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Saturday, 19 August 2017

TELECOM ACRONYMS



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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