Telecom Acronyms
Following is a list of 30 common telecom acronyms.
ACTS - Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (NASA)
AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phones System
BOD - Bandwidth on Demand
BOT - Build Operate Transfer
CAP - Competitive Access Provider
CLASS - Custom Local Area Signaling Services
COO - Chief Operating Officer
DATE - Duly Authorised Telecommunications Entity
DID - Direct Inward Dialing
FAT - Factory Acceptance Test
FLAG - Fibre Link Around the Globe
FOB - Free On Board
IF - Intermediate Frequency
IN - Intelligent Network
LEO - Low Earth Orbit
MAP - Mobile Application Part Protocol
NAP - Network Access Point
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Agency
PIN - Personal Identification Number
POC - Point Of Contact
POM - Project Office Manager
POP - Point of Presence
POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service
RAM - Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
ROW - Return Order Wire
SATCOM - Satellite Communications
TACS - Total Access Communications Systems
VAC - Voltage Alternating Current
Telecommunications Acronyms and Initialisms
Now that you are familiar with some telecom acronyms, you may want to see a few telecom initialisms. Many people misuse the word "acronym" in place of the word "initialism." If the letters in an abbreviation do not sound like a word, then it is not an acronym.
Here is a list of 25 telecom initialisms:
AFC - Automatic Frequency Control
ATC - Alarm Traffic Controller
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BW - Bandwidth
CATV - Cable Television
CODEC - COder DECoder
DCME - Digital Compressed Multiplication Equipment
DP - Data Processing
DSS - Direct Satellite Services
DTH - Direct-to-Home
DTMF - Dual Tone Multiple Frequency
EIRP - Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power, the power a satellite can project to a point on the earth’s surface.
FDM - Frequency Division Modulation
FSS - Fixed Satellite Service
GEO or GSO - Geostationary Earth Orbit
Hz - Hertz
kHz - kilohertz (thousand hertz)
MHz - Megahertz (million hertz)
MiTTs - Minutes of Telecommunications Traffic
OC - Optical Carrier
RFT - Radio Frequency Transmitter
SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control
TMN - Telecommunication Management Network
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
VPS - Voice Processing System
Data Storage and Transmission Acronyms
Here are some abbreviations used for computers and the Internet. These deal with the processing and storage of data and the transmission of data:
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BER - Bit Error Rate
BPS - Bits Per Second
FTP - File Transport Protocol
HDSL - High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IP - Internet Protocol
IT - Information Technology
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
LAN - Local Area Network
Modem - Modulator/Demodulator
PDF - Portable Document Format
VGA - The Video Graphics Array
URL - Universal Resource Locator
USB - The Universal Serial Bus
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