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ADSL
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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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ATM
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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ATU-C
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ADSL Termination Unit - Central Office
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ATU-R
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ADSL Termination Unit - Remote
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AWG
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American Wire Gauge
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BERT
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Bit Error Rate Test
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bps
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Bits Per Second
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BRI
|
Basic Rate Interface
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CAP
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Carrierless Amplitude and Phase
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CATV
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Cable TV
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CBR
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Constant Bit Rate
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CCITT
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Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone
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CLEC
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Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
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CO C
|
entral Office
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CODEC
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Coder/Decoder
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CPE
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Customer Premise (or Provided) Equipment
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CSU
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Channel Service Unit
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DCE
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Data Communication (or Circuit-Terminating) Equipment
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DHCP
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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DLC
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Digital Loop Carrier
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DMT
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Discrete Multi-tone
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DSL
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Digital Subscriber Line
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DSLAM
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Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
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DSP
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Digital Signal Processor
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DSU
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Data Service Unit
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DTE
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Data Terminal (or Termination) Equipment
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EMI
|
Electromagnetic Induction
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ETSI
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European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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FCC
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Federal Communications Commission
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FDM
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Frequency Division Multiplexing
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FEXT
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Far-end crosstalk
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FTTC
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Fiber To The Curb
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FTTH
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Fiber To The Home
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HDSL
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High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
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HFC
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Hybrid Fiber-Coax
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IEC
|
Inter-Exchange Carrier
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IEEE
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IETF
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Internet Engineering Task Force
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ILEC
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Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
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IP I
|
nternet Protocol
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ISDL
|
ISDN Digital Subscriber Line
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ISDN
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Intergrated Services Digital Network
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ISO
|
International Organization for Standards
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ISP
|
Internet Service Provider
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ITU
|
International Telecommunications Union
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IXC
|
Inter-exchange Carrier
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Kb/s
|
Kilobits Per Second
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LADC
|
Local Area Data Circuit
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LADS
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Local Area Data Service
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LAN
|
Local Area Network
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LATA
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Local Access and Transport Area
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LEC
|
Local Exchange Carrier
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Mb/s
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Megabits Per Second
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MDF
|
Main Distribution Frame
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MUX
|
Multiplexer
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MVL
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Multiple Virtual Line
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NAP
|
Network Access Provider
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NAT
|
Network Address Translation
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NEBS
|
Network Equipment Building Standards
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NEXT
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Near-end Crosstalk
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NIC
|
Network Interface Card
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NID
|
Network Interface Device
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OPTIS
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Overlapped Phase Trellis-coded Interlocking Spectrum
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PBX
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Public Branch Exchange
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PCM
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Pulse Code Modulation
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POP
|
Point of Presence
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POTS
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Plain Old Telephone Service
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PPP
|
Point to Point Protocol
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PRI
|
Primary Rate Interface
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PSTN
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Public Switched Telephone Network
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PTT
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Postal, Telegraph and Telephone
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PVC
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Permanant Virtual Circuit
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QAM
|
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
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QoS
|
Quality of Service
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RADSL
|
Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
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RBOC
|
Regional Bell Operating Company
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SDSL
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Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
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SNR
|
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
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SOHO
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Small Office/Home Office
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SVC
|
Switched Virtual Circuit
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TCP
|
Transport Control Protocol
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TELCO
|
Telephone Company
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TDM
|
Time Division Multiplexing
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UBR
|
Unspecified Bit Rate
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UDSL
|
Unidirectional Digital Subscriber Line
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UTP
|
Unshielded Twisted Pair
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VBR
|
Variable Bit Rate
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VDSL
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Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
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VoIP
|
Voice over Internet Protocol
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VPN
|
Virtual Private Network
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WAN
|
Wide Area Network
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xDSL
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(generic) Digital Subscriber Line
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