A
ABNT - Associacao Brasileira de Normas Tecnicas
ACA - Australian Communication Authority
ACAIS - Air Carier Activity Information System
ACAMS - Acces Control and Alarm Monitoring System
ACC - Area Control Center
ACF - Area Control Facility
ACFT - Aircraft
ACR - Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
ADA - American with Disabilities Act
A/D - Analog to Digital Converter
ADG - Air Driven Generator
ADP - Automatic Data Processing
ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADU - Asynchronous Data Unit
AEP - Airport Emergency Plan
AF - Audio Frequency
AHCA - Agency for Health Care Administration
AHJ - Authority Having Jurisdiction
AI - Analog Input
AIMS - Aircraft Information Management System
AIT - Automated Information Transfer
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Amplitude Modulation
AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone Service
AO - Analog Output
AOC - Airport Operation Center
AODB - Airport Operational Data Base
AP - Access Point
APS - Airport Planning Standard
APB - Auxiliary Power Breaker
APPN Advanced Peer to Peer Networking
APU - Auxiliary Power Unit
ARO - Automatic Request for Retransmission
ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency
ARPANET ARPA Packet Switching
ARTCC - Air Route Traffic Control Center
AS - Australian Standard
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASC - Airport Security Coordination
ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refr and AC Engs
AS/NZS - Australian/New Zealand Standard
ASOS - Automatic Surface Observation System
ASR - Auxiliary Service Relay
ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
ASU Automatic Switch Unit
AT - Air Traffic
ATA - Air Transfer Association
ATC - Air Trafic Controller
ATC - Automatic Transfer Switch
ATCCC - Air Traffic Control Command Center
ATCT - Air Traffic Control Tower
ATDM Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing
ATIS - Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions
ATIS - Automated Terminal Information Service
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM - Air Traffic Management
Attenuation - loss of amplitude in a signal
ATO - Airport Ticket Office
AVD Alternate Voice Data
AVSEC - Aviation Security
AWG - American Wire Gauge
AWIS - Airport Weather Information
B
Backbone - major transmission path
BACnet - Building Automation and Control network
Balun - coaxial impedance matching transformer
Bandwidth communication channel width - frequency in Hz
BAS - Building Automation System
Baud Rate - data transmission speed; bits/sec
BCD - Binary Code decimal
BCU - Bus Control Unit
BIDS - Baggage Information Display System
BEF - Building Entrance facility
BER Bid Error Rate
BICSI - Building Industry Consulting Service International
BISDN - Broadband Integrated Service Digital Network
Bit - one binary digit, either 0 or 1
BHS - Baggage Handling System
BMA - Baggage Makeup Area
BMS - Building Management System
BNC - connector for coax Bayonet Neill Concelman
Boolen Algebra - shorthand not for logic functions
BPS Bits Per Second (BIS)
BRI - Basic Rate Interface
BRL - Building Restriction Line
Broadband LAN - LAN with FDM (voice, data, video)
BSI - British Standard Institution
BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
BTB - Bus Tie Breaker
BTAM Basic Telecommunication Access Method
BTR - Bus Tie Relay
Btu - British thermal unit
BU - Backup generator
BWA - Broadband Wireless Access
Byte - eight related bits of data
C
CAA - Civil Aviation Authority
Cache - memory to buffer commonly used instruction
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CAL - Common Application Language
CALEA - Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing
Campus Backbone cabling between buildings
CAN - Controller Area Network
Cache - High speed memory to buffer frequent instruction
CAP - Collaborative Airport Planning
Carbon Block - Lightning protection device
Carrier - AC electrical signal use to carry information
CASFO - Civil Aviation Security Office
Category - Std for UTP cables ANSI/TIA/EIA 568 A
CATMT - Collaborative Air Traffic Management Technology
CATV - Community Antenna TeleVision (cable tv)
CAU - Controlled Access Unit
CB - Citizens Band
CB - Circuit Breaker
CBP - Custom and Border Protection
CCC - Communication Command Center
CCIR - Consultative Committee on International Radio
CCITT - Consultative Committee for International Telegraph
and Telephone (ITU)
CCTV - Closed Circuit TeleVision
CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
CCU Communication Control Unit
CD Collision Detection
CD Carrier Detect
CD Campus Distributor (main crossconnect)
CD - Construction Documents
CDF - Combined Distribution Frame
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
CEBus - Consumer Electronics Bus
CIP - Capital Improvement Plan
CLC - Cluster Controller (IBM)
CLNP - Connection Less Network Layer Protocol
CMIP - Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS - Common Management Information Service
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMO - Communication Plenum
CMR - Communication Riser cables
CMRR - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMT - Common Mode Transmission
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMRR - Common Mode Rejection Ratio
C/N - Carrier to Noise ratio
CO - Central Office
Collapsed Backbone - centralized network in one device
Collision - overlapping transmission, at the same instant
Common Carrier - communication utility company
Consolidation Point - interconnections point between cables
from building pathways into work area pathways
COPS - Critical Operation Power Supply
Core - light transmitting portion of an optical fiber cable
CP - Command Post
CPC Customer Premises Communication
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPMS - Cable Pressure Monitoring System
CPP Cable Patch Panel
CPS Cycles Per Second
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CPVC - Chlorinated PolyVinal Chloride
Cross connected field terminal block color ID strip:
- green central office trunks;
- blue station cables;
- purple ISN equipment, PBX ports;
- white house cables;
- yellow aux. equipment;
- orange multiplexer ports; gray ties
Crosstalk - Unwanted signal from other channel
CSA - Canadian Standard Institute
CSD - Constant Speed Drive
CSMA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CD - CSMA with Collision Detection
CSU - Channel Service Unit
CT - Cable Tray
CUPPS - Common Use Passenger Processing System
CVR - Cockpit Voice Recorder
CXR - carrier light wave or radio frequency
D
D/A - Digital to Analog converter
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DAQ - Data Acquisition
DARM - Department of Air Resource Management
DAV Data Above Voice
DBIA - Design Build Institute of America
DBS Direct Broadcast Satellite
DBMS - Data Base Management System
DCE - Data Communication Equipment
DCL Data Carrier Level
DCS - Distributed Control System
DDC - Direct Digital Control
DD - Design Development
DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange
DDA Direct Digital Access
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDS Digital Data System
Decibel, dB unit to express a ratio of two signals
DEMUX Demultiplexer
DGPS - Differential Global Positioning System
DI - Digital Input
DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung
DIP Dual In line Pins
DIW D Inside Wire ( UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair)
DLC - Digital Loop Carrier
DLL - Dynamic Link Library
DMA Direct Memory Access
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DNL Differential NonLinearity
DNS - Domain Name System
DO - Digital Output
DoJ - Department of Justice
DoT - Department of Transportation
DP - Demarcation Point
DPAM - Demand Priority Access Method
DPCT - Differential Protection Current Transformer
DQDB - Distributed Queue Dual Bas
DS - Digital Signal
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
DSP - Digital Signal Processing
DSS - Digital Satellite Signal
DSU - Digital Service Unit
DSX - Digital Signal cross connect
DTE - Data terminal Equipment
DTR - Dedicated Token Ring
DUT Device Under Test
DX Duplex Signaling
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DXI - Data Exchange Interface
Dynamic Range - ratio: largest/smallest signals
E
EAD - Engine Alert Display
EBSP - Electronic Baggage Screening Program
ECC - Emergency Command Center
ECS - Environmental Control System
ECOM - En Route Communication
EDS - Explosion Detection System
EF - Entrance Facility
EIA - Electronic Industries Alliance
EICAU - Engine Indicator and Crew Alerting Unit
EISA Extended Industry Standards Architecture
EIBA - European Installation Bus Association
ELCF - Electrical Load Control Unit
ELFEXT Equal Level Far End Crosstalk
ELMS - Electrical Load Management System
EMF - ElectroMagnetic Force
EMI - ElectroMagnetic Interference
EMS - Energy Management System
EMS - Environmental Protection Agency
ENT - Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing
EOC - Emergency Operation Center
E&O - Errors and Omissions
EOLR - End Of Line Resistor
EOT End Of Transmission character
EP - External Power
EPCU - Electrical Power Control Unit
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS -External Power System
ER - Equipment Room
ESN - Electronic Serial Number
ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
ETOPS - Extended Twin Operation
ETSI - European Telecommunication Standard Institute
EVCS - Emergency Voice Communication System
F
F connector 75 ohm connector at drop cable
FA - Fire Alarm
FAA - Federal Aviation Administration
FAACIS - FAA Communication Information System
FAAP - Fire Alarm Annunciator
FACP - Fire Alarm Control Panel
FLAQS - Florida Air Quality System
FBC - Florida Building Code
FCC - Federal Communication Commission
FD Floor Distribution
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM - Frequency Division Muliplexing
FDMA - Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDR - Feeder
FDR - Flight Data Recorder
FDX - Full DupleX
FEP Front End Crosstalk
FEXT - Far End crosstalk
Fiber Optic Cables:
- SM SingleMode [ 9 (core) / 125 (clad), yellow
- MM MultiMode [ 62.5 (core) / 125 (clad), orange, gray
Fiber Optic Connectors:
- ST use for MM in LAN (bayonet)
- FC use for SM (thread on)
- SC use for SM and MM (snap, square)
FIC - Facility Interface Code
FIFO - First In First Out memory buffer
FIDS - Flight Information Display System
FM - Frequency Modulation
FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FOTC - Fiber Optics Transmission System
FOTP Fiber Optic Test Procedure
FOTS Fiber Optic Transmission System
FPN - Fine Print Note
FRAD - Frame Relay Access Device
Frame - sequence of bits and bytes in transmission block
Framing - inserting of bits to identify channels; (TDM)
FRPP - Fire Redundant Polypropylene Pipe
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTTD - Fiber To Desk
FTTH - Fiber To Home
G
Gateway - Gode interfacing dissimilar networks
Gb - Gigabit
GCB - Generator Circuit Breaker
GCU - Generator Control Unit
GFCI - Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GHz - Giga Hertz
GMP - Guaranteed Maximum Price
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconn. Protocol
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPS - Global Positioning System
GPS - Ground Power System
GPU - Ground Power Unit
GSE - Ground Support Equipment
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication
GSR - Ground Service Relay
GSTR - Ground Service Transfer Relay
GUI - Graphic User Interface
H
HC - Horizontal Cross connect
HDLC High level Data Link Control
HDSL - High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
HDTV High Definition TeleVision
HDX - Half DupleX
Hertz Hz - Cycles /sec
HF - High Frequency
HMI - Human Machine Interface
HMV - Heavy Maintenance Visit
HNIL - High Noise Immunity Logic
HSTR - High Speed Token Ring
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Hub - centralize connection point equip. (passive; active)
HVAC - Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
I
IAC - InterApplication Communication
IB - Intelligent Building
IBI - Intelligent Building Institute
IC Intermediate Cross Connect
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
ICE - Immigration and Custom Enforcement
ICEA - Insulated Cable Engineers Association
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IDF - Intermediate Distribution Frame
IDG - Integrated Drive Generator
IEC - International Electro technical Commission
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEPS - Integral Electrical Power System
IF - Intermediate Frequency
IG - Isolated Ground
IMD - Internal Modulation Distortion
INL - Integral NonLinearity
ISA - Instrument Society of America
I/O - Input/Output
IP Internet Protocol
IPC InterProcessor Communication
IrDA - Infrared Data Acquisition
ISA Instrument Society of America
ISDN - Integrated Service Digital network
IS LAN - Integrated Service Local Area Network
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ITWS - Interoporated Terminal Weather System
ISP - Internet Service Provider
ITU - International Telecommunication Union
J
JTC - Joint Technical Committee
JTFA - Join Time Frequency Analysis
K
kbyts /sec -1000 (1024) bytes/sec
kcmil - Thousand circular mils
KHz - KiloHertz
KVA - Kilo Volt Amp
KW - Kilo Watt
KWA - Kilo Watt Hour
L
LAN - Local Area Network
LAP B Link Access Procedures Balanced
Laser - light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LCL Longitudinal Conversion Loss
LCTL - Longitudinal Conversion Transfer Loss
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LD - Laser Diode
LDP - Line Drop Compensator
LED - Light Emitting diode
LF - Low Frequency
LH Link Header
LRU - Line Replaceable Unit
LSB - Last Significant Bit
LT Link Trailer
M
MAC ‑ Media Access Control
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MAP - Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MAT ‑ Metropolitan Area Trunks
MAT - Maintenace Access Terminal
MATV ‑ Master Antenna TeleVision system
MAU ‑ Multistation Access Unit (as refer to Token Ring)
MAU ‑ Medium Attachment Unit
Mb - Megabit
MB - Megabyte
Mbyts/sec - Megabytes/sec (1,000,000)
MC ‑ Main Cross Connect
MCC - Motor Control Center
MDAD - Miami Dade Aviation Department
MDF - Main Distribution Frame
MDFD - Miami Dade Fire Department
MEC - Main Equipment Center
MFLOPS - Million Floating Point Operation Per Sec
MHz - Mega Hertz
MIC ‑ Media Interface Connector
MIPS - Million Operation Per Sec
MM - Multi Mode
MMI - Man Machine Interface
Modem - modulator/demodulator
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MPD - Maintenance Planning Document
MSD - Most Significant Digit
MSDS - Material Data safety Sheet
MS/TP - Master Slave / Token Passing
MTSO - Mobile Telephone Switching Office
mux - mulitplexer
MxU - Multiplexer Unit
N
NAS - National Airspace System
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NBPT - No Break Power Transfer
N connector coax threaded connector (Paul Neill)
NEC - National Electrical Code (NFPA 79)
NEMA - National Electrical Manufacturer Association
NEXT - Near End crossTalk
NextGen - Next Generation Air Transportation System
NFPA - National Fire Protection Association
NiCd - Nickel Cadmium (battery)
NIST - National Institute for Standard and Technology
NIU - Network Interface Unit
nm - nanometer
NRTL - National Recognized Testing Laboratory
NSP - Network Service Provider
NT - Network Terminal
NTSC - National Television System Commission (signal std)
NETWARE Novell network operating system
Networking - Connection of ISN system to other LAN, PBX
NEXT - Near End Crosswalk
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIU - Network Interface Unit
NMP - Network Management Protocol
Node - Redistribution point (data equip.; hub, modem, switch)
Node - Communication endpoint (term.; router, comp. server)
NOP - Network Operation Plan
NOS - Network Operating System
NOX - Nitrogen Oxides
NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board
NVP - Nominal Velocity of Propagation
O
OC - Optical Carrier
ODI Open Data Link Interface
ODVA - Open Device net Association
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFHC Oxygen Free High Conductivity Copper
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OLT - Optical Line Terminal
ONU - Optical Network Unit
OPC - OLE for process control
OpenDoc - Compound document architecture
Operating System - software that controls computer
OS - Operating System
OSI - Open System Interconnection
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSI - Open System Interconnection
PSP - Overcurrent Surge Protector
OTDR - Optical time Domain Reflectometer
Overhead - processing resources required for a task
P
PA - Public Address
PABX - Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAL - video signal std used in Europe and Japan
PAM - Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PB - Pull Box
PBX - Private Branch Exchange
PC - Personal Computer
PC card - expansion card for PCMCIA slot
PCA - PreConditioned Air
PCDU - Power Conversion Distribution Unit
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Card International Association
PDA - Personal Digital Assistance
PF - Power Factor
PID controller - Proportional Integrative Derivative controller
P&ID - Process & Instrumentation Diagram
Pipeline
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processor
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process)
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
Plug and Play ISA - software configured boards
PM - Phase Modulation
PNL - Panel
POF - Plastic Optical Fiber
POI - Point Of Interface
Port - communication connection on computer
POS - Point Of Sale
POU - Point Of Use
PROFIBUS - communication protocol used in Europe
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
Protocol - codes and bit sequence for data transfer
PVC - PolyVinyl Chloride
PXI - PCI based extension for instrumentation
Q
R
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAT - Ram Air Turbine
RCDD - Registered Communication Distribution Designer
RF - Radio Frequency
RFI - Radio Frequency Interference
RFI - Request For Information
RFP - Request For Proposal
RFQ - Request For Quotation
RIU - Remote Interface Unit
RMS - Rigid Metal Conduit
RMS - Revenue Management System
RNC - Rigid Nonmetallic Conduit
RT - Remote Terminal
RU - Rack Unit
RTSI Bus - Real Time System Integration Bus
RTU - Remote Terminal Unit
RUS - Rural Utilities Service
S
SAC - Security and Access Control
SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Aqusition
SCPI - Standard Command for Programmable Instruments
SCXI - Signal Condition eXtension for Instruments
SD - Schematic Design
SD - System Display
SDSL - Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
SE - Single Ended
SEPC - Secondary External Power Contactor
SESAR - Sigle European Sky ATM Research
SFDPS - SWIM Flight Data Publication System
S/H - Sample and Hold
SMTP - Simple mail Transfer Protocol
SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio
SIDA - Security Identification Display Area
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
SOC - Security Operation Center
SP - Service Provider
SPC - Statistical Process Control
SQL - Structural Query Language
SS - Simultaneous Sampling
S/s - Samples per sec
STDDS - SWIM Terminal Data Distribution
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
SVT - SWIM Visualization System
Syntax - rules to which statement must conform
SWIM - System Wide Information Management
T
TACS - Total Access Communication System
TAMS - Total Airport Management System
TB - Terminal Block
TC - Telecommunication Closet
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
TFP - Through Fault Protection
TFMS - Traffic Flow Management System
THD - Total Harmonic Distortion (or Third...)
TR - Transformer Rectifier
TTL - Transistor Transistor Logic (integrated circuit)
TVSS - Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor
TX - Transmitter
U
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UBC - Uniform Building Code
UCP - Unbalance Current Protection
UD - Under floor Duct
UHF - Ultra High Frequency
UL - Underwriters Laboratories
UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supply
USB - Universal Serial Port
USGS - United States Geological Survey
UTC - Under carpet Telecommunication Cable
UV - Under Voltage
V
VA - Volt Amper
VBX - Visual Basic custom control
VCR - Video Cassette Recorder
VDSL - Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol
W
WAN - Wide Area Network
WiFi - Wireless Fidelity
WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
WMAN - Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
WWAN - Wireless Wide Area Network
www - world wide web
X
XLPE - Cross Linked PolyEthylene
Y
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