Glossary
A
AAC: audio compression in MPEG4
ACL: Access Control List
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ANSI: American Network Standard Institute; standardization institute for telecommunications networks in the United States
API: Application Programming Interface
ARCEP: Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste (“Regulatory authority for electronic communications and postal service”; the French regulator for telecommunications)
ARPU: Average Revenue Per User
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B
Beacon: a device providing important information (e.g. signaling). In the telecommunications field, a beacon is almost always a radio device.
BPL: Broadband on Power Lines
BT : Basse Tension (French); (low voltage (LV))
BAT: Bouquet Association Table
C
CAC: Connection Admission Control
CAD: Computer-Aided Design
CAO: Conception Assistée par Ordinateur (French); see CAD
CAT: Control Access Criteria
CBR: Constant Bit Rate
CCETT: Center for the Study of Television Broadcasting and Telecommunication (in Rennes, France)
CDVT: Cell Delay Variation Tolerance; a QoS parameter in ATM networks
CLP: Cell Loss Priority
CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture; enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check; sometimes wrongly called “checksum”
CRT: television screen using cathode ray ...
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