ABR: Available Bit Rate

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BPSK: Bi-Phase Shift Keying

BRI: Basic Rate Interface ISDN

CAP: Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation

CBR: Constant Bit Rate

CO: Central Office

COLS: Commercial Online Service

CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection

CSR: Customer Service Representative

DAVIC: Digital Audio Video Council

dB: Decibel

DBS: Direct Broadcast Satellite

DES: Data Encryption Standard

DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DMT: Discrete Multitone

DOCSIS: Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line

DVB: Digital Video Broadcast

FAQ: Frequently Asked Question

FDDI: Fiber Data Distribution Interface

FEC: Forward Error Correction

FSK: Frequency Shift Key

FTTC: Fiber-to-the-Curb

HDSL: High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

HFC: Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial

HSCDS: High-Speed Cable Data Service

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP: Hypertext Transmission Protocol

IDSL: ISDN Digital Subscriber Line

IEEE: The Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol

INMS: Integrated Network Management System

IP: Internet Protocol

IPCDN: IP Over Cable Data Network working group of the IETF

IRC: Inter Relay Chat

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network

ISO: International Organization for Standardization

ISP: Internet Service Provider

ITU: International Telecommunications Union

KB: Kilobyte

LAN: Local Area Network

LEC: Local Exchange Carrier

LMDS: Local Multipoint Distribution Service

MAC: Media Access Control (layer of OSI Reference Model)

MB: Megabyte

Mbps: Megabits per second

MCNS: Multimedia Cable Network System Partners Ltd.

MDS: Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service

MHz: Megahertz

MMDS: Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service

MSO: Multiple System Operator

NAP: Network Access Point

NOC: Network Operations Center

NTSC: National Television Standards Committee

OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OSI: Open System Interconnect (Reference Model for networking protocols)

OSS: Operations Support Systems

PC: Personal Computer

PHY: Physical (layer of OSI Reference Model)

PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol

PRI: Primary Rate Interface ISDN

PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QOS: Quality of Service

QPSK: Quaternary Phase Shift Keying

RAM: Random Access Memory

RDC: Regional Data Center

RF: Radio Frequency

RFP: Request for Proposals

RSVP: Resource Reservation Protocol

RTP: Real-Time Transport Protocol

S-CDMA: Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access

S-HDSL: Single-pair High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol

SONET: Synchronous Optical Network

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access

VC/MT: Variable Constellation/Multi-Tone Modulation

VDSL: Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

WAN: Wide Area Network

WCS: Wireless Communications Service

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