Acronyms

AAA Authentication Administration and Accounting

ADSL Asymmetric DSL
ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
ADSL 2þ Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line 2þ
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AGN Aggregation Node
AN Access Node
AON Active Optical Network
APC Angled Polished Connector
APON ATM Passive Optical Network
ARPU Average Revenue Per User
AsPON Asymmetrical Passive Optical Network
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AWG Arrayed Waveguide Grating
BAN Body Area Network
BFW Broadband Fixed Wireless
Bidi Bidirectional (transceiver, transmission)
B-ONT Broadband Optical Network Terminal
B-PON Broadband Passive Optical Network
Cable MSO Cable (TV) Multi-System Operator
CAPEX Capital Expenditures
CATV Cable TV or Community Antenna TV
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CM Cable Modem
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System
CNNIC China Network Information Center
CO Central Office
CO Communication Operator
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CTS Common Technical Specifications
CWDM Coarse-Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing
DA Distribution Area
DBA Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment
DDN Digital Data Network
DLNA Digital Living Network Association
DOCSIS Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DVD Digital Video Disk
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DWDM Dense-Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing
E1 European equivalent of DS1
EDFA Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
EML Element Management Layer
EMS Element Management System
EN Edge Node
EPON Ethernet Passive Optical Network
EU European community
FA Feeder Area
FBT Fused Biconical Taper
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FD Feeder
FDM Frequency-Division-Multiplexing
FITH Fiber In the Home
FITL Fiber In the Loop
FM Frequency Modulation or First Mile
FSAN Full Services Acces Networks (Consortium)
FTTB Fiber To The Building
FTTC Fiber To The Curb
FTTCab Fibre To The Cabinet
FTTH Fiber To The Home
FTTN Fiber To The Neighbourhood
FTTN Fiber To The Node
FTTO Fiber To The Office
FTTP Fiber To The Premises
FTTR Fiber To The Riser
FTTx Fiber To The x
FTTx Fibre To The [building/curb/home/node, etc.]
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
GbE Gigabit Ethernet
GE Gigabit Ethernet
GEM G-PON Encapsulation Method
GEPON Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network
GigE Gigabit Ethernet
GPON Gigabit Passive Optical Network
G-PON Gigabit Passive Optical Network
G-PON Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network
HAN Human Area Network
HDTV High-Definition TV
HE Headend
HFC Hybrid Fiber/Coax (network architecture)
HSI High Speed Internet access
IAD Integrated Access Device
IDATE Institut de l’Audiovisuel et des Télécommunications en Europe
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
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ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier

IP Internet Protocol
IPTV IP Television
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITU-T International Telecommunications Union – Telecommunication Sector
L2 Layer 2
L3 Layer 3
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
MAC Media Access Control
MDF Main Distribution Frame
MDU Multi-Dwelling Unit
MII Ministry of Information Industry
MM Multimode (fiber)
MoCA Multimedia over Coax Alliance
MPEG Motion Pictures Expert Group
MPOE Minimum Point of Entry
MTU Multi-Tenant Unit
MUPBED Multi-Partner European Testbeds for Research Networking
MUSE Multiservice Access Everywhere
NCTA National Cable Telecom Association
NGN Next Generation Network
NID Network Interface Device
NML Network Management Layer
NOBEL Next Generation Optical Network for Broadband in Europe
NOC Network Operations Centre
NT Network Termination
OADM Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer
OAM Operation Adminisration Management
OAN Optical Access Network Working Group
ODN Optical Distribution Network
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OLT Optical Line Termination
OMCI ONT Management and Control Interface
ONT Optical Network Terminal
ONU Optical Network Unit
OPEX OPerational EXpenditures
OTDR Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
OXC Optical Cross-Connect
P2MP Point-to-Multipoint
P2P Point-to-Point
PAN Personal Area Network
PBX Private Branch Exchange
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PC Personal Computer
PFP Primary Flexibility Point
PLC Power-Line Communications
PLC Planar Lightwave Circuit
PMD Physical Media Dependent
PMD Polarization-Mode-Dispersion
PON Passive Optical Network
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTS Post och Telestyrelsen (the national post and telecom agency)
PTT Post, Telegraph and Telephone administration
PWLAN Public Wireless Local Area Network
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS Quality of Service
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Companies
R&D Research and Development
RFP Request for Proposal
RG Residential Gateway
RGW Residential Gateway
RN Remote Node
RTP Real-Time Protocol
SAI Serving Area Interface
SBU Small Business Unit
SCM Sub-Carrier Multiplexing
SCTE Society of Cable Telecom Engineers
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDTV Standard-Definition Television
SDV Switched Digital Video
SFD Start Frame Delimiter
SFU Single Family Unit
SM Single-Mode (fiber)
SOA Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
SP Service Provider
STB Set-Top Box
T1 Digital transmission system operating at 1.544 Mbps
TC Transport Convergence
T-CONT Transmission CONTainers
TDM Time-Division-Multiplexing
TE Techno-Economic
TFF Thin-Film Filter
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UPC Ultra-Polished Connector
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
USD US Dollars
VC Virtual Circuit or Virtual Connection
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VCSEL Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

VDSL Very-high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
VGW Voice GateWay
VLAN Vurtual Local Area Network
VOD Video On Demand
VoD Video on Demand
VoIP Voice over IP
VOIP Voice Over IP
V-OLT Video Optical Line Termination
WDM Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing
WDM-PON WDM-based Passive Optical Network
WEPON Wavelength Ethernet Passive Optical Network
WiFi Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11)
WiMAX World Interoperability for Microwave Access (IEEE 802.16)
WISP Wireless Internet service providers
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
XC Cross-Connect
xDSL x Digital Subscriber Line