ACRONYM Definition/comments
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3G Third generation wireless Networks – 384 kbps (European)
100BASE-T An Ethernet transmission code 100mb/s
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer- map traffic kinds in general purpose ATM
ACD Automatic Call Distributor - call center technology
DDM Add-Drop multiplexer
ADPCM Adaptive differential Pulse Code Modulation (cell phones)
ADSL Assymetric Digital Subscriber Line (<7Mbs)
ADSP Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
AED Automatic e-Mail distribution
APM Advanced Power Mode
ARIB Association for Radio Industries and Business –(standards)
ARN Advanced Remote Node
ASP Application Service(or Software) Provider or -
Active Server Pages
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching protocol
ATVEF Advanced Television Enhancement Forum. HTML spec. interactive TV
B2B Business to Business commerce
B2C Business to customer commerce
BBS Bulletin Board System
BLEC Building Local Exchange Carrier (internet for tenants in building
Browser Program used to access WWW sites
btw by-the-way (news groups abbreviations.)
CALEA Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (FBI origin)
CAP Carrier Amplitude Phase (modulation)
CCITT Consultative Committee for IT&T Co.-Standards.
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access used by Sprint & Europe <144 kbps
cell A 53 byte packet of data 48= user data, 5 bytes header
cgi Common Gateway Interface for web servers
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CO Central Office (switching)
COPS Common Open Policy Service –protocol offering flexibility
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube ( ie. monitor)
CSPD Communication Signal Path design
CSS Cascading Style Sheets - readable Internet pages
Convergence = Idea of single network running video,voice,data
DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite
DDC Display Data Channel
DHTML Dynamic HTML -involves changes to the std. HTML
DLC Digital Loop Carrier
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DMT Discrete Multi-tone
DNS Domain Name Service
Domain Set of Interconnected gateways & hosts
DSL Digital Subscriber Line-(Symmetric <1Mbps),(asymmetric <7Mbps)
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DSS Digital Satellite Signal
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-frequency - modem feature for dialing
DUV Deep Ultraviolet Laser –Laser chip for fiber optics
DVI Digital Visual Interface – eg. PC to image on monitor
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing optical
e-mail Electronic Mail
ECN Evening Trading Networks (stocks & Bonds)
ECP Extended Capabilities Port
EJB Enterprise Java Beans from Sun Systems
EPP Enhanced Parallel Port - (Iomega)
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute (France)qv.UMTS
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FCC Federal Communications Commission (Gov’t Agency)
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GEO Geo-synchronous Earth Orbit-elev.35000mi @ equator;1/3 earth
GPS Global Positioning System
GSM Global Systems for Mobile Communications (Europe 2nd.generation)
HDSL High-density Digital Subscriber Line HDSL(II) = <1.5 Mbps)
HFC Hybrid Fiber Co-axial (Cable Co. broad band using fiber & coax)
HPC High Performance Connections use with internet supercomputers
HTML HyperText Mark-up Language - Internet Document language
http HyperText Transmission Protocol
I/O Input-Output
IAB Internet Architecture Board -oversees IESG & IETForce
ICP Integrated Communications Providers
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers-Domain names
iDEN Integrated Dispatch-Enhanced Network(a Nextel Co interface
IAI Internet Application Integration (software )
iDEN integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network (Nextel interface)
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFTP Internet File Transfer Protocol (Windows)
ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
IM Instant Messaging
IMA Inverse Multiplexing on Async.transfer Mode - An NECo. product
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMT-2000 Europe – Family of 3G systems for mobile telephones
Internet The Interconnected NETwork connecting computers worldwide
Intranet The network connecting computers within an enterprise
iON Integrated On-demand Network
IP Internet Protocol - addresses & sends packets digital data
IRC Internet Relay Chat
iSDN Integrated Service Digital Network 640kbs,DSL.
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISS Internet Selling System – for ASP’s
ISV Internet Service Vendor (product is service)
ITU International Telecommunications Union-defines telephone protocol
ITV Intercast, an INTEL interactive TV service
IUS Informix Universal Server
IXC Inter-exchange Carriers
JMS JAVA Message Service
Kbps Kilo-bits per
second
LAN Local Area Network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol -ISP address access
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LEO Low synchronous Earth Orbit elev.500-1500km- Iridium sys.
MAE Metropolitan Access Exchange
Mbps Megabits per second
MEO Medium synchronous Earth Orbit -elev.5000-12000km @ equator
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension-to send file attachment
MMDS Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service (wireless)
MP3 MPEG Audio layer 3 compression
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
MPLS Multi-protocol Label Switching – packet labeling process
MUD Multi-User Domains
MSP Management Services Providers
NAP Network Assess Point (internet carrier facility)
NGI Next Generation Internet
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Info. Stds.
OC Optical Capability speeds as for SONET qv.
OEO Optical – Electrical – Optical - in fibre-optic gear
OSI Open Systems Interconnection –an ISO std. 7 layers
OXC Optical Cross-connects
P2P Peer to Peer – eg. sharing files between users
PAB Personal Address Book (Microsoft Internet Explorer)
PCT Private Communications Technology
PDF Portable Document Format - files
PERL Practical Extraction and Repeat Language- Scripting for WWW.
PIM Personal Information Manager services
PON Passive Optical Network Technology
POP Point of Presence pertinent to the server
POP3 Post Office Protocol, version 3
POST Power-On Self Test (IBM)
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
QoS Quality of Service – 5 criteria
RAS Remote Access Server
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Companies
RF Radio Frequency
RIA Recording Industry Association
Router = forwards data between nets and selects path
RPC Remote Procedure Calls - access to a PC from a remote
RSVP Resource Preservation Protocol – checks availability
RTF Rich Text Format - more tolerant file transfer
SAN Storage Area Networks –arrays linked to a server
SCC Super Computer Centers
SDMA Space Division Multiple Access (directional Antenna use)
SDMI Secure Digital Music Initiative - forum-recording format
SGC Server–Gated Cryptography
SGML Standard Generalized markup Language
SHDOCVW SHell Document, Object & Control Library (Microsoft I.E.)
SLA Service Level Agreements - for ASP’s etc. QoS related.
SMS Short Message Service (Vodafone Co, 160 char.)
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol – QoS related
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol – Microsoft’s XML
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork -Fiber optic @ .52-9.95Gb/s
SSL Secure Sockets Layer - encryption process
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit a temporary circuit
Switch splits network to shorter paths for speed
TAPI Telephone Applications Programming Interface. eg.dialing via Win.
T1 Digital Communication system – eg. ADSL
TAM Telephone Answering Machine
TBT Technology Based Training
TCL Tele Command Language can be embedded in web site programs
TCP Transmission Control Protocol = re-assembles packets received
TCP/IP The complete transmission of data
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access used by AT&T
TIA Telecommunications Industries Association
TLS Transport Layer Security (x #3)
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UMTS Universal Mobile Tele-communications Systems – Europe 3G
UNC Universal Naming Convention =”server\share\path\fname”
URL Uniform Resource Locater
VBI Vertical Blanking Interval (TV screen)
VBNS Very hi-performance Backbone Network Service
VC Virtual Circuit packet switching technique
VIRC Visual Internet
Relay Chat
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network using routers
VXML Voice Extensible Markup Language
W3C WWW consortium - standards formulation (XML)
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing - ‘uniphase’
WML Wireless Markup Language
WRC World Radio Communication Conference
WWW World Wide Web- vehicle to transfer docs. via Internet
X-mailer = Identifies the software that created message e-mail
XiF Kodak imaging Form
XML Extensible Markup Language (tolerant web data info exchange)
XSL Extensible style-sheet Language (convert one doc. to another)
X-sender address of message originator e -mail
ZEUS Zone Enterprise Usage study - ASP user’s growth studies