
EDC Enregistrement des données de communications (e: CDR)
EDC Error Detection and Correction
EDC Error Diagnostic Control
EDCA Enterprise Distributed Computing Architecture
EDCB Enhanced DCB
EDCINQ Central equipement - BQ indicators
EDD Engineering Due Date
EDD Enterprise Data Distribution
EDD Envelope Delay Distortion
EDD Error Description Table
EDE-LSR Electronic Data Exchange Local Service Record
EDF Enhanced Disk Format
EDF Error Display Format
EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier
EDGE Desktop
edge device 1. Physical device that is capable of forwarding packets between legacy interfaces (such as
Ethernet and Token Ring) and ATM interfaces based on data-link and network layer information. An edge device
does not participate in the running of any network layer routing protocol, but it obtains forwarding
descriptions using the route distribution protocol. 2. Any device that is not an ATM switch that can connect
to an ATM switch.
EDI Electronic Data Interchange. Electronic communication of operational data such as orders and invoices
between organizations.
EDI Electrical DIstribution
EDI Electronic Data Interchange (f: EDI)
EDI Enciphered Data Indicator
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDI BM Electronic Data Interchange - Billing Module
EDI Gateway Electronic Data Interchange Gateway
EDIA Electronic Interchange Association
EDICC EDI Council of Canada
EDIFACT EDI For Administration, Commerce, and Transportation
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport. Data exchange standard
administered by the United Nations to be a multi-industry EDI standard.
EDIRIS Electronic Data Interchange - Remittance Integrated System
EDIRIS Electronic Data Interchange Remittance Integrated System
EDIRIS Electronic Data Interchange Remittance Integrated System Also known as EDIBANK
EDIRIS (+REA Also known as EDIMAIL
EDK Exchange Development Kit
EDL Edit Decision List
EdLAN Education LAN system
EDLCI Embedded DLCI
EDM Electronic Design & Manufacturing
EDM Engineering Data Management
EDMS Engineering Drawing Management System
EDMS Engineering Drawings Management System (f: SGPI)
EDMS Electronic Drawing Management System
EDMS ELECTRONIC DRAWING MGMT SYSTEM
EDMSuite IBM Enterprise Document Management Suite
EDN Error Action Table
EDO Enhanced Data Out
EDO-DRAM Extended Data Out DRAM
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDP Engineering Design Package
EDPT Enhanced Drive Parameter Table
EDR Error Display Record
EDRAM Enhanced Digital Recorded Announcement Machine
EDS Electronic Data Systems
EDS Emergency Diagnostic Services
EDS European Declarative System
EDS Event Distribution System
EDSL extended digital subscriber line (AT&T uses this term to refer to PRA)
EDSX Electronic Digital Signal Cross Connect
EDSX-N Electronic Digital Signal Cross Connect (n=Signal Level)
EDT Electronic Data Transmission
EDTV Enhanced Definition TV
EDU Error Unit Table
EduQuest IBM educational software subsidiary
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator
EDW Enterprise Data Wharehouse
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse
EDW enterprise data warehousing
EDX Pathloss product used in BQ
EE Electrical Engineering
EE Engineering Economic
EE équipement d'extrémité (a: CB)
EE-PROM Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EEC European Economic Community (f: CEE)
EEC European Economic Council
EECA European Electronic Component Manufactures Association
EECM End-to-End Call Manager.
EED Extended Entity Data
EEMA European Electronic Messaging Association
EEO Equal employment opportunity
EEP Enhanced Parallel Port
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EEPROM Electronically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. EPROM that can be erased using electrical
signals applied to specific pins. See also EPROM.
EES Economic Evaluation System (f: SEE)
EES Engineering Economic System
EES Engineering Economy Studies
EES Engineering Equation Solver
EES Economic Evaluation System (used in Bell's Engineering Economics)
EES (E3) Economic Studies
EESD Economic Evaluation System (Deterministic)
EET East European Time
EEWD Enhanced Exchange Wide Dial
EEWD Enhanced Wide Dial Service (f: SPC)
EEWD enhanced exchange wide dialing (e.g. Centrex III)
EF Equipment File
EFAR Economical Fill at Relief
EFAX Enhanced Fax Accreditation Sys
EFC Equipment Function Code (used in TNP OSS)
EFC Equipment Function Code
EFCI Explicit Forward Congestion Indication. In ATM, one of the congestion feedback modes allowed by ABR
service. A network element in an impending congestion state or in a congested state can set the EFCI. The
destination end-system can implement a protocol that adaptively lowers the cell rate of the connection based
on the value of the EFCI. See also ABR.
EFCS Employees Fund for Community Services
EFF Electronic Font Foundry
EFF Electronic Frontier Fundation
EFF Extended Frame Format
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Foundation established to address social and legal issues arising from
the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as the means of communication and
information distribution.
EFFECTIF Gestion des Effectifs
effective transfer rate This is the rate at which data can be sent after data compression has been accounted
for.
EFI Electronic Fuel Injection
EFI Electronic Fund Transfer
EFI Expedited (Data) Flow Indicator
EFILE Electronic Tax Filing
EFM Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
EFOS European Forum for Open Systems
EFRAP Exchange Feeder Route Analysis Program
EFS Error Free Seconds
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer (f: TEF)
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer
EFTA European Free Trade Association
EGA Energy Gated Amplifier
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol. Internet protocol for exchanging routing information between autonomous
systems. Documented in RFC 904. Not to be confused with the general term exterior gateway protocol. EGP is
an obsolete protocol that was replaced by BGP. See also BGP.
eGuardian A highly secure authentication and access control system for eCommerce sites, servers and
applications. It allows companies to secure their online information systems, protect their user's privacy
and facilitate the sharing of mission critical information for marketing services.
EHLLAPI Extended HLLAPI
EI Ethernet Interworking
EIA Electronic Industries Association. Group that specifies electrical transmission standards. The EIA and
TIA have developed numerous well-known communications standards, including EIA/TIA-232 and EIA/TIA-449. See
also TIA.
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EIA Electronic Industry Association
EIA Engineering Institute of America
EIA Electronics Industries Association
EIA-530 Refers to two electrical implementations of EIA/TIA-449: RS-422 (for balanced transmission) and RS-
423 (for unbalanced transmission). See also RS-422, RS-423, and EIA/TIA-449.
EIA/TIA-232 Common physical layer interface standard, developed by EIA and TIA, that supports unbalanced
circuits at signal speeds of up to 64 kbps. Closely resembles the V.24 specification. Formerly called as RS-
232.
EIA/TIA-449 Popular physical layer interface developed by EIA and TIA. Essentially, a faster (up to 2
Mbps) version of EIA/TIA-232 capable of longer cable runs. Formerly called RS-449. See also EIA-530.
EIA/TIA-586 Standard that describes the characteristics and applications for various grades of UTP
cabling. See also Category 1 cabling, Category 2 cabling, Category 3 cabling, Category 4 cabling, Category 5
cabling, and UTC.
EIAJ Electronic Industries Association of Japan
EIAS Exact Information Access System
EIASWSP Exact Information Administration System
EID Endpoint IDentifier
EIDE Enhanced IDE
EIF Expense increase factor (f: FAD)
EIF expense increase factor
EIGRP See Enhanced IGRP.
EIM Electronic Insertion and Mailing
EIP Ethernet Interface Processor. Interface processor card on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The EIP provides
high-speed (10-Mbps) AUI ports that support Ethernet Version 1 and Ethernet Version 2 or IEEE 802.3
interfaces, and a high-speed data path to other interface processors.
EIP Ethernet Patch Panel
EIPL Enhanced International Private Line
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EIR Engineering Information Report
EIS Executive Information System
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EISA Extended Industry System Architecture
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture. 32-bit bus interface used in PCs, PC-based servers, and some
UNIX workstations and servers. See also ISA.
EIU Ethernet Interface Unit
EJC Early Job Conference
EJC1 EARLY JOB CONFERENCE 1
EKTS electronic key telephone system
EKTS Electronic Key Telephone Service.
EL ElectroLuminescence
ELA Emergency Line Access
ELAN Emulated LAN. ATM network in which an Ethernet or Token Ring LAN is emulated using a client-server model.
ELANs are composed of an LEC, an LES, a BUS, and an LECS. Multiple ELANs can exist simultaneously on a
single ATM network. ELANs are defined by the LANE specification. See also BUS, LANE, LEC, LECS, and LES.
ELAP EtherTalk Link Access Protocol. Link-access protocol used in an EtherTalk network. ELAP is built on top
of the standard Ethernet data link layer.
electrically erasable programmable read-only memor See EECM.
ElectroMagnetic Interference See EMI.
ElectroMagnetic Pulse See EMP.
Electronic Data Interchange See EDI.
Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Co See EDIFACT.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) A foundation that addresses social and legal issues arising from the
impact of computers on society.
Electronic Industries Association See EIA.
electronic mail A method by which computer users can exchange messages with each other over a network. Email
is probably the most widely-used communications tool on the Internet. There are many quirky conventions to
Email, but most entail a To:, From:, and Subject: line. One of email's advantages is its ability to be
forwarded and replied to easily. If an email is badly received by a group or user, the sender is likely to
get flamed. Software files can also be attached as a message to the text files and opened at the receiving
computer, assuming the same or similar software is available at the receiving computer.
electronic mail server A server containing software that allows network users to exchange messages by way
of an electronic "mailbox." A user ID permits access to a database server where messages are stored for
retrieval or filed for future reference.
Electronic Messaging Association See EMA.
electronic superhighway A broadband network transporting voice, interactive, full motion data and video
services.
electronic switch A modern programmable switch used in most Bell operating companies (BOCs), many
independent companies, and by virtually all new long-distance companies. Electronic switches are solid state
electronics, as opposed to older electro-mechanical switches.
Electronic Switching System (ESS) 1. A station instrument on a private branch exchange (PBX). 2. Bell
System term for electronic exchange switching equipment. 3. A system using computer-like operations to
switch telephone calls.
Electronic Tandem Network (ETN) 1. A private network for automatically and electronically connecting the
calling office to the called office through tandem-tie trunks. The network switches also function as private
branch exchanges (PBXs). 2. A private branch exchange (PBX) base network.
electrostatic discharge See ESD.
ELF Extremely Low Frequency
ELG Equal life group (f: GMD)
ELIMM Extended Line Information Memory Module
ELITE Calculates avail. of DMS equip for trunks based on forecast + trunks in serv
ELL Equal Level Loop-back
ELM Elan Licence Manager
ELMI Enhanced Local Management Interface.
ELORG ELectronORGtechnica (foreign trade organization--USSR)
ELRC ENHANCED CIRCUIT LAYOUT RECORD
ELS Entry Level System
ELS European Language Supplement
ELT Extra Local Translation
ELT Entry Level Trainee
ELTN Electronic
ELTU Enhanced Loop Test Unit (f: UVLE)
EM Electronic Marker
EM Enable Matrix
EM Entity Model
EMA Electronic Mail Association
EMA Electronic Messaging Association
EMA Enterprise Management Architecture
EMA 1. Enterprise Management Architecture. Digital Equipment Corporation network management architecture,
based on the OSI network management model. 2. Electronic Messaging Association. Forum devoted to standards
and policy work, education, and development of electronic messaging systems such as e-mail, voice mail, and
facsimile.
Email See Electronic Mail.
EMAIL Electronic Mail
Email Address Your email address is made up of several parts. By convention, addresses use lowercase letters
with no spaces. The first part of the address, the username, identifies a unique user on a server. The @
(pronounced at) separates the username from the host name. The host name uniquely identifies the server
computer and is the last part of the Internet email address (for example, our webmaster's email address is
EMAP Enhanced Meter & Alarm Panel
EMB Enhanced Master Burst
EMC ElectroMagnetic Compatibility
EMC Embedded Maintenance Channel
EMC Extended Math Coprocessor
EMCI Electro. Mechanical Communications Interface
EMCI electromechanical communication interface
EMDT European and Middle East Distribution Territory
emergency line A private branch exchange (PBX) feature providing a specific line for making and receiving
calls when the system is inoperative.
EMF ElectroMagnetic Fields
EMF Enhanced MetaFile
EMI Electro-Magnetic Interference
EMI Electromagnetic interference
EMI Exchange Message Interface
EMI electromagnetic interference. Interference by electromagnetic signals that can cause reduced data
integrity and increased error rates on transmission channels.
EMIF ESCON Multiple Image Facility. Mainframe I/O software function that allows one ESCON channel to be shared
among multiple logical partitions on the same mainframe. See also ESCON.
EMIS Engineering Management & Information System
EML Expected Measured Loss
EML (Network) Element Management Layer
EMLT Emergency Manual Line Transfer
EMM Expert Advisor Manager
EMP Enhancement Management Plan
EMP electromagnetic pulse. Caused by lightning and other high-energy phenomena. Capable of coupling enough
energy into unshielded conductors to destroy electronic devices. See also Tempest.
EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation
EMR Expanded Message Record
EMR Exchange Message Record
EMS Electronic Messaging Server
EMS Expanded Memory Specification (Lotus/Intel/Microsoft)
EMS Extended Measurement System
EMS Extended Memory Support
EMS Element Management System
EMS Enterprise Management System
EMS Error Management System
EMSCC Enhanced Mono Serial Communications Controller
EMTF Expense Management Task Force
EMTS Electronic Message Toll Service
EMTU Enhanced Master Terminal Unit
EMUG European MAP Users Group
emulated LAN See ELAN.
emulation mode Function of an NCP that enables it to perform activities equivalent to those performed by a
transmission control unit.
EMW Executive Message Waiting
EMWAC European Microsoft Windows Academic Center
EN Extra Theoretical Number
EN End Node. APPN end system that implements the PU 2.1, provides end-user services, and supports sessions
between local and remote CPs. ENs are not capable of routing traffic and rely on an adjacent NN for APPN
services. Compare with NN. See also CP.
ENB Enable
ENC Encapsulated
encapsulation Wrapping of data in a particular protocol header. For example, Ethernet data is wrapped in a
specific Ethernet header before network transit. Also, when bridging dissimilar networks, the entire frame
from one network is simply placed in the header used by the data link layer protocol of the other network.
See also tunneling.
encapsulation bridging Carries Ethernet frames from one router to another across disparate media, such as
serial and FDDI lines. Contrast with translational bridging.
ENCO engineering non-control office
encode The act of changing data into a series of electrical or optical pulses that can travel efficiently
over a medium, reducing overhead and bandwidth requirements.
encoder Device that modifies information into the required transmission format.
encryption Application of a specific algorithm to data so as to alter the appearance of the data making
it incomprehensible to those who are not authorized to see the information. See also decryption.
encryption The basis of network security. Encryption encodes network packets to prevent anyone except the
intended recipient from accessing the data.
END enterprise network design
End Node See EN.
End Of Transmission See EOT.
end point Device at which a virtual circuit or virtual path begins or ends.
End System See ES.
End System-to-Intermediate System See ES-IS.
end user A person who uses, but does not necessarily pay for, telecommunications products and services. Users
are people, computers, objects, switches, or other types of computer systems or communications equipment.
end-to-end digital transmission An all digital circuit without need for modems to convert digital signals to
analog at any point.
end-to-end service Inter-exchange service that extends from one customer premises to another. It usually
consists of the local loops on each end and an inter-exchange carrier (IEC) leg in the middle.
ENDIVE ENhanced Device-Independent Video Environment
endpoint H.323 terminal or gateway. An endpoint can call and be called. It generates and terminates the
information stream.
ENDS Event Distribution System
ENE Enterprise Network Event
energy communications A feature enabling a private branch exchange (PBX) to communicate with energy
consuming and monitoring devices in a hotel or other business.
Energy Sciences Network See ESnet.
ENET Enhanced Network
ENET Ethernet (usually IEEE 802.3)
ENet Enhanced Network
ENG-DT Engineering desktop - associated with ISAAC and MCCDS
ENGR Engineer
ENGRG Engineering
Enhanced DS1 Test Access Unit (eDTAU) A subset of digital access and test equipment included in Hekimian's DTAS
product line. This equipment provides split and hitless monitor access to T1 lines for maintenance and
testing and also provides full-time performance monitoring.
Enhanced IGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
Enhanced IGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. Advanced version of IGRP developed by Cisco.
Provides superior convergence properties and operating efficiency, and combines the advantages of link state
protocols with those of distance vector protocols. Compare with IGRP. See also IGP, OSPF, and RIP.
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol Abbreviated Enhanced IGRP.
Enhanced Monitor/Matrix Unit (EM/MU) An optional component in either a DTAU or Mini-DTAU. This unit performs
extensive scanned monitoring of T1 lines.
Enhanced Monitoring Services Set of analysis tools on the Catalyst 5000 switch, consisting of an integrated
RMON agent and the SPAN. These tools provide traffic monitoring, and network segment analysis and
management. See also RMON and span.
Enhanced Private Switched Communications Service ( 1. A private network utilizing Bell provided equipment
located in the central office (CO) and dedicated to a specific customer. 2. AT&T private line network that
links very large businesses having multiple locations.
enhanced services Services using network facilities and computer processing that: 1. Act on the format,
content, code, protocol or similar aspects of transmitted information. 2. Provide additional or restructured
information. 3. Involve subscriber interaction with stored data
ENI Expertech Network Installation (f: EBR)
ENI EXPERTECH NETWORK INSTALLATIONS
ENIAC Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Interpreter And Calculator
ENOS Enterprise Network Operating System
ENS Enterprise Network Services
ENT Element Name Table
ENT Element Number Table
ENTELEC Energy Telecommunications and Electrical Association
Enterprise Management Architecture See EMA.
enterprise network Large and diverse network connecting most major points in a company or other
organization. Differs from a WAN in that it is privately owned and maintained. A network to interconnect
multiple campus local area networks (LANs). Long-distance Enterprise networks typically connect remote
facilities and rely on a public or leased data communications network, such as an X.25 packet-switched
network or a T1 line.
enterprise number A unique telephone exchange number that permits the called party to be automatically
billed for incoming calls.
Enterprise System Connection See ESCON.
Enterprise System Connection channel See ESCON channel.
entity Generally, an individual, manageable network device. Sometimes called an alias.
entity identifier The unique address of an NVEs socket in a node on an AppleTalk network. The specific
format of an entity identifier is network-dependent. See also NVE.
entity name Name that an NVE can assign to itself. Although not all NVEs have names, NVEs can possess
several names (or aliases). An entity name is made up of three character strings: object, entity type, and
zone. For example: Bldg 2 LaserJet 5:LaserWriter@Bldg 2 Zone. See also NVE.
entity type Part of an entity name that describes the entity's class. For example, LaserWriter or
AFPServer. See also entity name.
ENTOUR ENTOURAGE TELECOM SOLUTIONS
ENVISN ENterprise Virtual Intelligent Switched Networks
EO End Office
EO End Office - Class 5
EOB End Of Block
EOC Embedded Operation Channel
EOC Emergency Operations Centre (f: CRMU)
EOC embedded operations channel
EOD End of Data
EOF End of File
EOF Enterprise Framework Object
EOI End Of Interruption
EOM End of Message
EOM Executive officers meeting
EOM End Of Message. Indicator that identifies the last ATM cell containing information from a data packet
that was segmented.
EOO Emergency Operations Organization
EOP Employees Ownership Plan (f: PIE)
EOP Emergency operations procedures
EOP Effect On Payroll
EOP End of Period
EOQC European Organization of Quality Control
EOR End Of Record
EOS Electronic office systems (f: SB)
EOT End of Tape
EOT End of Transmission
EOT End Office Trunking
EOT End Of Transmission. Generally, a character that signifies the end of a logical group of characters or
bits.
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPCS Expense Program Control System
EPD ElectroPhoretic Display
EPD Early Packet Discard. Mechanism used by some ATM switches for discarding a complete AAL5 frame when a
threshold condition, such as imminent congestion, is met. EPD prevents congestion that would otherwise
jeopardize the switch's ability to properly support existing connections with a guaranteed service. Compare
with TPD.
EPEL Electronic Publishing Electronic Library
EPG Electronic Programming Guides
EPHOS European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems
EPI Echo-Planar Imaging
EPIC Electronic Product Information Catalog (f: CEIP)
EPIC Enhanced Plug In Control
EPIC Enhanced Plug-In Control
EPJS ELECTRONIC PROPOSED JOB SCHEDULE
EPLD Erasable Programmable Logic Device
EPMI European Printer Manufacturers and Importers
EPP Enhanced Parallel Port
EPPJS Electronic Proposed Job Sheet
EPR Ethernet Port Repeater
EPR Electrical Protection Research
EPROM Earasable Programmable Rom
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. Nonvolatile memory chips that are programmed after they are
manufactured, and, if necessary, can be erased by some means and reprogrammed. Compare with EECM and PROM.
EPS Earnings per share (f: BPA)
EPS earnings per share
EPSCS Enhanced Private Switched Communications Service
EPSF jeden z formatÍw graficznych
EPSS Electronic Performance Support Systems
EPSS ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM
EQ EQUALIZATION
EQAD Guide Autostop
EQE Equivalent Employee
EQE Equivalent Employees
EQPT Equipment
equal access 1. The AT&T divestiture resulting from the 1982 Modification of Final Judgement (MFJ) provides
one-plus capability to interLATA competitors of AT&T. Customers are able to reach the carrier of their
choice by dialing 1 + the long-distance number. The MFJ and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
require local exchange carriers (LECs) to provide equal access. Most COs now have this capability. Equal
access may also refer to a more generic concept under which the Bell operating companies (BOCs) must provide
access services equivalent to those provided to AT&T to AT&T's competitors. 2. The reprogramming of LEC
switches to allow other long-distance companies, other than AT&T to be the 1+ primary long-distance company
for users of long distance. Equal Access creates a new type of feature group access circuit, Feature Group D
(FGD). It also provides 10-XXX dialing for secondary and casual calling, generates true hardware answer
supervision when calls are terminated over FGD circuits, and provides automatic number identification (ANI)
on originating calls.
equal charge rule A rule contained in the 1982 Modification of Final Judgement (MFJ) that requires Bell
operating companies (BOCs) to charge access rates that do not vary with the volume of traffic.
equalization Technique used to compensate for communications channel distortions.
EQUIV Equivalent
equivalent service Multiline telephone service in which calls are automatically completed at the next
available line of a group when the dialed number is busy.
ER Explicit Rate. In ATM, an RM cell used to limit the ACR for a transmission to a specific value. Usually
the source initially sets the ER initially to a requested rate, such as the PCR. Later, any network element
in the path can reduce the ER to a value that the element can sustain. See also ACOM, PCR, and RLM.
ER Equipment Record
ER Engineering Responsibility
ER Eastern Region (aka Quebec.)
ER Equipment Record
ER ENGINEERING RESPONSIBILITY
ER-REPOS-N Entity Relationship Repository Service - Network
ERA Emergency Response Agency
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory See EPROM.
ERB Emergency Ring Back
ERB Emergency Reporting Bureau
ERD Engineering Ready Date (f: DFC)
ERD Entity Relationship Diagram (used to produce the LDM)
ERD Entity Relationship Diagram
ERD entity relationship diagrams
ERE Employee Related Expenses
ERG Electronic Rights Group
ERI Exception Response Indicator
ERIP Early retirement incentive plan (f: PIRA)
ERL Echo Return Loss
erlang B table A widely used table that allows the determination of the traffic capacity of a given group of
circuits. The table is derived from a mathematical formula.
erlang C A mathematical formula for designing telephone traffic management for private branch exchanges
(PBX)s and networks. It is used when traffic is random and there is queuing. Erlang C assumes callers will
wait indefinitely to make their connection.
ERMES European Radio Message System
ERNIE Electronic Randon Number Indicator Equipment
EROM Erasable Read Only Memory
ERP Enterprise Resources Planning
ERPM Engineer Responsible for Professional Matters
error control Technique for detecting and correcting errors in data transmissions.
error-correcting code Code having sufficient intelligence and incorporating sufficient signaling
information to enable the detection and correction of many errors at the receiver.
error-detecting code Code that can detect transmission errors through analysis of received data based on the
adherence of the data to appropriate structural guidelines.
ERS Exchange Radiotelephone Service
ERT Error Table
ERT Estimated Repair Time
ERTS Exchange Radio Telephone Service
ERTS Exchange Radiotelephone Service
ERTS Exchange Radio Telephone Service
ERWT Expensive Route Warning Tone
ERWT Expensive Route Warning Tone
ES End System. 1. Generally, an end-user device on a network. 2. Nonrouting host or node in an OSI network.
ES Employee Services
ES ElectroStatic
ES Emergency Service
ES End Section
ES End System
ES Enterprise System
ES Extended Address
ES Extended Services
ES Errored Seconds (Line Performance Parameter)
ES-IS End System to Intermediate System Protocol
ES-IS End System-to-Intermediate System. OSI protocol that defines how end systems (hosts) announce
themselves to intermediate systems (routers). See also IS-IS.
ESA Emergency Stand Alone
ESA Emergency Standalone
ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture
ESA Extended spouse allowance
ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture (f: ESA)
ESAC Electronic Switch Administration Center
ESAS Employee Suggestion Award System (f: PPSE)
ESB Emergency Service Bureau "911"
ESC Electronic Scanner
ESC Escape
ESC ESCape - (Ucieczka
ESC/P2 Epson Standard Code for Printers
ESCB Exchange and Switching Centres Book
ESCO Emergency Service Central Office
ESCON Enterprise Systems CONnection
ESCON Enterprise System CONnection architecture
ESCON Enterprise Systems Connection Architecture
ESCON Enterprise System CONnection. IBM channel architecture that specifies a pair of fiber-optic cables,
with either LEDs or lasers as transmitters, and a signaling rate of 200 Mbps.
ESCON channel IBM channel for attaching mainframes to peripherals such as storage devices, backup units, and
network interfaces. This channel incorporates fiber channel technology. The ESCON channel replaces the bus
and tag channel. Compare with parallel channel. See also bus and tag channel.
ESCON Multiple Image Facility See EMIF.
ESCU Enhanced Services Common Utility
ESD ElectroStatic Discharge
ESD ElectroStatic Discharge. Discharge of stored static electricity that can damage electronic equipment and
impair electrical circuitry, resulting in complete or intermittent failures.
ESDI Enhanced Small Disk Interface
ESDI Enhanced Small-systems Device Interface
ESE Enhanced Service Extension
ESF ElectroStatic Field
ESF Enhanced Spooling Facility (Product for IBM mainframes)
ESF European Security Forum
ESF Extended Superframe Format (f: SSE)
ESF Extended SuperFrame. Framing type used on T1 circuits that consists of 24 frames of 192 bits each, with
the 193rd bit providing timing and other functions. ESF is an enhanced version of SF. See also SF.
ESG Economic Study Guideline (f: DREE)
ESI External Synchronized Interface
ESI External Synchronized Interface card
ESI End System Identifier. Identifier that distinguishes multiple nodes at the same level when the lower
level peer group is partitioned (usually an IEEE 802 address).
ESIP Enhanced Service Implementation Process
ESM Express Server Manager
ESMR Enhanced Special Mobile Radio
ESMTP Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Extended version of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(SMTP), which includes additional functionality such as delivery notification and session delivery. ESMTP is
described in RFC 1869, SMTP Service Extensions.
ESMU Enhanced Subscriber Module Urban
ESMU ENHANCED SUBSCRIBER MODULE - URBAN
ESN Electronic Switched Network (f: RCE)
ESN Emergency Service Number
ESN Enhanced Services Node
ESN Electronic Signature Number
ESN Electronic Serial Number
ESN Emergency Service Number
ESN-FM Electronic Switched Network- Form Management
ESNET Energy Services Network
ESnet Energy Sciences Network. Data communications network managed and funded by the U.S. Department of
Energy Office of Energy Research (DOE/OER). Interconnects the DOE to educational institutions and other
research facilities.
ESO Engineering Service Order
ESO Equivalent Shelf Unit
ESO ENGINEERING SERVICE ORDER
ESP Employee Savings Plan
ESP Emulating Sensing Processor
ESP Enhanced Service Provider
ESP Exchange Service Provider
ESP Electronic Scratch Pad
ESP Early Support Program
ESP A type of Adjunct Processor:
ESP Extended Services Processor. Rack-mounted adjunct processor that is co-located with a Cisco BPX/AXIS (all
three units comprise a BPX service node) and has IP connectivity to a StrataView Plus Workstation.
ESP Extended Services Processor.
ESPMP Evaluative Service Provisioning Measurement Plan (f: PAES)
ESQL Embedded SQL
ESR Employee Service Record
ESR Event Service Routine
ESRC Employee Service Record Change (f: SMJFE)
ESRD Emergency Service Routing Digit (Cell Site/Sector)
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
ESS Ethernet Segment Switch
ESS Executive Support Systems
ESS Electronic Switching System
ESS Electronic Switching System. AT&T's term for an electronic central office switch. A 5ESS is AT&T's
digital central office for end office applications. A 4ESS is its digital central office for toll center
application.
ESSC Enhanced Services Support Centre
EST Estimate
ESTIMATE TRA Tracks Expenditures&Number Assn
Estimated Monthly Usage (EMU) An estimated currency value of monthly usage of the service provided.
ESTU Enhanced Standalone Test Unit
ESTU Enhanced Services Test Unit
ESWD Electronic Software Delivery
ESWG Emergency Services Working Group
ESZ Emergency Service Zone
ESZ Emergency Services Zone
ET Electronic Transfer
ET Extra Translation
ETA Enterprise Technology Award
ETA Estimated Time Of Arrival
ETAMS Electronic Telco Access Management System (f: GCET)
ETAMS Electronic Telco Management System
ETAS Emergency Technical Assistance Service
ETB End Of Transmission Block
ETCCF Enhanced Toll-free Call Centres Features
ETE End To End
ethernet Baseband LAN specification invented by Xerox Corporation and developed jointly by Xerox, Intel, and
Digital Equipment Corporation. Ethernet networks use CSMA/CD and run over a variety of cable types at 10
Mbps. Ethernet is similar to the IEEE 802.3 series of standards. See also 10Base2, 10Base5, 10BaseF,
10BaseT, 10Broad36, Fast Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.A standard and probably the most popular connection type
for Local Area Networks (LANs). It was first developed by Xerox, and later refined by Digital, Intel and
Xerox (see also DIX). In an Ethernet configuration, computers are connected by coaxial or twisted-pair cable
where they contend for network access using a Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
(CSMA/CD) paradigm. Ethernet can transfer information at up to 10 Megabit-per-second (Mb/s).
Ethernet Interface Processor See EIP.
ethernet meltdown Event that causes saturation, or near saturation, on an Ethernet. It usually results from
illegal or misrouted packets and typically lasts only a short time.
EtherTalk Apple Computer's data-link product that allows an AppleTalk network to be connected by Ethernet
cable.
EtherTalk Link Access Protocol See ELAP.
ETI Econo Telecom International
ETIKET2 Etiquette
ETL Equipment Test List
ETL Extract Transform and Load
ETMS Everex Thermal Management System
ETN Electronic Tandem Network
ETO Equalized Transmit Only
ETP Electrolysis Test Point
ETPH exchange termination packet handler
ETS Enhanced Time Switch
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSI European Telecommunication Standards Institute. Organization created by the European PTTs and the EC to
propose telecommunications standards for Europe.
Études EAS Local calls
ETX End Of teXt) - (character)
ETX End of Text
EU Execution Unit
EUC Equipment Unit Code (f: CPE)
EUC Equipment Usage Code
EUC Extended Unix Code
EUC EQUIPMENT USAGE CODE
EUNET European Network
EUnet EUropean Internet. European commercial Internet service provider. EUnet is designed to provide e-
mail, news, and other Internet services to European markets.
EURIM EURopean Information Market
European Academic Research Network See EARN.
European Computer Manufacturers Association See ECMA.
European Internet See EUnet.
European Telecommunication Standards Institute See ETSI.
EUROPEN EURopean forum for OPEN systems
EUUG European UNIX Systems User Group
EVA Evolution V to A
EVA Economic Value Added
EVE Extreme Value Engineering
event Network message indicating operational irregularities in physical elements of a network or a
response to the occurrence of a significant task, typically the completion of a request for information. See
also alarm and trap.
EVI Employee Value Index
EW Erase Write
EWA Emergency Work Assignment
EWD Exchange Wide Dial
EWO Engineer Work Order
EWOE Enterprise Wide Opportunity Evaluation
EWOE enterprise wide opportunity evaluations
EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems
EWOS European Workshop on Open Systems
EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems. The OSI Implementors Workshop for Europe.
EWP Extended Warranty Plan (f: CPG)
EWP EMERGENCY WORK PROCEDURES
EWS IBM OS/2 Employee Written Software Catalog
EWS Early Warning System
EWSP Extended Warranty Software Program
EX Exchange
EXACT Exchange Access Control and Tracking
ExCA Exchangeable Card Architecture
ExCell Saves Partner Plan customers up to 18% on Canadian long distance calls
Excess Burst See Be.
excess rate In ATM, traffic in excess of the insured rate for a given connection. Specifically, the excess
rate equals the maximum rate minus the insured rate. Excess traffic is delivered only if network resources
are available and can be discarded during periods of congestion. Compare with insured rate and maximum rate.
EXCH Exchange
exchange A telephone switching center.
exchange area A defined area served by one or more central offices of a telephone company. Within this area,
the telephone company furnishes service at a uniform rate under the regulations prescribed in the telephone
company's tariffs filed with the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC). A geographic area in which
telephone services and prices are the same.
exchange identification See XID.
exCITE Centre for Information Technology Excellence
exclusion A feature on some telephone systems permitting a user to exclude or prevent other users from gaining
access to a line or channel
EXCP Execute Channel Program
EXEC Executive
EXEC Interactive command processor of Cisco IOS.
executive override A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that allows authorized station users to join an
existing conversation. Synonyms: attendant busy override, busy override, and intrude
EXH Exhibit
EXIT Expenditure and Information Tracking System
EXIT Provisioning Order/Estimate Tracking
EXIT EXPENDITURE AND INVESTMENT TRACKING
EXP Expense
EXP Exposed
expansion The process of running a compressed data set through an algorithm that restores the data set to its
original size. Compare with companding and compression.
expedited delivery Option set by a specific protocol layer telling other protocol layers (or the same
protocol layer in another network device) to handle specific data more rapidly.
EXPERT EXPERT Help System
Explicit Forward Congestion Indication See EFCI.
Explicit Rate See ER.
explicit route In SNA, a route from a source subarea to a destination subarea, as specified by a list of
subarea nodes and transmission groups that connect the two.
explorer frame Frame sent out by a networked device in a SRB environment to determine the optimal route to
another networked device.
explorer packet Generated by an end station trying to find its way through a SRB network. Gathers a hop-by-hop
description of a path through the network by being marked (updated) by each bridge that it traverses,
thereby creating a complete topological map. See also all-routes explorer packet, local explorer packet, and
spanning explorer packet.
EXT External Alarm
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code See EBCDIC.
Extended Industry-Standard Architecture See EISA.
Extended LAN A collection of local area networks (LANs) interconnected by protocol-independent store-and-
forward devices or bridges.
Extended Services Processor Large servers, such as those used at universities or large companies sometimes
contain multiple parts, called subdomains. Subdomains and the host name are separated by a period (but it's
pronounced dot). The three-letter suffix in the host name identifies the kind of organization operating the
server (some locations use a two-letter geographical suffix). The most common suffixes are: .com
(commercial), .edu (educational), .gov (government), .mil (military), .net (networking), and .org (non-
commercial). More suffixes are under consideration. Addresses outside of the U.S. sometimes use a two-letter
suffix that identifies the country in which the server is located. Some examples are: .jp (Japan), .nl (The
Netherlands), .uk (United Kingdom), .ca (Canada), and .tw (Taiwan). Acronyms" section. (ESP)
Extended Superframe Format See ESF.
Exterior Gateway Protocol Any internetwork protocol used to exchange routing information between autonomous
systems. Not to be confused with Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), which is a particular instance of an
exterior gateway protocol. (EGP)
exterior router Router connected to an AURP tunnel, responsible for the encapsulation and deencapsulation of
AppleTalk packets in a foreign protocol header (for example, IP). See also AURP and AURP tunnel.
EXZ EXcessive Zeros.
F Final bit
F Final Length
F Firm Forecast
F Framing
F&C Frame and Cover
F&OE Furniture and Office Equipment
F-link SS7 fully associated link. An SS7 signaling link directly associated with a link carrying traffic.
F/F Flip/Flop
F6319 COPS and WACOPS
FA Facility Allocation
FA Functional Acknowledgement
FA Fuse Alarm
FA Feature Activator.
FABS Finance and Banking Services
FAC Facility
facilities The transmission lines or circuits, or long-distance services. A caller's facilities are the
circuits available to make calls.
facilities administration and control A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that permits the subscriber to
assign individual features and privileges to the stations.
Facilities Based Carrier A carrier that uses its own facilities to provide service. This is in contrast to
resellers that purchase the services of other carriers and then retail the services to their customers. Most
facilities-based carriers use the services of other carriers to some extent. (FBC)
Facilities Definitions Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
facility A generic term for a logical component of a system, such as a telecommunications channel, a cross
connect, a switch, a computer, a control center, or a building.
facility network A network in which local area networks (LAN)s and network segments within a building or
campus are interconnected to function as one, transparent, computing platform.
Facility Typ Field in TARS
FACS Facility Assignment Control System
FACTR Fujitsu Access & Transport Platform
FAD Factory Authorized Dealer
FAD Frame Assembled/Disassembled
FAD Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
FADR Force Administration Data Recorder
FADS Force Administration Data System
FAIBS Facilities Inventory and Basic Studies
FAIBS Facilities Inventory and Basic Studies
failure domain Area in which a failure occurred in a Token Ring, defined by the information contained in a
beacon. When a station detects a serious problem with the network (such as a cable break), it sends a beacon
frame that includes the station reporting the failure, its NAUN, and everything in between. Beaconing in
turn initiates a process called autoreconfiguration. See also autoreconfiguration, beacon, and NAUN.
FALCON Falcon
fallback Mechanism used by ATM networks when rigorous path selection does not generate an acceptable path.
The fallback mechanism attempts to determine a path by selectively relaxing certain attributes, such as
delay, in order to find a path that meets some minimal set of desired attributes.
FAMIS Facilities Management Information System
FAMIS Facilities Manager Information System
fan-out unit Device that allows multiple devices on a network to communicate using a single network
attachment.
fantail Panel of I/O connectors that attaches to an equipment rack, providing easy access for data
connections to a networking.
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization
FAP Financial Analysis Plan
FAP feature appearance
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions. Usually appears in the form of a "read-me" file in a variety of Internet
forums. New users are expected to read the FAQ before participating in newsgroups, bulletin boards, video
conferences, and so on. FAQs are widely available on the Internet and usually take the form of large,
instructional text files. They are written on a wide variety of topics, and are usually the most up-to-date
source for specialized information.
FAR Facilities Allocation Record (f: DAI)
FARMSS File and Record Management Security System
FARNET Federation of American Research NETworks.
FAS Forecast Analysis System
FAS Full Authorization System
FAST Federation Against Software Theft
FAST First Application Software Test
FAST First Application System Test
FAST Frame Relay Adaptive Switching and Transport
FAST First Application Software Test (test switch)
FAST First Application Switch Test (f: FAST)
FAST Failure Analysis and Support Technology
fast busy A signal that indicates all lines to the called number are busy. The fast busy signal can be caused
by severe weather conditions, too many people simultaneously calling one location, or inappropriate
automatic number identification (ANI) set-up in the switch.
fast Ethernet Any of a number of 100-Mbps Ethernet specifications. Fast Ethernet offers a speed increase ten
times that of the 10BaseT Ethernet specification, while preserving such qualities as frame format, MAC
mechanisms, and MTU. Such similarities allow the use of existing 10BaseT applications and network management
tools on Fast Ethernet networks. Based on an extension to the IEEE 802.3 specification. Compare with
Ethernet. See also 100BaseFX, 100BaseT, 100BaseT4, 100BaseTX, 100BaseX, and IEEE 802.3.
Fast Ethernet Interface Processor See FEIP.
fast packet A general term for various streamlined packet technologies, including frame relay, broadband
integrated services digital network (BISDN), and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). Compared to X.25 packet
switching, fast packet contains a much reduced functionality. But, with the lower overhead, fast packet
systems can operate at higher rates for the same processing cost.
fast packet switching An emerging, packet-oriented, digital technology that transmits all data in a single
packet format whether the information is video, voice or data. Fast packet switching uses short, fixed
length packets and is capable of speeds between 100,000 and 1,000,000 packets per second. It is designed to
offer the best of both worlds in wide area network (WAN) transmission by applying the economy and
reliability of packet switching, and the high throughput of circuit switching to traditional circuit
switching applications, particularly voice.
Fast Sequenced Transport See FST.
Fast Serial Interface Processor See FSIP.
fast switching Cisco feature whereby a route cache is used to expedite packet switching through a router.
Contrast with process switching.
FAT File Allocation Table
FATS Fuel Administration Tracking System
fault management One of five categories of network management defined by ISO for management of OSI
networks. Fault management attempts to ensure that network faults are detected and controlled. See also
accounting management, configuration management, performance management, and security management.
FAWS Fibre Activity Worksheet
FAWS Fibre Worksheet
FAX Facility
Fax Facsimile
FAXCOM-NCC Faxcom Network Control Centre
FAXLAN and E Tools used by other Client Compute applications
FAXNET-NCC FAXNET Network Control Centre
FB Framing Bit
FB Reorder/all Paths Busy
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBM Fuzzy Bit Map
Fbus Frame Bus
FC Feature Connector
FC First Cost (f: CO)
FC Frame Control
FC Functionnal Element
FC Frequent Caller
FC-AL Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop
FC-PH Fiber Channel-
FCA Fibre Channel Association
FCB File Control Block
FCB Flow-Through Customer Billing (f: FIC)
FCBS File Control BlockS
FCC Fixed Common Costs (f: CCF)
FCC Federal Communications Commission (U.S.)
FCC Federal Communications Commission. U.S. government agency that supervises, licenses, and controls
electronic and electromagnetic transmission standards.
FCD Frais ou crédits divers (e: MCC)
FCF Free Cash Flow (f: MBAL)
FCF free cash flow
FCFP Fibre Channel Functional Profile
FCFS First Come, First Served
FCFS First Come First Served.
FCLC The Fiber Channel Loop Community
FCLS First Come, Last Served
FCMR Facility Configuration Management & Restoration
FCMR Facility Configuration Management and Restoration
FCN Similar to T8008
FCOT Fibre Optic Central Office Terminal
FCOT Fibre Central Office Terminal
FCOT Fibre Centre Optical Terminal
FCP Fiber Channel Protocol
FCS Fibre Channel Standard
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FCS Frame Checkin Sequence
FCS fast circuit switch
FCS frame check sequence
FCS Frame Check Sequence. Extra characters added to a frame for error control purposes. Used in HDLC, Frame
Relay, and other data link layer protocols.
FCSI Fibre Channel Systems Initiative
FD File Description
FD Function Decode
FDB File Description Block
FDC Floppy Disk Controller
FDD Firm Due Date
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FDD Furnish Due Date
FDD Furnished Due Date
FDD Future Due Date
FDD Computer Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interface
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface. An American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-defined standard for
high-speed (100 Mbps) local area network (LAN) communications using fiber-optic cable. It uses a dual ring
or dual ring-of-trees topology and a token-passing media access method. It is compatible with the standards
for the physical layer and the media access control (MAC) portion of the data link layer of the open system
interconnection (OSI) model. Up to 1000 stations can be connected, with up to 3 kilometers between stations.
Fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) is a fault-tolerant dual counter-rotating-ring design. Compare with
CDDI and FDDI II.
FDDI II ANSI standard that enhances FDDI. FDDI II provides isochronous transmission for connectionless data
circuits and connection-oriented voice and video circuits. Compare with FDDI.
FDDI Interface Processor See FIP.
FDDITalk Apple Computer's data-link product that allows an AppleTalk network to be connected by FDDI cable.
FDF fibre distribution frame
FDI Fibre Distribution Interface
FDL Facility Data Link
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing(/or)
FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing. Technique whereby information from multiple channels can be allocated
bandwidth on a single wire based on frequency. Compare with ATDM, statistical multiplexing, and TDM.
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDMMIM FDDI Management Media Interface Module
FDN Fiber Dynamic Network
FDO For Display Only
FDOS Floppy Disk Operating System
FDP Flat Panel Display
FDPS Flexible Document Presentation System
FDR Fast Dump Restore
FDSE Full Duplex Switched Ethernet
FDT Fields Definition Table
FDX Full Duplex
FE Extended Framing
FE Front End
FE Further Evidence
FE Fast Ethernet.
FE Fast Ethernet
FEA Far End Alarm
FEA Fast Ethernet Alliance
FEA Finite Element Analisys
FEA Front End Analysis
FEAL Fast Encryption ALgorithm
FEAR Fraudulent Evaluation and Recovery
FEAT The Feature screen in LINK and CNBS
Feature Group (FG) 1. A telephone company product consisting of services and features. 2. One of four
categories of access service used for switched long distance. Feature groups are also used to terminate
traffic.
Feature Group A A line-side originating and terminating local access transport area (LATA) access that
requires the subscriber to dial an assigned telephone number for a specific inter-exchange carrier (IC). The
IC returns a tone to signal the caller to input additional tone-generated digits of the called number. (FG-
A, FGA)
Feature Group B A trunk-side originating and terminating local access transport area (LATA) access requiring
the subscriber to dial a 950-WXXX number, where W=0 or 1 and XXX is the carrier access code. This is
translated to a specified XXX carrier trunk group. FG-B provides a higher quality than FG-A because extra
wires are used for signaling. Optional rotary dial service and automatic number identification (ANI) may be
available. (FG-B, FGB)
Feature Group C A trunk-side local access transport area (LATA) access generally for AT&T on a direct basis
between each end office (EO) and an AT&T switching system. (FG-C, FGC)
Feature Group D A trunk-side local access transport area (LATA) access affording call supervision to an inter-
exchange carrier (IC), a uniform access code (10XXX), optional calling-party identification, recording of
access-charge billing details, and presubscription to a customer-specified IC. FG-D is also used for 800
Inbound wide area telecommunications service (WATS) and Travel Card Service. FG-D provides the automatic
number identification (ANI) for billing purposes (FG-D, FGD)
FEATURES Switch Features Info for Sales & Marketing
FEBE Far End Block Error
FEC Forward Error Correction
FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
FECN forward explicit congestion notification. Bit set by a Frame Relay network to inform DTE receiving the
frame that congestion was experienced in the path from source to destination. DTE receiving frames with the
FECN bit set can request that higher-level protocols take flow-control action as appropriate. Compare with
BECN.
FED Field Emission Display
Federal Communications Commission See FCC.
Federal Networking Council See FNC.
Federal Networking Council (FNC) A collection of federal agencies that have heavy interests in federal
networks using TCP/IP and the Internet. Representatives from DoD, DOE, DARPA, NSF, NASA and HHS are the
major members of the FNC.
FEE Final Economic Evaluation
FEIP Fast Ethernet Interface Processor. Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The FEIP
supports up to two 100-Mbps 100BaseT ports.
FEIT Fujitsu Enhanced Imaging Technology
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEP Front End Processor
FEP Front-End Processor. Device or board that provides network interface capabilities for a networked device.
In SNA, typically an IBM 3745 device.
FEPROM Flash Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory
FERF Far End Receive Failure
FES File Execution Statistic
FET Field Effect Transistor
Feuillet Ret Formulaire retrait d'équipement
FEX File Execution Segment
FEXT Far End Cross Talk
FF Flip-flop
FF Forecast File
FF Form Feed
FFIO Flexible File Input/Output
FFOL FDDI Follow-on LAN
FFP Fast Facility Protection
FFP Fibre Flexibility Panel
FFP Fast Facility Protection
FFR Fast Facility Restoration
FFS Fast File System
FFS FlashFile System
FFST/2 First Failure Support Technology for OS/2
FFT Fast File Transfer
FFT Fast Fourier Transforms
FG Frame Group
FG Full Group
FG-D Feature Group D
FGA Feature Group A
FGB Feature Group B
FGD Feature Group D
FGD Feature Group-D.
FH Frame Handler
FH Frequency Hopping
FH Full Height
FHD File Header Description
FHP Financing of health plans (f: FPS)
FHR Fixed Hierarchical Routing
FHR Fixed Hierarchy Routing (f: AFH)
FHR fixed hierarchical routing
FI Finance Income (f: RF)
FI Financial Institution
FI Format Indicator
FI SAP Financial Accounting Package
FIB Forward Indicator Bit
FIBCALC Fibre Design Calculations
fiber channel A high speed, fibre optic network system that is intended to support transmission speeds of up
to 266 Mbps. It is being promoted by HP and IBM Corp
Fiber Distributed Data Interface See FDDI.
fiber optics A data transmission medium consisting of glass fibers. Light-emitting diodes (LED)s send light
through the fiber to a detector, which then converts the light back into electrical signals. Fiber optics
will be the predominant medium for local area networks (LANs) in the future. Fiber-optic LANs offer immense
bandwidth, as well as protection from eavesdropping, electromagnetic interference, and radioactivity.
fiber-optic cable Physical medium capable of conducting modulated light transmission. It employs one or
more optical fibers, consisting of a central glass or plastic fiber, glass cladding, and a plastic outer
sheath. Fiber-optic cable carries information as light instead of electricity, and can carry much more
information over greater distances than copper cabling. Compared with other transmission media, fiber-optic
cable is more expensive, but is not susceptible to electromagnetic interference, and is capable of higher
data rates. Sometimes called optical fiber.
Fiber-Optic Interrepeater Link See FOIRL.
FIC F-Bus Interface Controllers
FID Format Identification
FID0 Format InDicator 0. One of several formats that an SNA TH can use. An FID0 TH is used for communication
between an SNA node and a non-SNA node. See also TH.
FID1 Format InDicator. One of several formats that an SNA TH can use. An FID1 TH encapsulates messages between
two subarea nodes that do not support virtual and explicit routes. See also TH.
FID2 Format InDdicator 2. One of several formats that an SNA TH can use. An FID2 TH is used for transferring
messages between a subarea node and a PU 2, using local addresses. See also TH.
FID3 Format InDicator 3. One of several formats that an SNA TH can use. An FID3 TH is used for transferring
messages between a subarea node and a PU 1, using local addresses. See also TH.
FID4 Format InDicator 4. One of several formats that an SNA TH can use. An FID4 TH encapsulates messages
between two subarea nodes that are capable of supporting virtual and explicit routes. See also TH.
FIDS Facility Information Data Study
FIDS Field Identifiers
FIDS Field Interface
field replaceable unit Hardware component that can be removed and replaced on-site. Typical field-
replaceable units include cards, power supplies, and chassis components.
FIFO First In First Out
FIFO First-In-First-Out (f: PEPS)
file server 1. A network device that can be accessed by several computers, through a local area network
(LAN). It directs the movement of files and data on a multi-user communications network and serves files to
nodes on a LAN. It typically is a combination of a computer, data management software, and large-capacity
hard disk drive. 2. A process running on a computer that provides access to files for remote user systems.
file transfer Category of popular network applications that allow files to be moved from one network device
to another.
File Transfer Protocol The most widely-used way of downloading and uploading (getting and putting) files
across an Internet connection. The File Transfer Protocol is a standardized way to connect computers so that
files can be shared between them easily. There is a set of commands in FTP for making and changing
directories, transferring, copying, moving, and deleting files. Formerly, all FTP connections were text
based, but graphical applications are now available that make FTP commands as easy as dragging and dropping.
Numerous FTP clients exist for a number of platforms. (FTP)
File Transfer, Access, and Management See FTAM.
FILEMAN File Manager Utility for IMAP
filter Generally, a process or device that screens network traffic for certain characteristics, such as
source address, destination address, or protocol, and determines whether to forward or discard that traffic
based on the established criteria.
filtering An operating parameter used in local area network (LAN) nodes, bridges, and routers that selectively
blocks the transfer of packets or frames from one LAN to another. Filters can be set to prevent the
internetworking of several types of messages. They may be set to block all packets originating from a
specific source, called source address filtering. Filters may also be set to block all packets heading for a
particular destination, called destination address filtering.
FIMS Form Interface Management System
FIND-IT Field Inventory and Numerical Data for Investment Tracking
Fine-ART Fine - Advanced Resolution Technology
finger Software tool for determining whether a person has an account at a particular Internet site. Many
sites do not allow incoming finger requests.
Finger A UNIX command that shows information about a user or group of users on the Internet. When executed,
the Finger command usually returns the user's real name, whether or not they have unread mail, and the time
and date of their last login. Finger also displays two files (if they exist) located in the home directory
of the user you fingered. These two files (the .PLAN and the .PROJECT files.) are simply ASCII text files
that can be entered by the user to display any information upon being fingered.
FIP FDDI Interface Processor. Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The FIP supports SASs,
DASs, dual homing, and optical bypass, and contains a 16-mips processor for high-speed (100-Mbps) interface
rates. The FIP complies with ANSI and ISO FDDI standards.
FIP FASTbus Interconnect Panel
FIP Fluorescent Indicator Panel
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
FIR Fault Indicating Register
firewall Router or access server, or several routers or access servers, designated as a buffer between any
connected public networks and a private network. A firewall router uses access lists and other methods to
ensure the security of the private network.
firmware Software instructions set permanently or semipermanently in ROM.
FIS Financial Information System (f: SIF)
FISU Fill-In Signalling Unit
FIT Functional Integrity Test
FITL Fiber In The Loop
FITL Fibre-in-the-Loop
FITL Fiber In The Loop
FITL Fibre In The Loop
FITS CT/LT Log. 613S/Hamilton/705
FIV Field Inventory Visibility
FIX Federal Internet Exchange. Connection point between the North American governmental internets and the
Internet. The FIXs are named after their geographic region, as in FIX West (Mountain View, California) and
FIX East (College Park, Maryland). See CIX, GIX, and MAE.
FL Facility Loss
FL Fault Locate
FLA Five Letter Acronym
FLA Four Letter Acronym
FLAG Fiberoptic Link Around the Glob
flame A negative response to an email message or newsgroup posting. If you post an article or send an
email to an audience that deems your message inappropriate, expect to get flamed. The most common recipients
of flames are users who post commercial messages in public forums, those who post adult material in non-
adult areas of the Internet, and users who post or send make racial or gender-biased comments. The worst
sort of flame is known as a mail-bomb, which occurs when the user being flamed open his or her email and
receives a flood of letters with unusually long file attachments that make his or her computer crash.
flapping Routing problem where an advertised route between two nodes alternates (flaps) back and forth
between two paths due to a network problem that causes intermittent interface failures.
FLASH Fujitsu Lightwave Add/Drop SHuttle
Flash memory Nonvolatile storage that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed so that software images
can be stored, booted, and rewritten as necessary. Flash memory was developed by Intel and is licensed to
other semiconductor companies.
flash update Routing update sent asynchronously in response to a change in the network topology. Compare
with routing update.
flat addressing Scheme of addressing that does not use a logical hierarchy to determine location. For example,
MAC addresses are flat, so bridging protocols must flood packets throughout the network in order to deliver
the packet to the appropriate location. Compare with hierarchical addressing.
flat rate A telephone tariff where there is no charge for local calls. The rental fee covers unlimited local
calls.
flat rate service A service which is provided at a fixed monthly charge regardless of usage.
FLC Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLC Fiber Loop Carrier
FLC Fibre Loop Carrier
FLC FLiCk
FLCD Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display
FLE Future Life Expectancy (f: EVF)
flexible intercept An operator intercept service that can be assigned to any extension for any reason such
as unassigned number or temporary disconnect.
flexible line ringing A private branch exchange (PBX) feature allows various phones to have different
ringing for different types of calls. In-house calls have one type of ringing, while outside calls or
intercom calls have different ringing signals.
flexible numbering of stations A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that permits the subscriber some
flexibility in numbering station extensions.
flexible route selection (FRS) A Centrex method of accomplishing the least expensive route to complete a
call.
FLI FLIck
FLIPS Fuzzy Logic Inference Per Second
FLIS Fiberized Link Interface Shelf
FLM Fujitsu Lightwave Multiplexers
FLOM Frame Loss Outage Minutes
flooding Traffic passing technique used by switches and bridges in which traffic received on an interface is
sent out all of the interfaces of that device except the interface on which the information was originally
received. A process in which a bridge broadcasts the first packet it receives with an unknown destination
address to all local area network (LAN) locations. When it receives a reply from the remote device, it
updates its routing table.
FLOP Floating Poimt OPeration
FLOPS Floating-Point Operations Per Second
flow Stream of data traveling between two endpoints across a network (for example, from one LAN station to
another). Multiple flows can be transmitted on a single circuit.
flow control Technique for ensuring that a transmitting entity, such as a modem, does not overwhelm a
receiving entity with data. When the buffers on the receiving device are full, a message is sent to the
sending device to suspend the transmission until the data in the buffers has been processed. In IBM
networks, this technique is called pacing.
flowspec In IPv6, the traffic parameters of a stream of IP packets between two applications. See also IPv6.
FLPROM Fusible Link Programmable Read Only Memory
FLS Frame Loss Seconds
FLS Flash
FLT Full Line Terminal. Multiplexer that terminates a SONET span. See also SONET.
FLT Fault
FM Facilities Management
FM Force Manager
FM Forces Management
FM Frequency Modulation
FM Frequency Modulation. Modulation technique in which signals of different frequencies represent different
data values. Compare with AM and PAM. See also modulation.
FMBS Frame Mode Bearer Services
FMC Force Management Centre (f: CGE)
FMD Function Management Data
FME Feeder Multiplexing Equipment
FMF Futur mode de fonctionnement (e: FMO)
FMF Fibre Management Frame
FMIS Facilities Management Information System
FMMT Fujitsu Memory Management Technology
FMO Future Mode of Operations (f. FMF)
FMO Future Mode of Operations
FMO FUTURE MODE OF OPERATION
FMP CT/LT Log. Ottawa
FMS Facilities Management System (f: FMS)
FMS Fibre Management System
FMS Fibre Management System module
FMS CT/LT Log. 519
FMS Fax Management System
FMS Fibre Management System
FMS field management services
FMS FIBER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
FMS-DCE Facility Management System - Data Collection Expansion
FMS-DCS Facilities Management System Data Collection System
FMT Fibre Multiplex Terminal
FMT Fibre Multiplex (MUX) Terminal
FMT-150 Fibre Multiplex Terminals 84xDS-1
FMT150 Asynchronous SONET (150 Mbps)
FMV Full Motion Video
FN Feeder Node
FN Functional Description (f: DF)
FN Old BNR term for a requirements document
FNA Financial Network Association
FNAW Financial Network Association Workstation
FNB Flexible Network Bus
FNC Federal Networking Council
FNC Federal Networking Council. Group responsible for assessing and coordinating U.S. federal agency
networking policies and needs.
FNPA Foreign Number Plan Area
FNSE Fibre Network Software Expansion
FNSS Fiber Network Surveillance System
FNSS Fibre Network Surveillance System
FNSS Fots Network Surveillance System
FNSS Fibre Network Surveillance System
FNT File Number Table
FO Fibre Optic
FO Fibre Optique
FO Foreign Owned
FOB Free on Board
FOBS Flexible Call Observing
FOCUS Future Operations of Customer Universal Services
FOD Fax on Demand
FOE Functional Operating Expense
FoF Fonts-on-the-Fly
FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FOIRL Fiber Optical Interface Repeater Link
FOIRL Fibre Optic Interoffice Repeater Link
FOIRL Fiber-Optic Interrepeater Link. Fiber-optic signaling methodology based on the IEEE 802.3 fiber-
optic specification. FOIRL is a precursor of the 10BaseFL specification, which is designed to replace it.
See also 10BaseFL.
FOK Found "ok"
follow-up A reply to an email or newsgroup posting that continues the conversation or idea, known as a thread.
FOLR Facility Order Layout Request
FONCTION Functions planifications and availability(similar to OR Guide Features)
FOOPS Fiber Optics Outside Plant Study
footprint 1. The total area on the earth's surface where signals from a satellite can be received. A satellite
footprint is usually shown as concentric contour lines on a map. The contour lines represent the range of
signal power from the center. 2. The total area on a work surface that a device occupies, such as a PC on a
desk.
FORM SODB Form update to SODB
FORM5 Form5
Format InDicator 0 See FID0.
FORMATIO Tracking of training requirements forecast
FORMULAIRES CO approvisionning NORTEL forms; included in GUIDE ADCPDL
FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation programing language
FORTRAN Formula Translation
forward channel Communications path carrying information from the call initiator to the called party.
forward delay interval Amount of time an interface spends listening for topology change information after
that interfaceis activated for bridging and before forwarding actually begins.
forward explicit congestion notification See FE.
forwarding Process of sending a frame toward its ultimate destination by way of an internetworking
device.
FOTS Fiber Optics Transmission Systems. Vendor-proprietary fiber-optic transmission equipment.
FOTS Fibre Optic Terminal System
FOTS Fibre Optic Transmission System (f: FOTS)
FOTS Fibre Optic Transmission System
FOTS Fibre Optics Transmission System
FOTSD Fibre Design
four-part dotted notation See dot address.
Fourier transform Technique used to evaluate the importance of various frequency cycles in a time series
pattern.
FP Floating Point
FP Floor Price (f: PM)
FPA Floating Point Accelerator
FPALU Floating Point ALU
FPC Facilities Provisioning (Centralized)
FPC Floating Point Controller
FPD Facilities Provisioning (Decentralized)
FPD Flat Panel Display
FPDU Frame Relay Protocol Data Unit
FPEVENT Floating Point Event
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPM Fast Page Mode
FPOP Floating Point OPerations
FPP Fibre Protection Panel
FPP Flat Plastic Package
FPP Fibre Patch Panel (f: CRF)
FPPA Fibre Patch Panel Assembly (f: CRF)
FPPA Fibre Patch Panel Assembly
FPPA FIBER PATCH PANEL ASSEMBLY
FPQ Firm Price Quote
FPQLIST List of FPQ form Nortel
FPROM Fixed Programmable Read Only Memory
FPS Fiskars Power Systems
FPS Frames per Second
FPS fast packet switch
FPU Floating Point Unit
FPWG Fundamental Planning Working Group
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name. FQDN is the full name of a system, rather than just its host name. For
example, aldebaran is a host name, and aldebaran.interop.com is an FQDN.
FQND Fully Qualified Name Domain
FQVS REMEDY-BONDS
FR Failure Rate
FR Flat Rate
FR Frame
FR Frame Relay
FR Feasibility Review
FR Frame Relay
FRAC Frame Relay Assignment Centre
fractional services Bandwidth available from carriers in increments of 64Kbit/s, such as Mercury's
Switchband.
fractional T1 See channelized T1.
FRAD Frame Relay access device. Any network device that provides a connection between a LAN and a Frame Relay
WAN. See also Cisco FRAD (Cisco Frame Relay access device) and FRAS (Frame Relay access support).
FRAD Frame Relay Access Device
FRAD Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
FRAD Frame Relay Access Device
fragment Piece of a larger packet that has been broken down to smaller units.
fragmentation Process of breaking a packet into smaller units when transmitting over a network medium that
cannot support the original size of the packet. See also reassembly.
FRAM Ferromagnetic RAM
frame Logical grouping of information sent as a data link layer unit over a transmission medium. Often
refers to the header and trailer, used for synchronization and error control, that surround the user data
contained in the unit. The terms cell, datagram, message, packet, and segment are also used to describe
logical information groupings at various layers of the OSI reference model and in various technology
circles.
Frame Check Sequence See FCFS.
frame forwarding Mechanism by which frame-based traffic, such as HDLC and SDLC, traverses an ATM network.
Frame Relay Industry-standard, switched data link layer protocol that handles multiple virtual circuits
using HDLC encapsulation between connected devices. A wideband (64 Kbps to 1.544 Mbps) high-speed packet-
based data switching interface standard that transmits bursts of data over wide area networks (WANs). Frame-
relay packets vary in length from 7 to 1024 bytes. FR is based on link access procedure of D-channels (LAPD)
protocol. Since frame relays are data oriented, they are not usually used for voice or video. It has error
detection, but has no error correction. Frame Relay is more efficient than X.25, the protocol for which it
is generally considered a replacement. See also X.25. (FR)
Frame Relay access device See FRAD.
Frame Relay assembler/ disassembler A device to interface a customer's local area network (LAN) with the
frame relay wide area network (WAN). This device interfaces a local management interface (LMI) with an
Internet packet exchange (IPX) switch port. (FRAD)
Frame Relay bridging Bridging technique, described in RFC 1490, that uses the same spanning-tree algorithm as
other bridging functions, but allows packets to be encapsulated for transmission across a Frame Relay
network.
Frame Relay network A telecommunications network based on frame relay technology. Data is multiplexed.
Contrast with packet-switching network.
frame switch See LAN switch.
FRAP Frame Relay Access Processor
FRAS Frame Relay Access Support. Cisco IOS feature that allows SDLC, Token Ring, Ethernet, and Frame Relay-
attached IBM devices to connect to other IBM devices across a Frame Relay network. See also FRAD.
FRASM Frame Relay Access Service Module.
FRBS Frame Relay Bearer Service
FRC Facility Replacement Cost (f: CRE)
FRD Feature Requirements Document
FRDT Feeder Route Design Tool
FRE Fast Routing Engines
FRE Frame Relay Engine
free-trade zone Part of an AppleTalk internetwork that is accessible by two other parts of the internetwork
that are unable to directly access one another.
freenet Community-based bulletin board system with e-mail, information services, interactive communications,
and conferencing.
Freenet A network system made up of community-based bulletin board systems with email, information services,
interactive communications, and conferencing. They are usually funded and operated by individuals or
organizations much like public television. Freenet providers are part of the National Public Telecomputing
Network (NPTN), a Cleveland-based organization that works to make computer networking services as freely
available as public libraries.
FREP Frame Relay Entry Point
frequency Number of cycles, measured in hertz, of an alternating current signal per unit time.
frequency modulation See FM.
frequency-division multiplexing See FDM.
FRER Frame Relay Equipment Request
FRF Frame Relay Forum. An association of corporate members consisting of vendors, carriers, users and
consultants committed to the implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national and international
standards. See www.frforum.com.
FRF.11 Frame Relay Forum implementation agreement for Voice over Frame Relay (v1.0 May 1997). This
specification defines multiplexed data, voice, fax, DTMF digit-relay and CAS/Robbed-bit signaling frame
formats, but does not include call setup, routing or administration facilities. See www.frforum.com.
FRF.11 Annex C See FRF.12.
FRF.12 The FRF.12 Implementation Agreement (also known as FRF.11 Annex C) was developed to allow long data
frames to be fragmented into smaller pieces and interleaved with real-time frames. In this way, real-time
voice and non real-time data frames can be carried together on lower speed links without causing excessive
delay to the real-time traffic. See www.frforum.com.
FRF11-trunk Point to point permanent voice connection (private line) conforming to the FRF.11
specification.
FRFR Frame Relay Facility Request
FRI Financial Research Institute
FRI Frame Relay Interface
FRIC Frame Relay Implementation Centre
FRIU Frame Relay Interface Unit
FRIU Frame Relay Interface Unit
FRL Frame Relay Link
FRM Font Reconstruction Module
FRM Foreman
FRMR Frame Reject
FRMR Frame REJECT.
FRNM Frame Relay Network Manager
FRO Flat Rate Optimizer
FROC Frame Relay Operations Centre
FROM Factory Programmable Read Only Memory
front end The client part of a client/server application that requests services across a network from a
server, or back end. It typically provides an interactive interface to the user, for example, a data entry
front end, allowing data to be entered into a server through the use of SQL; A node or software program that
requests services of a back end. See also back end, client, and server.
front end network A network that interconnects workstations, word processors, personal computers,
facsimiles, terminals, and printers. A front end network is often a local area network (LAN), and is
connected to a front-end processor or a computer's communications port.
front-end processor See FEP.
FROT Frame Relay Order Template
FRP Frame Relay Path
FRPD Flat Rate Public Dial
FRPS Force Reporting Planning System (f: FRPS)
FRS Failure Recovery System
FRS Frame Relay Service
FRS Frame Relay Switch
FRS Frame Relay Service.
FRT SHT Ferrite Sheet
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
FRUT Frame Relay Usage Terminator
FS File Separator
FS Frame Status
FS-VDSL FULL SERVICE VDSL SPECIFICATIONS GROUP
FSA Forward Sortation Area (f: RTA)
FSAN Full Service Access Network
FSC Fibre System Controller
FSC frame service circuit
FSCA Foreign Switching Centre Area (f: ZDCE)
FSCB File Status Control Block
FSCO Fiber System Control Office (f: CCF)
FSCO Fibre System Control Office
FSE Fiber SCSI Extension
FSE Field Support Engineering
FSE FIELD SUPPORT ENGINEER
FSIOP File Server Input-Output Processor
FSIP Fast Serial Interface Processor
FSIP Fast Serial Interface Processor. Default serial interface processor for Cisco 7000 series routers. The
FSIP provides four or eight high-speed serial ports.
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSN Forward Sequence Number
FSO Field Services Optimization (f: COSE)
FSOS Field Services Operations System (f: FSOS)
FSOS Field Services Operating System
FSOS Field Service Operating System
FSOS Field Service Operation System
FSOS Field Services Operations System
FSP Fax-Scanning-Printing
FSP Frame Supervisory Panel
FSRAM Flesh Static RAM
FSS File System Switch
FST Financial Services Trial
FST Flat Square Tube
FST Full Service Terminal
FST File Status Table
FST Flatter, Squarer Tube
FST Fast Sequenced Transport. Connectionless, sequenced transport protocol that runs on top of the IP
protocol. SRB traffic is encapsulated inside of IP datagrams and is passed over an FST connection between
two network devices (such as routers). Speeds up data delivery, reduces overhead, and improves the response
time of SRB traffic.
FSTB File Status Table Block
FSTN Film SuperTwist Nematic
FT Fault Tolerant
FT Fibre Transport
FT Fourier Transformation
FT-1 Fractional T-1
FT-1 (FT1) A fractional digital service hierarchy level 1 with service in multiples of 56 or 64 Kbps over
two channels at 112 or 128 Kbps or above, and up to 23 channels. Common rates for this type of service are
256, 512, 768, and 1024 Kbps. FT-1 uses a portion of a 24-channel T1 circuit. FT1 allows 64 Kbps increments
from 2-channel 128 Kbps through all 24 channels at 1.544 Mbps.
FT-3 (FT3) A fractional digital service hierarchy level 3 with service in multiples of 1.344 Mbps. FT-3
uses a portion of a 672-channel T3 circuit for any mix of voice, data or broadcast-quality video.
FTA Floptical Technology Association
FTAM File Transfer Access and Management
FTAM File Transfer, Access, and Management
FTAM File Transfer Access and Management
FTAM File Transfer, Access, and Management. In OSI, an application layer protocol developed for network file
exchange and management between diverse types of computers.
FTC Federal Trade Commission
FTEAM Foreign Test Equipment Access Module
FTF File Transfer Facility
FTG File Transfer Gateway
FTK FSOS Tool Kit
FTMA Fault Tolerant Machine Architecture
FTN Formulated Twist Nematic
FTP Foil Twisted Pair
FTP Field Trial Plan
FTP protocole de transfert de fichier
FTP File Transfer Protocol. Application protocol, part of the TCP/IP protocol stack, used for transferring
files between network nodes. FTP is defined in RFC 959.
FTR Field trial report
FTR Filed Trial Report
FTS Fuel Tracking System
FTSA Fault Tolerant System Architecture
FTTB Fiber To The Building
FTTC Fiber To The Curb
FTTC Fibre To The Curb
FTTC Fiber To The Curb
FTTCAB Fibre to The Cabinet
FTTD Fiber To The Desk
FTTERM PC/Host File Transfer and TERMinal Emulator Program
FTTH Fiber To The Home
FTTH Fibre To The Home
FTTN Fiber to the node
FTTP Fiber To The Premise. The most extreme implementation of fiber optic transmission systems, increasing
levels of band width and speeding up transmission over long distances without the requirement for expensive
and troublesome repeaters.
FTUBS Flexible Toll Usage Billing System
FTY Forecast Test Year
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
Full Duplex Capability for simultaneous data transmission between a sending station and a receiving
station. Synonym: 4-wire. Compare with half duplex and simplex. (FD)
Full Duplex Ethernet A new proposal for Ethernet using a structured wiring solution. Structured wiring enables
point to point connectivity, making it possible to enable transmission and reception of signals to occur
simultaneously, thus doubling the available bandwidth to 20 Mbps.
full mesh Term describing a network in which devices are organized in a mesh topology, with each network node
having either a physical circuit or a virtual circuit connecting it to every other network node. A full mesh
provides a great deal of redundancy, but because it can be prohibitively expensive to implement, it is
usually reserved for network backbones. See also mesh and partial mesh.
fully qualified domain name See FQDN.
FUNI Frame User Network Interface.
Fusebay Base de donnees des fusibles de 5 amperes ou moins
Fuzzball Digital Equipment Corporation LSI-11 computer system running IP gateway software. The NSFnet used
these systems as backbone packet switches.
FVS File Variable Storage
FW fire wall
FWAN Frame Relay Wide Area Network
FWFM Federated Work Force Management
FWFM Federated Workforce Management System
FWO Facility Work Order
FWO Facility Work Order. Usually means T1 and up versus CWO
FWO Facility Work Order
FX Foreign Exchange
FX Foreign Exchange (Service)
FX Foreign eXchange
FXH File Execution Header
FXO Foreign Exchange Office
FXO Foreign Exchange Office. An FXO interface connects to the Public Switched Telephone Network's (PSTN)
central office and is the interface offered on a standard telephone. Cisco's FXO interface is an RJ-11
connector that allows an analog connection to be directed at the PSTN's central office or to a station
interface on a PBX.
FXS Foreign Exchange Station. An FXS interface connects directly to a standard telephone and supplies ring,
voltage, and dial tone. Cisco's FXS interface is an RJ-11 connector that allows connections to basic
telephone service equipment, keysets, and PBXes.
FXS Foreign Exchange Subscriber
FXT Foreign Exchange Trunk
FXU Fixed Point Execution Unit
FYI For Your Information
G Giga - One Billion
G Ground
G.703/G.704 ITU-T electrical and mechanical specifications for connections between telephone company
equipment and DTE using BNC connectors and operating at E1 data rates.
G.711 Describes the 64-kbps PCM voice coding technique. In G.711, encoded voice is already in the correct
format for digital voice delivery in the PSTN or through PBXs. Described in the ITU-T standard in its G-
series recommendations.
G.723.1 Describes a compression technique that can be used for compressing speech or audio signal components
at a very low bit rate as part of the H.324 family of standards. This CODEC has two bit rates associated
with it: 5.3 and 6.3 kbps. The higher bit rate is based on ML-MLQ technology and provides a somewhat higher
quality of sound. The lower bit rate is based on CELP and provides system designers with additional
flexibility. Described in the ITU-T standard in its G-series recommendations.
G.726 Describes ADPCM coding at 40, 32, 24, and 16 kbps. ADPCM-encoded voice can be interchanged between
packet voice, PSTN, and PBX networks if the PBX networks are configured to support ADPCM. Described in the
ITU-T standard in its G-series recommendations.
G.728 Describes a 16-kbps low-delay variation of CELP voice compression. CELP voice coding must be
translated into a public telephony format for delivery to or through the PSTN. Described in the ITU-T
standard in its G-series recommendations.
G.729 Describes CELP compression where voice is coded into 8-kbps streams. There are two variations of
this standard (G.729 and G.729 Annex A) that differ mainly in computational complexity both provide speech
quality similar to 32-kbps ADPCM. Described in the ITU-T standard in its G-series recommendations.
G.804 ITU-T framing standard that defines the mapping of ATM cells into the physical medium.
G.C. General Circular
GA Gauge
GA General Availability
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (f: PCGR)
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAB Group Access Bridging (f: CMU)
GAE Gestion d'appels évoluée (e: ECM)
GAF General Administration Forecast
GAF General Area Forecast
GAI General accounting instruction (f: ICGE)
GAIC Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit
GAN Global Aerial Network
GAP General All Purpose
GAP Genereic Address Partner
GARS Group Accounting Reporting System for Corporate Accounts
GATE Graphics Applied to TElecommunications
gatekeeper 1. Component of an H.323 conferencing system that performs call address resolution, admission
control, and subnet bandwidth management. 2. Telecommunications: H.323 entity on a LAN that provides address
translation and control access to the LAN for H.323 terminals and gateways. The gatekeeper can provide other
services to the H.323 terminals and gateways, such as bandwidth management and locating gateways. A
gatekeeper maintains a registry of devices in the multimedia network. The devices register with the
gatekeeper at startup and request admission to a call from the gatekeeper.
gateway 1. In the IP community, an older term referring to a routing device. Today, the term router is used
to describe nodes that perform this function, and gateway refers to a special-purpose device that performs
an application layer conversion of information from one protocol stack to another. Compare with router. 2. A
kind of "go-between" device or program that passes information between networks that normally couldn't
communicate. What used to be called a gateway is now called a router. Not to be confused with a protocol
converter.
Gateway Switch which recognizes call as Voice or Data & routes it to ISP or PSTN
Gateway Discovery Protocol See GDP.
gateway host In SNA, a host node that contains a gateway SSCP.
gateway NCP NCP that connects two or more SNA networks and performs address translation to allow cross-
network session traffic.
gateway protocol converter An application-specific node that converts data codes and transmission protocols to
enable interoperability between incompatible networks. Contrast with bridge.
gateway server A station on the local area network (LAN) that makes the connection to the host available to
one or more network users.
Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol See GGP.
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GB Giga Byte
Gb Gigabit (= 1,024Mb)
GB GigaByte
GB Gigabyte (= 1,024MB)
GB Great Britain
GB Ground Brace
GB Giga Byte
GB GigaByte. Approximately 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Gb GigaBit. Approximately 1,000,000,000 bits.
GB/S Giga Bits Per Second
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter
GBM General Business Market (f: MGA, AAC)
GBps GigaBytes per second.
Gbps GigaBits per second.
GBTA Gross Billed Total Amount
GBUA Gross Billed Usage Amount
GC General Circular
GCAC Generic Connection Admission Control. In ATM, a PNNI algorithm designed for CBR and VBR connections. Any
node can use GCAC to calculate the expected CAC behavior of another node given than node's advertised link
metrics and the QoS of a connection setup request. See also CAC.
GCC Generic Conference Control.
GCC General Commercial Circular
GCF Graphics Composition Facility
GCN Global Commerce Network
GCOS General Complex Operating System
GCRA Generic Cell Rate Algorithm. In ATM, an algorithm that defines conformance with respect to the traffic
contract of the connection. For each cell arrival, the GCRA determines whether the cell conforms to the
traffic contract.
GCS Group Control System (component)
GCT Gestionnaire des commandes de traduction (e: TOM)
GDC-NMS ATM Netwrl mgr
GDDM Graphical Data Display Manager
GDF Group Distributing Frame
GDG Generation Dataset Groups
GDI Graphics Device Interface
GDIR Geographic Directory
GDMO Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects
GDP Gross Domestic Product (f: PIB)
GDP Gateway Discovery Protocol. Cisco protocol that allows hosts to dynamically detect the arrival of new
routers as well as determine when a router goes down. Based on UDP. See also UDP in the main glossary.
GDP See Gateway Discovery Protocol.
GDS Global Directory Service
GDSS Group Decision Support System
GDT Global Descriptor Table
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GEIS General Electric Information Services
GEM Graphics Environment Manager
GEN General (TARS system default use code)
GEN Global European Network
GEN General
general tariff The published volume of rates, rules and regulations concerning specific equipment and
services provided by a telecommunications common carrier.
General Telephone Operating Company (GTOC) An operating company owned by GTE.
generic applications Advanced communications applications addressing common user needs
generic connection admission control See GCAC.
generic routing encapsulation See GRE.
generic service A general in format computer service or application that can be manipulated to form a specific
service or application.
GENESIS Generic Information Access System
GENIE Generic Enterprise Network Information Environment
GENVAL order validation software
GenVal General Validation
GEO Geostationary Orbit (satellite)
GERM Generalized Entity Relationship Model
GESMAT GESTION DU MATERIEL
GESPER Humain ressources management
GESPRO QR system to track hours of installation charged by
GESTEQUIP Mgmt of equip used by Bell
GESTIONAIR Air pressurization tool
GestMat Equipment management
GESTUE Plug-in managment; Special services 879 orders (new in); up to 13 data transfers
Get Nearest Server See GNS.
GFC General Facilities Card
GFC Generic Flow Control
GFI General Format Information
GFLOPS GigaFLOPS
GFT Generic Forms Tool
GFT General Forms Tool
GGM Graphic Geofile Manager
GGP Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol
GGP Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol. MILNET protocol specifying how core routers (gateways) should exchange
reachability and routing information. GGP uses a distributed shortest-path algorithm.
GHC General Hardware Complex
Ghz Gigahertz
GHz GigaHertz.
GIA General International Area
GIC Group Intercom
GIC Guaranteed investment certificate (f: CPG)
GICA Group Intercom Access
GICL Group Intercom Long
GICS Group Intercom Short
GID Group IDentification
gigabit Abbreviated Gb.
gigabits per second Abbreviated Gbps.
gigabyte Abbreviated GB.
gigabytes per second Abbreviated GBps.
gigahertz Abbreviated GHz.
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GINP Government Intelligent Network Pilot
GIPROQ Gestion Intégrée de la PROductivité et de la Qalité
GIProQ1 PC data store - used with RAMIS
GIS Geographic Information Systems
GIS Geographical Information System
GIS Guaranteed income supplement (f: SRG)
GIS Geographic Information System
GISN Global Intelligent Service Node
GISN Global Intelligent Services Network
GIX Global Internet eXchange. Common routing exchange point which allows pairs of networks to implement
agreed-upon routing policies. The GIX is intended to allow maximum connectivity to the Internet for networks
all over the world. See CIX, FIX, and MAE.
GKS Graphic Kernel Standard
GKS Graphics Kernel System
GKS Graphics Kernal System
GLCS Global Limits Control System
gleaning Process by which a router automatically derives AARP table entries from incoming packets. Gleaning
speeds up the process of populating the AARP table. See also AARP.
GLM Gigabaud Link Module
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) A two-way, pan-European digital cellular system. Its
specification is in line with ISDN and ITU-TS System 7 signaling and approved by almost all European
countries. GSM operates at 900MHz and is a forerunner to the mass-market Personal Communications Networks,
based on the same set of standards. GSM services include current digital subscriber services and the unique
Short Message Service a superior form of paging offering up to 160 alphanumeric characters with guaranteed
delivery.
GLR General Ledger Redevelopment
GLS Global Limit System
GM General Manager
GM General MIDI
GM GamesMania
GMF Graphics Monitor Facility
GMHS Global Message Handling Services
GML Generalized Markup Language (f: GML)
GMS Global Management System
GMS Global Messaging Service Novell))
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GMT Service de gestion des messages téléphoniques (e: VMS)
GN Gain
GNB Gain New Business
GND Graphical Network Display
GNE Gateway Network Element
GNE Graphic Network Editor
GNE Gateway Network Element on SONET rings
GNE Graphics Network Editor
GNIP Government Intelligent Network Pilot
GNMC Global Network Management Center
GNMS Government Network Management System (f: GNMS)
GNMS Syst de gest du réseau de télécommunic fédérales (e: GNMS)
GNMS Government Network Management System
GNOC Government Network Operations Centre
GNS Get Nearest Server. Request packet sent by a client on an IPX network to locate the nearest active server
of a particular type. An IPX network client issues a GNS request to solicit either a direct response from a
connected server or a response from a router that tells it where on the internetwork the service can be
located. GNS is part of the IPX SAP. See also IPX and SAP (Service Advertisement Protocol).
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GO list Idea is approved and becomes a project
GOALSYS On-line documentation system used at BMC
GOMS Gateways Order Management System
goodput Generally referring to the measurement of actual data successfully transmitted from the sender(s) to
receiver(s). This is often a more useful measurement than the number of ATM cells per second throughput of
an ATM switch if that switch is experiencing cell loss that results in many incomplete, and therefore
unusable, frames arriving at the recipient.
Gopher distributed document delivery system. The Internet Gopher allows a neophyte user to access various
types of data residing on multiple hosts in a seamless fashion.
Gopher An information search and retrieval tool used widely for research. Gopher information is stored
hierarchically on computers across the Internet. It uses a simple protocol that allows a client to access
information from a multitude of numerous Gopher servers at one time, creating what's known as gopher space.
The most common search tools in gopher are Veronica and Jughead. Gopher clients exist for most platforms.
HDSL High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
GOS Grade of Service
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
GOSIP Government OSI Profile (USA and UK)
GOSIP Government OSI Profile. U.S. government procurement specification for OSI protocols. Through GOSIP,
the government mandates that all federal agencies standardize on OSI and implement OSI-based systems as they
become commercially available.
GOTCHA Golden Opportunity to Check Homogenous Access
Government OSI Profile See GOSIP.
GP Projects management tool
GPA Gas Pressure Alarm
GPB&RS General Plant Budget and Results System
GPC General Purpose Complex (f: OU)
GPC General Purpose Computer (f: OU)
GPC Graphics Performance Characterization Committee
GPC General Purpose Complex
GPCP General Purpose Communications Processor
GPE Gross Provincial Expenditure (f: DPB)
GPF General Planning Forecast
GPF General planning forecasts (f: PPG)
GPF GENERAL PLANNING FORECAST
GPF General Planning Forecasts system
GPF GENERAL PLANNING FORECAST
GPF FRONT EN Used to revise GPFs on a switch basis
GPI Graphics Programming Interface
GPI Gateways Product Infobase
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus (= IEEE-488)
GPIB General-Purpose Interface Bus
GPID Graphics Printing and Imaging Department
GPL Generalized Programming Language
GPL Global Private Line
GPLIT Gestion Project Low Insulation trouble project management system; Preventive cod
GPP Gross Personal Product (f: PPB)
GPR Ground Potential Rise
GPS Global Position System
GPS Global Positioning System
GPS Global Positioning Satellite for NE satellite clocking
GPS Geographic (or Global) Positioning System
GPSS General Purposes System Simulator
GPSS Global Positioning Satellite System
GPSS General Purpose Simulation System
GPT Gas Pressure Talk
GQBE Graphical Query-By-Example
GQL Graphical Query Language
GRACOL Graphics and Color Script
Grade of Service Measure of telephone service quality based on the probability that a call will encounter
a busy signal during the busiest hours of the day. The probability of a call being blocked by busy trunks,
expressed as a decimal fraction of the busy-hour probability. (GS)
GRAN The Group Account screen in LINK and CNBS
GRANIT Geo-referenced Access Network Information & Tracking System
graphical user interface See GUI.
GRASS Geographical Resources Analisys Support System
GRD Ground
GRE generic routing encapsulation. Tunneling protocol developed by Cisco that can encapsulate a wide variety
of protocol packet types inside IP tunnels, creating a virtual point-to-point link to Cisco routers at
remote points over an IP internetwork. By connecting multiprotocol subnetworks in a single-protocol backbone
environment, IP tunneling using GRE allows network expansion across a single-protocol backbone environment.
GREP Get Regular Expression Processing
GRFS Growth Ratio Forecasting System
GRG Graphical Report Generator (module of ADR use data retreived by ADR)
GRN Global Recycling Network
ground station Collection of communications equipment designed to receive signals from (and usually transmit
signals to) satellites. Also called a downlink station.
group 1. A group of 12 voice channels processed as a unit in a carrier systems 2. A number of trunks
dedicated to the provision of identical service in a customer's private branch exchange (PBX) equipment. 3.
In the context of network security, a group is a set of users who share common permissions for one or more
resources. Individually assigned user permissions take precedence over those assigned through groups.
Group 1 fax An analog facsimile device that transmits or receives a standard page in four to six minutes.
Group 1 machines are no longer manufactured and are rarely used in today's market.
Group 2 fax An analog facsimile device that transmits or receives a page in two or three minutes. These
systems offer some data-compression techniques for faster transmission and can be compatible with group 1
devices. Like the group 1 units, group 2 models are not actively marketed today.
Group 3 Standard created by the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications (ITU-T) relating
to fax devices. A Group 3 fax device is a digital machine containing a 14400 baud modem that can transmit an
8 1/2 by 11 inch page in approximately 20 seconds with a resolution of either 203 by 98 dots per inch (dpi)
or 203 by 196 dpi (fine), using Huffman code to compress fax data. Group 3 faxes use a standard dial-up
telephone line for transmission.
Group 3 fax A digital facsimile device that transmits or receives a page in one minute or less. This is
the standard for current facsimile devices. The Group 3 fax protocols are based on the assumption that there
is a mechanical fax machine at the far end of the line, and that the timing of outgoing images can be paced
to match the motor and print head on that machine. Because the stream of data that's sent by way of a modem
server tends to be "bursty," the data might arrive at the modem too soon, or too late, to satisfy the timing
constraints required by the fax protocol. Machines that can recognize speed can automatically select the
fastest speed available when sending to or receiving from group1 or group 2 devices. The 200 x 200 dots per
inch resolution of a typical group 3 fax machine is adequate for text.
group address A method of simultaneously transmitting data to specific groups of stations. See multicast
address.
group delay See distortion delay.
Group Format Identifier (X.25 reference) the first four bits in a packet header, GFl contains the obit, Dbit
and modulus value. (GFI)
groupware A network-oriented, production/management software designed to expedite office automation. Groupware
integrates such features as electronic mail, scheduling, task and appointment reminders, document sharing,
project tracking, group calendars, and shared to-do lists.
GRP Group
GS General Specifications
GS Gross Salvage (f: VRB)
GS Ground Start
GS Ground Supply
GS Group Subscriber
GSC General System Connect
GSD General Switching Division
GSD General Systems Division
GSDN Global Software Defined Network (AT&T see GVCN {Canada})
GSF Generic Service Framework (UCT dans DMS-100)
GSL Grammar Specification Language
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GSM Global System for Mobile Telecommunications
GSP Graphic Subroutine Package
GSP Graphics Systems Processor
GSS Generic Service State.
GST Goods and Services Tax (f: TPS)
GST Goods and Services Tax
GSTN General Switched Telephone Network
GT General Tariff
GT Global title (f: AG)
GTA Government Telecommunications Agency
GTA Government Telephone Agency
GTCS Group TeleConferencing System (f: STM)
GTCS Group Teleconferencing System
GTE A clearing house for cellular carriers
GTF General Trunk Forecast (f: PGC)
GTI Graphical Tester Interface
GTL Gunning Transceiver Logic
GTN Group Termination Network
GTN Go-together telephone number
GTOC General Telephone Operating Company
GTP Graduate Training Program
GTR Generalized Transaction Router
GTT Global title translation (f: TAG)
GTT Global Title Translation
guard band Unused frequency band between two communications channels that provides separation of the
channels to prevent mutual interference.
guard tone A tone generated by a high speed modem dial-up modem to ensure that there is sufficient
bandwidth available on the PSTN circuit for transmission.
GUI graphical user interface. User environment that uses pictorial as well as textual representations of the
input and output of applications and the hierarchical or other data structure in which information is
stored. Conventions such as buttons, icons, and windows are typical, and many actions are performed using a
pointing device (such as a mouse). Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh are prominent examples of
platforms using a GUI.
GUI Graphic User Interface (f: IUG)
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUI graphic user interface
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUI GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE
GUIBB Graphical User Interface Building Block (f: MIUG)
GUIBB Graphical User Interface Building Block (reusable code GUI)
GUIDE Guidance for Users of Integrated Dp Equipment
GUIDE PROCESS BILLS FROM SYGMA
Guide 9409 Guide 9409
Guide USOC Guide USOC
GVC gestion de la valeur-client (e: CVM)
GVCN Global Virtual Corporate Network (Canada see GSDN {AT&T})
GVG Grass Valley Group
GVNS Global Virtual Network Service
GVVS Grass Valley Video Switch
GWSP Ground Window Splice Plate
GZ GNU Zip
H Henry
H Hex (Hexadecimal)
H Hold
H Installation Start Date
H Northern Installation Start Date
H channel High-speed channel. The ISDN packet switched channel on Basic Rate Interface, designed to carry user
information streams at different speeds, depending on type: H11=1536Kbit/s, H0=384Kbit/s and H12=
1920Kbit/s. Full-duplex ISDN primary rate channel operating at 384 Kbps. Compare with B channel, D channel,
and E channel.
H.225.0 An ITU standard that governs H.225.0 session establishment and packetization. H.225.0 actually
describes several different protocols: RAS, use of Q.931, and use of RTP.
H.245 An ITU standard that governs H.245 endpoint control.
H.320 Suite of ITU-T standard specifications for videoconferencing over circuit-switched media such as
ISDN, fractional T-1, and switched-56 lines.
H.323 Extension of ITU-T standard H.320 that enables videoconferencing over LANs and other packet-switched
networks, as well as video over the Internet.
H.323 RAS Registration, Admission, and Status. The RAS signaling protocol performs registration, admissions,
bandwidth changes, and status and disengage procedures between the VoIP gateway and the gatekeeper.
H/W Hardware
H88 Hexa-88 Milli-Henrys Loaded Cable
hacker A computer user who works to understand the ins and outs of computers, networks, and the Internet in
general. Hackers are generally benign, and are not to be confused with the more malicious crackers.
HADS Hobic administrative TTY (f: THA)
hairpin Telephony term that means to send a call back in the direction that it came from. For example, if a
call cannot be routed over IP to a gateway that is closer to the target telephone, the call is typically
sent back out the local zone, back the way it came from.
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HAL Hardware Access Layer
HAL Highly Automated Library
Half Duplex Capability of a circuit for data transmission in only one direction at a time between a
sending station and a receiving station. BSC is an example of a half-duplex protocol. See also BSC. Compare
with full duplex and simplex. (HD, HDX)
hands free operation The use of a speakerphone that allows the user to speak and listen without using the
handset.
handset The hand held part of the telephone. The handset consists of a receiver and transmitter at the ends
of a common handle, and is connected to the telephone handset mounting.
handshake Sequence of messages exchanged between two or more network devices to ensure transmission
synchronization.
handshaking The exchange of predetermined signals for the purposes of control when a connection is
established between two data sets.
HARC Houston Advanced Research Center
hardware address See MAC address.
hardwire To wire or cable directly between units of equipment.
HASP Hardware for Software Protection
HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Program
HASS (MCI) Hyperstream Application Support Services
HATS Hardware Assigning and Tracking System
HATS Hardware Assignment and Tracking System
HATS Hardware Assigning and Tracking System
HATS Hardware Assignment and Tracking System-assigns ports on DPN
HATS hybrid access transmission system
HBA Heavy Business Area
HBD3 Line code type used on E1 circuits.
HC Handling Cost (f: FM)
HC High Capacitance
HCDS High Capacity Digital Service
HCI Human-computer Interaction
HCI human computer interaction
HCL Hummingbird Communications Ltd
HCM High Capacity Multiplexing
HCMOS High Speed Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
HCPP Host Controlled Paper Path
HCS Hal Computer Systems
HCS Header Check Sequence
HCSS High Capacity Storage System
HCV High Capacity Voice
HD Hard Disk
HD High Density
HD HELP DESK
HDAM Hierarchical Direct Access Method
HDAS Hybrid Data Acquisition System
HDB High Dielectric BN Complements
HDBH High Day Busy Hour
HDCD High Density Compact Disk
hdCD-DVD High Density - CD Digital Video Disk
hdCD-RAM High Density - Compact Disk Random Access Memory
hdCD-ROM High Density - Compact Disk Read Only Memory
HDD Hard Disc Drive
HDD Computer Hard Disk Drive
HDDI Host Displaywriter Document Interchange
HDDR High Density Digital Recording
HDIC High Density Industrial/commercial
HDLC High - Level Data Link Control
HDLC High Level Data Link Control
HDLC High-Level Data Link Control
HDLC high level data link control
HDLC High-Level Data Link Control. Bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol developed by ISO. Derived
from SDLC, HDLC specifies a data encapsulation method on synchronous serial links using frame characters and
checksums. See also SDLC.
HDMS High Density Management System
HDR Header
HDR High availability Data Replication
HDR High Density Route
HDR Heavy Density Route
HDS Human Designed Systems
HDSL High Bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HDSL High rate Digital Subscriber Line
HDSL High-Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line (provides DS1 rate over Copper at 3-4 time
HDSL High Bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (can only go on unloaded pairs)
HDSL High-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line. One of four DSL technologies. HDSL delivers 1.544 Mbps of
bandwidth each way over two copper twisted pairs. Because HDSL provides T1 speed, telephone companies have
been using HDSL to provision local access to T1 services whenever possible. The operating range of HDSL is
limited to 12,000 feet (3658.5 meters), so signal repeaters are installed to extend the service. HDSL
requires two twisted pairs, so it is deployed primarily for PBX network connections, digital loop carrier
systems, interexchange POPs, Internet servers, and private data networks. Compare with ADSL, SDSL, and VDSL.
HDTV High Definition Television
HDTV High-Density Television
HDX Half DupleX
head end End point of a broadband network. All stations transmit toward the headend. 1. The TV and/or FM
radio receiver that receives broadcast signals, amplifies them and sends them out on a community antenna
television (CATV) distribution cable. 2. The point in a local area network (LAN) where the inbound signals
are transferred into outbound signals. The head end may contain amplification or frequency translation
equipment
Head End Hop Off (HEHO) A method of traffic engineering in which calls are completed by using long-distance
facilities directly off the switch that serves that location.
header Control information placed before data when encapsulating that data for network transmission. The
header, in conjunction with the trailer, surround the frame prior to the bridge's forwarding it to another
network. The header contains information on addressing, priority, or other message-related data. Compare
with trailer. See also PCI.
headset Telephone transmitter and receiver worn on the head to keep the hands free.
heartbeat See SQE.
HEC Header Error Control. Algorithm for checking and correcting an error in an ATM cell. Using the fifth
octet in the ATM cell header, ATM equipment will check for an error and correct the contents of the header.
The check character is calculated using a CRC algorithm allowing a single bit error in the header to be
corrected or multiple errors to be detected.
HEC Header Error Control
HELLO Interior routing protocol used principally by NSFnet nodes. HELLO allows particular packet switches
to discover minimal delay routes. Not to be confused with the Hello protocol.
hello packet Multicast packet that is used by routers for neighbor discovery and recovery. Hello packets
also indicate that a client is still operating and network-ready.
Hello protocol Protocol used by OSPF systems for establishing and maintaining neighbor relationships. Not to
be confused with HELLO.
Helmsman NTL DMS technical documentation on CD-ROM (INFODISK)
helper address Address configured on an interface to which broadcasts received on that interface will be
sent.
HEPnet High-Energy Physics Network. Research network that originated in the United States, but that has
spread to most places involved in high-energy physics. Well-known sites include Argonne National Laboratory,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and the SLAC.
hertz (Hz) Measure of frequency. The international standard unit of frequency. Hertz identically replaces
the order unit "cycles-per-second".
heterogeneous network Network consisting of dissimilar devices that run dissimilar protocols and in many
cases support dissimilar functions or applications.
HFC hybrid fiber-coaxial. Technology being developed by the cable TV industry to provide two-way, high-speed
data access to the home using a combination of fiber optics and traditional coaxial cable.
HFC Hybrid Fiber Coax
HFS Hierarchical File System
HG Horizontal Group
HG Hunt Group
HGC Hercules Graphic Card
HGT High Group Transmitting Unit
HH Half Height
HHT Hand Held Terminal
HI-UX Hitachi UNIX
HIC Hybrid Integrated Circuit
HICAP High Capacity - Cellular Network System
HICAP High Capacity - Public Mobile Telephone System
HIDAM Hierarchical Indexed Direct Access Method
hierarchical addressing Scheme of addressing that uses a logical hierarchy to determine location. For
example, IP addresses consist of network numbers, subnet numbers, and host numbers, which IP routing
algorithms use to route the packet to the appropriate location. Compare with flat addressing.
hierarchical network A network in which a designated control device regulates network access.
hierarchical routing The complex problem of routing on large networks can be simplified by reducing the size
of the networks. This is accomplished by breaking a network into a hierarchy of networks, where each level
is responsible for its own routing.
High Performance Computing and Communications See HPCC.
High Performance Computing Systems See HPCS.
High Performance Routing See HPR.
high speed Refers to data communications systems operating at speeds above 9,600 bits per second.
High speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSSI) Interface for transferring data to or from a WAN leased line
(E2, E3), or to and from a LAN via an HSSI-capable DSU and HSSI router.
High Usage (HU) group Trunk groups that serve as the first choice path between two central offices (COs),
and thus manage the highest volume of the communications traffic.
High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) A system that allows local exchange carriers to provide T1 and
fractional T1 service over existing copper wires.
High-Capacity digital services (HiCap) Bell service that uses DS1 digital facilities to provide
communications channels to BOC customers at 1.544 Mbps.
High-density bipolar three (HDB3) A line interface standard for E1, which is similar to B8ZS, that
eliminates data streams with eight or more consecutive zeros. HDB3 allows for 64 Kbps clear channel capacity
and still assures a minimum ones density required by E1 lines.
High-Energy Physics Network See HEPnet.
High-frequency bands Any frequency above the audible range: P band 225 MHz-300 MHz J band 350 MHz-530 MHz L
band 390 MHz-1550 MHz S band 1.55 GHz-5.20 GHz C band 4 GHz-6 GHz X band 5.20 GHz-10.90 GHz Ka band 19 GHz-
29 GHz Ku band 12 GHz-14 GHz Q band 36 GHz-46 GHz V band 46 GHz-56 GHz W band 56 GHz-100 GHz The lower
frequency of each pair is for the downlink; the higher, for the uplink.
High-Level Data Link Control See HDLC.
High-Performance File System (HPFS) An OS/2 file system that has faster input/output than the file allocation
table file system; it does not restrict file naming to eight characters with a three character extension;
and is compatible with the FAT file system.
High-Performance Parallel Interface See HIPPI.
High-Speed Communications Interface See HSCI.
High-speed digital subscriber loop A local loop using copper technology and providing two unidirectional 1.5
Mbps channels, one in each direction.
High-Speed Serial Interface See HSSI.
highway See bus.
HIM Highly Integrated Microprocessor
HIP HSSI Interface Processor. Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The HIP provides one HSSI
port that supports connections to ATM, SMDS, Frame Relay, or private lines at speeds up to T3 or E3.
HIPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface. High-performance interface standard defined by ANSI. HIPPI is
typically used to connect supercomputers to peripherals and other devices.
HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HIPT Hosted Internet Protocol Telephony
HIS Host Interface Shelf
HISAM Hierarchical Indexed Sequential Accessed Method
hit Any disruption of service that lasts for less than one second. A longer disruption is called an outage.
HLD Hold
HLDA High-Level Design Automation
HLDD High Level Design Document. Pseudo code mainframe pgm design
HLE High Level Estimate
HLI High Level Index
HLL High Level Language
HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface
HLLAPI High-Level Language Application Programming Interface
HLLAPI High-Level-Language Application Program Interface
HLLS high level language system
HLR Home Location Register
HLS Hue, Luminance, Saturation
HLSI Hybrid Large Scale Integration
HLU HIGHGAIN LINE UNIT
HMA High Memory Area
HMD Head Mounted Display
HMI Host Machine Interface
HMI Hub Management Interface
HMIM Human Machine Interface Module
HMP Company Holiday
HMS Hierarchical Master Slave Synchronization
HN Hundreds
HNPA Home Numbering Plan Area
HO Held Orders
HOBIC Hotel Billing Information Centre
HOBIC Hotel Billing Centre
HOFAC Hotel facturation
HOFAC Tandem Computer
HOL Holiday Table
hold The operation of briefly exiting a telephone call without disconnecting. Various methods of placing a
call on hold are available, depending on the type of telephone system in use
holdback A portion of the agent commission withheld to cover possible bad debts.
holddown State into which a route is placed so that routers will neither advertise the route nor accept
advertisements about the route for a specific length of time (the holddown period). Holddown is used to
flush bad information about a route from all routers in the network. A route is typically placed in holddown
when a link in that route fails.
home page The front page of an online "brochure" about an individual or organization. It is the first page
that browsers see of the infromation that is posted on the computer attached to the web. A "welcome" page.
home run cable A cable that runs from a wall outlet or faceplate to the telecommunications closet.
homing The process of returning to the starting position, as in a rotary stepping switch.
homogeneous (computer) network A network comprised of many computers of the same make and/or model.
homologation Conformity of a product or specification to international standards, such as ITU-T, CSA, TUV,
UL, or VCCI. Enables portability across company and international boundaries.
HONE Hands-On Network Environment
hookflash Short on-hook period usually generated by a telephone-like device during a call to indicate that the
telephone is attempting to perform a dial-tone recall from a PBX. Hookflash is often used to perform call
transfer.
hookswitch The device that holds the telephone receiver or handset when not in use. The weight of the
receiver or handset operates a switch in the telephone circuit, leaving only the bell connected to the line.
hoot-n-holler A voice only, full-time circuit that connects a speakerphone in one location to a speakerphone
in a distant location. This type of circuit is normally open at all times to allow two-way communications
without having to pick up the receiver or dial the telephone. Speakerphones used in this type of circuit are
full duplex, transmit and receive units. This circuit is very similar to automatic ring down (ARD) and
manual ring down (MRD) circuits.
hop See also hop count. 1. A network connection between two distant nodes. 2. A measure of distance between
two points in a network. A hop count of n means that n nodes separate the source and destination.
hop count Routing metric used to measure the distance between a source and a destination. RIP uses hop count
as its sole metric. See also hookflash and RIP.
hop off Point at which a call transitions from H.323 to non-H.323, typically at a gateway.
host Computer system on a network. Similar to node, except that host usually implies a computer system,
whereas node generally applies to any networked system, including access servers and routers. See also node.
Host A computer that is attached to a network or the Internet. Hosts allow users on client machines to connect
and share files or transfer information. Individual users communicate with hosts by using client application
programs.
host address See host number.
Host Address The address of a host computer on the Internet.
host computer The central computer in a data communications system that provides the primary data processing
functions including computation, data base access, and so forth. Often shortened to host.
host interface The connection between a network and a host computer.
host name Name given to a machine. See FQDN.
host node SNA subarea node that contains an SSCP. See also SSCP.
host number Part of an IP address that designates which node on the subnetwork is being addressed. Also
called a host address.
host processor A minicomputer or mainframe attached to a network providing services to network users.
Hostname The name given a host computer connected to the Internet.
HOT Hotel/Motel Line
HOT Holographic Optical Tracking
hot fixing The ability to detect and mark bad sectors of a disk, then assign alternate disk sectors
during routine LAN operation. This automatically updates the original defect map.
hot standby In a redundant hardware configuration, the practice of maintaining backup equipment in
operational mode to permit emergency switch over without service interruption.
Hot Standby Router Protocol See HSRP.
hot swap The ability of a device to have parts removed after, for example, a slot-in card or fan failure,
without affecting its operation. Many of today's hubs offer hot swapping without bringing down the network
to charge a component.
hot swapping See OIR and power-on servicing.
hot-cut A virtually instantaneous replacement of one line with another.
Hotel Operator Billing Information system (HOBIC) A time and charges application for the hotel/motel
environment.
hotel/motel console A specialized attendant station, usually located at the hotel front desk.
hotline A private line between two telephones.
HP Hewlett Packard
HP Hewlett-Packard
HP Hewlett-Packard Corporation
HP Openview The Windows based graphical user interface package Cascade uses to provide the monitoring and
configuration of the Cascade network.
HP-PB HP Precision Bus
HP-PE HP Precision Engineering
HP-RT Hewlett-Packard Real Time
HP-UX Hewlett-Packard Unix
HP-VUE Visual User Interface HP
HPAD Host Packet Assembler-Disassembler
HPCC High-Performance Computing and Communications. U.S. government funded program advocating advances in
computing, communications, and related fields. The HPCC is designed to ensure U.S. leadership in these
fields through education, research and development, industry collaboration, and implementation of high-
performance technology. See also the five components of the HPCC: ASTA, BRHR, HPCS, IITA, and NREN.
HPCS High-Performance Computing Systems. Component of the HPCC program designed to ensure U.S. technological
leadership in high-performance computing through research and development of computing systems and related
software. See also HPCC.
HPF High Performance Fortran
HPFS High Performance File System
HPFS High-Performance File System (IBM/Microsoft)
HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
HPO High Performance Option (of VM/SP)
HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HPPN Hybrid Private Packet Network
HPR Hierarchical Priority Routing
HPR High Performance Routing
HPR high performance routing (runs on DMS and other stored program switches)
HPR High-Performance Routing. Second-generation routing algorithm for APPN. HPR provides a connectionless
layer with nondisruptive routing of sessions around link failures, and a connection-oriented layer with end-
to-end flow control, error control, and sequencing. Compare to ISR. See also APPN.
HPRSS HPR Servicing System
HPRSS-USER High Perf. Routing Servicing Systems
HPS High Performance Switch
HPS Human Performance System
HPSN High Performance Scalable Network
HPSN High Performance Scalable Networking
HPSSL Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratory
HQ Headquarters
HQBD Headquarters Business Development
HQEE Headquarters Engineering Economics
HR Held Regrade
HR High Resolution
HR Hold Recycle
HR Human Resources
HR SAP Human Resources Package
HRA Health Reimbursement Account
HRC Human Resource Consultant
HRC High Resolution Control
HRC Hybrid Ring Control
HRDP Hypothetical Reference Digital Path
HRISP Human Resources Information System Plan
HRL Home-Location Register
HRM Human Resource Management
HRMS Human Resource Management System
HRU High-Gain Remote Unit
HRU Highgain Receive Unit
HS High Speed
HS High Strength Steel
HS Host System
HSAM Hierarchical Sequential Access Method
HSBB High Speed Back Bone
HSC Hierarchical Storage Controller
HSC Hardware Software Control
HSCA High Speed Communication Adapter
HSCI High-Speed Communications Interface. Single-port interface, developed by Cisco, providing full-duplex
synchronous serial communications capability at speeds up to 52 Mbps.
HSCI See HSCI.
HSCP High Speed Control Processor
HSDA High Speed Data
HSDL High Speed Data Link
HSDO High Speed Data Optimization
HSDU High Speed Data Unit
HSE Health and Safety Executive
HSE High Speed Edition (Sympatico)
HSFS High Sierra File System
HSI High speed Interface
HSI high speed line card
HSL Hue, Saturation, Lightness
HSLI High Speed Line Interface
HSLP High Speed Line Processor
HSM Hierarchical Storage Management
HSPB High Speed Private Bus
HSPD High Speed Data Pipe
HSPD High Speed Paging Device
HSRD High Speed Receive Data
HSRP Hot Swappable Routing Protocol
HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol. Provides high network availability and transparent network topology changes.
HSRP creates a Hot Standby router group with a lead router that services all packets sent to the Hot Standby
address. The lead router is monitored by other routers in the group, and if it fails, one of these standby
routers inherits the lead position and the Hot Standby group address.
HSSD High Speed Send Data
HSSI High Speed Serial Interface
HSSI High-Speed Serial Interface. Network standard for high-speed (up to 52 Mbps) serial connections over WAN
links.
HSSI Interface Processor See HIP.
HST Harmonized Sales Tax
HSV Hue, Saturation, Value
HT Horizontal Tab
HTC Headset Transfer Circuit
HTCC High Temperature Cofire Ceramic
HTCT Hotel Toll Connecting Trunk (f: CIIH)
HTF Host Transaction Facility
HTL High Threshold Logic
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTML hyper text mark-up language
HTML Hypertext Mark-up Language (programming language for HTTP)
HTML Hypertext Markup Language. Simple hypertext document formatting language that uses tags to indicate how a
given part of a document should be interpreted by a viewing application, such as a Web browser. The standard
way to mark text documents for publishing on the World Wide Web. HTML is marked-up using tags surrounded by
brackets. To see what tagged HTML text looks like, select the View Source feature from the menus in the
program you are using to view this document now, and you'll see a display of the HTML text used to create
this page. See also hypertext and Web browser.
HTP High Performance Twisted Pair
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol. The protocol used by Web browsers and Web servers to transfer files, such as
text and graphic files.
HTTPD Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon
HTTPS Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTU HDSL Transmission Unit
HTUC HDSL Transmission Unit located in the Central Office
HTUR HDSL Transmission Unit located remotely (eg. CEV,hut,prem
HU High Usage
hub 1. Generally, a term used to describe a device that serves as the center of a star-topology network. 2.
Hardware or software device that contains multiple independent but connected modules of network and
internetwork equipment. Hubs can be active (where they repeat signals sent through them) or passive (where
they do not repeat, but merely split, signals sent through them). 3. In Ethernet and IEEE 802.3, an Ethernet
multiport repeater, sometimes called a concentrator.
huffman coding A lossless, statistically-based entropy coding technique used to compress data in which the
most frequently occurring code groups are represented by shorter codes, and rarely occurring code groups are
represented by longer codes. Used in H.320 and other video conferencing codes, Group 3 facsimile and JPEG.
hum An audible interference from a conventional 60 Hz power supply.
Human-interface Equipment Catalog Item (HECI) A label for an operations system data field that is generally
filled with a 10-character CLEI code.
Human-interface Equipment Catalog Item Group (HECI A label for an operations system data field that is
generally filled with an equipment catalog item group (ECIG) code.
Hunting The act of a private branch exchange (PBX) switch searching for an available idle circuit of a
group.
HV High Voltage
HVAC Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
HVC High Value Customer
HVJU High Voltage Joint Use
HVS Human Visual System
HW Hardware
HW Hard Wiring. Means direct cabling of 2 NE's eg AL1633 to OC12
HYB Hybrid
hybrid An electronic circuit that performs the wire conversions necessary for the connection of a local
loop with a long-haul facility.
hybrid bridge/router or brouter Network interconnection device with a standard mode of operation as a router.
It can support multiple open system interconnection (OSI) Layer Three routing protocols, but also supports
bridging capabilities for network traffic that cannot be routed non-routable traffic.
hybrid carrier A reseller that owns portions of its network and leases others from other telephone companies
and other inter-exchange carriers.
hybrid key system A customer premises equipment (CPE) system that has characteristics of both a key system
and a private branch exchange (PBX) system.
hybrid local network 1. A local network in which two or more types of local networks are integrated. 2. A
local network engaging two or more components representing different applications or different vendors.
hybrid network Internetwork made up of more than one type of network technology, including LANs and WANs.
hybrid object-oriented system A computer system that combines object-oriented modeling and development
methodology with non-object-oriented techniques, such as relational databases. This approach complicates the
development and maintenance process and does not fully exploit the potential of object-oriented technology.
It is a tactic that is used during the transition from legacy systems to fully object-oriented, enterprise-
wide software solutions.
hybrid system A communications system that accommodates both digital and analog signals.
HYPE Hyperstream Exchange
hyperlink Pointer within a hypertext document that points (links) to another document, which may or may not
also be a hypertext document.
Hypermedia The combination of hypertext and multimedia in an online document.
hypertext Electronically-stored text that allows direct access to other texts by way of encoded links.
Hypertext documents can be created using HTML, and often integrate images, sound, and other media that are
commonly viewed using a browser. See also HTML and browser.
Hypertext A type of text that allows embedded links to other documents. Clicking on or selecting a hypertext
link displays another document or section of a document. Most World Wide Web documents contain hypertext.
Hypertext Markup Language See HTML.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol See HTTP.
HYPID Hyperstream Identifier
HZ Hertz
Hz See hertz.
I&C Investment and Cost
I&C Investment & Cost
I&R Installation and Repair (f: I&R)
I&R Installation and Repair
I&R Installation & Repair
I-CASE Integrated Computer Aided Software Engineering
I-CPU ISDN Call Pickup
I-D Internet-Draft. Working documents of the IETF, from its Areas and Working Groups. They are valid for a
maximum of 6 months and might be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. Very often,
I-Ds are precursors to RFCs.
I-frame Information frame. One of three SDLC frame formats. See also S-frame and U-frame.
I-hold Visual flash indications that identify held calls from other calls.
I-OMS Integrated-Order Management System
I-Series recommendations ITU-TS (formerly the CCITT) recommendations on B-ISDN, ISDN and aspects of ATM.
I-use A visual indication that identifies currently busy lines.
I.462 CCITT recommendation defining ISDN X.25 packet switched services for the D and B
I/F Interface
I/O Input / Output
I/O Input/Output
I/O Input/Output.
IA Immediate Action
IA Information Access
IA Integrated Access
IA Intra Office, Intraoffice
IA idea assessment
IA Instant Activation
IA Internet Application
IA IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT
IAA Internationale Automobil Ausstelung
IAB Internet Activities Board
IAB Internet Advisory Board
IAB Internet Architecture Board
IAB Internet Architecture Board. Board of internetwork researchers who discuss issues pertinent to Internet
architecture. Responsible for appointing a variety of Internet-related groups such as the IANA, IESG, and
IRSG. The IAB is appointed by the trustees of the ISOC. See also IANA, IESG, IRSG, and ISOC.
IAC Integrated Access Controller (f: CAI)
IAC Inter-Applications Communication
IAC Interexchange Access Customer codes
IAC ISDN Access Controller
IACC Integrated Accounting Control Committee
IACS Integrated Access Cross-Connect System
IAD Image Acquisition and Display
IAD Integrated Alarm Display
IAD Integrated Access Device
IAF Internet Administration Framework – Horizon
IAHC Internet International Ad Hoc Committee. Coalition of participants from the broad Internet community,
working to satisfy the requirement for enhancements to the Internet's global DNS. Organizations naming
members to the committee include Internet Society (ISOC), Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA),
Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Federal Networking Council (FNC), International Telecommunication Union
(ITU), International Trademark Association (INTA), and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
IAI Internal Audit Instruction (f: IVI)
IAK Internet Access Kit
IAL Intel Architecture Lab
IAM Initial Address Message
IAM Innovation Access Method
IAM Integrated Access Method
IAM Intermediate Access Memory
IAM Initial Address Message
IAN Integrated Access Node
IANA Internet Assign Numbers Authority
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Organization operated under the auspices of the ISOC as a part of
the IAB. IANA delegates authority for IP address-space allocation and domain-name assignment to the InterNIC
and other organizations. IANA also maintains a database of assigned protocol identifiers used in the TCP/IP
stack, including autonomous system numbers. See also ICP cell, ISOC, and InterNIC.
iANR Intel Advanced Network Reseller
IAP Institution of Analysts and Programmers
IAPA Industrial Accident Prevention Association (f: APAI)
IAPS Integrated Automatic Protection Switch
IAQ Indoor Air Quality
IAS Immediate Access Store
IAS Information Access Service
IASDS International Accunet Spectrum of Digital Services
IAT Integrated Access Terminal
IATA International Air Transport Association
IAWD INFORMATION ACCESS WINDOW
IB In Band
IB Intra-Building. Refers to Tie cabled NE's in the same CO
IBAM Integrated Broadband Alarm Manager
IBCS Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
IBDN Integrated Building Distribution Network (f: RIDI)
IBERT Integrated Bit Error Rate Testing (f: ETEBI)
IBL individual business line
IBM International Business Machines
IBN Integrated Business Network (fe: RISA)
IBN Interest Based Negotiation
IBN Integrated Business Network
IBN Integrated Business Netwrok
IBR Intermediate Bit Rate
IBRA inside base rate area (f: STB)
IBS In Band Signalling
IBS Integrated Business System/Services (f: SBI)
IBS In-Building Support (f: ABRI)
IBS International Billing System
IBSC In-Building Support Centre
IBU Independent Business Unit
IC Independent Company
IC Installation Coordination
IC Instructing Counter
IC Integrated Circuit
IC interexchange carrier
IC-ANI Integrated Circuit - Automatic Number Identification
ICA Intelligent Communications Adapter
ICA International Communications Association
ICA individual contribution assessment (f: ECI)
ICA Integrated Communications Adapter
ICA Intercompany Communications Architecture
ICA INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
ICAI Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction
ICASII accreditation system
ICB Individual Case Basis
ICB Intelligent Channel Bank
ICB Intelligent Channel Bank (f: EEI)
ICB Individual Case Basis
ICB Intelligent Channel Bank
ICC Installation control centre (f: CCI)
ICC Integrated Command Console
ICC Inventory Carrying Cost (f: CS)
ICC Invitational Computer Conference
ICCF Interactive Computing Control Facility
ICD Internet Call Display - dialogue box lets Internetter know of a voice call
ICD International Code Designator. One of two ATM address formats developed by the ATM Forum for use by
private networks. Adapted from the subnetwork model of addressing in which the ATM layer is responsible for
mapping network layer addresses to ATM addresses. Compare with DCC.
ICE Integral Contrast Enhancement
ICE Intelligent Call Exchange
ICE Internet Centre of Excellence
ICF Integrated Cryptographic Facility
ICF International Computer Forum
ICFCA International Computer Facsimile Association
ICG Image Club Graphics
ICG International Carrier Group
ICI Image Compression Interface
ICI Incoming Call Identification
ICI Interface Control Information
ICIMS Integrated Capital Investment Management System
ICIMS Capital projects management tool
ICL Inserted Connection Loss
ICL Inserted Correction Loss
ICL International Computers Ltd
ICLAS IBM Classroom LAN Administration System
ICM Intercom
ICM Investment Cost & Manpower
ICM Investment Cost and Manpower (f: ICM)
ICM Intelligent Capacity Management
ICM Incoming Call Memory
ICMI Investment, Cost and Manpower Instruction
ICMM Investment Cost / Manpower and Material
ICMP INTERNET Control Message Protocol
ICMP Internet Control(Communication) Message Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol. ICMP delivers error and control messages from hosts to message
requestors. An ICMP test may determine whether a destination is reachable. An ICMP echo is also called a
packet Internet groper (PING). Network layer Internet protocol that reports errors and provides other
information relevant to IP packet processing. Documented in RFC 792.
ICMP Router Discovery Protocol See IRDP.
ICMR/VM Plant Manhour Reports
ICN Intelligent Communications Network (f: RTI)
ICN Internal Communications Network (f: RTI)
ICN Integrated Community Networks
ICN Internal Communication Network
ICN Internal Communications Network
ICN INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
ICN(I) Internal Communications Network (Implementation) (f: RTI(ES
ICN(W) Internal Communications Network (workstations)
ICN-OSS Internal Communication Network Operational Support Syst
ICO intermediate control office (involved if area boundaries are crossed)
ICOMP Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance
ICOT Institute for New Generation of Computer Technology
ICP cell IMA control protocol cell used for aligning the cells in multiple links.
ICPI Individual Computer Products International
ICR Intelligent Character Recognition
ICR Independent Company Relations
ICR Initial Cell Rate.
ICRF Integrated CRyptographic Feature
ICS IBM Cable System
ICS Integrated Computer Services
ICS Intelligent Communications Services
ICS Intergraph Computer Systems
ICS InterCompany Settlement
ICS Intelligent Communications System
ICS Inter Company Settlement
ICSA International Computer Security Association
ICSC Interexchange Carrier Service Center (f: CSTI)
ICSIS Integrated Computer Services Information System
ICT Incoming Trunk
ICU Instruction Cache Unit
ICU ISA Configuration Utility
ICU Interactive Chart Utility
ICUG International Closed User Group
ICUP Individual Circuit Usage and PegCount
ICUP individual circuit usage and peg count
ID Identification
ID IDentifier
ID Immediate Dial
ID Information Digit
ID Inward Dialling
IDAP IBM Developer Assistance Program
IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming Interface
IDAS Industrial Data Acquisition System
IDC Insulation Displacement Contacts
IDC Interest During Construction
IDC Interim Digit Code
IDC Intermediate Data Collection/or
IDC International Data Corp
IDC International Data Corporation file
IDC Integrated Data Centres
IDC Intermediate Data Collector
IDCC Integrated Digital Cross Connect
IDCC Integrated Digital Cross-Connect
IDCE Information Development Centre of Excellence
IDDD International Direct Dialed Distance
IDDE Integrated Debugging and Development Environment
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IDE Integrated Device Electronics
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm
IDEAS Integrated Design And Engineering Automated System
IDEC Instruction DECoder
IDF Intermediate Distribution/ing Frame
IDF Integrated Development Facility
IDG International Data Group
IDI Initial Domain Identifier
IDI Initial Domain Identifier. Portion of an NSAP or NSAP-format ATM address that specifies the address
allocation and administration authority. See also NSAP.
IDL Interface Definition Language
IDLC Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
IDMS Integrated DataBase Management Services
IDMS Integrated Database Management System
IDMSX Integrated Database Management System eXtended
IDN Integrated Digital Network (f: RNI)
IDN International Data Number. See X.121.
IDP Initial Domain Part. Part of a CLNS address that contains an authority and format identifier, and a
domain identifier.
IDP Integrated Data Processing
IDP Internetwork Datagram Protocol
IDP Individual Development Plan (f: PPP)
IDP Individual Development Process (E&T for self)
IDPC Integrated Data Processing Center
IDPR Interdomain Policy Routing. Interdomain routing protocol that dynamically exchanges policies between
autonomous systems. IDPR encapsulates interautonomous system traffic and routes it according to the policies
of each autonomous system along the path. IDPR is currently an IETF proposal. See also policy-based routing.
IDPS Inter-Departmental Policy Sessions
IDPS Internet Dial Port Service
IDR Incoming Digit Receiver
IDRP IS-IS Interdomain Routing Protocol. OSI protocol that specifies how routers communicate with routers in
different domains.
IDT Integrated Device Technology
IDT Integrated Digital Terminal
IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table
IDT Total Current Drain
IDT integrated digital terminal
IDTOS Internetworking Dedicated Technician On Site
IDTV Improved Definition Television
IDU Interface Data Unit
IE Incoming Link Extension Frame
IE Information Element
IE Information Engineering
IE Interlocal or Interoffice
IE Information Element.
IEC 1. International Electrotechnical Commission. Industry group that writes and distributes standards for
electrical products and components. 2. InterExchange Carrier.
IEC Inter-Exchange Carrier
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Professional organization whose activities include the
development of communications and network standards. IEEE LAN standards are the predominant LAN standards
today.
IEEE 802.1 IEEE specification that describes an algorithm that prevents bridging loops by creating a
spanning tree. The algorithm was invented by Digital Equipment Corporation. The Digital algorithm and the
IEEE 802.1 algorithm are not exactly the same, nor are they compatible. See also spanning tree, spanning-
tree algorithm, and Spanning-Tree Protocol.
IEEE 802.12 IEEE LAN standard that specifies the physical layer and the MAC sublayer of the data link
layer. IEEE 802.12 uses the demand priority media-access scheme at 100 Mbps over a variety of physical
media. See also 100VG-AnyLAN.
IEEE 802.2 IEEE LAN protocol that specifies an implementation of the LLC sublayer of the data link layer.
IEEE 802.2 handles errors, framing, flow control, and the network layer (Layer 3) service interface. Used in
IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.5 LANs. See also IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.5.
IEEE 802.3 IEEE LAN protocol that specifies an implementation of the physical layer and the MAC sublayer
of the data link layer. IEEE 802.3 uses CSMA/CD access at a variety of speeds over a variety of physical
media. Extensions to the IEEE 802.3 standard specify implementations for Fast Ethernet. Physical variations
of the original IEEE 802.3 specification include 10Base2, 10Base5, 10BaseF, 10BaseT, and 10Broad36. Physical
variations for Fast Ethernet include 100BaseT, 100BaseT4, and 100BaseX.
IEEE 802.4 IEEE LAN protocol that specifies an implementation of the physical layer and the MAC sublayer
of the data link layer. IEEE 802.4 uses token-passing access over a bus topology and is based on the token
bus LAN architecture. See also token bus.
IEEE 802.5 IEEE LAN protocol that specifies an implementation of the physical layer and MAC sublayer of
the data link layer. IEEE 802.5 uses token passing access at 4 or 16 Mbps over STP cabling and is similar to
IBM Token Ring. See also Token Ring.
IEEE 802.6 IEEE MAN specification based on DQDB technology. IEEE 802.6 supports data rates of 1.5 to 155
Mbps. See also DQDB.
IEF Information Engineering Facility
IEM Information Engineering Methodology
IENF Integrated Event Notification Facility
IEPG Internet Engineering Planning Group. Group, primarily composed of Internet service operators, whose goal
is to promote a globally coordinated Internet operating environment. Membership is open to all.
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group. Organization, appointed by the IAB, that manages the operation of
the IETF. See also ICP cell and IETF.
IESG Internet Enginerring Standards Group
IET Invisible Ink Enhancement Technology
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force. Task force consisting of over 80 working groups responsible for
developing Internet standards. The IETF operates under the auspices of ISOC. See also ISOC.
IEU Information Exchange Unit
IEU Instruction Execution Unit
IEW Information Engineering Workbench
IF Individual Final
IF Intermediate Frequency
IF-2 Future machine communications protocol
IF2 Interface 2
IFA Internationale FunkAusstellung
IFAMS Integrated force admin. mechanization system (f: SIGE)
IFDL Independent Form Description Language
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Research organization that performs OSI
prestandardization work. Among other accomplishments, IFIP formalized the original MHS model. See also MHS.
IFMS Installation Force Management System (f: SGEI)
IFMS Installation Force Management System
IFNSS Interim Fiber Network Surveillance System
IFNSS Interim Fibre Network Support System
IFNSS Interim Fibre Network Surveillance System
IFNSS Integrated Fibre Network Support System
IFP Interface between FSOS and PAIRS
IFR individual flat rate
IFS Industrial and Financial Software
IFS Installable File System
IFS Iterated Function System
IFX Integer and Floating Point Accelerator
IGBT Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
IGF Internally Generated Funds
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol. Used by IP hosts to report their multicast group memberships to an
adjacent multicast router. See also multicast router.
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IGOR International Global Order Registry
IGP Intelligent Graphics Printing
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol. Internet protocol used to exchange routing information within an autonomous
system. Examples of common Internet IGPs include IGRP, OSPF, and RIP. See also OSPF and RIP.
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. IGP developed by Cisco to address the issues associated with routing
in large, heterogeneous networks. Compare with Enhanced IGRP. See also IGP, OSPF, and RIP.
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IH Intermediate High Usage
IHV Independent Hardware Vendor
IIB Isaac Interface to Bcris
IIH IS-IS Hello. Message sent by all IS-IS systems to maintain adjacencies. See also IS-IS.
IIN IBM Information Network
IINREN Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network. Evolving operating network system. Near
term research and development activities will provide for the smooth evolution of this networking
infrastructure into the future gigabit NREN.
IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol. Protocol used in the CORBA framework for accessing objects across the
Internet. See also CORBA.
IIOP Intelligent I/O Processor
IIPA International Intellectual Property Alliance
IIS Internet Information Server
IIS Integrated Information System (f: SII)
IISA Integrated Information Systems Architecture (f: AUSI)
IISP Interim-Interswitch Signaling Protocol. ATM signaling protocol for inter-switch communication using
manually configured prefix tables. When a signaling request is received by a switch, the switch checks the
destination ATM address against the prefix table and notes the port with the longest prefix match. It then
forwards the signaling request across that port using UNI procedures. IISP is an interim solution until PNNI
Phase 1 is completed. Formerly known as PNNI Phase 0. Contrast with Dynamic IISP.
IIT Integrated Information Technology, Inc

IIT Interactive Information Transfer
IITA Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications. Component of the HPCC program intended to ensure
U.S. leadership in the development of advanced information technologies. See also HPCC.
IITF Information Infrastruction Task Force
IIU Isaac Interface to Usod
IKE Internet Key Exchange
IL Incoming Link
ILBM InterLeaved BitMap
ILD Infrared Laser Diode
ILD Injection Laser Diode
ILE Integrated Learning Environment
ILI Intelligent Link Interface
ILMI Interim Local Management Interface. Specification developed by the ATM Forum for incorporating network-
management capabilities into the ATM UNI.
ILOC Interlocal
ILP Individual Learning Plan (f: PFP)
ILP Individual Learning Plan (E&T plan for self)
ILSP Incombunt Local Servic Provider
IM Information Management
IM Inout Manual
IM Intelligent Manageability
IM Information Management
IM Information Mapping
IM interface module
IM SAP Investment Management Package
IMA Ineffective Machine Attempts
IMA Interactive Multimedia Association
IMA inverse multiplexing over ATM. Standard protocol defined by the ATM Forum in 1997.
IMA Inverse Multiple Access
IMA group Physical links grouped to form a higher-bandwidth logical link whose rate is approximately the sum
of the individual link rates.
IMAGE Integrated Marketing Analysis Gateway Environment
IMAGENET Drwgs Inventory Tool COE Inside Wire
IMAP Intelligent Mapping Accounting & Provisioning
IMAP Intelligent Mapping And Provisioning
IMAP Intelligent Mapping System
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMAP INTELLIGENT MAPPING AND PROVISIONING
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol. Method of accessing e-mail or bulletin board messages kept on a mail
server that can be shared. IMAP permits client electronic mail applications to access remote message stores
as if they were local without actually transferring the message.
IMAP (vm) IIS based tracking tool
IMAP(CABLECA Mechanized Order Drawing Tool
IMAP/PAIRSIA Process to FTP reconfigured IPAIRS data to IMAP
IMCR Industry Membership Company Reports
IMD InterModulation Distortion
IMG Intermarker Group
IMHO In My Humble Opinion. One of many short-form phrases seen in e-mail messages, newsgroups, and so on.
IMI Inter-machine Interface
IMIP Intertoll Microwave Improvement Program
IML Incoming Matching Loss (f: AER)
IML Initial Microcode Load
IMM Information Management Methodology
IMMS Integrated Materiel Management System (f: SIGEM)
IMMS Intergrated Material Management System
IMP Impedance
IMP Interface Message Processor
IMP interface message processor. Old name for ARPANET packet switches. See also ARPANET and packet switch.
IMPACT Innovative Methods and Plans In Action
IMPACT The trouble log management system used by BMC (developed by IBM)
IMPI Internal MicroProgrammed Interface
IMPID IMPAC Identifier
IMR Individual Message Rate
IMS Information Management System (f: SIG)
IMS Information Management System
IMS Inwats Message System
IMS Inter-networking Management System
IMSI International Mobile Subscription Identity
IMSP Independent Manufacturer Support Program
IMT Inductive Modelling Technology
IMT Inter-Machine Trunk.
IMTN Integrated Multi-Rate Transport Node
IMTS International Message Toll Service
IMUX INTELLIGENT MULTIPLEXING UNIT
IN Intelligent Network
in-band signaling 1. A type of signaling using an alternating current (AC) signal (usually 2600 Hz) within
the normal voice band. This signal can be transmitted end to end on a long voice circuit without
intermediate signaling equipment. Since the signaling is audible, the signaling equipment must be arranged
for tone-on-when-idle operation. 2. A method of sending signals over the same channel bandwidth as service
being provided to a customer. Contrast with out-of-band signaling. Compare with out-of-band signaling.
IN/AIN Intelligent Network/Advanced Intelligent Network
INA Information Networking Architecture. Bellcore object-oriented architecture for the management of ATM and
SONET equipment and services in an operating company environment.
INA INTEGRATED NETWORK ACCESS
INA Intelligent Network Architecture
INASC Intelligent Network Administration Support Centre
INASoft Bellcore implementation of INA. See also INA.
INB INstall Busy. Entity has just been created but has not been commanded In-Service or Out-of-Service yet.
INB Internal Network Bus
INC Incoming
INC Increase
INC Industry Numbering Committee
incoming call indicator A device that provides an attendant console with a visual or audible identification
of the type of service or trunk group of the incoming calls.
incoming call to tie line connection The ability of a system to connect an incoming network exchange call to a
remote private branch exchange (PBX) station through a tie line.
INCPT Intercept
Incubator li idea waiting for approval to begin business assessment
IND Independent
IND Information Networks Division
IND-CO Independent Company
independent telephone company A non-Bell system local exchange carrier (LEC).
Industry-Standard Architecture See ISA.
INDUTEC Local Switch Utilization Calculator
INE Intelligent Network Element (f: ERI)
INE INTELLIGENT NETWORK ELEMENTS
INE Intelligent Network Element. Network element that can be provisioned from a remote OSS.
INET Intelligent Network
INET Intelligent Network Service
INF Information
INF INFormationsT
INFO Information Network and File Organization
Info-MERLIN Switching network information system
INFOER Network Documentation Tool
INFOPAC An output management system for viewing and manipulating reports on-line
INFOPRO Project Magt application for INFOPRO
INFOPROBLNG INFOPRO Billing System
information bit A bit generated by the data source representing user data to be delivered to the data sink.
Compare with overhead bit.
information element In ATM, the portion of a signaling packet that carries information, such as addresses,
used in the UNI specification. See also UNI.
information highway A network, consisting of many connected networks, which has the capacity to carry high-
speed, broadband services, including interactive and voice, data, image and video communication. The network
will allow customers to reach offices, homes, schools, hospitals and a variety of other institutions.
Information Infrastructure Technology and Applicat See IITA.
Information Management System (IMS) A hierarchical-database-oriented transaction processing software used by
the Bellcore Service Management System (SMS)/800 system.
Information Management System/Virtual Storage (IMV A database management software system that provides
communications monitor functions and virtual storage.
information superhighway A Clinton/Gore administration plan to deregulate communications services beginning
with 1994 legislation. It integrates concepts from Internet, community antenna television (CATV), telephone,
business, entertainment, information providers, education, and other sources. The potential impact to
businesses, schools, homes, and society as a whole are significant. CATV will be allowed to provide
telephone and videoconferencing services. Telephone companies will be allowed to provide movies and
information services.
information systems network A network of all the communications approaches used within an organization.
infrared Electromagnetic waves whose frequency range is above that of microwaves, but below that of the
visible spectrum. LAN systems based on this technology represent an emerging technology.
initial domain identifier See IDI.
initial domain part See IDP.
Initial Program Load (IPL) The initial loading of generic and/or configuration software into a private branch
exchange (PBX) or other telephone system.
INM Intelligent Network Manager System
INM Integrated Network Manager - ATM Network long-term surveillance solution –
INM (Netman) INM (Netman) - Nortel product
INMARSAT A satellite communications carrier that has partnered with BMC to provide Air Ca
INMC Toll free service center
INMS International Network Management System
INN Intersystem Network Node
INOC Intelligent Network Operations Centre (f: CERI)
INOC Internet Network Operations Center. BBN group that in the early days of the Internet monitored and
controlled the Internet core gateways (routers). INOC no longer exists in this form.
INOS Intelligent Network Operations System (f: SGERI)
INPA Interchangeable Numbering Plan Area (f: IRC)
input/output See IN/AIN.
input/output channel A device that allows independent communications between the memory exchange and the
input/output (I/O) exchange. The input/output channel controls all peripheral devices and performs all
validity checking on information transfers.
INS Inward Movement
inside wiring The wiring within a customer's premises used for internal communications, or to connect the
customer premises equipment (CPE) to the network interface.
INSMS Intelligent Switched Network - Management System
INSS Integrated Network Surveillance System (f: INSS)
INSS Système intégré de surveillance du réseau (e: INSS)
INSS Integrated Network Surveillance System (SONET Transport Net)
INSS Integrated Network Support System (Microtel Networks)
INST Installation
installable file system A file system that can be installed in place of the usual file allocation table file
system, such as the high-performance file system.
installation Service initiation of a circuit, data access line (DAL), or port connection.
INSTEP Integrated Network Strategic and Tactical Evolution Plan
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers See IEEE.
insured burst In an ATM network, the largest burst of data above the insured rate that will be temporarily
allowed on a PVC and not tagged by the traffic policing function for dropping in the case of network
congestion. The insured burst is specified in bytes or cells. Compare with maximum burst. See also insured
rate.
insured rate Long-term data throughput, in bits or cells per second, that an ATM network commits to support
under normal network conditions. The insured rate is 100 percent allocated; the entire amount is deducted
from the total trunk bandwidth along the path of the circuit. Compare with excess rate and maximum rate. See
also insured burst.
insured traffic Traffic within the insured rate specified for an ATM PVC. This traffic should not be dropped
by the network under normal network conditions. See also CLP and insured rate.
INSV In Service
INT Intercept
INTAP Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing. Technical organization that has
the official charter to develop Japanese OSI profiles and conformance tests.
INTAPNET OSI Interoperability Testing Network
integral bridging A technique that combines different local area network (LAN) media and topologies.
Integral bridging requires the installation of additional network interface cards in the server.
integrated access The use of a single connection or circuit to access multiple telecommunications services,
such as private lines, switched services, or frame relays.
Integrated Access Billing System (IABS) A computerized application system used by local exchange carriers
(LECs) to bill access services.
integrated adapter The part of a processing unit that furnishes the direct link of a specific type of device
and uses neither a control unit nor the standard input/output (I/O) interface.
Integrated Building Distribution Network (IBDN) A universal cable system that provides voice/data within a
building (e.g., key, PBX and Centerx telephone systems can be connected to one cabling system).
Integrated Circuit (IC) An electronic device that contains hundreds or thousands of previously distinct
components on a small plastic chip.
Integrated Database Application Programming Interf A standard from Borland and others providing a standard
interface to a wide range of databases. It is supposed to be a superset of ODBC.
Integrated Digital Access (IDA) The means of providing digital access for subscribers to the BT ISDN service.
Two versions: single line IDA and multi-line IDA are available.
Integrated Digital Network (IDN) A switched network providing voice or voice-simulated services through
digital transmission and time-division technology.
Integrated IS-IS Routing protocol based on the OSI routing protocol IS-IS, but with support for IP and
other protocols. Integrated IS-IS implementations send only one set of routing updates, making it more
efficient than two separate implementations. Formerly called Dual IS-IS. Compare with IS-IS.
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) 1. A set of standards for transmission of simultaneous voice, data
and video information over fewer channels than would otherwise be needed, through the use of out-of-band
signalling. The most common ISDN system provides one data and two voice circuits over a traditional copper
wire pair, but can represent as many as 30 channels. Broadband ISDN extends the ISDN capabilities to
services in the Gigabit range. 2. A digital network that permits the switched interconnection of voice,
data, and video transmissions requiring differing capacities over common facilities.
Integrated Services Internet IETF proposal for enhancing IP to allow it to support integrated or multimedia
services, including traffic management mechanisms that closely match the traffic management mechanisms of
ATM. An example is RSVP.
tegrated voice/data terminal (IVDT) A term relating to a variety of combined voice and data communications
devices. Configurations range from computer terminals with telephones, telephones with built-in display
screens for interface with computers, and cable-connected systems consisting of a cluster controller and
multiple handset/screen keyboard stations. Some IVDTs are private branch exchange (PBX)-proprietary devices,
while others are independent standalone devices. IVDTs generally consist of a dial-done multifrequency
(DTMF) telephone handset or speakerphone, an integral or a detachable cathode ray tube (CRT), a keyboard,
and a microprocessor. Options may include printer, an liquid crystal display (LCD) or plasma display, a
numeric keypad, a modem, a mass storage device, communications software, data base or mainframe access, and
teletypewriter (TTY) interface capabilities. Voice and data signals can be transmitted over two separate
lines; multiplexed over a single line; or simultaneously transmitted over one line. Applications include
voice communications, data processing, and various types of communications relating to payroll and financial
planning, sales forecasting, inventory management, document handling, and image and graphic information
transfer.
integrity A systems capability to prevent damage or unauthorized access to information.
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) Software similar to OCR, but it learns to recognize different fonts
and character styles, so is more efficient. Useful to make paper documents accessible via groupware
intelligent gateways Devices that exchange information to determine the optimal means of routing network
traffic. Intelligent gateways consider such factors as congestion, priority, performance, throughput, delay,
error rate, security, and cost.
Intelligent Network (IN) A sophisticated network capable of recognizing the profile (authorization, chosen
services) of its users or subscribers. Carriers offering advanced services will increasingly offer IN
services, particularly as the boundary between fixed and mobile networks becomes blurred.
Intelligent QoS Management Suite Composed of Automatic Routing Management, Advanced CoS Management,
Optimized Bandwidth Management, and Dynamic Buffer Management. Formerly called Advanced Networking Features.
intelligent switch A switch interface with a front-end processor and/or a concentrator that routes messages
to the various network end points.
INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
Inter-carrier frame relay service (IFRS) The frame relay services provided across service multiple, public
frame relay networks.
Inter-exchange (IX) Communications between two local access transport areas (LATAs).
ter-Exchange Carrier 1. A company providing long-distance telephone service between local exchange carriers
(LECs) and local access transport areas (LATAs). IEC is the preferred acronym. 2. Inter-exchange circuit;
inter-exchange channel. 3. Revenues resulting from the provision of inter-exchange circuits, excluding local
access. (IC, IEC, and IXC)
inter-exchange carrier (long-distance) miles The coordinates of location A and location B are used to
calculate mileage-dependent line charges on a price quote.
Inter-exchange channel (IXT) A communications path between two or more telephone exchanges.
inter-exchange circuit . A circuit that connects points of presence (POPs). Dedicated inter-exchange circuits
have a recurring charge rate element
inter-exchange mileage The airline mileage between two cities. Synonym: long-haul mileage
Inter-exchange Plant (IP) The facilities between the subscriber switching center and another switching center.
Inter-Exchange Voice Grade channel (IXVG channel) An analogue-dedicated channel between two exchanges
primarily for the use of business customers.
Inter-Machine Trunk (IMT) A high capacity connection between two automatic switches, such as DMS-250 to DMS-
250.
Inter-Process Communications (IPC) Communications between several programs based on one computer or across a
number of machines. Alternatively, communication across a network between different processes of the same
program between different computers running parts of a single program, or between two programs working
together. The most common approaches to IPC in networking circles are probably Application Programming
Interfaces such as APPC and NetBios.
Inter-Switch Link See ISL.
Inter-Switching System Interface See ISSI.
interactive The ability to interact or be in conversational mode with a computer.
interactive television The ability to communicate with a cable company via a television and thus select
programs, participate in games, or purchase goods and services.
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) The ability to interact or be in conversational mode with a computer.
Interactive voice response uses remote touch-tone telephones and a digitized synthesized voice to "read" the
screen to the distant caller.
interarea routing Term used to describe routing between two or more logical areas. Compare with intra-area
routing.
intercept The stopping a telephone call directed to an improper telephone number, and redirect that call to an
operator or a recording.
intercept treatment The process of routing calls that can't be completed to either a recording, an audible
signal, or an attendant.
intercept-type information digits The two digit codes that define the reasons calls were intercepted.
Examples are: 30 - unassigned dialed number (DN), 31 - manual assignment: trouble or busy, 32 - recently
changed.
Interchangeable Numbering Plan Area (INPA) A long distance dialing plan in which customers must dial the area
code when placing a long distance call -- even for calls placed within their own area code.
intercom An internal communications system allowing a user to dial another in-house telephone or disconnected
DN.
Intercom Interprocess Communication
InterConnect A circuit administration point other than a cross connect or an information outlet, that
provides capability for routing and re-routing circuits. This point is normally a jack-and-plug device used
in smaller distribution arrangements or that connects circuits in large cables to those in smaller cables.
(IC) 1. The arrangement that permits the connection of a customer's telecommunications equipment to a
communications common carrier network. 2. The industry name for manufacturers, excluding the Bell system,
that provide telephone equipment for customer premises. 3. The provision of customer premises equipment
(CPE).
interconnect company A company which sells, installs and maintains telephone systems for end users, typically
businesses.
InterDomain Policy Routing See IDPR.
interface 1. Connection between two systems or devices. 2. In routing terminology, a network connection. 3. In
telephony, a shared boundary defined by common physical interconnection characteristics, signal
characteristics, and meanings of interchanged signals. 4. Boundary between adjacent layers of the OSI model.
Interface Message Processor See IMP.
interface processor Any of a number of processor modules used in the Cisco 7000 series routers. See AIP, CIP,
EIP, FEIP, FIP, FSIP, HIP, MIP, SIP (serial interface processor), and TRIP.
interference Any unwanted noise or crosstalk on a communications circuit that reduces the intelligibility
of the desired signal or speech.
interflow The ability to initiate a link to a second automatic call distributor (ACD) and overflow a call from
one ACD to the other.
interframe compression A form of video compression that compresses full-motion video by analyzing each
frame of a video, determining which frames duplicate previous frames, and deleting the duplicates.
Interim Local Management Interface See ILMI.
Interior Gateway Protocol See IGP.
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol See IGRP.
InterLATA The services, revenues and functions that relate to telecommunications originating in one local
access transport area (LATA) and terminating in another LATA or outside of a LATA. The 1982 Modification of
Final Judgement (MFJ) requires the local exchange carrier (LEC) to use an inter-exchange carrier (IEC) for
interLATA services.
InterLATA Carrier (IC) Any carrier that provides telecommunications services between a point in a local
access transport area (LATA) and a point in another LATA, or outside a LATA.
interleave The process of sending blocks of data alternately to two or more stations on a multipoint
circuit.
intermediate crossconnect An element in the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) 568 Commercial Building
Wiring standard. It consists of the active, passive, and support components that connect the interbuilding
cabling and the intrabuilding cabling for a building.
Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) A distribution frame that provides connections between the main
distribution frame (MDF) and specific telephone wiring.
intermediate routing node See IRN.
Intermediate Session Routing See ISR.
intermediate station number A call processing station between the calling and called stations. The
intermediate station sends information to the calling and called stations concerning the call process.
Intermediate System See IS.
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System See IS-IS.
internal CD-ROM drive A CD-ROM drive that is installed inside the computer.
internal clocking The situation when the Cascade switch provides the transmit and receive clocks to the
user equipment.
Internal Key Definitions a.k.a. KPI (Key Performance Indicators). Click here for list and their definitions.
internal modem A PC-mounted data transfer (communications) adapter.
International Business Service A public document switching service (PDSS) provided internationally.
international circuits The international portion of an international private line circuit that runs between
two International Transmission Maintenance Centers (ITMCs); a U.S. based center and a center located in the
foreign country. This transport may be by satellite or undersea cable. International circuits are usually
further divided into two components, the US half and the foreign half. Accounting for these half circuits is
based on a theoretical midpoint (TMP) along this circuit.
International Code Designator See ICD.
International Consultative Committee on Telephone An international organization that develops standards
and defines interfaces for telecommunications. This organization is now known as the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU).
International Data Number See X.121.
International Direct Dialing (IDD) A system that enables subscribers to place international calls without
operator assistance.
International Electrotechnical Commission See IEC.
International Federation for Information Processin See IFIP.
International Frequency Registration Board (IFRB) An organization whose major task is to assign radio
frequencies to stations, and to determine that radio frequencies assigned by various countries to their
radio stations do not cause harmful interference to stations in other countries.
International Maritime Satellite Organization Oversees commercial sea-to-land satellite communications.
Parallel body to INTELSAT.
international MTS International switched long-distance service.
International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consorti A non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the
ongoing development and adoption of international standards for multipoint audiographics and video
teleconferencing (ITU T.120 & H.320 suites).
international number The number dialed following the international prefix
International Organization for Standardization See ISO.
International Organization for Standardization (IS An organization of 89 member countries (founded in 1946)
responsible for setting world standards in many electronics areas. Members of the ISO are the national
standards organizations of the member countries.
international prefix The first part of an international telephone address, consisting of the country code and
city code.
International Record Carrier (IRC) Carriers providing international telecommunications services, including
voice, telex, and data communications.
International Standards Organization See ISO.
International Switching Center (ISC) An exchange that switches telephone traffic between different countries.
International Telecommunication Union Telecommunic See ITU-T.
International Telecommunications Satellite Organiz 1. An international body owned by its member nations,
including the U.S. and over 120 other countries. Coordinates international satellite communications. 2. A
satellite operated by INTELSAT.
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) A specialized agency of the United Nations that sets technical
standards for world communications to prevent destructive interference, and to develop basic operating
arrangements under which member nations communicate.
international telephone address A code of 12 digits or less that specifies a unique address for any telephone
in the world (i.e., a country or regional identity code of 1, 2, or 3 digits; a 3-digit numbering plan area
code; a 2- or 3-digit central office code; plus a 4-digit station number).
International Test and Maintenance Centers (ITMC) The point of demarcation for international circuits.
Although it may be physically different from the undersea cable head or the satellite earth-station, it is
often thought of as the end of domestic traffic and the beginning of international traffic.
Internet 1. Largest global internetwork, connecting tens of thousands of networks worldwide and having a
"culture" that focuses on research and standardization based on real-life use. Many leading-edge network
technologies come from the Internet community. The Internet evolved in part from ARPANET. At one time,
called the DARPA Internet. Not to be confused with the general term internet. See also ARPANET. 2. A large,
uncontrolled, unadministered, anarchic cyber-state that will soon take over the world! Basically, it's just
everyone's computers hooked together. It's not a corporation, organization, or entity in itself. When you
connect to the Internet, you actually become part of it. Always capitalized, the word Internet can also be
referred to colloquially as the "Net."
internet Short for internetwork. Not to be confused with the Internet. See internetwork.
Internet Activities Board (IAB) The technical body that sets policy and standards for TCP/IP and the connected
Internet suite of protocols. Its task forces are the IETF and IRTF.
Internet address See IP address.
Internet Architecture Board See ICP cell.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority See IANA.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) The central registry for various Internet protocol parameters, such
as port, protocol and enterprise numbers, and options, codes and types. The currently assigned values are
listed in the Assigned Numbers document. If you'd like more information or want to request a number
assignment, you can email IANA at iana@isi.edu.
Internet Control Message Protocol See ICMP.
Internet Engineering Planning Group See IEPG.
Internet Engineering Steering Group See IESG.
Internet Engineering Task Force See IETF.
Internet Group Management Protocol See IGMP.
Internet Message Access Protocol See IMAP.
Internet Network Operations Center See INOC.
Internet Packet eXchange (IPX) A Novell NetWare packet-forwarding protocol similar to the Internet protocol.
Internet protocol Any protocol that is part of the TCP/IP protocol stack. The Internet protocol that
defines the unit of information passed between systems providing a basis packet delivery service within the
transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP). IP is used in gateways to link networks at an open
systems interconnection (OSI) network Level 3 and above. IP is a standard that describes how packets of data
are transported across the Internet and recognized as an incoming message. See TCP/IP. (IP)
Internet Protocol An industry standard, connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol used as the
network layer in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite. (IP)
Internet Protocol Network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite. Internet Protocol (version 4) is a
connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. Defined in RFC 791. (IP, IPv4)
Internet Protocol See IPv6. (IPng, IPv6)
ernet Protocol Address The 32-bit address defined by the Internet Protocol. Every resource on the Internet
has a unique numerical IP address, represented in dotted decimal notation. IP addresses are the closest
thing the Internet has to phone numbers. When you "call" that number (using any number of connection methods
such as FTP, HTTP, Gopher, etc.) you get connected to the computer to which that IP address is assigned. (IP
Address)
Internet Registry See IR.
Internet Relay Chat See IRC.
Internet Research Steering Group See IRSG.
Internet Research Task Force See IRTF.
Internet service provider See ISP.
Internet Service Provider (ISP) An ISP is a company that maintains a network that is linked to the Internet
via a dedicated communication line, usually a high-speed link known as a T1. An ISP offers use of its
dedicated communication lines to companies or individuals (like me) who can't afford $1,300 a month for a
direct connection. Using a modem, you can dial up to a service provider whose computers will connect you to
the Internet, typically for a fee.
Internet Society See ISOC.
Internet Society (ISOC) A non-profit, professional organization that supports the technical evolution of the
Internet and stimulates the interest of members of the scientific and academic communities, industry, and
the public regarding technology and the applications of the Internet. The ISOC also promotes the development
of new applications for the Internet by publishing a quarterly newsletter, the Internet Society News, and by
and holding an annual conference, called INET.
Internet telephony Generic term used to describe various approaches to running voice telephony over IP.
Internet-Draft See I-D.
internetwork Collection of networks interconnected by routers and other devices that functions (generally)
as a single network. Sometimes called an internet, which is not to be confused with the Internet.
Internetwork Packet Exchange See IPX.
Internetwork protocol (IP) An International Standards Organization (ISO) standard defining a portion of the
Layer 3 network open system interconnection (OSI) model responsible for routing and delivery. IP provides
for transmitting blocks of data between hosts identified by fixed-length addresses.
internetworking General term used to refer to the industry devoted to connecting networks together. The term
can refer to products, procedures, and technologies.
InterNIC Organization that serves the Internet community by supplying user assistance, documentation,
training, registration service for Internet domain names, and other services. Formerly called NIC.
InterNIC Meaning Internet information Center, InterNIC is the combined name for the providers of
registration, information, and database services to the Internet. InterNIC is who you contact if you want to
register a domain name on the Internet.
Interoffice channelo The point of presence (POP)-to POP portion of an inter-exchange circuit.
Interoffice trunk A trunk circuit linking two local central offices (COs).
interoperability 1. The ability to exchange information and operate in multi-vendor, heterogeneous
networking environments. 2. A state of complete compatibility among devices required to operate together
with each other, with reference to a specified feature set or standard. This is an important consideration
when mixing non-ITU-T codecs from different manufacturers and when mixing ITU-T codecs from different
manufacturers which may support different capabilities. Remember that ITU-T codec systems revert to the
highest common denominator for operation.
Interprocess communications (IPC) A communications protocol, that specifies how data is exchanged between
applications or threads.
Interrupt A break in the control of a program or system. Interrupts typically incorporates a mechanism to
store the information needed for a return to the interrupted program.
Interrupt request line (IRQ) The communications channel through which devices issue interrupts to the
interrupt handler of a personal computer's (PC's) microprocessor. Different IRQs are assigned to different
devices. This assignment pattern differs from PC to PC. Many local area network (LAN) adapter cards use an
IRQ to get to the PC's microprocessor.
Interrupt request signal A method by which input/output (I/O) peripherals request attention from a PC's
central processing unit (CPU).
Interruption A break in the continuity of a signal or of service.
Interstate Any telecommunications channel, facility, or network that provides transmission between
locations in two or more states. Interstate operation is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
Interswitch trunk A direct connection between switches using a proprietary protocol.
Intertoll trunk A trunk between toll switching offices in different exchanges used to route long distance
calls.
intra-area routing Term used to describe routing within a logical area. Compare with interarea routing.
Intraflow The ability to select a fallback group of attendants to backup the primary attendant group in an
automatic call distribution (ACD) system.
Intraframe compression A form of video compression that compresses full-motion video on a frame-by-frame
basis.
IntraLAN traffic learning A smart or learning bridge that learns intraLAN traffic by identifying each device
on a particular local area network (LAN). Some bridges accomplish this within several seconds, even for LANs
with several hundred terminals.
IntraLATA The services, revenues, and functions that relate to telecommunications originating and terminating
within a single local access transport area (LATA). The 1982 Modification of Final Judgement (MFJ) allows
local exchange carriers (LECs) to handle these calls without an interexchange carrier (IEC).
Intranet A network internal to a company that offers similar features and services as the Internet. External
users generally have no access to a company's Intranet.
Intraoffice trunk A telephone path between two pieces of equipment within the same central office (CO).
Intrastate Any connection within a single state. Intrastate connections are regulated by each state's
public utility commission (PUC).
INV122100 Network equipment 122-100 inventory
Invalid bill code The calling number is restricted in billing, such as a collect only, or a no bill to an
automatic number identification (ANI).
Invalid credit card A calling card or commercial credit card that cannot be validated.
Invalid IDDD A restricted international location is dialed.
Inverse Address Resolution Protocol See Inverse ARP.
Inverse ARP Inverse Address Resolution Protocol. Method of building dynamic routes in a network. Allows an
access server to discover the network address of a device associated with a virtual circuit.
inverse multiplexing A device that provides bandwidth-on-demand for video-conferencing, file transfers and
high speed applications. Inverse multiplexers use multiple switched 56 kbps or 64 kbps connections to
achieve whatever bandwidth the users application requires.
invoice A summary of a customer's usage of their particular services, which indicates the total amount in
dollars that is owed to the service provider.
invoicing The process or computer programs for calculating, producing, and distributing bills.
Invoicing ta Customer Billing Service System Invoicing Tax Item
inward restriction Selection station lines are prevented from receiving incoming exchange network and common
control switching arrangement (CCSA) calls. The lines are usually given intercept treatment.
INWATS INcoming WATS
INWG96 International NetWorkinG 96
IO (I/O) Input / Output
IOC Input/Output Controller
IOC Input/output Controller (f: CES)
IOC Inter-Office Channel
IOC International Overseas Centre
IOC Request to DMS IOC ports access
IOC Independent Operating Company. Independently owned company providing local telephone services to
residential and business customers in a geographic area not served by an RBOC.
IOCC I/O Channel Controller.
IOD Identified Outward Dialing
IOD Input / Output Device
IOM Integration of Maintenance
IOM Integrated Order Management
IONL Internal Organization of the Network Layer. OSI standard for the detailed architecture of the network
layer. Basically, it partitions the network layer into subnetworks interconnected by convergence protocols
(equivalent to internet working protocols), creating what the Internet community calls a catenet or
internet.
IOP Input Output Processor
IOPac Internet Office Pack
IOR Intermediate Office Repeater
IOS Input Output System
IOS Integrated Office System
IOS Internetworking Operating System
IOS Integrated Office Systems
IOS Inter-network Operating System
IOS Integrated Office System
IOS See Cisco IOS.
IOSQL Interactive Object-oriented Structured Query Language
IOTC International Originating Toll Centre (f: CID)
IOV Independent Option Vendor
IP Information Package
IP Information Planner
IP Intelligent Peripheral
IP Internet Protocol
IP Internet Protocol (ISO and TCP/IP)
IP Information Package
IP Intellectual Property
IP Internet Product
IP Internet Protocol. Network layer protocol in the TCP/IP stack offering a connectionless internetwork
service. IP provides features for addressing, type-of-service specification, fragmentation and reassembly,
and security. Defined in RFC 791.
IP See Internet Protocol.
IP – VPN Internet Protocol – Virtual Private Network
IP address 32-bit address assigned to hosts using TCP/IP. An IP address belongs to one of five classes
(A, B, C, D, or E) and is written as 4 octets separated by periods (dotted decimal format). Each address
consists of a network number, an optional subnetwork number, and a host number. The network and subnetwork
numbers together are used for routing, while the host number is used to address an individual host within
the network or subnetwork. A subnet mask is used to extract network and subnetwork information from the IP
address. CIDR provides a new way of representing IP addresses and subnet masks. Also called an Internet
address. See also CIDR, IP, and subnet mask.
IP Address See Internet Protocol Address.
IP datagram Fundamental unit of information passed across the Internet. Contains source and destination
addresses along with data and a number of fields that define such things as the length of the datagram, the
header checksum, and flags to indicate whether the datagram can be (or was) fragmented.
IP multicast Routing technique that allows IP traffic to be propagated from one source to a number of
destinations or from many sources to many destinations. Rather than sending one packet to each destination,
one packet is sent to a multicast group identified by a single IP destination group address.
IP Security Option See IPSO.
IP-FDDI Transmission of IP over FDDI
IPA Information-Technology Promotion Agency
IPA Isopropyl Alcohol
IPABX ISDN Private Automatic Branch EXchange
IPAC Integrated Planning Access and Core
IPAIRS Intergrated Plant Assignment and Inventory Record System
IPAIRS Integrated Plant Assignment & Inventory Record System
IPAIRS Integrated Plant Assignment Inventory Record System
IPAIRS Integrated Plant Assignment Inventory System
IPAIRS INTEGRATED PAIRS (PLANT ASSIGNMENT INVENTORY AND RECORDS SYSTEM)
IPBSU Intergraph Public Safety Business Unit
IPC Image Processing Controller
IPC Individual Peg Count
IPC Information Processing Centre/Computer
IPC Instructions Per Cycle
IPC Intelligent Pheripheral Card
IPC Inter-Process Communications
IPC InterProcess Communications
IPC Information Processing Centre
IPC InterProcess Communication.
IPCCC IP Customer Care Centre
IPCP IP Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes and configures IP over PPP. See also IP and PPP.
IPCS Interactive Problem Control System
IPDP IP design package
IPDS Intelligent Printer Data Stream (Lexmark/IBM)
IPDS IBM Personal Dictation System
IPDS Intelligent Printer Data Stream
IPF Information Planning Facility
IPF Information Presentation Facility
IPF Integrated Processor and F-Bus Interface Card
IPF Interactive Productivity Facility
IPFC Information Presentation Facility Compiler
IPGA Interstitial PGA
IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface
IPL Initial Program Load
IPL Initial Program Loading (f: PCI)
IPL International Private Line
IPM Images Per Minute
IPM Impulses per Minute
IPM Intelligent Power Management
IPM Interim Provisioning Memorandum
IPM Interruptions Per Minute
IPM Information Planning Methodology
IPMH Interprocessor Message Handler
IPMP Integrated Project Management Process (f: MIGP)
IPMP Integrated Project Management Plan
IPMP Information Planning Methodology Process/Integrated Project Management Process
IPMP Integrated Project Management Process
IPMS Information Package Management System (f: SGF)
IPng See IPv6.
IPOTS Internet Provider Order Tracking System
IPR Individual Performance Record
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
IPS Inches Per Second
IPS International Printer Standard
IPS Integrated Provisioning System (f: IPS)
IPS Système d'approvisionnement intégré (e: IPS)
IPS Integrated Provisioning System
IPS-FM IPS - Financial Management System
IPS-FM IPS
IPS/TDS Integr. Prov. Syst. Taffic Dimens. Syst
IPS/TDS INTEGRATED PROVISIONING SYSTEM/TRAFFIC DIMENSIONING SYSTEM
IPS/UMS INTEGRATED PROVISIONING SYSTEM/UTILIZATION MGMT SYSTEM
IPSC International Printer Standard Committee
IPSD Intelligent Printer Sharing Device
IPSO Internet Protocol Security Options
IPSO IP Security Option. U.S. government specification that defines an optional field in the IP packet header
that defines hierarchical packet security levels on a per interface basis.
IPT Interim Planning Tool
IPT Installation Pricing Tool
IPT INVESTMENT PLANNING TEAM
IPU Image Processing Unit
IPv6 IP version 6. Replacement for the current version of IP (version 4). IPv6 includes support for flow ID in
the packet header, which can be used to identify flows. Formerly called IPng (next generation).
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange. NetWare network layer (Layer 3) protocol used for transferring data from
servers to workstations. IPX is similar to IP and XNS.
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
IPX Internet Packet eXchange
IPXCP IPX Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes and configures IPX over PPP. See also IPX and PPP.
IPXWAN IPX wide-area network. Protocol that negotiates end-to-end options for new links. When a link comes
up, the first IPX packets sent across are IPXWAN packets negotiating the options for the link. When the
IPXWAN options are successfully determined, normal IPX transmission begins. Defined by RFC 1362.
IQ Intelligent Query
IQ Intelligent Quotient
IR Incoming Register
IR Industry Remarketer
IR InfraRed
IR Inter
IR Intercept
IR Internet Registry
IR Internet Registry. IR was delegated the responsibility of network address and autonomuous system
identifiers from the IANA, which has the discretionary authority to delegate portions of its responsibility.
IR Industrial Relations
IRB Integrated Routing and Bridging. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part. An upper-layer
application supported by SS7 for connection set up and tear down.
IRB Invoice Ready Billing
IRC Information Resource Centre
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRC Internet Relay Chat. World-wide "party line" protocol that allows one to converse with others in real
time. IRC is structured as a network of servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one
per user.
IRC The world-wide party line of the '90s. IRC allows multiple users to converse in real time on different
channels. Channels (which have a # sign preceding their name) vary in traffic and content. Channel operators
(or Ops) moderate the conversation, and have the ability to "kick" people from channels, or even ban them if
their actions warrant it. IRC clients are available for nearly all platforms.
IRDA InfraRed Data Association
IRDIA Industrial Research and Development Incentive Act
IRDP ICMP Router Discovery Protocol. Protocol that enables a host to determine the address of a router that it
can use as a default gateway. Similar to ES-IS, but used with IP. See also ES-IS.
IRDS Information Resource Dictionary System
IRET Interrupt Return
IRIS Installation and Repair Information System
IRIS Invoices, Reports & Information System
IRIS Installation Repair Information System
IRIS Invoice Reports and Information System
IRM Information Resource Management
IRN Intermediate Routing Node. In SNA, a subarea node with intermediate routing capability.
IROR Internal Rate of Return
IRQ Interrupt Request
IRQ Inverse of Remainder of Quantum
IRQ Information Request
IRR InfraRed Radiation
IRR Initial Rate of Return
IRR Internal Rate of Return
IRR. BILLING Irregular Billing
IRS Initial Receive Sequence number
IRSG Internet Research Steering Group. Group that is part of the IAB and oversees the activities of the IRTF.
See also ICP cell and IRTF.
IRTF Internet Research Task Force. Community of network experts that considers Internet-related research
topics. The IRTF is governed by the IRSG and is considered a subsidiary of the IAB. See also ICP cell and
IRSG.
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
IS Information System
IS Intermediate System
IS International Standard
IS SAP Industry Solutions Package
IS 1. Intermediate System. Routing node in an OSI network. 2. Telecommunications: In-Service. Entity is
fully operational and capable of providing service to a requesting entity.
IS&P Internet Protocol (IP) Services and Planning
IS-IS Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System. OSI link-state hierarchical routing protocol based on
DECnet Phase V routing, whereby ISs (routers) exchange routing information based on a single metric, to
determine network topology. Compare with Integrated IS-IS. See also ES-IS and OSPF.
IS-IS Information System to Information System
IS-IS Hello See IIH.
IS-IS Interdomain Routing Protocol See IDRP.
IS-NMS Integrated Switch - Network Management System
IS/IT Information Systems / Information Technology (f: SI/TI)
IS/IT Information Systems / Information Technology
IS/IT information systems/information technology
ISA Index Sequential Access
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISA Information System Access
ISA Integrated Services Access
ISA Information Systems Architecture
ISA IN-SESSION ACTIVATION
ISA Industry-Standard Architecture. 16-bit bus used for Intel-based personal computers. See also EISA.
ISAAC Order Provisioning & Assignment System Integration
ISAAC-SU ORDER PROVISIONING & ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION
ISAL information system access line
ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Method
ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISAMS Intelligent Services Alliance Management System
isarithmic flow control Flow control technique that permits travel through the network. Isarithmic flow
control is not commonly implemented.
ISBN Integrated Satellite Business Network
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISC Information Services Consulting (f: SCI)
ISC Intra/inter-company Service Coordinator
ISC Information Services Centre
ISC Inter System Coupling. Interface between CICS and IMS
ISC Inter/IntraCompany Service Co-ordination
ISCB Integrated Services Channel Bank
ISCC Centre international de contrôle du service (e: ISCC)
ISCC International Service Control Centre (f: ISCC)
ISCF Inter-System Control Facility
ISCN Information Services Consulting Network
ISCP Integrated Service Control Point
ISD Information System Development
ISDD Incoming Start to Dial Delay (f: TAAC)
ISDG Information Systems Development Guide
ISDG Information System Development Guide
ISDG Information Systems Development Guide (part of Sygma6)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDN International Scientific Digital Network)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (f: RNIS)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network. See BRI and PRI
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network. 1. A set of standards for transmission of simultaneous voice, data
and video information over fewer channels than would otherwise be needed, through the use of out-of-band
signalling. The most common ISDN system provides one data and two voice circuits over a traditional copper
wire pair, but can represent as many as 30 channels. Broadband ISDN extends the ISDN capabilities to
services in the Gigabit range. See also BISDN, BRI, N-ISDN, and PRI. 2. A digital network that permits the
switched interconnection of voice, data, and video transmissions requiring different capacities over common
facilities.
ISDN See Integrated Services Digital Network.
ISDN-UP ISDN User Part
ISDN-UP ISDN user parts in SS7 (same as ISUP)
ISDNAS Assigns ISDN equip
ISDNDATA ISDN Database
ISE Integrated Storage Element
ISE Itemized Service and Equipment
ISE IP Service Element
ISF Inter-System Facilities
ISG Information Services Group
ISG Isolated System Ground(ing) (f: PTI)
ISI Inter-Symbol Interference
ISID SID with statistical generating capability (Cisco/ Routers/Passport/STM
ISIF Intergraph Standard Interchange Format
ISIS Integrated Set of Information System
ISISP Information Services ISP
ISL Inter-Switch Link. Cisco-proprietary protocol that maintains VLAN information as traffic flows between
switches and routers.
ISLC integrated services line card
ISLM integrated services line module
ISM Integrated Services Management
ISM Internetwork Status Monitor .
ISMP ICS's Symmetric Multiprocessing
ISN Initial Sequence Number
ISN Integrated Services Node (f: NRI)
ISN Integrated Switched Network
ISN Intelligent Service Node
ISN Internal System Number
ISN integrated services node
ISN-MS Intelligent Switched Network-Management System
ISN-MS Intelligent Switching Node - Management System
ISNMS Intelligent Switched Network Management System
ISNMS INTELLIGENT SWITCH NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ISNMS-S Intel. Switched Network Mngmnt System
ISNMS-S ISNMS Siganture
ISO International Standards Organization
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISO International Standards Organization
ISO International Organization for Standardization. International organization that is responsible for a wide
range of standards, including those relevant to networking. ISO developed the OSI reference model, a popular
networking reference model.
ISO See International Organization for Standardization.
ISO 3309 HDLC procedures developed by ISO. ISO 3309:1979 specifies the HDLC frame structure for use in
synchronous environments. ISO 3309:1984 specifies proposed modifications to allow the use of HDLC in
asynchronous environments as well.
ISO 9000 Set of international quality-management standards defined by ISO. The standards, which are not
specific to any country, industry, or product, allow companies to demonstrate that they have specific
processes in place to maintain an efficient quality system.
ISO development environment See ISODE.
ISOC Internet Society. International nonprofit organization, founded in 1992, that coordinates the evolution
and use of the Internet. In addition, ISOC delegates authority to other groups related to the Internet, such
as the IAB. ISOC is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, (United States). See also ICP cell.
ISOC See Internet Society.
isochronous transmission Asynchronous transmission over a synchronous data link. Isochronous signals require
a constant bit rate for reliable transport. Compare with asynchronous transmission, plesiochronous
transmission, and synchronous transmission.
ISODE ISO Development Environment. Large set of libraries and utilities used to develop upper-layer OSI
protocols and applications.
ISODE ISO Development Environment
isoENET Isochronous Ethernet
ISOLT In Service Off-Line Testset
ISOM Interpreted SOM
ISONET ISOnet
ISP Initial Service Period (f: PIM)
ISP ISDN Signalling Pre-Processor
ISP Information System Plan (f: UAS)
ISP Information Systems Plan
ISP Internet Service Provider. Company that provides Internet and world wide web access to other companies
and individuals. Usually, the ISP will also provide the customer with a core group of internet utilities and
services such as Email. The customer will reach their ISP by either dialing up with their own computer,
modem and phone line, or over a dedicated line installed by a telephone company.
ISPCS Integrated System for Public Communications Services
ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility (fr:ISPF)
ISPN Integrated Services Private Network (now known as ISVN)
ISR Intermediate Session Routing. Initial routing algorithm used in APPN. ISR provides node-to-node
connection-oriented routing. Network outages cause sessions to fail because ISR cannot provide nondisruptive
rerouting around a failure. ISR was replaced by HPR. Compare with HPR. See also APPN.
ISS Initial Send Sequence number
ISS Internet Security Services
ISS Information System Support
ISS International Space Station
ISSC Information Services Support Centre (f: GSB)
ISSC Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation
ISSI Inter-Switching System Interface. Standard interface between SMDS switches.
ISSM Interim Switch Section Monitor
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
ISSS IBM Speech Server Series
ISU Instruction Scheduler Unit
ISUP Integrated Services User Part
ISUP ISDN User Part
ISUP ISDN User Part (f: SSUR)
ISUP same as ISDN-UP
ISUP 1. ISDN User Part. 2. Integrated Services User Part.
ISV Independent Software Vendor
ISVN Integrated Services Virtual Network (formerly ISPN)
ISVP Integrated Service User Part
ISW InSide Wire
IT Inside Termination
IT InterToll
IT Income Tax (f: IR)
IT Incoming Trunk
IT Information Technology
IT Intelligent Terminal
IT Intertandem Tie Trunk
IT Intertoll
IT Information Technology
IT&C Industry, Trade and Commerce
ITAA Information Technology Association of America
ITAC Information Technology Association of Canada
ITB Incoming Trunk Busy
ITB Instruction Translation Buffer
ITB Integral Token Ring Bridge
ITC International Typeface Corp
ITC Independent Company Customer Sales and Services Centres
ITC Independent Telephone Companies (f: CTI)
ITC Independent Telephone Company
ITC Billing Independent Telephone Company Billing
ITC PC Independent Telephone Company PC
ITC TB Independent Telephone Company TB (Transfer Billing)
ITDS Intertoll Dial Switching
ITE Income Tax Expense (f: IE)
ITE Information Technology Equipment
ITEL Integrated Terminal Equipment Layout
ITFS Intertoll Forecasting System
ITFS Intertoll Trunk Forecasting System
ITFS Intertoll Forecasting System
ITFS Intertoll Trunk Forecast System (message traffic circuit forecast)
ITFS/ITSS Intertoll Trunk Forecasting / Servicing System
ITHI Interactive Terminal Host Interface
ITI Interactive Terminal Interface
ITIRC IBM Technical Information Retrieval Center
ITLB Instruction TLB
ITO Indium Thin Oxide
ITP Income Tax Payable (f: IRP)
ITR Input Tax Refund
ITS Investment Tracking System
ITS integrated test system
ITSA INTERTOLL SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE
ITSEC Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria
ITSP Intelligent Transportation System Providers
ITSS Intertoll Trunk Servicing System
ITT Intertoll Trunk
ITTS Intelligent Terminal Test System (f: SETI)
ITTS Intercompany Transport and Tracking System (f: ITTS)
ITU Intelligent Terminal Unit
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector. International body
that develops worldwide standards for telecommunications technologies. The ITU-T carries out the functions
of the former CCITT. See also CCITT.
ITU-TSS Intern. Telecom. Union - Telecom. Standardization Sector
ITUA Independent T1 Users Association
ITUSA Information Technology Users Standards Association
ITV Interactive Television (beacon Project - Phonestore)
ITVS Interactive Television System (f: STVI)
IU Instruction Unit
IU Integer Unit
IU Interface Unit
IUCV Inter-User Communications Vehicle
IV&V Independent Verification & Validation
IVA Initial Value Assessment
IVA Incremental Value Assessment
IVA Initial Value Assessment
IVA initial value assessment (like ROI)
IVC Incoming Virtual Circuit
IVD Integrated Voice Data (tool)
IVD Interactive VideoDisc
IVD integrated voice & data
IVDS Interface View Distribution System
IVL Independent Vendor League
IVMS Integrated Voice Messaging System (f: MVI, SMVI)
IVMS Integrated Voice Messaging System
IVMS Integrated Voice Management System (PC appl)
IVMS Integrated Voice Messaging Service(VMAS?VMIS)
IVMS Integrated Voice Messaging System
IVO Integrated Voice Order
IVOD Interactive Video-On-Demand
IVP Installation Verification Procedure
IVR Integrated Voice Response
IVR Interactive Voice Response. Term used to describe systems that provide information in the form of
recorded messages over telephone lines in response to user input in the form of spoken words or more
commonly DTMF signaling. Examples include banks that allow you to check your balance from any telephone and
automated stock quote systems.
IVRS Interactive Voice Response System (f: SRV)
IVRU Interactive Voice Response Unit
IVS Interactive Video Services
IVS Interexchange Voice Services
IVT Interrupt-Vector Table
IVT Industry Vertical Team
IVV Independent Verification & Validation
IWC Inside Wiring Cable
IWF InterWorking Function
IWFM Integrated Workforce Management System
IWFM INTEGRATED WORK FORCE MANAGEMENT
IWFMS Integrated Work and Force Management System
IWR Isolated Word Recognition
IWS Intelligent Work Station (f: PTI)
IWS Integrated Work Station
IWS intelligent workstation
IWS INTELLIGENT WORK STATION
IWU interworking unit
IX Inter-Exchange
IX Interexchange
IX Inter-eXchange
IX interexchange
IXC Interexchange carrier (f: FSI)
IXC Interexchange Carrier
IXC Inter-eXchange Carrier
IXC Inter Exchange Carrier
IXC INTEREXCHANGE CARRIERS (COMPETITORS)
IXC Inter-eXchange Carrier. Common carrier providing long distance connectivity between LATAs. The three
major IXCs are AT&T, MCI, and Sprint, but several hundred IXCs offer long distance service in the United
States.
IXCLEC Local Exchange Carrier
IXCTRC Interexchange Carrier Trouble Report Center
IXDS-0 Inter-Exchange DS-0
IXDS-1 Inter-Exchange DS-1
IXF Integrated Exchange Format
IXPL Inter-Exchange Private Line
IXRSB Interexchange Repair Service Bureau (operates within a metropolitan area)
IXVG Inter-Exchange Voice Grade
IY40 Unpluged plugins management
JA Job Adjustment
jabber 1. Error condition in which a network device continually transmits random, meaningless data onto the
network. 2. In IEEE 802.3, a data packet whose length exceeds that prescribed in the standard.
jack A connecting device having springs that make electrical contact with mating plug contacts. Some
technicians distinguish between the socket side and the plug side, calling the socket side the jack.
JAD Joint Appplication Design (workshop)
JAD joint application development sessions
JANET Joint Academic NETwork
JANET Joint Academic Network. X.25 WAN connecting university and research institutions in the United
Kingdom.
Japan UNIX Network See JUNET.
JATE Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment
Java Object-oriented programming language developed at Sun Microsystems to solve a number of problems in
modern programming practice. The Java language is used extensively on World-Wide Web, particularly for
applets.
JAWS Joint Application Workship Session
JB7 Jam Bit 7
JCL Job Control Language
JCT Junction
JCW Job Control Words
JDBC Java Database Connectivity. Java API that enables Java programs to execute SQL statements. This allows
Java programs to interact with any SQL-compliant database. Since nearly all relational database management
systems (DBMSs) support SQL, and because Java itself runs on most platforms, JDBC makes it possible to write
a single database application that can run on different platforms and interact with different DBMSs. JDBC is
similar to ODBC, but is designed specifically for Java programs, whereas ODBC is language-independent. JDBC
was developed by JavaSoft, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems. See ODBC.
JEDI Joint Electronic Data Interchange
JEIDA Japanese Electronic Industry Development Association
jeopardy Any condition in the provisioning process that endangers the requested completion date, for example,
"no facilities available".
JES Job Entry System
JES Job Entry Subsystem
JES-2 Job Entry Subsystem 2
JESSI Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative
JET Joint Efficiency Team
JETAM Job Evaluation Task Analysis Method (f: EVEMAT)
JFET Junction FET
JFS Journaling File System
JFT Job File Table
JIM JOB INFORMATION MODIFICATION
JIT Just In Time"" Provisioning
jitter 1. Analog communication line distortion caused by the variation of a signal from its reference
timing positions. Jitter can cause data loss, particularly at high speeds. 2. Random, short term instability
of the amplitude and/or phase of a signal. Synonym: phase jitter 3. The deviation of clock recovery that can
occur when a station's receiver recovers both clock and data from the received signal in a ring-configured
local area network (LAN). 4. Spurious timing variations in digital pulses over a T1 line.
JLR Journals Ledgers and Reports system
JMT Job Management and Transfer
JNAL Japan National Aeronautics Laboratory
JNET NETWORK MODULE
John von Neumann Computer Network See JvNCnet.
Joint Academic Network See JANET.
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) An International Standards Organization (ISO) video compression
standard for storage and transmission of a variety of still graphics image formats (not only NTSC in
origin). It may be used in conjunction with fully-compliant ITU-T codes and includes both lossy and lossless
modes. Note that so-called "motion JPEG" is a proprietary means of motion video transmission, and is not a
standard.
JOVIAL Jules' Own Version of International Algorithmic Language
JP Jute Protector
JPA Jumper Pile Analysis System
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG Joint Photographics Expert Group. Graphic file format that was adopted as a standard by the ITU-T and the
ISO. JPEG is most often used to compress still images using DCT analysis.
JPR Jumper
JRM Job Review Meeting
JSS Joint Surveillance System
JTAG Joint Test Action Group
JTC Joint Technical Committee
JTC/EDI Joint Technical Committee/EDI
JTFA Joint Time-Frequency Analysis
JTLB Joint Translation Lookaside Buffer
JTM Job Transfer and Manipulation
JTT Joint Task Team
JU Joint Use
JU Jointly Used
JUICE Joint Usage Investigation and Collection Engine
jumper 1. Electrical switch consisting of a number of pins and a connector that can be attached to the pins
in a variety of different ways. Different circuits are created by attaching the connector to different pins.
2. A wire used to link equipment and cable on a distributing frame.
junction A point on the network where there is a "fork", but where no point of presence (POP) exists. No
drops off the network are possible.
junctor An internal switching system connection between lines and trunks.
JUNET Japan UNIX Network. Nationwide, noncommercial network in Japan, designed to promote communication
between Japanese and other researchers.
JUNKIT Junks all Stuff
JVA Joint Ventures and Alliances
JVA Database Joint Venture Alliance
JvNCnet John von Neumann Computer Network. Regional network, owned and operated by Global Enterprise
Services, Inc., composed of T1 and slower serial links providing midlevel networking services to sites in
the Northeastern United States.
JWI Jumper Wire Interface (f: SR)
JWI Junction Wire Interface (Old Access term
JWI Jumper Wire Interface
JWI jumper-wire interface
K Kilo
K Northern Installation Completion Date
Ka band 20-30GHz range (millimeter wave band).
KA9Q Popular implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems.
KAP Key account program (f: KAP)
KAP Programme KAP (EN: KAP)
Karn's algorithm Algorithm that improves round-trip time estimations by helping transport layer protocols
distinguish between good and bad round-trip time samples.
KB kilobyte. Approximately 1,000 bytes.
Kb kilobit. Approximately 1,000 bits.
KB Kilo Bytes
Kb Kilobit (= 1,024 bits)
KB Kilobyte (= 1,024 bytes)
KB/S Kilo Bits per Second
KBD KeyBoarD
KBIT/S Kilo Bits per Second
kbit/s Kilobits par seconde (e: KBPS)
KBPS Kilo Bits per Second
KBPS Kilo Bytes Per Second
KBPS Kilobit per second
KBPS Kilobits per second (f: kbit/s)
KBPS Kilobytes per second
kbps kilobits per second (one thousand bits per second); also kb/s
kBps kilobytes per second.
kbps kilobits per second.
KC Kilocycle
KC/S Kilocycles per second
KCO Keep Cost Order
Keep Alive (KA) A message used in the link management interface (LMI) of a frame relay port to verify link
integrity.
keepalive interval Period of time between each keepalive message sent by a network device.
keepalive message Message sent by one network device to inform another network device that the virtual
circuit between the two is still active.
KEN kinetic energy node
KERBEROS REMEDY-WKST
Kerberos Developing standard for authenticating network users. Kerberos offers two key benefits: it functions
in a multivendor network, and it does not transmit passwords over the network.
Kermit Columbia University's almost error-free, flexible, asynchronous file transfer protocol used for PC
communications. Popular file-transfer and terminal-emulation program.
Key As related to a database, an identifier for a single collection of data, such as a record, a row, or an
object. The key for a customer might be a customer number. The key for 800 number information might be the
800 number plus the state code plus an effective date. One collection of data may have a "foreign key" that
points to another collection of related data in another file, table, database, or collection of objects.
key frame A video frame in which all the video information is recorded in compressed fashion. If the clip has
a large amount of motion, better playback will occur with every frame being a Key Frame. If there is very
little motion, such as a narrator, a higher number of Delta Frames will give satisfactory playback. In
general making every 3rd frame a Key Frame is a good choice with the current Indeo algorithm.
Key Generator (KG) A device external to the codec for maintaining the security of classified communications
by means of encryption techniques. Provides much better security than DES and is generally used only by the
military, NATO and some military contractors.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Click here for list and their definitions.
Key Pulsing (KP) A telephone system in which calling signal digits are transmitted using push buttons.
Key Service Unit (KSU) The main operating unit of a key telephone system.
key system 1. An office telephone system that provides all users with immediate access to outside lines
when they press one or two dedicated keys. For example, a six-button key system could have a hold button,
four outside lines and an intercom. Key systems typically have fewer lines and telephones than a private
branch exchange (PBX) system. Key systems can also be used with a PBX or Centrex system. 2. The equipment
used to provide the features associated with key sets, including keysets, multipair cable, key service unit,
and distribution frames.
Key Telephone System (KTS) A system that provides direct selection of an outside line from a multiline
telephone set. For example, line holding and intercommunications functions are selected at the instrument.
Visual indications are given on the status of each line associated with the instrument.
keyboard dialing-data adapter The facility that initiates data and voice calls from data terminal equipment
through a data adapter.
Keyboard Send/Receive (KSR) A combination teletypewriter transmitter and receiver with a keyboard that is
only capable of transmission.
keying (modem) The process of modulating a carrier signal to encode binary information. Keying in modems is
normally performed by changing the frequency or phase of the carrier signal.
keyset A telephone instrument that can be accessed by depressing a button or key on the face of the set.
KFT Kilofeet
KHZ Kilohertz
KI Key Indicator
Kilo- (K) 1. A prefix for one thousand times a specific unit. 2. 1,024(binary 210).
kilobit Abbreviated Kb.
kilobits per second Abbreviated kbps.
kilobyte Abbreviated KB.
kilobytes per second Abbreviated kBps.
KIPP Kofax Image Processing Platform
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KLOC 000's Lines of Code
KM Kilometer
KP Keypad
KPHS KeyPak High Speed
KPI Key Performance Indicators. Click here for list and their definitions.
KPI Kernel Programming Interface
KPX Kodak Picture Exchange
KSAM Keyed Sequential Access Method
KSAT Komputerowy System dla Administracji Rz§dowej
KSH Key Short Hunt
KSR Keyboard Send-Receive Teletypewriter Set
KSU key service unit
KTS Key Telephone System
Ku band 12-14 GHz range (millimeter wave band).
kVA kilovoltampere.
KVA KiloVolt Amperes
L Inductance
L-CART Line Cart
L/S Local Service
L/T Line or Trunk
L1-Cache Level 1 (internal processor)
L2-Cache Level 2 (external)
L2F Protocol Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol. Protocol that supports the creation of secure virtual private
dial-up networks over the Internet.
LA Leave of Absence
LA Limited Availability
LAA Locally Administered Address
label swapping Routing algorithm used by APPN in which each router that a message passes through on its way
to its destination independently determines the best path to the next router.
LACN Local Area Computer Network
LAD/2 LAN Automated Distribution or OS/2
LADT Local Area Data Transport
LAM Lobe Attachment Module
LAMA Local AMA (f: CALA)
LAMA Local automatic message accounting (f: CALA)
LAN Line Appearance Number
LAN Local Access Network
LAN Local Area Networks
LAN 1. Local-Area Network. High-speed, low-error data network covering a relatively small geographic area (up
to few thousand meters). LANs connect workstations, peripherals, terminals, and other devices in a single
building or other geographically limited area. LAN standards specify cabling and signaling at the physical
and data link layers of the OSI model. Ethernet, FDDI, and Token Ring are widely used LAN technologies.
Compare with MAN and WAN. 2. Local Area Network. LANs are now commonplace in most businesses, allowing users
to send email and share resources such as files, printers, modems, etc. Currently, most larger companies are
connection their LANs to the Internet, allowing users to connect to resources within or outside the LAN.
LAN Emulation See LANE.
LAN Emulation Client See LEC.
LAN Emulation Configuration Server See LECS.

LAN Emulation Server See LES.
LAN interconnect A point on a local area network (LAN) where circuits can be routed & administered.
LAN Manager A local area network (LAN) management software jointly developed by Microsoft and 3Com that
runs under MS-DOS and OS/2. LAN Manager is original equipment manufactured (OEM)ed by a number of vendors,
including 3Com, IBM, DEC, Ungermann-Bass, and AT&T. Distributed NOS, developed by Microsoft, that supports a
variety of protocols and platforms. See also NOS.
LAN Manager for UNIX See LM/X.
LAN Network Manager 1. A person who is responsible for managing the local area network (LAN) in an
organization. Duties can include adding new users, installing new hardware and software, diagnosing network
problems, helping users, performing backups, and setting up a security system. Unlike MIS managers, LAN
managers are not always formally trained in LAN and information management.
LAN protocols A range of protocols supported by a frame relay network, including transmission control
protocol/Internet protocol, apple talk, xerox network system (XNS), internetwork packet exchange (IPX), and
common operating system used by DOS-based PCs.
LAN segment In the context of a frame relay network supporting LAN-to-LAN communications, a LAN linked to
another LAN by a bridge. Bridges enable two LANs to function like a single, large LAN by passing data from
one LAN segment to another. To communicate with each other, the bridged LAN segments must use the same
native protocol.
LAN Server IBM's proprietary implementation of Microsoft's local area network (LAN) Manager; Server-based NOS
developed by IBM and derived from LNM. See also LNM.
LAN switch High-speed switch that forwards packets between data-link segments. Most LAN switches forward
traffic based on MAC addresses. This variety of LAN switch is sometimes called a frame switch. LAN switches
are often categorized according to the method they use to forward traffic: cut-through packet switching or
store-and-forward packet switching. Multilayer switches are an intelligent subset of LAN switches. Compare
with multilayer switch. See also cut-through packet switching and store and forward packet switching.
LANA LANscape Advisory
LANACS Local Area Network Asynchronous Connection Server
LANAO LAN Automation Option
land line The traditional telephone services and/or companies.
land mobile service Two-way radio service in the 44-50 MHz band.
LANDA LAN Dealers Association
LANE LAN Emulation. Technology that allows an ATM network to function as a LAN backbone. The ATM network must
provide multicast and broadcast support, address mapping (MAC-to-ATM), SVC management, and a usable packet
format. LANE also defines Ethernet and Token Ring ELANs. See also ELAN.
LANE UNI LANE User-Network Interface.
LAP Linear Arithmetic Processor
LAP Link Access Procedure
LAPB Link Access Procedures Balanced
LAPB Link Access Protocol-Balanced
LAPB Link Access Procedure - Balanced
LAPB Link Access Protocol Balanced
LAPB Link Access Procedure, Balanced. A Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph
(CCITT)-compatible protocol, similar to link access procedure-D channel (LAP-D.) LAP-B provides error-
controlled access to packet-switched networks. Data link layer protocol in the X.25 protocol stack. LAPB is
a bit-oriented protocol derived from HDLC. See also HDLC and X.25.
LAPD Link Access Procedure on the D channel. ISDN data link layer protocol for the D channel. LAPD was derived
from the LAPB protocol and is designed primarily to satisfy the signaling requirements of ISDN basic access.
Defined by ITU-T Recommendations Q.920 and Q.921.
LAPD Link Access Protocol-D
LAPD Link Access Protocol on the D Channel (defined by Q. 921)
LAPF Link Access Protocol for Frame Relay
LAPM Link Access Procedure for Modems. ARQ used by modems implementing the V.42 protocol for error correction.
See also ARQ and V.42.
LAPM Link Access Procedure - Modem
LAPS LAN Adapter and Protocol Support
LARAM Line Addressable Random Access Memory
LARC Limited Address Range Cache
Large Scale Integration (LSI) The depositing of many electronic circuits; including transistors, on a small
silicon chip in a single manufacturing process.
LASCAR Language for Simulation of Computer ARchitecture
laser Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Analog transmission device in which a suitable
active material is excited by an external stimulus to produce a narrow beam of coherent light that can be
modulated into pulses to carry data. Networks based on laser technology are sometimes run over SONET.
Laser A storage device written and read to by laser.
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LASI LAn/scSI
Last In/First Out (LIFO) A queuing technique in which the newest entry in a queue or file is the first to be
removed.
last mile A circuit, facility, or service used to connect an intercity cable, microwave system, and so forth
to a customer of a point of presence (POP).
last number redial A private branch exchange (PBX) and electronic key telephone feature in which the last
number dialed can be automatically redialed at the touch of a preprogrammed button.
LAT Local-Area Ttransport. A network virtual terminal protocol developed by Digital Equipment Corporation.
LAT Local Area Transport (Protocol)
LATA Local Access and Transport Area
LATA Local Access Transport Area (f: LATA)
LATA local access transport area
LATA Local Access and Transport Area. A geographic service area defined in the AT&T Modification of Final
Judgement (MFJ). The Bell operating companies (BOCs) and GTE are restricted to operations within their own
areas. Long-distance service within a LATA is provided by the local exchange carrier (LEC). Service between
LATAs is provided by an interexchange carrier (IEC). LATAs are represented by a 3-character code. There are
approximately 200 LATAs in the U.S.
latency The time interval between when a network station seeks access to a transmission channel and when
access is granted or received. Same as waiting time. In a bridge or a router, it is the amount of time
elapsed between receiving and retransmitting the local area network (LAN) data packet.
LATS Local Access Test System
Layer 3 Switching Emerging Layer 3 switching technology that integrates routing with switching to yield
very high routing throughput rates in the millions-of-packets- per-second range. The movement to Layer 3
switching is designed to address the downsides of the current generation of layer 2 switches, which are
functionally equivalent to bridges. These downsides for a large, flat network include being subject to
broadcast storms, spanning tree loops, and address limitations.
LB Line Busy
LB Loop Back
LBA Logical Block Address
LBI Load Balance Index
LBI Loaned and Borrowed Information (Network Provisioning)
LBI Loaned and Borrowed Information re Network Provisioning
LBN Local Broadband Network (f: RLLB)
LBO Line Build Out
LBRE Low Bit Rate Encoding
LBRV Low Bit Rate Voice
LBRV Low Bit Rate Voice (8k)
LBS Load Balancing System
LBS Load Balancing System (part of FMS)
LBU Loop Back Unit
LC Line Card
LC Liquid Crystal
LC Loading Coil
LC Logical Channel
LC Low Capacitance
LC Low Cost
LC1A/LC1B Wire Line Entrance Module
LCA Lotus Communications Architecture
LCA LOCAL CUSTOMER ACTION
LCAMS Lease Contract Accounting Management System
LCAT Leadership Capabilities Assessment Tool (f: OECL)
LCB Large Customer Billing (f: GAP)
LCB Line Control Block
LCB Large Customer Billing
LCC Line Class Code (f: CCL)
LCC Line Cluster Controller (f: CGL)
LCC Link Control Card
LCC Loading Coil Case
LCC Line Card Carrier
LCCS Liquid Crystal Color Shutter
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCD Local Call Detail
LCD liquid crystal display
LCDMM Loosely-Coupled Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
LCE Line Concentrating Equipment
LCF Low Cost Fiber
LCFS Last Come, First Served
LCI Line Concentrator Interface
LCI Local Craft Interface
LCI Logical Channel Identifier. See VCN.
LCID Large Colour Integrated Display
LCLS Last Come, Last Served
LCM Line Concentrating Module (DMS-100) (f: MCL)
LCM Line Concentrating(or) Module
LCM Line Concentrating Module
LCME Enhanced Line Concentrating Module
LCME LINE CONCENTRATING MODULE - ENHANCED
LCMI ISDN Line Concentrating Module.
LCMS Load Control & Monitoring System
LCMS Wireless Cable
LCN Logical Channel Number
LCN Logical Channel Number. See VCN.
LCO Local Central Office
LCP Line Card Provisioning (f: GCL)
LCP Logical Connection Process
LCP Link Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes, configures, and tests data-link connections for use by
PPP. See also PPP.
LCPP Loosely-Coupled Parallel Processing
LCR least cost routing
LCRS Line Condition Report System
LCRV Low Capacity Remoting Vehicle (Microlink, etc.) (f: DFCED)
LCRV Low Capacity Remoting Vehicle deferrable Plug-In card
LCS Line Card Shelf
LCS Lotus Communication Server
LCU/2 LAN CID (Configuration/Installation/Distribution)
LCV Local Circuit View database & system
LCV (Bell) Local Circuit View data base and system (replaced by CCV)
LCV local circuit view
LCV Line Code Violation. Occurrence of a BPV or EXZ error event.
LD Long Distance. Any telephone call to a location outside the local service area. Also called toll or trunk
call.
LD Long Distance
LD laser diode
LD Long Distance
LD Low Density
LD-1 digital copper facility at DS-1 rate (1.544 mbps)
LD-4 digital copper facility at DS-4 rate (274 mbps)
LD-ROM Laser Disk Read Only Memory
LD1 Link Digital 1 (f: LN1)
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDAP Local Directory Access Point
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Protocol that provides access for management and browser
applications that provide read/write interactive access to the X.500 Directory.
LDAS Long Distance Analysis System
LDC LATA Distribution Channel
LDC Local Data Control
LDCELP low-delay CELP. CELP voice compression algorithm providing 16 Kbps, or 4:1 compression. Standardized
in ITU-T Recommendation G.728.
LDDA Long Distance Directory Assistance
LDDC Limited distance data channel (f: VDCD)
LDDS Limited Distance Data Set (f: MCD)
LDF Line Distributing Frame
LDG Loading
LDGC Long distance gift certificate (f: CCI)
LDI Low Density Urban Interface
LDIC Low Density Industrial/commercial
LDM Limited Distance Modem
LDM Local Data Modeling
LDMI Long Distance Message Increases
LDN Listed Directory Number
LDNSS Local Dynamic Network Servicing System
LDR Local dynamic routing (f: AARL)
LDR Local Dynamic Routing
LDR-SS Local Dynamic Routing - Servicing System
LDRFS Local Dynamic Routing Forecasting System
LDRFS Local Dynamic Routing Forecast System
LDRSS Local Dynamic Routing Servicing System
LDS LANtastic Dedicated Server
LDS Large Disk Storage
LDS Limited Distance Data Set
LDS Long Distance Service
LDT Line to Digital Trunk
LDT Local Description Table
LDU Line Driver Unit
LDUC Low Density Urban Concept
LE Life Estimate (f: DVE)
LE Loop Extender
LE_ARP LAN Emulation Address Resolution Protocol. Protocol that provides the ATM address that corresponds
to a MAC address.
leaf internetwork In a star topology, an internetwork whose sole access to other internetworks in the star
is through a core router.
leaky bucket In ATM, a metaphor for the GCRA, which is used for conformance checking of cell flows from a
user or network. The hole in the bucket represents the sustained rate at which cells can be accommodated,
and the bucket depth represents the tolerance for cell bursts over a period of time. See also GCRA.
learning bridge Bridge that performs MAC address learning to reduce traffic on the network. Learning bridges
manage a database of MAC addresses and the interfaces associated with each address. See also MAC address
learning.
leased line Transmission line reserved by a communications carrier for the private use of a customer. A
leased line is a type of dedicated line. See also dedicated line.
Leased Line A dedicated, full-time connection used to link a user or network to an Internet Service
Provider or another network. Synonyms: private line and full period line.
LEC 1. LAN Emulation Client. Entity in an end system that performs data forwarding, address resolution, and
other control functions for a single ES within a single ELAN. An LEC also provides a standard LAN service
interface to any higher-layer entity that interfaces to the LEC. Each LEC is identified by a unique ATM
address, and is associated with one or more MAC addresses reachable through that ATM address. See also ELAN
and LES. 2. Local Exchange Carrier. Local or regional telephone company that owns and operates a telephone
network and the customer lines that connect to it.
LEC Legal Entry Code
LEC Local Employment Center (f: CRL)
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LEC billing An arrangement in which the local exchange carrier (LEC) invoices the customer for some or all
telecommunications services.
LEC billing account number A three-digit number added to the billing telephone number used as the local
exchange carrier (LEC) customer number. A LEC BAN groups all automatic number identifications (ANIs) for a
customer. (LEC BAN)
LEC card The billing arrangement that enables the caller to bill calls to an authorized calling card issued
by a local exchange carrier (LEC).
LEC charges Charges that are the responsibility of the local exchange carrier (LEC).
LECCP Local Exchange Carrier Compensation Plan (f: PCEL)
LECS LAN Emulation Configuration Server. Entity that assigns individual LANE clients to particular ELANs by
directing them to the LES that corresponds to the ELAN. There is logically one LECS per administrative
domain, and this serves all ELANs within that domain. See also ELAN.
LED Light Emitting Diode. Semiconductor device that emits light produced by converting electrical energy.
Status lights on hardware devices are typically LEDs.
LED Light Emitted Diode
LED Light Emitting Diode
LED light-emitting diode
LEG Loopextender with gain
LEN Line Equipment Number
LEN Local Exchange Node
LEN Low Entry Network
LEN Low-Entry Networking
LEN line equipment number
LEN node Low-Entry Networking node. In SNA, a PU 2.1 that supports LU protocols, but whose CP cannot
communicate with other nodes. Because there is no CP-to-CP session between a LEN node and its NN, the LEN
node must have a statically defined image of the APPN network.
LENA Local Enhanced Network Analyser
LEOS Low Earth Orbit Satellite
LERG Local Exchange Routing Guide
LES LAN Emulation Server. Entity that implements the control function for a particular ELAN. There is only
one logical LES per ELAN, and it is identified by a unique ATM address. See also ELAN.
Letter of agency (LOA) 1. A document that authorizes changing the service provider. 2. A letter giving a
common carrier the authority to conduct business with a telephone company on behalf of a customer. For
example, an LOA would be used to order circuits or 800 numbers for the customer.
LEV Level
Level 1 router Device that routes traffic within a single DECnet or OSI area.
Level 2 router Device that routes traffic between DECnet or OSI areas. All Level 2 routers must form a
contiguous network.
levels of abstraction 1. Relational: Tables with security authorization that may be subsets of database tables
or joins of the rows and columns of multiple tables. RDBMS cannot update through views. 2. Object-oriented:
Objects that are a subset or aggregation of the subcomponents of one or more other objects. The underlying
business object models encapsulate the data and behaviors that are used by object views. Object views send
messages to the encapsulated objects to effect any required updates or to create new object instances.
LEXIS Local Exchange Information System
LF Line Feed
LF Low Frequency
LF Line Feed
LFI Low Frequency Induction
LFL Like for Like
LFMS Lease Facilities Monitoring System
LFMS Leased Facility Monitoring System (f: LFMS)
LFS Logical File System
LG Link Group
LGA Land Grid Array
LGC Line Group Controller (f: CGL)
LGC Line Group Controller
LGCI ISDN Line Group Controller
LGCI LINE GROUP CONTROLLER - ISDN (INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK)
LGE Loop or Ground Start Exchange
LGN Logical Group Node. The node that represents its peer group in the peer group's parent peer group. See
also parent peer group and peer group.
LGS Loop or Ground Start Subscriber
LGT Low Group Transmitting Unit
LGX Linux/GNU/X
LH Link Header
LHFME Lotus High Fidelity Mail Exchange
LHFX Long Haul FX
LHS Left Hand Side
LHSC Local Health and Safety Committee
LI Length Indicator
Licences rad Radio licences management
LID local isolation disconnect
LIDB Live Information Database Services
LIFO Last In First Out
LIFO Last In, First Out
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radi See laser.
light emitting diode See LED.
LILO Last In, Last Out
LIM Link Interface Module (f: MIL)
LIM-EMS Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification
LIMD Large-scale In Memory Database
limited resource link Resource defined by a device operator to remain active only when being used.
limited-route explorer packet See spanning explorer packet.
LIMM Light Intensity Mudulation Method
LINACT Line Inactive.
line The transmission path from a non-switching subscriber terminal to a switching center. In SNA, a
connection to the network. See link.
line card Any I/O card that can be inserted in a modular chassis.
line code type One of a number of coding schemes used on serial lines to maintain data integrity and
reliability. The line code type used is determined by the carrier service provider. See also AMI, B8ZS, and
HBD3.
line code violation See LCV.
line conditioning Use of equipment on leased voice-grade channels to improve analog characteristics,
thereby allowing higher transmission rates; A telephone company service that reduces envelope delay, noise,
and amplitude distortion, enabling the subscriber to transmit higher speed data than over traditional
telephone lines.
Line Control Block (LCB) A storage area containing control information required for managing and scheduling
line operations.
Line Control Unit (LCU) An amplifier that increases a signal's strength before the signal is placed on the
address or data bus, or transmitted. Synonym: datalink control protocol line driver
line driver Inexpensive amplifier and signal converter that conditions digital signals to ensure reliable
transmissions over extended distances.
line information database A local exchange carrier's (LEC) database used to provide calling card validation.
line load control An attendant's ability to temporarily restrict least-important stations from initiating
outbound calls during excessive traffic load or emergency conditions.
line loading A method of minimizing amplitude distortion by equipping a telephone line with loading
(inductor) coils.
line noise This is interference on the telephone lines. It causes garbage to appear on your screen.
line number The four-digit XXXX number assigned to a North American telephone within an NXX exchange.
line of sight Characteristic of certain transmission systems such as laser, microwave, and infrared systems
in which no obstructions in a direct path between transmitter and receiver can exist.
line preference The ability to program a private branch exchange (PBX) to accept calls on a certain line.
line printer daemon See LPD.
line ringing A multi-button telephone function that allows incoming call ringing signals to be received on
specific lines.
Line segment The expanse of fiber-optic cable(s) between two network locations.
line signal standards In the US: T1 carries data at 1.544Mbit/s and has 24 voice circuits; T1C 3.152 Mbit/s
with 48 voice circuits; T2 6.312Mit/s with 96 voice circuits, and T3, 44.736Mbit/s. In Europe, the standards
are of the form En. E1 line speed is 2.048Mbit/s with 3C voice circuits; E2 is 8.448Mit/s with 120 voice
channels. E3 is 34.368Mbit/s with 480 voice circuits. In the UK, E1 is often referred to as MegaStream, a BT
label for its 2Mbit/s leased circuits.
line speed The maximum transmission rate of signals over a circuit. Line speed is usually expressed as
baud, or bits per second (bps).
line status indication A visual indication of line conditions, such as busy, idle, on hold, or ringing.
line switching A technique that establishes a connection between incoming and outgoing lines.
line turnaround The action required in a communications system to reverse the transmission direction after
receiving a data block of transmission so that the receiving device can send data. Line turnaround time in a
half-duplex system is usually much longer than in a full-duplex system. Time required to change data
transmission direction on a telephone line.
line-side access A type of access in which customers making long distance calls must dial extra digits
(e.g., up to 17), in addition to the called party's telephone number.
lines of action The presentation of a complex activity as a set of (relatively) independent components.
link Network communications channel consisting of a circuit or transmission path and all related equipment
between a sender and a receiver. Most often used to refer to a WAN connection. Sometimes referred to as a
line or a transmission link.
LINK BMC mainframe-based billing system
LINK LINK customer Billing System (no acronym)
Link Access Procedure for Frame Relay (LAPF) The data link layer protocol used by frame relay as defined in
ITU-T Recommendation Q.922 and ANSI T1.618.
Link Access Procedure for Modems See LAPM.
Link Access Procedure on the D channel See LAPD.
Link Access Procedure, Balanced See LAPB.
Link access procedure-D channel (LAP-D and LAPD) A protocol that provides reliable signaling on an ISDN-D
channels. LAP-D is a member of the high level data link control (HDLC) protocol.
Link Access Protocol (LAP) The Data Link or open system interconnection (OSI) Layer Two protocol specified by
the ITU-TS for the X.25 interface standard.
Link Control Protocol See LCP.
link layer See data-link layer.
Link Problem Determination Aid (LPDA) A component of IBM's NetView". Requires IBM modems or IBM DSU (a few
compatibles are available).
link state algorithm A routing algorithm such as OSPF which takes into account lowest delay when choosing a
route: link speed and congestion as well as hop count.
Link-Access Protocol-Balanced (LAP-B) The most common data-link control protocol used to interface X.25 DTEs
with X.25. It also specifies a LAP or link access procedure (not balanced). Both LAP and LAP-B are full-
duplex, point-to-point bit-synchronous protocols. The unit of data transmission is called a frame. Frames
may contain one or more X.25 packets. LAP-B is the data link level of X.25 in a packet switched network.
Same as a subset of the asynchronous balanced mode of HDLC.
link-layer address See MAC address.
link-state advertisement See LSA.
link-state packet See LSA.
link-state routing algorithm Routing algorithm in which each router broadcasts or multicasts information
regarding the cost of reaching each of its neighbors to all nodes in the internetwork. Link state algorithms
create a consistent view of the network and are therefore not prone to routing loops, but they achieve this
at the cost of relatively greater computational difficulty and more widespread traffic (compared with
distance vector routing algorithms). Compare with distance vector routing algorithm. See also Dijkstra's
algorithm.
LiOCR Ligature OCR
LION Line Information for Open Network
LIP Large Internal Packet
Lip sync The maintenance of sound (i.e., speech) exactly in step with movement in a visual image (i.e.,
faces). Because the processing time for the video portion of the signal in a low-speed codec is about 100
times longer than the audio processing time, codecs usually incorporate adjustable audio delay circuitry to
delay-equalize the two signals, to regain lip sync.
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Liquid crystals are low power consumption devices that produce a non-emissive
display system by modulating ambient light rather than emitting light. LCDs have good visibility, even in
sunlight.
LIS Logical IP Subnet. A group of IP nodes (such as hosts and routers) that connects to a single ATM network
and belongs to the same IP subnet.
LIS Land Information System
LIS Local Information Service (f: SIL)
LIS Link Interface Shelf (f: CIL)
LIS Local Information Service
LISP LISt Processing
list processing A method of processing data in list form. A list processing language is used primarily for
mathematical and arithmetic logic research, rather than for production programming.
Listed Directory Number (LDN) Telephone directory numbers used to route private branch exchange (PBX)
incoming network calls to an attendant.
listserv Automated mailing list distribution system originally designed for the Bitnet/EARN network. Allows
users to add or delete themselves from mailing lists without (other) human intervention.
Listserv An automated mailing list distribution system. Listservs exist for a multitude of professional,
educational, and special interest groups. Usually, you have to send an email to a Listserver with the
subject SUBSCRIBE listname or something to that effect. You are then subscribed to that mailing list and
(depending on the service) will receive regular mail from a single source or from all members who send email
to the Listserver. Listserv was originally designed for the Bitnet/EARN network.
LIT Left-In Telephone
LIT Line Idle Test
LIT Line Installation Test
LIT Line Insulation Testing
little-endian Method of storing or transmitting data in which the least significant bit or byte is presented
first. Compare with big-endian.
LIU Line Interface Unit (f: UIL)
LIU line interface unit or LAN interface unit
LIU/2 LAN Installation Utility for OS/2
Live HOBIC Live-operator calls that give time and charges information to a hotel. It is used in
conjunction with a call accounting system delivered through Hobic lines.
LIX Local Inter-Office Exchange
LK Link
LL Land Line
LL Line Link
LL0 Loop Level Zero
LLAP LocalTalk Link Access Protocol. Link-level protocol that manages node-to-node delivery of data on a
LocalTalk network. LLAP manages bus access, provides a node-addressing mechanism, and controls data
transmission and reception, ensuring packet length and integrity. See also LocalTalk.
LLB Local Loop Back
LLC Line Link Control
LLC Line Load Control
LLC Logical Link Connection
LLC Logical Link Control
LLC Low Layer Compatibility
LLC Logical Link Control. Higher of the two data link layer sublayers defined by the IEEE. The LLC sublayer
handles error control, flow control, framing, and MAC-sublayer addressing. The most prevalent LLC protocol
is IEEE 802.2, which includes both connectionless and connection-oriented variants. See also data-link layer
and MAC.
LLC2 Logical Link Control, type 2. Connection-oriented OSI LLC-sublayer protocol. See also LLC.
LLDL Low Level Data Link
LLE Long Line Equipment
LLE Long Loop Extender
LLF Fine Link Frame
LLM Last Look Memory
LLN Line Link Network
LLP Line Link Pulsing
LM Line Module
LM Line Module (f: ML)
LM Link Module
LM LINE MODULE
LM/X Lan Manager for uniX
LM/X LAN Manager for UNIX. Monitors LAN devices in UNIX environments.
LMC Line Module Controller
LMDS Local microwave distribution system
LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service
LME Layer Management Entity
LMI Local Management Interface
LMI Local Message Interface
LMI Local Management Interface. Set of enhancements to the basic Frame Relay specification. LMI includes
support for a keepalive mechanism, which verifies that data is flowing; a multicast mechanism, which
provides the network server with its local DLCI and the multicast DLCI; global addressing, which gives DLCIs
global rather than local significance in Frame Relay networks and a status mechanism, which provides an on-
going status report on the DLCIs known to the switch. Known as LMT in ANSI terminology.
LMI Rev 1 A synchronous polling scheme used for link management of a frame relay channel where the user polls
the network to obtain status information on the permanent virtual circuits (PVC)s configured on the channel.
LMI exchanges this information using DLCI 1023.
LMIS Local Management Information System
LMS Local Measured Service
LMS Local Message Switch
LMS Local Measured Service (f: SLTU)
LMS local measured service
LMSI Laser Magnetic Storage International Company
LMT Cisco's Last Mile Technology.
LMT See LMI.
LMU Line Monitoring Unit
LMU Loop Make Up
LMU Line Monitoring Unit (f: USL)
LMU Line Monitoring Unit
LMU/2 LAN Management Utility for OS/2
LN Line Network
LN Link Node
LNA Low -Noise Amplifier
LNAS Local Number Assignment System
LNI Local Network Interconnection
LNM Local Network Management (f: GRL)
LNM See LAN Network Manager.
LNNI LAN Emulation Network-to-Network Interface. Supports communication between the server components within a
single ELAN. Phase 1 LANE protocols do not allow for the standard support of multiple LESs or BUSs within an
ELAN. Phase 2 addresses these limitations.
LNP Local Number Portability. Similar in concept to '800' number portability, LNP was mandated by the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 in order to level the playing field between the ILEC's and CLEC's. There have
been several systems of regional databases mandated, which store master copies of all porting information.
These databases are maintained by NPAC's that serve as number portability clearinghouses for all local
operators.
LNP Local Numbering Plan
LNP Local Number Portability (Access Project)
LNP LOCAL NUMBERING PLAN
LNR Last Number Redial
LNR Last Number Redial
LNRA Last Number Redial Associated with set
LNS Lines
LNSMP Local Network Switching Measuring Plan
LOA Letter of Authorization
load To enter data from external storage, such as a diskette, to computer memory.
load balancing In routing, the practice of splitting communications on one route into two or more routes to
balance traffic on each route. Load balancing makes communications faster and more reliable. In remote
internetworking, bridges and routers perform load balancing by splitting local area network (LAN)-to-LAN
traffic among two or more wide area network (WAN) links. This permits a combination of several lower speed
lines to transmit LAN data simultaneously.Good load-balancing algorithms use both line speed and reliability
information. Load balancing increases the use of network segments, thus increasing effective network
bandwidth.
load balancing station/trunk lines A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that permits subscribers to
change telephone and trunk terminations to allow smother traffic flow on the network.
load sharing A multiple-computer system that shares the load during peak hours. During nonpeak periods or
normal operation, one computer manages the entire load with the other(s) acting as fallback.
loading A system for adding regularly spaced inductance units to a circuit to improve its transmission
characteristics.
loading coil An inductor used in local loops to improve voice transmission. Loading coils may cause
distortion in digital communications.
LOB Large OBject
LOB Line Of Business
lobe The cable between a Token Ring station and the Trunk Coupling Unit to which it is connected. Lobe length
comprises a patch cable from the TCU to the main wiring panel, the length of the main wiring to the user
station's location, then a patch cable from a floor/desk socket to the station.
LOC Local
LOC Local Orderwire Circuit
LOC Location
LOC Lines of Code
Local Access and Transport Area See LATA.
local access mileage A recurring charge rate element based on mileage to the central office (CO). It may be
applied to dedicated non-switched private lines.
Local Access Provider (LAP) Any organization that is authorized to provide local access. The organization may or
may not be the local exchange carrier (LEC).
local acknowledgment Method whereby an intermediate network node, such as a router, responds to
acknowledgments for a remote end host. Use of local acknowledgments reduces network overhead and, therefore,
the risk of time-outs. Also known as local termination.
local adjacency Two VNSs that control different VSN areas, but communicate with one another through a Frame
Relay PVC, are considered to be locally adjacent.
Local Area Network (LAN) A short-distance data communications network. LANs are typically within a building
or campus, and to link together computers and peripherals under a standard protocol. The network provides
high-bandwidth communications over coaxial cable, twisted-pair, fiber, or microwave media. LANs are usually
owned by the user. LANs have two main advantages: users can typically access a centralized database and
shared resources, and can send messages to other LAN users. Most notable of LAN topologies are Ethernet,
token ring, and fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI).
Local Area Transport (LAT) An Ethernet protocol developed by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Local Area Wireless Network (LAWN) O'Neill Communications' wireless local area network (LAN) for
transferring files, exchanging messages, and sharing peripherals among PC users.
Local Automatic Message Accounting (LAMA) The central office (CO) equipment that records the information
required for billing a subscriber's local telephone calls by the local telephone company.
local bridge Bridge that directly interconnects networks in the same geographic area.
local call 1. A call destination that is within the local area of the switching system serving the calling
station. 2. A telephone call within the specified local calling area of the telephone exchange. 3. A call
that incurs no charges.
local call billing A feature in hotel applications that computes the billing for local calls placed by
guests based on total message units.
local dynamic routing Dynamically controlled routing (DCR) within a local calling area.
local echo This is when a communications program will send information (either that you type or from a file) to
your screen, as well as to the other modem.
local exchange The switching center where a subscriber's lines terminate. Synonym: end office
local exchange carrier See LEC.
Local Exchange Routing Guide (LERG) A document that defines the end offices (EOs) and their relationship to
tandem offices. The LERG is produced by Bellcore traffic routing administration (TRA).
local explorer packet Packet generated by an end system in an SRB network to find a host connected to the local
ring. If the local explorer packet fails to find a local host, the end system produces either a spanning
explorer packet or an all-routes explorer packet. See also all-routes explorer packet, explorer packet, and
spanning explorer packet.
local line A channel connecting the subscriber's equipment to the line-terminating equipment in the central
office exchange. Local lines are usually a two- or four-wire metallic circuit.
local loop Line from the premises of a telephone subscriber to the telephone company CO.
Local Management Interface See LMI.
Local Measured Service (LMS) A pricing structure for local calls which requires customers to pay according
to usage, rather than simply paying a flat monthly fee. LMS generally combines access (fixed rate) and usage
(variable rate) charges. The access charge is usually set at a rate substantially less than the prevailing
flat rate and may include a usage allowance. Usage charge calculations are typically based on up to four
variables: frequency (the number of calls placed); duration (how long calls last); the geographical distance
the call covers; and the time of day or week the call was placed.
local network A set of telecommunications links within a limited area.
local security A security method available for 386 and 486 servers running HPFS386. This method extends LAN
Manager security measures to protect the files on a server by restricting access of the users working at the
server. With local security, a user must be assigned permissions to access any file or directory in an
HPFS386 partition, whether or not the resource is shared as part of a LAN Manager resource.
Local service area The area within which local or non-toll calls are placed, such as the area service by an
exchange.
Local serving office (LSO) The local office designated by the six-digit code: numbering plan area (NPA) + NXX
6-digit code.
local termination See local acknowledgment.
local traffic filtering Process by which a bridge filters out (drops) frames whose source and destination
MAC addresses are located on the same interface on the bridge, thus preventing unnecessary traffic from
being forwarded across the bridge. Defined in the IEEE 802.1 standard. See also IEEE 802.1.
local trunk The trunks between local central offices.
local-area network See LAN.
local-area transport See LAT.
LocalTalk Apple Computer's proprietary baseband protocol that operates at the data link and physical layers of
the OSI reference model. LocalTalk uses CSMA/CD and supports transmissions at speeds of 230.4 Kbps.
LocalTalk Link Access Protocol See LLAP.
lockout To ensure privacy, the attendant and executive override capabilities are not allowed to function on
a station
LOD Line Hunt Overflow to a Directory Number
LOD Line Overflow Delivery
LOF Loss of Frame
LOFS LOop-back FileSystem
logical address See network address.
logical channel Nondedicated, packet-switched communications path between two or more network nodes. Packet
switching allows many logical channels to exist simultaneously on a single physical channel.
logical channel 1. In a packet mode operation, a method of two-way simultaneous transmission across a data
link comprising associated send and receive channels. 2. In data communications, an electrical path
connecting a station and a channel.
logical channel identifier See LCI.
logical channel number See LCN.
logical group node See LGN.
Logical Link Control See LLC.
Logical Link Control, type 2 See LLC2.
logical ring The path a token follows in a fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) or token ring network
made up of all the connected media access control (MAC) sublayers of each node. In FDDI, the physical
topology can be a ring, a tree, or a dual ring of trees.
logical unit See LU.
Logical Unit 6.2 See LU 6.2.
LOGICOS LOGical Information & COnfiguration System
LOGIX Vendor of DS1-PM Performance Monitoring System
Long Distance (LD) 1. A switched public exchange network telephone call that extends beyond the local
calling area, making it a toll call. 2. GT Long distance revenue is measured in minutes.
long haul Circuits spanning considerable distances.
long-distance carrier A company providing long-distance telephone service between a local exchange carrier
(LEC) and local access transport areas (LATAs).
long-haul facilities Facilities used for the inter-DSA portion of an interstate circuit (typically beyond 50
miles).
long-haul facility A long-distance trunk or inter-machine trunk (IMT)
loop 1. Route where packets never reach their destination, but simply cycle repeatedly through a constant
series of network nodes. 2. A short transmission line connecting the user and the switchboard.
Loop Access Test System (LATS) A relay connection matrix that provides access to individual customer four-
wire local loops and/or to DS0 (64 kbps) circuits. The matrix is only at DDS hub offices.
loop back When a signal is transmitted across a medium, is returned to the sending device, and is compared
with the original transmission. See loop back test.
loop back test Test in which signals are sent and then directed back toward their source from some point
along the communications path. Loopback tests are often used to test network interface usability.
loop circuit The circuits linking a subscriber's telephone with the local switching equipment.
Loop Maintenance Operations System (LMOS) A Bellcore testing system for voice grade telephone service that
records customer trouble reports and tracks subsequent maintenance activities.
loop network A central network topology that includes a continuous circuit connecting all nodes. Messages
are routed around the loop to and through a central controller.
loop signaling Any of the three signaling methods that use the metallic loop formed by the trunk conductors
and the terminating equipment bridges.
loop-start A supervisory signal, initiated by an off-hook telephone, received at the private branch exchange
(PBX) or local exchange that closes a DC loop and initiates service.
looping A test procedure in which the received signal returns to its source.
LOOPS Loop makeup characteristics - used with MCCDS
LOR Line Hunt Overflow to a Route
LOS Loss of Signal
lossy Characteristic of a network that is prone to lose packets when it becomes highly loaded.
LOTUS NOTES PSDI/SLED/memco's
LOW Local OrderWire
low-entry networking node See LEN node.
LP Linear Programming
LP Loading plan (f: PC)
LP Loop
LP Low Paper
LPA Local number Portability Agreement
LPAG Logical Path Assigning Group
LPAG Logical Path Assignment Centre
LPAR Logical Partition
LPBX Large Private Branch Exchange
LPC Late Payment Charge
LPC Linear Predictive Coding
LPC Local Interprocess Call
LPC Late Payment Charge
LPD Line Printer Daemon. Protocol used to send print jobs between UNIX systems.
LPDA Link Problem Determination Aid
LPDM Logical Physical Data Modeling
LPDU LLC Protocol Data Unit
LPI Line Link Pulsing Intercept
LPI Lines Per Inch
LPM Lines Per Minute
LPP Link Peripheral Processor (f: PPL)
LPP Link Peripheral Processor (DMS)
LPP LINK PERIPHERAL PROCESSOR
LPP Link Peripheral Processor
LPR/LPD Line Printer Deamon Protocol
LPRT Low Power Relay Transmitter
LPT Line PrinTer
LPVN large private voice network
LQ Letter Quality
LR Line Route Relay
LRA Locality Rate Area
LRA Locality Rate Area (f: STL)
LRA Local Registration Authority
LRA Locality Rate Area
LRAM Local High Speed RAM
LRAM Loops Requisition assignment module - used with MCCDS
LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check
LRD Long Route Design
LRN Location Routing Number
LRS Line Route Series
LRS Link Requirement Sheet
LRS Loop Reporting System
LRS Local Routing System
LRST Line Route Start
LRTC Lan Router Test Center
LRU Least Recently Used
LS Loading Section
LS Loop Start
LS Lan Server V1.x
LS Lan Services V2.x
LS Local Service
LS&C local surveillance & correlation
LSA Link State Algorithms
LSA Low Speed Access
LSA Line side access (f: AREL)
LSA link-state advertisement. Broadcast packet used by link-state protocols that contains information about
neighbors and path costs. LSAs are used by the receiving routers to maintain their routing tables. Sometimes
called a LSP.
LSAP Link (Layer) Service Access Point
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSC Large System Configuration
LSC Line Screening Code
LSD Least Significant Digit
LSDB Link State Data Base
LSDM Large Screen Display Monitor
LSF LoadSharing Facility
LSI Large Scale Integrated
LSI Large Scale Integration
LSI Large-Scale Integration
LSI Low Speed Interface
LSI large scale integration
LSM legacy system mediator
LSM Legacy Systems Mediator
LSMS Low Speed Multiplexed Service (f: SMBV)
LSO Local Serving Office (f: CD)
LSP Language for Special Purposes
LSP Local Service Provider
LSP link-state packet. See LSA.
LSP-ID Local Service Provider - Identification Number
LSPS Local Services Planning Systems
LSR Lease Service Request
LSSD Lower Speed Service Deriving
LSSD Low Speed Service Deriving Code
LSSGR LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements
LSSGR Local Switching System General Requirements
LSSU Link Status Signalling Unit
LST Line And Station Transfer
LST Line or Station Transfer
LSTC List Controller
LSU Load Store Unit
LT Line Transfer
LT Link Trailer
LT Local Translation
LT line termination
LT logical terminal: a terminal independent of the physical terminal
LTC Line and Trunk Controller (f: CLC)
LTC Line Treatment Code
LTC Line Trunk Controller
LTC Local Test Cabinet
LTC line and trunk controller
LTC LINE TRUNK CONTROLLER
LTC Line Trunk Controller
LTCC Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic
LTCI LINE TRUNK CONTROLLER - ISDN
LTD Local Test Desk
LTD Long Term Debt
LTD Long Term Disability
LTE Line Terminating Equipment
LTFS Local Trunk Forecasting System (f: LFTS)
LTG Line Treatment Group
LTGRP Logical Terminal Group (one of 2 parts of LTID)
LTID Logical Terminal Identifier
LTID Logical Terminal Identifier
LTIM Low-rate Trunk Interface Module
LTNUM Logical Terminal Number (one of 2 parts of LTID)
LTO Line Transfer Order
LTP Long Term Prediction
LTP Leadership Training Program
LTR Light Traffic
LTS Lightguide Transmission System
LTS Line/Trunk Server
LTS Labour Tracking System
LTSS Local Trunk Servicing System (f: LTSS)
LTU line terminating unit
LTU line test unit
LTV Loop Test Verifier
LU Logical Unit
LU logical unit. Primary component of SNA, an NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and
gain access to SNA network resources.
LU 6.2 Logical Unit 6.2. In SNA, an LU that provides peer-to-peer communication between programs in a
distributed computing environment. APPC runs on LU 6.2 devices. See also APPC.
LU 6.2 Logical Units 6.2 (protocol)
LU2 Logical Unit - type 2
LU2 Logical Unit 2 (cluster controller)
LU6.2 Logical Unit
LU6.2 Logical Unit - type 6.2
LU6.2 Logical Unit 6.2
LUA Logical Unit Address
LUC Labour unit cost (f: CUM)
LUCID Interactive Comm. unified software DMS
LUG Local User Group
LUN Logical Unit Number
LUNI LAN Emulation User-to-Network Interface. The ATM Forum standard for LAN emulation on ATM networks.
Defines the interface between the LEC and the LAN Emulation Server components. See also BUS, LES, and LECS.
Lurking Non-active participation on the part of a subscriber to an mailing list, a Usenet newsgroup, and IRC
channel, a video connection, or any other Internet communication device. If you're "lurking," you're
generally just listening to the discussion. It's usually best to lurk if you're a beginner or if you are new
to a communication group. This allows you to get up to speed on the history or acceptable behavior of the
group.
LVM Logical Volume Manager
LVS Low-Voltage-Swing CMOS
LVTTL Low Voltage Transistor-Transistor Logic
LWA Light Wire Armour
LWAM Local Workstation Application Migration
LWAM-Forms Local Workstation App Migration - Forms
LWPD LAN WorkPlace for DOS
LYNX Multipoint Private Line Design System
LZW Lempel/Ziv/Welch
M (Mega) One Million
M M Lead
M Meter
M Milli (1/1000)
M&AE Materiel and Automotive Equipment (f: M&EA)
M&C Monitoring and Control
M&D Marketing and Development
M&ED Multimedia and Education Division
M&S Marketing and Services Division
M*ROS MIDI Realtime Operating System
M-FRS Megastream Failure Recovery System (old EDS eqpt for backup)
M-FRS Megastream Failure Recovery System
M-OSS Maintenance Operation Support System (computer system used for network administr
M-PLANE Management Plane
M.Y.O.B. Mind Your Own Business
M/A Management Accounting
M1 Meridian 1 Telephone System
MA Magister Artium
MA Milliampere
MAA Maximum Average Attenuation
MAA Message Authenticator Algorithm
MAA marché d'affaires Avantage (e: ABM)
MAC Mandatory Access Control
MAC Media Access Control
MAC Message Authentication Code
Mac MacIntosh
MAC Move, Add, Change
MAC maintenance access controller
MAC Media Access Control. 1. The lower sublayer of the data link layer in the open system interconnection
(OS) model. MAC is responsible for scheduling, gaining access, and transmitting and receiving data on the
network. See also data-link layer and LLC. 2. A generic term for the way in which workstations gain access
to transmission media. The term is most widely used in reference to local area networks (LAN)s. Synonym:
media access controller.
MAC Moves, Adds and Changes
MAC address Standardized data link layer address that is required for every port or device that connects
to a LAN. Other devices in the network use these addresses to locate specific ports in the network and to
create and update routing tables and data structures. MAC addresses are 6 bytes long and are controlled by
the IEEE. Also known as a hardware address, MAC-layer address, and physical address. Compare with network
address.
MAC address learning Service that characterizes a learning bridge, in which the source MAC address of each
received packet is stored so that future packets destined for that address can be forwarded only to the
bridge interface on which that address is located. Packets destined for unrecognized addresses are forwarded
out every bridge interface. This scheme helps minimize traffic on the attached LANs. MAC address learning is
defined in the IEEE 802.1 standard. See also learning bridge and MAC address.
MAC-layer address See MAC address.
MACD 1. Move, Add, Change, Delete. Any move, add, change, or delete in service for an existing customer with
existing services. 2. Meridian ACD.
MACD Move, Add, Change, Disconnect
MACH Multi layer Actuator Head
MACIII Mechanized Administration on Centrex III
MacIP Network layer protocol that encapsulates IP packets in DDP packets for transmission over AppleTalk. MacIP
also provides proxy ARP services. See also DDP and proxy ARP.
MACS Modem Access Control System
MAD Miscellaneous Advertising
MADD Menu and Data Display Profile
MADMAX Minimization of Aerial Distance and Matching An Exchange
MADN Multiple Access Directory Number
MADN multiple appearance directory number
MADN Multiple Access Directory Number.
MAE Metropolitan Access Exchange. One of a number of Internet exchange points. Examples include MAE West and
MAE East. See also CIX, FIX, and GIX.
MAEN MAS(*) Extension Notice
MAF Message Acquisition and Formatting (Ensemble platform)
MAG Mediator Application Gateway
MAG Magnetic
MAG Maximum allowable gain
MAGICIEN Database manager tool
MagTape MagTape
MAHO Mobile Assisted Handoff
mail bridge Mail gateway that forwards e-mail between two or more networks while ensuring that the
messages it forwards meet certain administrative criteria. A mail bridge is simply a specialized form of
mail gateway that enforces an administrative policy with regard to what mail it forwards.
mail exchange record See MX record.
mail exploder Part of an e-mail delivery system that allows a message to be delivered to a list of
addressees. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address (for
example, hacks@somehost.edu), and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in
the list.
mail gateway Machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (especially dissimilar mail systems
on two different networks) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be
quite complex, and generally it requires a store-and-forward scheme whereby the message is received from one
system completely before it is transmitted to the next system after suitable translations.
mail reflector A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via email. Many
Listservs have mail reflectors. You can request documents of a reflector by sending message with the subject
SEND document name or a similar command. Mail reflectors are also being used to provide FTP-like services
for users with limited Internet access.
main PBX A private branch exchange (PBX) directly connected to a tandem switch by way of an access trunk
group.
main satellite A private branch exchange (PBX) feature permitting multi-location customers to consolidate
multiple attendant positions (satellites) at one location (called the main).
mainstream network management The network control and diagnostics performed by a host computer that depends
on network functions integrated from end to end.
Maintenance Operation Protocol See MOP.
MAIS Mechanized Assignment Inventory System
MAJ Major
MAJCES MAJ Circuits en Service (analogiques)
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAN Metropolitan-Area Network
MAN Metropolitan Area Network (f: RLU)
MAN Metropolitan-Area Network. Network that spans a metropolitan area. Generally, a MAN spans a larger
geographic area than a LAN, but a smaller geographic area than a WAN. Compare with LAN and WAN. A local area
network (LAN) interconnected within roughly a 50 mile radius. MANs typically use fiber-optic cable to
connect various wire LANs. Transmission speeds may vary from 2 to 100 Mbps. The Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.6 standard specifies the protocols and cabling for a MAN. However they could
be superseded by asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) protocols.
man-machine interface The interface between an end user and a computer.
managed object In network management, a network device that can be managed by a network management protocol.
management information The necessary data or program results considered essential for decision making, with
regard to business operations and control.
Management Information Base See MIB.
Management information base-I (MIB-I) The initial collection of objects and attributes defined by the
transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) standards.
Management Science America (MSA) A financial accounting package used in the telecommunications industry.
It includes modules for general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, project tracking and fixed assets. It
also has a reporting module known as Information Expert. Information Expert is established by WISC. The MSA
application is supported by WISC. Synonym: direct broadcast satellite.
management services SNA functions distributed among network components to manage and control an SNA network.
Manchester encoding A signaling method that combines clock and data bit information into a single, self-
synchronizable data stream. A transition takes place in the middle of each bit time. A low-to-high
transition represents a one; a high-to-low transition represents a zero. Digital coding scheme, used by IEEE
802.3 and Ethernet, in which a mid-bit-time transition is used for clocking, and a 1 is denoted by a high
level during the first half of the bit time.
manual exchange An exchange where calls are connected through an operator
manual originating line A system where the attendant must complete all outgoing calls. All other calls are
blocked.
Manual PBX A simple private branch exchange (PBX) where all calls, including intercom, must be routed
through an attendant
Manual Ring Down (MRD) A system where ring signaling is controlled by the user. When not signaling, an open
circuit is present at all times.
manual signaling A system that sends an audible signal to a designated telephone when a button is pushed
on another telephone.
manual terminating line A system of lines that requires all calls to be connected by an attendant.
manual tie line A tie line that requires the assistance of an attendant at both ends of the circuit in order
to complete a call.
Manufacturing Automation Protocol See MAP.
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol. Network architecture created by General Motors to meet the specific
needs of the factory floor. MAP specifies a token-passing LAN similar to IEEE 802.4. See also IEEE 802.4. An
evolving protocol that is becoming an industry standard for communications among various automation devices
in manufacturing environments.
MAP Maintenance and Administration Position
MAP Mechanized Administration of PBX
MAP Maintenance and Administration Position (f: PMG)
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MAP Maintenance and Administration Position
MAP Maintenance and Administration Position (used with DMS)
MAP-LTU MAP line test unit
MAPCI Maintenance and Administration Position Command Interpreter
MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
MAPINFO Data mapping tool
mapping 1. The establishment of one-to-one correspondence between two sets of data. 2. The translation of
one group of data into a new set of data.
MAR Marketing Analysis Report
MAR Market Analysis Report
MARC Material and Resource Control System
MARCS Microwave Alarm Reporting and Control System (f: MARCS)
MARCS Microwave Alarm Reporting & Control System
MARCS Microwave Alarm Reporting and Control System
MARCS-TRIMMS Alarm Monitoring for Radio Sites
MARK IV Mechanized Analysis of Resources K (000 $) - Version #4
MARS Mechanized Administration and Record System
MARS Miscellaneous Assets Record System
MARS Multiuser Archival and Retrieval System
MARS Mechanized Assigning Record System (MEGAStream operations system)
MARS MEGASTREAM ASSIGNING SYSTEM
MARS Multicast Address Resolution Server. Mechanism for supporting IP multicast. A MARS serves a group of
nodes (known as a cluster) each node in the cluster is configured with the ATM address of the MARS. The MARS
supports multicast through multicast messages of overlaid point-to-multipoint connections or through
multicast servers.
MARSII MegaStream Assignment Record System (now MOM)
MARSII MegaStream Assigning System within MOM. Replaces MARS
Martian Humorous term applied to packets that turn up unexpectedly on the wrong network because of bogus
routing entries. Also used as a name for a packet that has an altogether bogus (nonregistered or ill-formed)
Internet address.
MARTS Mechanized Area Regional Trunk Summary
MARTS Mechanized Area Regional Trunk Summaries (sub-system of FMS)
MAS Macintosh Application Services
MAS Magellan Access Switch
MAS Modified Accounting System (f: SCM)
MAS Module Access Switch
mask See address mask and subnet mask.
masking A method of transforming one set of data into another while blocking or excluding some data from
this process on the basis of code patterns or position.
MASS Magnetic AMA Tape System
MASS Mechanized Assignment of Special Services
MASS Maintenance Administration Support System (TRIHS operations system)
MASS MECHANIZED ASSIGNMENT OF SPECIAL SERVICES
master agent Someone who employs agents to sell telecom operator services.
master control program A program that directs the operation of a computer system and its memory.
master file A relatively permanent file that is an authority for a specific job, though its contents may
change.
Master Group (MG) A method in which 240 circuits processed as a unit in a carrier system.
master number hunting The routing pattern in which a call addressed to a pilot number of a hunt group will
connect to the first non-busy station in the group. If a call is addressed to a specific station in the hunt
group, it will go straight to the station and not hunt to another station in the group.
master station A telephone system or local area network (LAN) station, that controls all other stations in
the system. In a LAN, this is generally accomplished through polling.
master terminal A terminal that can communicate with all other terminals in a network. Only one terminal can
be master at any one time.
master/slave testing A test method that allows end-to-end testing without a second operator. A test set
(master) at one end controls a test set (slave) at the other end of the line under test.
MAT Multi-Access Trunk
MATEL Map of All Translations Except Lines
Matrix A switch used for moving calls from an input to a requested output.
Matrix printer A printer that represents characters in a specific pattern of dots. Synonym: dot matrix
printer
Matrix switching A form of data switching at the heart of ATM, enabling the appropriate of bandwidth to be
available end-to-end for the duration of the session without contention.
MATS Multi-Access Trunks
MATS Mechanized AMA Tape System (f: ERMI)
MATV Master Antenna TeleVision
MAU Media Access Unit
MAU Multiple Access Unit
MAU Medium Attachment Unit
MAU Multistation Access Unit
MAU Media Attachment Unit. Device used in Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 networks that provides the interface
between the AUI port of a station and the common medium of the Ethernet. The MAU, which can be built into a
station or can be a separate device, performs physical layer functions including the conversion of digital
data from the Ethernet interface, collision detection, and injection of bits onto the network. Sometimes
referred to as a media access unit, also abbreviated MAU, or as a transceiver. In Token Ring, a MAU is known
as a multistation access unit and is usually abbreviated MSAU to avoid confusion. See also AUI and MSAU.
MAVDM Multiple Application Virtual DOS Machine
MAVIX Multimedia AudioVisual Information Exchange
MAX Maximum
MAX The Paging Customer Care and Billing System for BMC
maximum burst Specifies the largest burst of data above the insured rate that will be allowed temporarily on
an ATM PVC, but will not be dropped at the edge by the traffic policing function, even if it exceeds the
maximum rate. This amount of traffic will be allowed only temporarily on average, the traffic source needs
to be within the maximum rate. Specified in bytes or cells. Compare with insured burst. See also maximum
rate.
maximum rate Maximum total data throughput allowed on a given virtual circuit, equal to the sum of the
insured and uninsured traffic from the traffic source. The uninsured data might be dropped if the network
becomes congested. The maximum rate, which cannot exceed the media rate, represents the highest data
throughput the virtual circuit will ever deliver, measured in bits or cells per second. Compare with excess
rate and insured rate. See also maximum burst.
maximum transmission unit See MTU.
MB Megabyte. Approximately 1,000,000 bytes.
Mb megabit. Approximately 1,000,000 bits.
MB Mega Byte
Mb Megabit (= 1,024 Kb = 1,048,560 bits)
MB MegaByte
MB Megabyte (= 1,024 KB = 1,048,560 bytes)
MB Measured Business
MB/S Megabits per Second
MBA Master of Business Administration
MBA Modular Business Access
MBE Molecular Beam Epitaxy
MBF Multi-sheet Bypass Feeder
MBG Multilocation Business Group.
MBGE Multiswitch Business Group Elements.
Mbit/s Mégabits par seconde (e: MBPS)
MBIT/S Megabits per Second
MBONE Bulticast backBONE. Multicast backbone of the Internet. MBONE is a virtual multicast network composed of
multicast LANs and the point-to-point tunnels that interconnect them.
Mbps Megabits per second.
MBPS Megabit per second (f: Mbit/s)
mbps megabits per second (one million bits per second); also mb/s
MBR Master Boot Record
MBS Meridian Business Set (f: TAM)
MBS Message Billing Series
MBS Million Bits per Second
MBS MultiBody Systems
MBS Maximum Burst Size. In an ATM signaling message, burst tolerance is conveyed through the MBS, which is
coded as a number of cells. The burst tolerance together with the SCR and the GCRA determine the MBS that
can be transmitted at the peak rate and still be in conformance with the GCRA. See also SCP and GCRA.
MBus Master Bus
MBWA Management by Wondering Around
MC Material Cost (f: CA)
MC Micro Channel
MC Microprocessor Card
MC Multiprocessor Cache
MC Municipal Consent
MC Money Collects
MC2 Measurement, Computation, Communication
MCA Matrix Control Automatic
MCA Mega Circuit Assignment system
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCA Multiple Call Arrangement (f: MEAM)
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCA Mega Circuit Automation system
MCA Mega Circuit Automation
MCA Micro Channel Architecture. Bus interface commonly used in PCs and some UNIX workstations and servers.
MCAD Mechanical CAD
MCAT Master CATalogue (for GT products)
MCB MegaRoute Cross-Border
MCB Memory Control Block
MCC Maintenance Control Console
MCC Manchester Computing Centre
MCC Marketing Coordinating Committee
MCC Marketing Coordinating Council
MCC Master Control Centre
MCC Miscellaneous Charge or Credits (f: FCD)
MCC Miscellaneous Charges & Credits
MCC Miscellaneous Charges and Credits
MCCDS Mechanized Control and Circuit Design System
MCCDS Mechanizes Circuit Control Design System
MCCDS MECHANIZED CONTROL & CIRCUIT DESIGN SYSTEM
MCCS Mechanized Calling Card Service
MCDA Micro Channel Developers Association
MCDF Make Collection Data File
MCDN Message Centre Directory Number
MCDV Maximum Cell Delay Variation. In an ATM network, the maximum two-point CDV objective across a link or
node for the specified service category. One of four link metrics exchanged using PTSPs to determine the
available resources of an ATM network. There is one MCDV value for each traffic class. See also CDV and
PTSP.
MCE Multi Company Engine
MCGA Memory Controller Gate Array
MCGA Multi-Color Graphic Array
MCGA Multi-Color Graphics Array
MCI MCI Communications Corp
MCI Memory Channel Interconnect
MCI Microwave Communication Incorporated
MCI Media Control Interface
MCIF metallic channel interface
MCIP Megalink Customer Information Package
MCIP (Mégali Megalink customer information package
MCL Mercury Communications Limited
MCLR Maximum Cell Loss Ratio. In an ATM network, the maximum ratio of cells that do not successfully transit a
link or node compared with the total number of cells that arrive at the link or node. One of four link
metrics exchanged using PTSPs to determine the available resources of an ATM network. The MCLR applies to
cells in the CBR and VBR traffic classes whose CLP bit is set to zero. See also CBR, CLP, PTSP, and VBR.
MCM Multi Component Module
MCM Multi-Chip Module
MCM1 MultiComm 1
MCMGMT Tracks Municipal Cut Permits
MCMS Mechanized Carrier Management System
MCMS Mechanized carrier mangt system
MCMS MECHANIZED CARRIER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
MCNS Multimedia Cable Network System Partners Ltd. Consortium of cable companies providing service to the
majority of homes in the United States and Canada. This consortium drives a standard with the goal of having
interoperable cable modems.
MCO Main Central Office
MCOBS Major Client Order Billing System (f: MCOBS)
MCOE Manufacturing Center of Excellence
MCOP Modular Central Office Provisioning
MCOP-L Mechanized Cutover Operation Procedure - Lines
MCOPS Major Client Order Processing System (f: MCOPS)
MCOT Enables writing of provisioning specs for analog equipment
MCP Management Control Process (f: PCG)
MCP Minimum Contract Period (f: DMC)
MCR Multi-Carrier Routing
MCR Multi-carrier Route (f: AMT)
MCR Minimum Cell Rate. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. MCR is defined only for
ABR transmissions, and specifies the minimum value for the ACR. See also ABR (available bit rate), ACOM, and
PCR.
MCS Management Customer Service
MCS Multi-point Communication System
MCS Match Class of Service
MCS Media Conversion System
MCS Micro Computer Systems
MCS Micro Controller Subsystem
MCS Mos Call Store
MCS Maintenance service charge (f: FE)
MCS MEDIA CONVERSION SYSTEM
MCSC Multi Carrier Selection Capability
MCSD Micro Computer Software Design
MCSD Microsoft Certified System Developper
MCT Malicious Call Trace.
MCT Mild Congestion Threshold
MCT Multiple Concurrent Threads
MCTD Maximum Cell Transfer Delay. In an ATM network, the sum of the MCDV and the fixed delay component across
the link or node. One of four link metrics exchanged using PTSPs to determine the available resources of an
ATM network. There is one MCTD value for each traffic class. See also MCDV and PTSP.
MCTF Million Characters To Failure
MCTR Mechanized Common Time Reporting
MCTRAP Mechanized Customer Trouble Report Analysis Plan (f: PARDA)
MCU Master Control Unit
MCUT Mechanized Cutover System
MD Manufacture Discontinued
MD Medicinae Doctor
MD MiniDisc
MD Mutilated Digits
MD Mediation Device. Device that provides protocol translation and concentration of telemetry information
originating from multiple network elements and transport to an OSS. See also OSS.
MD-ROM MiniDisc - ROM
MD5 Message Digest 5. Algorithm used for message authentication in SNMP v.2. MD5 verifies the integrity of
the communication, authenticates the origin, and checks for timeliness. See also SNMP2.
MDA Media Dependant Adapter
MDA Mechanical Design Automation
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
MDAIS McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Information Services
MDAR Mechanized Directory Assistance Records (f: MDAR)
MDAR Mechanized Directory Assistance Record (Operator Services)
MDAR Mechanized Directory Assistance Retrieval
MDAR-ISOL Mdar Intercept System Off-line Load
MDAS Mechanized Directory Assistance System
MDC Meridian Digital Centrex
MDC Message and I/O Device Controller Shelf
MDC Meridian Digital Centrex.
MDCE Mechanized Data Collection Expansion
MDD Mechanical Design Division
MDD Missed Due Date
MDD Managed Demarcation Device
MDD Marketing Data Download
MDDB Multi-Drop Data Bridging
MDE Message Data Expansion
MDF Main Distributing Frame
MDF Main Distribution Frame
MDFREQS Main Distribution Frame Requests
MDH Merged Discount Handicapped (combination discount)
MDI Management Data Interface
MDI Medium Dependent Interface
MDI Micro Design International
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MDK Multimedia Development Kit (Microsoft)
MDL The TransPath Message Definition Language. High-level language used to specify protocols and protocol
conversion operations on the TransPath.
MDLC Modified Datalink Line Cards
MDN Mobile Directory Number
MDN Message Disposition Notification. Message returned to the originator of an e-mail message indicating that
the e-mail message has been opened. Specifications for MDN are described in RFC 2298.
MDP Marketing Development Project
MDPA Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter
MDQ Market Driven Quality
MDQ Market-Driven Quality
MDRAM Multibank DRAM
MDS Message Delivery Service (f: SM)
MDS Message Delivery Service
MDU Multiply Dwelling Unit
MDW Multiple Drop Wire (f: BAM)
MDX Massnet Data Exchange
ME Memo
ME Miscellaneous Equipment
ME-CAD Mechanical Engineering CAD
MEAM Mode d'exploitation en appels multiples (e: MCA)
MEAS Measurement
measured rate service A telephone service where charges correspond with line utilization.
MEBF Mean Exchanges Between Failures
MEC Manchester Encoding Chip
MEC Programme MEC local R.Q
MEC Monthly Equivalent Costs
MECHCUT Used for tracking SEM activity. No longer in use
MED Multi Entity Dedication
media Plural of medium. Various physical environments through which transmission signals pass. Common network
media include twisted-pair, coaxial, and fiber-optic cable, and the atmosphere (through which microwave,
laser, and infrared transmission occurs). Sometimes called physical media. 1. The lower sublayer of the data
link layer in the open system interconnection (OSI) model. MAC is responsible for scheduling, gaining
access, and transmitting and receiving data on the network media. 2. A generic term for the way in which
workstations gain access to transmission media. The term is most widely used in reference to local area
networks (LAN)s. Synonym: media access controller.
Media Access Control See MAC.
Media Access Control driver A LAN device driver that works directly with the network adapter cards, acting
as an intermediary between the transport driver and the hardware.
Media Access Unit See MAU.
Media Attachment Unit See MAU.
Media Interface Connector See MIC.
media rate Maximum traffic throughput for a particular media type.
MediaLinx Interactive Inc. A new company created by Bell Canada and its Stentor partners as part of their
Beacon initiative for the information highway. Launched in October 1994, MediaLinx Interactive Inc. will
seek and develop interactive and media services and applications.
medium 1. The material on which data may be represented. 2. The material used for transmitting
telecommunications signals, such as, optical fiber, cables, water, radio waves. Also see media
Medium Access Control See MAC.
Medium Attachment Unit See MAU.
medium frequency Frequencies between 300 and 3000 KHz.
Medium Interface Controller (MIC) A hermaphrodite connector on IBM patch parels specified in 802.5. See
MIC.
medium speed Refers to data communications systems operating at and above 2,400 bits per second up to the
speed limit obtainable on a voice grade channel (i.e., 9,600 bps).
MEET-ME Meet-Me Conferencing. A feature allowing a conference of all parties dialing the same number.
MEET-ME paging A facility to access voice paging equipment and subsequent automatic connection after the
answered party acknowledges the page. The calling station goes off hook after paging.
MEGA Sub System for Sno (for Advantage Preferred
MEGA MEGA
Mega- (M) One million (106) times a specific unit.
megabit Abbreviated Mb. Approximately 1,000,000 bits.
megabits per second Abbreviated Mbps.
megabyte Abbreviated MB. Approximately 1,000,000 bytes.
MEGADOC Mega prvg tool
MEGALINK Megalink Customer Information Package
Megapel 1024x1024 resolution (or higher)
MEGS Mega Assigning group in Ottawa
MEL CAS Mercury Exchange Limited (MEL) Channel Associated Signaling. A voice signaling protocol used
primarily in the United Kingdom.
member server A server in a domain that keeps and uses a copy of the domain's user accounts database but
does rot validate logon requests.
MEMCO Member Company
MEMCO Obsolete term. Meant Telecom Canada Member Company. See SOC
MEMS Micro-Electromechanical Systems
MEOS Medium Earth Orbit Satellite
MEP Megastream Enhancement Program
MERGE Megastream Evaluator and Report Generator
MERLIN Switching network information system
MES Manufacturing Execution Systems
MESC Multi-element service charge (f: FSC)
MESC Multi-Element Service Charge
mesh Network topology in which devices are organized in a manageable, segmented manner with many, often
redundant, interconnections strategically placed between network nodes. See also full mesh and partial mesh.
MESI Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid
message Application layer (Layer 7) logical grouping of information, often composed of a number of lower-
layer logical groupings such as packets. The terms datagram, frame, packet, and segment are also used to
describe logical information groupings at various layers of the OSI reference model and in various
technology circles.
message circuit A circuit used for completing telephone calls.
message control packet The message control information that remains in a message specific storage area for
the duration of its stay in the system.
Message Digest 5 See MD5.
message feedback A technique for checking the accuracy of transmission of data. The received data is
returned to the sender for comparison with the original data.
Message Handling System See MHS.
Message Queuing Interface See MQI.
message registration A telephone system feature, usually employed in hotels, that details the number of
message units contracted by each telephone.
message relay A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that permits a caller to record a message and then
have it transmitted to another telephone at a designated time.
message retrieval The process of searching a log of transmitted messages for a particular message and
sending the located message to the requestor.
message switching Switching technique involving transmission of messages from node to node through a
network. The message is stored at each node until such time as a forwarding path is available. Synonyms:
line-switching, and store-and-forward. Contrast with circuit switching and packet switching.
Message Telephone Service AT&T's tariffed pricing name for long-distance telephone calls.
Message Ttoll Service (MTS) A pay-by-the-minute switched long-distance service. MTS includes conventional long
distance and measured wide area telecommunications service (WATS).
Message Unit (MU) 1. Unit of data processed by any network layer. 2. A local toll rate calling plan that is
time and distance sensitive.
Message Unit call A call made within the calling station's local service area and charged against the
message unit allowance during a fixed billing period.
Message Unit Detail (MUD) study A report compiled by the local telephone company that details a user's
outgoing calls over a given period.
message waiting A service, usually found in hotels and large corporations, where a lamp or other device on a
telephone alerts a user, or guest, that a message has been received and is being held either by a computer,
message center, operator, or receptionist.
messaging One-way communications involving some form of storage or recording device
Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) Microsoft's standard for the applications interface to
e-mail.
MessLoc Local Message (PC appl)
MET Memory Engineering Tool
metasignaling Process running at the ATM layer that manages signaling types and virtual circuits.
metering See traffic shaping.
metric See routing metric.
metropolitan fiber ring An advanced, high-speed local network that can also be used to connect businesses
and residences directly to a long-distance carrier's network. A metropolitan fiber ring is an alternative to
the local telecommunications services that they already have.
metropolitan-area network See MAN.
METS Maintenance Engineering and Technical Support
MF Manifold
MF Metallic Facility
MF Microfarad
MF Multi-Frequency
MF Multifrequency (f: MF)
MF Multi Frequency
MFADS Mechanized Force Administration Data System
MFAS Mechanized Frame Administration System
MFAS Mech. Frame Assmt Syst
MFAS Mechanized Field Automated System
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFDN Metropolitan Fiber Digital Network
MFDN metro fibre digital network
MFF MIDI File Format
MFI Main Frame Interactive
MFI MainFrame Interactive terminal
MFJ Modified Final Judgement
MFLOG Mechanized Fibre LOG system
MFLOG Mech. Fiber Log
MFLOPS MegaFLOPS
MFLOPS Millions of FLoating-point OPerations per Second
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
MFNMS MegaStream Flex Net Management System
MFO Multi Frequency Originate
MFP multi frame processor
MFR Multi Frequency Receiver (f: RMF)
MFR Multiparty Flat Rate
MFS Message Format Service
MFT Memory Frame Tens
MFT Multiflex Trunk Module.
MFU Memory Frame Units
MFWO Mechanized Facility Work Order
MGA Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter
MGC Monochrome Graphic/Printer Card
MGE Modular GIS Environment
MGMT Management
MGN Multi Grounded Neutral
MGO Marker Group O
MGR Manager
MH Manhole
MH Millihenry
MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Coding Expert Group
MHO Multi-Headed Operation
MHS Message Handling Service
MHS Message Handling System
MHS Message Handling System. ITU-T X.400 recommendations that provide message handling services for
communications between distributed applications. NetWare MHS is a different (though similar) entity that
also provides message-handling services. See also IFIP.
MHSB Monitored Hot StandBy
MHZ Megahertz
MI Installation of Reused Material
MI Maintenance Index
MI Master Interface
MIA Maximum Individual Attenuation
MIAC Mediatel Intelligent Alarm Concentrator
MIB Management Information Base
MIB Management Information Base. Database of network management information that is used and maintained by a
network management protocol such as SNMP or CMIP. The value of a MIB object can be changed or retrieved
using SNMP or CMIP commands, usually through a GUI network management system. MIB objects are organized in a
tree structure that includes public (standard) and private (proprietary) branches.
MIC Media Interface Connector. FDDI de facto standard connector.An optical fiber connector pair that links
fiber media to the fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) node or another cable. The MIC consists of two
halves. The MIC plug terminates an optical fiber cable. The MIC receptacle is associated with the FDDI node.
MIC Market Information Centre
MIC Material Item Code (f: CM)
MIC Media Interface Connection
MIC MegaStream Information for Customers (Cust Prem Info w/n MOM
MIC MegaStream Information For Customers (Cust Prem Info w/n MOM)
MICA 1. Multiservice IOS Channel Aggregation. Technology that enables the simultaneous support of remote-
access users through both analog modems and ISDN devices. 2. Modem ISDN Channel Aggregation. Modem module
and card used in the Cisco AS5300 universal access servers. A MICA modem provides an interface between an
incoming or outgoing digital call and an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) telephone line the call
does not have to be converted to analog, as it does with a conventional modem and an analog telephone line.
Each line can accommodate, or aggregate, up to 24 (T1) or 30 (E1)calls
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Reader
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
Micro Channel Architecture See MCA.
micro-mainframe link A hardware and/or software product that supports communications between a PC and a host
computer. The most common type of link enables the PC to emulate a terminal supported by the host computer.
microcell Interior located antennas with limited coverage ranges. Microcells are linked to a standard cell
site.
microchannel A proprietary bus developed by IBM for its PS/2 computer family's internal expansion cards. It
offers improved performance over ISA-based machines like the IBM PC/AT.
microcode Translation layer between machine instructions and the elementary operations of a computer.
Microcode is stored in ROM and allows the addition of new machine instructions without requiring that they
be designed into electronic circuits when new instructions are needed.
microfilter Device that prevents data frequencies (intended for a data device such as a router) from
traveling over the telephone line and interfering with telephone calls.
microsegmentation Division of a network into smaller segments, usually with the intention of increasing
aggregate bandwidth to network devices.
microwave Electromagnetic waves in the range 1 to 30 GHz. Microwave-based networks are an evolving technology
gaining favor due to high bandwidth and relatively low cost.
MICS MVS Integrated Control System
MID Message Identification
MID MIDI
MID Module Identifier
MID Mortgage interest differential (f: TDH)
MID Multiplex Identifier
MID Message Identifier. In ATM, used to identify ATM cells that carry segments from the same higher-layer
packet.
mid-level network Mid-level networks. Makes up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the
transit networks that connect the stub networks to the backbone networks. Also referred to as regionals.
MIDAS Managing Information Decision Analysis and Support
MIDAS Is a joint Business/IT Strategic project which has two distinct deliverables
MIDI Musical Instrument Device Interface
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
midsplit Broadband cable system in which the available frequencies are split into two groups: one for
transmission and one for reception.
MIF Management Information Format
MIF Mechanized Information Facility
MIF Market Intelligence Facility
MII Media Independent Interface
MII Media Independent Interface. Standard specification for the interface between network controller chips
and their associated media interface chip(s). The MII automatically senses 10- and 100-MHz Ethernet speeds.
MIL-STD Military Standard
Military Network See MILNET.
millions of instructions per second See mips.
MILNET Military Network. Unclassified portion of the DDN. Operated and maintained by the DISA. See also DDN
and DISA.
MIM Media Interface Management
MIM Metal-Insulator-Metal
MIM Micro Instruction Matrix
MIMD Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
MIME Multipurpose Internet Messaging Extensions
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. MIME. Sstandard for transmitting non-text data (or data that cannot
be represented in plain ASCII code) in Internet mail, such as binary, foreign language text (such as Russian
or Chinese), audio, or video data. MIME is defined in RFC 2045.
MIME Encoding See Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Encoding.
MIN Mobile Identification Number
MIN Mobile Identification Number (NPA-NXX-XXXX)
minimum cell rate See MCR.
MIO Modular Input Output
MIO Multiple I/O
MIP Management information provisioning (f: DIG)
MIP Million Instructions per Second
MIP MultiChannel Interface Processor. Interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers that provides up
to two channelized T1 or E1 connections via serial cables to a CSU. The two controllers on the MIP can each
provide up to 24 T1 or 30 E1 channel-groups, with each channel-group presented to the system as a serial
interface that can be configured individually.
mips Millions of Instructions Per Second. Number of instructions executed by a processor per second.
MIPS Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
MIPS Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second (f: MIPS)
MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second
MIPS Management Information Phonecentre System
MIPS Managed Internet Protocol Service
MIPS Mechanized Intertoll Planning System
MIPS millions of instructions per second (an indicator of processing speed)
MIR Marketing Information Reports
MIR Management Information Report
MIR MANAGEMENT INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
MIRANI Mechanized Ani Reports
MIRANI Mechanized Identification of Automatic Number Identification
MIRRA Member Company Integrated Revenue Reporting System
Mirror Site Due to the popularity of some FTP and Web sites, mirror sites came into existence. They are
areas on a computer that "mirror" or contain an exact replica of the directory structure of another
computer. If you have trouble getting connected to an FTP site, for example, because of the high amount of
traffic, you can usually connect to a mirror site that contains the same information on a different
computer. Mirror sites are usually updated once a day.
MIS Management Information System.
MIS Management Information System (f: SIG)
MIS Manager of Information System
MIS Management Information System
MIS/MST Mechanized Information System/mechanized Sales Tracking
MiscToll (QN Miscellaneous Toll
MISD Multiple Instructions - Single Data
MISN Megastream Intelligent Switching Node
MISN MISN Dynamic Cross Connect
MISP Marketing Information Systems Plan
MISR Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement
MISSI NSA Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
MIT Massachussetts Institute of Technology
MIT Marketing Interface Team
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
MITV Multimedia Interactive TV
MIX Multiservice Interchange.
Mixed station dialing The ability to simultaneously use rotary and push-button telephone sets with all
features provided to either type of telephone.
MJE Management job evaluation (f: EPC)
MJL Major Local Alarm
MJPEG Motion JPEG
MJS Multi-Junction Shelf
MJU Multipoint Junction Unit
MJU Multi Junction Unit
MKR Marker
ML-23 ML-23 Multiplexor
ML-34 ML-34 Multiplexor
MLA Maternity Leave of Absence
MLA Misdirected Local Announcement
MLD Market locality differential (f: TDL)
MLE Managed LAN Extension
MLE Multi-Line Entry
MLFA Machine-Learned Fragment Analysis
MLH Multiline Hunt
MLH Multiline Hunt.
MLHI multi-leaving host interface
MLI Multi Leaving Interface
MLI multi-leaving interface
MLNS Multi-National Language Supplement
MLP Multilink PPP. Method of splitting, recombining, and sequencing datagrams across multiple logical data
links.
MLR Mechanized Line Record System (used often per "CALRS-MLR")
MLRI multi-leaving remote interface
MLS Management Information System
MLS Microtel Learning Services
MLS MultiLevel Security
MLT Metallic Line Test
MLT Methods, Languages & Tools
MLT Multiple Logical Terminal
MM Millimeter
MM Man Months
MM Multi-Mode fibre (for distances under approx 10km) (Note: Bell has standardized
MM SAP Materials Management Package
MM-PMD MultiMode PMD
MMAC Media-Media Access Center
MMBC Minimum Monthly Billing Commitments
MMC Miscellaneous Maintenance Centre
MMC Monitoring and Maintenance Centres (replaces CMAC)
MMCD MultiMedia CD
MMDF Multi Memorandum Distribution Facility
MMF millions of metres of fibre
MMF Multi Mode Fibre
MMF MultiMode Fiber.
MMFS Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMFS Manufacturing Messaging Format
MMG McKinney Marketing Group
MMI Man Machine Interface
MMI Man-machine Interface (f: IHM)
MMI Man Machine Interface
MMI man-machine interface
MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
MMIS Materials Management Information System
MMISP Materiel Management Information Systems Plan
MML Man Machine Language
MML man-made language
MML TransPath Man-Machine Language.
MMN Man Made Noise
MMoIP Multimedia Mail over IP.
MMoIP dial peer Multimedia Mail over Internet Protocol dial peer. Dial peer specific to Store and Forward Fax.
The MMoIP dial peer is the vehicle you use to assign particular line characteristics (such as a destination
telephone number) to the connection between the Cisco router or access server and the SMTP mail server
during on-ramp faxing.
MMP Multichassis Multilink PPP. Extends MLP support across multiple routers and access servers. MMP enables
multiple routers and access servers to operate as a single, large dial-up pool, with a single network
address and ISDN access number. MMP correctly handles packet fragmenting and reassembly when a user
connection is split between two physical access devices.
MMPM/2 Multimedia Presentation Manager/2
MMS Manufacturing Message Specification
MMS Materiel Management System (f: SGM)
MMS Message Mileage Study
MMT Maintenance Method Transport
MMTA Multitasking Message Transfer Agent
MMTS Manual Mobile Telephone Service
MMU Memory Management Unit
MMUC Minimum Monthly Usage Commitment
MMX MultiMedia eXtantions
MN Minor
MNH Multinode Homing
MNL Minor Local Alarm
MNLS Multi-National Language Supplement
MNOD Musical Notation Object Description
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
MNS Minor System Alarm
MNS Managed Network Solutions
MO Interim Removal of Reusable Material Form Service
MO Magneto-Optic
MO Major Overload
MO Month
mobile communications A wireless form of communication in which voice and data information is emitted,
transmitted and received via microwaves. This type of communication allows individuals to converse with one
another and/or transmit and receive data while moving from place to place. Some examples include: cellular
and digital cordless telephones; pagers; telephone answering devices; air-to-ground telecommunications; and
satellite-based communications.
MOC Model of Compensation
MOC Modular Operations Centre
MOD Magneto-Optic Drive
MOD Modulo
MODCA Mixed-Object Document Content Architecture
MODD Magneto - Optical Disk Drive
Modem MOdulation/DEModulation
MODEM Modulator - Demodulator
modem Modulator-demodulator. Device that converts digital and analog signals. At the source, a modem converts
digital signals to a form suitable for transmission over analog communication facilities. At the
destination, the analog signals are returned to their digital form. Modems allow data to be transmitted over
voice-grade telephone lines.
modem eliminator Device allowing connection of two DTE devices without modems.
modem pooling A technique that allows a terminal in a private branch exchange (PBX) system to access outside
terminals through various modem groups that operate at different speeds.
moderator The person who is in charge of a conference. This person usually has the task of making sure that
users of the conference follow the conference rules. Manages moderated mailing lists, newsgroups, or online
discussion forums for services such as AOL, CompuServe, or the Microsoft Network.
MODS Modified Order Distribution System (f: MODS)
modulation Process by which the characteristics of electrical signals are transformed to represent information.
Types of modulation include AM, FM, and PAM. See also AM, FM, and PAM.
modulator A device that converts a voice or data signal into a transmittable configuration.
modulator-demodulator See modem.
MOES Mechanized Online Expense System
MOG Materiel Order Guide (f: GCM)
MOGLE MicroStation OpenGL Engine
MOI Menu Object Inspector
MOI Managed Object Instance (Db)
MOIS/ASOS Mechanized Order Input System
MOK Made Okay
MOL Mexico Other Line
MOM MegaPlan Objects Manager
MOM Message Oriented Middleware
MOM Microsoft Office Manager
MOM MegaPlan Object Manager
MOM Meg Assigning System
MOMS Maintenance Operations Management System
MON Monitor
MON Monitor Network Events
monitoring device A device to record data on calls placed through a company's telephone system, including
number called, length of calls, and calling location.
monomode fiber See single-mode fiber.
MOO MUD Object Oriented
MOOLIT Motif/Open Look Interface Toolkit
MOP Method of Procedure
MOP Method Operation Procedures
MOP Multiple On-line Programming
MOP Multiple Outside Plant
MOP METHOD OF PROCEDURE
MOP 1. Method Of Procedure 2. Maintenance Operation Protocol. Digital Equipment Corporation protocol that
provides a way to perform primitive maintenance operations on DECnet systems. For example, MOP can be used
to download a system image to a diskless station.
MOPS Materiel Order Processing System (f: STCM)
MORRIS Mechanized Operating Rate & Route Information System
MORRIS Mechanized Operator Rate and Route Information System
MORRIS Mechanized Operator Rate & Route Information System
MORRIS Mechanized Operator Rate Route Information System
MORS Mechanized Outright Sales (f: IMVD)
MORS Mechanization of OutRight Sales
MOS Management Operating System
MOS Mechanized Ordering System (f: SCA)
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOS Metallic Oxide Semiconductor
MOS Manpower Overpayment System
MOS metal oxide semiconductor
MOSA Managed Operations Services Agreement
Mosaic Public-domain WWW browser, developed at the NCSA. See also browser.
Mosaic A graphical browser for the World Wide Web that supports hypermedia. The NCSA (National
SuperComputer Association) invented the Mosaic browser, which quickly became the industry standard. Netscape
Communications Corporation later invented the Netscape Navigator, which has redefined the content on the
Web. Other major companies entered the browser market with little success, until Microsoft launched their
Internet Explorer which now contends with Navigator as the browser of choice. The term Mosaic is sometimes
used incorrectly as a synonym for the World Wide Web.
MOSAIX Mosaix
Mosaix Predictive dialer
MOSART Quebec Operations large screen viewer system
MOSAS Mechanized Operator Service Administrative/tion System
MOSPF Multicast OSPF. Intradomain multicast routing protocol used in OSPF networks. Extensions are applied to
the base OSPF unicast protocol to support IP multicast routing.
MOSS Maintenance and Operator SubSystem
MOTIS Message Oriented Test Interchange System
MOTIS Message Oriented Text Interchange System
MOTS Miscellaneous On-line Transaction System
MOTS Mechanized Online Transaction System
MOTS Miscellaneous On-line Transaction System
MOU Minutes of Use
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MOV QuicTime Format
MP Management Processor
MP Match Pattern
MP master processor
MP-MLQ MultiPulse Maximum Likelihood Quantization
MPA Manufacturing Program Analysis
MPA Multiple Protocol Architecture
MPAP Mechanized Planning And Pricing
MPC Miniature Protector Connector
MPC Multi Protocol Converter
MPC Multimedia PC
MPC Multimedia Personal Computer (Multimedia Marketing Council)
MPCMP Mechanized Preventive Controlled Maintenance Plan (f: GAPE)
MPCMP Mechanized Preventative Controlle
MPE MultiProgramming Executive
MPE4WP Macro Programming Environment for WordPerfect
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group. Standard for compressing video. MPEG1 is a bit stream standard for
compressed video and audio optimized to fit into a bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps. MPEG2 is intended for higher
quality video-on-demand applications and runs at data rates between 4 and 9 Mbps. MPEG4 is a low-bit-rate
compression algorithm intended for 64-kbps connections.
MPF Mapping Field
MPG Managing Personal Growth
MPG Miles per Gallon
MPI Message Passing Interface
MPIA Maintenance Process Initiated Alarm
MPID Module Process Identifier
MPIP Material Plug-in Provisioning
MPL Message Passing Library
MPLS Mulit-Protocol Label Switch
MPLS Multi – Protocol Label Switching
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching. Emerging industry standard upon which tag switching is based.
MPM/2 Multimedia Presentation Manager/2
MPN Multi Point Node
MPOA Miscellaneous Power and Office Alarm
MPOA Multiprotocol over ATM. ATM Forum standardization effort specifying how existing and future network-layer
protocols such as IP, IPv6, AppleTalk, and IPX run over an ATM network with directly attached hosts,
routers, and multilayer LAN switches.
MPOP Minimum Point of Presence
MPP Massive Parallel Processing
MPP Microprocessor Program
MPP Multi-purpose Position
MPPL multi-point private line
MPPP MULTI-LINK POINT TO POINT PROTOCOL
MPR MicroTel Pacific Research (Equivalent to BNR for BC Tel)
MPR MultiProtocol Router
MPR MicroTel Pacific Research
MPRA Mechanized Prioritization of Risk Accounts
MPRA Mechanized Priority Risk Accounts
MPRF Mega Plan Request Form. Used by NS Provisioning
MPROM Mask Programmed Read Only Memory
MPS Maintenance Processor System
MPS MOS Program Store
MPS Multi-Processor Standard
MPS Multiple Port Sharing
MPS MultiProcessing Specification
MPS Message Process System
MPS Message Processing System
MPS Message Processing System (Cellular call/event compiler and rating engine)
MPS – Call P Message Processing
MPTN MultiProtocol Transport Networking
MPU MicroProcessor Unit
MPUBS Multi Purpose Usage Billing System
MPUBS Multi-Purpose Usage Billing System
MPX Multipurpose Position Extended
MQ Series IBM MQ Series (messaging protocol)
MQI Message Queue Interface
MQI Message Queuing Interface. International standard API that provides functionality similar to that of the
RPC interface. In contrast to RPC, MQI is implemented strictly at the application layer. See also RPC.
MQR message queue router
MQUAD Metal QUAD
MQW Multiple Quantum Well
MR Magneto-resistive
MR Maint Cost Associated With Rearrangements or Changes
MR Message Register
MR Monthly Rate (f: TM)
MR Monthly Rate
MR Interface with Permits
MR Manageability Review
MRA MegaRoute Assigning (Data Base Application within MOM)
MRA Monthly Report Analysis
MRA MegaRoute Assigning Data Base Application within MOM
MRCI Microsoft Realm Time Compression Interface
MRCS Municipal Reversed Charge Service
MRCS Mechanized Recurring Charge System
MRCS Municipality Reverse Charging System (CONTAC)
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRIS Market Research Information System (f: SIRC)
MRL Maintenance of Local Switchers
MRM Megalink Route Manager
MRO Mid-range Operations
MRO Midrange Operations Ontario
MRO-BCPWEB Bell Canada Practices Web site
MRO-CSR Mid Range Operations Quebec
MRO-NPPWEB Network Planning & Provisioning Web Site
MRO-ORNCC Mid Range Operations Ontario Region Control Centre
MRP Management Resource Planning
MRP Material Requirements Planning
MRQ Midrange Operations Quebec
MRS/PET High Speed Micr Reader Sorter/power Encode Transistor
MRSE Megaroute Service Extension
MRSE MegaRoute Service Extension Appln within MOM (Not Populated)
MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher
MRV Mobile Radio Video
MS Main Station
MS Management System
MS Master Switch
MS Match Status
MS Message Switch (for Ecore)
MS MicroSoft
MS Millisecond
MS Mobile Station
MS Software Maintenance
MS Management System
MS Mgmt system. Receives mapping info from 911GGM and creates MSAG
MS PROJECT Microsoft Project
MSA Management Services Architecture
MSA Megaplan Satellite Access (f: AMS)
MSA Megastream Serving Area
MSA Message Services Application (f: MSA)
MSA Message Service Application
MSA Metropolitan Service Area
MSAC Maintenance System Access Central/Control
MSAE Multiple System Application environment
MSAE Message Service Application Error
MSAF Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum
MSAG Master Street Address Guide
MSAP Medium Access Control Service Access
MSAP Multi-service Application Processor
MSAPPS MicroSoft APPlicationS
MSAS Mobile Satellite Access Service
MSASS Mobile Satellite Service System
MSAT Mobile Satellite
MSAT Communi A transceiver and antenna designed to be used on the MSAT network
MSAU Multistation Access Unit
MSAU Multistation Access Unit. Wiring concentrator to which all end stations in a Token Ring network connect.
The MSAU provides an interface between these devices and the Token Ring interface of a router. Sometimes
abbreviated MAU.
MSAV MicroSoft Anti-Virus
MSB Make Set Busy
MSB Message Switch Buffer
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSB Message Switch and Buffer (f: TCM)
MSB Manual Summary Billing
MSB message switch buffer
MSB Make Set Busy.
MSBF Mean Swap Between Failures
MSBI Make Set Busy Intragroup
MSC Mobile Switching Center
MSC Management Sciences Consulting
MSC Megastream Spare Capacity
MSCDEX MicroSoft CD EXtensions
MSCDEX MicroSoft Compact Disk EXtension
MSCP Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server
MSD MicroSoft Diagnostic
MSD Most Significant Digit
MSD Multivendor Services Division
MSDOS MicroSoft DOS
MSDS Message Switching Data Service/System (f: MSDS)
MSEx MS Exchange Server
MSG Message
MSH Multi Services Hub
MSHI Medium Scale Hybrid Integration
MSI Medium Scale Integration
MSI Mobile Subscription Identity
MSIP Management Skills Improvement Presentation
MSK Minimum Shift Keying
MSL Maximum Segment Lifetime
MSL Mirrored Server Link
MSL MAXIMUM SEGMENT LIFETIME
MSN MS Network
MSN Meridian Switched Network.
MSO Multiple Service Operator. Cable service provider that also provides other services such as data and/or
voice telephony.
MSO Mechanized System Order --> changed to BCRIS (f: BCRIS)
MSO Multiple System Operators
MSO Maintenance Spare Optimization (f: OCM)
MSO Maintenance Spare Optimization
MSOI Mechanized Service Order Input
MSOI Mechanized Service Order Interface
MSOS Mechanized Service Order System
MSP Medical Sickness Paid
MSP Message Security Protocol
msp Multi Service Platform
MSQS Multistage Queue System.
MSRIVERB Procs Verbal
MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
MSS Maintenance Sense Switch
MSS MAN Switching System
MSS Mechanical System Simulation
MSS Mechanized Settlement System (pc Application)
MSS Mechanized Settlement System
MSSE Megastream Service Extension
MST Message Service Table
MST Message Services Table
MSTN Monochrome SuperTwist Nematic
MSTR Maximum Sustained Transmission Rate
MSU Medical Sickness Unpaid
MSU Message Signalling Unit
MSV Multi Service Vehicle
MSV Multi-Service Vehicle
MSV-1 Multi Service Vehicle - arrangement #1
MSX MS Exchange Server
MT Intertandem
MT&T Maritime Telephone and Telegraph
MTA Management Transfer Agreement
MTA Message Transfer Agent
MTA Metallic Test Access
MTA Multiple Terminal Access (f: UAM)
MTA Message Transfer Agent
MTA 1. Message Transfer Agent. OSI application process used to store and forward messages in the X.400
Message Handling System. Equivalent to Internet mail agent. 2. Mail Transfer Agent. Software that implements
SMTP and provides storage for mail messages to be forwarded or delivered to a local user. MTAs implement
SMTP (RFC 821).
MTAN metallic test access network
MTAP Message Time Allowance Plan (Econopak)
MTBDL Mean Time Between Data Loose
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTBF Mean time between failures (f: MTBF)
MTBF mean time between failures
MTBF MeanTime Between Failure.
MTBMA Mean Time Between Maintenance Actions
MTBR Mean Time Between Repair
MTBSO Mean Time Between Service Outages
MTC Magnetic Tape Centre
MTC Maintenance
MTC Management Training Centre
MTC Ministry of Transportation and Communication
MTCE Maintenance
MTD Magnetic Tape Drive
MTD Multiple Tile Duct
MTDS Mechanized Traffic Data System
MTE Megastream Terminating Equipment
MTE Magnetic Tape Emulators
MTE Megastream Terminating Equipment
MTE multiplexing terminating equipment
MTE MEGASTREAM TERMINATING EQUIPMENT
MTH Metallic Test Head
MTH Metallic Test Head (f: DEA)
MTLGPC Montreal General Purpose Computer (f: MTLGPC)
MTM Maintenance Trunk Module
MTM Miscellaneous Trunk Module
MTM Maintenance Trunk Module (f: MCM)
MTM MAINTENANCE TRUNK MODULE
MTMS Mechanized Trunk Monitoring System
MTN Medium Term Notes
MTNT Multiple Technology Network Testbed
MTO Maximum Tolerable Outage (f: IMA)
MTO Message Template Object
MTO Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
MTO Maximum Tolerable Outage
MTP Message Transfer Part
MTQ Tracking of road dept request
MTR Mean Time to Repair
MTRS Message Toll Rerate System
MTS Management of Technology System (f: SYGAT)
MTS Manitoba Telephone System
MTS MegaStream Transport Services
MTS Message toll service (f: SICT)
MTS Message Toll System
MTS Message Transfer Service
MTS Miscellaneous Trunk and Service Circuit
MTS Modular Terminal Server
MTS Multichannel Television Sound
MTS Management of Technology System
MTSM Multi Traffic Shaping Module
MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTSO Mobile Telephone Service Office
MTTA Microlink Transaction Terminal Adapter
MTTF Mean Time Towards Failure
MTTN Mean Time To Notify
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
MTTR Mean Time to Restore
MTTR Mean Time Towards ?
MTTR Mean Time to Repair
MTU Magnetic Tape Unit
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MTU Megastream Terminating Unit (f: URM)
MTU Multiple Terminating Unit (DVACS)
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit. Maximum packet size, in bytes, that a particular interface can handle.
MTWO Mechanized Trunk Work Order
MTWO/TOM Mechanized Trunk Work Orders/Translation Order Management
MTWOS Mechanized Traffic Work Order System
MTWOS Mechanized Trunk Work Order System
MTWOWRS MTWO Work order requests
MTX Mobile Telephone Exchange
MU Management Unit
mu-law North American companding standard used in conversion between analog and digital signals in PCM
systems. Similar to the European a-law. See also a-law and companding.
MUC Multi-User Circuit
MUD Multi-User Dungeons
MUD 1. Multi-User Dungeon. Adventure, role playing games, or simulations played on the Internet. Players
interact in real time and can change the "world" in the game as they play it. Most MUDs are based on the
Telnet protocol. 2. Acronym for Multi-User Dungeon or Domain. MUDs are role-playing games that take place on
a computer. Users can Telnet to a MUD host, and create a character. MUDs can be action, adventure, or
fantasy games, and allow you to save your character for future play. Some MUDs have thousands of registered
characters, and most foster a community or culture of their own. These are highly-addictive areas of the
Internet, and users can spend many hours enthralled in this type of activity.
MUE Metal Universal Enclosure
MUFTOR Multi-Function Token-Ring Repeater
MUG Materiel Usage Group (f: CUM)
MUI Multimedia User Interface
MULT Multiple
multi-cast bit A bit found in the Ethernet addressing scheme that indicates that the message is to be sent to
all stations.
multi-user dungeon See MUD.
multiaccess The ability of users, working independently, to simultaneously communicate with a computer.
multiaccess network Network that allows multiple devices to connect and communicate simultaneously.
multicast Single packets copied by the network and sent to a specific subset of network addresses. These
addresses are specified in the Destination Address Field. Compare with broadcast and unicast.
multicast address Single address that refers to multiple network devices. Synonymous with group address.
Compare with broadcast address and unicast address. See also multicast.
multicast backbone See MBONE.
multicast forward VCC VCC set up by the BUS to the LEC as a leaf in a point-to-multipoint connection. See also
BUS, LEC (LAN Emulation Client), and VCC.
multicast group Dynamically determined group of IP hosts identified by a single IP multicast address.
Multicast OSPF See MOSPF.
multicast packets Packets are addressed to a group of devices on a local area network (LAN). LAN stations
use multicast packets to deliver information to a specific set of devices, such as routers, servers, hosts,
and nodes.
multicast router Router used to send IGMP query messages on their attached local networks. Host members of a
multicast group respond to a query by sending IGMP reports noting the multicast groups to which they belong.
The multicast router takes responsibility for forwarding multicast datagrams from one multicast group to all
other networks that have members in the group. See also IGMP.
multicast send VCC In an ATM network, a bi-directional point-to-point VCC set up by a LEC to a BUS. One of
three data connections defined by Phase 1 LANE. Compare with control distribute VCC and control direct VCC.
See also BUS, LEC (LAN Emulation Client), and VCC.
multicast server Establishes a one-to-many connection to each device in a VLAN, thus establishing a broadcast
domain for each VLAN segment. The multicast server forwards incoming broadcasts only to the multicast
address that maps to the broadcast address.
MultiChannel Interface Processor See MIP.
MULTICS Multiple Information and Computing Service
multidrop A term applied to systems in which several points are served by the same circuit.
multidrop circuit A single circuit or channel that has more than one connection on one end, such as two
offices at one location sharing one line.
multidrop line Communications line with multiple cable access points in different geographical locations.
Sometimes called a multipoint line or multipoint link.
MULTIFON Multifonction
multihomed host Host attached to multiple physical network segments in an OSI CLNS network.
multihoming Addressing scheme in IS-IS routing that supports assignment of multiple area addresses.
multilayer switch Switch that filters and forwards packets based on MAC addresses and network addresses. A
subset of LAN switch. Compare with LAN switch.
Multiline hunt group (HML) A process that rolls over to the next available line if the first line is busy.
multimode A thick cored (50-200 microns) optical fiber for carrying lightwave communications along multiple
paths.
multimode fiber Optical fiber supporting propagation of multiple frequencies of light. See also single-mode
fiber.
multiple access 1. The ability of personal computers on a local area network (LAN) to communicate through a
common addressing scheme and contention-based protocol. 2. The connection of a subscriber or user to two or
more switching centers by separate access lines using a single message routing indicator or telephone
number.
multiple classes of service Features and restrictions grouped and assigned according to the type most
closely meeting the user's calling pattern and needs.
multiple customer group operator A private branch exchange (PBX) shared by several companies, with
separate trunks and consoles for each
multiple domain network SNA network with multiple SSCPs. See also SSCP.
Multiple Exchange Carrier Access Billing (MECAB) Billing of a jointly provides access service by two or more
local exchange carriers (LECs).
multiple listed directory A technique that allows for more than one directory number to number service be
listed for a private branch exchange (PBX).
Multiple Systems Operator (MSO) A company owning multiple cable systems.
multiple trunk groups A switching system that is capable of being equipped for more than one group of trunk
circuits.
Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) The Microsoft Windows standard that allows an application to control
multiple documents or views of the same document within the main application window or workspace.
Multiplex (MP) The transmission of more than one signal over a single communications channel. Two methods
used are: frequency division and time division.
Multiplexer (MUX) A device that combines two or more signals into a single composite data stream for
transmission on a single channel. For example, an M1-3 MUX combines 28 DS-1s into a DS-3.
multiplexing Scheme that allows multiple logical signals to be transmitted simultaneously across a single
physical channel. A technique used to combine several communications channels into one facility or
transmission path. Compare with demultiplexing.
multipoint 1. Line or channel connecting three or more different service points. 2. Circuit that has points
served by three or more switches. Single communications channel (typically a leased telephone circuit) to
which two or more stations or logical units are attached although only one can transmit at a time. Such
arrangements usually require a polling mechanism under the control of a master station to ensure that only
one device transmits at a time.
multipoint circuit A circuit that has more than one inter-exchange carrier (IEC) leg.
multipoint connection A single channel or circuit interconnecting devices in different locations. This
usually means using polling techniques with each terminal[terminal a unique address. Also know as a multi-
drop line.
multipoint control unit Endpoint on the LAN that provides the capability for three or more terminals and
gateways to participate in a multipoint conference.
multipoint line See multidrop line.
Multiprotocol Over ATM See MPOA.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension See MIME.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Encoding (MI MIME is a standardized method for organizing divergent
file formats. The method organizes file formats according to the file's MIME type. When Internet (usually
email) software retrieves a file from a server, the server provides the MIME type of the file, and the file
is decoded correctly when transferred to your machine.
multistation access unit See MSAU.
Multitenant sharing The ability for multiple user groups to share a telephone system.
multivendor network Network using equipment from more than one vendor. Multivendor networks pose many more
compatibility problems than single-vendor networks. Compare with single-vendor network.
MUNCON Tracks Municpal Consents
MUR Match Unit Register
MUR Message Unit Radio
MURB Multiple Unit Residential Building (f: IRLM)
MUSH MultiUser Shared Hallucinations
MUSIC/SP Multi-User System for Interactive Computing/ System Product
MUX MUltipleXed
MUX Multiplexer
MUX A Device Attached to a Controller
MUX Multiplexor
MUX multiplexer
mux Multiplexing device. Combines multiple signals for transmission over a single line. The signals are
demultiplexed, or separated, at the receiving end.
MVA Megavolt-ampere (f: MVA)
MVA Market Value Added
MVC Multicast Virtual Circuit
MVDM Multiple Virtual DOS Machines
MVI Mechanized VM Interface
MVIC Module de Visionnement Impression Conception (see OVPM)
MVP Multimedia Video Processor
MVS Multipoint Video Server
MVS Multiple Virtual Storage
MVS/XA Multiple Virtual Storage / Extended Architecture
MW Milliwatt
MWI Message Waiting Indication
MWL Message Waiting Lamp
MWT Message Waiting - Visual
MWT Mesage Waiting.
MX record Mail Exchange record. DNS resource record type indicating which host can handle e-mail for a
particular domain.
MYA Message Transfer Agent
MZR Multiple Zone Recording
N-ISDN Narrowband ISDN. Communication standards developed by the ITU-T for baseband networks. Based on 64-
kbps B channels and 16- or 64-kbps D channels. Contrast with BISDN. See also BRI, ISDN, and PRI.
N/A Not applicable (f: S.O.)
N/A Numérique-analogique (e: D/A}
N/I Network Interface
N2O Nitrous Oxide
NA Noeud d'accès (e: AN)
NA Not Applicable (f: S O)
NA Not Available (f: ND)
NAC Network Administration Centre (f: CAR)
NAC National Aggregation Center
NAC National Activations Centre
NACD Networked ACD.
NACK Negative Acknowledgement
NACK Negative ACKnowledgment
NACR North American Consolidated Requirements
NACS National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
NACS NetWare Asynchronous Communications Services
NACS Non-Active Channel State
NACS NetWare Asynchronous Communication Services. Novell software that supports Novell's AIO and NASI
programming interfaces. NACS promotes the sharing of communications resources such as modems, asynchronous
hosts, and X.25 network services.
NADF North American Directory Forum. Collection of organizations that offer, or plan to offer, public
directory services in North America, based on the CCITT X.500 Recommendations.
NADN Nearest Active Downstream Neighbor. In Token Ring or IEEE 802.5 networks, the closest downstream network
device from any given device that is still active.
NAEC Novell Authorized Education Center
NAFC National Anti-Fraud Committee
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAG Novell Applications Group
Nagle's algorithm Actually two separate congestion control algorithms that can be used in TCP-based
networks. One algorithm reduces the sending window
NAK Negative AcKnowledgment. Response sent from a receiving device to a sending device indicating that the
information received contained errors. Compare to acknowledgment.
NAK Negative Acknowledgement
NAL Network Access line (f: LAR)
NAL Network Addressing Line
NAM National Accounts Manager
NAM Network Activation Manager (mediator)
NAM Refers to “number assignment module”
NAM 3 network activation manager
NAM-1 Network Activation Manager 1
NAM2 Network Activation Manager 2
Name Binding Protocol See NBNS.
name caching Method by which remotely discovered host names are stored by a router for use in future
packet-forwarding decisions to allow quick access.
name resolution Generally, the process of associating a name with a network location.
name server Server connected to a network that resolves network names into network addresses.
named pipe A connection used to transfer data between separate processes, usually on separate computers. Named
pipes are the foundation of interprocess communications and underpin Microsoft's LAN Manager NOS.
namespace Commonly distributed set of names in which all names are unique.
NAMO North American Marketing Organization
NAMPS Narrowband American Mobile Phone Standard
NAMS Network Administration and Management System
NAMS Network Administration & Management System (Datapac)
NAMSID Network Administration and Management System Identifier
NAN Network access node (f: NAR)
NANOG North American Network Operator's Group. Primary forum for information exchange among U.S. exchange point
participants, Internet service providers, and end users.
NANP North American Numbering Plan.
NAP Network Administration Port
NAP Network administration port (f: PAR)
NAP Network Access Point. Location for interconnection of Internet service providers in the United States for
the exchange of packets.
NAPI Numbering/Address Plan Identifier
NAPLPS North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
NAPO National Anti-Poverty Organization (f: ONAP)
NAPP NETWORK AREA PROJECT PLAN
NAPP Network And Project Planning
NAPS Network Assigning Provisioning System
NARP NBMA Address Resolution Protocol. Functional subset of NHRP that returns only the address mappings of
nodes that are directly connected to the NBMA network. Compare with NHRP.
narrowband A low-capacity communications circuit or path. Narrowband usually implies a speed of 56 Kbps or
less. Contrast with wideband and broadband. Also see baseband.
narrowband channel A sub-voice-grade channel with a speed range of 100 to 200 bps.
Narrowband ISDN See N-ISDN.
narrowband network A network capable of carrying voice, video and data signals (e.g., telephone service,
electronic mail, paging services and faxes). Technically, a narrowband network is capable of carrying up to
64,000 bits of information per second.
NARS Network Automatic Route Selection
NAS Network Access Service (f: SAR)
NAS Network Administration System
NAS Network Application Support
NAS No Answer Supervision
NAS Network Administration System (Datapac)
NAS Network Access Service
NAS Network Access Services
nas network access serving points
NAS network access serving vehicle(router or other to connect to internet'
NAS Network Administration System (Datapac assigning)
NAS NETWORK ACCESS SYSTEM
NAS Network Access Server. A NASI Cisco platform (or collection of platforms such as an AccessPath system
which interfaces between the packet world (e.g. the Internet) and the circuit world (e.g. the PSTN). (See
access device.)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Agency
NASC National Account Service Centre
NASI NetWare Asynchronous Service Interface
NASI NetWare Asynchronous Support Interface.
NASK Naukowa i Akademicka Sieµ Komputerowa
NAT North American Table
NAT National Access Tool
NAT National Access Tools
NAT Network Address Translation. Mechanism for reducing the need for globally unique IP addresses. NAT allows
an organization with addresses that are not globally unique to connect to the Internet by translating those
addresses into globally routable address space. Also known as Network Address Translator.
NAT Network Address Translation
NATCN North America Telecommunication Companies Network
NATDA-EFT National DA (EFT)
NATF North American Toll Free
National Bureau of Standards See NBS.
national call A toll call to a destination outside the local or extended service area of the calling
customer but within the boundaries of the country in which the customer is located.
National Exchange Carrier Association Association of local exchange carriers (LECs) established by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). The association creates tariffs and allocates revenues among its members
for access services provided to interexchange long-distance carriers.
National Institute of Standards and Technology See NIST.
National Research and Education Network See NREN.
National Science Foundation See NSF.
National Science Foundation Network See NSFNET.
National Telecommunications and Information Admini An industry group that identifies five principles of
telecom market development: a flexible regulatory framework, competition, open access, private investment,
and universal service.
native client interface architecture See NCIA.
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAU Network Address(able)(ing) Unit
NAU Network Adressable Unit
NAU Network Addressable Unit. SNA term for an addressable entity. Examples include LUs, PUs, and SSCPs. NAUs
generally provide upper-level network services. Compare with path control network.
NAUN Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor. In Token Ring or IEEE 802.5 networks, the closest upstream network
device from any given device that is still active.
NAV Network Applications Vehicle
NAV Net Asset Value
NB3600 Newbridge 3600 Switch (input=DS0's,output=DS1's)
NB3645 Newbridge 3645 Switch (input=DS0's,output=DS1's)
NBC National Broadcasting Corporation
NBFCP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol. Protocol that establishes and configures NetBIOS over PPP. See also
NetBIOS and PPP.
NBIS National Billing Integrated System
NBLN Network Blockage Normal
NBMA NonBroadcast MultiAccess. Term describing a multiaccess network that either does not support broadcasting
(such as X.25) or in which broadcasting is not feasible (for example, an SMDS broadcast group or an extended
Ethernet that is too large). See also multiaccess network.
NBNS NetBIOS Name Service.
NBOC Network Building-out Capacitor
NBOP National Business Operations Process
NBP Name Binding Protocol. AppleTalk transport-level protocol that translates a character string name into
the DDP address of the corresponding socket client. NBP enables AppleTalk protocols to understand user-
defined zones and device names by providing and maintaining translation tables that map names to their
corresponding socket addresses.
NBR Net Billing Revenue
NBRS Net Billed Revenue System
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NBS National Bureau of Standards. Organization that was part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Now known as
NIST. See also NIST.
NBS National Broadband Support
NBTEL New Brunswick Telephone
NBV Net Book Value (f: VCN)
NC Network Channel
NC Network Control
NC No Cable
NC No Circuit
NC No Connect
NC Norton Commander
NC Numerical Control
NCA Novel Certification Alliance
NCAMS National Carrier Access Management System
NCAMS système national de gestion de l'accès des télécommunicateur
NCAMS National Carrier Access Management System
NCAS National Customer Access Solution
NCB Network Control Block
NCBS New Commercial Billing System (for Advantage Vision)
NCBS New Commercial Billing System
NCC Network Control Centre
NCC Node Controller and Channel Service Unit
NCC Network Control Center
NCC Network Control Centre
NCC Network Control Center
NCC Network Control Centre (NMC Test Centre)
NCCE Novell Colaborative Computing Environment
NCCF Network Communication Control Facility
NCD Network Computing Devices, Inc
NCE Nomadic Computing Environment
NCEO Non-Conforming End office
NCF Network Configuration Facilities
NCI Network Channel Interface
NCI Network Computing, Inc
NCI Non-Coded Information
NCIA Native Client Interface Architecture. SNA applications-access architecture, developed by Cisco, that
combines the full functionality of native SNA interfaces at both the host and client with the flexibility of
leveraging TCP/IP backbones. NCIA encapsulates SNA traffic on a client PC or workstation, thereby providing
direct TCP/IP access while preserving the native SNA interface at the end-user level. In many networks, this
capability obviates the need for a standalone gateway and can provide flexible TCP/IP access while
preserving the native SNA interface to the host.
NCID National Customer Identifier
NCID National Customer ID
NCIT No Circuit Inter Toll (f: NC INTER)
NCKC Network Clock Control Card
NCLI Network Control Language Interpreter
NCLR National Circuit Layout Record
NCLR National Circuit Layout Records
NCM National Change Management (server system in Ottawa)
NCM National Change Management
NCM Network Cost Management
NCMC Nexxia Change Management Centre
NCMS National Change Management System
NCO Network Control Office
NCOPS National Order Provisionning Service
NCOS Network Class Of Service.
NCOS Network Class of Service
NCP NetWare Core Protocol
NCP Network Component Populator
NCP Network Control Point
NCP Network Control Program
NCP Not Copy Protected
NCP Network Control Program
NCP NetWare Core Protocol
NCP National Customer Profile (new system)
NCP 1. Network Control Program. In SNA, a program that routes and controls the flow of data between a
communications controller (in which it resides) and other network resources. 2. Network Control Protocol.
Series of protocols for establishing and configuring different network layer protocols, such as for
AppleTalk over PPP. See also PPP.
NCP/Token Ring Interconnection See NTRI.
NCR Non Recurent Charge
NCR National Cash Register
NCR Network Change Request
NCRT No Circuit Route Treatment
NCS National Centrex Service
NCS Net credited service (f: DRS)
NCS Network Computing System
NCS Network Control Series
NCS Network Control System (f: SCR)
NCS Network Control System OA&M pgm that runs internally on DPN
NCS National Centrex Service
NCS Network Control System (Datapac)
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
NCSC National Computer Security Center
NCSD Net Credited Service Date
NCSI New Customer and Service Introduction
NCT No Call Transfer
NCTC No Circuit Toll Completing
NCTE Network Channel Terminating Equipment
NCTE network circuit terminating equipment (part of PRA)
NCUG National Closed User Group
NCV National Circuit View (f: SNAC)
NCV National Circuit View
NCV-BELL-LCV National Circuit View - Bell Support
NCV-BELL-LSM National Circuit View - Bell - Local System Mediation
NDAD Network Design Administrative Document
NDB network database
NDC No Double-Connect
NDC national destination code
NDC NETWORK DEPENDABILITY CENTRE
NDCC National Data Control Centre
NDCS Northern Drawing Change Supplement
NDD National Distribution Division
NDE the NeWS Development Environment
NDI National Design, Inc
NDI Network Direction and Investment
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification. Microsoft specification for a generic, hardware- and protocol-
independent device driver for NICs.
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification (3Com/Microsoft)
NDM Network Data Mover
NDMS NetWare Distributed Management System
NDNC National Data Network Center (f: CGRND)
NDNC National Data Network Control
NDNC National Data Network Centre
NDNC National Data Network Control
NDNCC National Data Network Control Centre
NDPS NetWare Distributed Print Services
NDRO NonDestructive Read-Out
NDS NetWare Directory Services
NDS Network Display Station
NDT No Dial Tone (f: PTON)
NDX Not Cabled to Digital Cross-Connect
NE Network Element (f: ER)
NE Network Equipment
NE Northern Electric
NE Network Element
NE Network Element. In OSS, a single piece of telecommunications equipment used to perform a function or
service integral to the underlying network.
NE# Network Element Number
NEA North and East Area
NEAP Novell Education Academic Partner
Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor See NAUN.
NEARNET Regional network in New England (United States) that links Boston University, Harvard University,
and MIT. Now part of BBN Planet. See also BBN Planet.
NEARnet New England Academic Research Network
NEB National Energy Board (f: ONE)
NEBS Network Equipment - Building System
NEBS Network Equipment-Buildings Standards
NEBS Network Equipment Building Systems. BELLCORE industry stnd for design of CO tele
NEBS Network Equipment Building Systems. In OSS, the Bellcore requirement for equipment deployed in a central
office environment. Covers spatial, hardware, crafts person interface, thermal, fire resistance, handling
and transportation, earthquake and vibration, airborne contaminants, grounding, acoustical noise,
illumination, EMC, and ESD requirements.
NEC Nippon Electric Company
NEC Nippon Electric Corporation
NEC Network Element Controller (f: CER)
NEC Network Element Controller OSS. Functions as a NE Mediator
NEC Network Element Controller
NEC Nippon Electric Corporation
NEC (SDN/NEC Network Element Control (SSDN-NEC)
NECA National Exchange Carriers Association
NECC Network Element Control Centre
Negative AcKnowledgment See NAK.
neighboring routers In OSPF, two routers that have interfaces to a common network. On multiaccess networks,
neighbors are dynamically discovered by the OSPF Hello protocol.
NEM Network Element Manager
NEML Network Element Management Layer (2nd layer)
NEMS Network Element Management Server.
NEP Northern Electric Practice
NEPTUNE Network Planning Tool Universal Environment
NEQ Network and Equipment Queue
NERVE Network Reporting and Verification
NEST Novell Embedded Systems Technology
NET Network Entity Title. Network addresses, defined by the ISO network architecture, and used in CLNS-based
networks.
net Short for Network.
NET IPC NETwork InterProcess Communications
NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface
NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface. Enhanced version of the NetBIOS protocol used by network operating
systems such as LAN Manager, LAN Server, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows NT. NetBEUI formalizes the
transport frame and adds additional functions. NetBEUI implements the OSI LLC2 protocol. See also LLC2 and
OSI.
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System. 1. A set of functions that permits communications across IBM
local area networks (LAN)s. NetBIOS is also used by LAN programs and other products to communicate with
other systems. It offers LAN applications a variety of ways to carry out inter-application communications
and data transfer. NetBIOS emulator cards are required to run applications on non-IBM networks. NetBIOS has
been adopted as an industry standard. 2. Provides a session layer interface between network applications
running on a PC and the underlying protocol software of the transport and network layers on the open data-
link interface (ODI) model. Normally a local area network (LAN) protocol.
NETBIOS NETwork Basic I/O System
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
NetBIOS Sieciowy BIOS
NETCAP Network Capabilities System (f: NETCAP)
NETCAP Network Capability
NetCon Network Controller (a G.D.C. analog data monitoring device)
NETDIR Network Directory
NETDOC IIS App to Distribute Documents & Binary files
NETEC network technical support group
NETEDITOR Network Editor (module of ADR)
NetFlow Network flow is defined as a unidirectional sequence of packets between given source and destination
endpoints. Network flows are highly granular: flow endpoints are identified both by IP address as well as by
transport layer application port numbers. (NetFlow also uses IP Protocol, ToS and the input interface port
to uniquely identify flows.) Conventional network layer switching handles incoming packets independently,
with separate serial tasks for switching, security, services and traffic measurements applied to each
packet. With NetFlow switching, this process is applied only to the first packet of a flow. Information from
the first packet is used to build an entry in the NetFlow cache. Subsequent packets in the flow are handled
via a single streamlined task that handles switching, services, and data collection concurrently.
netiquette A pun on "etiquette" referring to proper behavior on a network.
Netiquette The combination of the words Net and etiquette, this refers to the proper behavior on a
network, and more generally the Internet. The key element in Netiquette is remembering that actual people
are on the other end of a computer connection, and offensive comments or actions are just as offensive even
if you can't see your recipient.
NETMAN Network Manager
NETPLAN IIS App to Create/Distribute Plans
NetPro Network Provisioning System
NETPRO Network Provisioning PlanningTool
NETPRO NETWORK PROVISIONING OPERATING SUPPORT SYSTEM (OSS)
NETRPC B Remote Procedural Calls
NETS Network Events Ticket System
NETscout Cisco network management application that provides an easy-to-use GUI for monitoring RMON statistics
and protocol analysis information. NETscout also provides extensive tools that simplify data collection,
analysis, and reporting. These tools allow system administrators to monitor traffic, set thresholds, and
capture data on any set of network traffic for any segment.
NETSERVE VM based PLUGIN Administration
NetView IBM network management architecture and related applications. NetView is a VTAM application used for
managing mainframes in SNA networks. See also VTAM.
NetView-DM NetView Distribution Manager for OS/2
NetWare Popular distributed NOS developed by Novell. Provides transparent remote file access and numerous
other distributed network services.NetWare supports Ethernet, token-ring, and fiber-distributed data
interface (FDDI) network interface cards. NetWare holds the largest market share of the LAN server sector.
NetWare Link Services Protocol See NLSP.
NetWare Loadable Module See NLM.
Network The highest level of your signaling controller system. You have only one network, within which you
create your sites.
network Collection of computers, printers, routers, switches, and other devices that are able to communicate
with each other over some transmission medium.
network access point See NAP.
network access server See access server and NAS.
network address Network layer address referring to a logical, rather than a physical, network device. Also
called a protocol address. Compare with MAC address.
Network Address Translation See NAT.
Network Address Translator See NAT.
network addressable unit See NAU.
network administrator Person responsible for the operation, maintenance, and management of a network. See also
network operator.
network analyzer Hardware or software device offering various network troubleshooting features, including
protocol-specific packet decodes, specific preprogrammed troubleshooting tests, packet filtering, and packet
transmission.
Network Basic Input/Output System See NetBIOS.
Network Block Transfer (NETBLT) A Transport Level, flow controlled, bulk data transfer protocol used with
TCP/IP internets. NETBLT controls the rate at which data is sent to allow a steady, high speed flow.
network byte order Internet-standard ordering of the bytes corresponding to numeric values.
Network Channel codes (NC codes) Industry standard codes that define the type of service provided at each
end of a circuit.
Network Code of Practice (NCoP) A voluntary code of practice for the design of networks covering transmission
quality, safety and technical standards.
network computing A term analogous to client/server computing.
Network Control Program See NCP.
Network Control Program (NCP) The network management software that runs on IBM communications controllers.
NCP supports the host interface to a network.
Network Data Mover (NDM) A file transmission protocol software.
network database A central repository for network device, application, and user specifications.
network database updates A process for defining network configuration, valid access/use, and alternate
routing tables.
network device A computer, peripheral or other related communications equipment attached to a network.
network device driver A program that enables the operating system software to communicate the network
adapter cards. Also a software module running on a host or workstation that is responsible for the
communications between the computer and the network or a device attached to the network.
Network Driver Interface Specification See NDIS.
Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 1. A standard established by Microsoft for writing hardware-
independent drivers. 2. A Microsoft specification for a device driver that allows multiple transport
protocols to run on one network card simultaneously
network element A piece of network equipment that can be managed through an element manager as part of a
network management system.
Network Entity Title See NET.
Network File System See NFS.
network gateway The protocol translation equipment used to connect different network architectures, when each
uses different protocols.
Network Indicator Determines the type of call that is being placed: 0 = international, 1 = reserved, 2=
national, and 3 = national spare.
Network Information Center See InterNIC.
Network Information Service See NIS.
network interface Boundary between a carrier network and a privately-owned installation.
network interface card See NIC.
network interface card/controller The circuitry that connects a node to the network, usually in the form of
a card fitted into one of the expansion slots in the back of the machine. It works with the network software
and operating system to transmit and receive messages on the network.
Network Inward/Outward Dialing (NIOD) The ability to dial into or from the public telephone network directly
from a private branch exchange (PBX).
network layer Layer 3 of the open system interconnection (OSI) reference model. This layer provides
connectivity and path selection between two end systems. The network layer is the layer at which routing
occurs. Corresponds roughly with the path control layer of the SNA model. See also application layer, data-
link layer, physical layer, PQ, session layer, and transport layer.
network management Generic term used to describe systems or actions that help maintain, characterize, or
troubleshoot a network. Administrative services performed in managing a network. This includes network
topology and software configuration, downloading of software, monitoring network performance, maintaining
network operations, and diagnosing and troubleshooting problems.
network management integration The highest level of network management system that brings together
information from a number of Element Management Systems.
Network Management Processor See NMP.
network management protocol The protocol used to transfer network management NetView, and HP OpenView.
network management system See NMS.
network management tasks 1. Configuration management tools that deal with installing, accessing, "boot"
modifying, and tracking the configuration parameters of hardware and software in a network. 2. Fault
location and repair management tools that help the network administrator determine what's wrong with the
network equipment or lines to determine the best way to repair. This is done by rerouting traffic or
reporting problems to the carrier, or suggesting that certain equipment should be replaced. Fault location
and management tools have strong error and alarm characteristics. 3. Security management tools allow the
network manager to restrict access to various resources in the network. 4. Performance management tools
provide real-time and historical statistical information about the network's operation. Such tools show how
many packets are being transmitted at any given moment, the number of users logged into a specific server,
and use of network lines. 5. Accounting management applications help users allocate the costs of the various
network resources.
network management vector transport See NMVT.
Network Nermination (NT) Provides an interface between the ISDN loop and the S or T interface terminal, such
as an ISDN phone, or the PCTA. See also NT-1.
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) An industry standard protocol for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval,
and posting of news articles. See also Network News Transport Protol.
Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) NNTP describes how newsgroup messages are transported between
compatible servers. NNTP is an extension of the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).
See also Network News Transfer Protocol.
network node See NN.
network node interface See NNI.
Network Node Server SNA NN that provides resource location and route selection services for ENs, LEN nodes,
and LUs that are in its domain.
network number Part of an IP address that specifies the network to which the host belongs.
Network Numbering eXchange (NNX) or (NXX) The three-digit location code (NNX) representing a central office
(CO). In the old Bell system, N was any digit between 2 and 9 and X was any digit, hence NXX has become the
more commonly used acronym.
Network Operating System See NOS.
Network Operations Center See NOC.
network operator Person who routinely monitors and controls a network, performing such tasks as reviewing and
responding to traps, monitoring throughput, configuring new circuits, and resolving problems. See also
network administrator.
network operators European Post, Telephone and Telegraphs (PTTs) and other private operating agencies.
Network Portability Access Service (NPAS) A service which will make available to other network portability
service providers (other telecommunications carriers) the central office equipment and facilities necessary
for access to the public switched telephone network, enabling them to offer services similar to PrimeLine.
network redundancy The duplication of network equipment and/or data that provides backup in case of network
failures.
network security The defensive hardware or software measures used to impose user-access restrictions on a
network.
network segment A portion of a network set apart from other network sections by a bridge or router. Each
network segment supports a single-medium access protocol and a limited bandwidth.
network service access point See NSAP.
network surveillance The equipment, people, systems and procedures that monitor network activity and react to
unusual situations.
Network Terminating Unit (NTU) The network component that links directly to the data terminating equipment.
network termination device 1 See NT-1.
Network Time Protocol See NTP.
network topology The logical and physical layout of a computer network; the way various systems are
interconnected. The most common network topologies are bus, ring, and star.
network trunks Circuits connecting switching centers.
Network User Identifier (NUI) On a packet network, the identification code used by a customer on a public
dial port to identify him/herself to the network for billing purposes.
Network-to-Network Interface See NNI.
network-visible entity See NVE.
networked computing technologies Hardware, software, and architectural approaches for distributing
computer applications across interconnected computers.
networking The linking of separated computers using transmission media.
NetworkMCI MCI's strategy for the future, as telephony, computers and television converge into
interactive media and wireless communications.
neutral transmission A method of transmitting teletypewriter signals. A mark (or signal) is represented by
current on the line and a space by the absence of current.
New Regulatory Framework (NRF) In October 1989 the California Public Utilities Commission replaced its
traditional cost-of-service or rate-of-return model of regulation with an approach designed to give
California telephone companies - Pacific Bell and GTE - incentives to improve productivity. This new
regulatory framework calls for sharing revenues above a certain benchmark between corporate shareholders and
customers. Prices are updated each year based on inflation and a productivity factor, which takes into
account cost savings that result from the telephone companies' efficiency improvements.
NEXT Far End Cross Talk
NEXT Near End Cross Talk
NEXT near end crosstalk
Next Hop Resolution Protocol See NHRP.
NFA Network Functional Architecture
NFAS Non-Facility Aided Signalling
NFM National Fault Management
NFS Network File Server
NFS Network File System
NFS Not-For-Sale
NFS Network File System
NFS Network File System. A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems. NFS allows a computer to access and use
files over a network as if they were local. In actuality, NFS is simply one protocol in the suite. This
protocol has been incorporated into the products of more two-hundred companies, and is now a de facto
Internet standard. NFS protocols include NFS, RPC, XDR, and others. These protocols are part of a larger
architecture that Sun refers to as ONC. See also ONC.
NG Number Group
NGBT New Generation Business Terminal
NGDLC Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier
NGDS Next Generation Dial Service
NGF Number Group Frame
NGMP Next Generation Messaging Platform
NGN Next Generation Network
NGPT New Generation Planning Tool
NGPT Next Generation Planning Tool
NGS next generation switch
NGT Nominal Group Technique
NH Non Hunt
NHRP Next Hop Resolution Protocol. Protocol used by routers to dynamically discover the MAC address of other
routers and hosts connected to a NBMA network. These systems can then directly communicate without requiring
traffic to use an intermediate hop, increasing performance in ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, and X.25 environments.
NHS Next Hop Server. Server defined by the NHRP protocol that maintains next-hop resolution cache tables
containing the IP-to-ATM address mappings of associated nodes and nodes that are reachable through routers
served by the NHS.
NHS Node Homing Strategy (NetPro sftw term)
NI Network Interface
NI Non Interlaced
NI network identifier
NI-1 National ISDN-1.
NIA Network Interoperable Alliance
NIAC Net Income Applicable to Common shares (f: BNAO)
NIAC net income applicable to common shares
NIBS New Integrated Billing System (f: SIF)
NIBS New Integrated Billing System
NIC Network Information Centre
NIC Network Interface Card
NIC Network Information Concentrator
NIC 1. Network Interface Card. Board that provides network communication capabilities to and from a computer
system. The interface card is required to connect a personal computer to a local area network (LAN). NIC is
the Ethernet card or the Token Ring card in a host, server or workstation. Also called an adapter. See also
AUI. 2. Network Information Center. Organization whose functions have been assumed by the InterNIC. See
InterNIC.
NIC Network Installation Coordinator
NICC Network Implementation Control Centre
NICE Quality management system
NICS Network Information & Communication System
NICS Network Information CenterS
NID Network Identification
NID Network Interface Device (f: DIR)
NIDS Non-control Issue Date
night answer A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that allows all incoming calls to be automatically
redirected to a preselected station or answered at any station using a 1- or 2-digit call pickup code.
night service A feature that routes calls normally directed to the attendant to preselected station lines
within a private branch exchange (PBX) system. Routes can be assigned on a flexible basis by the attendant
and remain in effect until changed. Synonym: fixed night service
NII National Information Infrastructure
NIICE New Information Industry Cooperative Endeavor
NIIT National Information Infrastructure Testbed
NIM Network Interface Machine (PAD)
NIM Network Interface Module
NIMIQ Inuit word : “The Force That Unites” satellite
NINE Non Intelligent Network Element (f: ERNI)
NINSS INSS national (e: NINSS)
NINSS National Integrated Network Surveillance System (f: NINSS)
NINSS National Integrated Network Support System
NIO Non Interactive Option
NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Health & Safety
NIP Network Intelligence Planning
NIPRS Northern Inter-Provincial Radio System
NIS Network Information Services
NIS Network Information Signalling
NIS Network Information Service. Protocol developed by Sun Microsystems for the administration of network-
wide databases. The service essentially uses two programs: one for finding a NIS server and one for
accessing the NIS databases.
NIS Not in Service
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. government organization that supports and catalogs a
variety of standards. Formerly the NBS. See also NBS.
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST National Institute for Standards and Technology
NITA National Information Technology Architecture
NIU Network Interface Unit
NIU North American ISDN Users Group
NIUF North America ISDN User's Forum
NJE Network Job Entry
NKDB Network Knowledge Data Base
NL Network Link
NL Non Loaded
NL Non-loaded Cable
NLC Nematic LC
NLDM Network Logical Data Manager/Management
NLM Netware Loadable Modules
NLM Network Line Module
NLM NetWare Loadable Module
NLM NetWare Loadable Module. Individual program that can be loaded into memory and function as part of the
NetWare NOS.
NLPID Network Layer Protocol ID
NLQ Near Letter Quality
NLS No Line Signal
NLS National Language Support
NLSP Network Layer Security Protocol
NLSP Network Link Services Protocol
NLSP NetWare Link Services Protocol. Link-state routing protocol based on IS-IS. See also IS-IS.
NM Nanometer
NM Network Maintenance
NM Network Management
NM Network Model
NM Network Module
NM Network Module (f: MR)
NM Network Module -associated with older SL-10 Datapac equipment
NM network module
NM&P Network management and performance (f: GPR)
NM1 Nexxia Mobility 1 (Release 1) Project name for the Ensemble Billing Platform
NMA Network Management and Analysis. Bellcore OSS providing alarm surveillance and performance monitoring of
intelligent network elements.
NMA Network Management Architecture
NMC Network Management Centre
NMC Network Management Channel
NMC Network Message Centre
NMC Network Message Controller
NMC Network Module Controller (f: CER)
NMCP Network Management and Control Processor
NMCS Network Management and Control System
NMCS Network Management Control System
NMCS Network Management Control System (Customer Prem-Megastream)
NMCS-II Network Management and Control System II
NMCS-PC Network Management Control System - PC
NMCS-PC NMCS Personal Computer (PC-Based)
NMCS-PC Network Management and Control System - Personal Controller
NMCSPC-CDB NMCS PC Centralized Database Management System
NMDP New Manager Development Program (f: PPNC)
NMFS Manufacturing Message Format Standard
NMI NonMaskable Interrupt
NML Network Management Layer (3rd layer)
NML Network Management Layer (TMN term
NML NETWORK MANAGEMENT LAYER
NMO Network Management Option
NMOS N-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
NMP Network Management Performance
NMP Network Management Protocol
NMP Network Management Processor. Processor module on the Catalyst 5000 switch used to control and monitor
the switch.
NMPF Network Management Productivity Facility
NMR Network Management Reporter
NMS Netware Management System
NMS Network Management System
NMS Network Message Service (f: SMR)
NMS network management services
NMS Network Management System
NMS Network Mgmt. System (monitors data circuits)
NMS 1. Network Message Service 2. Network Management System. System responsible for managing at least part of
a network. An NMS is generally a reasonably powerful and well-equipped computer such as an engineering
workstation. NMSs communicate with agents to help keep track of network statistics and resources.
NMS-V Network Management System - Voice
NMS-V Network Mgmt. System-Voice (monitors PBX voice circuits)
NMS-VOICE Network Management System
NMSO Network Message Service & Outcalling
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone
NMTI Node Management Terminal Interface
NMTI Network Management Technical Interface
NMU Network Management Unit
NMVT Network Management Vector Table
NMVT Network Management Vector Transport
NMVT Network Management Vector Transport. SNA message consisting of a series of vectors conveying network
management specific information.
NN Network Node. SNA intermediate node that provides connectivity, directory services, route selection,
intermediate session routing, data transport, and network management services to LEN nodes and ENs. The NN
contains a CP that manages the resources of both the NN itself and those of the ENs and LEN nodes in its
domain. NNs provide intermediate routing services by implementing the APPN PU 2.1 extensions. Compare with
EN. See also CP.
NNI 1. Network-to-Network Interface. ATM Forum standard that defines the interface between two ATM switches
that are both located in a private network or are both located in a public network. The interface between a
public switch and private one is defined by the UNI standard. Also, the standard interface between two Frame
Relay switches meeting the same criteria. Compare with UNI. 2. Network Node Interface.
NNI Network Node Interface
NNI Network to Network Interface
NNI Network-Network Interface
NNI Network to Network Interface
NNI National Network Interface
NNIS National Network Information System
NNM Network Node Manager
NNOC National Network Operations Centre
NNOVC Telecom National Network Operations Center
NNP National Network Plan
NNP New Numbering Plan
NNS National Network System
NNSC NSF Network Service Center
NNSP National Network Service Provisioning
NNTP Network News Transport Protocol
NNTP See Network News Transfer Protocol.
NNX Central Office Unit Code
NNX Network Number Exchange
NO Number
NOA Nature Of Address.
NOA&M Network Operations Administration and Maintenance
NOA&M-ISP Ntwrk Op Admin and Maint - Info Sys Plan (f: NOA&M-plan UAS)
NOC Network Operations Centre (f: CER)
NOC Network Operation Centres
NOC Network Operations Centre
NOC Network Operations Center. Organization responsible for maintaining a network.
NOCS No Service Circuit
node 1. Endpoint of a network connection or a junction common to two or more lines in a network. Nodes can be
processors, controllers, or workstations. Nodes, which vary in routing and other functional capabilities,
can be interconnected by links, and serve as control points in the network. Node is sometimes used
generically to refer to any entity that can access a network, and is frequently used interchangeably with
device. See also host. 2. H.323 entity that uses RAS to communicate with the gatekeeper (for example, an
endpoint such as a terminal, proxy, or gateway). 3. In SNA, the basic component of a network and the point
at which one or more functional units connect channels or data circuits. 4. A connection on a network that
has its own unique network address, capable of communicating to another station.
NODEX Network Operation Data Exchanger
NODEX Network Operation Data Exchange
NODS National Order Distribution System
NOF Network Operations Forum
noise Undesirable communications channel signals. Electromagnetic interference on a communications line caused
by echoes, natural radiation, equipment inefficiencies, electrical impulses generated by machinery, static
electricity, and so forth. Fiber-optic systems are relatively immune to electrical interference. Compare
with attenuation and distortion.
NOMAS Network Operations and Maintenance Admin. System (f: NOMAS)
NOMAS Network Operations Management Administration/Access System
NOMAS Network Operations Maintenance Administration System
NOMAS Network Operations Management Administration System
NOMDA National Office Machine Dealers Association
Non-Recurring Revenue Revenue is considered non-recurring if the service provided to the customer doesn’t occur
every month. Services considered non-recurring include installation, activation, equipment and maintenance.
Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
non-stub area Resource-intensive OSPF area that carries a default route, static routes, intra-area routes,
interarea routes, and external routes. Nonstub areas are the only OSPF areas that can have virtual links
configured across them, and are the only areas that can contain an ASBR. Compare with stub area. See also
ASAM and OSPF.
non-volatile memory This is memory that many modems have which is not destroyed when the power is turned off.
nonbillable calls Calls, such as directory assistance calls or emergency calls, that cannot be billed.
nonblocking A switching network having a sufficient number of paths to allow calling between stations
without encountering a busy.
NonBroadcast MultiAccess See NBMA.
noncommissionable operator services All operator services not eligible for commissions. Included are operator
services to casual callers and residential users with existing accounts.
nondeterministic network A network in which the access delay cannot be predicted with certainty, because it
is based on a probability function. Synonym: stochastic network
nondominant common carrier A carrier that does not possess market power, such as power to control prices. Such
carriers are exempt from many regulatory requirements at the federal level and in some states.
nonextended network AppleTalk Phase 2 network that supports addressing of up to 253 nodes and only 1 zone.
NonRecurring Charge (NRC) Any one-time charge, as for line installation, on a subscriber's bill.
nonrestricted token A token denoting the normal mode of asynchronous bandwidth allocation, wherein the
available bandwidth is time-sliced among all requesters.
nonreturn to zero See NRZ.
nonreturn to zero inverted See NRZI.
nonseed router In AppleTalk, a router that must first obtain, and then verify, its configuration with a seed
router before it can begin operation. See also seed router.
nonvolatile random-access memory See NVRAM.
NOP National Operations Prime (NSI project tracking)
NOP Network Operations Protocol
NOP Network Organization Populator
NOP Non-Operational Processing
NOP network operations protocol
NOPLAT Net Operating Profits Less Adj. Taxes
NOR North Royalton, Ohio
NORDOS Outside Plant records management system
normal response mode See NRM.
NORSCAN Fibre Cable Monitoring System
NORSE Network Operations Research Strategic Evolution
Northwest Net NSF-funded regional network serving the Northwestern United States, Alaska, Montana, and North
Dakota. Northwest Net connects all major universities in the region as well as many leading industrial
concerns.
NOS Network Operating System. Generic term used to refer to what are really distributed file systems.The
software program that provides the local area network (LAN) user an interface and control of the user
network interface. The NOS communicates with the LAN hardware and the computer operating system. Network
operating systems are usually in two parts; server and client/requester. The requester puts the workstation
onto the network and re-routes data over the network when necessary. The server software runs on the server
machine and makes disks, software, ports and other facilities available to a node on request. Each device's
services requested by a PC are accessed by the requester software. Examples of NOSs include LAN Manager,
NetWare, NFS, and VINES.
NOS Network Operations Support
NOS Network Operating System
NOS Network Operations System
NOS Non-Operational System
NOS Network Operating System (replaced NMI)
NOSCA National Operational System Computing Architecture (f: ASNSE
NOSIP Norsk OSI Profile
NOTES879 Inserts customized notes onto MCCDS workorders
Novell IPX See IPX.
NOVRAM NOn Volatile Random Access Memory
NOX Nitrogen Oxide
NP Network Processor
NP Not Pressurized
NP&P Network Planning and Provisioning (f: PRA)
NP&P Network Planning and Provisioning
NP&P Network Planning & Provisioning
NP&P network planning and provisioning
NPA Number(ing) Plan Area
NPA Numbering Plan Area
NPA Network Printing Alliance
NPA Number Plan Area
NPA numbering plan area
NPA routing The routing of calls based on the originating area code.
NPA split Subdividing an area code, with the creation of a new area code. This is necessary when the number of
telephones in a numbering plan area (NPA) grows to an excessive number.
NPA-NXX See NPA and NXX
NPA-NXX routing The routing of calls based on the originating automatic number identification (ANI) numbering
plan area (NPA)-NXX.
NPA/NXX Number Plan Area/ Network Exchange
NPAC National Portability Admin Centre
NPAM New/Network Provisioning Approaches - Mechanization
NPAM New provis. approach mechanisation
NPAM NETWORK PROVISIONING APPROACHES MECHANIZATION
NPAP Network Printing Alliance Protocol
NPAS Network Portability Access Service
NPATF New Provisioning Approaches Task Force
NPC Node Processor Card
NPC No Plant Copy
NPC NATURAL POINT OF CONTACT
NPCC NETWORK PROVISION CONTROL CENTRE
NPCO Nexxia Provisioning Control Office
NPCO Network Provisioning Control Office
NPD Numbering Plan Digit
NPDA Network Problem Determination Application
NPDARS Network Planning Development & Reference System
NPDARS Network Planing Document Retrieval System
NPDIAL NPP Simvap usage survey
NPDRC Network Processor-Dynamic Routing Concept
NPDS Network Provisioning Documentation System
NPF Network Provisioning Form
NPHIGH Ntwk Plng highlites
NPI Numbering Plan Indicator
NPI New Product Introduction
NPI 1. Number Plan Identification. 2. Numbering Plan Indicator.
NPID Network Level Protocol Identifier
NPL National Physical Laboratory
NPL Network Plan Library
NPL New Programming Language
NPL Network Planning Library
NPM Network Performance Monitor
NPMP Mew Product Management Process
NPMP New Product Management Process
NPMP New Project Management Plan
NPOST Unlisted Number
NPP Network Planning and Provisioning (f: PRA)
NPP New Products and Programs
NPPFMO NPP FMO Documentation
NPPR New Product Portfolio Revenue Report
NPPR New Products Portfolio Report
NPS Network Portability Service
NPS Network Printer Server
NPS Old version of NSPS
NPSF Network Provisioning Scheduling Facility
NPSF Scheduling System & Positive Completion Reporting
NPSF NETWORK PROVISIONING SCHEDULING FACILITY
NPSI Network Packet Switched Interface
NPSI NCP Packet Switch(ed)(ing) Interface
NPSIT Network Provisioning Stock In Trade
NPT Nonprogrammable Terminal
NPTT Network Project Tracking Tool
NPU Number of Non Published
NPV Net Present Value
NPV Net Present Value (f: VAN)
NPV net present value
NQM Network Quality Management
NQS Network Queuing System
NR No Ring, No Answer
NR Number Received
NR Network Request
NRAG Network Ring Again
NRAM Nonvolotile Random Access Memory
NRC Non Recurring Charge
NRC National Routing Code (Toll)
NRCS National Retail Commission System
NRCS National Retail Commissioning System
NRD Network Requirements Document
NREI Non Revenue Earning Investment
NREI non-revenue earning investment
NREN National Research and Education Network
NREN National Research Education Network
NREN National Research and Education Network. Component of the HPCC program designed to ensure U.S. technical
leadership in computer communications through research and development efforts in state-of-the-art
telecommunications and networking technologies. See also HPCC.
NRG Network Routing Guide
NRM Normal Response Mode. HDLC mode for use on links with one primary station and one or more secondary
stations. In this mode, secondary stations can transmit only if they first receive a poll from the primary
station.
NRS Network Representation System (class of network objects)
NRS Network Representation System. Term used to represent the NetPro C++ Object Mode
NRTP NO RESPONSE TO POLL
NRZ NonReturn to Zero. Signals that maintain constant voltage levels with no signal transitions (no return to
a zero-voltage level) during a bit interval. Compare with NRZI.
NRZ Non-Return to Zero
NRZ Non-Return-to-Zero
NRZI Non Return to Zero IBM
NRZI Non-Return to Zero Inverted
NRZI Non-Return-to-Zero Inverted
NRZI NonReturn to Zero Inverted. Signals that maintain constant voltage levels with no signal transitions (no
return to a zero-voltage level), but interpret the presence of data at the beginning of a bit interval as a
signal transition and the absence of data as no transition. Compare with NRZ.
NS Nanosecond 10-9 Second
NS Navigation Server
NS Network Services
NS No Answer Supervision
NS Number Sent
NS Network Services
NS&C National Surveillance and Correlation System
NS&C National Surveillance & Correlation
NSA National Security Administration
NSA Network Software Associates and Future Soft
NSAI National Standards Authority of Ireland
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NSAP Network Service Access Point. Network addresses, as specified by ISO. An NSAP is the point at which OSI
Network Service is made available to a transport layer (Layer 4) entity.
NSASTRA Network Serv. Automated Service and Trouble Report Analysis
NSB National summary billing (f: FSGC)
NSB National Summary Billing (f: FSN)
NSB National Summary Billing
NSB National Summary Billing feeder and audit control system
NSB National Summary Billing
NSC National Surveillance and Correlation System
NSC Network Service Centre
NSC Network Speed Call
NSC Network Surveillance Center (f: CSR)
NSC Network Service Control
NSCA National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NSCAP NS Capital Results
NSD Network Status Display
NSD Network System Development
NSD Novell Service Diskette
NSD National Service Division
NSDA Network Server Design Authority
NSDB Network Services Database
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSDU Network Service Data Unit
NSEPro Network Support Encyclopedia Professional
NSF National Science Fundation
NSF National Science Foundation. U.S. government agency that funds scientific research in the United States.
The now-defunct NSFNET was funded by the NSF. See also NSFNET.
NSFNET National Science Foundation Network. Large network that was controlled by the NSF and provided
networking services in support of education and research in the United States, from 1986 to 1995. NSFNET is
no longer in service.
NSG Network Sub Group
NSG National Systems Group (f: GSN)
NSI No Sender Intra Office
NSI New Service Introduction
NSJMS Network Services Job Management System
NSL Network Speech Link Connecting Frame
NSM National Service Manager
NSMS Network Security Management System
NSMS Network Security Management System (See COSS)
NSMS Network Security Mangement System
NSN National Service Manager (f: DSN)
NSN No Such Number
NSN National Significant Number (10 Digit Telephone Number)
NSO No Sender Outgoing
NSOP Network Operations Strategic Plan
NSOP Network Services Ontario Provincial
NSOP Network Services Operations Planning
NSOP Network System Operation Planning
NSOP108C NSOP108C Form
NSP Name Service Protocol
NSP Native Signal Processing
NSP Network Specific Facility
NSP Network Surveillance Portfolio (For Transport Surveillance)
NSP Network Services Planning (f: PER)
NSP Name Service Protocol
NSP Network Surveillance Portfolio (For Transport Surveillance)
NSP Network Service Point.
NSPI Network Services Project Information System
NSPIF New Services and Product Information Flash
NSPS Toll traffic simulation
NSR Network Systems Research
NSR Non-Sequential Recording
NSR Non-Selective Reset (f: NSR)
NSR Non Standard Request form
NSRC National Services Response Centre
NSS Network Service Support
NSS Network Surveillance & Support
NSS Network System Support
NSS Named Saved System
NSS Network Services Systems
NSSD Network Services Systems Development
NSSM National Sales and Service Manual (f: MRR)
NSSS Network Services Systems Support
NST Network Services Territory
NSTL National Software Testing Laboratory
NT National Testing Gateway (uses X Interface off DARTS)
NT Network Terminating Interface
NT Network Termination
NT Neutralizing Transformer
NT New Technology
NT Northern Telecom
NT National Testing Gateway
NT National Testing
NT) Northern Telecom)
NT-1 Network Terminating Interface - Type 1
NT-1 Network Termination 1
NT-1 Network Termination 1. In ISDN, a device that provides the interface between customer premises equipment
and central office switching equipment.
NT-2 Network Termination 2
NT-AMA Northern Telecom AMA Format
NT1 Network Termination 1 (ISDN)
NT1/TA ISDN Network Termination 1/Terminal Adaptor Tech
NT2 Network Termination 2 (ISDN)
NTAC Network Trouble Analysis Centre (f: CRAD)
NTAC National Technical Assistance Centre
NTAP Network Transport Analysis Program
NTAS Network Technical and Administration Support
NTC Northern Telecom Company
NTCL Northern Telecom Canada Limited
NTCL Northern Telecom Company Limited
NTD National Tariff Database
NTDB National Traffic Data Base
NTE Network Test Environment
NTE Northern Telecom Test Equipment
NTF National Science Foundation
NTF No Trouble Found
NTFS NT File System
NTI Network Termination Interface
NTI Next Time in
NTI NETWORK TERMINATION INTERFACE
NTI Network Technology Introduction
NTIWG Near Term ISDN Working Group
NTL Northern Telecom Limited
NTM National Trouble Management
NTMS National Trouble Management System (collects national trbls)
NTMS National Trouble Management System
NTMS National Trouble Management System (part of NFM)
NTMS National Trouble Management System
NTMS-BELL National Trouble Management System - Bell (TTS-SU)
NTN Network Terminal Number
NTN Neutralized Twisted Nematic
NTN Network Terminal Number
NTP Northern Telecom Practice (f: PNT)
NTP NORTEL Practice
NTP Network Technology Plan
NTP Network Time Protocol. Protocol built on top of TCP that assures accurate local time-keeping with
reference to radio and atomic clocks located on the Internet. This protocol is capable of synchronizing
distributed clocks within milliseconds over long time periods.
NTRI NCP/Token Ring Interconnection. Function used by ACF/NCP to support Token Ring-attached SNA devices. NTRI
also provides translation from Token Ring-attached SNA devices (PUs) to switched (dial-up) devices.
NTS Network Test System
NTS Network Time Switch
NTS Network Transport Services
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
NTSC National Televison Standards Commitee (usa)
NTSC Network Time Switch Card
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
NTT Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
NTU Network Termination Unit
NTU National Technical University
NTWK Network
NTWKIMPL Network Implementation LAN Management
NUA Norton Utilities Administrator
NUC Non Urban Concept
NUC Non-Urban Concept
NUDTS Network Usage Data Transfer System
NUDTS Network Utility Data Transferal System
NUG National User Groups
NUI Network User Identifier
NUI Network/User Interface
NUI Non Urban Interface
NUI network user identifier
null modem Small box or cable used to join computing devices directly, rather than over a network.
NUM Network Usage Management (f: GDUR)
NUMA Non Uniform Memory Access
Numbering Plan Area (NPA) 1. A geographical division within which no two telephones will have the same seven
digit number. N is any digit between 2 and 9, P is always 1 or 0, and A is any digit excluding 0. The middle
digit range will expand soon. 2. North American area codes.
NURBS Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
NUS An 800 number search engine used to find available 800 numbers and reserve them for up to 60 days.
NUSI Non Urban Service Improvement
NVDM/2 NetView Distribution Manager/2
NVE Network-Visible Entity. Resource that is addressable through a network. Typically, an NVE is a socket
client for a service available in a node.
NVM Non-Volatile Memory
NVN National Videotext Network
NVOD Near Video-On-Demand
NVP Nibs Voice Pricing
NVRAM NonVolatile Random Access Memory
NVRAM NonVolatile RAM. RAM that retains its contents when a unit is powered off.
NVSIMM Non Volatile SIMM
NVT Novell Virtual Terminal
NWO National Wholesale Outbound
NWT Network Wire Trouble
NWT Normal Wear & Tear
NWT NorthWesTel
NXX Network Exchange
NXX Central Office Designation
NXX Network numbering eXchange (previously NNX)
NXX Numerical Number Exchange
NXX 1. Exchange, the first 3 digits of a 7-digit telephone number. Digits 4, 5 and 6 in a 10 digit North
American numbering plan (NANP) telephone number - NPA-NXX-XXXX. 2. The current general configuration for
exchange codes within each area code.
NXXRQ Quebec region NXX Tracking Tool
NYIPC North York Information Processing Centre
NYPS National Yellow Pages Service
NYPS National Yellow Pages
NYPS-CANYPS National Yellow Pages Canadian National Yellow Pages
NYSE New York Stock Exchange
NYSERNet Network in New York (United States) with a T1 backbone connecting NSF, many universities, and
several commercial concerns.
O&FA Operations and Financial Analysis (f: EE&EF)
O-CLIP Optical Cellular Logic Image Processor
O-ROM Optical Read Only Memory
O.R. Ontario Region
OA Office Automation
OA Operating Agent
OA Operation Agent
OA Opportunity Assessment
OA Order Acquisition (Sub process of Order Fulfillment)
OA&M Operations Administration and Maintenance (f: OA&M)
OA&M Operations, Administration and Maintenance
OAC Order Administartion Charge
OAC office alarm condition
OADM Optical Add Drop Multiplex
OAF Originating Address Field
OAG Owners Acceptance Group (f: CAP)
OAG Owner Acceptance Group
OAG Owner Approval Group
OAM Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
OAM cell Operation, Administration, and Maintenance cell. ATM Forum specification for cells used to monitor
virtual circuits. OAM cells provide a virtual circuit-level loopback in which a router responds to the
cells, demonstrating that the circuit is up, and the router is operational.
OAM&P Operations Administration Maintenance and Provisioning.
OAM&P Operations, Administration, Maintenance, & Provisioning
OAP Opportunity Assessment Proposal
OAP Opportunity Assessment Proposal document (IPMP deliverable)
OARnet Ohio Academic Resources Network. Internet service provider that connects a number of U.S. sites,
including the Ohio supercomputer center in Columbus, Ohio.
OAS Office Automation Systems
OAS Old Age Security (f: PSV)
OASAS Open Architecture Scalable Array System
OASIS Operations Alliance Services Information System
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OATS Operator Assisted Toll Service
OAU Office Alarm Unit (f: UAC)
OBAM Object-Action Manager
OBC Original Book Cost (f: CCO)
OBC open border coverage
OBC Open Borders Coverage
OBC Ottawa Bicycle Club
OBC OutBound Correspondence
OBC Outbound Correspondence subsystem in CATS
OBEX OBject EXchange
OBF Ordering and Billing Forum
OBI Options by IBM
object instance Network management term referring to an instance of an object type that has been bound to a
value.
object mobility The ability to move an object from one machine or local area network (LAN) to another without
disrupting operations or modifying source code.
Object Oriented (OO) A method of computer analysis, design and system development where real-world concepts
such as customers, orders, and products, are modeled as "encapsulated" objects with attributes and
operations. Similar objects are grouped together in "classes" with common data attributes and operations
that can be "inherited" by "instances" of the class. Reusable sub-component objects can be assembled in
various ways to define a wide variety of business object models, and reduce incompatible applications.
Objects communicate with other encapsulated objects by sending "messages." OO technology is very effective
in the creation of innovative computer systems, communications networks, interface design, quality assurance
and parallel development of reliable, reusable software modules.
OBM Online Bill Manager (formely known as CIA - or E-Reporting)
OBOT One Bill Ordering Tool
OBRA outside base rate area (f: HSTB)
OBS Observing
OBS Observe-Agent Key
OBU Operating Business Unit
OBU Operational Business Unit
OC Ontario Centra
OC Operations Centre
OC Optical Carrier
OC Optical Channel
OC Original Cost (f: CO)
OC Other Classes
OC Optical Carrier e.g. OC48 from NORTEL
OC OPTICAL CARRIER
OC Optical Carrier. Series of physical protocols (OC-1, OC-2, OC-3, and so forth), defined for SONET optical
signal transmissions. OC signal levels put STS frames onto multimode fiber-optic line at a variety of
speeds. The base rate is 51.84 Mbps (OC-1) each signal level thereafter operates at a speed divisible by
that number (thus, OC-3 runs at 155.52 Mbps). See also SONET, STS-1, and STS-3c.
OC&C Other Charges and Credits
OC&C Other Charges and Credits - see Miscellaneous charges or credits - see Changes
OC-1 Optical Carrier Level 1 51.48 Mbit/s
OC-12 Optical signal Carrier level 12 (622.08 MegaBits/sec)
OC-12C Optical signal Carrier level 12 (622.08 MegaBits/sec) - Concatenated
OC-192 Optical signal Carrier level 192
OC-3 Optical Carrier - 3
OC-3 Optical Carrier Level 3 155.52 Mbits
OC-3C Optical Carrier Level 3 155.52 Mbits - Concatenated
OC-48 Optical signal Carrier level 48
OC-48C Optical Carrier Level 48 (2488.32 Mbits) - Concatenated
OC-N Optical Carrier Level n n x 51.84
OC-NC Operator Centralization - Night Closedown
OC03 CLFI dsignation for optical signal carrier level 3
OC12 Optical Carrier 12
OC192 Optical signal carrier level 192
OC48 Optical Carrier 48
OCA Operations Checklist Application (server app,uses Remedy GUI
OCA Optical Corporation of America
OCA Operations
OCAS Operator Call Announce System
OCAS-MTCE Operator Call Analysis System
OCB Order Control Bureau
OCB Order Control Bureau for non-MTWO paper orders at local level
OCB Order Control Bureau
OCC Operation Control Center (f: CCE)
OCC Operations Control Centre
OCC Other Common Carrier
OCC Other Common Carriers
OCC Other Charge Or Credit
OCC Originating Call Control.
OCE Open Collaborative Environment
OCE Open Computing Environment
OCIS Online Customer Information System
OCIS On-line Customer Information System
OCLC Online Computer Library Catalog. Nonprofit membership organization offering computer-based services to
libraries, educational organizations, and their users.
OCLI Optical Coating Laboratory Inc
OCMF Overseas Country Master File
OCMS Order Control and Management Study (f: OCMS)
OCMS Order Control Management System (f: OCMS)
OCN Original Called Number
OCO Object Code Only
OCP Optional Calling Plan (SELECTEL)
OCR Office Channel Repeater
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OCR-A Optical Character Recognition-A
OCRS Optical Character Recognition System (f: OCS)
OCS Object Compatibility Standard
OCS OpenConnect Systems, Inc
OCS Order Control Systems
OCS Order Control System (f: OCS)
OCS Order Control System
OCTC Office Control Test Card (f: CECC)
OCTC Office Control and Test Card
OCTC-L6 Office Control Test Card - List 6
OCTEL Aka ASPEN
OCTET 8 bits/1 Byte/2 Nibbles
octet 8 bits. In networking, the term octet is often used (rather than byte) because some machine architectures
employ bytes that are not 8 bits long.
OCU Office Channel Unit
OCU-DP Office Channel Unit - Data Port
OD On Demand
OD Operator Identification
OD Outside Distribution
OD Operations Development (f: PE) ---> Bell CGI
OD Operationally Defective
OD-1 Zero Defects 1
OD-2 Zero Defects 2
ODA Office Document Architecture
ODA Operations Development Alliance
ODA Operations Development Alliance (replaced by ODC)
ODA (STENTOR) OPERATIONS DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
ODA Open Document Architecture. ISO standard that specifies how documents are represented and transmitted
electronically. Formerly called Office Document Architecture.
ODA/2 Orthogonal Disk Array/2
ODA/ODIF Office Document Arch./Office Document Interchange Formats
ODAD Operations development Administrative Directive
ODAD Operations Development Administrative Directives (f: DAPE)
ODAI Origin/Destination Address Indicator
ODAM Operations Development Alliance Manual
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity. Standard application programming interface for accessing data in both
relational and nonrelational database management systems. Using this application programming interface,
database applications can access data stored in database management systems on a variety of computers even
if each database management system uses a different data storage format and programming interface. ODBC is
based on the call level interface specification of the X/Open SQL Access Group and was developed by Digitial
Equipment Corporation, Lotus, Microsoft, and Sybase. Contrast with JDBC.
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
ODBC Open Database Connectivity (Microsoft)
ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity
ODBMS Object Database Management System
ODBS Open DataBase System
ODC Operations Development Consortium (f: CPE)
ODC Operations Development Council
ODC national Operations Development Consortium (replaces ODA)
ODC Operations Development Consortium
ODCS Open Distributed Computing Structure
ODD Optical Disk Drive
ODETTE Organization for Data Exchange by TeleTransmission in Europe
ODF Order Description Form (Quickie)
ODI Operations Database Inventory
ODI Open Data-Link Interface. An architecture that enables multiple protocol stacks to be used with one or
more local area network (LAN) adapters in a workstation on the network and is an alternative to network
driver interface specification (NDIS). ODI allows multiple network protocols and LAN adapters to be used
concurrently on the same workstation or file server. ODI was developed by Novell and Apple. Novell
specification providing a standardized interface for NICs (network interface cards) that allows multiple
protocols to use a single NIC. See also NIC.
ODI Open Datalink Interface
ODI Open Data-link Interface
ODIF Office Document Interchange Format
ODIF Open Document Interchange Format
ODM Order Data Modification
ODM Operations Data Mart
ODMG Object Database Management Group
ODMS Order Discrepancy Management system
ODN Operations Data Network (f: RDE)
ODNC Operations Data Network Controller
ODP Open Distributed Processing
ODP Optical Demarcation Point (for dark fibre)
ODR Outgoing Digit Receiver
ODS Official Data Communications Service (f: SII)
ODS Open Distributed Systems
ODS Open Document Architecture
ODS Customer Facilities Operational Data Store
OE Originating Equipment
OE Opportunity Evaluation
OE originating equipment
OE Optical Ethernet (Aug 26 03)
OE/DN Originating Equipment/Directory Number
OEC Open Enterprise Computing
OEC Operations Expertise Centre
OECA Ontario Educational Communications Authority
OECD Org. for Economic Cooperation and Development (f:OCDE)
OED The Oxford English Dictionary
OEIC Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuit
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OEM Ontario Enterprise Market
OEMI channel See block multiplexer channel.
OEP Operational Effectiveness Program
OF Order Fulfillment
OFA Order Fulfillment Associate
OFAR Optimum Fill At Relief (f: TOUA)
OFC Outlook Full Client
Off-hook 1. A signal indicating the telephone receiver has been lifted or activated. An off hook signal
activates a dial tone on switched networks. Destination off hook completes a call and activates minute-by-
minute billing for long-distance calls. 2. One of the two possible signaling states such as tone or no tone,
ground connection or battery connection. The active state (closed loop) of a subscriber or private branch
exchange (PBX) user's loop.
Off-Hook Queue (OHQ) A queuing system the places the user off-hook after the call is logged. The user is
connected to the next available trunk.
off-hook signaling 1. Line-signaling the condition indicating that a station is being used (line-loop
closed). 2. Trunk-signaling off-hook signaling in the forward direction exists after seizure of the trunk by
the switching equipment. Off-hook signaling in the backward direction exists after receiving an indication
that the distant equipment is ready to receive address signals.
off-line Peripheral equipment operation that is not under the control of the central processing unit (CPU),
such as when your computer is not connected to another BBS.
off-line mail reader A program that allows you to read messages and reply to them after you call a BBS.
Off-Network Access Line (ONAL) 1. A local exchange feature group access, foreign exchange, or wide area
telecommunications service (WATS) line connecting both incoming and outgoing traffic from a long-distance
company's network to the public switched network. 2. A circuit leased by a long-distance carrier to be used
by customers not hooked directly into the long-distance carrier's network.
off-network calling Telephone calls through a private switching system and transmission network that extend
to the public telephone system.
Off-Premises eXtension (OPX) A station line at a location other than the premises where the private branch
exchange (PBX) or local exchange service is located.
off-premises station A private branch exchange (PBX) station located on property not adjacent to the PBX
location.
Offered traffic The number of call attempts in any specified period of time.
Office Document Architecture See ODA.
OFP Offer of First Proposal
OFSE Order Flow Streamlining and Enhancement
OFSE-E Order Flow Steamlining and Enhancement
OG Outgoing
OGBC Oracle Global Business Center
OGF Open GRASS Foundation
OGS On-Going Support
OGT Outgoing Trunk
OGX Optical Gateways Cross-connect
OHAC Off-hours answering centre (f: CRCR)
OHD Optical Hard Drive
Ohio Academic Resources Network See OARnet.
OHIP Ontario Health Insurance Plan
OHP OverHead Projector
OHQ Off Hook Queuing
OHQ See Off-Hook Queue.
OHSA Occupational Health and Safety Association
OI Operations Impact
OI Operations Integration
OIA Operational Impact Assessment
OIA Open Interface Access
OIC Original Installed Cost
OID Operations Impact Document
OID (STENTOR) OPERATIONS IMPACT DOCUMENT
OIDL Open Interface Definition Language
OIM OSI Internet Management. Group tasked with specifying ways in which OSI network management protocols can
be used to manage TCP/IP networks.
OIR Online Insertion and Removal. Feature that permits the addition, replacement, or removal of cards without
interrupting the system power, entering console commands, or causing other software or interfaces to shut
down. Sometimes called hot swapping or power-on servicing.
OIR Online Insertion and Removal
OIW OSI Implementors Workshop
OJ Operator Junctor
OJ Originating Junctor
OJT On the Job Training
OL Outgoing Link
OLAP OnLine Analitical Processing
OLAP On-line Analytical Processing (software)
OLBV Output to Line Buffer Verify
OLC Ontario Lottery Corporation
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OLE Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding
OLFM On-line Facilities Management
OLI Originating Line Identifier
OLO Other Local Operator.
OLR OS/2 LAN Requester
OLT Optical Line Terminal
OLTP On Line Transaction Processing
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
OM Operational Measurements
OM Output Message Manual
OM operational measurement
OM Operational Measurement
OM&D Order Management & Design (879 circuit design group OR and QR)
OMAP Operations Maintenance and Administration Part
OMC Operating and Management Center
OMC Operation and Maintenance Center
OMC OrderMax Channels
OMD Operational Measurement Device
OMF Object Management Facility
OMF Open Model Forum
OMG Object Management Group
OMG Object Management Group.
OMI Open Messaging Interface
OMIS Operations Management Information Systems
OMM Operations Management Meeting
OMO Operational Measurement Output
OMR Optical Mark Read
OMR Optical Multiform Reader
OMR Optical Mark Reader
OMS Oracle Media Server
OMS Order Management System
OMS Operator Mark Sense
OMS Operational Monitoring System
OMS Order Management System
OMSP Operational Measurement System for Passports
OMT Object Modelling Technique
On-hook 1. The loss of off-hook signal resulting from the telephone handset being placed on its mounting. 2.
One of two possible signaling states such as tone or no tone, ground connection or battery connection. 3.
The idle state (open loop) of a subscriber or private branch exchange (PBX) line loop.
on-hook dialing A dialing method where the receiver remains on-hook while the user dials a number. Call
progress is monitored over the set's speaker until the call is connected.
on-hook signaling 1. Line signaling, the condition indicating that a station is idle (line loop open). 2.
Trunk signaling, on-hook signaling in the forward direction exists when the trunk is not being used. On-hook
signaling in the backward direction exists while awaiting an answer signal or indicating a disconnect signal
from the called end.
On-Net Extension Revenue Revenue is considered on-net extension if a portion of the service is provided
through GT network. Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
On-Net Revenue Revenue is considered on-net if the last mile linking the customer to the network is owned by
GT. Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
on-the-fly packet switching See cut-through packet switching.
ONA Open Network Architecture
ONAC Other North American Companies
ONC Open Network Computing
ONC Order Number Control
ONC Ontario Northland Commission (company)
ONC Ontario Northland Company
ONC Order Number Control
ONC Open Network Computing. Distributed applications architecture designed by Sun Microsystems, currently
controlled by a consortium led by Sun. The NFS protocols are part of ONC. See also NFS.
one-way splitting A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that allows an attendant to talk to an inside
extension without being heard by the outside caller.
one-way trunk A trunk used for calls from one end only. At the originating end, the one-way trunk is known
as an outgoing trunk; at the other end, it is known as an incoming trunk.
ones density Scheme that allows a CSU/DSU to recover the data clock reliably. The CSU/DSU derives the data
clock from the data that passes through it. In order to recover the clock, the CSU/DSU hardware must receive
at least one 1 bit value for every 8 bits of data that pass through it. Also called pulse density.
ONI Operator Number Identification
ONI Operator number identification (f: ENT)
ONI Operator Number Identification
ONI operator number identification (used when ANI is not available)
online Condition resulting when a device is actively and permanently connected to a computer or private
branch exchange (PBX). No delay is experienced when accessing data.
online insertion and removal See OIR.
ONMP Optical Network Management & Planning
ONP Offre de réseau ouvert (e: ONP)
ONP Open Network Provision (f: ONP)
ONP Open Network Provision
ONPRS ONline Problem Reporting System
ONU Optical Network Unit
ONV Order Number Validate (f: VANUC)
OO Operator Office
OOA Output-Open Architecture
OOA object oriented analysis
OOD Object Oriented Design
OOD Object Oriented Development
OODB Object Oriented Data Base
OODBMS Object Oriented DataBase Management System
OOF Out Of Frame
OOF Out Of Frame (Line Performance parameter)
OOFS Object-Oriented File System
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
OOPS Object-Oriented Programming System
OOPSLA Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages & Application
OOS Object Oriented Software
OOS Out of Service
OOS Out of Synchronization
OOS 1. Out-of-Service. 2. Telecommunications: Out-of-Service signaling.
OOTF Office of The Future (f: BDA/OOTF)
OOUI Object Oriented User Interface
OOUI Object-Oriented User Interface
OOUI Object Oriented User Interface
OOZ Out of Zone
OP Off Premises Extension Lines
OP Ontario Provincial
OP Outside Plant (f: SDL)
OP Ontario Provincial (Assigners)
OPARS Outside Plant Access Remote System
OPARS Outside Plant Access Remote Systems
OPARS VM based Access Remote Tracking
OPARS OUTSIDE PLANT ACCESS REMOTE SYSTEM
OPAS Outside Plant Analysis System (formerly CCUAP)
OPAS Cable repair analysis system
OPAS Outside Plant Analysis System
OPAS (pc) Download of OPAS 17 pgs to PC
OPC OPerations Controller
OPC Operations Planning and Control
OPC Optical Photo Coupled
OPC Origination Signal Transfer Point Code
OPC Outside Plant Construction
OPC Operations Controller for Nortel's Transport Node products
OPC Own Point Code. Point code of the Cisco SC2200 signaling controller.
OPCS Operational Program Control System (f: SCPE)
OPD Outside Plant Division
OPE Outside Plant Engineering (f: PDL)
OPE Optera packet edge
OPE Optical Ethernet Platform
OPEC Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (f: OPEP)
OPEC Outside Plant Education Centre
open access 1. The availability of unrestricted access to a telecommunications service. 2. Defined by the
California Public Utilities Commission as "the capability of any telecommunications network to pick-up and
deliver information from any other network in a way that is invisible to the end-user customer." Open access
enables competitive access providers and other local service competitors to interconnect and inter-operate
with the public switched network - capabilities required to create a fully competitive local
telecommunications market.
open architecture Architecture with which third-party developers can legally develop products and for which
public domain specifications exist.
open circuit Broken path along a transmission medium. Open circuits will usually prevent network
communication.
Open Data-Link Interface See ODI.
open database connectivity See ODBC.
Open Document Architecture See ODA.
open end The end of a line, such as a wide area telecommunications service (WATS) or foreign exchange line,
that connects calls to widely scattered points, generally through the public switched network. For example,
an outward WATS line originates calls from one point, the closed end, and terminates calls at the open end.
An 800 Service line receives calls at the open end and terminates calls at the closed end.
Open Group Group formed in February 1996 by the consolidation of the two leading open systems consortia: X/Open
Company Ltd (X/Open) and the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
Open Network Computing See ONC.
Open Shortest Path First See OSPF.
Open System Interconnection See OSI.
Open System Interconnection reference model See OSI reference model.
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) A suite of protocols, designed by ISO committees to be the international
standard computer network architecture.
OPENVIEW-ITO Hewlett Packard monitoring Software
OPER Operational
Operating Telephone Company (OTC) 1. A carrier that provides local exchange service, such as the Bell
operating companies (BOCs), and the independent telephone companies. Synonyms: local exchange carrier (LEC),
telco, and exchange telephone company 2. A company that provides telephone transmission services, as
distinguished from holding companies and customer premises equipment (CPE) vendors.
operating time The time required for initiating a call and waiting for the connection to be made.
Operation, Administration, and Maintenance cell See OAM cell.
operational integration The integration of several telecommunications media to operate as a single unit.
Operational Measurement Statistical data such as alternate trunk usage. (OM)
operator The individual that operates an attendant console, switchboard, or other similar equipment.
operator assisted calling Any call requiring an operator, live or automated, to intervene for completion and
billing. Collect, third party billed, and person-to-person calls usually require operator assistance for
proper billing.
operator center The center where operators take calls and assist customers for call completion.
Operator Distance Dialing The case of an operator dialing directly to a distant subscriber without assistance
from an intermediate circuit operator. (ODD)
Operator Number Identification (ONI) Feature that allows an operator to check a long-distance number directly
dialed by a subscriber for the purpose of centralized automatic message accounting (CAMA) itemized billing.
Operator Service Call A call that is placed through a human or automated operator. (OSC)
Operator Service Record A report generated by 0+ calls. (OSR)
Operator Services Provider A vendor that supplies operator services. (OSP)
Operator-Assisted Calls Non-direct distance dial (DDD) calls requiring manual intervention. (OAC)
OPF Outside Plant Facilities
OPFR Outside Plant Focus Rehab (f: CEP)
OPFR Outside Plant Focused Rehab (see CEP for QR)
OPFSP Outside Plant Focused Station Provisioning (f: CAIRE)
OPFSP OP Fac. Service Provisionning (french acronym is CAIRE)
OPI Offre de proposition initiale (e: PFP)
OPI Open Prepress Interface
OPI Outside Plant Interface (f: SR)
OPI Outside Plant Interface
OPIN Outside Plant Information Network
OPIS Outside Plant Investment System
OPM Outside Plant Module (f: MIE)
OPM outside plant module
OPM Outside Plant Maintenance
OPMF Originating Point Master File
OPN Open
OPP Optimal Page Positioning
OPPG Optimizing Personal and Professional Growth (f: ODPP)
OPPI Outside Plant Pricing Interface
OPR Operator
OPR NNX Operating company Table
OPR Outside Plant Repair
OPRD Outside Plant Ready Date
OPS Operations
OPS Oracle Parallel Server
OPS Order Processing System
OPS Operations
OPS/INE Operations Provisioning System/lntelligent Network Element. Bellcore OSS that provides provisioning
services for intelligent network elements. See also OSS.
OPT Cisco's Open Packet Telephony architecture.
OPT Open Protocol Technology
OPT Option
OPTAX Other Provincial Tax
Optical Carrier See OC.
optical fiber The thin glass or plastic fiber that transmits communications signals by employing laser
technology. See fiber-optic cable.
optical receiver An optoelectronic circuit that converts an incoming optical signal to an electrical signal;
typically a photodetector.
optical rise time The time interval for the rising edge of an optical pulse to transition from 10% to 90%
of the pulse amplitude.
Optical Time Delay Reflectometer (OTDR) A test and measurement device used to check the accuracy of fusion
splices and the location of fiber-optic breaks.
optical transmitter An optoelectronic circuit that converts an electrical signal to an optical signal;
typically a light emitting diode or laser diode.
Optical-disk DMS Traffic data (Operational Measurments)
Optimized Bandwidth Management Cisco wide-area switches ensure fair and cost-efficient bandwidth utilization
using various techniques. ABR and Optimized Banwidth Management are used for ATM and Frame Relay traffic.
ABR is a standards-based ATM traffic management mechanism, and ForeSight is Cisco's implementation that
mirrors ABR capabilities for Frame Relay traffic. ABR and Optimized Bandwidth Management optimize real-time
traffic performance and throughput, and minimize data loss. Bandwidth management for voice is achieved
through the use of standards-based voice compression and silence suppression mechanisms for circuit data
services. Formerly called ForeSight.
OPTIPS OP documentation to field force
OPTPROS optical trunk provisioning system
OPX Off Premises Extension (f: PHL)
OPX Off-Premises Extension
OR On Request
OR Ontario Region
OR Originating Register
OR Ontario Region
ORA Operations Readiness Assessment
ORALARMS Tracking OMEGA Alarms
ORAM Optical RAM
ORB Object Request Broker
ORB Office Repeater Bay
ORCA Order Receipt and Circuit Archiving
ORCAP Ontario Region Capital Results
ORCS Ontario Region Customer Services
ORF Operating Revenue Forecast
ORG Organization
Organizational Unique Identifier See OUI.
ORIG Originating
originate only An extension that is authorized to place calls, but cannot receive directly dialed calls
except through forwarding.
originating office The central office that serves the calling party.
originating restriction An extension that is restricted from placing outgoing calls, but can accept incoming
calls.
originator The person, location, or automatic number identification (ANI) that initiated a call or order.
Synonym: calling station.
ORION On-line Retrieval of Information on Networks
ORIT Ontario Region InterToll
ORL Originating Route Link
ORLN Originating Route Link Network
ORMS Order Request Management System
ORMS Order Management System
ORPIL Ontario Region Plug-in Letter
ORROWS Ontario Region Right of Ways System
ORROWS Ontario Right of Way Easements
ORS Object Registrating Service
ORS OutRight Sale
ORS Out Right Sale
ORS outright sale
ORSC Ontario Region Service Centre
ORSEM Ontario Switch Modernization System
ORSEP Ontario Region Specific Estimate Proceedures
ORST Ontario Retail Sales Tax (f: TOVD)
ORT Operational Ready Test (test run)
ORTD Ontario Region Technology Development
ORU Office Regenerative Unit
ORU Office Repeater Unit
OS Operating System
OS Out-of-Service
OS Outsenders
OS Optical Single Mode fibre
OS operations system
OS-NORM Operating systems normalization system
OS/2 Operating System/2
OS/2-EE Operating System/2 Extended Edition
OS/2-ES Operating System/2 Extended Services
OS/2-LS Operating System/2 LAN Server
OS/2-SE Operating System/2 Special Edition (for Windows)
OS/2-SE Operating System/2 Standard Edition
OS/VS Operating System / Virtual Storage
OS/VS2 Operating System / Virtual Storage 2
OS2 IBM) Operating System 2
OSA Open Scripting Architecture
OSA Open Systems Architecture
OSA Operations Services Agreement
OSA Operator System Access.
OSAP Ontario Student Assistance Plan
OSC Office System Connection
OSC Operator Service Code
OSC Outgoing Sender Control
OSC Overseas Service Centers
OSCAR Outright Sale Customer Account Record
OSCAR Outright Sales Customer Account Records
OSCE Open Systems Center for Excellence (sets CGI's UNIX stnds)
OSCE Open Systems Center for Excellence (sets Sygma UNIX stnds)
OSDC Office Services Development Committee
OSDT Operational Systems Data Transport (f: ADSE)
OSF Object File System
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSF Open Software Foundation. Group responsible for the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) and the
Distributed Management Environment (DME). See DCE.
OSF/1 OSF operating system based on UNIX/AIX
OSFMS Operator Services Force Management System (f: GESTEL)
OSG Outgoing Sender Group
OSI Office Services Integration
OSI Open System Interconnection (f: OSI)
OSI Interconnexion de systèmes ouverts (e: OSI)
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
OSI Open Systems Interconnect
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSI operations systems interface
OSI Open System Interconnection. International standardization program created by ISO and ITU-T to develop
standards for data networking that facilitate multivendor equipment interoperability.
OSI See Open System Interconnection.
OSI Internet Management See OIM.
OSI network address Address, consisting of up to 20 octets, used to locate an OSI Transport entity. The
address is formatted into two parts: an Initial Domain Part that is standardized for each of several
addressing domains and a Domain Specific Part that is the responsibility of the addressing authority for
that domain.
OSI presentation address Address used to locate an OSI Application entity. It consists of an OSI Network
Address and up to three selectors, one each for use by the transport, session, and presentation entities.
OSI reference model Open System Interconnection reference model. Network architectural model developed by ISO
and ITU-T. The model consists of seven layers, each of which specifies particular network functions such as
addressing, flow control, error control, encapsulation, and reliable message transfer. The lowest layer (the
physical layer) is closest to the media technology. The lower two layers are implemented in hardware and
software, while the upper five layers are implemented only in software. The highest layer (the application
layer) is closest to the user. The OSI reference model is used universally as a method for teaching and
understanding network functionality. Similar in some respects to SNA. See application layer, data-link
layer, network layer, physical layer, PQ, session layer, and transport layer.
OSI standards Open Systems Interconnection. The International Standards Organization (ISO) has established
the open systems interconnection (OSI). OSI provides a network design framework, enabling equipment from
different vendors to communicate. The OSI model is a design in which groups of protocols, or rules for
communicating, are arranged as layers. Each layer performs a specific data communications function. Each of
these steps, or OSI layers, builds on the one below it. Although each step must be performed in order, each
layer provides several options. The OSI model contains seven layers. The first three layers are physical,
data link, and network, all of which are concerned with data transmission and routing. The fourth layer,
transmission, provides an interface between the first three layers and last three layers. The last three
layers are session, presentation, and application. These layers focus on user applications.
OSI-RM Open System Interconnection Reference Model
OSI/NMF Open Systems Interconnection Network Management Forum
OSI/NMF OSI Network Management Forum
OSINET OSI Interoperability Testing Network
OSINET International association designed to promote OSI in vendor architectures.
OSITP Open Systems Interconnection Transaction Processing
OSLAN Open Systems Local Area Network
OSM Open Storage Manager
OSM Outright Sales Model
OSM Operations System Management
OSMC Open Systems Management Centre
OSMF Open Systems Management Framework
OSN operations systems network
OSNET Open Systems NETwork
OSNS OSI Subsystem Network Services
OSO Originating Screening Office
OSO Originating Serving Office
OSP Office Systems Projects
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSPF Open the Shortest Path First
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSPF Open Shortest Path First. Link-state, hierarchical IGP routing algorithm proposed as a successor to RIP
in the Internet community, a technique that permits routers to exchange network configuration data in
transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) networks. OSPF features include least-cost routing,
multipath routing, and load balancing. OSPF was derived from an early version of the IS-IS protocol. See
also IGP, IS-IS, and RIP.
OSPI Operating System Programming Interface
OSPM Operations Support and Integration Management
OSS Operational Support System/Service (f: SSE)
OSS Operational Support System (sometimes abbreviated OS)
OSS Operating Systems Structure
OSS Operating Systems Support
OSS Operational Support Systems
OSS OPERATIONS SUPPORT SYSTEM
OSS Operations Support System. Network management system supporting a specific management function, such as
alarm surveillance and provisioning, in a carrier network. Many OSSs are large centralized systems running
on mainframes or minicomputers. Common OSSs used within an RBOC include NMA, OPS/INE, and TIRKS.
OSSD Open Systems Software Division
OSSGR Operator Switching Systems Generic Requirements
OST Ontario Sales Tax (f: TVO)
OST Ontario Sales Tax - see PST
OST Ontario Sales Tax. See PST
OSTA Optical Storage Trade Association
OSTARS Overseas Settlement Tracking and Reconciliation System
OSTM Open Systems Transaction Management
OSTP Overall Shielded Twisted Pair
OSTRS Outright Sales Trouble Reporting System
OSTS OSI Subsystem Transport Services
OSV Open Systems Version
OSW Outside Service Wire
OTA Ontario Telephone Association
OTB Option To Buy
OTC Operating Telephone Company
OTC Overseas Toll Centre
OTC operating telephone company
OTC One Time Charge
OTC Order To Cash
OTDR Optical time domain reflectometry (f: OTDR)
OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
OTDR optical time domain reflectometry
OTF Open Token Foundation
OTG Outgoing Trunk Group (f: FSO)
OTIS On Line Telephone Interviewing System
OTIS On-line Telephone Interviewing System
OTK Oscar Tool Kit
OTM Optical Transmission Multiplexor
OTP One Time Programmable
OTP Operating Transit Process
OTPROM One-Time Programmable Read Only Memory
OTR Operational Test Release
OTR One Time Request
OTR Outside Technology Research
OTS Official Telecommunications Services (f: STI)
OTS Official Telephone Service
OTS Order Tracking System
OTSC Ontario Telephone Service Commission
OU Ordinateur universel (e: GPC)
OU Organizational Unit
OUI Organizational Unique Identifier. 3 octets assigned by the IEEE in a block of 48-bit LAN addresses.
OUP Oxford University Press
out going trunk A trunk that transmits only outgoing signals.
out-of-band signaling 1. Transmission using frequencies or channels outside the frequencies or channels
normally used for information transfer. Out-of-band signaling is often used for error reporting in
situations in which in-band signaling can be affected by whatever problems the network might be
experiencing. Contrast with in-band signaling. 2. The use of narrow band filters to place the voice signal
on a carrier channel below 3,400 Hz, reserving the 3,400 - 3,700 Hz band for supervisory signals.
Out-Of-Frame (OOF) A condition counter that increases by one with each change in the framing status of a
circuit or device. Maximum number of outstanding frames allowed in an SNA PU 2 server at any time.
outage Any disruption of service that lasts for more than one second. (A shorter disruption is called a
hit.)
outbound An originating call.
outclearing The sending of rated calls to local exchange carriers (LECs) for billing to the end user.
outframe See Out-Of-Frame
OUTS Outward Movement
outside plant Communications facilities other than those housed in a building.
outward restriction The case of denying telephone lines within the private branch exchange (PBX) access to
the exchange network without the assistance of the attendant.
OUTWATS Outward Area Telephone Service.
OUTWATS Outward Wide Area Telephone Service
OUTWATS OUTgoing WATS
OV Overflow
OV Office Vision
OV/2 OfficeVision/2
OVC Outgoing Virtual Circuit
overbuild The process of adding radio capacity to a telecommunications network.
overflow A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that allows calls to be automatically routed over a higher-
cost facility if the standard facility is being used to capacity. Provision is often made for restrictions
on this feature.
overhead All information that is transmitted in addition to user-transmitted data. Overhead includes
information that carries network status or operational instructions, network routing information, and
retransmissions of user-data messages that are received in error.
OVPM Order Viewing and Printing Module
OVS Overseas
OW Order Wire
OWA Outlook Web Access
OWL Object Windows Library
OWT Outwatts
P Pole
P Poll bit
P Pressure Plug
P&P Plug and Play
P&SR Planning and Standards Research
P-ANI pseudo-Automatic Number Identification
P-PHONE Proprietary Business Set (NT)
P.A.C. Portable Add-In Computer
P/F Poll/Final Bit
P/F Poll/Final bit. Bit in bit-synchronous data link layer protocols that indicates the function of a frame.
If the frame is a command, a 1 in this bit indicates a poll. If the frame is a response, a 1 in this bit
indicates that the current frame is the last frame in the response.
P/U PICKED UP
P001 Probability of 1/1000 call blocking
P2P Person To Person/2
P5300 Report P5300
PA Plant Administration
PA phase approvals
PA keys Program Attention keys
PA-RISC Precision Architecture RISC
PABX Private Automated Branch Exchange
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange. Telephone switch for use inside a corporation. PABX is the preferred
term in Europe, while PBX is used in the United States.
PAC Package Assembly Concept
PAC Personal Activity Center
PAC Postal Address Code
PACE Project Administrative Control Environment (f: SCAD)
PACE Project Administration and Control Environment
pacing See flow control.
packet Logical grouping of information that includes a header containing control information and (usually)
user data. Packets are most often used to refer to network layer units of data. The terms datagram, frame,
message, and segment are also used to describe logical information groupings at various layers of the OSI
reference model and in various technology circles. See also PDU.
Packet The common term for the standard unit of data sent across a network.
Packet Assembler/Disassembler See PAD.
packet buffer See buffer.
Packet Internet Gopher (PING) The simplest way to test or time the response of an Internet connection. A
PING sends a request to an Internet host and waits for a reply called (yep, you guessed it), a PONG. When
you PING an address, you get a response telling you the number of seconds it took to make the connection.
PING clients exist for a number of platforms, or you can use a UNIX or Windows 95 prompt to issue a PING
command directly.
packet internet groper 1. A program useful in testing and debugging local area network (LAN) or wide area
network (WAN) systems. It sends out an echo and expects a specified host to respond in a specified time
frame. 2. A transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) utility that sends packets of
information to a computer on a network. A PING can be used to determine whether a computer is connected to
the Internet.
packet switch WAN device that routes packets along the most efficient path and allows a communications
channel to be shared by multiple connections. Formerly called an IMP. See also IMP.
packet switch exchange See PSE.
packet switching Networking method in which nodes share bandwidth with each other by sending packets. Compare
with circuit switching and message switching. See also PSN.
packet switching module Provides interface between a PBX and an interface packet-switching module; data
terminals are provided with speed, codes, and protocols to process data calls to packet-switching networks.
packet-switched data network See PSN.
packet-switched network See PSN.
packet-switching node See packet switch.
PacketLevel Protocol See PLP.
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler. Device used to connect simple devices (like character-mode terminals) that
do not support the full functionality of a particular protocol to a network. PADs buffer data and assemble
and disassemble packets sent to such end devices.
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
PAD Packet Assembly(er)/Disassembly(ed)
PAD Panacom Automation Division
PAD Procurement Approval Document
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
PAD Packet assembler/disassembler (f: ADP)
PAD Pre Authorized Debit
PAD Packet Assembly/Disassembly
PAD packet assembler/disassembler
PAD-PC Preauthorized Debit-Preauthorized Credit
PADI Protected mode Autodesk Display Interface
PADS Pre-Authorized Debit System
PAF PAIRS Assignment Feed
PageLim Generates EAS info for the customers listed in a phone book
paging by zone The use of a telephone access code to page specific groups of telephones or speakers.
PAIRS Plant Assignment and Inventory Record System (f: PAIRE)
PAIRS Plant Assignment Inventory & Records System
PAIRS PLANT ASSIGNMENT INVENTORY AND RECORDS SYSTEM
PAIRS-SODB Plant Assignment Inventory Record System-Service Order Data Base
PAIRS/PAIRE Cable/Pair Assignments
PAIRSIA Pairs Information Access
PAIRSIA DB2 IA version of PAIRS
PAK Product Authorization Keys
PAL Paradox Application Language
PAL Phase Alteration by Line
PAL Programmable Array Logic
PAL Platforms & Architecture Lab
PALC Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal
Palo Alto Research Center See PARC.
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation. Modulation scheme where the modulating wave is caused to modulate the
amplitude of a pulse stream. Compare with AM and FM. See also modulation.
PAM Project Accountability Manager
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAM Pospac Alarms Manager (f: GAP)
PAMS Plant Administration and Maintenance System
PAMS Plant Administration and Maintenance System (replaced by TRACS)
PAN PBX Announcement
PANS Peculiar and Novel Services
PAP Plant Administrative Practices (f: PAR)
PAP Portable Assistance Position
PAP Password Authentication Protocol. Authentication protocol that allows PPP peers to authenticate one
another. The remote router attempting to connect to the local router is required to send an authentication
request. Unlike CHAP, PAP passes the password and host name or username in the clear (unencrypted). PAP does
not itself prevent unauthorized access, but merely identifies the remote end. The router or access server
then determines if that user is allowed access. PAP is supported only on PPP lines. Compare with CHAP.
PAP See Password Authentication Protocol.
PAPMS Production Application Performance Management System
PAPP Paid absence prior to pension (f: APPR)
PAQS Provisioning and quotation system (f: PAQS)
PAQS Provi. Autom. Quot. & Spec System
PAQS PROVISIONING AND QUOTATION SYSTEM
PAQS-100 Provisioning and Quotation System - 100 (DMS-100)
PAQSFPQ Provi. Autom. Quot. & Spec System
PAR Pre Authorization Routine
PAR Price-Adjusted Rate
PAR Program Address Register
parallel channel Channel that uses bus and tag cables as a transmission medium. Compare with ESCON channel. See
also bus and tag channel.
parallel transmission Method of data transmission in which the bits of a data character are transmitted
simultaneously over a number of channels. Compare with serial transmission.
parallelism Indicates that multiple paths exist between two points in a network. These paths might be of
equal or unequal cost. Parallelism is often a network design goal: if one path fails, there is redundancy in
the network to ensure that an alternate path to the same point exists.
PARC Palo Alto Research Center. Research and development center operated by XEROX. A number of widely-used
technologies were originally conceived at PARC, including the first personal computers and LANs.
PARC Palo Alto Research Center
PARC Prospective Annualized Revenue/Cost (f: RCAP)
PARC Palo Alto Research Center
PARC prospective annualized revenue/cost
PARC Universal Protocol See PUP.
parent peer group In ATM, a peer group that acts as a "parent" to a subordinate peer group. Organizing peer
groups hierarchically reduces the exchange of PTSPs. See also child peer group, peer group, and PTSP.
parity check Process for checking the integrity of a character. A parity check involves appending a bit
that makes the total number of binary 1 digits in a character or word (excluding the parity bit) either odd
(for odd parity) or even (for even parity).
park A feature that enables calls to be transferred to a busy extension; the call can be connected to the
extension when it is free.
PARL Practice Administration and Responsibility Lists
PARM calling exec for xcom data download for MERLIN
partial mesh Network in which devices are organized in a mesh topology, with some network nodes organized
in a full mesh, but with others that are only connected to one or two other nodes in the network. A partial
mesh does not provide the level of redundancy of a full mesh topology, but is less expensive to implement.
Partial mesh topologies are generally used in the peripheral networks that connect to a fully meshed
backbone. See also full mesh and mesh.
PARTS Parts Assembly & Reuse ToolSet
PARTS Payroll & Record Tracking System
party A participant in a call.
party line A telephone line that is shared by multiple subscribers.
party line stations Two-party telephone service that is expanded to support multiparty service.
PAS Plug-in Administration System (f: SAS)
PAS Per Agent Service (f: GPP)
PAS Plug-In Assignment System
PAS Plug-in Administration System = SATUE in QR (replaced by PIR)
PAS Prov'g/Inventory of Access PI's
PAS PLUG-IN ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
PAS/ACCESS Plug-in Admin. System
PASF PROFS Applications Support Feature
PASR Problem Analysis and Status Report
PASS Pairs Administrative Support System
PASS IPAIRS System - SODB (french acronym is CABLE)
PASS Private Automatic Switching System
Password Authentication Protocol See PAP.
Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) One of the many authentication methods that can be used when connecting
to an ISP. PAP allows you to login automatically, without having to use a terminal window to type in your
username and password. One warning about PAP: passwords are sent over the connection in text format, which
means there is no protection if someone is "listening-in" on your connection.
PAT Page Allocation Table
patch A temporary jack-and-cable connection.
path control layer Layer 3 in the SNA architectural model. This layer performs sequencing services related
to proper data reassembly. The path control layer is also responsible for routing. Corresponds roughly with
the network layer of the OSI model. See also data flow control layer, data-link control layer, physical
control layer, presentation services layer, transaction services layer, and transmission control layer.
path control network SNA concept that consists of lower-level components that control the routing and data
flow through an SNA network and handle physical data transmission between SNA nodes. Compare with NAU.
path cost See cost.
path name Full name of a DOS, Mac OS, or UNIX file or directory, including all directory and subdirectory
names. Consecutive names in a path name are typically separated by a backslash (\) for DOS, a colon (:) for
Mac OS, and a forward slash (/) for UNIX.
Pathloss Mechanized Radio Profile tool
payload Portion of a cell, frame, or packet that contains upper-layer information (data).
payload type identifier See PTI.
PB Push Brace
PBAP Post Billing Application Platform
PBC Port Bypass Circuit
PBC Place Bell Canada (160 Elgin Street in Ottawa)
PBD Palindrome Backup Director
PBE Peripheral Bus Extender
PBE Preliminary Business Evaluation (f: ECP)
PBE Preliminary Business Evaluation
PBF Primitive Business Function
PBL Private Business Line
PBM Portable Bit Map
PBR Pen Bar Code Recognition
PBS process the billing from suppliers
PBS traitement de factures de fournisseurs
PBS Guide item in ISS
PBT Piggy Back Twister
PBU Peripheral Bus Unit
PBX Private Branch eXchange
PBX Private Branch Exchange (f: PBX)
PBX PuBlic eXchange
PBX private branch exchange (small switch located on customer premises)
PBX PrivateBranchExchange. Used by medium and large companies, a private digital or analog telephone system
switchboard located on the subscriber premises and used to connect private and public telephone networks.
The switch is connected to the local public telephone network and performs in-house routing and switching.
Users usually dial 9 to get outside the system to the local lines. Modern PBXs offer numerous software-
controlled features such as call forwarding and call pickup. A PBX uses technology similar to that used by a
central office switch, but on a smaller scale. The acronym PBX originally stood for "plug board exchange."
PBX attendant position The equipment used by the PBX operator for manually controlling calls and connecting
functions.
PBX extension A telephone station connected to and/or served by a private branch exchange (PBX).
PBX main station The designated primary telephone instrument associated with a PBX.
PBX station line The permanent electrical circuit and any incidental components between the appearance of
the PBX station line circuit and point of connection with the station equipment.
PBX station line circuit A network of circuit elements used to connect a PBX to one of its associated lines.
PBX trunk The transmission path between a PBX and a commercial central office.
PBXSU Private Branch Exchange Switch Unit
PC Path Control layer
PC Peg Count
PC Personal Computer
PC Preferred Count
PC Primary Cache
PC Primary Counter
PC Program Counter
PC personal computer
PC Phonecentre
PC See Personal Computer.
PC 879 Filters transmitted 879's - by action code
PC CAS PC Based Centralized Access System
PC-ANI Processor Controlled - Automatic Number Identification
PC-ANI Processor Controller - Automatic Number Identification
PC-CAS Personal Computer - Centralized Access Systems
PC-CAS Personal Computer
PC-DOS Personal Computer - Disk Operating System
PCA Program Calibration Area
PCAB Punch Card Account Billing
PCAD Package CAD
PCAIS Plant Computer Assisted Instruction System
PCB PolyChlorinated Biphenyl (BPC)
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCB Program Communication Block
PCB printed circuit board
PCC IBM PC Company
PCC IBM PC Convertible computer
PCC Page Counter Control
PCC PCM Conference Circuit
PCCC Positive Completion Control Centre
PCCP Personal Computer Cooperative Processing
PCD Photo CD
PCD Protocol Conversion Devices
PCD Pulse Code Demodulator
PCD PC Dealer
PCDOS Personal Computer DOS
PCE Phase Change Erasable
PCE Position Controller Equipment
PCED Personal Computer Enhancement Division
PCED BC PCED Business Communication
PCF Print Charge File (from Sno Platform)
PCF Processable Charge File
PCI PC Interface
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect (Local Bus)
PCI Physical Channel Interface
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI Personal Computer Interface Card (Norstar)
PCI Protocol Control Information. Control information added to user data to comprise an OSI packet. The OSI
equivalent of the term header. See also header.
PCIB PCI Bridge
PCL Printer Control Language
PCL Product Computing Module Load
PCL Product Computing-module Load
PCL PRODUCT COMPUTING MODULE LOADS (FORMERLY BCS)
PCM Page Counter Modulus
PCM Physical Connection Management
PCM Plug Compatible Manufacturer
PCM Plug-Compatible Manufacturer
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCM Pulse Code Modulation. Transmission of analog information in digital form through sampling and encoding
the samples with a fixed number of bits.
PCMC Provincial Change Management Centre
PCMC Provincial Change Management
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCN Permanent Signal Coin
PCN Personal Communications Network
PCO Personal Calling Option
PCO Plant Control Office (f: CCR)
PCO Provincial Control Office
PCO Plant Control Office
PCO Project Coordination Office
PCP Pentachlorophénol (e: PCP)
PCP Pentachlorophenol (f: PCP)
PCP Post Call Processing (sl-1) (f: TAA)
PCP printed circuit pack
PCR Positive Completion Reporting (f: RCE)
PCR Preventive Cyclic Retransmission
PCR Project Change Request
PCR Positive Completion Reporting local PC system
PCR Peak Cell Rate
PCR Peak Cell Rate. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. In CBR transmissions, PCR
determines how often data samples are sent. In ABR transmissions, PCR determines the maximum value of the
ACR. See also ABR (available bit rate), ACOM, and CBR.
PCS 1. Personal Communications Service. Advanced network architecture that provides personal, terminal, and
service mobility. Individualized telecommunications services permitting users to communicate regardless of
location. The low power, wireless communications technology uses lightweight, inexpensive pocket telephones
and personal computers to transmit voice, fax, and data from anywhere. In the United States, PCS spectrum
has been allocated for broadband, narrowband, and unlicensed services. 2. Port Concentrator Switch.
PCS Pattern Code Security
PCS Personal Call Screening
PCS Personal Communications System/Service
PCS Personal Computer System
PCS Personal Conferencing Specification
PCS Plug-in Control System
PCS Public Communications Services
PCS Personal Communications Services (f: SCP)
PCS Services de communication personnelle (e: PCS)
PCS Project Control System
PCS Personal Communications Service
PCS PLUS Personal Communication Service (digital wireless phone service)
PCSA Personal Computer Systems Architecture (f: PCSA)
PCST PC SUPPORT TEAM (formerly Microcentre CRB, pc billing systems))
PCT Personal Cordless Telephone
PCTS Public Cordless Telephone System/Service
PCUG PC User Group
PCVST Partner Company VNET Support Team
PCW Project Control Worksheet
PD Partial Dial
PD Partial Digits
PD Phase Dual
PD Power Distribution
PD/PSI Problem Determination/Problem Source Identification
PDA Parallel Disk Array
PDA Personal Disk Array
PDA See Personal Digital Assistant.
PDAS Product Development Administration System
PDC Personal Digital Communication
PDC Power Distribution Centre
PDC Process Digital Controller
PDC point de contact désigné (e: DPOC; SPOC)
PDCC Provincial Data Control Centre
PDEF Program DEFinition
PDES Product Data Exchange Standard
PDF Portable Document Format
PDF Power Distribution Frame
PDF Program Development Facility
PDI Padded Data Indicator
PDI Picture Description Instruction (f: IDI)
PDIL Partial Dial
PDIREQ PDI Request
PDK Programmers Development Kit
PDL Page Description Language
PDL Polynomial Distributed Lags (f: RDP)
PDL Procedure Definition Language
PDLC Polimer Dispersed Liquid Crystal
PDM Physical Data Model (produced using LDM)
PDM Product-Data Management
PDM Project Data Management
PDM Printer Driver Machine
PDM Physical Data Model
PDMS Plant Design and Management System
PDN Packet Directory Number
PDN Prime Directory Number
PDN Public Data Network
PDN packet data network
PDN 1. Public Data Network. Network operated either by a government (as in Europe) or by a private concern to
provide computer communications to the public, usually for a fee. PDNs enable small organizations to create
a WAN without all the equipment costs of long-distance circuits. 2. Primary Directory Number.
PDP Personal Development Program (f: PPP)
PDP Plasma Display Panel
PDP Power Distribution Panel
PDP Program Data Processor
PDQ Parallel Data Query
PDQ Position Description Questionnaire
PDR Precedence Deflection to a Route
PDR Price-Deflated Revenue
PDR Post Deployment Review
PDS Partitioned DataSet
PDS Processor Direct Slot
PDS Professional Development System
PDS Premises Distribution System
PDS Personal Decision Series
PDS process design specification
PDU Packet Data Unit
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PDU Protocol Data Unit. Information delivered as a unit between peer entities that may contain control
information, address information, data from a service data unit (SDU) at a higher layer, or any combination
of those three data types. For example, the fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) media access control
(MAC) PDUs are tokens and frames. OSI term for packet. See also BPDU and packet.
PE Provider Edge
PE Parallel Edition
PE Processor Element
PEA Processor Element Array
PEAK Practical Risk Taking- Excel.- Action Oriented- Knowledg. St
peak cell rate See PCR.
peak rate Maximum rate, in kilobits per second, at which a virtual circuit can transmit.
PEARL Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language
PEAT PLANT EVALUATION AND TESTING
PEATS Project Evaluation And Tracking System
PEATS Project Evaluation, Approval and Tracking System
PEC Product Engineering Code
PED Pedestal
peer communications A form of communications in which two parties contact each other as equals rather than in
a master/slave relationship. A program and a terminal form a master/slave combination, but two programs form
peer communications. Peer communications protocols usually provide more powerful interaction facilities.
peer group Collection of ATM nodes that share identical topological databases and exchange full link state
information with each other. Peer groups are arranged hierarchically to prevent excessive PTSP traffic. See
also parent peer group and PTSP.
peer group leader See PGL.
peer-to-peer A network model with no centralized servers. Network users can independently initiate
communications sessions at their discretion in order to share resources with others on the network.
Communications tasks are assigned so that data transmission between logical groups or layers in a network
architecture is accomplished between entities in the same layer of the open system interconnection (OSI)
model.
peer-to-peer computing Calls for each network device to run both client and server portions of an
application. Also describes communication between implementations of the same OSI reference model layer in
two different network devices. Compare with client/server computing.
peg count A rough count of some event, usually the number of calls made or received in a given time period.
PEGS Project Engineering and Graphics System
PEIN Personal Employee Identification Number (f: NIPE)
Pel Picture element
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail. Internet e-mail that provides confidentiality, authentication, and message
integrity using various encryption methods. Not widely deployed in the Internet.
PEN Public Electronic Network
PEP Packet Exchange Protocol
PEP Peek Envelope Power
PEP Pensionable earnings period (f: PGA)
PEP Power Equipment Provisioning
performance management One of five categories of network management defined by ISO for management of OSI
networks. Performance management subsystems are responsible for analyzing and controlling network
performance including network throughput and error rates. See also accounting management, configuration
management, fault management, and security management.
performance monitoring The collection of data, on either a part-time or full-time basis, so that the
overall efficiency of a circuit may be determined.
peripheral node In SNA, a node that uses local addresses and is therefore not affected by changes to network
addresses. Peripheral nodes require boundary function assistance from an adjacent subarea node.
PERM Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic
permanent virtual circuit See PVC.
permanent virtual connection See PVC.
permanent virtual path See PVP.
Permis PERMIS et baux de droits de passage
permit processing See traffic policing.
PERMITS Project Estimates and Resources Mgmt and Info Tracking Syste
PERMITS Access Network Order Tracking
PERMITS PRO TRACKING SYSTEM
PERP Pre Estimate Review Procedure
PERS Public Emergency Reporting System/Service
PERS Public Emergency Reporting Service
person-to-person call 1. A type of long distance call. Charging begins only when the person calling begins
speaking to the person to whom they have specified they wish to speak. 2. The rate charged when a caller
wishes to speak to a specific person, department, room, or extension.
personal communications network A type of wireless telephone system that communicates through low-power
antennas and uses light, inexpensive hand-held handsets.
Personal Communications Service See PCS.
Personal Computer Any computing system for use primarily by one person. Synonym: desktop computer (PC)
Personal Digital Assistant An electronics device that acts as a personal carry-along database, calculator,
alarm clock, and personal communicator. It looks like a palmtop computer, and communications are transmitted
through telephone lines or wireless. (PDA)
Personal identification number (PIN) A four-digit code at the end of a calling card number.
Personalized response system (PRS) A computer assistance system which permits operators to pre-record their
greeting to customers and other frequently used messages, thereby relieving stress on their voices and
increasing operator productivity.
PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique
PES Parity Error Seconds
PES Primary Exchange Service
PESEL Powszechny Elektroniczny System Ewidencji LudnoÃci
PET Protected Entrance Terminal (f: BEP)
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PEX Program Execution Segment
PF Plant Facility
PF Power Feature
PF09 Corporate IIS Client Development Centre
PFA Predictive Failure Analysis
PFAR Planned Fill At Relief
PFD Phase and Frequency Detector
PFK Program Function Keys
PFN Private Financial Network
PFS Personnal Filing System
PFS Physical File System
PFT Power Failure Transfer
PFTP Project Flow Technical Products
PGA Pin Grid Array
PGA Professional Graphics Adapter
PGID Process Group IDentification
PGL Planning Guideline
PGL Printronix Graphics Language
PGL Peer Group Leader. In ATM, a node in a peer group that performs the functions of the LGN. Peer group
leaders exchange PTSPs with peer nodes in the parent peer group to inform those nodes of the peer group's
attributes and reachability and to propagate information about the parent group and the parent group's
parents to the nodes in the peer group. See also peer group and PTSP.
PGP Pretty Good Privacy. Public-key encryption application that allows secure file and message exchanges.
There is some controversy over the development and use of this application, in part due to U.S. national
security concerns.
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PGR Pair Gain Remote
PGR Protocol de Gestion Réseau (see NMP)
PGS Packet Gain System
PGS Pair gain system (f: SGP)
PGT Pair Gain Termination
PH Packet Handler
PH Primary High Usage
PH packet handler
phantom circuit A circuit configured so that two pairs of wires can provide three speech paths.
PHARE Polish-Hungarian Assistance for Reconstruction of Economy
phase Location of a position on an alternating wave form.
phase shift Situation in which the relative position in time between the clock and data signals of a
transmission becomes unsynchronized. In systems using long cables at higher transmission speeds, slight
variances in cable construction, temperature, and other factors can cause a phase shift, resulting in high
error rates.
PHI packet handler interface
PHIGS Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHIU Packet Handler Interface Unit
PHOENIX Now Virtual Transfer
PHP Personal Home Duties
PHRS Human resources reports
PHS Personal Hand Phone
PHS Personal Handiphone System (trackable phone)
PHY Physical
PHY 1. Physical Sublayer. One of two sublayers of the FDDI physical layer. See also PMD. 2. Physical layer.
In ATM, the physical layer provides for the transmission of cells over a physical medium that connects two
ATM devices. The PHY is comprised of two sublayers: PMD and TC. See also PMD and TC.
physical address See MAC address.
physical change The modification of an existing circuit, dedicated access channel or port, at the request of
the customer.
physical connection The full-duplex layer association between adjacent physical layer protocols (PHYs) in a
fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) ring, that is, a pair of physical links.
Physical Connection Management (PCM) In a fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI), that portion of CMT that
manages the physical connection between adjacent physical layer protocols (PHYs). This includes the
signaling of connection type, link confidence testing, and the enforcement of connection rules.
physical control layer Layer 1 in the SNA architectural model. This layer is responsible for the physical
specifications for the physical links between end systems. Corresponds to the physical layer of the OSI
model. See also data flow control layer, data-link control layer, path control layer, presentation services
layer, transaction services layer, and transmission control layer.
physical layer Layer 1 of the OSI reference model. The physical layer defines the electrical, mechanical,
procedural, and functional specifications for activating, maintaining, and deactivating the physical link
between end systems. Corresponds with the physical control layer in the SNA model. See also application
layer, data-link layer, network layer, PQ, session layer, and transport layer.
physical layer Layer 1 of the open system interconnection (OSI) model; it defines and handles the
electrical/optical and physical media connections.
physical layer convergence procedure See PLCP.
physical layer interface module See PLIM.
Physical Layer Protocol A portion of the fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) standard that defines
symbols, line states, clocking requirements, and the encoding of data for transmission. (PHY)
physical link The simplest path, by way of physical medium dependent (PMD) and attached mediums, from the
transmit function of one physical layer protocol (PHY) entity to the receive function on an adjacent
physical layer protocol (PHY) concentrators, repeaters, or station entity in a ring.
physical media See media.
physical medium See media.
physical medium dependent See PMD.
physical port Each input/output card supports a number of physical communications ports. The ports can be
configured for different types of frame relay interfaces and direct trunks
physical sublayer See PHY.
physical topology The actual arrangement of cables and hardware that make up a network; For example, bus,
ring, or star.
physical unit See PU.
Physical Unit 2 See PU 2.
Physical Unit 2.1 See PU 2.1.
Physics Network See PHYSNET.
PHYSNET Physics Network. Group of many DECnet-based physics research networks, including HEPnet. See also
HEPnet.
PI Privacy Indicator
PI Project Initiative
PI Peripheral Interface
PI Plug-in
PI Plug-In (refers to deferrable and non-deferrable NE plugs)
PI/LC PLUG-IN/LINE CARD
PIAC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (f: CDIP)
PIAC (staff QR - Skills identification and improvment process (SKILLS BO)
PIAM Plug In Asset Management
PIC 1. Primary Interex Carrier. The long distance company to which traffic from a given location is
automatically routed when dialing 1+ in equal access areas. The PIC is identified by a code number which is
assigned by the local telephone company to the telephone numbers of all the subscribers to that carrier to
ensure the calls are routed over the correct network. 2. A computer that enables carriers to offer enhanced
services by: Acting on the format, content, code, protocol or similar aspects of transmitted information.
Providing additional or restructured information. Involving subscriber interaction with stored data, such as
translating 800 numbers to a plain old telephone service (POTS) number or a trunk group. SCPs connect to
signaling points, which connect to switches.
PIC Personal Intelligent Communicator
PIC Polyethylene Insulated Conductors
PIC Preferred Inter-exchange Carrier (Signature)
PIC Primary InterLATA Carrier code
PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller
PIC Property Item Code (f: CO)
PIC Protector Interface Circuit
PIC Primary Interexchange Carrier (f: FDSI)
PIC Primary Interexchange Carrier eg PIC Bell for Long Distance
PIC Primary Interexchange Carrier
PIC BELL Preferred Interchange Carrier - Bell feed
PIC CARE Preferred Interchange Carrier - CARE
PIC charges A local exchange carrier (LEC) charge for changing the PIC. Often paid by the new inter-
exchange carrier (IEC). If a LEC sends a PIC charge to a customer, the new IEC will typically credit the
customer's account.
PIC request A request record sent to a local exchange carrier (LEC) asking for an automatic number
identification (ANI) to be activated, deactivated or changed in some way.
PIC response A response record sent by a local exchange carrier (LEC), corresponding to a previous primary
exchange carrier (PIC) request, with a response code that indicates whether the request was performed. Some
LECs return non-standard PIC response codes.
PIC/CARE Primary Inter-Exchange Carrier - Care feed
PICN Processus d'identification des compétences nécessaires
Pico- (p) The prefix indicating one trillionth of a unit.
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
Picture element The smallest discrete part of a video image, the size of which is controlled by the analog-to-
digital conversion sampling process and subsequent other compression processes. The more picture elements
per line, the higher the resolution of the image. To convert the number of H pixels to a close approximation
of TV lines of resolution for the NTSC system, simply multiply the number of H pixels by 0.78. Furthermore,
each 80 TV lines of resolution (NTSC) requires 1 MHz of analog bandwidth for transmission.
PID Process and Instrumentation Diagrams
PID Process IDentification
PIF Program Information File
PIF Paid in full (f: PET)
piggybacking Process of carrying acknowledgments within a data packet to save network bandwidth.
PIII Priority III system
PILV Pay In Lieu Vacation
PIM Personal Information Manager
PIM Polish Institute of Management Ltd
PIM Protocol Independent Multicast. Multicast routing architecture that allows the addition of IP multicast
routing on existing IP networks. PIM is unicast routing protocol independent and can be operated in two
modes: dense and sparse. See also PIM dense mode and PIM sparse mode.
PIM dense mode One of the two PIM operational modes. PIM dense mode is data-driven and resembles typical
multicast routing protocols. Packets are forwarded on all outgoing interfaces until pruning and truncation
occurs. In dense mode, receivers are densely populated, and it is assumed that the downstream networks want
to receive and will probably use the datagrams that are forwarded to them. The cost of using dense mode is
its default flooding behavior. Sometimes called dense mode PIM or PIM DM. Contrast with PIM sparse mode. See
also PIM.
PIM DM See PIM dense mode.
PIM SM See PIM sparse mode.
PIM sparse mode One of the two PIM operational modes. PIM sparse mode tries to constrain data distribution so
that a minimal number of routers in the network receive it. Packets are sent only if they are explicitly
requested at the RP (rendezvous point). In sparse mode, receivers are widely distributed, and the assumption
is that downstream networks will not necessarily use the datagrams that are sent to them. The cost of using
sparse mode is its reliance on the periodic refreshing of explicit join messages and its need for RPs.
Sometimes called sparse mode PIM or PIM SM. Contrast with PIM dense mode. See also PIM and rendezvous point.
PIMS Project information management system
PIN Personal Identification Number
PIN Processor-Independent NetWare
PING See Packet Internet Groper. ICMP echo message and its reply. Often used in IP networks to test the
reachability of a network device.
PING Packet Internet Grouper
ping-ponging Phrase used to describe the actions of a packet in a two-node routing loop.
PINSS INSS provincial (e: PINSS)
PINSS Provincial Integrated Network Support System (f: PINSS)
PINX private integrated services network exchange. A PBX or key system which, in a BRI voice application, uses
QSIG signaling.
PIO Programmed Input/Output
PIP Plug-in Provisioning
PIR Perpetual Inventory Record (f: FIP)
PIR Plug-In Re-engineering
PIR Plug-In Required
PIR Program Initiation Report
PIR Plug-in Record
PIR Plug-In Re-Engineering
PIR PLUG-IN REENGINEERING
PIR/DCPR Interface PIR to DCPR
PIR01 Plug in Inventory
PIRE Perpetual Inventory Record Expansion
PIRR Perpetual Inventory Record Resystemization
PIRS Plug-in Repeater Study
PIS Plant in service (f: IES)
PIT Portable Integrated NetWare
PIT Process Improvement Team
PIT Public Internet Terminal
PIU Path Information Units
Pixel Picture element
PJL Programmable Junctor Loopback
PJS Preliminary Job Schedule
PJS Preliminary Job Specifications
PJS Project Job Sheet
PJS Proposed Job Sheet
PJSNEET Programme d'enlevement
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PKI Public Key Infrastructure.
PKP Public Key Partners
PKTSW Packet Switch
PL Place
PL Private Line
PL Presentation Layer (5th and last upper layer)
PL Presentation Layer (TMN term
PL Programming Language
PL/1 Programming Language/1
PL/I Programming Language / One
PL/M Programming Language for Microcomputers
PLA Programmable Logic Array
Plain Old Telephone Service See POTS.
PLAINTES Customer request mangement system
Plan de mesu Survey tool - employee satisfaction
PLANET Planning the Network
PLANET Plan A Network
PLAR Private Line Automatic Ring-down
PLAR Private Line, Automatic Ringdown. Leased voice circuit that connects two single endpoints together. When
either telephone handset is taken off-hook, the remote telephone automatically rings.
PLAS Primary Local Access Supplier
PLAT plant layout access terminals
PLB Performance Loop Back
PLB Picture Level Benchmark
PLB Per Line Block
PLC Product Life Cycle (f: CVP)
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Procedure. Specification that maps ATM cells into physical media, such as T3
or E3, and defines certain management information.
PLD Private Line Data
PLD Programmable Logic Device
PLD Two party line device (f: DLP)
PLDI Private Line Data Interchange
PLEARN PoLish EARN
plesiochronous transmission Term describing digital signals that are sourced from different clocks of comparable
accuracy and stability. Compare with asynchronous transmission, isochronous transmission, and synchronous
transmission.
PLI Programming Language Interface
PLIM Physical Layer Interface Module. Interface that allows the AIP (ATM Interface Processor) to a variety of
physical layers, including TAXI and SONET multimode fiber-optic cable, SDH/SONET single-mode fiber cable,
and E3 coaxial cable.
PLL Phase Lock Loop
PLL Phase Locked-Loop
PLLC Permanent Logical Link Connections
PLLC Private Logical Link Connection
PLMEC2 Budget Management
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PLNG Planning
PLO Permanent Lock Out
PLODETTE PoLand ODETTE
PLOUG Polish Oracle User Group
PLP Packet Level Procedures
PLP Plug-up
PLP 1. Packet Level Protocol. Network layer protocol in the X.25 protocol stack. Sometimes called X.25 Level
3 and X.25 Protocol. See also X.25. 2. Plug Up
PLR Private Line Relay
PLR Plant Location Records (f: DER)
PLS Physical Link Signalling
PLS Protel Listing System
PLSP PNNI link state packets.
PLT Plant
PLT PLace name Table
PLU Primary Logical Unit. The LU that is initiating a session with another LU. See also LU.
PM Performance Monitoring
PM Peripheral Module
PM Presentation Manager
PM abbreviation for DS1-PM
PM peripheral module
PM project manager or product manager
PM SAP Plant Maintenance Package
PM/X Presentation Manager/X
PMA Physical Medium Attachment
PMA Program Memory Area
PMAP PortMAPper
PMC Peripheral Maintenance Centre
PMC Project Management Committee
PMCM Power Multi-Chip Module
PMCS Project Management Control System
PMD Physical Media Dependent
PMD Physical Medium Dependent. A portion of the fiber-distributed data interface (FDDI) standard that defines
the medium and protocols to transfer symbols between physical layer protocols (PHYs). Sublayer that
interfaces directly with the physical medium and performs the most basic bit transmission functions of the
network. See also PHY.
PMF Présent mode de fonctionnement (e: PMO)
PMF Project Management Framework
PMF/VM Print Management Facility / Virtual Machine
PMG Password Management Guideline
PMG Portfolio Management Group
PMI Parallel Maintenance Interface
PMI Project Management Investigation
PMI Project Management Institute holds exams to certify PMP's See IIS doc't 96250PRO
PMIS Purchasing Management Information System (f: SIGA)
PMLCD Passive Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
PMNI PROJECT MANAGER NETWORK INSTALLATION
PMO Present Method of Operation (f: PMF)
PMO Bell Program Management Office
PMO Present Mode of Operations
PMO program (project) mgmt office
PMO Program Management Office
PMO Project Management Office
PMO PRESENT MODE OF OPERATION
PMP Project Management Plan
PMP Project Management Professionals certified via PMI
PMP Project Management Plan
PMPI Port Management Process Improvement
PMPO Peak Music Power Output
PMR Preventative Maintenance Routines
PMR Problem Management Record
PMR Project Management Report
PMRDS Private Mobile Radio Dispatch System
PMS Pactel Meridian Services
PMS Preferred Master Slave
PMS Project Management System (f: SGP)
PMS performance monitoring system
PMS pre-menstrual syndrome
PMSS Professional and Management Support System
PMSS Programming Machine Standard Solutions
PMT Physical Movement and Tracking (f: MCS)
PMT Product Model Test (environment within NetPro)
PMT Process Management Team
PMT Product Model Test Environment within NetPro
PMU Plant Maintenance Unit
PMU Cable repair mesurement plan
PMW Project Manager Workbench
PMW Product Manager's Workbench
PN Physical Number
PN Practice Notice
PNAPP Power Network And Project Planning
PNC Permanent Signal Non Coin
PNCC Provincial Network Commissioning Centre (was BFCO)
PND Private Network Dimensioner (f: CRP)
PND private network dimensioner
PNDS Private Network Design Systems
PNH Program for Number of Trunks in Hierarchical Network
PNID Private Network Inward Dial
PNM Power Network Manager
PNM Plant Ntwk Monitoring. Monitors power loads in C.Os
PNMS Peregrine Network Management Services
PNNI 1. Private Network-Network Interface. ATM Forum specification for distributing topology information
between switches and clusters of switches that is used to compute paths through the network. The
specification is based on well-known link-state routing techniques and includes a mechanism for automatic
configuration in networks in which the address structure reflects the topology. 2. Private Network Node
Interface. ATM Forum specification for signaling to establish point-to-point and point-to-multipoint
connections across an ATM network. The protocol is based on the ATM Forum UNI specification with additional
mechanisms for source routing, crankback, and alternate routing of call setup requests.
PNNI Link State Packets See PLSP.
PNNI topology state element See PTSE.
PNO Public Network Operator. See also PTT.
PNOC Provincial Network Operations Center (f: CERP)
PNOC Provincial Network Operations Centre (see PSCC)
PNP Plug 'n Play
PnP Plug and Play
PNS Personal Number Service
PO Port
PO Port on the ISDN Access Module
PO purchase order
POA Preliminary Opportunity Assessment
POB Program Order Buffer
POC Point of Connection
POC Program Operations Centre
POD Plant Operation Date
POD Promise of Delivery
PODA Piloting of ODA
POE Parallel Operating Environment
POE preferred operating environment
POET Packet Over E3/T3.
POH Path Overhead
POHM Page-Oriented Holographic Memory
POI Personal Office Internetworking
POI Point of Interconnect
point of presence See POP.
Point Of Presence An installation of telecommunications equipment, usually digital leased lines and multi-
protocol routers. (POP)
point-to-multipoint circuit A circuit that connects a single node to a switch.
point-to-multipoint connection One of two fundamental connection types. In ATM, a point-to-multipoint
connection is a unidirectional connection in which a single source end-system (known as a root node)
connects to multiple destination end-systems (known as leaves). Compare with point-to-point connection.
point-to-multipoint network A network configuration interconnecting a point to multiple sites.
point-to-point A private, direct connection established for data transmission between two stations.
point-to-point connection One of two fundamental connection types; an uninterrupted link between two pieces of
equipment. In ATM, a point-to-point connection can be a unidirectional or bidirectional connection between
two ATM end-systems. Compare with point-to-multipoint connection.
point-to-point network A network configuration that interconnects only two points. The connection can be
dedicated or switched.
Point-to-Point Protocol A protocol that provides a method for transmitting packets over serial point-to-
point links. PPP is one of the most popular methods for dialup connections to the Internet, since it allows
you to use other standard protocols (such as IPX, TCP/IP, and Netbeui) over a standard telephone connection,
but it can also be used for LAN connections. Successor to SLIP that provides router-to-router and host-to-
network connections over synchronous and asynchronous circuits. Whereas SLIP was designed to work with IP,
PPP was designed to work with several network layer protocols, such as IP, IPX, and ARA. PPP also has
builtin security mechanisms, such as CHAP and PAP. PPP relies on two protocols: LCP and NCP. See also CHAP,
LCP, NCP, PAP, and SLIP. (PPP)
poison reverse updates Routing updates that explicitly indicate that a network or subnet is unreachable,
rather than implying that a network is unreachable by not including it in updates. Poison reverse updates
are sent to defeat large routing loops.
POL Provisioning Object Library.
policy routing Routing scheme that forwards packets to specific interfaces based on user-configured policies.
Such policies might specify that traffic sent from a particular network should be forwarded out one
interface, while all other traffic should be forwarded out another interface.
policy-based routing See policy routing.
Poll/Final bit See P/F.
polling Access method in which a primary network device inquires, in an orderly fashion, whether secondaries
have data to transmit. The inquiry occurs in the form of a message to each secondary that gives the
secondary the right to transmit.
POM Provisioning Object Manager.
POM Peace Of Mind
PON Passive Optical Network
PON Purchase Order Number
PONY Small Access Module
POOL Print Outstanding Order Log
POP Point of Presence
POP Post Office Protocol
POP Point of Presence
POP Performance Oriented Practice
POP point of presence
POP 1. Point Of Presence. In OSS, a physical location where an interexchange carrier installed equipment to
interconnect with an LEC (local exchange carrier) - location at which the responsibility for managing inter-
LATA circuits changes from the local telephone company to the long-distance company. The IXC equivalent of a
local phone company's central office. The POP is a long distance carrier's office within a local community.
A POP is the place where the long distance carrier terminates long distance lines being connected to the
local phone companies lines. All long distance phone connections go through POP's. POPs are measured using
the following 3 categories: Full POPs: A full POPs is a platform allowing GT to provide voice and data
services (mostly all traditional GT POPs) Data POPs: A data POPs is a platform allowing GT to provide data
services only (mostly SFL and Videon POPs) Voice POPs: A voice POPs is a platform allowing GT to provide
voice services only. 2. Post Office Protocol. Protocol that client e-mail applications use to retrieve mail
from a mail server.
POPI Protection of Proprietary Information
POPP Program for Outside Plant Planning
port 1. Interface on an internetworking device (such as a router) 2. Connection between a computer and an
external device such as a printer port. 3. In IP terminology, an upper-layer process that receives
information from lower layers. Ports are numbered, and each numbered port is associated with a specific
process. For example, SMTP is associated with port 25. A port number is also called a well-known address. 4.
To rewrite software or microcode so that it will run on a different hardware platform or in a different
software environment than that for which it was originally designed. 5. A network entry or exit point. 6. A
measure of customer premises equipment (CPE) equipment capacity, generally based on the sum of the number of
station lines and trunks. A private branch exchange (PBX) with 100 station lines and 20 trunks would have
120 ports. 7. A connection point on a multiplexer. 8. The process of transporting something, such as an
application program, from one environment to another. 9. The entrance or access point to a computer,
multiplexer device or network where signals may be supplied, extracted or observed.
port concentrator switch See PCS.
port snooping See circuit steering.
portability The ability of a customer to take his telephone number from place to place and for toll
numbers, from one long distnce company to another.
POS Point of Sale
POS Packet over SONET
POS porcelain on steel
POSI Promotion of OSI
POSI Promoting Conference for OSI. Group of executives from the six major Japanese computer manufacturers and
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph that sets policies and commits resources to promote OSI.
Positive Intrinsic Negative A type of photo detector used to sense light-wave energy and convert it to
electrical signals. (PIN)
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environment
POSPAC Point of Sale Retail transaction terminal MicroLink system
POST Point-of-sales terminal (f: TPV)
POST Professional Office System Trial
POST 1. Power-On Self Test. Set of hardware diagnostics that runs on a hardware device when that device is
powered up. 2. To save a message that you have written on a BBS so that other people can see.
Post Office Protocol (POP) A protocol designed to allow single users to read mail from a server. There are
three versions: POP, POP2, and POP3. When email is sent to you, it is stored on the server until accessed by
you. Once you are authenticated, the POP is used to transmit the stored mail from the server to your local
mailbox on your client machine.
Post, Telephone, and Telegraph See PTT.
Post, Telephone, and Telegraph Authorities See PTT.
POSTE Special electric protection - customers list and information
Posting The sending of an article to a Usenet newsgroup or the placing of a message on a BBS.
POTEAUX TDL Pole Tracking
POTS Plain Old/Ordinary Telephone Service (f: STO)
POTS plain old/ordinary telephone system (same as PSTN)
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service/System The basic service provided by a public telephone network, without any
added facilities such as conditioning. See PSTN
POTS dial peer Dial peer connected via a traditional telephony network. POTS peers point to a particular
voice port on a voice network device.
POTS splitter A device (or one part of a larger device) that enables both an DSL data device (for example, a
Cisco 1400 series router) and a standard analog device (such as a telephone) to share the same ADSL line.
POWER Performance Optimization for Enhanced RISC
POWER Portable Workstation for Education in Europe
POWER Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC
power failure transfer A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that provides limited service to and from
the exchange network when the PBX is not receiving enough power.
power-on self test See POST.
power-on servicing Feature that allows faulty components to be diagnosed, removed, and replaced while the
rest of the device continues to operate normally. Sometimes abbreviated POS. Sometimes called hot swapping.
See also OIR.
POWR Predictive Optical Word Recognition
PP Peripheral Processor (f: PP)
PP Pressure Pipe
PP Physically Partitioned
PP Program Product
PP SAP Production Planning Package
PP Price Plan
PP&A Project Plan and Actuals (report)
PP&F Performance Planing and Feedback (f: PRS)
PPCC Page Printer Communications Component
PPD Power Product Description
PPD Power Product Division
PPD Prepaid (Cellular Service/Platform)
PPDN Public Packet Data Network
PPDS Personal Printer Data Stream
PPDS Pricing Plan Development System
PPE Program Product Evaluation
PPE-TV Pay Per Event TV
PPF Planned Percentage Fill
PPG Prévisions de la Planification Générale aka PPG
PPHONE Proprietary Phone (NT)
PPI Programmable Peripheral Interface
PPID Parent Process IDentification
PPIS Pas/Pass Interface System
PPM Pages Per Minute
PPM Parallel Port Multiplexor
PPM Parts Per Million
PPMP Preliminary Project Management Plan
PPN Private Packet Network
PPOL Price Plan On Line
PPP See Point-to-Point Protocol.
PPP Pay-Per-Play
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPPOE Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet
PPRD Preliminary Product Requirement Definition
PPS Packets Per Second
PPS Production Planning System
PPS Pulses Per Second
PPSN Public Packet Switched Network
PPSS Phone Power Support System
PPU Pay-Per-Use
PPU Pay Per Use
PPUMS Pay-per-use Messaging Service (=Star Messenger)
PPV Pay-Per-View
PPX Parallel Packet Express
PPXI Parallel Packet Express Interface
PQ Product Qualification
PQ Priority Queuing.
PQET Print Quality Enhancement Technology (Lexmark/IBM)
PQFP Plastic Quad Flat Package
PQM Pic Query Management / Manager
PQP Preliminary Quotation Process
PQP Product Qualification Plan
PQR Product Qualification Report
PR Page Reservation
PR Pair
PR Paired Tl Frame
PR Pole in Rear of
PR Product Requirement (f: EP)
PR Promote
PR Public Relations
PR Product Requirements
PR Province (f: PR)
PR Product Requirements
PR&A Project Request and Assessment
PR&E Purchases, Reclassification, and Error
PRA Planification du réseau et approvisionnement (e: NPP; NP&P)
PRA Primary Rate Access
PRA Primary Rate Access (ISDN)
PRADM Programmable Route Add/Drop Multiplexer
PRB Post-retirement benefits
PRB Produits recommandés Bell (remplace CEN) (e: BRP)
PRBA Portable Rechargeable Battery Association
PRBS See Pseudo-Random Binary Pulse Sequence.
PRC Primary Reference Clock
PRD Performance Requirement Document
PRD Plant Ready Date (f: DDR)
PRD Product Requirement Definition
PRD Plant Ready Date
PRD Performance Requirements Document
PRDF PRML + Digital Filter
PRE Protective Reservation Equipment
Préambule Public. Evénements du commutateur
predictive dialing Automated dialing feature in which the systems predicts from pre-set algorithms when an
agent/operator will become free and makes the call in advance.
preemption The interruption of a lower priority call or message to use the same circuit to transmit a higher
priority message.
prefix Any digit dialed before a telephone number; a prefix signals predetermined instructions to the
telephone system.
PReP PowerPC Reference Platform specification (IBM/Motorola)
presentation layer Layer 6 of the OSI reference model. This layer ensures that information sent by the
application layer of one system will be readable by the application layer of another. The presentation layer
is also concerned with the data structures used by programs and therefore negotiates data transfer syntax
for the application layer. Corresponds roughly with the presentation services layer of the SNA model. See
also application layer, data-link layer, network layer, physical layer, session layer, and transport layer.
presentation services layer Layer 6 of the SNA architectural model. This layer provides network resource
management, session presentation services, and some application management. Corresponds roughly with the PQ
of the OSI model. See also data flow control layer, data-link control layer, path control layer, physical
control layer, transaction services layer, and transmission control layer.
PRESET Preset Conference.
presubscription A Bell operating company (BOC)-tariffed service that permits each customer served from an
equal access switching system to route, without the use of access codes, the customer's interLATA traffic to
the one inter-exchange carrier (IC) the customer has chosen. The customer may use other IC networks by
dialing the appropriate carrier-access code, 10XXXX. Also called dialing parity.
Pretty Good Privacy See PGP.
preview dialing Automated dialing feature in which the system determines the next call to be made but allows
the agent/operator as a supervisor to check and activate the call.
PRF Print Ready File (from Sno Platform) Ab&r Job Va452
PRF Problem Reporting Facilities
PRF Print Ready File
PRI Primary
PRI Primary Rate Interface
PRI Primary-Rate ISDN
PRI ISDN Primary Rate Interface. PRI is 23B+1D channels
PRI Programmation de rémunération incitative
PRI Primary Rate Interface. An integrated services digital network (ISDN) circuit transmitting at T1, or DS-
1, speed providing the equivalent of 24 voice-grade channels. The "D" channel is used for signaling, leaving
23 "B" channels for data and voice communications. ISDN interface to primary rate access. Primary rate
access consists of a single 64-Kbps D channel plus 23 (T1) or 30 (E1) B channels for voice or data. Compare
with BRI. See also BISDN, ISDN, and N-ISDN.
PRI Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)
price caps A method of rate regulation in which a carrier may adjust prices within certain ranges. The ranges
may be adjusted periodically to account for changes in inflation, productivity, or other factors. The
carrier is allowed to retain some or all profits above the permitted rate of return in exchange for a limit
on the ability to obtain rate increases.
primary See primary station.
primary area A customer's local telephone calling area.
primary domain controller The server at which the master copy of a domain's user accounts database is
maintained. The primary domain controller also validates logon requests. A LAN Manager term.
Primary Inter-exchange Carrier (PIC) A subscriber's first choice provider of long-distance service. The inter-
exchange carrier (IC) designated by the subscriber provides interLATA service automatically when the
customer dials 1 + the 10-digit telephone number. In an equal access office, the subscriber can choose
another carrier by dialing a 950-xxxx or 10xxx number. Synonyms: primary interLATA carrier and presubscribed
inter-exchange carrier.
Primary LU See PLU.
Primary Rate Access An ISDN access method that uses maximum data rates of 2.048 Mbit/s in Europe, or 1.544
Mbit/s in the US and Japan. (PRA)
Primary Rate Interface See PRI.
primary ring One of the two rings that make up an FDDI or CDDI ring. The primary ring is the default path
for data transmissions. Compare with secondary ring.
primary routing point The switch designated as the control point for a long-haul telephone call.
primary station In bit-synchronous data link layer protocols such as HDLC and SDLC, a station that controls
the transmission activity of secondary stations and performs other management functions such as error
control through polling or other means. Primary stations send commands to secondary stations and receive
responses. Also called, simply, a primary. See also secondary station.
PRIME Performance Reporting Integrated Management Environment
primitive An element of the services provided by one entity to another.
print server Networked computer system that fields, manages, and executes (or sends for execution) print
requests from other network devices.
printer driver A program that controls printing and sets options such as print quality and paper size for a
particular printer. For example, in LAN Manager, each printer queue has a single printer driver associated
with it.
priority The ranking of precedence, importance or preference.
priority indicators A code in a message header that determines transmission priority: urgent, rush, routine,
or deferred.
priority queuing Routing feature in which frames in an interface output queue are prioritized based on various
characteristics such as packet size and interface type.
priority trunk queuing A private branch exchange (PBX) feature that places a caller with a high, self-
chosen trunk access level ahead of callers waiting for the same trunk group.
PRISM Pro-Active Integrated Server Management
privacy and privacy release A telephone system feature that prevents others from entering a conversation in
progress.
Privacy Enhanced Mail See PEM.
Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) A small, local telephone switch for a business in which users must
dial 9 to access a local line. Synonym: PBX
Private Automatic exchange Small local telephone switch that serves inside extensions only, with no ability to
connect calls to the public telephone system. Synonym: private exchange (PAX)
Private automatic telex A telephone switch used for a telex network exchange within an organization.
private branch exchange See PBX.
private carrier A carrier that is not a common carrier. Do not confuse private carrier with private line
carrier or recognized private operating agency.
Private Computerized Branch Exchange A private branch exchange that is computer controlled, allowing the
capabilities and designations of each circuit to be programmed and stored in memory. (PCBX)
Private Digital Exchange A local telephone switching service that uses digital technology. (PDX)
Private Line (PL) 1. A telephone system that uses dedicated circuits to connect a customer's equipment at
both ends of the line. A private line does not provide any switching capability unless it is supported by
customer premises equipment. It includes two local loops and an inter-exchange carrier (IEC) circuit. The
most common form of private line is a tie line connecting two pieces of a user's own telephone equipment.
Billing is at a flat rate rather than being usage sensitive. 2. A leased communications path, local or toll,
assigned for the private use of one customer and having no connection to the public telephone system.
private line service An outside exchange that operates independently of a private branch exchange (PBX).
Private Lines Part of KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Private Manual Branch eXchange (PMBX) A local telephone system with manual switching under the control of an
operator.
Private Mobile Radio A non-cellular based mobile radio system, standardized by ETSI ETS300.279. PMR is used
for private data and voice exchange. (PMR)
private network A communications network established and operated by a business or organization for its
exclusive use. Private networks are usually made up of private lines, with some private branch exchange
(PBX) switching.
Private Network Node Interface See PNNI.
Private Network-Network Interface See PNNI.
Private Transatlantic Telecommunications Cable Sys A transatlantic, fiber-optic submarine cable operated on
a private-carrier basis. PTAT-1 extends from New Jersey to the United Kingdom, with spurs to Bermuda and
Ireland. It is owned by Spring Cable and Wireless.
private use network Two or more private line channels contracted for by a customer and restricted for use by
that customer only.
privilege level For user-level security, one of three settings -user, admin or guest is assigned for each user
account. The privilege level defines interfaces was drawn up in 1980, known as Recommendation X.25. Hence
packet switched networks are often referred to as X.25. In some cases X.25 is being superseded by frame
relay and eventually by ATM.
PRK Call Park
PRL Privacy Release
PRM Performance Report Messages
PRMD Private Management Domain. X.400 Message Handling System private organization mail system (for example,
NASAmail).
PRML Partial Response, Maximal Likelihood
PRMS Problem Reporting Management System
PRMS Problem Reporting Management System (works with TCMS)
PRN PRiNter
PRO Payroll Record Online
PROCAT Product Catalogue (part of MCOBS)
process switching Operation that provides full route evaluation and per-packet load balancing across
parallel WAN links. Involves the transmission of entire frames to the router CPU, where they are repackaged
for delivery to or from a WAN interface, with the router making a route selection for each packet. Process
switching is the most resource-intensive switching operation that the CPU can perform. Contrast with fast
switching.
product An item of hardware of software provided to the customer
product definitions Click here
product group A number assigned to group automatic number identifications (ANIs) that have the same product
assigned to them.
products - Group Telecom's Click here
profile A set of parameters defining the way in which a device acts. In the LAN world, a profile is often
used by one or more workstations to determine the connection they will have with other devices. Profiles
work like batch files, executing a number of commands to save a user time and effort.
PROFS Professional Office System
program circuit A voice-frequency circuit which has been equalized to handle a wider range of frequencies than
what ordinary speech signals require.
Programmable Read-Only Memory See PROM.
progressive conference A feature allowing parties to be added and sometimes deleted from a conference call
in progress.
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory. Nonvolatile memory, permanently programmed by the equipment manufacturer
into a computer. PROM can be modified only with special equipment that erases the previous program. It is
unaffected by power loss. Compare with EPROM.
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory
PROMARC PROduct, MARket, Customer
PROMIS Process Management Information System
Promis Pro Promis Pro Data Warehouse
PROP Programmable Operator
propagation delay Time required for data to travel over a network, from its source to its ultimate
destination.
Property Imposed Fee A surcharge charged to the end user and given back to the premises, or agent, or split
between both. (PIF)
property number A billing system generated number for new accounts with embedded code to indicate the platform
used.
property surcharge A per-call or per-minute charge assessed on an operator-assisted call by the property
owner from which the call was placed. This charge is separate from the call type surcharge, and monies from
this charge are usually assigned to the property owner as part of the compensation package.
PROTEL Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language
PROTEL high level language of DMS-100
protocol Formal description of a set of rules and conventions that govern how devices on a network exchange
information. These rules or procedures govern format, timing, sequencing, and error control.
Protocol Simply, the "language" spoken between computers to help them exchange information. More technically,
it's a formal description of message formats and the rules that two computers must follow to exchange those
messages. Protocols can describe low-level details of machine-to-machine interfaces (like the order in which
bits and bytes are sent across a wire) or high-level exchanges between allocation programs (the way in which
two programs transfer a file across the Internet).
protocol address See network address.
protocol analyzer A device or software application, that allows a user to analyze the performance of
network data to ensure that the network is operating within the parameters of the network specifications.
protocol control information See PCI.
protocol converter Enables equipment with different data formats to communicate by translating the data
transmission code of one device to the data transmission code of another device. Contrast with bridge.
Protocol Data Unit See PDU.
protocol filtering A feature, in which some bridges can be programmed to always forward or always reject
transmissions that are originated under specific protocols.
Protocol Independent Multicast See PIM.
protocol stack Set of related communications protocols that operate together and, as a group, address
communication at some or all of the seven layers of the OSI reference model. Not every protocol stack covers
each layer of the model, and often a single protocol in the stack will address a number of layers at once.
TCP/IP is a typical protocol stack.
protocol translator Network device or software that converts one protocol into another similar protocol.
Protocol Vital Signs A systematic method of analysis and display of protocol operational parameter’s to aid in
determining the cause of performance degradation. (PVS)
protocol-independent router A routing device that provides the functionality of protocol-specific routers,
such as transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) or DECnet routers, but is independent of
protocols.
PROV Provisioning
provisioned service Part of KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
provisioning The process by which a requested service is designed, implemented and tracked, providing the
sub-component parts.
PROVNET Provincial Government Network
proxy 1. Entity that, in the interest of efficiency, essentially stands in for another entity. 2. Special
gateways that relay one H.323 session to another.
proxy Address Resolution Protocol See proxy ARP.
proxy agent A network management agent that sits in front of a device attached to a network that needs to
be managed, but has no intrinsic network management capabilities. The proxy agent provides network
management "by proxy" for that device.
proxy ARP proxy Address Resolution Protocol. Variation of the ARP protocol in which an intermediate device
(for example, a router) sends an ARP response on behalf of an end node to the requesting host. Proxy ARP can
lessen bandwidth use on slow-speed WAN links. See also ARP.
proxy explorer Technique that minimizes exploding explorer packet traffic propagating through an SRB network
by creating an explorer packet reply cache, the entries of which are reused when subsequent explorer packets
need to find the same host.
proxy polling Technique that alleviates the load across an SDLC network by allowing routers to act as
proxies for primary and secondary nodes, thus keeping polling traffic off of the shared links. Proxy polling
has been replaced by SDLC Transport. See SDLC Transport.
PRPI Primary Rate Peripheral Interface
PRPS Public Radio Paging System
PRR Plant Responsible for Release (BCA)
PRR Prior Route Relay
PRS Pension Record System
PRS Personal Response System
PRS Primary Reference Source
PRS Project Reporting System (f: RGT)
PRS Problem Reporting System
PRS Problem Resolution Services
PRTCALC Realtime capacity calculation
PRTCRT Datab Inputs for charge calculations
PRTNM Pre-Translator Name.
PRU Paper Reduction Utility
PS Permanent Seizure
PS Permanent Signal
PS Personal System
PS PostScript
PS Power Supply
PS Presentation Services
PS Private Service
PS Program Store
PS SAP Project System Package
PS Professional Services
PS/1 Personal System/1
PS/2 Personal System/2
PS104 PS104 DS3 Protection Switch
PS2 Personal System/2
PSA Personal Sound Architecture
PSA Printronix System Architecture
PSA Product Safety Alert
PSA Protocol Standard Access
PSA Product Specification Agreement (f: ACCP)
PSA Program Specification Agreement as defined by IPMP
PSA Product Specification Agreement
PSAF/VM Print Services Access Facility / Virtual Machine
PSAOL Print Sub-Advised Order Log
PSAP Presentation Service Access Point
PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
PSAP Public Service Answering Point (could be Primary or Secondary)
PSB Program Specification Block
PSC Personal SuperComputer
PSC Prime(ary) Service Centre
PSC Progress Software Corp
PSC Project Support Centre
PSC-NCMS Personal Communication Service - Monitoring and Control Mgmt
PSCC Provincial Service Coordination Centre (f: CPSC)
PSCC Provincial System Control Computer
PSCC Provincial Service Co-ordination Centre (see PNOC)
PSCC Provincial Service Control Centre
PSCS Production Scheduling Control System
PSCT Product Service Cost Tracking
PSD Packet Switching Device
PSDI Product/Service Development & Introduction Process (f: DIPS)
PSDI Product/Services Development and Introduction Process (1996)
PSDI PRODUCT/SERVICE DEVELOPMENT & INTRODUCTION PROCESS
PSDN Packed Switched Data Network
PSDN Packet-Switched Data Network
PSDN Public Switched Data Network
PSDN Packet-Switched Data Network. See PSN.
PSDS Public Switched Digital Service
PSE Program for Switch Evolution
PSE Packet Switch Exchange. Essentially, a switch. The term PSE is generally used in reference to a switch in
an X.25 packet-switch. See also switch.
Pseudo-Random Binary Pulse Sequence A test pattern having the properties of random data, but generated in
such a manner that another circuit, operating independently, can synchronize on the pattern and detect
transmission bit errors. (PRBS)
Pseudo-random noise modulation A spread-spectrum communications technique in which each digital bit is
chopped into chips that are phase-shifted in a random pattern by codes to stimulate noise. The chip pattern
can be re-phased by matched-filter techniques.
PSF Planning Scheduling Facility
PSF/VM Print Services Facility / Virtual Machine
PSG Phrase-Structure Grammar
PSI Primary Subnet Identifier
PSI Printer System International
PSI Process to Support Interoperability
PSI pounds per square inch
PSI provisioning system interface
PSIG Pounds per Square Inch Gauge
PSIO Peerless Standard Input/Output
PSIS Print System Interoperability Specification
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSL Peripheral Speech Link Connecting Panel
PSM Palindrome Storage Manager
PSM Personal Storage Module
PSMM Product and Service Marketing Manual
PSN Packet Switch Node
PSN Packet Switched Network
PSN Packet Switching Network
PSN Packet Switching Node
PSN Public Switched Network
PSN Public switched network (f: RPC)
PSN Packet-Switched Network. A network in which data is transmitted in packets. Packets can be routed
individually over the best available network connection and reassembled to form a complete message at the
destination. Sometimes called a PSDN. See packet switching.
PSO Professional Services Organizations
PSO project support office
PSOM Persistent SOM
PSOR Program Store Output Register
PSP IBM Personal Software Products
PSP Personal Software Products
PSP Program Segment Prefix
PSP Public Service Provider
PSP Product Service Providers
PSPA Past service pension adjustment (f: FESP)
PSPD Permanent Signal Partial Dial
PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSPDN Public Switched Packet Data Network
PSQT Pre-Sales Qualification Tool
PSR Phrase-Structure Rule
PSR Permanent Signal Release
PSR page send-receive (teletypewriter equipped with a keyboard and a typing unit)
PSRAM Pseudo SRAM
PSS Performance Support System
PSS Professional Support System
PSSF Personal Systems Support Family
PST Provincial Sales Tax (f: TVP)
PST Provincial Sales Tax
PSTC Provincial Sales Tax Code (f: CTPV)
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network (f: RTPC)
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PSTN public switched telephone network (same as POTS)
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Number
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network. The "voice telephone network" available to anyone, worldwide, with a
telephone and access privileges. Sometimes called POTS.
PSW Program Status Word
PT Payload Type
PT Progress Tone Receiver
PT Pull Through
PT&I Programming Tools and Information
PTA Performance Testing Alliance
PTAT Private Trans-Atlantic Telephone
PTD Plant Test Date
PTD Program for Traffic Demand or Plant Test Date
PTE Path Terminating Equipment
PTE Program for Trunk Evolution
PTE packet transport equipment
PTF Program Temporary Fix
PTI poste de travail intelligent (e: IWS)
PTI Payload Type Identifier. 3-bit descriptor in the ATM cell header indicating the type of payload that the
cell contains. Payload types include user and management cells one combination indicates that the cell is
the last cell of an AAL5 frame.
PTN Pilot Telephone Number
PTN pilot telephone number (equivalent to BTN in CBSS) (in BCRIS)
PTN (1) Pager Telephone Number
PTN (2) Personal Telephone Number
PTP Path Termination Point (OCx Ring term)
PTP Person-to-Person (f: PAP)
PTR Poor Transmission Report
PTR Program Trouble Report
PTS Per Trunk Signalling
PTS Per trunk signalling (f: SPC)
PTS Personal Typing System
PTS portable test set
PTS Pre-Trunk Signaling.
PTSE PNNI Topology State Element. Collection of PNNI information that is flooded among all logical nodes
within a peer group. See also peer group and PNNI.
PTSP PNNI Topology State Packet. Type of PNNI routing packet used to exchange reachability and resource
information among ATM switches to ensure that a connection request is routed to the destination along a path
that has a high probability of meeting the requested QoS. Typically, PTSPs include bidirectional information
about the transit behavior of particular nodes (based on entry and exit ports) and current internal state.
See also PNNI and QoS.
PTT Post, Telephone, and Telegraph. 1. A foreign government agency responsible for regulating communications
outside North America. 2. The government agency that acts as a common carrier in most countries outside
North America.
PTT Postal, Telephone and Telegraph
PTT Poste Telegraph and Telephon
PTX Packet Transfer Exchange
PU Paging Unit
PU Peripheral Unit
PU Physical Unit
PU Policing Unit
PU Physical Unit
PU Physical Unit. SNA component that manages and monitors the resources of a node, as requested by an SSCP.
There is one PU per node.
PU 2 Physical Unit 2. SNA peripheral node that can support only DLUs that require services from a VTAM host
and that are only capable of performing the secondary LU role in SNA sessions.
PU 2.1 Physical Unit type 2.1. SNA network node used for connecting peer nodes in a peer-oriented network.
PU 2.1 sessions do not require that one node reside on VTAM. APPN is based upon PU 2.1 nodes, which can also
be connected to a traditional hierarchical SNA network.
PU 4 Physical Unit 4. Component of an IBM FEP capable of full-duplex data transfer. Each such SNA device
employs a separate data and control path into the transmit and receive buffers of the control program.
PU 5 Physical Unit 5. Component of an IBM mainframe or host computer that manages an SNA network. PU 5 nodes
are involved in routing within the SNA path control layer.
PUB AT&T technical Publication
PUB Physical Unit Block
Public Access Line Pay phone public data network A shared-resource data network that offers data
communications services to public subscribers. (PAL)
public data network See PDN.
public dial port A dial-in port which provides access to a system or service, such as a packet network,
from a terminal connected to the public telephone network.
public document switching service A service providing the transfer from point-to-point or from point-to-
multi-point of electronic images of documents; a high quality facsimile transmission network
Public Key System An asymmetrical, two-key encryption algorithm that transforms data from plain text to
cipher text with one key that is made public, and converts cipher text back to plain text with a different
key that remains secret. (PKS)
public network A switched communications network with unrestricted access.
Public Switched Digital Service (PSDS) A service that provides alternate voice and data on a 2-wire user loop
Public Switched Network Any "switching system" that provides circuit switching to many customers. In the
U.S., there are four: telex, teletypewriter exchange (TWX), telephone, and the broadband exchange. (PSN)
Public Switched Telephone Network See PSTN.
Public Utilities Commission A state agency, that regulates intrastate telecommunications and telephone service.
(PUC)
PUBS Print Utility System
PUC Plant Under Construction
PUC Plant under construction (f: IEC)
PUC Public Utilities Commission
PUCC Public Utilities Coordination Committee
pulse amplitude modulation See PAM.
pulse code modulation See PCM.
pulse density See ones density.
PUP PARC Universal Protocol. Protocol similar to IP developed at PARC.
Push button dialing The use of keys or push buttons instead of a rotary dial to generate a sequence of digits
to establish a circuit connection. The signal form is usually multiple tones. Synonyms: tone dialing, touch-
call, dual-tone multiple frequency, and touch-tone
push-button-to-rotary A feature that allows use of push button conversion telephones even when touch-tone
circuits are not provided or are not available from the central office (CO).
push-down queue A method of prioritizing a list of items waiting to be processed in which the last item added
to the list is the first item processed. Synonym: last in, first out (LIFO)
push-up queue A method of prioritizing a list of items waiting to be processed in which the first item added
to the list is the first item processed. Synonym: first in, first out (FIFO)
pushbutton telephone A telephone set or system in which each instrument has a series of buttons for selecting
the line to be used, holding a line, or other functions. This does not refer to the technique used for
dialing calls.
PUT Program Update Tape
PV Problem Viewer
PVA Personal Voice Assistant
PVA Personal Voice Assistance
PVAS Professional and Value Added Services
PVC 1. Protocol Version Control. 2. Permanent Virtual Circuit or Connection.
PVC Permanent Virtual Channels
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVC Power Visualisation System
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit eg with X.25
PVC permanent virtual circuit
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit (path)
PVC private virtual circuits
PVC Private Virtual Connection
PVCOARS Permanent Virtual Circuit Order Assignment Records System
PVID Port Virtual ID
PVM Parallel Virtual Machine
PVN Private Virtual Network
PVN Private Virtual Networking.
PVOF Provisioning Voice Order Form. The spec form which contains all pertinent information regarding the set-
up of new services for a customer.
PVP Permanent Virtual Path. Virtual path that consists of PVCs. See also PVC and virtual path.
PVP Permanent Virtual Path
PVP tunneling Permanent Virtual Path tunneling. Method of linking two private ATM networks across a public
network using a virtual path. The public network transparently trunks the entire collection of virtual
channels in the virtual path between the two private networks.
PVR Personal Video Recorder
PVS Post-call validation service. See GTEDS
PWAC Present Worth of Annual Charge/Cost (f: VACA)
PWAC present worth of annual costs
PWB printed wiring board
PWCE Present Worth of Capital Expenditures (f: VADC)
PWCE present worth of capital expenditure
PWNCF present worth of net cash flows
PWP Production Word Processing
PWR Power
PWS Portable Work Station
PWS Programmable Work-Station
PYEN Pony Extension Notice
Q Queue (eg. FreeQ)
Q.2931 ITU-T specification, based on Q.931, for establishing, maintaining, and clearing network connections
at the B-ISDN user-network interface. The UNI 3.1 specification is based on Q.2931. See also Q.931 and UNI.
Q.920/Q.921 ITU-T specifications for the ISDN UNI data link layer. See also UNI.
Q.922A ITU-T specification for Frame Relay encapsulation.
Q.931 ITU-T specification for signaling to establish, maintain, and clear ISDN network connections. See also
itaq.htm - 4142Q.93B.
Q.931 ITU standard that describes ISDN signaling. The H.225.0 standard uses a variant of Q.931 to establish and
disconnect H.323 sessions.
Q.931 CCITT D channel call control procedures defining circuit switched call control p
Q.93B ITU-T specification for signaling to establish, maintain, and clear BISDN network connections. An
evolution of ITU-T recommendation Q.931. See also Q.931.
Q.R. Quebec Region
QA Quality Assurance
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. Method of modulating digital signals onto a radio-frequency carrier
signal involving both amplitude and phase coding. QAM is a modulation scheme mostly used in the downstream
direction (QAM-64, QAM-256). QAM-16 is expected to be usable in the upstream direction. Numbers indicate
number of code points per symbol. The QAM rate or the number of points in the QAM constellation can be
computed by 2 raised to the power of .
QAM See Quadrature Amplitude Modulation.
QARCH Qarch
QAT Quality Action Team
QAUDIO I/O and audio card ordering and reservation
QBE Query By Example
QBF Query By Form
QBIC Query By Image Content
Qbit See Qualifier bit.
QC Quality Circle
QC Quebec Central (Assigners)
QCA Quality Control Area - CRB Test System
QCAR Quality Corrective Action Report
QCL Quality Control Limit
QCP Quick Connect Panel
QCTEA Qualify CTEA
QD Quad
QD Quadruple Density
QDN Query Directory Number
QDP Qualification Development Program
QDP Qualifications Development Program (f: PPA)
QDSC Measures quality of service of a DMS100 from a customer perspective
QFLC Quad Fibre Loop Convertor
QFLC Quad Fiber Loop Converter Equipment
QFP Quad Flat Pack
QIC Quarter Inch Committee
QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge
QISAM Queued Indexed Sequential Access Method
QLLC Qualified Logical Link Control
QLLC Qualified Logical Link Control. Routines to provide Synchronous Data Link Control. Data link layer
protocol defined by IBM that allows SNA data to be transported across X.25 networks.
QLN Query Line Appearance Number
QM Query Manager (IBM OS/2 EE, ES, DB2/2)
QM SAP Quality Management Package
QMC Quality and Measurement Consulting
QMF Query Management Facility (f: QMF)
QMR Query Message Register
QMS Queue Management System (f: SGF)
QMSIS Queue Management Info. Syst
QOS Quality of Service
QoS Quality of Service. 1. A measurement of the telephone service provided to a subscriber; includes such
factors as connection clarity or loudness. Measure of performance for a transmission system that reflects
its transmission quality and service availability. 2. The statistical chart provided in the Cascade View
statistics gathering function; it details the lost packets and round trip delay measurements.
QoS parameters Quality of Service parameters. Parameters that control the amount of traffic the source in an
ATM network sends over an SVC. If any switch along the path cannot accommodate the requested QoS parameters,
the request is rejected, and a rejection message is forwarded back to the originator of the request.
QP Quebec Provincial (Assigners)
QPP Québec Pension Plan (f: RRQ)
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
QPSK Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying. A method of modulating digital signals onto a radio-frequency carrier
signal using four phase states to code two digital bits.
QR Quebec Region
QRI Queued Response Indicator
QRL Query Report Language
QRSS Quasi Random Signal Source (f: GSPA)
QRSS Quasi-Random Signal Source
QRSS Quasi-Random Signal Sequence. A test pattern widely used to simulate voice signals.
QRST Quebec Retail Sales Tax (f: TQVD)
QSAC Quality Service Action Center
QSAM Queued Sequential Access Method
QSI Query Submission Interface (module)
QSIG Q (point of the ISDN model) Signaling. Signaling standard. Common channel signaling protocol based on
ISDN Q.931 standards and used by many digital PBXs.
QSM Quality of Service Measurement
QSOP Quarter-Size Outline Package
QSS QNX Software Systems Ltd
QSS Quantum Software Systems, former name of QNX Software System
QSSP Québec Stock Savings Plan (f: REAQ)
QST Québec Sales Tax (f: TQV)
QST Quebec Sales Tax
QST Québec Sales TAX (F: TVQ: Taxe de Vente du Québec)
QSTN Quebec Sales Tax. Non-recoverable
QSTR Quebec Sales Tax Recoverable
QTAM Queued Telecommunication Access Method
QTC Quebec Telephone Company
QTD Query Time & Date
QTD Query Time and Date.
QTEL Tariff Database (TDB) Purchased from CCMI
QTIP Quality Technique Improvement Program
QTL Query Telephone Number
QTP Quarterly Training Plan
QTR Quarter
QTR Queued Text Recognition
QTT Quebec Telecommunications Tax (f: TQT)
QUAD Quality Assurance Database (OD's problem & test case management system)
quad An assembly of four-wire (two twisted-pairs) insulated conductors used for home telephone installation.
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation A combination of phase and amplitude modulation used for high-speed,
synchronous modems. (QAM)
Qualified Logical Link Control See QLLC.
Qualifier bit In X.25 networks, bit 8 in an octet of packet header. It is used to indicate if a packet
contains control information. (Qbit)
QUALIFY Article 11 Reassignment (QUALIFIE in french)
QUALITY Quality
quality assurance A formal approach to product development and delivery with the goal of zero defects.
quality of service See QoS.
quantization The process that divides the continuous range of values of a signal into non-overlapping (but
not necessarily equal) sub-ranges. It then assigns a discrete value of the output to each sub-range.
Whenever the signal value falls within a given sub-range, the output has the corresponding discrete value.
quantization noise Signal errors or noise that results from digitizing a continuously variable signal.
Quarter Common Iintermediate Format A subset of the coded video signals transmitted when using the
International Consultative Committee for Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT) Recommendation H.261 coding
methods. (QCIF)
quartet signaling Signaling technique used in 100VG-AnyLAN networks that allows data transmission at 100
Mbps over four pairs of UTP cable at the same frequencies used in 10BaseT networks. See also 100VG-AnyLAN.
quartet signaling Part of the 100BaseVG-AnyLAN proposed standard involving transmission over all four wire
pairs simultaneously in voice-grade unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable, expanding its capacity to
100Mbit/s.
Quasi Random Signal Source (QRSS) A form of pseudo-random binary pulse sequence (PRBS).
Quasi-Random Signal A digital test signal consisting of a bit sequence that approximates a random signal.
(QRS)
query Message used to inquire about the value of some variable or set of variables; The process by which a
master station asks a slave station to identify itself and indicate its status.
queue 1. Generally, an ordered list of elements waiting to be processed. 2. In routing, a backlog of packets
waiting to be forwarded over a router interface.
queuing The act of holding incoming calls until an attendant, trunk, trunk group or desired station is
available. Synonym: camping.
queuing delay Amount of time that data must wait before it can be transmitted onto a statistically
multiplexed physical circuit.
queuing theory Scientific principles governing the formation or lack of formation of congestion on a network
or at an interface.
quick test Automatic test procedures for testing DS1 or DDS circuits in REACT 2000.
QuickTime Apple Computer's video environment (like Microsoft's Video For Windows). QuickTime video files must
be converted to *.AVI format to run under Microsoft's Video For Windows. INDEO video is supported under
MacOS.
QUICS Quantum Interactive Conferencing System
QUIPU Pioneering software package developed to study the OSI Directory and provide extensive pilot
capabilities.
QVF QUALITY VOICE FREQUENCY
QVLR Query Visitor Location Registry
QWP Query With Permission. A type of mail packet.
R Rear
R Repair
R Resistance
R Resistor
R Ring
R Ring Answer
R Ring Lead
R Interface CCITT definition of interface between non-ISDN terminal (TE2) & terminal adaptor
R&D Research and Development (f: R-D)
R-810 Line card positionning
R1 Ring One
R13 R13
R2 Ring Two
R45 R45
R51 R51
RA Ready Access
RA Recorded Announcement
RA Retain on Assignment
RA Route Advance
RA Revenue Assurance
RA Resource Associate
RA-XA Rate Change
RAB RAID Advisory Board
RAC Recoverable Assigned Costs (f: CIR)
RAC Regional Advanced Communications
RAC Revenue Account Code
RACE Rate of Return on Average Commun Equity
RACE Research for Advanced Communication in Europe
RACE Research on Advanced Communications in Europe. Project sponsored by the EC for the development of
broadband networking capabilities.
race condition ranging The process of acquiring the correct timing offset such that the transmissions of a
cable modem are aligned with the correct mini-slot boundary.
RACES Rapid Analyzer for Contribution Evaluations
RACF Remote Access Control Facility
RACF Resource Access Control Facility
RACI Responsible, Approval, Consult and Inform
RACI Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed method of management
RAD Rapid Application Development
RAD Radio
RADAR Research and Development and Reports
Radio Common Carrier A communications common carrier that provides radio paging and mobile telephone services
to the public. (RCC)
Radio Common Carrier Number (RCCN) 800 exchange numbers that are reserved for use by radio common carriers
(RCCs).
radio communications Telecommunications over radio waves.
radio frequency Document series used as the primary means for communicating information about the Internet.
Some RFCs are designated by the IAB as Internet standards. Most RFCs document protocol specifications such
as Telnet and FTP, but some are humorous or historical. RFCs are available online from numerous sources. See
Request For Comments.
radio frequency interference See RFI.
RADIUS Remote Dial-In User Service. Database for authenticating modem and ISDN connections and for tracking
connection time.
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User
RADS Revenue Analysis Data Summary System
RAF Re-allocation Approval Form
RAG Ring Again
RAG Ring Again.
RAI Revenue Accounting Instruction (f: ICR)
RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives
RAID Resellers Account Information Database
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Random-Access Memory. Volatile memory that can be read and written by a microprocessor.
RAMDAC RAM Digital-to-Analog Converter
RAMIS Rapid Access Management Information System
RAMIS Old Reporting system
RAMP Report Analysis Management Program
RAMPART Remote Automatic Measurement of Performance and Reporting on
RAMPS Reliable Adaptive Message Protocol Suite
RAMQUOTE Provides acces to TSO/RAMIS - used with GiProQ
RAMS Revenue Analyser fort Message Service
random-access memory See RAM.
range rate tariffs Tariffs that list a range of rates, as opposed to specific rates. The carrier may charge
any rate within the range. In contrast, some states have adopted bonded rates requiring the filing of
specific rates, but they have also streamlined the procedures for price changes within the specified rate
band.
RAO Record As Outpulsed
RAO Revenue Accounting Office (f: BCR)
RAO Revenue Accounting Office
RAP Recurring Advance Payment
RAP Regional average price
RAP Results Achievement Program (f: PRR)
RAP Revenue Application Plan
RAPID Redundant Array of Parallel Independent Device
RAPID Remote Access Protocol Interface Device
Rapid Transport Protocol See RTP.
RAPS Route Analysis Planning System
RARE Reseaux Associees pour la Recherche Europeene
RARE Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne. Association of European universities and research centers
designed to promote an advanced telecommunications infrastructure in the European scientific community. RARE
merged with EARN to form TERENA. See also EARN and TERENA.
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. Protocol in the TCP/IP stack that provides a method for finding IP
addresses based on MAC addresses. Compare with ARP.
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RARU Remote Alarm Reporting Unit
RAS Reliability, Availability and Servicability
RAS Remote Access Services
RAS Revenues Available for Settlement (f: RAP)
RAS Revenues available for settlement (f: RAP)
RAS Routing Administration System
RAS Remote Access Service
RAS Routing Admin. System (NT) (Remote Access Services)
RAS Routing & Administration System
RAS Registration, Admission, and Status protocol. Protocol used in the H.323 protocol suite for discovering
and interacting with a Gatekeeper.
RAS II Routing Admin System Ver II
rate averaging A method of setting prices for telephone calls on the basis of distance rather than routing
path.
rate base The total investment on which a regulated telephone company is entitled to earn a specified rate of
return.
Rate Center A specified geographic location used by a telephone company to determine interexchange mileage
for rating purposes. (RC)
rate code 1. The name of the rate plan used. 2. Rates charged per product.
rate element A recurring fixed charge for interexchange carrier (IEC) or local exchange carrier (LEC)
service at the lowest level. A local loop may have multiple rate elements associated with it. Rate elements
make up the fixed portion of a subscriber's monthly bill, for example: local access, local mileage, entrance
facilities, and channel termination.
rate enforcement See traffic policing.
rate group A classification used by telephone companies to determine a customer's flat rate for local
service. A customer's rate group is based on the number of telephone numbers a customer can call from their
exchange without paying long distance charges.
rate of return The percentage of net profit that a telephone company is licensed to earn on its rate base.
rate of return on average common equity The net earnings of a company applicable to common shareholders
(before extraordinary items) divided by the company's average total common equity, multiplied by 100.
rate period The specific portion of a 24-hour period or the specific day of the week during which a
particular rate is charged for toll calls.
rate queue In ATM, a value associated with one or more virtual circuits that defines the speed at which an
individual virtual circuit transmits data to the remote end. Each rate queue represents a portion of the
overall bandwidth available on an ATM link. The combined bandwidth of all configured rate queues should not
exceed the total available bandwidth.
rate re-balancing The process by which the rates for long distance services are reduced while the rates for
local services are increased to bring the rates for each more in line with the costs of providing them.
rates and tariffs Standards published by AT&T, other common carriers (OCCs), local exchange carriers
(LECs), and inter-exchange carriers (IECs) that define service availability, cost and provisioning
procedures.
rating The process (or computer system) used to determine the customer charge for each billable call. Rates
are based on time and duration and on customer contract terms and conditions.
RATP Remote Access Test Port
RATS Remote Access and Testing System(also MINI-RATS)(now DARTS)
RATS Remote Access Test System
RATS Remote Testing System
RATS Revenue Analysis Tracking System
RATS Remote Access Test System
RAU Remote Access Unit
RB Red Bus
RB Reserve Battery
RBACK Ring back
RBD Recurring Billing Data
RBERT Remote Bit Error Report Tester
RBHC Regional Bell Holding Company
RBHC Regional Bell Holding Company. One of seven regional telephone companies formed by the breakup of AT&T.
RBHCs differ from RBOCs in that RBHCs cross state boundaries.
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company. Seven regional telephone companies formed by the breakup of AT&T. RBOCs
differ from RBHCs in that RBOCs do not cross state boundaries.
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Companies
RBQ Regular Billing Quote
RBRC Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (non-profit)
RBS Robbed Bit Signalling
RBS Revenue Billing Systems
RC Radio Controlled
RC Rate Centre
RC Recording Completing
RC Regional Centre
RC Removal cost (f: CR)
RC Reset Controller
RC Responsibility Code
RC Responsibility Code ie district code for Chargeback
RC See Rate Centre.
RC Recurring Charge
RCA Radio Corporation of America
RCA Root Cause Analysis
RCB Average Remaining Capital Balance (f: SCR)
RCC Radio Common Carrier
RCC Release Audible Alarm Continuity Cancellation
RCC Remote Cluster Controller (f: CGD)
RCC Restricted Common Carriers
RCC PC application used with ISAAC to print USOD orders
RCC Regional Control Centre (Datapac)
RCC See Radio Common Carrier.
RCCN See Radio Common Carier Number.
RCDA Remote Call Disposition Analyser
RCF Remote Call Forwarding
RCF Retardation Control Film
RCMB Ressource Cost Model Base
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police (f: GRC)
RCN reproduction cost (new)
RCOT Regional Central Office Table
RCP Remote Copy Protocol
RCP Recipient Table
rcp remote copy protocol. Protocol that allows users to copy files to and from a file system residing on a
remote host or server on the network. The rcp protocol uses TCP to ensure the reliable delivery of data.
rcp server Router or other device that acts as a server for rcp. See also rcp.
RCRM Reformatted Card Reader Messages
RCS Remote Communication Service
RCS Revision Control System
RCSTS Remote Control Serial Test Set
RCT Remote Concentrator Terminal
RCT Remote Control Terminal
RCTL Resistor-Capacitor Transistor Logic
RCU Remote Concentrator Unit
RCU Remote Control Unit
RCU Remote Carrier Urban (f: MDU)
RCV Receive
RCVR Receiver
RD Read
RD Receive Data
RD Request Disconnect
RD Request Disconnect.
RDA RING DOESN'T ANSWER
RDA Remote Database Access
RDB Ralational database (f: BDR)
RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System
RDD Replaceable Database Drivers
RDD Rapid Database Development
RDE Rapid Delivery Environment
RDF Remote Duplicate Database Facility (Tandem))
RDGL Roland DG Graphics Language
RDI Remote Digital Installation (f: IND)
RDI Remote Digital Interface
RDI Remote Defect Identification. In ATM, when the physical layer detects loss of signal or cell
synchronization, RDI cells are used to report a VPC/VCC failure. RDI cells are sent upstream by a VPC/VCC
endpoint to notify the source VPC/VCC endpoint of the downstream failure.
RDNA Remote Destination Network Address
RDOS Real-time Disk Operating System
RDR Regional Dynamic Routing
RDR Remote Data Recovery
RDRAM Rambus DRAM
RDS Rapid Development System
RDS Remote Data Services
RDT Rapid Deployment Technology
RDT remote digital terminal
RDW Rural Distribution Wire
RDW Record Description Word
RDX33 Old Name for Alcatel 1633 cross connect
re-homing A major network change that involves moving customer services from one switching center to another
and establishing the necessary trunking facilities to do so.
re-sale Buying local and/or long distance phone lines in quantity at wholesale rates in order to sell them
to someone else at a profit.
REACT 2000 Hekimian's Operations Support System (OSS) for provisioning, monitoring, testing, and administering
telecommunications networks.
REACT 2001 Hekimian's OSS that incorporates REACT 2000 capabilities while adding a graphical user interface
(GUI), the ability to process across multiple computing platforms, a database with relational abilities, and
improved communications with other OSS installations.
Read-Only Memory See ROM.
REAIS Real Estate Accounting Information System (f: REAIS)
Real Time Streaming Protocol See RTSP.
Real-time Transport Protocol See RTP.
reassembly The putting back together of an IP datagram at the destination after it has been fragmented either
at the source or at an intermediate node. See also fragmentation.
REAT Reset Emergency Action Timer
REC Record
RECAPSS Remote Cable Pair Switching System (f: SDTC)
RECOGNIT Recognition of Employees
Recurring Revenue Revenue is considered recurring if the service provided to the customer occurs every
month. Services considered recurring include voice access, long distance, data access, data usage and
applications. Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Redialer Interface hardware device that interconnects between a fax device and a Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN) network. A redialer is used to forward a dialed number to another destination. Redialers
contain a database of referral telephone numbers. When the user dials a specific number, the redialer
collects the dialed digits and matches them to a listing in its database. If there is a match, the redialer
dials the referral number (transparent to the user) and forwards the call to the referral number.
redirect Part of the ICMP and ES-IS protocols that allows a router to tell a host that using another router
would be more effective.
redirector Software that intercepts requests for resources within a computer and analyzes them for remote
access requirements. If remote access is required to satisfy the request, the redirector forms an RPC and
sends the RPC to lower-layer protocol software for transmission through the network to the node that can
satisfy the request.
redistribution Allowing routing information discovered through one routing protocol to be distributed in the
update messages of another routing protocol. Sometimes called route redistribution.
redundancy 1. In internetworking, the duplication of devices, services, or connections so that, in the event of
a failure, the redundant devices, services, or connections can perform the work of those that failed. See
also redundant system. 2. In telephony, the portion of the total information contained in a message that can
be eliminated without loss of essential information or meaning.
redundant system Computer, router, switch, or other system that contains two or more of each of the most
important subsystems, such as two disk drives, two CPUs, or two power supplies.
REFC Refurbishing Cost (f: CRE)
REG Register
REGEN (analogous to a repeater but for OCx equipment)
REGEN Analogous to a repeater but for OCx equipment
regional Bell holding company See RBHC.
regional Bell operating company See RBOC.
registered jack connector See RJ connector.
Registration, Admission, and Status (RAS) protocol This is the protocol used between endpoints and the
gatekeeper.
RegToll Reg. Toll on diskette
REIC Regional Executive Investment Committee
REITS Real Estate Investment Trusts (U.S.)
REJ Reject
REL Release
relative rate See RR.
relay OSI terminology for a device that connects two or more networks or network systems. A data link layer
(Layer 2) relay is a bridge a network layer (Layer 3) relay is a router. See also bridge and router.
RELC Release Complete
reliability Ratio of expected to received keepalives from a link. If the ratio is high, the line is
reliable. Used as a routing metric.
Reliable SAP Update Protocol See RSUP.
reload The event of a Cisco router rebooting, or the command that causes the router to reboot.
RELP Residually-Excited Linear Predictive Coding
REM Remote interface
REMEDY-ATM Trouble Ticketing for Ascycronus Transport Mode
REMEDY-BONDS Trouble Ticketing for Bell Ontario Network detection system
REMEDY-IXC Trouble Ticketing for Intrer exchange Carrier System
REMEDY-WKST Trouble Ticketing for workstations
REMOBS Remote Observation System
remote bridge Bridge that connects physically disparate network segments via WAN links.
remote copy protocol See rcp.
remote defect identification See RDI.
remote job entry See RJE.
remote login See rlogin.
Remote Monitoring See RMON.
Remote Operations Service Element See ROSE.
remote shell protocol See rsh.
remote source-route bridging See RSRB.
remote-procedure call See RPC.
REMS Reusable Equipment Management System
REN RAPID Extension Notice
rendezvous point Router specified in PIM sparse mode implementations to track membership in multicast groups
and to forward messages to known multicast group addresses. See also PIM sparse mode.
REODS Real Estate Office Design System
REP Reproducing Program
REP Personal directory
repeater Device that regenerates and propagates electrical signals between two network segments. See also
segment.
replication Process of keeping a copy of data, either through shadowing or caching. See caching and
shadowing.
REQ Bus Request
Request For Comments See RFC.
Request To Send See RTS.
request/response unit See RU.
required visual inspection See RVI.
RES Residential.
RES Radio Extension Service
RES Residential Enhanced Service
RES Resistance
RES Restore Service
Resale Revenue Revenue is considered resale if the service is entirely provided to the customer through
another CLEC or ILEC. Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Research on Advanced Communications in Europe See RACE.
Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne See RARE.
Resource Reservation Protocol See RSVP.
RET Resource Estimate Tracking system
RETCAP Retirement Capital (f: CAPRET)
RETS Remote Emergency Telephone System
RETWATS Retype Wats
RETYPE Retype
REV Reverse
REV Revision
Revenue Characteristics Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Revenue Earned for a Service Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol See RARP.
Reverse Path Forwarding See RPF.
REX Routine Exercise Monitor
REXX Restructured Extended Execute (Language)
REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor
REXX REstructured eXtended eXecutor procedure language
REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor Language
RF Radio Frequency
RF Receive Flag
RF Reinforce
RF Radio Frequency
RF Radio Frequency. Generic term referring to frequencies that correspond to radio transmissions. Cable TV and
broadband networks use RF technology.
RFA Residential Fibre Access
RFC Request for Comments
RFC Request For Comment
RFC Request For Comments. Document series used as the primary means for communicating information about the
Internet. Some RFCs are designated by the IAB as Internet standards. Most RFCs document protocol
specifications such as Telnet and FTP, but some are humorous or historical. RFCs are available online from
numerous sources.
RFCOVER Radio Frequency Coverage for Wireless
RFCS Request for CommentS
RFDS Revenue Forecast Database System
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
RFI Request for Information (f: DR)
RFI radio frequency interference
RFI request for information
RFI Radio Frequency Interference. Radio frequencies that create noise that interferes with information being
transmitted across unshielded copper cable.
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RFP Request For Proposal.
RFP Request for Proposal
RFQ Request For Quotation
RFQ Request for Quote
RFR Request for Resource
RFS Request For Service
RFS Request For Service
RFS Remote File System. Distributed file system, similar to NFS, developed by AT&T and distributed with their
UNIX System V operating system.
RFS Remote File System
RFT Remote Feeder Terminal
RFT Remote Fibre Terminal
RFTDCA Revised Form Text Document Content Architecture
RFU Ready For Use
RFW Request for Work
RG Ring Ground
RGB Red Green Blue Monitor
RGB Red, Green, Blue
RGN Region Table
RGP Revenue Generation Projects
RGY Red, Green, Yellow
RH Request Header
RH Response Header
RHC Regional Holding Company
RHC Regional Holding Company.
RHOSP Registered Home Ownership Savings Plan (f: REEL)
RHS Right Hand Side
RHSA Residential High Speed Access
RI Referential Integrity (relational databases)
RI Regular Intercept
RI Remote Interface
RI Ring Indicator
RI/RO Ring In/Ring Out
RIB Regulatory Information Bank
RID Routing Identifier
RIF Revenue Increase Factor (f: FAR)
RIF Routing Information Field
RIF Routing Information Field. Field in the IEEE 802.5 header that is used by a source-route bridge to
determine through which Token Ring network segments a packet must transit. A RIF is made up of ring and
bridge numbers as well as other information.
RIFF Resource Interchange File Format
RII Routing Information Identifier. Bit used by SRT bridges to distinguish between frames that should be
transparently bridged and frames that should be passed to the SRB module for handling.
RIM Request Initialization Mode
RIM Request Initialization Mode
ring Connection of two or more stations in a logically circular topology. Information is passed sequentially
between active stations. Token Ring, FDDI, and CDDI are based on this topology.
ring group Collection of Token Ring interfaces on one or more routers that is part of a one-bridge Token Ring
network.
ring latency Time required for a signal to propagate once around a ring in a Token Ring or IEEE 802.5
network.
ring monitor Centralized management tool for Token Ring networks based on the IEEE 802.5 specification. See
also active monitor and standby monitor.
RING PLANNER OP Version of ring planner tool
ring topology Network topology that consists of a series of repeaters connected to one another by
unidirectional transmission links to form a single closed loop. Each station on the network connects to the
network at a repeater. While logically a ring, ring topologies are most often organized in a closed-loop
star. Compare with bus topology, star topology, and tree topology.
RIP Routing Information Protocol. IGP supplied with UNIX BSD systems. The most common IGP in the Internet.
RIP uses hop count as a routing metric. See also hop count, IGP, and OSPF. See also Enhanced IGRP.
RIP Raster Image Processor
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RIPE Reseau IP Europeene
RIPE Réseaux IP Européennes. Group formed to coordinate and promote TCP/IP-based networks in Europe.
RIPL Remote Initial Program Load
RIPP Remote Input Point to Point
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer/ing
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing.
RISSA Real-time Intelligent Storage Server Architecture
RIU Remote Interface Unit (f: UID)
RIU Repeater Interface Unit
RIU Remote Interface Unit ie black box
RJ Registered Jack
RJ connector Registered Jack connector. Standard connectors originally used to connect telephone lines. RJ
connectors are now used for telephone connections and for 10BaseT and other types of network connections.
RJ-11, RJ-12, and RJ-45 are popular types of RJ connectors.
RJE Remote Job Entry. Application that is batch-oriented, as opposed to interactive. In RJE environments,
jobs are submitted to a computing facility, and output is received later.
RJE Remote Job Entry
RL Return Loss
RLC Run Length Coding
RLC Regional Listening Centre
RLCM Remote Line Concentrating Module (f: MCLD)
RLCM Remote Line Concentrator Module
RLCM remote line concentration module
RLDS Recovery Log Data Set
RLE Run Length Encoding
RLIN Research Libraries Information Network
RLL Run Length Limited
RLM Remote Line Module (f: MLD)
RLM Remote Line Module
RLM Redundant Link Manager.
rlogin remote login. Terminal emulation program, similar to Telnet, offered in most UNIX implementations.
RLS Release
RM Remove
RM Resource Manager (for DARTS Test Head resource pool)
RM Resource Module
RM Returned Material
RM Resource Module (connects to AM's) within the Datapac network
RM Resource Management. Management of critical resources in an ATM network. Two critical resources are buffer
space and trunk bandwidth. Provisioning can be used to allocate network resources in order to separate
traffic flows according to service characteristics.
RMA Return Materials Authorization
RMB Random Make Busy
RMB Remote Make Busy
RMC Resource Management Committee (f: CGR)
RMEN Resource Module Extension Notice
RMG Recording Machine Group
RMI Remote Maintenance Interface (Tandem))
RMI Resource Manager Interface
RMM Read Mostly Memory
RMM Remote Maintenance Module (f: MMD)
RMN Remote Multiplexer Node
RMON Remote Monitoring
RMON Remote Monitoring of a communications network
RMON remote monitoring of network
RMON Remote Monitoring. MIB agent specification described in RFC 1271 that defines functions for the remote
monitoring of networked devices. The RMON specification provides numerous monitoring, problem detection, and
reporting capabilities.
RMR Reset Message Register
RMS Record Management System
RMS Refused Minimum Service
RMS Remote Maintenance System (f: STM)
RMS Remote Monitoring System
RMS remote monitoring system
RMS Resource Management System Maintenance
RMS Root Mean Square
RMS Risk Management System (for 900 service)
RMT Revenue Related Miscellaneous Taxes (f: IDRB)
RMU Remote Monitoring Unit
RN Recorder Number
RN Reference Number
RN Regional Network
RN Ring, No Answer
RN Route Network
RNA Registered Nursing Assistant
RNA Ring No Answer
RNCS Remote Network Control System
RNG Ringing Noise Generator
RNIQ Quebec Numeric Network Management
RNR Receiver Not Ready
RO Receive Only
RO Reorder
RO Routine Order
ROA Return On Assets
ROAC Regional Office Automation Committee (f: CRIB)
ROBOCC Robotic Operations Control Centre
Robot-Tester tests with CALRS
ROC Receiver Optimization Circuit
ROC Roll Out Change
ROC Regional Operating Center (telco)
ROC Responsible Organization Centre (f: CGR)
ROC Restated Original Cost
ROC REMOTE OPERATIONS CHANNEL
ROCC Regional Operations Control Centre
ROCS Rapid Order Control System
RODR Reorder
ROE Return on Common Equity (f: RAO)
ROE Return on Equity (f: RAO)
ROE Rate of return On Equity
ROECE IBM Regional Office for Europe, Central and East
ROH Receiver off Hook (f: DCR)
ROH Receiver Off-Hook
ROI Recording Office Index
ROI Remote Office Internetworking
ROI Return On Investment
ROL Recording on Line
ROLC Routing Over Large Clouds. Working group in IETF created to analyze and propose solutions to problems
that arise when performing IP routing over large, shared media networks such as ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, and
X.25.
ROM Read-Only Memory. Nonvolatile memory that can be read, but not written, by the microprocessor.
ROM Read Only Memory
ROM Read Only Memory (f: MEM)
ROM Read Only Memory in a computer
RONA Return On Net Assets
RONI Remote Operator Number Identification (CAMA/TOPS)
root account Privileged account on UNIX systems used exclusively by network or system administrators.
root bridge Exchanges topology information with designated bridges in a spanning-tree implementation in
order to notify all other bridges in the network when topology changes are required. This prevents loops and
provides a measure of defense against link failure.
ROP REPAIRMAN ON PREM
ROPES Remote On-line Printer Spooler
ROR Rate of Return (f: TDR)
RORC Rate of Return on Capital (f: TRC)
ROS Read Only Storage
ROS Read-only storage (f: MEM)
ROSA Recognition of Open Systems Achievement
ROSE Remote Operations Service Element
ROSE Remote Operations Service Element. OSI RPC mechanism used by various OSI network application protocols.
rotary dial The circular telephone dial.
ROTL Remote Office Test Line (f: LECD)
ROTL remote office test lines
ROTS Rotary Out Trunk Switch
ROTS Rotary Outgoing Trunk Switches
round-trip time See RTT.
route Path through an internetwork.
route extension In SNA, a path from the destination subarea node through peripheral equipment to a NAU.
route map Method of controlling the redistribution of routes between routing domains.
Route Processor See RP.
route redistribution See redistribution.
route summarization Consolidation of advertised addresses in OSPF and IS-IS. In OSPF, this causes a single
summary route to be advertised to other areas by an area border router.
Route/Switch Processor See RSP.
routed protocol Protocol that can be routed by a router. A router must be able to interpret the logical
internetwork as specified by that routed protocol. Examples of routed protocols include AppleTalk, DECnet,
and IP.
router Network layer device that uses one or more metrics to determine the optimal path along which network
traffic should be forwarded. Routers forward packets from one network to another based on network layer
information. Occasionally called a gateway (although this definition of gateway is becoming increasingly
outdated). Compare with gateway. See also relay. The central switching offices of the Internet and corporate
Intranets and WANs. The main provider of routers in the world is Cisco. In essence, a router is an interface
between two networks.
Router Provides firewall capability on the network
routing Process of finding a path to a destination host. Routing is very complex in large networks because
of the many potential intermediate destinations a packet might traverse before reaching its destination
host.
routing domain Group of end systems and intermediate systems operating under the same set of administrative
rules. Within each routing domain is one or more areas, each uniquely identified by an area address.
Routing Information Field See RIF.
Routing Information Identifier See RII.
Routing Information Protocol See RIP.
routing metric Method by which a routing algorithm determines that one route is better than another. This
information is stored in routing tables. Metrics include bandwidth, communication cost, delay, hop count,
load, MTU, path cost, and reliability. Sometimes referred to simply as a metric. See also cost.
routing over large clouds See ROLC.
routing protocol Protocol that accomplishes routing through the implementation of a specific routing algorithm.
Examples of routing protocols include IGRP, OSPF, and RIP.
routing table Table stored in a router or some other internetworking device that keeps track of routes to
particular network destinations and, in some cases, metrics associated with those routes.
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol See RTMP.
Routing Table Protocol See RTP.
routing update Message sent from a router to indicate network reachability and associated cost information.
Routing updates are typically sent at regular intervals and after a change in network topology. Compare with
flash update.
ROUTOP Route Topology
ROW Right of Way
ROW Rest Of World
RP Regional Performance (f: RR)
RP Resource Pool (eg all avail DS3's between Mtl and Tor)
RP Resource Pool
RP Route Processor. Processor module in the Cisco 7000 series routers that contains the CPU, system software,
and most of the memory components that are used in the router. Sometimes called a supervisory processor.
RPC Remote-Procedure Call. Technological foundation of client-server computing. RPCs are procedure calls that
are built or specified by clients and executed on servers, with the results returned over the network to the
clients. See also client/server computing.
RPC Right Party Contact
RPC Revenue Per Call
RPC Radio Packet Controller
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPE Regular Pulse Excitation
RPF Reverse Path Forwarding. Multicasting technique in which a multicast datagram is forwarded out of all but
the receiving interface if the receiving interface is the one used to forward unicast datagrams to the
source of the multicast datagram.
RPG Report Program Generator
RPG-II Report Program Generator (language)
RPGII Report Program Generator II
RPI Remote Position Identification
RPL Remote Program Load
RPM Relative Performance Mark
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RPMark Relative Performance Mark
RPN Reverse Polish Notation
RPO Regional Performance Organization
RPO Recovery Point Objective
RPOA Registered Private Operating Agency
RPOA Regional Private Operating Administration
RPQ Request for Price Quotation
RPR Resilient Packet Ring
RPROM Reprogrammable Read Only Memory
RPS Rotational Position Sensing
RPSL Routing Policy Specification Language
RPT Repeat
RPT Route Preference Table
RPTR Repeater
RPV Requiring Plant Visit
RQBE Relational Query-By-Example
RQS Recoverable Queuing Service
RR Railway
RR Rate and Route
RR Receiver Ready
RR Relav Rack
RR Relay Rack
RR Rural Route
RR Relative Rate. In ATM, one of the congestion feedback modes provided by ABR service. In RR mode, switches
set a bit in forward and backward RM cells to indicate congestion. See also ABR and RLM.
RRAD Retail Repair Administration Depot (f: CRV)
RRB Retroactive Records Build
RRCs Reduced Resource Charges
RREER (stope Reused inventory equipment
RRF Reconfigurable Resident Font
RRIF Registered retirement income fund (f: FERR)
RRIP RockRidge IP
RRL Reference Return Loss
RRO Responsible Reporting Office
RRR Revenue Requirement Review (f: RRR)
RRS Reports Retrieval System
RRSP Registered retirement savings plan (f: REER)
RRU Regenerative Repeater(ing) Unit
RRU regenerative repeater unit
RS Register-Sender
RS Repair Service
RS Reset
RS Revenue Systems
RS-232 Popular physical layer interface. Now known as EIA/TIA-232. See EIA/TIA-232.
RS-422 Balanced electrical implementation of EIA/TIA-449 for high-speed data transmission. Now referred to
collectively with RS-423 as EIA-530. See also EIA-530 and RS-423.
RS-423 Unbalanced electrical implementation of EIA/TIA-449 for EIA/TIA-232 compatibility. Now referred to
collectively with RS-422 as EIA-530. See also EIA-530 and RS-422.
RS-449 Popular physical layer interface. Now known as EIA/TIA-449. See EIA/TIA-449.
RS/6000 RISC System/6000
RS232C voltage-operated interface standard of the EIA
RSA Remote Serving Area (f: ZDE)
RSA Reset System Alarm
RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adlerman
RSA Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman - the inventors of the technique. Public-key cryptographic system which may
be used for encryption and authentication.
RSB Repair Service Bureau (f: CV)
RSB Repair Service Bureau The maintenance organization for customer circuits (exclud
RSC Remote Switch Concentrator
RSC Remote Switching Centre (DMS-100) (f: CCD)
RSC RISC Single Chip
RSC Rate Stability Contract (f: CTF)
RSC REGIONAL SERVICE CENTRE
RSC Regional Service Catalogue
RSC-S Remote Switching Centre Sonet
RSC-S Remote Switching Center-SONET.
RSCDS Repair Service Call Distribution System (f: SDASR)
RSCO Radio Section Control Office
RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
RSCSD Remote Switching Cell Site Controller
RSD Ready for Service Date
RSD Repair Service Desk
RSD Revenue Systems Development
RSDD Revised Service Due Date
RSE Remote Service Equipment
RSET Reset
rsh remote shell protocol. Protocol that allows a user to execute commands on a remote system without having
to log in to the system. For example, rsh can be used to remotely examine the status of a number of access
servers without connecting to each communication server, executing the command, and then disconnecting from
the communication server.
RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
RSIA Revenue Systems Information Access
RSIS Relocateable Screen Interface Specification
RSL Receiver-Sender Link
RSLN Receiver-Sender Link Network
RSM Remote Service Modem
RSM Remote Service Modules
RSM Retail Systems Management
RSM Route Switch Module.
RSM Router Switching Module
RSMC Remote Services Management Centre
RSMC Remote Surveillance Monitoring Centre
RSMC Remote Services Management Center
RSMC Remote Service Management Centre
RSMC Remote Service Mgmt. Centre (surveillance system of SL-1 PBX's)
RSN Record Set Name
RSN Restoration. NetPro SubNetwk Id Code
RSO Restricted & Public Commercial Radio Services
RSP Revenue Settlement Plan (f: PPR)
RSP Rate Stability Plan (f: CTF)
RSP Revenue Settlements Plan (Dept that uses LineView MOM DB)
RSP Revenue Settlement Plan (used in Telecom Canada and memcos)
RSP Route/Switch Processor. Processor module in the Cisco 7500 series routers that integrates the functions
of the RP and the SP. See also RP and SP.
RSP Restricted Sent Paid Lines.
RSRB Remote Source-Route Bridging. SRB over WAN links. See also SRB.
RSS Residence Sales and Service
RSS Revenue Systems Support
RSSI Relative Signal Strength Indication
RST Reset
RSUP Reliable SAP Update Protocol. Bandwidth-saving protocol developed by Cisco for propagating services
information. RSUP allows routers to reliably send standard Novell SAP packets only when the routers detect a
change in advertised services. RSUP can transport network information either in conjunction with or
independently of the Enhanced IGRP routing function for IPX.
RSVD Reserved
RSVP Rapid Services Vertical Provisioning (f: RSVP)
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol. Protocol that supports the reservation of resources across an IP network.
Applications running on IP end systems can use RSVP to indicate to other nodes the nature (bandwidth,
jitter, maximum burst, and so forth) of the packet streams they want to receive. RSVP depends on IPv6. Also
known as Resource Reservation Setup Protocol. See also IPv6.
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
RT Remote Terminal
RT Remote Terminal (of DMS-1u) (f: TD)
RT Ring Tip
RT Ringing and Tone
RT Route Transfer
RTA Remote Terminal Adapter
RTA Remote Test Access
RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTAS-PC Remote Test & Access System-PC
RTB Rate Table
RTC Real-Time Clock
RTCM Real Time Cost Management
RTCP RTP Control Protocol. Protocol that monitors the QOS of an IPv6 RTP connection and conveys information
about the on-going session. See also RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol).
RTCS RISK TRACKING AND CONTROL SYSTEM
RTD Round Trip Delay
RTE Remote Terminal Emulation
RTE Route
RTF Rich Text Format
RTF Rich Text Format (Microsoft)
RTFM Read The Fantastic Manual. Acronym often used when someone asks a simple or common question.
RTFT Regular term full-time (f: PAPT)
RTI Response Type Indicator
RTIN The ESN of an MSAT Communicator. Uniquely identifies an MSAT Communicator
RTK Right to Know
RTL Resistor-Transistor Logic
RTL Retail
RTM Regional Trouble Management
RTM Right to Modify
RTM Real Time Monitor
RTM Regional Trouble Management
RTM Real-Time Management System
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol. Apple Computer's proprietary routing protocol. RTMP establishes and
maintains the routing information that is required to route datagrams from any source socket to any
destination socket in an AppleTalk network. Using RTMP, routers dynamically maintain routing tables to
reflect changes in topology. RTMP was derived from RIP. See also RIP (Routing Table Protocol).
RTMS Regional Trouble Management System (See BTMS)
RTMS Regional Trouble Management System
RTN Recorder Tens Number
RTO Rent to Own
RTO Recovery Time Objective
RTO Rent to Own
RTOS Real Time Operating System
RTP Real Time Protocol
RTP 1. Routing Table Protocol. VINES routing protocol based on RIP. Distributes network topology information
and aids VINES servers in finding neighboring clients, servers, and routers. Uses delay as a routing metric.
See also SRTP. 2. Rapid Transport Protocol. Provides pacing and error recovery for APPN data as it crosses
the APPN network. With RTP, error recovery and flow control are done end-to-end rather than at every node.
RTP prevents congestion rather than reacts to it. 3. Real-Time Transport Protocol. One of the IPv6
protocols. RTP is designed to provide end-to-end network transport functions for applications transmitting
real-time data, such as audio, video, or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. RTP
provides services such as payload type identification, sequence numbering, timestamping, and delivery
monitoring to real-time applications.
RTP Control Protocol See RTCP.
RTPT Regular term part-time (f: PATP)
RTS Ready To Ship
RTS Reliable Transfer Service
RTS Remote Test System
RTS Request To Send
RTS Remote Test Sub-system
RTS Request To Send. EIA/TIA-232 control signal that requests a data transmission on a communications line.
RTSC Read The Source Code.
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol. Enables the controlled delivery of real-time data, such as audio and video.
Sources of data can include both live data feeds, such live audio and video, and stored content, such as
pre-recorded events. RTSP is designed to work with established protocols, such as RTP and HTTP.
RTT Round-Trip Time. Time required for a network communication to travel from the source to the destination
and back. RTT includes the time required for the destination to process the message from the source and
generate a reply. RTT is used by some routing algorithms to aid in calculating optimal routes.
RTU Remote Terminal Unit (f: TD)
RTU Remote Termination Unit ie black box
RTZ Return To Zero
RU Remote Unit
RU Request Unit
RU Response Unit
RU Request Unit. IBM SNA parameter which specifies the frame size in bytes
RU Request/Response Unit. Request and response messages exchanged between NAUs in an SNA network.
RUC Resource usage code (f: CUR)
RUC Resource Utilization Code. Budget Alloc'n Code for Capital $
RUC Resource Usage Codes
RUCMED Resource Usage Category Monthly Expenditure
RUCMED Capital distribution to RUC codes
RUDP Reliable User Data Protoco.l
RUM Resource Utilization Management
RUMA Resource Usage Measurement Application
RUMA Resource Utilization Management Application
RUN Recorder Units Number
run-time memory Memory accessed while a program runs.
RUNSTATS IBM pgm to update DB2 catalog with DB2 physical table stats
RUOW Remote Unit Of Work
RUS Request/Response Units Sent
RUV Retirement Unit Value
RVA Reset Visual Alarm
RVI Router. A device that forwards traffic between networks. Forwarding decisions are made based on network
layer information and routing tables, often constructed by routing protocols.
RWL Range Wats Line
RWM Read Write Memory
RWM Read-write memory (f: MEV)
RWW Reduced Work Week
RX Receive (Data)
RX Remote Exchange
RX Remove Exchange
RXM Risk and Exposure Monitoring
RZ Return To Zero
S Service Date
S Sleeve Lead
S Status
S Supervisory (Frame)
S Interface CCITT definition of the ISDN 4-wire interface between TEI (or TE2 + TA) and NT2
S&E Servicing and Estimating
S&SP Service & Support Plans (like EWP)
S(T) System Technology
S-frame Supervisory frame. One of three SDLC frame formats. See also I-frame and U-frame.
S-HTTP Secure Hyper Text Transport Protocol
S-PVC Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit
S/D Signal to Distortion Ratio
S/DMS SONET Digital Multiplex System
S/R Signal to Noise Ratio
S/RSC SONET Remote Switching Centre
S/T Interfac CCITT definition of the ISDN 4-wire interface between TE1 (or TE2 + TA) and NT1
S/W Software
S/W Programmable Software
SA Satellite Tie Trunk
SA Secondary Access
SA Service Adapter
SA Service Affecting
SA Service Analysis
SA Source Address
SA Special Assembly
SA Superior Agent
SA Synchronous Allocation
SA Service Address
SA Serving Address
SA service assurance
SA systems analyst
SA SERVICE ASSURANCE
SA (data) service affecting
SA Query Service Address Query
SA-DB3-ANALY Analyis reports for Trouble Mgnt
SA/TN STREET ADDRESS/TELEPHONE NUMBER (PHASE 1)
SAA Service Adaptive Access
SAA System Software Associates
SAA Systems Application Architecture
SAA System Application Architecture
SAAES Security, Authentication, Authorization Encryption System
SAAR Seasonnally Adjusted Annual Rate (f: TAD)
SAAS Security, Authentication, Authorization System
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
SABME Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended
SAC Service Agreement Company
SAC Service Area Concept
SAC Serving Area Concept
SAC Single Attached Concentrator
SAC Special Area Code
SAC Serving Area Concept
SAC Special Assembly Code (USOC/SAC FILE)
SAC Special Assembly Code
SAC Single-Attached Concentrator. FDDI or CDDI concentrator that connects to the network by being cascaded
from the master port of another FDDI or CDDI concentrator.
SAC Subcriber Acquisition Cost
SACS Security Access Control System
SACs Service Agreement Companies
SAD Single Administrative Document
SAD Service Assurance Design
SADR Sender Attachment Delay Reorder
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
SAF Service Access Facility
SAF Station Administration Forecast (f: PAP)
SAF System Activation Fee
SAFE Secure Access Facility for the Enterprise
SAFER Split Access Flexible Egress Routing
SAG SQL Access Group
SAG Street Address Guide
SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
SAHU Software Assigned Hardware Unequipped
SAI Serving Area Interface
SAIC Science Applications International Corp
SAID Speech Activated Intelligent Dialing
SAIU SMDS Access Interface Unit
SAL SQLWindows Application Language
SAL Symbolic Assembly Language
SAL Selective Acceptance List (Call Privacy)
SALESIA Sales Information Access System
SAM Security Access Manager
SAM Serial Access Memory
SAM Switch and Alarm Module
SAM System Administration Manager
SAM Service Area Master
sam system application manager
SAMA Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
sampling rate Rate at which samples of a particular waveform amplitude are taken.
SAMS Service and Access Management System
SAMS Special Assembly Maintenance Sys
SAN Storage Area Network
SANE Standard Apple Numeric Environment
SAP Second Audio Program
SAP Service Access Point
SAP Service Advertizing Protocol
SAP Systems, Applications, and Programming In Data Processing
SAP Service Access Point
SAP SYSTEMS APPLICATION PRODUCT
SAP 1. Service Access Point. Field defined by the IEEE 802.2 specification that is part of an address
specification. Thus, the destination plus the DSAP define the recipient of a packet. The same applies to the
SSAP. See also DSAP and SSAP. 2. Service Advertising Protocol. IPX protocol that provides a means of
informing network clients, via routers and servers, of available network resources and services. See also
IPX.
SAPAQS SA Notification to Nortel
SAPI Scanner Application Programming Interface
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAR Segmentation and Reassembly
SAR Sysout Archival & Retrieval
SAR Systematic Absence Reporting (f: RSA)
SAR Sysout Archival and Retrieval
SAR Service Assurance Review
SAR Segmentation And Reassembly. One of the two sublayers of the AAL CPCS, responsible for dividing (at the
source) and reassembling (at the destination) the PDUs passed from the CS. The SAR sublayer takes the PDUs
processed by the CS and, after dividing them into 48-byte pieces of payload data, passes them to the ATM
layer for further processing. See also AAL, ATM layer, CPCS, CS, and SSCS.
SAR System Application Representative
SARB Security Advisory Review Board
SARE Sysout Archival & Retrieval Express
SARE Sysout Archival and Retrieval
SARE Billing information (such as toll utilization)
SARE Sysout Archival and REtrieval
SARM Set Asynchronous Response Mode
SARM Service Assurance Resources Manager
SARM SECURED ACCESS RESOURCE MANAGER
SARM-CALRS SARM-CALRS interface
SARME Set Asynchronous Response Mode Extended
SAS Single Attached Station
SAS Switched Access System
SAS Statistical Analysis System
SAS Statistical Tool
SAS switched access system
SAS 1. Single Attachment Station. Device attached only to the primary ring of an FDDI ring. Also known as a
Class B station. Compare with DAS. See also FDDI. 2. Statically Assigned Socket. Socket that is permanently
reserved for use by a designated process. In an AppleTalk network, SASs are numbered 1 to 127 they are
reserved for use by specific socket clients and for low-level built-in network services.
SASKTEL Saskatchewan Telephone
SASS Self Activation of Smart Touch Services
SAT Service Availability Table
SATAC C.O. electromechanical switch alarm collecting
SATAN Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
satellite A microwave receiver, repeater, regenerator in orbit above the earth.
satellite communication Use of orbiting satellites to relay data between multiple earth-based stations.
Satellite communications offer high bandwidth and a cost that is not related to distance between earth
stations, long propagation delays, or broadcast capability.
SATO Self-Aligned Thick Oxide Technology
SATUE Pluggins management
SATUE-REPTS Application to create reports from SATUE database
SATUE-SAP Pluggins management
SATURN The name of the MSAT Billing System under development by DOMUS
SAVDM Single-Application Virtual DOS Machine
SAVE Service Activity Verification Extract
SAVE Storage And Verification Element
SAVE3 (SAVE5 Service Activity Verification Extract
SAVS Service Assurance Voice System
SAWT Service average work time (f: TMAS)
SB Signal Battery
SB Single Beat
SBA Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation
SBA Special Billing Arrangement
SBC SBus Controller
SBC Single Board Computer
SBC Southern Bell Corporation
SBCS Single Byte Character Sets
SBMV Log On id on GPC
SBOARD StatusBoard
SBOM Security Board Of Management
SBP Sales Bonus Plan
SBSO Small Business/Small Office
SBU Software Business Unit
SBU Strategic Business Unit (f: UAS)
SBU Strategic Business Unit
SBus Bus technology used in Sun SPARC-based workstations and servers. The SBus specification was adopted by
the IEEE as a new bus standard.
SC Scanner
SC Secondary Cache
SC Service Circuit
SC Session Control
SC Shield Continuity
SC Short Circuit
SC Sleeve Connector
SC Switching Centre
SC Simple Connections
SC22 Sub Committee 22
SCA Single Call Arrangement
SCA Single Connector Attachment
SCA Switching Centre Area (f: ZOC)
SCA Selective Call Acceptance.
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SCAI Switch-to-Computer Applications Interface.
SCAM SCSI Configured AutoMatically
SCC SCC Inc
SCC Standards Council of Canada
SCC Switched Call Completion (f: ECRC)
SCC -> changed to OCS
SCC Settlement Coordinator Committee
SCC Switched Call Completion
SCCP Services de communications à commande programmée
SCCP Signalling Connection and Control Part
SCCP signal connection control part
SCCP Signaling Connection Control Part. Trillium software that supports routing and translation and management
functions and data transfer without logical signaling connections.
SCCS Software Controlled Communications Services (f: SCCP)
SCCS Source Code Control System
SCCS Source Code Control System in Unix environments
SCD SPARC Compliance Definition
SCE Service Creation Environment
SCE Service-Creation Environment
SCF Service Change Form
SCF Selective Call Forwarding.
SCFB Shared Cost Facility Based (interconnection / installation)
SCH Set Call Handler
SCH Set Call Handlers
SCH Schedule Table
SCHD Schedule
Scheduler Schedule.exe on Client Server
SCHEMA PC tool for engineering design
SCHV Switch, Contact, Horizontal, Vertical
SCI Scalable Coherent Interface
SCI Serial Communication Interface
SCIF Single Console Image Facility
SCIU Synchronous Clock Insertion Unit
SCL Speed Calling Long
SCL Speed Calling, Long Distance.
SCLO Special Circuit Layout Order
SCM Sacramento, California
SCM Single Chip Module
SCM Station Configuration Management
SCM Subscriber Carrier Module (f: MMA)
SCM Supply Chain Management (related to CRM)
SCMP Service Continuity Measurement Plan (f: SCMP)
SCNM Stentor Canadian Network Management (f: GRCS)
SCNM Stentor Canadian Network Management
SCO Santa Cruz Operation
SCODL Scan Conversion Object Description Language
SCOMC Secure Channel Operations Management Center
SCOOP Streamlined Central Office Ordering Process
SCORE Simulation Capability for Operating Revenue and Expense
SCOT Steering Committee on Telecommunications
SCOT Stepper Central Office Tester
SCOTS Switched Circuit Order Tracking System
SCP Service Control Point
SCP Service Control Point (1) (f: CCM)
SCP Service Control Point (2) (f: PCS)
SCP Service-Control Point
SCP Signal Control Point
SCP Software Change Procedures
SCP Software Controlled Pad
SCP Source Code Patching
SCP Special Compensation Payment (f: RS)
SCP Status and Control Panel
SCP Switching Centre Program
SCP Switching Control Point
SCP Sales Compensation Plan --> changed to RAP (f: PRR)
SCP Service Control Point (eg 800 Data Base w/n CCS7 Network)
SCP Service Control Point
SCP service control point (for 800 Service)
SCP switch control panel
SCP Service Control Point. An element of an SS7-based Intelligent Network which performs various service
functions, such as number translation, call setup and teardown, etc.
SCPC Single Channel per Carrier
SCPNB Simple Connections PIC Non Bell
SCR SCReen
SCR Serial Clock Received
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SCR Subscriber Control Relay
SCR Sustainable Cell Rate. Parameter defined by the ATM Forum for ATM traffic management. For VBR
connections, SCR determines the long-term average cell rate that can be transmitted. See also VBR.
SCRJ Selective Call Rejection.
SCS Speed Calling, Short List.
SCS Speed Calling Short
SCS Structural Cabling System
SCSA Signal Computing System Architecture
SCSD Ont Scan Point/Signal Distribution
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface (f: SCSI)
SCT Severe Congestion Threshold
SCTE Serial Clock Transmit External. Timing signal that DTE echoes to DCE to maintain clocking. SCTE is
designed to compensate for clock phase shift on long cables. When the DCE device uses SCTE instead of its
internal clock to sample data from the DTE, it is better able to sample the data without error even if there
is a phase shift in the cable. See also phase shift.
SCU Speed Calling Universal.
SCU Signal Control Unit
SCU Speed Calling User
SCU System Control Unit
SCWID Spontaneous Call Waiting Identification
SCXI Signal Conditioning eXtensions for Instrumentations
SD Schematic Drawing
SD Signal Distribution
SD Signal Distributor
SD Single Density
SD Standard Definition
SD Super Density
SD System Development SD(M)/Montreal SD(T)/Toronto
SD SAP Sales and Distribution Package
SD service description
SD (data) service degradation
SD-DVD Super Density - Digital Video Disc
SD-R Super Density Recordable
SD-RAM Super Density RAM
SD-ROM Super Density CD-ROM
SD-UX Software Distributor Unix
SDA Source Data Automation
SDAS Subscriber Database Administration System
SDB Sickness Disability Benefits
SDB Surveillance Dash Board (for first alert adjunct alarms)
SDB Surveillance Dash Board. Considered part of the Transport Surveillance Portfolio
SDB Surveillance Dasboard
SDB SURVEILLANCE DASHBOARD
SDC Service-Delimiter Character (f: SDC)
SDD Super Density Disc
SDDI Shielded Twisted Pair FDDI
SDDN Software Defined Data Network
SDE Software Development Environment
SDE Standard Development Environment
SDF Standard Developement Facility
SDF Standard Development Facility (Sygma SOE HP UX devlpmnt lab)
SDH Synchronous Data Hierarchy
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy. European standard that defines a set of rate and format standards that are
transmitted using optical signals over fiber. SDH is similar to SONET, with a basic SDH rate of 155.52 Mbps,
designated at STM-1. See also SONET and STM-1.
SDI Serial Digital Interface
SDI Selective Digital Interface
SDI Selective Dissemination of Information
SDI Sense Data Indicator
SDI Serial Data Interface (f: IDS)
SDI Standard Disk Interface
SDI Switched Digital International
SDIF System Independent Data Format
SDK Software Developers Kit (Microsoft)
SDK Software Development Kit
SDL Supervisory Data Link
SDL Synchronous Data Link
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDLC solution development life cycle
SDLC synchronous data link control
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control. SNA data link layer communications protocol. SDLC is a bit-oriented, full-
duplex serial protocol that has spawned numerous similar protocols, including HDLC and LAPB. See also HDLC
and LAPB.
SDLC broadcast Feature that allows a Cisco router that receives an all-stations broadcast on a virtual
multidrop line to propagate the broadcast to each SDLC line that is a member of the virtual multidrop line.
SDLC Transport Cisco router feature with which disparate environments can be integrated into a single, high-
speed, enterprise-wide network. Native SDLC traffic can be passed through point-to-point serial links with
other protocol traffic multiplexed over the same links. Cisco routers can also encapsulate SDLC frames
inside IP datagrams for transport over arbitrary (non-SDLC) networks. Replaces proxy polling. See also proxy
polling.
SDLLC SDLC Logical Link Control. Cisco IOS feature that performs translation between SDLC and IEEE 802.2 type
2.
SDM Service Delivery Management
SDM Software Development Multi-tasking
SDM Subrate Digital Multiplexing
SDM Surveillance Data Manager
SDM Space Division Multiplexing
SDM Supernode Data Manager
SDMA Surveillance Data Manager Alarms
SDMG Surveillance Data Manager Gross Status
SDMS SONET DMS
SDMS SONET Digital Multiplex System
SDN Software Defined Network
SDN Switch Digital Network
SDN switched digital network
SDN Secondary Directory Number.
SDO IBM Solution Developer Operations
SDO Scheduled Day Off (f: JCP)
SDP Optional Stock Dividend Program (f: PDA)
SDP Strategic Director Paper
SDR Software Digit Receiver or Register
SDR Standard Drawing Rates
SDRAM Synchronous DRAM
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDS Software Development System
SDS Switched Digital Service
SDS system design specification
SDS System Design Specification
SDSE Standard Development and Support Environment
SDSL Single-line Digital Subscriber Line. One of four DSL technologies. SDSL delivers1.544 Mbps both
downstream and upstream over a single copper twisted pair. The use of a single twisted pair limits the
operating range of SDSL to 10,000 feet (3048.8 meters). Compare with ADSL, HDSL, and VDSL.
SDSU SMDS DSU. DSU for access to SMDS via HSSIs and other serial interfaces.
SDT Start Data Traffic
SDTF SNA Development and Test Facility
SDTS Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SDU Service Data Unit
SDU Service Discriminator Unit
SDU Service Data Unit. Unit of information from an upper-layer protocol that defines a service request to a
lower-layer protocol.
SDVN Switched Digital Video Network
SE Special Edition
SE Specific Estimate
SE Switching Element
SEAL Simple and Efficient AAL. Scheme used by AAL5 in which the SAR sublayer segments CS PDUs without adding
additional fields. See also AAL, AAL5, CS, and SAR.
SEAS Software Evolution and Administrative Support
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Security Exchange Commission
SECAM Sequential Color And Memory
SECNCI Secondary Network Channel Interface
secondary See secondary station.
secondary ring One of the two rings making up an FDDI or CDDI ring. The secondary ring is usually reserved
for use in the event of a failure of the primary ring. Compare with primary ring.
secondary station In bit-synchronous data link layer protocols such as HDLC, a station that responds to
commands from a primary station. Sometimes referred to simply as a secondary. See also primary station.
SECT Section or Sectional
Section DCC Section Data Communications Channel. In OSS, a 192-kbps data communications channel embedded
in the section overhead for OAM&P traffic between two SONET network elements. See also OAM&P and SONET.
security management One of five categories of network management defined by ISO for management of OSI
networks. Security management subsystems are responsible for controlling access to network resources. See
also accounting management, configuration management, fault management, and performance management.
SEE Service Extension Environment
SEE Software Engineering Environment
seed router Router in an AppleTalk network that has the network number or cable range built in to its port
descriptor. The seed router defines the network number or cable range for other routers in that network
segment and responds to configuration queries from nonseed routers on its connected AppleTalk network,
allowing those routers to confirm or modify their configurations accordingly. Each AppleTalk network must
have at least one seed router. See also nonseed router.
SEF Service Extension Feature
SEFAS Speech Enabled Field Access System
segment 1. Section of a network that is bounded by bridges, routers, or switches. 2. In a LAN using a bus
topology, a segment is a continuous electrical circuit that is often connected to other such segments with
repeaters. 3. Term used in the TCP specification to describe a single transport layer unit of information.
The terms datagram, frame, message, and packet are also used to describe logical information groupings at
various layers of the OSI reference model and in various technology circles.
Segmentation And Reassembly See SAR.
SEJ Seattle Junction, Washington
SEL Selector
selector Identifier (octet string) used by an OSI entity to distinguish among multiple SAPs at which it
provides services to the layer above.
SELF Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SEM Switching Equipment Modernization (f: MEC)
SEM switching equipment modernization
SEMCOE Sun European Manufacturing Center of Excellence
SEND Clear to Send
SEP Stentor Event Processing
Sequence Number Protection See SNP.
Sequenced Packet Exchange See SPX.
Sequenced Packet Protocol See SPP.
Sequenced Routing Update Protocol See SRTP.
SER Standard Error of the Regression
Serial Clock Transmit External See SCTE.
Serial Line Internet Protocol See SLIP.
Serial Line lnternet Protocol Similar to PPP, SLIP is another standard protocol used to run TCP/IP over
serial lines, such as telephone circuits or RS-232 cables. Unlike PPP, however, SLIP does not work on a LAN
connections. SLIP used to be the most popular way for dialup users to access the Internet, but PPP quickly
overcame SLIP because of its ease of use and integration into many client operating systems. (SLIP)
serial transmission Method of data transmission in which the bits of a data character are transmitted
sequentially over a single channel. Compare with parallel transmission.
Serial Tunnel See STUN.
SERSS (the Telebec Service System)
server A combination of hardware ans software capable of recognizing and responding to client requests for
services such as shared access to a file system, a printer, or an electronic mail system to local area
network (LAN) users or clients. Node or software program that provides services to clients. See also back
end, client, and FRF.11. A computer that provides resources, such as files or other information. Common
Internet servers include file servers and name servers Domain Name Service.
Server Message Block See SMB.
SERVICE SO request/held order tracking system
service access point See SAP.
Service Advertising Protocol See SAP.
service data unit See SDU.
service flow Part of GT's KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
service point Interface between non-SNA devices and NetView that sends alerts from equipment unknown to the
SNA environment.
service profile identifier See SPID.
Service Provider See Internet Service Provider.
Service Régi now included in PLANICOM as a module of it
Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol See SSCOP.
service specific convergence sublayer See SSCS.
SERVITUD QR Right of ways management system(OR ORROWS)
SERVORD Service Order Subsystem (Software Increment)
SERVORD Client/Server tool to access DMS through NSMS
ServOrd Service Order (Ontario only)
SERVORD Service Order.
SES Special Exchange Services
SESI Station Equipment Shelf Investment
SESI Sygma Enterprise Systems Infrastructure
SESI station equipment shelf stock investment
session 1. Related set of communications transactions between two or more network devices. 2. In SNA, a
logical connection enabling two NAUs to communicate.
session layer Layer 5 of the OSI reference model. This layer establishes, manages, and terminates sessions
between applications and manages data exchange between presentation layer entities. Corresponds to the data
flow control layer of the SNA model. See also application layer, data-link layer, network layer, physical
layer, PQ, and transport layer.
SET Secure Electronic Transactions. SET specification developed to allow for secure credit card and off-line
debit card (check card) transactions over the World-Wide Web.
SET Code Settlement Table
SET Secure Electronic Transaction
SETI Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SETI Selected Extracts of Toll Information (f: SETI)
SETI Selected Extracts of Toll Information
SF Single Frequency
SF Special Facility/Assembly (f: MS)
SF Super Frame
SF Super Frame Format
SF Superframe
SF super frame
SF Super Frame. Common framing type used on T1 circuits. SF consists of 12 frames of 192 bits each, with the
193rd bit providing error checking and other functions. SF is superseded by ESF, but is still widely used.
Also called D4 framing. See also ESF.
SFA Sales Force Automation
SFAA Système de facturation de l'Assistance-annuaire (e: DACS)
SFBI Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect
SFC supplementary functional components
SFCM Spool File Conversion Machine
SFD Start Frame Delimiter
SFDEV Store File Device (f: SFDEV)
SFDP Strategic Fiber Deployment Plan
SFF Small Form Factor
SFF Small Form Factor (PCI Specification)
SFIC Standard Facility Interface Card
SFNB Security First Network Bank
SFO Service Fiber Optic
SFS Symbolic File System
SFS Shared Files System (f: SFS)
SFT Special Facilities Tariff (f: TMS)
SFT System Fault Tolerant
SFT Special Facilities Tariff
SFT-III System Fault Tolerant III NetWare
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SFU Single Family Unit (for VDSL)
SG Shield Ground
SG Signal Ground
SGBC Services généraux de Bell Canada (e: BCCC)
SGCP Simple Gateway Control Protocol. Controls Voice over IP gateways by an external call control element
(called a call-agent). This has been adapted to allow SGCP to control switch ATM Circuit Emulation Service
circuits (called endpoints in SGCP). The resulting system (call-agents and gateways) allows for the call-
agent to engage in Common Channel Signalling (CCS) over a 64-Kbps CES circuit, governing the interconnection
of bearer channels on the CES interface.
SGI Silicon Graphics Inc
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language (f: SGML)
SGML Standardized Generalized Markup Language. International standard for the definition of system-
independent, device-independent methods of representing text in electronic form.
SGMP Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol. Network management protocol that was considered for Internet
standardization and later evolved into SNMP. Documented in RFC 1028. See also SNMP.
SGMP Simple Gateway Management Protocol
SGRAM Synchronous Graphics RAM
SGUE-SAP Interface with SAP for SGUE; uses FTP
shadowing Form of replication in which well-defined units of information are copied to several DSAs.
shaping See traffic shaping.
SHARC Super Harvard ARChitecture
SHARE Society to Help Alleviate Redundant Effort
SHDSL SYMMETRICAL HDSL
SHFX Short Haul FX
shielded cable Cable that has a layer of shielded insulation to reduce EMI.
Shielded Twisted-Pair See STP.
SHM Short Hold Mode
SHOCS Stentor Hotel Commissions System
Shortest Path First algorithm See SPF.
shortest-path routing Routing that minimizes distance or path cost through application of an algorithm.
SHTTP Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol
SHU Stop Hunt
SHV Standard High Volume
SI International System of Units
SI Scanner Input
SI Service Index
SI Short Internal Supervision
SI Single Instruction
SI Slave Interface
SI Storage Interconnect
SI Single Image
SI SERVICE INTERFACE
SI Screening Indicator
SI CODE Service Integrator CODE
SIA Semiconductor Industry Association
SIB Survivor income benefit (f: RDS)
SIBC Stentor International Billing Centre
SIC SCSI Interface Controller
SIC Standard Industry Code
SICC Standard Industrial Classification Code
SID Scheduled Issue Date
SID SecurID (smart-card for NSMS access)
SID SecurID smart-card for NSMS access
SID System Identification
SID Service ID. A number that defines (at the MAC sublayer) a particular mapping between a cable modem (CM)
and the CMTS. The SID is used for the purpose of upstream bandwidth allocation and class-of-service
management.
SIDF System Independent Data Format
SIDF System-Independent Data Format (SIDF Association)
SIDR Service Independent Data Requester
SIE Start Interpretive Execution
SIF Signalling Information Field
SIF Software Input Form (800 Service)
SIG Signal
SIG Special Interest Group
SIG Système intégré de gestion (e: MIS)
SIG Special-Interest Group
SIG 1. Signal. 2. Special Interest Group. SIGs sponsor a variety of Listservs, IRC channels, and Internet
sites. Also a nickname for a Signature.
SIG Secure Information Gateway
SIGGRAPH Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics
Signal path Route of a signal channel that carries signaling data.
signal quality error See SQE.
signaling Process of sending a transmission signal over a physical medium for purposes of communication.
signaling packet Generated by an ATM-connected device that wants to establish a connection with another such
device. The signaling packet contains the ATM NSAP address of the desired ATM endpoint, as well as any QoS
parameters required for the connection. If the endpoint can support the desired QoS, it responds with an
accept message, and the connection is opened. See also QoS.
Signaling System 7 See SS7.
Signature An ASCII text file that can be automatically attached to the bottom of a piece of email or newsgroup
posting that identifies the sender. Many signatures (or sigs) use symbols and characters to create images or
words to make the sig more interesting.
SIJ Service Interface Jack
SIJ Smart Interface Jack
SIJ Supplementary Incoming Junctor
SIJ Service Interface Jack
SIJ Service Interface Jack on cust prem
SIJ smart interface jack
SIL Supplementary Incoming Link
Silicon Switch Processor See SSP.
silicon switching Switching based on the SSE, which allows the processing of packets independent of the SSP
(Silicon Switch Processor) system processor. Silicon switching provides high-speed, dedicated packet
switching. See also SSE and SSP (Silicon Switch Processor).
silicon switching engine See SSE.
SILS Secure Interoperable LAN Standard
SIM Set Initialization Mode
SIM Subscriber Identity Number
SIM Surveillance Interface Module
SIM Micro computer inventory tracking system
SIM serial interface module
SIM Short Informational Message
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIM Subscriber Interface Module
SIM Set Initialization Mode
SIMD Serial Impact Dot Matrix
SIMD Single Instruction/ Multiple Data
SIMDP Summer Initial Management Development Program
SIMM Single in Line Memory Modules
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SIMM Single Inline Memory Module
SIMM single in-line memory module
SIMP Single Income Many Payments
SIMPL Symmetric Integrated MultiProcessor Logic
simple and efficient AAL See SEAL.
Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol See SGMP.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol See SMTP.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Protocol used to transfer email. SMTP transfers mail from server to
server, and the end user must use POP (see also Post Office Protocol) to transfer the messages to their
machine.
Simple Multicast Routing Protocol See SMRP.
Simple Network Management Protocol See SNMP.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Developed to manage nodes on an IP network, SNMP is an Internet
standard protocol. It can be used to manage wiring hubs, video toasters, CD ROM jukeboxes, and many other
devices.
simplex Capability for transmission in only one direction between a sending station and a receiving station.
Broadcast television is an example of a simplex technology. Compare with full duplex and half duplex.
SIMULA SIMUlation LAnguage
Simulation Plug-in movement (or shifting) simulation (Simulation Regional)
SIMVAP Simware Value Added Product (3270 Emulator)
SIMVAP VB Visual Basic connection tool to IIS through SIMVAP
SIN Social insurance number (f: NAS)
single attachment station See SAS.
single-attached concentrator See SAC.
single-mode fiber Fiber-optic cabling with a narrow core that allows light to enter only at a single angle.
Such cabling has higher bandwidth than multimode fiber, but requires a light source with a narrow spectral
width (for example, a laser). Also called monomode fiber. See also multimode fiber.
single-route explorer packet See spanning explorer packet.
single-vendor network Network using equipment from only one vendor. Single-vendor networks rarely suffer
compatibility problems. See also multivendor network.
SIO Service Information Octet
SIO Simultaneous Interface Operation
SIP Service Implementation Plan
SIP Service Improvement Provisioning
SIP Single In-line Package
SIP Single Inline Package
SIP SMDS Interface Protocol
SIP Service Interface Point : Demarc point
SIP 1. SMDS Interface Protocol. Used in communications between CPE and SMDS network equipment. Allows the CPE
to use SMDS service for high-speed WAN internetworking. Based on the IEEE 802.6 DQDB standard. See also
DQDB. 2. Serial Interface Processor. 3. Session Initiation Protocol.
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIPO Signalling Indication Processor Outage
SIPOC Joint-use pole inventory system
SIPP Single In-Line Pin Package
SIQ Single Input Queue
SIQ Self Identification Questionnaire
SIR Serial Infrared
SIRIUS French name for Beacon initiative
SIS System Information system
SIS System Installation Specification
SISD Single Instruction - Single Data
SIT Systems Integration Testing
Site Group of closely related configuration data. It can be the name of a physical location or it can be a
name you choose to give to one segment of your overall system.
SITEB BTR trouble tickets managment and inventory on customers and equipments
SIU Serial Interface Unit
SIU Spare In Use
SIU Standard Interworking Unit
SIU System Interface Unit
SJF Shortest Job First
SKI Sales Key Indicators
SKILLS Skills Assessment Process (see PIAC for QR)
SKK Schrager, Klemens and Krueger Inc (Vendor of ACF2)
SKMC Secure Key Management Centre
SKMS Secure Key Management Service
SKU Stock Keeping Unit
Skytel Skytel
SL Secretarial Lines
SL Service Link
SL Single-Layer
SL Stored Logic
SL Study Life (f: DE)
SL-1) SL-1 PBX from NT)
SL-10) SL-10 Packet Switch from NT)
SL-100 SL-100 (DMS-100) IBS SMDR Reporting
SL1 Stored Logic 1
SLA Service Level Agreement (f: EQS)
SLA Service Level Assessment (latest definition)
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLA Service Level Agreement – agreement between the End Customer and Supplier
SLA Service Level Agreement. It is a measure of service for a particular function t
SLA SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT
SLA Service Level Agreement.
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
SLAC SL-1) Alarm Concentration
SLAM Synchronous Loop Access Module
SLAS Secondary Local Access Supplier
SLAT System Line-up and Test
SLAT SYSTEM LINE-UP AND TESTING
SLB Single Line Business
SLBS Scan Line Buffer Status
SLC Set Loss Charge
SLC Smectic LC) - smektyczny LC,
SLC Speech Link Connecting Frame
SLC Speech Link Connector
SLC Subscriber Loop Carrier
SLC Synchronous Link Channel
SLC Signalling link code (f: COC)
SLC Selection Criteria Table
SLC Signaling link code. Code that identifies a linkset.
SLD Service Level Definitions
SLE Screening List Editing.
SLED Single Large Expensive Disk
SLED Single Living Electronic Document
SLG Service Level Guarantee – Agreement between Supplier and Sup-Suppliers
SLI Straight Line Imaging
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card/Circuit
sliding window flow control Method of flow control in which a receiver gives transmitter permission to transmit
data until a window is full. When the window is full, the transmitter must stop transmitting until the
receiver advertises a larger window. TCP, other transport protocols, and several data link layer protocols
use this method of flow control.
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol. Standard protocol for point-to-point serial connections using a variation
of TCP/IP. Predecessor of PPP. See also CSI and PPP.
SLIP See Serial Line Internet Protocol.
SLIP Service Level Indicator Plan (f: PEQS)
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLL Supplementary Line Link
SLLC Switched Logical Link Connection
SLM Service Level Management
SLM Spatial Light Modulator
SLM System Load Module
SLM Service Level Management
SLM Statistical Language Model
SLO Service Level Objective
slotted ring LAN architecture based on a ring topology in which the ring is divided into slots that
circulate continuously. Slots can be either empty or full, and transmissions must start at the beginning of
a slot.
SLR Service Level Reporter
SLRD Subscriber Long Route Design
SLS Signalling Link Selection
SLS Softlanding Linux System
SLSS System Library Subscription Service
SLU Subscriber Line Usage
SLUR Single Line Usoc Restructure
SLUS Subscriber Line Usage System
SLV-CHP Single Line Vision - Customer Home Page
SM Singing Margin
SM Systems Methods
SM Single Mode fibre (for longer distances of approx 40km)
SM SAP Service Management Package
SM synchronous multiplexor
SM&P Storage Management and Performance
SMA Subscriber module for access (f: MA)
SMA SUBSCRIBER MODULE FOR ACCESS (FRENCH MA)
SMAC State Monitoring Array Controller
SMAC Source MAC. MAC address specified in the Source Address field of a packet. Compare with DMAC. See also
MAC address.
SMAE System Management Application Entity
SMAP Systems Management Application Process
SMART Sales Management and Results Tracking
SMART Self Monitoring Analisys and Reporting Technology
SMART System Measurement Analysis in Real Time
SMARTS Surveillance Management And Remote Test System
SMARTS-PBX SURVEILLANCE MANAGEMENT AND REMOTE TEST SYSTEM (O/Q)
SMASS (SMART) MECHANIZED ASSIGNMENT OF SPECIAL SERVICES
SMB Server Message Block
SMB Supernode Multi-computing Base
SMB Small Medium Business
SMB Server Message Block. File-system protocol used in LAN manager and similar NOSs to package data and
exchange information with other systems.
SMC Standard Microsystems Inc
SMC Storage Management System
SMCC Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
SMD Surface Mounted Devices
SMD Smart Mediation Device
SMDE Station Message Detail Recording Enhanced
SMDI Simplified Message Desk Interface
SMDI Simplified Message Disk Interface
SMDI Simplified Message Desk Interface.
SMDR Station Message Detail Record(ing)
SMDR station message detail recording
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data/Digital Service
SMDS Switched Multi-MegaBit Digital Services
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service. High-speed, packet-switched, datagram-based WAN networking technology
offered by the telephone companies. See also CBDS.
SMDS Interface Protocol See SIP.
SME 1. Small/Medium/Emerging Customer. 2. Subject Matter Experts (sometimes known as primes).
SME Subject Matter Expert
SME Small, Medium-sized Enterprise
SME Small and Medium size Enterprises
SME Small Medium Enterprise
SME Subject Matter Expert
SME Subject Matter Experts
SMESC Situation, Mission, Execution, Service & Support, Command & Signals
SMF Single-Mode Fiber.
SMF Single Mode Fiber PMD
SMF Single Mode Fibre
SMF Statistic Management Facility
SMF Single Mode Fibre
SMG Sales Management Group
SMI Serial Maintenance Interface
SMI Structure of Management Information
SMI Structure of Management Information. Document (RFC 1155) specifying rules used to define managed objects
in the MIB. See also MIB.
Smiley The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing,
especially in email messages and IRC. Here's an example of a simple smiley: :) . If you don't see it, tilt
your head to the left and look at it. The colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth.
The smile means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm. Other
combinations of characters can express many other emotions. You may also hear them referred to as emoticons.
SMIS Specific Management Information Passing Service
SMIT System Management Interface Tool
SMIT System Management Interface Tool on the IBM RS6000 wkstn
SMK Software Migration Kit (Microsoft)
SML Service Management Layer (4th layer)
SML Service Management Layer (TMN term
SML SERVICE MANAGEMENT LAYER
SMLI Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc
SMM System Management Mode
SMM Stentor Management Meeting (f: CGS)
SMM Stentor Management Meeting
SMO State Machine Object.
smoothing See traffic shaping.
SMP Sympatico Marketing Portal
SMP Self-Load Maintenance Program
SMP Simple Mailing Protocol
SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing
SMP Symmetrical Multi-Processing
SMP Strategic Market Plan
SMP Smart Maintenance Panel
SMP strategic market plan
SMPT Strategic Market Plan Tracking
SMR Switch-Mode Rectifier
SMR System Modification Request
SMR Specialized Mobile Radio services. e.g. two-way radio?
SMRP Simple Multicast Routing Protocol. Specialized multicast network protocol for routing multimedia data
streams on enterprise networks. SMRP works in conjunction with multicast extensions to the AppleTalk
protocol.
SMS Service Management System (f: PGS)
SMS Storage Management System
SMS Switch Monitoring System (Bell OR PC system for STP/SSP)
SMS Software Management System (f: SMS)
SMS Storage Management Services
SMS Synchronization Monitor System
SMS SAS Management System
SMS/VNET 250 Switch Monitoring System Virtual Networks
SMST SubMicron Semiconductor Technology
SMT Station Management Technology
SMT Surface Mounted Technology
SMT Surface-Mount Technology
SMT surface module technology
SMT Station Management. ANSI FDDI specification that defines how ring stations are managed.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Internet protocol providing e-mail services.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail-Transfer Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMU Subscriber Carrier Module Urban (f: MAU)
SMU Subscriber Module Urban
SMU subscriber multiple unit
SMU SUBSCRIBER MODULE - URBAN
SN Sequence Number
SN Service Network
SN Switched Network
SN station number
SNA Single Number Access (7 digit)
SNA System(s) Network Architecture
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SNA System Network Architecture (f: SNA)
SNA System Network Architecture (IBM)
SNA Systems Network Architecture. Large, complex, feature-rich network architecture developed in the 1970s by
IBM. Similar in some respects to the OSI reference model, but with a number of differences. SNA is
essentially composed of seven layers. See data flow control layer, data-link control layer, path control
layer, physical control layer, presentation services layer, transaction services layer, and transmission
control layer.
SNA Distribution Services See SNADS.
SNA Network Interconnection See SNI.
SNA-PUT2 SNA Physical Unit Type T2
SNAC Switch(ing) Network Analysis Centre
SNAC Switching Network Analysis Centre
SNAC Switched Network Analysis Centre (produces plant and traffic trouble reports)
SNAC System Network Analysis Centre
SNADS Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services Protocol
SNADS SNA Distribution Services
SNADS SNA Distribution Services. Consists of a set of SNA transaction programs that interconnect and cooperate
to provide asynchronous distribution of information between end users. One of three SNA transaction
services. See also DDM and DIA.
SNALU System Network Architecture Logical Unit
SNAP Standard Network Access Protocol
SNAP Sub-Network Access Protocol
SNAP Switched Network Analysis Program
SNAP Synchronous Network Access Protocol
SNAP Stentor National Aggregation Platform
SNAP Subnetwork Access Protocol. Internet protocol that operates between a network entity in the subnetwork
and a network entity in the end system. SNAP specifies a standard method of encapsulating IP datagrams and
ARP messages on IEEE networks. The SNAP entity in the end system makes use of the services of the subnetwork
and performs three key functions: data transfer, connection management, and QoS selection.
SNAP Stentor National Automated Provisioning
SNAPDU SNA Protocol Data Unit
SNAPS Strategy for a New Accounts Payable System
SNARE Stentor National Automated Rating Engine
SNAT System Numbering Assignment Tool. Assign sys num. to DS1 / DS3
SNC Induction Control Transformer
SNC Strategic Networks Consulting
SNCN Stentor National Communications Network
SNCP Single Node Control Point
SND Strategic Network Design
SNDCF SubNetwork Dependent Convergence Function
SNEP Strategic Network Evolution Plan
SNET Synchronous Network
SNet Sub-Network
SNET north american customer storage database
SNF Street Notification Form
SNG Seize Number Group
SNGD Systeme National de Gestion des Dérangements (see NTMS)
SNI 1. Subscriber Network Interface. Interface for SMDS-based networks that connects CPE and an SMDS switch.
See also UNI. 2. SNA Network Interconnection. IBM gateway connecting multiple SNA networks.
SNI Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
SNI SNA Network Interconnection
SNI Subscriber-Network Interface
SNI SNA Interconnect
SNI SNA Network Interconnection
SNIC Service Network Improvement Committee
SNIP Skill needs identification process (f: PICN)
SNIP SERVICE & NETWORK INTELLIGENCE PLANNING
SNIP SKILLS NEED IDENTIFICATION PROCESS
SNM Smart Network Manager (f: GRS)
SNM Sonet Network Manager for DE4ES
SNM SMART NETWORK MANAGEMENT
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (Old name)
SNMP Systems Network Management Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol. Network management protocol used almost exclusively in TCP/IP
networks. SNMP provides a means to monitor and control network devices, and to manage configurations,
statistics collection, performance, and security. See also SGMP and SNMP2.
SNMP communities Authentication scheme that enables an intelligent network device to validate SNMP requests.
SNMP2 SNMP Version 2. Version 2 of the popular network management protocol. SNMP2 supports centralized as well
as distributed network management strategies, and includes improvements in the SMI, protocol operations,
management architecture, and security. See also SNMP.
SNMS Service Network Management System
SNO Stentor National Overlay
SNO Stentor National Overlay platform
SNO Stentor Network Overlay
SNP Sequence Number Protection.
SNPA SubNetwork Point of Attachment. Data link layer address (such as an Ethernet address, X.25 address, or
Frame Relay DLCI address). SNPA addresses are used to configure a CLNS route for an interface.
SNPA Serving Number Plan Digit
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SNR Single Number Reach
SNRM Set Normal Response.
SNRM Set Normal Response Mode
SNRME Set Normal Response. Mode Exchange.
SNS Special NNX Study Table
SNS Single Number service
SNTS Stentor National Transport System
SNTS Stentor National Transport Network
SO Service Observing
SO Service Order
SO Serving Office
SO-DIMM Small Outline DIMM
SO2 Sulphur Dioxide
SOA Service Order Activation
SOAP Synchronized Optical Analysis Program
SOAR Space Optimization and Reconciliation
SOC Stentor Operating Company
SOC Software Optionality Control
SOC Stentor Owned Companies
SOC Stentor Owner Company (f: CPS)
SOC Stentor Owner Company
SOC Stentor Operating Company
SOC Stentor Owned Company
SOC Stentor Owner Company
SOC Service Order Code
SOCAC Stentor Owner Company Aggregation Centre (f: CSCPS)
SOCCET Stentor Owner Company Cost & Economic Task Force
socket 1. Software structure operating as a communications end point within a network device. 2.
Addressable entity within a node connected to an AppleTalk network sockets are owned by software processes
known as socket clients. AppleTalk sockets are divided into two groups: SASs, which are reserved for clients
such as AppleTalk core protocols, and DASs, which are assigned dynamically by DDP upon request from clients
in the node. An AppleTalk socket is similar in concept to a TCP/IP port.
socket client Software process or function implemented in an AppleTalk network node.
socket listener Software provided by a socket client to receive datagrams addressed to the socket. See also
socket client.
socket number 8-bit number that identifies a socket. A maximum of 254 different socket numbers can be
assigned in an AppleTalk node.
SOCS Southern Ontario Communications Services
SOCS Special Order Control System
SOD Single order document (f: COMU)
SOD Service on demand
SOD Service Order Distributor - see COBI
SOD UPDATE Table updates to SODB
SODA System Operation Documentaion Aid(DOCAID)
SODB Shared Order Data Base (f: BCDD)
SODB Service Order Database
SODB Shared Order Data Base
SODB Service on Demand
SODB Shared Order Database
SODB/OMS Shared Order Data Base/Order Management System
SODS Stentor Operational Development Support (replaces ODC)
SOE Standard Operating Environment
SOE Service Order Entry
SOE standard operating environment
SOF Service Order Feed
SOF Service Order Filter - see COBI
SOFA System for Operation and Financial Analysis
SOFS Southern Ontario Field Services
SOG Service Order Generator
SOH Section Overhead
SOH Station Operator-Handled (f: NNT)
SOHO Small Office/Home Office
SOHO Small Office Home Office. Refers to the Home office envirnmt
SOHO Small Office & Home Office
SOHO Small Office, Home Office. Networking solutions and access technologies for offices that are not directly
connected to large corporate networks.
SOJ Supplementary Outgoing Junctor
SOL Station Other Line
SOL Supplementary Outgoing Link
SOL Specifications On Line
SOLAR Strategic On-Line Analytics & Reporting
SOLD Save on Long Distance (f: FRIC)
sold service Part of KPI definitions. Click here for list and definitions.
SOLS Service Order Language Standards
SOM System Object Model
SOM System Object Model on OS/2 workstation
SOM Service Order Manager - see COBI
SOMA Service Order Management and Activation
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SONET Synchronous Optical Network (f: SONET)
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork ie fibre transmission
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SONET Synchronous Optical Network. High-speed (up to 2.5 Gbps) synchronous network specification developed by
Bellcore and designed to run on optical fiber. STS-1 is the basic building block of SONET. Approved as an
international standard in 1988. See also SDH, STS-1, and STS-3c.
SONET 4-40 Sonet Radio Equipment
SOOT Sales Online Ordering Tool
SOOT Service Order On-line Tool
SOP Service Order Processor
SOP Service Order Processor - see COBI
SOPE Sales Order & Provisioning Estimate
SOPRO Service Order Process Improvement Project
Sopro/OMS Order Management System
SOR Service Order Reformatter - see COBI
SORCES Service Office Record and Computer Entry System
SORD The Service Order screen in LINK and CNBS
SORDACS Service Order System
SORT Soutient Opérationel du Réseau de transport
SOS Support Operating System
SOSIP Swedish GOSIP
SOST Special Operator Service Traffic (f: SST)
SOST Special Operator Services Traffic
SOT Search and Order Tool
SOTA State Of The Art
SOU Soutien (French)
source address Address of a network device that is sending data. See also destination address.
Source MAC See SMAC.
Source Service Sccess Point See SSAP.
Source-Route Bridging See SRB.
Source-Route TransLational Bridging See SR/TLB.
Source-Route Transparent bridging See SRT.
Southeastern Universities Research Association Net See SURAnet.
SOW Statement Of Work
SP Scalable POWERparallel
SP Sent Paid
SP Service Pak
SP Service spécialisé (e: DED)
SP Signalling Point
SP Single Precision
SP Spare
SP Traffic Service Position
SP Service provider (f: FS; FDS)
SP Systems Planning
SP Service Provisioning
SP systems processing
SP SERVICE PROVISIONING
SP Switch Processor. Cisco 7000-series processor module that acts as the administrator for all CxBus
activities. Sometimes called ciscoBus controller. See also CxBus.
SP&A SERVICE PROVISIONING AND ACTIVATION
SP-1 Store Program #1
SP-1 Stored Program - 1
SP1 Stored Program 1 system
SP1) Stored Program 1 (Hybrid Mechanical-Digital Telephone Switch
SPA Signal Processor Accelerator
SPA Software Publishers Association
SPAAL see LDRFS (Syst. Prév. Achemin. Adaptatif Local french version of LDRFS)
SPACE Service Provisioning and Creation Environment
SPAG Standards Promotion and Application Group
SPAG Standards Promotion and Application Group. Group of European OSI manufacturers that chooses option
subsets and publishes these in the "Guide to the Use of Standards" (GUS).
SPAIRE Access Network Utilization Tool
SPAIRE SYSTEM FOR PLANT ASSIGNMENT INVENTORY AND RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT?
spam Term used to describe unsolicited e-mail or newsgroup posts, often in the form of commercial
announcements. The act of sending a spam is called, naturally spamming.
SPAM Speed Prediction Accuracy Model
SPAMS Satellite Performance and Management System
SPAN System for Planning Access Network
SPAN System for Planning the Access Network
SPAN Planning for Copper Util/Recommendations
SPAN SYSTEM FOR PLANNING ACCESS NETWORK
SPAN Switched Port Analyzer. Feature of the Catalyst 5000 switch that extends the monitoring abilities of
existing network analyzers into a switched Ethernet environment. SPAN mirrors the traffic at one switched
segment onto a predefined SPAN port. A network analyzer attached to the SPAN port can monitor traffic from
any of the other Catalyst switched ports.
span Full-duplex digital transmission line between two digital facilities.
SPAN Switched Port Analyzer.
spanning explorer packet Follows a statically configured spanning tree when looking for paths in an SRB
network. Also known as a limited-route explorer packet or a single-route explorer packet. See also all-
routes explorer packet, explorer packet, and local explorer packet.
spanning tree Loop-free subset of a network topology. See also spanning-tree algorithm and Spanning-Tree
Protocol.
spanning-tree algorithm Algorithm used by the Spanning-Tree Protocol to create a spanning tree. Sometimes
abbreviated as STA. See also spanning tree and Spanning-Tree Protocol.
Spanning-Tree Protocol Bridge protocol that uses the spanning-tree algorithm, enabling a learning bridge to
dynamically work around loops in a network topology by creating a spanning tree. Bridges exchange BPDU
messages with other bridges to detect loops, and then remove the loops by shutting down selected bridge
interfaces. Refers to both the IEEE 802.1 Spanning-Tree Protocol standard and the earlier Digital Equipment
Corporation Spanning-Tree Protocol upon which it is based. The IEEE version supports bridge domains and
allows the bridge to construct a loop-free topology across an extended LAN. The IEEE version is generally
preferred over the Digital version. Sometimes abbreviated as STP. See also BPDU, learning bridge, MAC
address learning, spanning tree, and spanning-tree algorithm.
SPAP Supplemental Pregnancy Allowance Plan (f: RISM)
SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SPARC Service Provisioning And Recovery Committee
SPARC Scaleable Processor ARChitecture
SPARS Software Payment Record System
SPARS Software Provisioning & Payment Records
sparse mode PIM See PIM sparse mode.
SPB-PL Single Point Billing - Private Line
SPC Software and Publications Center
SPC Statistical Process Control
SPC Stored Program Control
SPC Signalling point code (fr : CPS)
SPC Stored Program Control
SPC Service Provider Connection
SPC DOWNLO Stored Program Controlled Download
SPC-DM Stored Program Control - Download Mediator (f: SPC-DM)
SPC-DM Stored Program Control / Download Mediation
SPC-DM Stored Program Control - Download Mediator
SPCD Stored Program Controlled Download (f: TPE)
SPCDM Stored Program Controlled Download Mediator (f: ANPE)
SPD Start Pulse Delay
SPDA Service Provisioning and Design
SPDIF Sony/Philips Digital Interchange Format
SPDLS SP&D District line support
SPE Synchronous Payload Envelope
SPE Sonet term for Synchronous Payload Envelope ( < 125 usec)
SPEARS Stored Program Equipment and Administrative Report System
SPEARS Stored Program Equipment & Administration Reporting System (used with SP-1)
SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
SPEC10 SPEC 10
SPECmark Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative benchmark
SPECS Estimate Tracking and Control Sys for Data Pro
SPECS SERVICE PROVISIONING & ESTIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM
SPECTRE System Provisioning and Engineering of Carrier Transmission
SPECTRE-2 System Prov'g Eng. Carrier & Transm
SPECTRUM SPECTRUM
speed calling See Local Voice Service Guide.
speed matching Feature that provides sufficient buffering capability in a destination device to allow a high-
speed source to transmit data at its maximum rate, even if the destination device is a lower-speed device.
SPF Shortest Path First algorithm. Routing algorithm that iterates on length of path to determine a shortest-
path spanning tree. Commonly used in link-state routing algorithms. Sometimes called Dijkstra's algorithm.
See also link-state routing algorithm.
SPF System Productivity Facility

SPF Shortest Path First
SPI Scanner Programmer Interface
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SPI Serial Port Interchange
SPI Sales Potential Index
SPIA Standard Programmer Interface Association
SPICE Simulator Program for Integrated Circuit Emulation
SPID Service Profile Identifier
SPID Service Profile Identifier. Number that some service providers use to define the services to which an
ISDN device subscribes. The ISDN device uses the SPID when accessing the switch that initializes the
connection to a service provider.
SPIN Software Process Improvement Networks
SPL Splice
splicing The joining of two or more cables together by splitting the conductors pair to pair.
split-horizon updates Routing technique in which information about routes is prevented from exiting the router
interface through which that information was received. Split-horizon updates are useful in preventing
routing loops.
SPMP Service Provisioning Measurement Plan (f: PEQS)
SPMS Switch Performance Monitoring System
SPMS Switch Performance Monitoring System (gives relation between NXX and taper code
SPNNI connection Frame Relay connection between two VNSs in different areas or domains. The SPNNI connection
gets its name from the proprietary Network-to-Network Interface protocol that operates over this connection.
SPO Supervising Plant Office
SPOA Single Point of Accountability
SPOC single point of contact (f: PDC)
SPOC Single Point of Contact
SPOE Single Point of Entry
spoofing 1. Scheme used by routers to cause a host to treat an interface as if it were up and supporting a
session. The router spoofs replies to keepalive messages from the host in order to convince that host that
the session still exists. Spoofing is useful in routing environments such as DDR, in which a circuit-
switched link is taken down when there is no traffic to be sent across it in order to save toll charges. See
also DDR. 2. The act of a packet illegally claiming to be from an address from which it was not actually
sent. Spoofing is designed to foil network security mechanisms such as filters and access lists.
spooler Application that manages requests or jobs submitted to it for execution. Spoolers process the
submitted requests in an orderly fashion from a queue. A print spooler is a common example of a spooler.
SPOP Services Provided By Outside Parties
SPOP single point of purchase
SPORTS Service Provisioning Order Routing Tracking System
SPORTS Service Provisioning Order Routing & Tracking System
SPP Scalable Parallel Processors
SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol
SPP Single Payment Plan (f: PVU)
SPP Survivor Protection Program (f: PPS)
SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol. Provides reliable, connection-based, flow-controlled packet transmission on
behalf of client processes. Part of the XNS protocol suite.
SPPC Sygma Product Pricer Catalogue
SPR Software Productivity Research Inc
SPRING Shared Protection Ring
SPS Standby Power Supply
SPS Support Processing System
SPS System Performance Specification
SPSS Statistical Program for the Social Sciences
SPT Service Provider Terminal
SPU Service Processor Unit
SPUFI SQL Processor Using File Input
SPURT Standard Print Utility Routing for Tape
SPVC Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange (protocol)
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange. Reliable, connection-oriented protocol that supplements the datagram service
provided by network layer (Layer 3) protocols. Novell derived this commonly used NetWare transport protocol
from the SPP of the XNS protocol suite.
SQE Signal Quality Error. Transmission sent by a transceiver back to the controller to let the controller
know whether the collision circuitry is functional. Also called heartbeat.
SQL Structured Query Language. International standard language for defining and accessing relational
databases.
SQL Sequential Query Language
SQL Structured Query Language
SQL Structured query language (f: SQL)
SQL Structured Query Language. 2 types
SQL standard query language
SQL structured query language
SQL/CLI SQL/Call Level Interface
SQL/DS Structured Query Language Data System
SQMIS Service Quality Measurement & Information System (f: SIEQS)
SQPA Software Quality Program Analysis
SR Send Receive
SR Service Representative
SR Software Release
SR System Requirements
SR&ED Scientific Research & Experimental Development
SR/TLB Source-Route Translational Bridging. Method of bridging where source-route stations can communicate
with transparent bridge stations with the help of an intermediate bridge that translates between the two
bridge protocols. Compare with SRT.
SRAM Type of RAM that retains its contents for as long as power is supplied. SRAM does not require constant
refreshing, like DRAM. Compare with DRAM.
SRAM Static RAM
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SRAM scattered RAM
SRAPI Speach Recognition Application Programming Interface
SRB Source-Route Bridging. Method of bridging originated by IBM and popular in Token Ring networks. In an SRB
network, the entire route to a destination is predetermined, in real time, prior to the sending of data to
the destination. Contrast with transparent bridging.
SRC Sales Resource Centre
SRC Segmentation and Reassembly Controller
SRC Special Ringing Circuit
SRCI Stentor Resource Center Incorporated (f: CRSI)
SRCI Stentor Resource Centre Inc
SRCI Stentor Resource Center Inc
SRCI Stentor Resource Centre Inc
SRD Sardinia, New York
SRD Scan Return Bus
SRD Synchronization reference distributor (f: DFR)
SRD Synchronized Reference Distribution
SRD System Requirements Document
SRD SYNCHRONIZED REFERENCE DISTRIBUTION
SRDB Selective Routing Database
SRDM Sub Rate Digital Multiplex
SRDM SubRate Digital Multiplexor card associated with DNX100
SRDM sub-rate digital multiplexer
SREJ Selective REJ
SRI Stanford Research Institute
SRI Research institute based in California that runs the Network Information Center (NISC).
SRL Singing Return Loss
SRL Structural Return Loss
SRM SubRate Merger
SRM Service reference model (f: MRS)
SRM-F System Resource Module - Front
SRM-L System Resource Module - Link
SRMMU SPARC Reference MMU
SRN Service-Ready Network
SRO Special Routine Order
SRO SERVICE ROUTINE ORDER
SROM Serial ROM
SRP Spatial Reuse Protocol.
SRPI Server Requester Programming Interface
SRPI Server-Requester Programming Interface (used by ECF)
SRS Subscriber Radio Service
SRS service de réacheminement sélectif (e: SRS)
SRS Switch Redirect Service (f: SRS)
SRS Sales Reporting System (f: SIV)
SRS subscriber radio system
SRS system requirement specification
SRS System Requirements Specification
SRS Systems Requirement Specification
SRSC SONET Remote Switching Centre
SRT Source-Route Transparent Bridging. IBM bridging scheme that merges the two most prevalent bridging
strategies: SRB and transparent bridging. SRT employs both technologies in one device to satisfy the needs
of all ENs. No translation between bridging protocols is necessary. Compare with SR/TLB.
SRT Service Request Template
SRT SR Telecom Inc.
SRTP Sequenced Routing Update Protocol. Protocol that assists VINES servers in finding neighboring clients,
servers, and routers. See also RTP (Routing Table Protocol).
SRU System Resource Units
SRU Scheduled Reporting Unpaid
SRU System Resource Unit. This is a unit of measure on the GPC mainframe environment
SRU System Resource Unit
SRV Service Review
SS Sampled Servo
SS Short Seizure
SS Special Services
SS Switched Service
SS7 Signalling System 7
SS7 Signaling System 7 (CCS7)
SS7 Signalling System 7
SS7 Signaling System 7. Standard CCS system used with BISDN and ISDN. Developed by Bellcore. See also CCS.
SSA Strategic Support Alliance
SSA Serial Storage Architecture
SSA Stentor Settlement Arrangement
SSAAM Sales Structure and Account Management
SSAC Software Service Activation Controller
SSAMP Support Structure Agreement Mechanized Program
SSAMP CATV Permit Tracking
SSAMS Special Services Automated Management System (f: SGASS)
SSAMS Special Services Automated Management System
SSAMS Special Services Order Administration System
SSAP Source Service Access Point
SSAP Source Service Access Point. SAP of the network node designated in the Source field of a packet. Compare
to DSAP. See also SAP (service access point).
SSC Special Services Centre
SSC Signature Service Centre
SSC Supplementary Service Control
SSCOP Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol. Data link protocol that guarantees delivery of ATM
signaling packets.
SSCP System Services Control Points. Focal points within an SNA network for managing network configuration,
coordinating network operator and problem determination requests, and providing directory services and other
session services for network end users.
SSCP System Service Control Point
SSCP-PU session Session used by SNA to allow an SSCP to manage the resources of a node through the PU. SSCPs
can send requests to, and receive replies from, individual nodes in order to control the network
configuration.
SSCR Special Service Circuit Reroute
SSCS Service Specific Convergence Sublayer. One of the two sublayers of any AAL. SSCS, which is service
dependent, offers assured data transmission. The SSCS can be null as well, in classical IP over ATM or LAN
emulation implementations. See also AAL, ATM layer, CPCS, CS, and SAR.
SSD Solid State Disk
SSDN Special Services Digital Network (f: RNSS)
SSDN Special Services Digital Network
SSDN Sonet Switched Digital Network
SSDN Special Service Digital Network The network of digital cross-connect (DCC) switc
SSDN-NEC SSDN Network Element Controller
SSDSS Delayed Services System (f: SSDSS)
SSDSS Delayed Service System
SSE Structure de supertrame étendue (e: ESF)
SSE Silicon Switching Engine. Routing and switching mechanism that compares the data link or network layer
header of an incoming packet to a silicon-switching cache, determines the appropriate action (routing or
bridging), and forwards the packet to the proper interface. The SSE is directly encoded in the hardware of
the SSP (Silicon Switch Processor) of a Cisco 7000 series router. It can therefore perform switching
independently of the system processor, making the execution of routing decisions much quicker than if they
were encoded in software. See also silicon switching and SSP.
SSEE Special Services Exchange Engineering
SSF Settlement Summary File
SSF Special Services Forecast
SSFLC Surface Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
SSFS Special Services Forecasting System
SSG Systems & Servers Group
SSG Service Support Guide
SSI Small Scale Integration
SSI Storage Solutions Initiative
SSIB Special Services Information Base
SSIB SPECIAL SERVICES INFORMATION DATABASE (879)
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSL Spare Span Line (for LD1)
SSL Supplementary Service Link
SSL Spare Span Line for LD1
SSL Secure Socket Layer
SSL Secure Socket Layer. Encryption technology for the Web used to provide secure transactions such as the
transmission of credit card numbers for e-commerce.
SSM Simplified Storage Management
SSM Special Safeguarding Measures (
SSM Special Services Migration
SSM Switch Section Monitoring
SSM Switch Selection Monitor
SSM Special Services Module (f: MSS)
SSM Special Services Migration
SSM Special Services Measures
SSMMP Special Service Maintenance Measurement Plan
SSMMP Special Services Maintenance Measurement Plan
SSN Social Security Number
SSN Subsystem Number
SSN Subsystem number.
SSO Satellite Switching Office
SSOC Switching Services Operations Centre
SSOK Sub Says Okay
SSOSS Special Services Operational Support System
SSP Service Signalling Point
SSP Service Switching Point
SSP Service switching point (f: CAS)
SSP Signal Switching Point
SSP Silicon Switch Processor
SSP Special Service Protection
SSP Stock Savings Plan (f: REA)
SSP Special Services Protection
SSP SuperNode System Platform
SSP Self Select PIN
SSP Storage Service Provider
SSP 1. Silicon Switch Processor. High-performance silicon switch for Cisco 7000 series routers that provides
distributed processing and control for interface processors. The SSP leverages the high-speed switching and
routing capabilities of the SSE to dramatically increase aggregate router performance, minimizing
performance bottlenecks at the interface points between the router and a high-speed backbone. See also
silicon switching and SSE. 2. Switch-to-Switch Protocol. Protocol specified in the DLSw standard that
routers use to establish DLSw connections, locate resources, forward data, and handle flow control and error
recovery. See also DLSw. 3. Service Switch Point.
SSPAD Special Services Plugin Download
SSPPM Switched Services Provisioning Process Mechanization
SSPS Special Services Planning Systems
SSRAM Synchronous Static RAM
SSS Subscriber Service System (f: Telesysteme 100)
SST Special Safeguard Transformer
SSTF Shortest Seek Time First
SSTRS Special Services Trouble Reporting System
SSU System Synchronization Unit
SSVN Service and System Verification Network
SSVN Special Services Verification Network
SSVN Services & Systems Verification Network
SSWIFT Special Service Work Order Integrated Flow Thru
SSWIFT Special Services Work Order Integration Flow
SSX Small Systems Executive
SSX/VSE Small Systems Executive / Virtual Storage Extended
ST Class Signal
ST Serial Telecom
ST Short Tone
ST Signal Terminal
ST Signalling Terminals
ST Start
ST signalling terminal
ST (data) service transparent
ST01 (CLFI designation for STS-1 facility)
ST01 CLFI designation for STS-1 facility
ST12 (CLFI designation for STS-12 facility)
ST12 CLFI designation for STS-12 facility
STA Span Terminal Assembly
STA Spanning Tree Algorithm
STA Station
STA Single Team Access
STA See Spanning-Tree Algorithm.
stack See protocol stack.
STAIRS STorage and Information Retrieval Systems
standard Set of rules or procedures that are either widely used or officially specified. See also de facto
standard and de jure standard.
standby monitor Device placed in standby mode on a Token Ring network in case an active monitor fails. See
also active monitor and ring monitor.
STAR Situation/Task Action Resolution
STAR System for Telephone Administration Response (v:aca/star)
STAR Selection Toll Accounting Record
STAR Selection of Toll Accounting Records
star topology LAN topology in which end points on a network are connected to a common central switch by
point-to-point links. A ring topology that is organized as a star implements a unidirectional closed-loop
star, instead of point-to-point links. Compare with bus topology, ring topology, and tree topology.
StarLAN CSMA/CD LAN, based on IEEE 802.3, developed by AT&T.
start-stop transmission See asynchronous transmission.
startup range Range of values (from 65280 to 65534) from which an AppleTalk node selects the network number
part of its provisional address if it has not saved another network number.
STAS Special Toll Analysis Sample (f: FIGATI)
STAS Statistical Toll Analysis Sample/Summary (historical information on toll message
STAS Statistical Toll Analysis System
stat mux See statistical multiplexing.
static route Route that is explicitly configured and entered into the routing table. Static routes take
precedence over routes chosen by dynamic routing protocols.
statically assigned socket See SAS.
Station Management See SMT.
statistical multiplexing Technique whereby information from multiple logical channels can be transmitted
across a single physical channel. Statistical multiplexing dynamically allocates bandwidth only to active
input channels, making better use of available bandwidth and allowing more devices to be connected than with
other multiplexing techniques. Also referred to as statistical time-division multiplexing or stat mux.
Compare with ATDM, FDM, and TDM.
statistical time-division multiplexing See statistical multiplexing.
STATUS 90 Completed Order
STB SPARC Technology Business
STB Set-Top Box
STC Service Test Centre
STC Serving Test Centre
STD Standard-Message Waiting/Audible
STD Subseries of RFCs that specify Internet standards. The official list of Internet standards is in STD 1.
STDA StreetTalk Directory Assistant
STDM Statistical Time Division Multiplexer
STDM Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing (Sonet term)
STDM synchronous time division multiplexing
STE Section Terminating Equipment
STE Signalling Terminal Equipment
STE Sun Technology Enterprises
STE Standard Tester Expert System
STEP STandard for the Exchange of Product Model Data
STI Standard Tape Interface
STI Standard Tester Interface
STK Stack (stack of Communication Layers of a Given Protocol)
STL Sales Type Leases
STLO SCHEDULE TIME OFF OTHER
STM Service & Technology Model
STM Station Manager
STM Super Twist Monochrome
STM Synchronous Transfer Mode
STM SERVICE & TECHNOLOGY MODEL
STM-1 Synchronous Transport Module level 1. One of a number of SDH formats that specifies the frame structure
for the 155.52-Mbps lines used to carry ATM cells. See also SDH.
STM3 Mecanical transfer system
STN Station
STN Super Twist Nematic
STN Super-Twisted Nematic
STN Switched Telephone Network (f: RTC)
STN The Scientific and Technical Network
STNA Survivable Transport Network Architecture
STOMPS Security Toll Online Message Processing System
STOP Sales Time Optimization Program (f: STOP)
STOR Span Terminal Office Repeater
store and forward Function whereby a message is transmitted to some intermediate relay point and
temporarily stored before forwarding to the next relay point.
store and forward packet switching Packet-switching technique in which frames are completely processed
before being forwarded out the appropriate port. This processing includes calculating the CRC and checking
the destination address. In addition, frames must be temporarily stored until network resources (such as an
unused link) are available to forward the message. Contrast with cut-through packet switching.
STP 1. Shielded Twisted-Pair. Two-pair wiring medium used in a variety of network implementations. STP
cabling has a layer of shielded insulation to reduce EMI. Compare with UTP. See also twisted pair. 2. See
Spanning-Tree Protocol.
STP Service Transfer Point
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
STP Signal Transfer Point
STP Spanning Tree Algorithm
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
STP Strategic Third Parties
STP Signalling transfer point (f: PTS)
STP Signal Transfer Point (w/n CCS7 network)
STP signal transfer point
STPI Stentor Telecom Policy Inc
STRAM Self-Test RAM
stream-oriented Type of transport service that allows its client to send data in a continuous stream. The
transport service will guarantee that all data will be delivered to the other end in the same order as sent
and without duplicates.
STRU Smart Transmit Receive Unit
Structure of Management Information See SMI.
STS Synchronous Transport Signal
STS Subject to Settlement (pertaining to Revenues)
STS Smart Touch Services
STS Synchronous Transmission System
STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal - Level 1 (51.84 Mb/s)
STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal-1 (Sonet
STS-1 Synchronous Transport Signal level 1. Basic building block signal of SONET, operating at 51.84 Mbps.
Faster SONET rates are defined as STS-n, where n is a multiple of 51.84 Mbps. See also SONET.
STS-3 Synchronous Transport Signal Level 3 (155.52 Mbit/s)
STS-3C Synch. Transport Signal Level 3 concatenated (155.52 Mbit/s)
STS-3c Synchronous Transport Signal level 3, concatenated. SONET format that specifies the frame structure
for the 155.52-Mbps lines used to carry ATM cells. See also SONET.
STS-N Synchronous Transport Signal Level n (n x 51.84 Mbit/s)
STT Speach to Text
STTR Section Time To Repair
STU Station Terminating Unit
stub area OSPF area that carries a default route, intra-area routes, and interarea routes, but does not carry
external routes. Virtual links cannot be configured across a stub area, and they cannot contain an ASBR.
Compare with non-stub area. See also ASAM and OSPF.
stub network Network that has only a single connection to a router.
STUN Serial Tunnel. Router feature allowing two SDLC- or HDLC-compliant devices to connect to one another
through an arbitrary multiprotocol topology (using Cisco routers) rather than through a direct serial link.
STX SONETized Cross Connect
STX STS Cross Connect
STX Synchronous Transport Cross-connect
STX Début de texte (e: STX)
STX Start of Text (f: STX)
STX SONETized Cross Connect
SU Signalling Unit
SU 1. Signaling Unit. Another name for the TransPath product. 2. Service Unit or Signaling Unit.
SUAT Special User Assistance Team
SUB Subscriber
subarea Portion of an SNA network that consists of a subarea node and any attached links and peripheral
nodes.
subarea node SNA communication controller or host that handles complete network addresses.
subchannel In broadband terminology, a frequency-based subdivision creating a separate communications channel.
subinterface One of a number of virtual interfaces on a single physical interface.
SUBM Submarine
subnet See subnetwork.
subnet address Portion of an IP address that is specified as the subnetwork by the subnet mask. See also IP
address, subnet mask, and subnetwork.
subnet mask 32-bit address mask used in IP to indicate the bits of an IP address that are being used for
the subnet address. Sometimes referred to simply as mask. See also address mask and IP address.
Subnet Mask See Address Mask.
subnetwork 1. In IP networks, a network sharing a particular subnet address. Subnetworks are networks
arbitrarily segmented by a network administrator in order to provide a multilevel, hierarchical routing
structure while shielding the subnetwork from the addressing complexity of attached networks. Sometimes
called a subnet. See also IP address, subnet address, and subnet mask. 2. In OSI networks, a collection of
ESs and ISs under the control of a single administrative domain and using a single network access protocol.
Subnetwork Access Protocol See SNAP.
SubNetwork Point of Attachment See SNPA.
SUBREF Subscriber Refunds
Subscriber Network Interface See SNI.
subvector Data segment of a vector in an SNA message. A subvector consists of a length field, a key that
describes the subvector type, and subvector specific data.
SUC Single User Circuit
SUCAL Common Language Location Identification (f: SUCAL)
SUCI QR Hydro Joint-Use management system
SUES Switching Unit Equipment System
SUES Switching Unit Equipment System (used with DMS; replaced by DOMIS)
SUL Standard User Label
SUM Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
SUMMIT System for Universal Monitor and Modem Testing
SUMMT System for Universal Monitoring and Modem Testing (f: SSEM)
SUN Stanford University Network
SUN SUN Microsystems, Inc
SUP Software Upgrade Program
SUP Support
SUP-IPS IPS Interface system
Super Frame See SF.
Super-JANET Latest phase in the development of JANET, the UK educational and research network run by
UKERNA. It uses SMDS and ATM to provide multiservice network facilities for many new applications including
multimedia conferencing.
supernet Aggregation of IP network addresses advertised as a single classless network address. For example,
given four Class C IP networks---192.0.8.0, 192.0.9.0, 192.0.10.0 and 192.0.11.0---each having the intrinsic
network mask of 255.255.255.0, one can advertise the address 192.0.8.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.252.0.
supervisory processor See RP.
SUPP Supplement
SUPVN Supervision
SUPVR Supervisor
SURAnet Southeastern Universities Research Association Network. Network connecting universities and other
organizations in the Southeastern United States. SURAnet, originally funded by the NSF and a part of the
NSFNET, is now part of BBN Planet. See also BBN Planet, NSF, and NSFNET.
SURE Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equation
SURE-STAFF System Utilization Response Equipment - Staffing
Surplus Surplus
SUS Single Unix Specification
SUS Suspend Service
SUS Suspend
sustainable cell rate See SCP
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit. Virtual circuit that is dynamically established on demand and is torn down when
transmission is complete. SVCs are used in situations where data transmission is sporadic. Called a switched
virtual connection in ATM terminology. Compare with PVC.
SVC Switched Virtual Channels
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
SVC Supervisor Call
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
SVCC Signalling Virtual Channel Connection
SVCS Services
SVD Simultaneous Voice and Data
SVGA Super VGA
SVGA Super Video Graphic Array
SVID System V Interface Definition
SVM Service Virtual Machine
SVO Software Vendor Operations
SWA Single Wire Armour
SWAG Sweet Wild A.. Guess
SWAM Software Amortization
SWAP System Wide Area Paging (f: SRRP)
SWAP Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SWAT System Wide Analysis Team
SWAT Single Web Access Tool
SWBD Switchboard
SWC Serving Wire Centre
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Funds Transfer
SWIFT Switched Fractional T-1
SWIP Shared WhoIs Project
switch 1. Network device that filters, forwards, and floods frames based on the destination address of each
frame. The switch operates at the data link layer of the OSI model. 2. General term applied to an electronic
or mechanical device that allows a connection to be established as necessary and terminated when there is no
longer a session to support. It is similar to a DMS-250 or a private branch exchange (PBX), that responds to
originator signals and dynamically accepts, routes, and places or forwards a call or other transmission:
inlcudes LEC central office switches, IXC switches and PBXs.
Switch Processor See SP.
Switch-to-Switch Protocol See SSP.
switched calls Normal telephone calls in which a user picks up a phone, hears dial tone, enters the
destination phone number to reach the other phone. Switched calls can also be private line auto-ringdown
(PLAR) calls, or tie-line calls for fixed point-to-point connections. See also PLAR.
switched LAN LAN implemented with LAN switches. See LAN switch.
Switched Multimegabit Data Service See SMDS.
Switched Port Analyzer See span.
switched virtual circuit See SVC.
switched virtual connection See SVC.
SWOOP South Western Ontario Plant
SWT Section With Trouble
SX Simplex Signalling
SXS Step By Step (f: PAP)
SXS Step by Step (Mechanical Telephone Switch)
SXT Crossbar Tandem
SYCRECC BC3888B mechanized
Sygma6 includes both IPMP and ISDG
SYMPHONET Product Name for DARTS & NEC running on the DARTS architecture
Symphonet Bell product that includes DARTS and NEC
SYN Synchronization character
SYNC Synchronization
Sync or NE Synchronization via Stratum Clock hierarchy from Ottawa
synchronization Establishment of common timing between sender and receiver.
Synchronous Data Link Control See SDLC.
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy See SDH.
Synchronous Optical Network See SONET.
synchronous transmission Term describing digital signals that are transmitted with precise clocking. Such
signals have the same frequency, with individual characters encapsulated in control bits (called start bits
and stop bits) that designate the beginning and end of each character. Compare with asynchronous
transmission, isochronous transmission, and plesiochronous transmission.
Synchronous Transport Module level 1 See STM-1.
Synchronous Transport Signal level 1 See STS-1.
Synchronous Transport Signal level 3, concatenated See STS-3c.
SYNDES Synchronous/Desynchronous
SYNT Synchronous Network Terminator
SYNTRAN Synchronous Transmission (Network)
SYNTRAN synchronous transmission
SYSADM SYStem ADMinitrator
SYSCTRL SYStem Control
sysgen System Generation. Process of defining network resources in a network.
SYSMAINT System Maintenance
Sysplex SYStems comPLEX
system generation See sysgen.
system services control points See SSCP.
Systems Network Architecture See SNA.
SYTOS SYtron Tape Operating System
T Tip
T Tip Lead
T Transparent
T & N Technology & Network
T Interface CCITT definition of the ISDN 4-wire interface between NT1 and NT2
T&C Time and Charges (f: D et F)
T&F To and From (a move order)
T&M Test and Measurement
T-1 Transmission at DS-1 1.544 Mbit/s
T-1 See T1.
T-carrier TDM transmission method usually referring to a line or cable carrying a DS-1 signal.
T-NOS Telco Network Operating System
T.120 ITU standard that describes data conferencing. H.323 provides for the ability to establish T.120 data
sessions inside of an existing H.323 session.
T1 1. Digital WAN carrier facility. T1 transmits DS-1-formatted data at 1.544 Mbps through the telephone-
switching network, using AMI or B8ZS coding. Compare with E1. See also AMI, B8ZS, and DS-1. 2. The type of
connection of a host to the Internet. A T1 transmits a DS-1 formatted digital signal at 1.544 megabits per
second. T1 1.544Mbs leased line. Standard for digital transmission within North America.
T1 Tip One
T1 T1 is a Service Offering at a DS1 baud rate
T1 transmission speed of 1.544 mbps
T1DM T-1 Data Multiplexer
T2 Toll Two-Way.
T201 Switch Provisioning
T3 Digital WAN carrier facility. T3 transmits DS-3-formatted data at 44.736 Mbps through the telephone
switching network. Compare with E3. See also DS-3.
T3 AT&T's terms used to denote the type of connection of a host to the Internet. A T3 transmits a DS-3
formatted digital signal at 44.746 megabits per second - about 40 times the speed of a T1.
T5R3 T5-R3
T8008 Equipment change notice form
TA Tandem Tie Trunk
TA Technical Advisory
TA Terminal Adapter
TA Terminal Assembly
TA Transfer Alarm
TA Transfer Arrangement
TA Trunk Administration (f: GL)
TA Technology Assessment
TA Terminal Adapter
TA ISDN terminal adaptor (adapts existing terminals to ISDN NT)
TA Technical Advisory (Bellcore document)
TA Toll Analysis
TAB Trunk Administration Bulletins
TAB Trunk Administration Bulletin
TABO Terminal Application for Banking Operations
TABS Telephone Analysis and Budget(ing) System
TABS Telephone Analysis & Budgeting System
TABS Telemetry Asynchronous Block Serial. AT&T polled point-to-point or multipoint communication protocol that
supports moderate data transfer rates over intra-office wire pairs.
TABS-CDR: Telephone Accounting & Budgeting System Call Detail Recordin
TAC T1 Aggregate and Channel Service Unit Card
TAC Technical Assistance Centre (f: CAT)
TAC Tellabs Alarm Controller (associated with NMS)
TAC Trunk Access Control
TAC Total Accounting Costs
TAC The Access Centre
TAC Tellabs Alarm Controller (associated with NMS)
TAC Tellabs Alarm Collector
TAC A Cisco Technical Assistance Center. There are 4 TACs worldwide.
TAC 1. Terminal Access Controller. Internet host that accepts terminal connections from dial-up lines. 2.
Cisco Technical Assistance Center.
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System. Authentication protocol, developed by the DDN
community, that provides remote access authentication and related services, such as event logging. User
passwords are administered in a central database rather than in individual routers, providing an easily
scalable network security solution.
TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
TACACS+ Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus. Proprietary Cisco enhancement to Terminal
Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS). Provides additional support for authentication,
authorization, and accounting. See also TACACS.
TACS Total Access Communication System
TACS Test Access Control System
TACTIQ BC4141 Radio mobile section managment system
TAD test access digroup (12 TAP's per TAD)
TADS Team Administrator Data System
TADS2 Transmission Analysis Design System Version 2
TADS2 Loops Resistance Calc. (3888A)
TAF Terminal Access Facility
TAF Trouble Administration Form
TAFAS Trunk Answer From Any Station
TAG Technical Advisory Group (Bellcore sponsored forum)
TAG Technical Advisory Group
tag Identification information, including a number plus other information.
tag switching High-performance, packet-forwarding technology that integrates network layer (Layer 3) routing
and data link layer (Layer 2) switching and provides scalable, high-speed switching in the network core. Tag
switching is based on the concept of label swapping, in which packets or cells are assigned short, fixed-
length labels that tell switching nodes how data should be forwarded.
tagged traffic ATM cells that have their CLP bit set to 1. If the network is congested, gged traffic can be
dropped to ensure delivery of higher-priority traffic. Sometimes called DE traffic. See also CLP.
TAL Temporary Area Log
TAMA Trimms Acquisition Module - Analog
TAML Tandem Matching Loss (f: RAT)
TAMP Trunk Administrative Measurement Plan
TAMU Texas A&M University
TAN Tandem Trunk Class
TAN Test Access Network
Tandem switching Dynamic switching of voice calls between VoFR, VoATM, or VoHDLC PVCs and subchannels also
called tandeming. Tandem switching is often encountered in multi-hop VoFR call connection paths.
TAP Test Access Point
TAP Transmission Access Processor
TAP Transmission Control Protocol
TAP Test Access Point
TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service
TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface
TAPNEW Transmission Analysis Program "NEW"
TAPS Test and Acceptance Procedures
TAPS Tariff Administration and Publishing System
TAPS Tracking Assigning Provisioning System
TAPS Transaction Analysis Processing System
TAR Tape ARchive
TAR Tax Assessment Record
TAR Tax Assessment Region
TARP TL1 Address Resolution Protocol (relates to TL1/OSI mapping)
TARP TID Address Resolution Protocol. In OSS, a protocol that resolves a TL-1 TID to a CLNP address (NSAP).
TARS Trunk Administration Record System (f: TARS)
TARS Trunk Administration Record System
TARS-IA Trunk Administration Record System-Info Access
TAS Trunk Assignment Study
TAS Training Administration System
TAS TRUNK ASSIGNMENT STUDY
TASC Technical Assistance Surveillance System
TASC Telecommunications Alarm Surveillance and Control
TASI Time Assigned Speech Interpolation
TASI time assignment speech interpolation
TASOS Toronto Area Service Order System
TASRR Trunk Assignment Span Requirement Report
TAT Trans-Atlantic Telephone
TAT Technical Authorization Template
TAUTRON Name commonly used to refer to the PS104 Protection Switch
TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Transceiver Interface ¦
TAXI 4B/5B Transparent Asynchronous Transmitter/Receiver Interface 4-byte/5-byte. Encoding scheme used for FDDI
LANs as well as for ATM. Supports speeds of up to 100 Mbps over multimode fiber. TAXI is the chipset that
generates 4B/5B encoding on multimode fiber. See also 4B/5B local fiber.
TB Test Board
Tb Terabit (= 1,024Gb = 1,048,560Mb)
TB TeraByte
TB Terabyte (= 1,024GB = 1,048,560MB)
TB Terminal Block
TB Trunk Block
TB TeraByte ie 1024 GigaBytes or approx 1 trillion BYTES of data
TBCF Tops Bridging Circuit Frame
TBD To be determined
TBF Time Between Failures
TBI Trouble Intercept
TBM Transport Bandwidth Manager
TBO Toll Billing Other
TBOS Telemetry Byte Oriented System/Serial
TBOS Telemetry Byte Oriented Serial
TBOS protocol Telemetry Byte Oriented Serial protocol. Protocol that transmits alarm, status, and control
points between NE and OSS. TBOS defines one physical interface for direct connection between the telemetry
equipment and the monitored equipment.
TBP Thousand Block Pooling
TBS Telecom Business Solutions
TC Transmission Convergence. Sublayer of the ATM physical layer that transforms the flow of cells into a steady
flow of bits for transmission over the physical medium. When transmitting, the TC sublayer maps the cells
into the frame format, generates the HEC, and sends idle cells when there is nothing to send. When
receiving, the TC sublayer delineates individual cells in the received bit stream and uses HEC to detect and
correct errors. See also HEC and PHY.
TC Committed Rate Measurement Interval
TC Terminating Channel
TC Test Centre
TC Toll Centre
TC Toll Completing
TC Toll Connecting
TC Transmission Control layer
TC True Color
TC Trunk Conditioning
TC Transmission-control Character
TC Telecom Canada
TCA TeleCommunications Association
TCA Terrence Chapman Associates Ltd
TCA Threshold Crossing Alert
TCA Trunk Connector Assembly
TCAD Technology CAD
TCAM TeleCommunication Access Method
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part
TCAP Transaction capabilities application point (f: SSGT)
TCAP Telecom Canada Administrative Practice
TCAP transaction capability application part
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part.
TCARS Tops Call Analysis and Report System (f: SARAT)
TCB Task Control Block
TCB Transmission Control Block
TCB Trusted Computing Base
TCC Terminal Cluster Controller
TCC Terminating Call Control.
TCCN Charge Class for Coin
TCCP Through Channel Connecting Plug
TCDS Time & Charges Delivery System
TCDS / HOFAC TIME and CHARGE DELIVERY SYSTEM (TCDS / HOFAC)
TCEC Telecom Canada Electrical Coordination
TCF Technical Construction File
TCF Tops Controller Frame
TCF Transaction Control File
TCF Transparent Computing Facility
TCFA/2 Telecom Canada Funded Activity Billing and Reporting System
TCH Traffic Channels
TCL Think Class Libraries
TCL Tool Command Language
TCL Interface Tool Command Line interface.
TCLR Toll Circuit Layout Record
TCLT total compliance liaison team
TCM Thermal Conduction Module
TCM Time Compression Multiplexing
TCM time compression multiplex
TCM Travelling Class Mark.
TCMS Test Case Management System
TCMS Test Case Management System (works with PRMS)
TCNIS Telecom Circuit Network Inventory System (Stentor only)
TCO Toll Central Office
TCO Traffic Circuit Order
TCOM Telecom Order Management System
TCP Tape Carrier Package
TCP Telecom Canada Practice
TCP Trans Canada Pipeline or Practice
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol. Connection-oriented transport layer protocol that provides reliable full-
duplex data transmission. TCP is part of the TCP/IP protocol stack. See also TCP/IP.
TCP and UDP over Lightweight IP See TULIP.
TCP and UDP over Nonexistent IP See TUNIP.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Common name for the suite of protocols developed by
the U.S. DoD in the 1970s to support the construction of worldwide internetworks. TCP and IP are the two
best-known protocols in the suite. See also IP and TCAP.
TCP/IP See Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TCP/IP Transport Control Protocol Internet Protocol (Transmission? Transfer? Internetwo
TCP/IP Stack To properly use the TCP/IP protocol, PCs require a TCP/IP stack. This consists of TCP/IP
software, sockets software (such as WINSOCK.DLL for Windows machines), and hardware driver software (known
as packet drivers). Windows 95 comes with Microsoft's own built-in TCP/IP stack, including version 1.1 of
Microsoft's WINSOCK.DLL and packet drivers.
TCPL TransCanada Pipelines
TCQ Tag Command Queuing
TCS Table Control System
TCS Telesciences Computer System
TCS Transaction Comptroller System
TCS Table Control System
TCS Workforce Management System
TCSCC Trans Canada Service Co-ordination Centre
TCSCC Trans Canada System Control Computer
TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
TCSI Transaction Code Status Indicator
TCSMM Tightly-Coupled Shared Memory Multiprocessors
TCTS Trans Canada Telephone System
TCTS Trans-Canada Telephone System (now Stentor)
TCU Trunk Coupling Unit. In Token Ring networks, a physical device that enables a station to connect to the
trunk cable.
TD Terminal distant (e: RTU)
TD Traffic Descriptor
TD Transmit Data
TDA Traffic Data Analyser
TDA Transport Database Activation
TDAS Tariff Database Admistration System
TDAS Toll Dist. Automatic Switching
TDAS Traffic Data Administration System
TDAS Traffic Data Administration System (part of FMS)
TDB Task DataBase
TDCC Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
TDCS Traffic Data Collection System
TDD Telecom Device for the Deaf
TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (f: ATS)
TDDB Toll Detail Data Base
TDF Trunk Distribution Frame
TDH Toll Discount Handicapped
TDI Time-Delay-Integrate
TDI Transparent Domain Identifier
TDIC Trouble Display Interface Computer
TDLX TDLX pole replacement tracking system
TDM Tandem
TDM Time Division Multiplex(ing)
TDM Trouble Diagnostic Module
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDM Time-Division Multiplex
TDM Time-Division Multiplexing. Technique in which information from multiple channels can be allocated
bandwidth on a single wire based on preassigned time slots. Bandwidth is allocated to each channel
regardless of whether the station has data to transmit. Compare with ATDM, FDM, and statistical
multiplexing.
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access (Cellular Technology)
TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access)
TDP Triton Data Path
TDP Tag Distribution Protocol (for MPLS)
TDR Time Domain Reflectometer. Device capable of sending signals through a network medium to check cable
continuity and other attributes. TDRs are used to find physical layer network problems.
TDS Système de dév. de programmes pour ordinateur Tandem (e: TDS
TDS Tandem Development System (f: TDS)
TDS Terrestrial Digital Service
TDS Tops Data Summary
TDS Traffic Dimensioning System (f: SDR)
TDS Transaction Delivery System
TDS Traffic Dimensioning System-DMS OM measurement forecasting system
TDS Telepak Database System
TDS TRAFFIC DIMENSIONING SYSTEM
TDSS Tops Data Summary System
TDW Turbo Debugger for Windows
TE Income Tax Expense (Cost) (f: Ie)
TE Terminal Endpoint
TE Terminal Equipment
TE Terminal Equipment. Any ISDN-compatible device that can be attached to the network, such as a telephone,
fax, or computer.
TE1 ISDN terminal
TE2 non-ISDN terminal used on an ISDN loop
TEA Trunk Equipment Assigning
TEAC Toshiba America Electronics Components
TEAS Table of the Expense Account Structure
TEAS Expense Account Structure
TEC Technical Expertise Center (Québec) (f: CET)
TEC Traffic Engineering Circular
TECA TRIHS Enhanced Customer Access
TECH PWS TECHLOAD - PORTABLE WORK STATION
Technical Assistance Center See TAC.
Technical Office Protocol See TOP.
Technology prefix Discriminators used to distinguish between gateways having specific capabilities within a
given zone. In the exchange between the gateway and the gatekeeper, the technology prefix is used to select
a gateway after the zone has been selected. Technology prefixes can be used to tell the gatekeeper that a
certain technology is associated with a particular call (for example, 15# could mean a fax transmission), or
it can be used like an area code for more generic routing. No standard defines what the numbers in a
technology prefix mean by convention, technology prefixes are designated by a pound (#) symbol as the last
character.
TECT Technical Expertise Centre for transmission (f: CETT)
TEDIS Trade Data Interchange System
TEENS Technology Economic Evaluation and Networking System (a BNR system)
TEI Terminal Endpoint Identifier
TEI terminal end point identifier in ISDN (identifying signalling/data end point wit
TEI Terminal Endpoint Identifier. Field in the LAPD address that identifies a device on an ISDN interface.
See also TE.
TEL Telephoniste (French)
TELCO Telephone Company
telco Telephone company.
TELCON Teletype Concentrator
TELCON Telepak network configuration
Telecommunication Management Network See TMN.
telecommunications Term referring to communications (usually involving computer systems) over the telephone
network.
Telecommunications Industry Association See TIA.
Teleforum Teleforum Settlement
telemetry Capability of transmitting or retrieving data over long distance communication links, such as
satellite or telephone.
Telemetry Asynchronous Block Serial See TABS.
telephony Science of converting sound to electrical signals and transmitting it between widely removed points.
telex Teletypewriter service allowing subscribers to send messages over the PSTN.
Telnet Standard terminal emulation protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack. Telnet is used for remote
terminal connection, enabling users to log in to remote systems and use resources as if they were connected
to a local system. Telnet is defined in RFC 854.
Telnet the Internet standard protocol to connect to remote terminals. Telnet clients are available for most
platforms. When you Telnet to a UNIX site, for example, you can issue commands at the prompt as if the
machine were local.
TELNET Remote Terminal Protocol
TEM Transmission Equipment Modernization
TEMP Transportation Energy Management Program
Tempest U.S. military standard. Electronic products adhering to the Tempest specification are designed to
withstand EMP. See also EMP.
TEMPO Toll Error Message Processing Online
TERENA Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association. Organization that promotes information
and telecommunications technologies development in Europe. Formed by the merger of EARN and RARE. See also
EARN and RARE.
TERM Terminal
TERM Terminating
termid SNA cluster controller identification for switched lines only. Also called Xid.
terminal Simple device at which data can be entered or retrieved from a network. Generally, terminals have a
monitor and a keyboard, but no processor or local disk drive.
Terminal Access Controller See TAC.
Terminal Access Controller Access System See TACACS.
terminal adapter Device used to connect ISDN BRI connections to existing interfaces such as EIA/TIA-232.
Essentially, an ISDN modem.
terminal emulation Network application in which a computer runs software that makes it appear to a remote
host as a directly attached terminal.
terminal endpoint identifier See TEI.
terminal equipment See TE.
terminal server Communications processor that connects asynchronous devices such as terminals, printers,
hosts, and modems to any LAN or WAN that uses TCP/IP, X.25, or LAT protocols. Terminal servers provide the
internetwork intelligence that is not available in the connected devices.
terminator Device that provides electrical resistance at the end of a transmission line to absorb signals on
the line, thereby keeping them from bouncing back and being received again by network stations.
TERMS Terminal Equipment Results Management System (f: TERMS)
TEST test.
TESTNET Test Network
TETRA Trans-European Trunked Radio
Texas Higher Education Network See THEnet.
TF Thin Film) - cienkowarstwowy,
TF Transfer
TF Trunk Forecast
TFAM Traffic Facilities Admin. Management
TFAN Traffic Analysis
TFAS Traffic Facilities Assignment System
TFAS Traffic Facilities Admin. System
TFAS Traffic Facilities Administration System
TFAS TRAFFIC FACILITIES ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM
TFAS/BCRIS Traffic Facilities Admin. System / Bell Customer Record & In
TFAS802 802 file transfer verification
TFB Toll Free Billing
TFC Traffic
TFCANA Traffic Analysis
TFDD Text File Device Driver
TFEL Thin Film ElectroLuminescence
TFIB Tag Forwarding Information Base (for MPLS)
TFLOPS Tera Flops
TFLOPS TeraFLOPS
TFP Traffic Facilities Practice
TFPS Traffic Forecasting and Planning System
TFPS Trunk Forecasting and Planning System (Telecom and Bell intertoll trunk forecast
TFR Transfer
TFRS Trunk Forecasting Revision System
TFRS Trunk Forecast Revision System
TFRS Trunk Forecasting Revision System
TFRS-IT Trunk Forecasting Revision System - Toll
TFS Trunk Forecasting System (f: TFS)
TFS Trunk Forecasting System (local network forecast; part of FMS)
TFT Thin Film Transistor
TFT Thin-Film Transistor (also called Active Matrix)
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol. Simplified version of FTP that allows files to be transferred from one
computer to another over a network.
TFTS Terrestial Flight Telephone System
TFU Trunk Frame Unit
TG Tandem Completing
TG Trunk Group
TGDF Trunk Group Design File
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
TGMU Terminating Trunk Group Usage
TGMU Trunk Group Member Usage
TGO Trunk Group Overseas
TGT Tariff Group Table
TH Transmission Header
TH Transmission Header. SNA header that is appended to the SNA basic information unit (BIU). The TH uses one of
a number of available SNA header formats. See also FID0, FID1, FID2, FID3, and FID4.
THC over X.25 Feature providing TCP/IP header compression over X.25 links, for purposes of link efficiency.
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
THEnet Texas Higher Education Network. Regional network comprising over 60 academic and research
institutions in the Texas (United States) area.
THEO Theoretical
Thinnet Term used to define a thinner, less expensive version of the cable specified in the IEEE 802.3
10Base2 standard. Compare with Cheapernet. See also 10Base2, Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3.
three-way handshake Process whereby two protocol entities synchronize during connection establishment.
throughput Rate of information arriving at, and possibly passing through, a particular point in a network
system.
TI Toll Incoming
TI Technician Interface
TI Télécommunicateur interconnecté (e: AC)
TI Texas Instruments
TI Textile Insulated
TI Traffic Instruction
TI Transport Independence
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association. Organization that develops standards relating to
telecommunications technologies. Together, the TIA and the EIA have formalized standards, such as EIA/TIA-
232, for the electrical characteristics of data transmission. See also EIA.
TIAS TARS Information Access System (f: SAIT)
TIAS Trunk Inventory and Assignment System
TIAS Total Information Access System
TIAS Total Information Access System
TIAS TARS (TRUNK ADMIN RECORD SYSTEM) INFORMATION ACCESS SYSTEM
TIASII IA System Requests
TIC Token-Ring Interface Coupler
TIC Token Ring interface coupler. Controller through which an FEP connects to a Token Ring.
TICS Time-Share Cable Sizing Program
TID Traffic Information Directory (f: RAA)
TID Terminal Identifier or Terminal Identification.
TIE Teleform Interpretation Engine
TIF The Information Facility
TIFF Tagged Image File Format (*.TIF files)
TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference
TILC Toll Interconnection for Local Competition
TILC Toll Impacts Local Competition
TIM Trunk Interface Module
TIM Terrestrial Interface Module
TIM T1 Interface Module (ISDN)
TIM Telecom Information Management
TIM Trouble Information Management (New COPS-TM)
TIM Group Technical Introduction Management Group
TIME Telecom Canada Information and Market Evaluation System
time domain reflectometer See TDR.
Time Notify See TNotify.
Time To Live See TR VLAN.
time-division multiplexing See TDM.
timeout Event that occurs when one network device expects to hear from another network device within a
specified period of time, but does not. The resulting timeout usually results in a retransmission of
information or the dissolving of the session between the two devices.
TIMESTEP-PER Security units for Transport (OC-48)
TIMI Technology Independent Machine Interface
TINA Telecommunications Info. Networking Architecture (f: AERT
TINA-C Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture. Services applications built in C and
corresponding to TINA guidelines.
TIOS Transpath Input Output Subsystem.
TIPS Temporary Information Preparation/Propagation System
TIRF Traffic Injury Research Foundation
TIRKS Trunk Inventory Record Keeping System
TIRKS Trunk Information Record Keeping System. Bellcore OSS that provides record keeping for interoffice trunk
facilities. See also OSS.
TIS Turnkey Internet Service
TITAN Toronto Information & Tracking Access Network
TJ Tap Jack
TJ Terminating Junctor
TK PBX C.O. Trunk
TKO Telecommunikationsordnung Telecommunications Office
TL Non-tandem Tie Trunk
TL Tie Line
TL Trunk Link
TL-1 Transaction Language 1 (typically carried over x.25)
TL-1 Transaction Language One. Bellcore term for intelligent network elements.
TL1 Transaction Language 1
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLA Two Letter Acronym
TLAP TokenTalk Link Access Protocol. Link-access protocol used in a TokenTalk network. TLAP is built on top of
the standard Token Ring data-link layer.
TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer
TLC Tandem Laboratory Computer
TLC Transmission Line Concentrator
TLF Trunk Link Frame
TLFR-MTCE Teleforum Ext. DB Maintenance
TLI Telephone-Line Interface
TLI Transport Layer Interface
TLI Transport Level Interface
TLM Transmission Line Multiplexer
TLM Triple-Layer Metal
TLM Trunk Line Marker
TLMS Tape Library Management System
TLN Trunk Line Network
TLO Time Off In Lieu of Overtime
TLP Transmission Level Point
TLSP Transport Layer Security Protocol
TLT Trunk and Line Test
TM Terminate
TM Trade Mark
TM Trunk Module (f: MC)
TM Translations Memorandum
TM TRUNK MODULE
TM Traffic Management.
TMC Technology Management Committee
TMC Thermal Monitoring Card
TMC Transmission Maintenance Centre
TMD/IMD Telco Mediation Device/intermediate Device
TMDI T1 Multiple Purpose Serial Digital Interface
TME Tivoli Management Environment
TMF Transaction Monitoring Facility (Tandem))
TMI Telesat Mobile Incorporated
TMI Telesat Mobile Inc
TML Terminating matching loss (f: AAR)
TMM Tabular Managed MSAG (Master Street Address Guide)
TMN Telecommunication Management Network. ITU-T generic model for transporting and processing OAM&P
information for a telecommunications network. See also OAM&P.
TMN Telecommunications Management Network
TMN BELLCORE Telecommunications Management Network arch stnd
TMO Time Out
TMP Text Macro Processor
TMP Trunk Measurement Plan
TMP Transmission Maintenance Plan
TMR Triple Modular Redundant
TMS Telecommunications Management System
TMS TeleMessage Service (f: STM)
TMS Territorial Management System
TMS Timing Monitoring System
TMS Transmission Measuring Set
TMS Trouble Management System (f: SGD)
TMS Tops Message Switch
TMS Termination Management System (Metroroute)
TMS Tools Management System
TMS TROUBLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
TMS-NS Trouble Management System for NS
TMSI Temporary MSI
TN Telephone Number
TN Transport Node
TN Twist Nematic
TN Transport Node
TN Tariff Notice
TN Telephone Number
TN Type of Number
TN select Telephone Number Selection
TN3270 Terminal emulation software that allows a terminal to appear to an IBM host as a 3278 Model 2
terminal.
TN3270 Slight variation of Telnet used to connect the user to an IBM mainframe. TN3270 clients exist for
most platforms.
TNA Technical Needs Analysis
TNA Telephone Number Access (f: ANT)
TNCA Transport Network Control Architecture
TNDS Total Network Data System
TNE Trunk Network Engineering
TNFRS Trunk Forecast Revision System
TNI Trusted Networking Interpretation
TNI Transport Network Implementation
TNIC Transit Network Identifier Code
TNM Toll Network Maintenance (f: MRI)
TNM Transmission Network Maintenance (f: MRT)
TNN Trunk Network Number
TNOS Transport Network Operations System
TNOSS Transport Network Operation Surveillance System
TNOSS Transport Network Operations Support System
TNOSS Transport Network Operational Support
TNotify Time Notify. Specifies how often SMT initiates neighbor notification broadcasts. See also SMT.
TNP TRUNK NETWORK PROVISIONING
TNP-3 Trunk Network Planning - Version 3
TNP-SPECTRE2 Updates the TNP corp OSS with data from SPECTRE-2
TNP2 Trunk Network Planning - Version 2
TNP3 Trunk Network Planning (Analog/Digital DS0/DS1 Planning OSS)
TNPS Trunk Network Planning System (f: TNPS)
TNPS Trunk Network Provisioning System (f: TNPS)
TNPS Trunk Network Planning System
TNPS Trunk Network Planning System (allocates local circuits to facilities)
TNS Transit Network Selection
TNSMP Toll Network Service Measurement Plan
TNSMS Toll Network Service Measurement System
TNSS Transport Network Surveillance System
TNTR Toll Network Traffic Management (f: GRI)
TO Tandem Originating
TO Traffic Order
TO Traffic Overload
TO Transmit Only
TO Trunk Work Order
TO Toll Outgoing
TOA type of address
TOC Table Of Contents
TOC Television Operating Centre
TOC Television Operations Centre
TOC Traffic Order Code
TOC Television Operating Centre (f: CRET)
TOCA TOCA card used in the DCD shelf for clocking/synchronization
TOD Time of Day
TOD Time of Day (discount)
TOE Type of Expense (f: CTD)
TOF Top Of Form
TOH Transport Overhead
TOK Test Okay
token Frame that contains control information. Possession of the token allows a network device to transmit data
onto the network. See also token passing.
token bus LAN architecture using token passing access over a bus topology. This LAN architecture is the basis
for the IEEE 802.4 LAN specification.
token passing Access method by which network devices access the physical medium in an orderly fashion based
on possession of a small frame called a token. Contrast with circuit switching and contention. See also
token.
Token Ring 1. Token-passing LAN developed and supported by IBM. Token Ring runs at 4 or 16 Mbps over a ring
topology. Similar to IEEE 802.5. See also IEEE 802.5, ring topology, and token passing. 2. Type of LAN in
which networked computers are wired into a ring. Each computer (or node) is in constant contact with the
next node in the ring. A control message, called a token, is passed from one node to another, allowing the
node with the token to send a message out to the network. If the ring is "broken" by one computer losing
contact, the network can no longer communicate. The IEEE 802.5 token ring standard is the most common.
Token Ring Interface Coupler See TIC.
TokenTalk Apple Computer's data-link product that allows an AppleTalk network to be connected by Token Ring
cables.
TokenTalk Link Access Protocol See TLAP.
TOL Time Other Line Table
TOLA Timing Output Logic Automatic
Toll only Toll only service order entry
TOLL/IA TOLL Information Analysis
Toll/LSP Toll/Local Service Provide
TOLLIA Toll Information Access System
TOM Traffic Office Management
TOM Translation Order Manager (f. GCT)
TOMAL Task Oriented Microprocessor Applications Language
TOMI Task Order Management Interface
TOOL Template Object-Oriented Library
TOP Technical and Office Protocol
TOP Type of Plant
TOP Test Operations Process (team)
TOP Technical Office Protocol. OSI-based architecture developed for office communications.
TOPGUN Toll Only Profile Group under Negotiation
TOPIX Transaction Optimized Processing with unIX
topology Physical arrangement of network nodes and media within an enterprise networking structure.
Topology The layout of all the computers on a network and the links that join them.
TOPPS Time-Share Outside Plant PWAC Studies
TOPS Task Oriented Procedures
TOPS Traffic Operator Position System (f: TOPS)
TOPS Transition of Optical Processors into Systems
TOPS Traffic Operator Position System
TOPS Traffic Operator Position System
TOPS-OOC TOPS - Overseas Operating Centre
TOPS-VSN TOPS Voice Service Node
TOPSDNPIC Tops Dnpic System Maintenance
TOR Terminal Owned Regions (cics)
TOR Total Operating Revenues (f: TRE)
TORGPC TORonto General Purpose Computer
TORO Toronto
TOS Tape Operating System
TOS Traffic Operator Services
TOS Type of Service
ToS Type of service. See CoS.
TOSC Type of Service Code
TOTA Timing Output T1 Automatic
TOTA-DCD TOTA-DCD Synchronization equipment
Tp Income Tax Payable (Cost) (f: IP)
TP Teleprocessing
TP Termination Point (OCx Ring Term)
TP Test Pad
TP Token Passing
TP Toll Point
TP Toll Pole
TP Tops Controller
TP Track Pitch
TP Transaction Processing
TP Turbo Pascal
TP Twisted Pair
TP Teleplus
TP Termination Point (OCx Ring Term)
TP-3D-OM Two-Photon 3D Optical Memory
TP-N Transport Protocol Class n (n+1 to 4)
TP-PMD Twisted Pair Physical Medium Dependent
TP0 Transport Protocol Class 0. OSI connectionless transport protocol for use over reliable subnetworks.
Defined by ISO 8073.
TP4 Transport Protocol Class 4. OSI connection-based transport protocol. Defined by ISO 8073.
TP4 Transport Layer 4 of the OSI Reference Model
TPAD Terminal Packet Assembler-Disassembler
TPB Third Party Billing
TPC Tape Carrier Package
TPC Tops Position Controller
TPD Two Page Display
TPD Mechanism used by some ATM switches that allows the remaining cells supporting an AAL5 frame to be
discarded when one or more cells of that AAL5 frame are dropped. This avoids sending partial AAL5 frames
through the ATM network when they will have to be retransmitted by the sender. Compare with EPD.
TPDDI Twisted-Pair Distributed Data Interface
TPDK Teleform Programmers' Developer Toolkit
TPDU Transport Protocol Data Unit
TPF Transaction Processing Facility
TPI Telephone Plant Indexes
TPI Tracks Per Inch
TPIP Transfer Pricing Integration Project
TPIS Transfer pricing input system (f: TPIS)
TPIS Transfer Pricing Input System (f: TPIS)
TPM Third Party Maintenance
TPM Third-Party Maintainer
TPM Terminating Point Master
TPMF Terminating Point Master File
TPP Toward Peak Performance
TPPC Transaction Processing Performance Council
TPPMD Twisted-Pair Physical Medium Dependent.
TPR Teleprinter
TPS Technical Publishing Software
TPS Toll Proceeding Selector
TPS Transaction Per Second
TPS Technology Portfolio System
TPS-INTER Toll Planning System
TPTS Third Party Toll Settlement
TPU Turbo Pascal Unit
TPW Turbo Pascal for Windows
TQC Total quality control (f: GQT)
TQFP Thin Quad Flat Pack
TQM Total Quality Management (f: GQT)
TQM Total Quality Measurement
TQPIMS Total Quality Portfolio Information Management System
TR Technical Reference
TR Technical Requirement
TR Token Ring
TR Toll Route
TR Transfer Rate
TR Transmit Receive
TR Trap
TR Trip
TR TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
TR VLAN Token Ring virtual LAN.
TR&T Trouble Reporting & Tracking
TRA Telecom Research Associates
traceroute Program available on many systems that traces the path a packet takes to a destination. It is mostly
used to debug routing problems between hosts. There is also a traceroute protocol defined in RFC 1393.
TRACKER Tracking Program of outstanding issues/problems with IMAP
TRACS Trouble Report Administrative and Control System
TRACS Trouble Report Analysis Control System-CENTREX
TRACS Trouble Reporting Analysis and Control System (PAMSII)
TRAF Traffic
traffic management Techniques for avoiding congestion and shaping and policing traffic, Allows links to
operate at high levels of utilization by scaling back lower-priority, delay-tolerant traffic at the edge of
the network when congestion begins to occur.
Traffic path Route of a bearer channel that carries voice traffic.
traffic policing Process used to measure the actual traffic flow across a given connection and compare it
to the total admissible traffic flow for that connection. Traffic outside of the agreed upon flow can be
tagged (where the CLP bit is set to 1) and can be discarded en route if congestion develops. Traffic
policing is used in ATM, Frame Relay, and other types of networks. Also know as admission control, permit
processing, rate enforcement, and UPC. See also tagged traffic.
traffic profile Set of CoS attribute values assigned to a given port on an ATM switch. The profile affects
numerous parameters for data transmitted from the port including rate, cell drop eligibility, transmit
priority, and inactivity timer. See also CoS.
traffic shaping Use of queues to limit surges that can congest a network. Data is buffered and then sent into
the network in regulated amounts to ensure that the traffic will fit within the promised traffic envelope
for the particular connection. Traffic shaping is used in ATM, Frame Relay, and other types of networks.
Also known as metering, shaping, and smoothing.
trailer Control information appended to data when encapsulating the data for network transmission. Compare
with header.
trailing packet discard See TPD.
TRAM TRAnsputer Module
TRANS Transmission
TRANS Transmitter
Trans-European Research and Education Networking A See TERENA.
transaction Result-oriented unit of communication processing.
transaction services layer Layer 7 in the SNA architectural model. Represents user application functions, such
as spreadsheets, word-processing, or e-mail, by which users interact with the network. Corresponds roughly
with the application layer of the OSI reference model. See also data flow control layer, data-link control
layer, path control layer, physical control layer, presentation services layer, and transaction services
layer.
transceiver See MAU.
transceiver cable See AUI.
transfer syntax Description on an instance of a data type that is expressed as a string of bits.
TRANSFER XCO Transfer protocol XCOM
transit bridging Bridging that uses encapsulation to send a frame between two similar networks over a
dissimilar network.
TRANSL Translator
translational bridging Bridging between networks with dissimilar MAC sublayer protocols. MAC information is
translated into the format of the destination network at the bridge. Contrast with encapsulation bridging.
translations Changes or conversions made by a network to a dialed number that permit the call to progress
through the network. For example, the conversion of the area and office codes of a telephone number into
routing instructions.
transmission control layer Layer 4 in the SNA architectural model. This layer is responsible for establishing,
maintaining, and terminating SNA sessions, sequencing data messages, and controlling session level flow.
Corresponds to the transport layer of the OSI model. See also data flow control layer, data-link control
layer, path control layer, physical control layer, presentation services layer, and transaction services
layer.
Transmission Control Protocol See TCAP.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol See TCP/IP.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (T CP/IP is the standard communications protocol required
for Internet computers. To communicate using TCP/IP, PCs need a set of software components called a TCP/IP
stack. Macintoshes typically use a proprietary software package called MacTCP. Most UNIX systems are built
with TCP/IP capabilities.
transmission convergence See TC.
transmission group In SNA routing, one or more parallel communications links treated as one communications
facility.
transmission header See TH.
transmission link See link.
TRANSP TABLEAUX SYNOPTIQUES
TRANSPAC Major packet data network run by France Telecom.
Transparent Asynchronous Transmitter/Receiver Inte See TAXI 4B/5B.
transparent bridging Bridging scheme often used in Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 networks in which bridges pass
frames along one hop at a time based on tables associating end nodes with bridge ports. Transparent bridging
is so named because the presence of bridges is transparent to network end nodes. Contrast with SRB.
TransPath component The part of your signaling controller system where signals are identified, converted, and
routed.
transport layer Layer 4 of the OSI reference model. This layer is responsible for reliable network
communication between end nodes. The transport layer provides mechanisms for the establishment, maintenance,
and termination of virtual circuits, transport fault detection and recovery, and information flow control.
Corresponds to the transmission control layer of the SNA model. See also application layer, data-link layer,
network layer, physical layer, PQ, and session layer.
Transport Protocol Class 0 See TP0.
Transport Protocol Class 4 See TP4.
trap Message sent by an SNMP agent to an NMS, console, or terminal to indicate the occurrence of a significant
event, such as a specifically defined condition or a threshold that was reached. See also alarm and event.
TRAVER Translation Verification.
TRC Terminating Restriction Code
TRC Transfer Responsibility Charge
TRCC T Carrier Restoration Control Centre
TRDB Trunk Records Database
TRDB Trunk Reporting Database
TRDS Trunk Record Data System (f: SIL)
TRE Trunk Relay Equipment
TREE Trunk Route Evolution Evaluator
tree topology LAN topology similar to a bus topology, except that tree networks can contain branches with
multiple nodes. Transmissions from a station propagate the length of the medium and are received by all
other stations. Compare with bus topology, ring topology, and star topology.
TRES Trouble Shooting Escalation Scheme
TRF Transfer
TRIHS Trouble Report Information Handling System (f: SIDRD)
TRIHS Trouble Reporting & Information Handling System
TRIHS Trouble Report & Information Handling System
TRIHS Trouble Report Information Handling System
TRIHS Trouble Reporting Information Handling System
TRIHS Inv Trouble Report Information Handling System Inventory
TRIMMS Telecom Canada Remote Interface Monitoring & Mgmt System
TRIMMS Trans-Canada Remote Interface Monitoring Management System
TRIMMS TCTS Remote Interface Monitoring & Management System
TRIMMS TransCanada Remote Interface Monitor Management System
TRIP Token Ring Interface Processor. High-speed interface processor on the Cisco 7000 series routers. The TRIP
provides two or four Token Ring ports for interconnection with IEEE 802.5 and IBM Token Ring media with
ports independently set to speeds of either 4 or 16 Mbps.
TRISL Token Ring Inter-Switch Link.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol See TFTP.
TRK Trunk
TRKS Trunks
TRL Terminating Route Link
TRLN Terminating Route Link Network
TRM Transport Resource Management
TRN Token Ring Network
TRN Token-Ring Network
TRN IBM Token Ring Network (IEEE 802.4)
TRNGWEB NETSCAPE Support and Maintenance
TRO Traffic Report Office
TRRP Toll Revenue Recovery Program
TRS Timing Reference Signal
TRS Trunk Requirement Sheet
TRS TIMING REFERENCE SIGNAL
TRSE Token Ring Switching Engine
TRT (Cell) Theoretical Retransmission Time
TRT Token Rotation Timer
TRU Transmit Receive Unit
trunk Physical and logical connection between two switches across which network traffic travels. A backbone is
composed of a number of trunks.
trunk coupling unit See TCU.
trunk up-down See TUD.
TRUNKCAB FO & LD1 transm. allowance calc
TS Time Sharing
TS Toll Switching
TS Transaction Services
TS Trouble Surveillance
TS Temporary Storage
TS Technology Systems
TS TROUBLE SURVEILLANCE
Ts & Cs Terms and Conditions
TSA Target Service Agent
TSA Technical Support Alliance
TSA Time Slot Assignment (or Ring Assignment #)
TSA Translation Shadow Array
TSA Trunk Side Access (f: ARECI)
TSA Target Service Agent
TSA Time Slot Assignment or Ring Assignment #. Combination of the STS1 time slot # a
TSAF Transparent Services Access Facility
TSANet Technical Support Alliance Network
TSAPI Telephony Services API
TSARS TOPS Service Analysis Reporting System
TSAS Toll Security Analysis System
TSAU Time Slot Access Unit
TSB Telephone Service Bureau Inc (See CPE OCTel and SMARTS)
TSB telephone service bureau
TSBU Telecommunication Systems Business Unit
TSC Technical Subcommittee
TSC Terminal Stub Cable
TSC Time-Slot Counter
TSC Triton System Components
TSC Technical Support Centre
TSC Technical Support Coordinator
TSD Technical Service Description
TSD Toll Sample Database
TSD Technology Services Development
TSDU Transport Service Data Unit
TSE Tool Support Environment
TSE Toronto Stock Exchange
TSEC US DoD Trusted Computer Evaluation Criteria
TSF Total Service Factor
TSF Telephone Service Factor
TSFR Toll Switch Flat Rate
TSI Telesciences Incorporated
TSI Time Slot Interchange
TSI Transmitting Subscriber Information. Frame that can be sent by the caller with the caller's telephone
number that can be used to screen calls.
TSIP Technical Skills Improvement Presentation
TSIX Trusted System Interoperability Group
TSL Tessel Software Line
TSL Three-State Logic
TSM Transport Services Management
TSM Transport Services Module
TSM Transport Support Management System
TSM Transport Services Management (cancelled; replaced by NEC)
TSMP True Symmetric MultiProcessing
TSMS Tandem Service Management System
TSMS Traffic Separation Measurement System
TSN Terminal Support Network
TSNF Trunk Signaling Network Integration
TSO Terminating Screening Office
TSO Time Sharing Option
TSO Terminating Screening Office
TSO Terminating Serving Office
TSO Time Sharing Option
TSOSS Transport Services Operational Support System
TSP 1. Tag-Switched Path. 2. Terminal Service Profile.
TSPC Toll Supplementary Peg Count
TSPCS Toll Supplementary Peg Count System
TSPS Toll Services Planning Systems
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSR Terminate Stay Resident (memory resident)
TSRP Telecommunication Services Renewal Project
TSS Technology Service Solutions (IBM/Kodak)
TSS Transport Services Shelf
TSS Trunk Servicing System
TSS Trunk Servicing System (part of FMS)
TST Test
TST Triple Super Twist
TST Tariff Selection Table
TST ACC Test Access Field in TARS
TSTHD Testhead
TSTN Triple Super Twist Nematic
TSU Timing Supply Unit
TSV Tab Separated Values
TT Touch Tone
TT TouchTone
TT Trouble Ticket
TT TrueType
TT Touch-tone
TT trouble ticket
TTC Telecommunications Techniques Corp
TTC Trunk Test Centre
TTE Telecommunication Terminal Equipment
TTL Time to Live
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTL Time To Live. Field in an IP header that indicates how long a packet is considered valid.
TTMP Trunk Transmission Maintenance Plan
TTMR Trunk Transmission Maintenance Results
TTP Trunk Test Position
TTPC Trunk Test Position Console
TTR Transfer of Terminal Responsibilities
TTRT Target Token Rotation Time
TTS Text-To-Speech
TTS Transaction Tracking System
TTS Trouble Ticket Server
TTS Trunk Transition System
TTS Trouble Ticket Server
TTT Transmission Test Trunk (f: CET)
TTTN Tandem Tie Trunk Network
TTU Transmission Test Unit (f: UVT)
TTU trunk test unit
TTY Teletypewriter
TU Traffic Units
TU Turn Up
TUC Touchtone Usage Controller
TUD Trunk Up-Down. Protocol used in ATM networks that monitors trunks and detects when one goes down or comes
up. ATM switches send regular test messages from each trunk port to test trunk line quality. If a trunk
misses a given number of these messages, TUD declares the trunk down. When a trunk comes back up, TUD
recognizes that the trunk is up, declares the trunk up, and returns it to service. See also trunk.
TUE Traffic Usage Encoder
TUF Translator of Usocs and Fids
TULIP TCP and UDP over Lightweight IP. Proposed protocol for running TCP and UDP applications over ATM.
TUMPS Toll Usage Monitoring and Prevention System (f: SCUBAI)
TUNIP TCP and UDP over Nonexistent IP. Proposed protocol for running TCP and UPD applications over ATM.
tunneling Architecture that is designed to provide the services necessary to implement any standard point-to-
point encapsulation scheme. See also encapsulation.
TUP telephone user parts in SS7
TUR Traffic Usage Recorders
TUS Tariff USOC/SAC
TUT Turn Up To
TUV German test agency that certifies products to European safety standards.
TVM time value of money
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Important Name
TWE Total Work Effort
twisted pair Relatively low-speed transmission medium consisting of two insulated wires arranged in a
regular spiral pattern. The wires can be shielded or unshielded. Twisted pair is common in telephony
applications and is increasingly common in data networks. See also STP and UTP.
TWO Trunk Work Order
TWO Trunk work order (f: CL)
TWO Trunk Work Order (message traffic facilities provisioning request)
TWO TRUNK WORK ORDER
two-way simultaneous See TWS.
TWS Two-Way Simultaneous. Mode that allows a router configured as a primary SDLC station to achieve better
utilization of a full-duplex serial line. When TWS is enabled in a multidrop environment, the router can
poll a secondary station and receive data from that station while it sends data to or receives data from a
different secondary station on the same serial line.
TWS Terminal Workspace
TWX TeletypeWriter Exchange
TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service
TX Transmit (Data)
TXTX Tax on Tax
TYMNET See XStream.
Type 1 operation IEEE 802.2 (LLC) connectionless operation.
Type 2 operation IEEE 802.2 (LLC) connection-oriented operation.
type of service See ToS.
TZ Transmission Zone
U Underground
U Unnumbered Format
U Interface CCITT definition of the ISDN interface between NT1 and line termination
U-frame Unnumbered frame. One of three SDLC frame formats. See also I-frame and S-frame.
U-law Companding technique commonly used in North America. U-law is standardized as a 64-kbps CODEC in ITU-T
G.711.
U-PLANE User Plane
U/L Upload
U/L Underwriter's Labratory
U/SP User/System Development
UA Unnumbered Acknowledgement
UA User Agent
UACC Universal Administration Console Controller
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error
UAM Universal Analysis Matrix
UAOS User Alliance for Open Systems
UART Universal Async Receiver Transmitter
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. Integrated circuit, attached to the parallel bus of a
computer, used for serial communications. The UART translates between serial and parallel signals, provides
transmission clocking, and buffers data sent to or from the computer.
UAS Unavailable Seconds
UASC Universal Access System Controller
UAT User Acceptance Testing
UB Net/One Ungermann-Bass Net/One. Routing protocol, developed by UB Networks, that uses hello packets and a
path-delay metric, with end nodes communicating using the XNS protocol. There are a number of differences
between the manner in which Net/One uses the XNS protocol and the usage common among other XNS nodes.
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate. QoS class defined by the ATM Forum for ATM networks. UBR allows any amount of data
up to a specified maximum to be sent across the network, but there are no guarantees in terms of cell loss
rate and delay. Compare with ABR, CBR, and VBR.
UBR Undetermined Bit Rate
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate
UBR+ Unspecified Bit Rate plus. UBR service complemented by ATM switches that use intelligent packet discard
mechanisms such as EPD or TPD. See also EPD and TPD.
UBT UnBilled Toll Notifier
UBT UnBilled Toll
UC Unit Check (flag)
UCB Uniform Classification of Business
UCB Uniform Classification of Business code
UCC User Computer Coordination
UCD Uniform Call Distribution
UCD Uniform Call Distibution.
UCD-DN Uniform Call Distribution Directory Number (f: NA-DUA)
UCG Unit Cost Guideline
UCL Unicorn Consultants Ltd
UCLA University of California
UCM Unbilled Chargeable Messages
UCM Universal Call Model.
UCN User Circuit Number
UCPT User Control Parameter Table (MMS)
UCR Universal Call Register
UCR User Class Restructure
UCS Universal Call Sequence
UCS Universal Card Slot
UCS Universal Component System
UCSD University of California at San Diego
UCT universal co-ordinated time
UD Undefined
UDB Unified DataBase
UDC Universal Data Converter
UDC Universal Decimal Classification
UDC User Development Centre (f: CDB)
UDF User-Defined Function
UDLC Universal Data Link Control
UDLC universal digital loop carrier
UDLP UniDirectional Link Protocol. Protocol used by inexpensive, receive-only antennas to receive data via
satellite.
UDM Urban Distribution Modernization
UDP Universal Data Set
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDP Universal Dialing Plan
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol. Connectionless transport layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack. UDP is a
simple protocol that exchanges datagrams without acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery, requiring that
error processing and retransmission be handled by other protocols. UDP is defined in RFC 768.
UDP/IP Universal Data Protocol - Internet Protocol
UDS universal data switch
UE Unit Exception (flag)
UE Universal Edge
UE9000 Universal Edge 9000
UEP Uneconomical Pair
UFS Ultra Fast Switching
UFS Unix File System
UG Underground
UG Upgrade
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UI Unix International
UI Unnumbered Information
UI Unnumbered Information.
UI-FRAME Unnumbered Information Frame
UIA User Information Access
UID User IDentification
UIFS Universal International Freephone Service
UII Unix International Inc
UIL User Interface Language
UIO Universal I/O serial port (Cisco router).
UIT Ultimate Impact Tool
UKERNA UK Education and Research Networking Association.
UL Underwriters Laboratories. Independent agency within the United States that tests product safety.
UL Underwriters Laboratories
ULC Universal Line Card
ULC Urban Line Concentrator
ULC universal line card
ULP Upper-Layer Protocol . Protocol that operates at a higher layer in the OSI reference model, relative to
other layers. ULP is sometimes used to refer to the next-highest protocol (relative to a particular
protocol) in a protocol stack.
ULSI Ultra-Large Scale Integration
UMA Unified Memory Architecture
UMB Upper Memory Block
UMC United Microelectronics Corporation
UME Usage Measurement equipment
UMI Unified Media Interface
UMI Usods Mccds Interface
UMI USODS mechanized interface to ISAAC
UMP Utilization Management Plan
UMS Umbrella Management System
UMS Utilization Management System
unbalanced configuration HDLC configuration with one primary station and multiple secondary stations.
UNC Universal Naming Convention
UNCOL Universal Computer-Oriented Language
Underwriters Laboratories See UL.
Ungermann-Bass Net/One See UB Net/One.
UNI User-Network Interface. ATM Forum specification that defines an interoperability standard for the
interface between ATM-based products (a router or an ATM switch) located in a private network and the ATM
switches located within the public carrier networks. Also used to describe similar connections in Frame
Relay networks. See also NNI, Q.920/Q.921, and SNI (Subscriber Network Interface).
UNI User Network Interface
UNI User-to-Network Interface
UNI User to Network Interface
unicast Message sent to a single network destination. Compare with broadcast and multicast.
unicast address Address specifying a single network device. Compare with broadcast address and multicast
address. See also unicast.
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UniDirectional Link Protocol See UCM.
UNIFORM Uniform
uninsured traffic Traffic within the excess rate (the difference between the insured rate and maximum rate)
for an ATM VCC. This traffic can be dropped by the network if congestion occurs. See also CLP, insured rate,
and maximum rate.
unipolar Literally meaning one polarity, the fundamental electrical characteristic of internal signals in
digital communications equipment. Contrast with bipolar.
UNITELDATALO Alarm Monitoring in OR
UniTMS Uniform. Trunk Monitoring System
unity gain In broadband networks, the balance between signal loss and signal gain through amplifiers.
UNIVEL UNIx noVELl
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter See UCM.
Universal Resource Locator See URL.
Universal Resource Locator More ore commonly referred to as the URL, the Universal Resource Locator refers to
the entire address that is recognized "universally" as the address for an Internet resource. Each resource
on the Internet has a unique URL. URLs begin with letters that identify the resource type, such as http,
ftp, gopher, etc. These types are followed by a colon and two slashes. Next, the computer's name is listed,
followed by the directory and filename of the remote resource. For example, the URL for this glossary is
/glossary.html. (URL)
UNIX Operating system developed in 1969 at Bell Laboratories. UNIX has gone through several iterations since
its inception. These include UNIX 4.3 BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution), developed at the University of
California at Berkeley, and UNIX System V, Release 4.0, developed by AT&T.
UNIX An operating system developed by AT&T
UNIX-to-UNIX Copy (UUCP) Originally, UUCP was a program that allowed UNIX systems to transfer files over
phone lines. Currently, the term is used to describe the protocol that passes news and email across the
Internet.
UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program See UUCP.
UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture
unnumbered frames HDLC frames used for various control and management purposes, including link startup and
shutdown, and mode specification.
UNO United Nations Organization
UNR Uncontrolled Not Ready
UNS Universal Numbering Scheme (proposed "global" tel # scheme)
UNS Universal Numbering Scheme
unshielded twisted-pair See UTP.
unspecified bit rate See UBR.
UNTDED United Nations Trade Data Elements Directory
UNTDID United Nations Trade Data Interchange Directory
UP Unnumbered Poll
UPA UltraSPARC Port Architecture
UPC Universal Product Code
UPC Usage Parameter Control. See traffic policing.
UPL_OCC & OC Upload OCC
UPL_SCAN Upload Scanline
UPM User Profile Management
upper-layer protocol See U-law.
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
UPS Uninterrupted Power Source/Supply
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply (f: ASC)
UPS uninterruptable power supply
UPSI User Program Switch Indicator
UPSR Uni-directional Path Switched Ring (versus BLSR)
UPSR Uni-directional Path Switched Ring versus BLSR
upstream Set of frequencies used to send data from a subscriber to the headend.
UR Under Review
urban legend Story, which may start with a grain of truth, that has been retold and end up on the Internet.
Some legends that periodically make their rounds include "The Infamous Modem Tax," "Craig Shergold/Brain
Tumor/Get Well Cards," and "The $250 Cookie Recipe." Urban Legends are conceptually similar to space junk
that stays in orbit for years.
URL Universal Resource Locator. Standardized addressing scheme for accessing hypertext documents and other
services using a browser. See also browser.
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URL Uniform Resource Locator. WWW Internet address eg http://www.sympatico.ca
URL Universal Resource Locator (address)
URV Unité de réponse vocale (e: ARU)
USA United States of America
usage parameter control See traffic policing.
USART Universal Sync/Async Receiver-Transmit
USART Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
USAT Ultra-Small Aperture Satellite
USB Universal Serial Bus
USC Uniform Communication Standard
USD US Dollars
USENET Initiated in 1979, one of the oldest and largest cooperative networks, with over 10,000 hosts and a
quarter of a million users. Its primary service is a distributed conferencing service called news.
Usenet Usenet groups are more commonly known as newsgroups. There are thousands of groups hosted on
hundreds of servers around the world, dealing with various topics. Newsreader software is required to
properly download and view articles in the groups, but you can usually post an article to a group simply by
emailing to it.
User Datagram Protocol See UDP.
User-Network Interface See UNI.
USL Unix System Laboratories Inc
USL UNIX System Laboratories Inc. (Previously USO)
USL Universal Software Load
USO Universal Service Order
USO UNIX Software Operation (Old name)
USOC Universal Service Order Code (f: USOC)
USOC Universal Service Offering Code (1lr...)
USOC North american standard for identifiable system code (universal service order co
USOC Universal Service Order Code
USOC/SAC Universal Service Order Code (corporate & NIBS)
USOCs Universal Service Order Codes
USOD Universal Service Order Distribution (f: USOD)
USODS Universal Service Order Data/Distributing System (f: USODS)
USODS Universal Service Order & Distribution System
USODS-IA Order status from sales
USODS/DCD Universal Service Order Distribution System
USP Usage Sensitive Pricing
USSO Universal Sales and Service Order
USSO Universal Service Summary Order
USSO Universal System Service Order (f: USSO)
USSO Universal Special Service Order
USSO universal sales and service order
USSO Universal Special Services Order
USSO Universal System Service Order
USSOC Universal Service Order Summary Chart
UT Universal Trunk
UTC Universal Test Console
UTC Universal Time Constant (replaced GMT & identical to)
UTC Universal Toll Centre
UTC Universal Time Constant (has replaced GMT & identical to GMT)
UTC Coordinated Universal Time. Time zone at zero degrees longitude. Formerly called Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT) and Zulu time.
UTC(C) Universal Test Console (Controller)
UTF Universal Trunk Frame
UTH universal test head
UTP Universal Trunk Processor
UTP Universal Trunk Protocol
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair wiring
UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair. Four-pair wire medium used in a variety of networks. UTP does not require the
fixed spacing between connections that is necessary with coaxial-type connections. There are five types of
UTP cabling commonly used: Category 1 cabling, Category 2 cabling, Category 3 cabling, Category 4 cabling,
and Category 5 cabling. Compare with STP. See also EIA/TIA-586 and twisted pair.
UTR Universal Tone Receiver (f: RUT)
UTS P1024C data-link layer protocol.
UUCP UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program. Protocol stack used for point-to-point communication between UNIX systems.
UUCP See UNIX-to-UNIX Copy.
uucp unix to unix copy
UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Program
uudecode UNIX-to-UNIX decode. Method of decoding ASCII files that were encoded using uuencode. See also
uuencode.
uuencode UNIX-to-UNIX encoding. Method of converting binary files to ASCII so that they can be sent over the
Internet via e-mail. The name comes from its use by the UNIX operating system's uuencode command. See also
uudecode.
UUNET Unix to Unix NETwork
UV Ultra Violet
UV-EPROM UltraViolet Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
UVD Unit Value Detail
UVEPROM UltraViolet Erasable Pogrammable Read Only Memory
UVF Unified Voice Frequencies (f: UVF)
UVM Universal Voice Module.
UVM-C Universal Voice Module-Channelized.
UVM-U Universal Voice Module-Unchannelized.
UVPROM UltraViolet Pogrammable Read Only Memory
UVR UltraViolet Radiation
UX Unix Operating System typically associated with HP wkstns
UZD22 Collection of special assemblies for monitoring SL/1 PBX's
V Electrical Standards defined by the CCITT
V Plant Administration Practice
V Verify
V Vertical
V Volt
V&H Vertical and Horizontal (coordinates)
V&H Co-ordin Vertical and Horizontal Co-ordinates
V.24 ITU-T standard for a physical layer interface between DTE and DCE. V.24 is essentially the same as the
EIA/TIA-232 standard. See also EIA/TIA-232.
V.25bis ITU-T specification describing procedures for call setup and tear down over the DTE-DCE interface in
a PSDN.
V.32 ITU-T standard serial line protocol for bidirectional data transmissions at speeds of 4.8 or 9.6 Kbps.
See also V.32bis.
V.32bis ITU-T standard that extends V.32 to speeds up to 14.4 Kbps. See also V.32.
V.34 ITU-T standard that specifies a serial line protocol. V.34 offers improvements to the V.32 standard,
including higher transmission rates (28.8 Kbps) and enhanced data compression. Compare with V.32.
V.35 ITU-T standard describing a synchronous, physical layer protocol used for communications between a
network access device and a packet network. V.35 is most commonly used in the United States and in Europe,
and is recommended for speeds up to 48 Kbps.
V.42 ITU-T standard protocol for error correction using LAPM. See also LAPM.
V/N Voice/noise Receiver
VAB Value Added Business
VAC Vacant
VAC Volts Alternating Current.
VAD Voice Activity Detection. When enabled on voice port or a dial peer, silence is not transmitted over the
network, only audible speech. When VAD is enabled, the sound quality is slightly degraded, but the
connection monopolizes much less bandwidth.
VAD Value-Added Dealer (now IR--Industry Remarketer)
VAD Voice Activated Dialing
VAD Voice Activated Dialling
VAFC VESA Advanced Feature Connector
VAGI VESA Advanced Graphics Interface
VAN Value Added Network
VAN Value-Added Network
vanity number Often used with toll-free telephone numbers, however, not exclusive of regular tn's, a vanity
number is a telephone number in which the numbers are in a carefully thought out sequence, set to correspond
with the letters on the dial pad to spell a word.
VAP Value Added Process
VAP Videotex access point
VAPN Virtual Access to Pivate Networks
VAR Value Added Reseller
VAR Value-Added Remarketer (now IR--Industry Remarketer)
VAR Value-Added Reseller
variable bit rate See VBR.
variable-length subnet mask See VLSM.
VARS Validation of Assignments and Reporting Staff (f: VDTA)
VAS Value Added Service
VAS Value Added Service
VASO Violating All-Zero Octet
VAT Value Added Tax
VAX Virtual Addressing Extended
VAXft VAX Fault Tolerant
VB Visual Basic
VBA Visual Basic for Application
VBAP Voice Band Audio Processor
VBAS Video Billing and Advice System
VBB Virtual Broadband
VBDOS Visual Basic for DOS
VBDPL Voice Bandwidth Data Private Lines
VBFCF Value Based Free Cash Flow
VBI Vertical Blanking Interval
VBM VALUE-BASED MANAGEMENT
VBN Virtual Backbone Network
VBR Variable Bit Rate
VBR Variable Bit Rate. QoS class defined by the ATM Forum for ATM networks. VBR is subdivided into a real
time (RT) class and non-real time (NRT) class. VBR (RT) is used for connections in which there is a fixed
timing relationship between samples. VBR (NRT) is used for connections in which there is no fixed timing
relationship between samples, but that still need a guaranteed QoS. Compare with ABR, CBR, and UBR.
VBX VisualBasic Custom Controls
VC Vacant Code
VC Video Conference
VC Virtual Circuit
VC See Virtual Circuit.
VCA Vacant Code Announcement
VCA Video Capture Adapter
VCAN Visa Canadian Authorization Network
VCC Variable common costs (f: CCV)
VCC Virtual Channel Connection. Logical circuit, made up of VCLs, that carries data between two end points in
an ATM network. Sometimes called a virtual circuit connection. See also VCD, VCL, and VPI.
VCD Virtual Circuit Descriptor.
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier. 16-bit field in the header of an ATM cell. The VCI, together with the VPI, is
used to identify the next destination of a cell as it passes through a series of ATM switches on its way to
its destination. ATM switches use the VPI/VCI fields to identify the next network VCL that a cell needs to
transit on its way to its final destination. The function of the VCI is similar to that of the DLCI in Frame
Relay. Compare with DLCI. See also VCL and VPI.
VCI Vacant Code Intercept
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCI Virtual Channel Interface
VCI Virtual Circuit Identifier
VCI Virtual Connection Identifier
VCIO Virtual Chief Information Officer
VCL Virtual Channel Link. Connection between two ATM devices. A VCC is made up of one or more VCLs. See also
VCC.
VCL Visual Component Library
VCM Virtual Call Mode
VCM Voice Compression Module
VCM Video Conference Management System
VCN Video Conference Network
VCN Virtual Corporate Network (f: RVE)
VCN Virtual Customer Network
VCN Virtual Circuit Number. 12-bit field in an X.25 PLP header that identifies an X.25 virtual circuit.
Allows DCE to determine how to route a packet through the X.25 network. See also LCI and LCN.
VCN2Y VCN 2 year contract with customer
VCNAC VCN ACcess
VCNUB VCN user billing node
VCNUN VCN user Non-billing node
VCO Voltage Control Oscillator
VCOS Visible Caching Operating System
VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VCR Variable Call Routing
VCS Video Compression Sampler
VCS Virtual Circuit Switch
VCW Visual Call Waiting
VCXO Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator
VDB Virtual DOS Boot
VDC Volts Direct Current.
VDD Virtual Device Driver
VDD Voice Data Discrimination (f: DATD)
VDD Voice/Data Discriminator
VDDS Virtual Data Delivery System
VDF Virtual Disk Facilities
VDM Vienna Development Method
VDM Virtual DOS Machine
VDN Virtual Data Network
VDNA Vacant Disconnect Number Announcement
VDPMI Virtual DOS Protect Mode Interface
VDS Virtual DMA Services
VDSL Voice Digital Subscriber Loop
VDSL VIRTUAL DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LOOP
VDSL Very high speed Digital Subscriber Loop
VDSL Very-high-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line. One of four DSL technologies. VDSL delivers 13 to 52 Mbps
downstream and 1.5 to 2.3 Mbps upstream over a single twisted copper pair. The operating range of VDSL is
limited to 1,000 to 4,500 feet (304.8 to 1,372 meters). Compare with ADSL, HDSL, and SDSL.
VDT Video Dial Tone
VDT Video Display Terminal (f: TEC)
VDU Video Display Unit
VDU Visual Display Unit
VDU video display unit (a console)
vector Data segment of an SNA message. A vector consists of a length field, a key that describes the vector
type, and vector-specific data.
VENDOR-PC Expenditure Info File
Veronica Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index to Computer Archives. Gopher utility that effectively
searches Gopher servers based on a user's list of keywords. Search engine (not unlike Archie) that is built
into Gopher. It allows searches of all gopher sites and other resources.
Versatile Interface Processor See VIP.
VES Vendor Evaluation and Selection
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VF Voice Frequency (f: FV)
VF Voice Frequency
VF Variance Factor. One of three link attributes exchanged using PTSPs to determine the available resources of
an ATM network. VF is a relative measure of CRM normalized by the variance of the aggregate cell rate on the
link.
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table
VFCT Voice Frequency Carrier Telegraph/Transmission
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VFG Video Frame Grabber
VFG Virtual Facility Groups
VFG Virtual Facilities Group
VFG Virtual Facility Group.
VFL Very Low Frequency
VFM Veritas File Systems
VFR Voice Frequency Repeaters
VFS Virtual File System
VfW Video for Windows
VFX Virtual Foreign Exchange
VG Vertical Group
VG Voice Grade
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGCF Vapour Grown Carbon Fiber
VGPL Voice Grade Private Line
VHDL Very Hardware Description Language
VHF Very High Frequency
VHLE Very High Level Estimate
VHM Virtual Hardware Monitor
VHS Video Home System
VHSIC (Very High Speed Scale Integration
VIAS VCN Information Administration System
VIC Voice Integrated Communication
VIC Voice Interactive Communication (f: VIC)
VIC-PAIRS Voice Interactive Communication
VID Video
VID Visible Identification
video conferencing Video and audio communication between two or more people via a videocodec at either end
and inked by digital circuits. Formerly requiring at leasat a T-1 connection speed, systems are now
available offering acceptable quality for general use at 128 Kbit/s and reasonable 7 KHz audio.
VIDEOVB Videoconference Billing
VIISA Video and Interactive Information Services Architecture
VIM Vendor Independent Messaging
VINES VIrtual NEtworking System
VINES Virtual Integrated Network Service. NOS developed and marketed by Banyan Systems.
VIP 1. Versatile Interface Processor. Interface card used in Cisco 7000 and Cisco 7500 series routers. The
VIP provides multilayer switching and runs Cisco IOS. The most recent version of the VIP is VIP2. 2. Virtual
IP. Function that enables the creation of logically separated switched IP workgroups across the switch ports
of a Catalyst 5000 running Virtual Networking Services software. See also Virtual Networking Services.
VIP VINES Internet Protocol
VIP Voice Interactive Phone
VIPC VINES Interprocess Communications Protocol
VIRS Visual Information Retrieval System (f: SRDA)
VIRS Voice Interactive Response System (f: SRV)
VIRS Voice Interactive Response System
virtual address See network address.
virtual channel See virtual circuit.
virtual channel connection See VCC.
virtual channel identifier See VCD.
virtual channel link See VCL.
virtual circuit Logical circuit created to ensure reliable communication between two network devices. A
virtual circuit is defined by a VPI/VCI pair, and can be either permanent (PVC) or switched (SVC). Virtual
circuits are used in Frame Relay and X.25. In ATM, a virtual circuit is called a virtual channel. Sometimes
abbreviated VC. See also PVC, SVC, VCD, virtual route, and VPI.
virtual circuit connection See VCC.
virtual circuit number See VCN.
virtual connection In ATM, a connection between end users that has a defined route and endpoints. See also
PVC and SVC.
Virtual Integrated Network Service See VINES.
virtual IP See VIP.
virtual LAN See VLAN.
virtual LAN internetwork See VLI.
Virtual Networking Services Software on some Catalyst 5000 switches that enables multiple workgroups to be
defined across switches and offers traffic segmentation and access control.
virtual path Logical grouping of virtual circuits that connect two sites. See also virtual circuit.
virtual path connection See VPC.
virtual path identifier See VPI.
virtual path identifier/virtual channel identifier See VPI/VCI.
virtual path link See VPL.
virtual ring Entity in an SRB network that logically connects two or more physical rings together either
locally or remotely. The concept of virtual rings can be expanded across router boundaries.
virtual route In SNA, a logical connection between subarea nodes that is physically realized as a particular
explicit route. SNA terminology for virtual circuit. See also virtual circuit.
virtual subnet Logical grouping of devices that share a common Layer 3 subnet.
virtual telecommunications access method See VTAM.
Virtual Terminal Protocol See VTP.
virtualization Process of implementing a network based on virtual network segments. Devices are connected to
virtual segments independent of their physical location and their physical connection to the network.
VIS Video Information System
VIS Visual Instruction Set
Vision Mgmt of transmission equip and optical fibre cables
VISIT Visual Interactive Technology
VISN Virtual Integrated Sky Network
VITA VMEbus International Trade Association
VITec Visual Information Technology
VL-Bus VESA Local Bus
VLA Vector Look Ahead
VLAN Virtual LAN
VLAN Virtual LAN (Local Area Network)
VLAN Virtual LAN. Group of devices on one or more LANs that are configured (using management software) so that
they can communicate as if they were attached to the same wire, when in fact they are located on a number of
different LAN segments. Because VLANs are based on logical instead of physical connections, they are
extremely flexible.
VLB VESA Local Bus
VLC Voice Line Card
VLDA Very Large Disk Array
VLDB Very Large DataBase
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLI Vision Location Information
VLI Virtual LAN internetwork. Internetwork composed of VLANs. See also VLAN.
VLINK-COLL Voicelink Business Office Collections
VLINK-TELE Voicelink Telemarketing
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
VLM Very Large Memory
VLM Virtual Loadable Module
VLR Visitors Location Register
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VLSI Very Large-Scale Integration
VLSI very large scale integration
VLSM Variable-Length Subnet Mask. Ability to specify a different subnet mask for the same network number on
different subnets. VLSM can help optimize available address space.
VM Voice Mail
VM Virtual Machine
VM Virtual Memory
VM Virtual Machine
VM/PC Virtual Machine / Personal Computer
VM/SP Virtual Machine / System Product
VMABS Voice Messaging Automated Billing System
VMAC Virtual Media Access Control.
VMAS Voice Mailbox Administration System
VMAS Visual Message Alert System
VMAS Voice Mailbox Administration System
VMAS Voice Mail Administration System
VMAS voice messaging administration system
VMAST To be deleted componenet of IVMS
VMB Virtual Machine Boot
VMC Verilog Model Compiler
VMC VESA Media Channel
VMCF Virtual Machine Communication Facility
VME Versa Module Eurocard
VMIP Virtual Mechanized Information Package
VMIP Vnet Mechanized Information Package
VMIS Voice Messaging Information System
VMIS Component of IVMS
VMM Virtual Memory Manager
VMMAP VM Monitor Analysis Program
VMPPF VM Performance Planning Facility
VMPRF VM Performance Reporting Facility
VMS Virtual Memory System
VMS Voice Messaging Service (f: GMT)
VMS Virtual Memory System
VMS VOICE MESSAGING SERVICE
VN800 Virtual Network 800 service
VNCA VTAM Node Control Application
VNCS Video Route Network Control System
VNET Virtual Network
VNET Virtual Network (aka Advantage VNET Long Distance Service)
VNET Stentor Virtual NETwork
VNET VIRTUAL NETWORK
VNL équivalent en transit (e: VNL)
VNL Via Net Loss (f: VNL)
VNLNK VCN LiNK
VNMC (MCI) Virtual Network Management Centre
VNOC (MCI) Virtual Network Operations Centre
VNS See Virtual Networking Services.
VO Verification Office
VO LAB Verification Office - Laboratory
VO-NIS Verification Office - Not in Service
VOA Variable Optic Attenuator
VoATM Voice Over ATM. Voice over ATM enables a router to carry voice traffic (for example, telephone calls and
faxes) over an ATM network. When sending voice traffic over ATM, the voice traffic is encapsulated using a
special AAL5 encapsulation for multiplexed voice.
VoATM dial peer Dial peer connected via an ATM network. VoATM peers point to specific VoATM devices.
VOC Voice of Client
VOC Creative VOiCe
VOC Volatile Organic Compounds
VOD Voice Over Data
VOD Video On Demand
VoFR Voice Over Frame Relay. Voice over Frame Relay enables a router to carry voice traffic (for example,
telephone calls and faxes) over a Frame Relay network. When sending voice traffic over Frame Relay, the
voice traffic is segmented and encapsulated for transit across the Frame Relay network using FRF.12
encapsulation.
VoFR dial peer Dial peer connected via a Frame Relay network. VoFR peers point to specific VoFR devices.
VoHDLC Voice Over HDLC. Voice over HDLC enables a router to carry live voice traffic (for example,
telephone calls and faxes) back-to-back to a second router over a serial line.
VoHDLC dial peer Dial peer connected via an HDLC network. VoHDLC peers point to specific VoHDLC devices.
Voice over IP Voice over IP enables a router to carry voice traffic (for example, telephone calls and faxes)
over an IP network. In Voice over IP, the DSP segments the voice signal into frames, which are then coupled
in groups of two and stored in voice packets. These voice packets are transported using IP in compliance
with ITU-T specification H.323.
Voicetec Voice Technical Support Group
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VOIP Voice Over IP
VoIP Voice over IP. The ability to carry normal telephony-style voice over an IP-based internet with POTS-like
functionality, reliability, and voice quality.
VOLUMINE Papeterie volumineuse
VOS Virtual Orientation System
VoxBLT Voxel BLock Transfer
Voxel Volume element or Volume cell (3-D pixel)
VP Vacant Code Partial Dialed
VP Vice-President
VP Virtual Path. One of two types of ATM circuits identified by a VPI. A virtual path is a bundle of virtual
channels, all of which are switched transparently across an ATM network based on a common VPI. See also VPI.
VPA Volume Procurement Agreement
VPAS Voice Processing Assignment System
VPAS Voice Processor Access and Surveillance System
VPC Voice Processing Corp
VPC Virtual Path Connection. Grouping of VCCs that share one or more contiguous VPL. See also VCC and VPL.
VPDN Virtual Private Dial-up Network. See also VPN.
VPDS Virtual Private Data Services
VPDSNMC Virtual Private Data Services Network Management Centre
VPHA Voluntary Periodic Health Assessments
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPI Virtual Path Interface
VPI Virtual Path Identifier. 8-bit field in the header of an ATM cell. The VPI, together with the VCI, is
used to identify the next destination of a cell as it passes through a series of ATM switches on its way to
its destination. ATM switches use the VPI/VCI fields to identify the next VCL that a cell needs to transit
on its way to its final destination. The function of the VPI is similar to that of the DLCI in Frame Relay.
Compare with DLCI. See also VCD and VCL.
VPI/VCI See VCD and VPI.
VPL Virtual Path Link. Within a virtual path, a group of unidirectional VCLs with the same end points.
Grouping VCLs into VPLs reduces the number of connections to be managed, thereby decreasing network control
overhead and cost. A VPC is made up of one or more VPLs.
VPN Virtual Private Network. Network that enables IP traffic to travel securely over a public TCP/IP network
by encrypting all traffic from one network to another. A VPN uses "tunneling" to encrypt all information at
the IP level.
VPN Virtual Private Network (High Speed Remote Access)
VPN Virtual Private Network (f: RPV)
VPN virtual private network
VPN Virtual Private Network (Intranet)
VPNE Virtual Private Network Enterprise
VPOTS Very Plain Old Telephone Service
VPPN Virtual Private Packet Network (f: RPVCP)
VPS VTAM Printer Support (VPSPRINT)
VPS Voice Processing System
VPT Virtual Printer Technology
VQC Vector Quantization Coded
VQC Vector Quantizing Code
VQFP Very-thin Quad Flat Package
VQL Variable Quantizing Level
VQL voice quantizing level
VR Receive State Variable
VR Verification
VR Virtual Reality
VR Virtual Route
VR Voice Response
VRAM Video RAM
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRAM Voice Messaging Records Acquisition Manager
VRC vertical redundancy check
VRF VPN Route Forwarding Table
VRI VideoRoute International Occasional Broadcast Service
VRLA Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Battery
VRLA Valve Regulated Lead Acid
VRML Virtual Reality Markup Language
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Specification for displaying 3-dimensional objects on the World Wide
Web. Think of it as the 3-D equivalent of HTML.
VRP Vacation
VRS-SA Vocal Response System - Standby Agency
VRT Voltage Reduction Technology
VS Send State Variable
VS Virtual Storage
VS Vendor Survey
VS/VD Virtual Source/Virtual Destination.
VSA Voice Service Agreement. The contract used by the sales department to solidify a verbal agreement between
potential customers and sales reps. This form is a legally binding contract.
VSAM Virtual Sequential Access Method
VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
VSB Vestigial SideBand
VSC Cisco's virtual switch controller.
VSE Virtual Storage Extended
VSE/AF Virtual Storage Extended / Advanced Function
VSEKTS Very Small Electronic Key Talk System
VSI Virtual Switch Interface.
VSM Visual System Manager
VSM Voice Services Management
VSN Virtual Switched Network
VSN Voice Service Node
VSP Voluntary Separation Program (f: PDV)
VSP Vertical Service Project
VSPA Very Small Peripheral Array
VSPP Voluntary Supplemental Pension Plan (f: RRSF)
VST VNET Support Team
VT Virtual Terminal
VT Virtual Tributary
VT value transfer
VT Vertical Tab
VT Virtual Terminal
VT Virtual Tributary
VT-100 Terminal protocol
VT-n Virtual Tributary level n. SONET format for mapping a lower-rate signal into a SONET payload. For
example, VT-1.5 is used to transport a DS-1 signal. See also DS-1 and SONET.
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method. Set of programs that control communication between LUs. VTAM
controls data transmission between channel-attached devices and performs routing functions. See also LU.
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VTAM Virtual Terminal Access Method
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VTBM Virtual Tributary Bandwidth Manager (feature on OCx eqpt)
VTBM Virtual Tributary Bandwidth Manager
VTBWM Virtual Tributary BandWidth Monitoring
VTCL Visual Tool Command Language
VTD Virtual Terminal Display
VTG Virtual Tributary Group
VTIP Voluntary Termination Incentive Plan (f: PCVE)
VTNS Virtual Telecommunications Network
VTP Virtual Product Development
VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol. ISO application for establishing a virtual terminal connection across a
network.
VTSC Voice Traffic Statistic Collection
VTU VCI Translation Unit
VTX Virtual Tributary Connection (eg 1631SX DCC)
VTX Virtual Tributary Connection eg 1631SX DCC
vty virtual type terminal, but commonly used as virtual terminal lines.
VUE Visual User Interface
VUMA VESA Unified Memory Architecture
VVGA VMEbus Video Graphics Accelerator
VVP Vision VNET Preferred (SNO Platform for Advantage)
VWAN Virtual WAN (Wide Area Network)
VXI VME eXtension for Instrumentation
VXID Virtual Exchange ID
VYVX VYVX Occasional Broadcast Service
W Watt
W-DCS Wideband Digital Crossconnect System. SONET DCS capable of crossconnecting DS-1 and VT1.5 signals. See
also DCS, DS-1, SONET, and VT-n.
W-W Wall to Wall
W/O Write-Off
W3 See World Wide Web.
WAAS Wide Area Access Services
WABI Windows Application Binary Interface
WACK Warning ACKnowledgement
WACOPS système de radiorecherche WACOPS
WACOPS Wide Area Company Owned Paging System
WAIS Wide Area Information Server/Server/System
WAIS Wide Area Information Server. Distributed database protocol developed to search for information over a
network. WAIS supports full-text databases, which allow an entire document to be searched for a match (as
opposed to other technologies that only allow an index of key words to be searched).
WAIS See Wide Area Information Service.
WAN Wide-Area Network. Data communications network that serves users across a broad geographic area and often
uses transmission devices provided by common carriers. Frame Relay, SMDS, and X.25 are examples of WANs.
Compare with LAN and MAN.
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WAP Wireless Applications Protocol
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference
WARMAN Warszawska sieµ WAN
WARP Weight Associative Rule Processor
WARS Wideband Analog Radio System
watchdog packet Used to ensure that a client is still connected to a NetWare server. If the server has not
received a packet from a client for a certain period of time, it sends that client a series of watchdog
packets. If the station fails to respond to a predefined number of watchdog packets, the server concludes
that the station is no longer connected and clears the connection for that station.
watchdog spoofing Subset of spoofing that refers specifically to a router acting for a NetWare client by
sending watchdog packets to a NetWare server to keep the session between client and server active. See also
spoofing.
watchdog timer 1. Hardware or software mechanism that is used to trigger an event or an escape from a process
unless the timer is periodically reset. 2. In NetWare, a timer that indicates the maximum period of time
that a server will wait for a client to respond to a watchdog packet. If the timer expires, the server sends
another watchdog packet (up to a set maximum). See also watchdog packet.
WATS Wide Area Telephone Service (800)
WATS Wide Area Telephone Service
WAV WAVeform
waveform coding Electrical techniques used to convey binary signals.
WaveWraper Technology A cost-effective monitoring and management tool for heavy data traffic on numerous
networks. Provides network management functions such as optical-layer performance monitoring, error
correction and ring protection on a per-wavelength basis. As a result, it allows data networks to reliably
carry packet-based traffic such as Internet Protocol (IP), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Gigabit
Ethernet (GbE) directly over the optical layer of the network. Detailed explanation here
WB Wide Band
WBAS Web Based Activity Sheets
WBS Work Breakdown Structure (f: SRT)
WBS Work Baseline Schedule
WBS Work Breakdown Structure (flowchart)
WBS WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
WC Wire Centre
WC Wirw Centre
WCS Warehouse Control System (f: SGE)
WCSO Worldwide Customer Support Operations
WCT Worst Case Traffic
WCT Working Cable Transfer
WCTR Western Canada Timing Region
WDCS Wideband Digital Cross-Connect
WDD Workstation Design Description
WDD Wire Distribution Device
WDD Workstation Design Description document
WDM Wave Division Multiplexing (applies to Sonet tech)
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WDM Wavelength division multiplexing (f: MRL)
WDM Wave Division Multiplexing (applies to Sonet technology)
WDM Wave Division Multiplexing
WDM WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (FRENCH MRL)
WDM wave Division Multiplexing.
WDS Water Detection System
WDSF Workstation Data Save Facility
WDT WatchDog Timer
Web browser See browser.
Web hosting A service performed by Internet Service Providers (SIPs) and Internet Access Providers (IAPs)
who encourage outside companies to put their web sites on computers owned by the ISP's. These computers are
attached to communcations links to the internet - often high-speed links.
Wellfleet Wellfleet Frame Relay Switch
WF SAP Office and Workflow Package
WFF working fill factor
WFMS Work Force Management System (f: SGE)
WFMS Install/Repair Work Force Workload Tracking
WFMS WORK FORCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
WFMS-GTWY interface for HHT & WFMS
WFMS-HHT WFMS- Hand Held Terminal
WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing. Congestion management algorithm that identifies conversations (in the form of
traffic streams), separates packets that belong to each conversation, and ensures that capacity is shared
fairly between these individual conversations. WFQ is an automatic way of stabilizing network behavior
during congestion and results in increased performance and reduced retransmission.
WFRM Write-Few, Read-Many
WFW Workgroup for Windows
WFWG Windows For WorkGroups
WGPO WorkGroup PostOffice
WHIF Chart When and IF chart
White Pages Databases containing email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses of Internet
users. You can search the Internet White Pages to find information about particular users.
WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (f: SIMDUT)
WHO World Health Organization
WHOA Web Hosting Order Application
WHOIS An Internet program (related to Finger and the White Pages) that lets you enter an Internet entity
(such as domains, networks, and hosts) and display information such as a person's company name, address,
phone number and email address.
WIC WAN Interface Card
WIC Walk in Cabinet
Wide Area Information Service (WAIS) Distributed information service and search engine that allows natural
language input and indexed searching. Many Web search utilities use a WAIS engine.
Wide-Area Network See WAN.
wideband See broadband.
WIF Wage Increase Factor
WIIFM What's in it for me
wildcard mask 32-bit quantity used in conjunction with an IP address to determine which bits in an IP
address should be ignored when comparing that address with another IP address. A wildcard mask is specified
when setting up access lists.
WIMP Windows, Icons, Mice, Pull-down menus
WIMPS Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus, Scrollbars
WINS Warehouse Information Network Standards
WinSock Windows Socket Interface. Software interface that allows a wide variety of applications to use and
share an Internet connection. WinSock is implemented as dynamic link library (DLL) with some supporting
programs, such as a dialer program that initiates the connection.
Winsocks Windows Sockets. Winsocks is a set of specifications or standards for programmers creating TCP/IP
applications for use with Windows.
WIP Work In Progress
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
wiring closet Specially designed room used for wiring a data or voice network. Wiring closets serve as a
central junction point for the wiring and wiring equipment that is used for interconnecting devices.
WISCNET TCP/IP network in Wisconsin (United States) connecting University of Wisconsin campuses and a number
of private colleges. Links are 56 Kbps and T1.
WISE WordPerfect Information System Environment
WISOR Wholesale Interconnection Services Ordering System
WITT Workstation Interactive Test Tool
WKG Working
WKSH Windowing Korn SHell
WL Wiring Limits
WL Wireless Loop
WLAN Wireless LAN
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLEL Wire Line Entrance Link
WLL Wireless Local Loop
WLM Work Load Module
WLO Windows Libraries for OS/2 (Microsoft)
WMAR Weekly Machine Administration Report
WMC Workflow Management Coalition
WMCS Wireless Multi-point Communication System
WMO Work Management Operation
WMP Windows Maker Professional
WMS Working Main Station
WN Wrong Number
WNT Windows New Technology
WOF Web Order Form
WOL Wiring Out of Limits
WOM Write-Once Memory
WOM Work Order Memo
workgroup Collection of workstations and servers on a LAN that are designed to communicate and exchange data
with one another.
WorkGroup Director Cisco SNMP-based network-management software tool. Workgroup Director runs on UNIX
workstations either as a standalone application or integrated with another SNMP-based network management
platform, providing a seamless, powerful management system for Cisco workgroup products. See also SNMP.
workgroup switching Method of switching that provides high-speed (100-Mbps) transparent bridging between
Ethernet networks, and high-speed translational bridging between Ethernet and CDDI or FDDI.
World Wide Web A hypertext-based system for finding and accessing resources on the Internet Network. It is a
universe of accessible information available on many computers around the world, which are attached to a
giant network called the internet. The Web is a collection of online documents housed on Internet servers
around the world. The concept of the Web was created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland. Web documents
are written or coded in HTML. To access these documents, you have to use a Web browser. When these browsers
access (or hit) a page, the server uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to send the document to your
computer. (WWW or W3)
Worm Computer program that replicates itself and is self-propagating. While viruses are designed to cause
problems on a local system and are passed through boot sectors of disks and through files, worms are
designed to thrive in network environments. Network worms were first defined by Shoch & Hupp of Xerox in ACM
Communications (March 1982). The most famous (or infamous) worm was the Internet Worm of November 1988. It
successfully propagated itself on over 6,000 systems across the Internet.
WORM Write Once Read Multiple
WORM Write-Once Read Many
WORM Write-Once, Read-Many
WOS Wholesale Operator Services
WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture
WOT Web Order Template
WP Word Processing
WPE Western Primed Enterprise
WPFI WordPerfect Font Installer
WPM Words Per Minute
WPML WordPerfect Macro Language
WPOS Workstation Pre-Order Support
WPR Workplace Reorganization (f: RT)
WPS Words Per Second
WPS Workplace Shell
WR Work Request
WR BMC’s Western Region (aka Ontario.)
WRAM Window RAM
wrap Action taken by an FDDI or CDDI network to recover in the event of a failure. The stations on each side
of the failure reconfigure themselves, creating a single logical ring out of the primary and secondary
rings.
WRS Work Request System
WRT Write
WRT With Regards to
WRU Who Are You
WS Wire Section
WSD West Switching District
WSF Widescreen Super Flat
WSF Web Server Farm
WSG Warsaw Software Group
WSG Workstation System Group
WSH Web Server Hosting
WSH Web Site Hosting
WSP Wireless Service Provider
WSS Wideband Switched Service
WSS Wide Band Switched Service
WSS WaveLength Select Service
WTC World Trade Center
WTN Working Telephone Number
WTN working telephone number (in BCRIS) (combination of PTN & GTN)
WTND Wireless Technology Network Development
WTS Wire Term Set
WUSP Wyse Unity Software Program
WWB Wyse Wide Bus
WWW World Wide Web
WWW WorldWide Web
WWW World Wide Web
WWW See World Wide Web.
WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get Implemented
WYSIWTG What You See Is What They Get
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
X CCITT Recommendation for Packet Switching (ie. X.25)
X X Protocol
X Display Manager Control Protocol See XDMCP.
X Gate X.25 protocol converter (Tandem X.25 to Case Rixon X.25)
X Gate X.25 protocol converter-converts Tandem X.25 to Case Rixon X.25
X Recommendations CCITT documents that describe data communication network standards. Well-known ones
include X.25 Packet Switching standard, X.400 Message Handling System, and X.500 Directory Services.
X terminal Terminal that allows a user simultaneous access to several different applications and resources in a
multivendor environment through implementation of X Windows. See also X Window System.
X Window System Distributed, network-transparent, device-independent, multitasking windowing and graphics
system originally developed by MIT for communication between X terminals and UNIX workstations. See also X
terminal.
X-OFF Transmit Off
X-ON Transmit On
X-VSB Vestigial Sideband (Zenith x=16)
X.121 Packet Addressing
X.121 CCITT standard numbering plan for addressing data networks
X.121 ITU-T standard describing an addressing scheme used in X.25 networks. X.121 addresses are sometimes
called IDNs.
X.21 ITU-T standard for serial communications over synchronous digital lines. The X.21 protocol is used
primarily in Europe and Japan.
X.21 CCITT standard interface between data terminal equipment & data circuit equipmen
X.21bis ITU-T standard that defines the physical layer protocol for communication between DCE and DTE in an
X.25 network. Virtually equivalent to EIA/TIA-232. See also EIA/TIA-232 and X.25.
X.25 ITU-T standard that defines how connections between DTE and DCE are maintained for remote terminal access
and computer communications in PDNs. X.25 specifies LAPB, a data link layer protocol, and PLP, a network
layer protocol. Frame Relay has to some degree superseded X.25. See also Frame Relay, LAPB, and PLP.
0.25 Packet Switching
X.25 An interface protocol
X.25 CCITT standard interface to packet switching networks
X.25 Level 3 See PLP.
X.25 Protocol See PLP.
X.28 ITU-T recommendation that defines the terminal-to-PAD interface in X.25 networks. See also PAD and X.25.
X.29 ITU-T recommendation that defines the form for control information in the terminal-to-PAD interface used
in X.25 networks. See also PAD and X.25.
X.3 ITU-T recommendation that defines various PAD parameters used in X.25 networks. See also PAD and X.25.
X.400 ITU-T recommendation specifying a standard for e-mail transfer.
X.400 Message Handling
0.5 The Directory Service (Address service)
X.500 ITU-T recommendation specifying a standard for distributed maintenance of files and directories.
X.745 Standard Protocol for the National Testing Message Set
X.75 CCITT standard interface between packet switching networks
X.75 ITU-T specification that defines the signaling system between two PDNs. X.75 is essentially an NNI. See
also NNI.
X3T9.5 Number assigned to the ANSI Task Group of Accredited Standards Committee for their internal, working
document describing FDDI.
XAB External Attribute Buffer
XAPI X.400 Application Programming Interface
XAPIA X.400 Application Programming Interface Association
XARM Crossarm
XB Cross BAR (Mechanical Telephone Switch)
XBAR Crossbar (Mechanical Telephone Switch)
XBT Cross Bar Tandem
XC Cost of Removing Retired Plant
XC Term Cross Connect Termination field
XC Term Cross Connect Termination field in TARS
XConn Cross Connect (eg Dacs IV)
XCONN Cross-Connect
XConn Cross Connect eg Dacs IV
XCPT Cross Connect Point
XCVR Centrex Transceiver
XD Crossed
XDF eXtended Disk Format
XDMCP X Display Manager Control Protocol. Protocol used to communicate between X terminals and workstations
running the UNIX operating system.
XDR eXternal Data Representation. Standard for machine-independent data structures developed by Sun
Microsystems. Similar to BER.
XDR eXternal Data Representation
xDSL Group term used to refer to ADSL, HDSL, SDSL and VDSL. All are emerging digital technologies using the
existing copper infrastructure provided by the telephone companies. xDSL is a high-speed alternative to
ISDN.
XDSL x Digital Subscriber Line (of any type)
xDSL Generic Digital Subscriber Line
XE TransPath Execution Environment. Layer of software providing shared services for all application software on
the TransPath and isolating higher-level software from operating system dependencies.
XEDIT System Product Editor
XEMS X Element Management System
Xerox Network Systems See XNS.
XES Xerox Escape Sequences
XFR Transfer
XGA Extended Graphics Array
XGMON X-Windows Graphics Monitor
XI X.25 SNA Interconnect
XID Exchange Identification
XID Exchange Identification. Request and response packets exchanged prior to a session between a router and a
Token Ring host. If the parameters of the serial device contained in the XID packet do not match the
configuration of the host, the session is dropped.
Xid See termid.
XIP Execute Programs in Place
XIP eXecute In Place
XLI Xerographic Laser Images Corporation
XMA EXpanded Memory Adapter
XMIT Transmit
XML Extensible Markup Language
XML eXtensible Markup Language. Text markup language designed to enable the use of SGML on the World-Wide
Web. XML allows you to define your own customized markup language.
XMP X/Open Management Protocol
XMS Extended Memory Specification
XMS EXtended Memory Specification (Microsoft)
XMS Extended Multiprocessor System (BNR's computing technology)
XMTR Transmitter
XNS Xerox Network Services
XNS Xerox Network Standards
XNS Xerox Network System
XNS Xerox Network Services
XNS Xerox Network Systems. Protocol suite originally designed by PARC. Many PC networking companies, such as
3Com, Banyan, Novell, and UB Networks used or currently use a variation of XNS as their primary transport
protocol. See also X Window System.
XOC Express Orderwire Circuit
XOT X.25 over TCP.
XP Plant Removed from Service
XPM Enhanced peripheral module (f: MPX)
XPM Extended Peripheral Module
XPM XMS-based peripheral module
XPM Extended Peripheral Module.
XPM+ Extended Peripheral Module - Peripheral Life Upgrade Strateg
Xpresto Validation and processing system
XPS eXtended Parallel Server
XRemote Protocol developed specifically to optimize support for the X Window System over a serial
communications link.
XScript Xerox Script
XStream Major public PSN in the United States operated by MCI. Formerly called TYMNET.
XT eXtended Technology
XTagATM Extended tag ATM.
XTI X/Open Transport Interface
XTW XTree for Windows
XUI X User Interface
XVS X/Open System V Specification
Y Yellow Alarm
YACC Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
YEE Year End Estimate
YEE Year end expectancy
Yellow Pages A directory of telephone numbers classified by type of business.
YMCA Young Men's Christian Association
YMPE Year's Maximum Pensionable Earnings (f: MAGA)
YR Year
YTD Year to Date
YWCA Young Women's Christian Association
Z Impedance
Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZAPS Zone Activated Paging System
ZBR Zone Bit Recording
ZBTSI Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange
ZCHS Zone, Cylinder, Head, Sector
ZCR Zone of Correct Reading
ZCS Zero Code Suppression
ZDS Zenith Data Systems
zero code suppression Line coding scheme used for transmission clocking. Zero line suppression substitutes a 1
in the 7th bit of a string of 8 consecutive zeros. See also ones density.
ZIB Zone of Influence Boundary
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
ZIF Zero Input Force
ZIP Zone Information Protocol. AppleTalk session layer protocol that maps network numbers to zone names. ZIP
is used by NBP to determine which networks contain nodes that belong to a zone. See also ZIP storm and zone.
ZIP storm Broadcast storm that occurs when a router running AppleTalk propagates a route for which it
currently has no corresponding zone name. The route is then forwarded by downstream routers, and a ZIP storm
ensues. See also ZIP.
ZO Zero Operator
ZOI Zone of Influence
zone 1. collection of all terminals, gateways, and multipoint control units (MCUs) managed by a single
gatekeeper. A zone includes at least one terminal, and can include gateways or MCUs. A zone has only one
gatekeeper. A zone can be independent of LAN topology and can be comprised of multiple LAN segments
connected using routers or other devices. 2. In AppleTalk, a logical group of network devices. See also ZIP.
Zone Information Protocol See ZIP.
zone multicast address Data-link-dependent multicast address at which a node receives the NBP broadcasts
directed to its zone. See also NBNS.
ZRB Zone Bit Recording
Specification and Description Language (SDL): International Telecommunications Union standards, to create
object-oriented flowcharts that document communications and telecommunications systems networks.

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