Telecom acronyms: a long list of telco acronyms used throughout the industry.
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| Probe Industries Magazine Phile #3 aka PIMP #3 |
| "Acronym Manual" |
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Ever go trashing and read memo's amongst other shit that just doesnt
make sense?? Ever wonder what some telco double talk means..?!
ever just want a good reference manual for miscellanous
telecommunications acronyms? here it is..
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ACD Automatic Call Distributor
ACTS Automatic Coin Telephone System
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
AF Audio Frequency
AIS Automatic Intercept System
ALI Automatic Location Information
AMA Automatic Message Accounting
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
ANI Automatic Number Identification
AOS Alternate Operator Service
APD Avalanche Photo Diode
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interexchange
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B8ZS Bipolar with 8-Zero Substitution
BCD Blocked Calls Delayed
BCH Blocked Calls Held
BCR Blocked Calls Released
BER Bit Error Rate
BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempts
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BLER Block Error Rate
BOC Bell Operating Company
BRI Basic Rate Interface
BSA Basic Service Arrangement
BSC Binary Synchronous Communications
BSE Basic Service Element
CAC Carrier Access Code
CAD Computer Aided Dispatch; Computer Aided Design
CAS Centralized Attendant Service
CBX Computer Branch Exchange
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITT Consultative Committee on International Telephone
and Telegraph
CCS Centum Call Seconds
CCS Common Channel Signaling
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CDO Community Dial Office
CDR Call Detail Recorder
CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction
CEPT Conference European on Post and Telecommunications
CGSA Cellular Geographic Serving Area
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Services
CNS Complementary Network Services
CO Central Office
CODEC Coder/Decoder
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CRC Cyclical Redundancy Checking
CRSO Cellular Radio Switching Office
CSM/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSU Channel Service Unit
DAMA Demand Assigned Multiple Access
DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite
DCE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
DCS Digital Crossconnect System
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DID Direct Inward Dialing
DMI Digital Multiplexed Interface
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service
DOC Dynamic Overload Control
DOV Data Over Voice
DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DSI Digital Speech Interpolation
DSX Digital Service Crossconnect
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTMF Dual Tone Multifrequency
EAS Extended Area Service
EBCDIC Expanded Bianry Coded Decimal Interexchange Code
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EFS Error Free Seconds
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
ERL Echo Return Loss
ESF Extended Super Frame
ESP Enhanced Service Provider
ESS Electronic Switching System
ETN Electronic Tandem Network
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC Forward Error Correction
FX Foreign Exchange
GOS Grade of Service
HDTV High Definition Television
IC Independent Company
IDF Intermediate Distributing Frame
IEC (IXC) Interexchange Carrier
IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Service
INWATS Inward Wide Area Telephone Service
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
IVR Interactive Voice Response
KTS Key Telephone System
LAN Local Area Network
LAPD Link Access Procedure D
LATA Local Access Transport Area
LCR Least Cost Routing
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LED Light Emitting Diode
LIT Line Insulation Test
LLC Logical Link Control
LMX L Multiplex
LTD Local Test Desk
MAP/TOP Manufacturing Automation Protocol/Technical and Office Protocol
MCVD Modified Chemical Vapor Deposit
MDF Main Distributing Frame
MLN Main Listed Number
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTS Message Telephone Service
MTTR Mean Time to Repair
NAU Network Access Unit
NCTE Network Channel Terminating Equipment
NID Network Interface Device
NMCC Network Management Control Center
NPA Numbering Plan Area
NT1 Network Termination 1
NT12 Network Termination 12
NT2 Network Termination 2
NTN Network Terminal Number
ONA Open Network Architecture
OPX Off-Premises Extension
OSI Open Systems Interconnect
OSS Operations Support System
P/AR Peak-to-Average Ratio
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PASP Public Service Answering Point
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PIC Primary Interexchange Carrier
PIN Personal Identification Number
Pixel Picture Element
POP Point of Presence
PRI Primary Rate Interface
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
RCF Remote Call Forwarding
RMATS Remote Maintenance and Testing System
rms Root Mean Square
rn Reference Noise
ROTL Remote Office Test Line
RSL Received Signal Level
SCC Satellite Communications Control
SDN Software Defined Network
SF Single Frequency
SMDR Station Message Detail Recording
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SPC Stored Program Control
SRL Singing Return Loss
SSB Single Sideband
SSTDMA Spacecraft Switched Time Division Multiple Access
TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDR Time Domain Reflectometer
TE1 Terminal Equipment Type 1
TE2 Terminal Equipment Type 2
TLP Transmission Level Point
TUR Traffic Usage Recorder
UCD Uniform Call Distribution
UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply
VF Voice Frequency
VNL Via Net Loss
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRU Voice Response Unit
VU Volumn Unit
WATS Wide Area Telephone Service
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
XPD Cross Polarization Discrimination
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