Computer Acronyms

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AFNOR   : Association Francaise de Normalisation

AMPS    : Advanced Mobile Phone Service

AMRC    : Acces Multiple … R‚partition dans les Codes

AMRF    : Acces Multiple … R‚partition en Fr‚quence

AMRT    : Acces Multiple … R‚partition dans le temps

ANSI    : American National Standards Institute

ARPA    : Advanced Research Projects Agency (DoD)

ARPANET : ARPA Network

AWGN    : Aditive White Gaussian Noise

BER     : Bit Error Rate

bps     : Bits per second

Bps     : Bytes per second

BPSK    : Binary Phase Shift Keying

BS      : Base Station

BSI     : British Standard Institution

BTS     : Base Tranceiver Station (GSM)

CATV    : Common Television Antenna

CCITT   : Commit‚ Consultatif International T‚l‚graphique et T‚l‚phonique

CDMA    : Code Division Multiple Access

CEF     : Commint‚ Electronique Fran‡ais

CEI     : Commission Electrotechnique Internationale

CEN     : Commit‚ Europ‚en de Normalisation

CENELEC : Commit‚ Europ‚en de Normalisation ELECtronique

CEPT    : Conference Europ‚enne des Postes et des T‚l‚communications

CFAO    : Conception et Fabrication Assit‚es par Ordinateur

CODIT   : Code Division Testbed

CRC     : Cyclic Redundancy Check

CSMA    : Carrier Sens Multiple Access

D-AMPS  : Digital AMPS

DCS     : Digital Communication System at 1800 MHz

DDS     : Direct Digital Synthesis

DECT    : Digital European Cordless Telephone

DIN     : Deutsche Institut Fr Normung

DQPSK   : Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

DSP     : Digital Signal Processor

DTMF    : Dual Tone Multi Frequency

EARN    : European Academic Research Network

ERMES   : European Radio MEssaging System

ETSI    : European Telecommunication Standard Institute

FCC     : Federal Communications Commission

FDDI    : Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDMA    : Frequency Division Multiple Access

FIP     : Factory Instrumentation Protocol

FPLMTS  : Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System

FSK     : Frequency Shift Keying

GMSK    : Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying

GPIB    : General Purpose Interface Bus

GSM     : Global System for Mobile (Communications)

GPS     : Global Positionning System

IEEE    : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IP      : Internet Protocol

ISDN    : Integrated Services Data Network

ISO     : International Standard Organisation

ITT     : International Telephone and Telegraph

ITU     : International Telecommunication Union

LAN     : Local Area Network

LLC     : Logical Link Control

MAC     : Medium Access Control

MAP     : Manufacturing Automation Protocol

MBS     : Mobile Broadcast System

MER     : Message Erasure Rate

MIPS    : Million of Instructions Per Second

MMS     : Manufacturing Message Specification (MAP)

MS      : Mobile Station

MSS     : Mobile Satelite System

MSK     : Minimum Shift Keying

NFS     : Network File Server

NIS     : Network Information Services

NMT     : Nordic Mobile Telephone

NRZ     : No Return to Zero

NTT     : Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

OSI     : Open System Interconnection

PABX    : Public Automatic Branch eXchange

PAMR    : Public Access Mobile Radio

PBX     : Private Branch eXchange

PCIA    : Personal Communications Industry Association

PCN     : Personal Communication Network

PCS     : Personal Communication Service

PDC     : Personal Digital Communications

PDN     : Private Data Network

PDU     : Protocol Data Unit

PHP     : Personal Handy Phone

PIN     : Personal Identification Number

PMR     : Private Mobile Radio

PPSN    : Private Packet Switching Network

PRBS    : Pseudo Random Binary Sequence

PSK     : Phase Shift Keying

PSN     : Packed Switch Network

RTCP    : Reseau Telephonique Commut‚ Publique

RES     : Radio Equipment and Systems (ETSI)

RF      : Radio Frequency

RNIS    : R‚seau Num‚rique … Int‚gration de Services

RPC     : Remote Procedure Call

SND     : SynthŠse Num‚rique Directe

SIM     : Subscriber Identity Module

TACS    : Total Access Communication System

TCP     : Transmission Control Protocol

TDMA    : Time Division Multiple Access

TETRA   : Trans European Trunked RAdio

TIA     : Telecommunications Industries Association

UDP     : User Datagram Protocol

UMTS    : Universal Mobile Telecommunication System

UPT     : Universal Personal Telecommunication

WG      : Working Group





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