Telecommunications_Acronyms

Telecommunications Acronyms LIST OF ACRONYMS A Acknowledgment (ARCNET) AAL ATM Adaption Layer ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode ACK Acknowledgment ACSE Association Control Service Element ADE Above Decks Equipment ADMD Administrative Management Domain (X.400) AFP Apple Talk Filing Protocol AI Application Interface AIP ATM Interface Processor AIS Alarm Indication Signal AL Attention Line AMP Active Monitor Present (Token Ring) AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service ANSI American National Standards Institute AOCD Advise of Charge D (ISDN) AOCE Advise of Charge E (ISDN) APL Active Path Length APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (IBM SNA) APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (IBM SNA) ARCNET Attached Resource Computer NETwork ARL Adjusted Ring Length ARP Address Resolution Protocol (DoD) ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency (DoD) ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 AT ATtention (Hayes Modems) ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM Automatic Banking and Teller Machine AU Access Unit AU Administrative Unit AUI Attachment Unit Interface AWG American Wire Gauge BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc. BEB Binary Exponential Backoff BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (Frame Relay) BER Bit Error Rate BERT Bit Error Rate Test BGP Border Gateway Protocol B-ICI Broadband Inter Carrier Interface BIP Bit-Interleave Parity B-ISDN Broadband ISDN BIT Binary digIT BIU Basic Information Unit (SNA) BNC Baby N Connector BOOTP Boot Protocol (DoD) BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit BSD Berkeley System Distribution BTAM Basic Telecommunication Access Method (IBM SNA) BTU Basic Transmission Unit (Token Ring) CAN Customer Access Network CAPI Common ISDN Application Programming Interface CAR Carrierless Amplitude Modulation, Phase Modulation CBDS Connectionless isdn, unit, information, protocol, sna, data, customer, common, certified, access, packet, interface, ibm, dod, test, system, service, rate, novell, netware, line, identification, cooperative, control, cmip, broadband, bit, basic, wireless, token, sublayer, ring, restriction, research, programming, network