| ACIR |
Adjacent-channel interference ratio |
| AFP |
Apple File Protocol |
| ACMPA |
Aperture-coupled microstrip patch antenna |
| ACTA |
Administrative Council for Terminal Attachment |
| ADC |
Analog-to-digital converter |
| ADPCM |
Adaptive defferential pulse-code modulation |
| ADSL |
Advanced Digital Subscriber Line |
| AFTA |
Asian Free Trade Area |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC |
Application-specific integrated circuit |
| ATIS |
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
Solutions |
| ATU-C |
ADSL Terminal Unit-Central Office |
| ATU-R |
ADSL Terminal Unit-Remote |
| BSMI |
Chinese-Taipei Bureau of Standards, Metrology, and
Inspection |
| BER |
Bit error rate |
| BPSK |
Biphase-shift keying or binary phase-shift |
| CAB |
Conformity Assessment Body |
| CB |
Citizen's Band |
| CATV |
Community antenna television |
| CCD |
Charge-coupled device |
| CEN |
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| CENELEC |
The European Committee for Electrotechnical
Standardization |
| CEPT |
Conference of European & Telecommunication
Administrations |
| CFR |
Code of Federal Regulation |
| CIRM |
Committee International Radio Maritime |
| COFDM |
Coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex |
| CPFSK |
Continuous phase frequency-shift keying |
| CSMA/CD |
Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection |
| CTI |
Computer Telephony Integration |
| DCE |
Data Communication Equipment |
| DECT |
Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephone |
| DGSP |
Differential Global Positioning System |
| DMUX |
Demultiplexer |
| DoC |
Declaration of Conformity |
| DOC |
Old abbreviation for Industry Canada (Dept
of Communications) |
| DQPSK |
Differential quadrature phase-shift keying |
| DSC |
Digital Selective Call |
| DSP |
Digital Signal Processing |
| DTE |
Data Terminal Equipment |
| DTMF |
Dual Tone Multi Frequency |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code |
| EFTA |
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| EIA |
Electronics Industries Association |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EOTC |
European Organization for Conformity Assement |
| ERC |
European Radiocommunications Committee |
| FNPRM |
Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making |
| FRS |
Family Radio Service |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile communications |
| IC |
Industry Canada - Spectrum Regulatory Agency
in Canada |
| ICLID |
Incoming Call Identification Device |
| IPX |
Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| ISDN |
Integrated System Digital Network |
| ISDN |
It Still Does Nothing |
| ITU-T |
International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| MCA |
Micro Channel Architecture |
| MPE |
Maximum Permissible Exposure |
| MURS |
Multi User Radio Service |
| NDIS |
Network Driver Interface Standard |
| NETBEUI |
NetBIOS Extended User Interface |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/216/acro1.htm |
| NOS |
Network Operating System |
| NPRM |
Notice of Proposed Rule Making |
| NRTL |
National Recognized Test Lab |
| NTSC |
National Television Systems Committee |
| NTSC |
Never the Same Color |
| ODI |
Open Data-Link Interface |
| PCI |
Peripheral Component Interface |
| PBX |
Private Branch Exchange |
| RTCM |
Radio & Technical Commission on Maritime
Services |
| R&TTE |
Radio &Telecommunications Terminal Equipment |
| SAR |
Specific Absorption Rate |
| SDoC |
Suppliers Declaration of Conformity |
| SPX |
Sequential Packet Exchange |
| SRD's |
Short Range Devices (European) |
| ST |
Shielded Twisted Pair |
| TCB |
Telecommunications Certification Body |
| TIA |
Telecommunications Industry Association |
| TTL |
Transistor Transistor Logic |
| VDT |
Video Display Terminal |
| Uc |
Un-Certainty |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| UTP |
Unshielded Twisted Pair |
| W-CDMA |
Wideband code division multiplexing |