Abbreviations
| AC | Alternating Current |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| Advanced TCA, ATCA | Advanced TeleCommunication Architecture |
| AIS | Application Interface Specification |
| AMC | Advanced Mezzanine Card |
| AMP | Asymmetric Multi-Processing |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| AS | Advanced Switching |
| ASIC | Application-specific integrated circuit |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
| ASN-GW | Access Service Network Gateway (WiMAX) |
| ASSP | Application specific standard product |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BCN | Backwards Congestion Notification |
| BECN | Backward Explicit Congestion Notification |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol (routing) |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| BMP | Bound Multi-Processing |
| CAM | Content Addressable Memory |
| CAPEX | Capital expenditure |
| CG | Carrier Grade |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CMOS | Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor |
| CMT | Chip MultiThreaded |
| CoS | Class of Service |
| COM | Computer-on-Module |
| COTS | Commercial off-the-shelf |
| CPCI | CompactPCI |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device |
| CP-TA | Communications Platforms Trade Association |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CRC | Cyclic redundancy check |
| DiffServ | Differentiated Services |
| DC | Direct Current |
| DFA | Deterministic Finite Automaton |
| DIMM | Dual in-line memory module |
| DMA |
