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  10. | Probe Industries Magazine Phile #3 aka PIMP #3 |
  11. |               "Acronym Manual"                 |
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  13. Ever go trashing and read memo's amongst other shit that just doesnt
  14. make sense?? Ever wonder what some telco double talk means..?!
  15. ever just want a good reference manual for miscellanous
  16. telecommunications acronyms? here it is.. 
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  19.  
  20. ACD               Automatic Call Distributor
  21. ACTS              Automatic Coin Telephone System
  22. ADPCM             Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
  23. AF                Audio Frequency
  24. AIS               Automatic Intercept System
  25. ALI               Automatic Location Information
  26. AMA               Automatic Message Accounting
  27. AMI               Alternate Mark Inversion
  28. ANI               Automatic Number Identification
  29. AOS               Alternate Operator Service
  30. APD               Avalanche Photo Diode
  31. ARQ               Automatic Repeat Request
  32. ASCII             American Standard Code for Information Interexchange
  33. ATM               Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  34. B8ZS              Bipolar with 8-Zero Substitution
  35. BCD               Blocked Calls Delayed
  36. BCH               Blocked Calls Held
  37. BCR               Blocked Calls Released
  38. BER               Bit Error Rate
  39. BHCA              Busy Hour Call Attempts
  40. BIOS              Basic Input/Output System
  41. BLER              Block Error Rate
  42. BOC               Bell Operating Company
  43. BRI               Basic Rate Interface
  44. BSA               Basic Service Arrangement
  45. BSC               Binary Synchronous Communications
  46. BSE               Basic Service Element
  47. CAC               Carrier Access Code
  48. CAD               Computer Aided Dispatch; Computer Aided Design
  49. CAS               Centralized Attendant Service
  50. CBX               Computer Branch Exchange
  51. CCIS              Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
  52. CCITT             Consultative Committee on International Telephone
  53.                   and Telegraph
  54. CCS               Centum Call Seconds
  55. CCS               Common Channel Signaling
  56. CCTV              Closed Circuit Television
  57. CDO               Community Dial Office
  58. CDR               Call Detail Recorder
  59. CELP              Code Excited Linear Prediction
  60. CEPT              Conference European on Post and Telecommunications
  61. CGSA              Cellular Geographic Serving Area
  62. CLASS             Custom Local Area Signaling Services
  63. CNS               Complementary Network Services
  64. CO                Central Office
  65. CODEC             Coder/Decoder
  66. CPE               Customer Premises Equipment
  67. CRC               Cyclical Redundancy Checking
  68. CRSO              Cellular Radio Switching Office
  69. CSM/CD            Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision                                  Detection
  70. CSU               Channel Service Unit
  71. DAMA              Demand Assigned Multiple Access
  72. DBS               Direct Broadcast Satellite
  73. DCE               Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
  74. DCS               Digital Crossconnect System
  75. DDD               Direct Distance Dialing
  76. DID               Direct Inward Dialing
  77. DMI               Digital Multiplexed Interface
  78. DNIC              Data Network Identification Code
  79. DNIS              Dialed Number Identification Service
  80. DOC               Dynamic Overload Control
  81. DOV               Data Over Voice
  82. DQDB              Distributed Queue Dual Bus
  83. DSI               Digital Speech Interpolation
  84. DSX               Digital Service Crossconnect
  85. DTE               Data Terminal Equipment
  86. DTMF              Dual Tone Multifrequency
  87. EAS               Extended Area Service
  88. EBCDIC            Expanded Bianry Coded Decimal Interexchange Code
  89. EDI               Electronic Data Interchange
  90. EFS               Error Free Seconds
  91. EIRP              Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
  92. EMI               Electromagnetic Interference
  93. ERL               Echo Return Loss
  94. ESF               Extended Super Frame
  95. ESP               Enhanced Service Provider
  96. ESS               Electronic Switching System
  97. ETN               Electronic Tandem Network
  98. FDDI              Fiber Distributed Data Interface
  99. FDMA              Frequency Division Multiple Access
  100. FEC               Forward Error Correction
  101. FX                Foreign Exchange
  102. GOS               Grade of Service
  103. HDTV              High Definition Television
  104. IC                Independent Company
  105. IDF               Intermediate Distributing Frame
  106. IEC (IXC)         Interexchange Carrier
  107. IMTS              Improved Mobile Telephone Service
  108. INMARSAT          International Maritime Satellite Service
  109. INWATS            Inward Wide Area Telephone Service
  110. ISDN              Integrated Services Digital Network
  111. IVR               Interactive Voice Response
  112. KTS               Key Telephone System
  113. LAN               Local Area Network
  114. LAPD              Link Access Procedure D
  115. LATA              Local Access Transport Area
  116. LCR               Least Cost Routing
  117. LEC               Local Exchange Carrier
  118. LED               Light Emitting Diode
  119. LIT               Line Insulation Test
  120. LLC               Logical Link Control
  121. LMX               L Multiplex
  122. LTD               Local Test Desk
  123. MAP/TOP           Manufacturing Automation Protocol/Technical and                               Office Protocol
  124. MCVD              Modified Chemical Vapor Deposit
  125. MDF               Main Distributing Frame
  126. MLN               Main Listed Number
  127. MTBF              Mean Time Between Failures
  128. MTS               Message Telephone Service
  129. MTTR              Mean Time to Repair
  130. NAU               Network Access Unit
  131. NCTE              Network Channel Terminating Equipment
  132. NID               Network Interface Device
  133. NMCC              Network Management Control Center
  134. NPA               Numbering Plan Area
  135. NT1               Network Termination 1
  136. NT12              Network Termination 12
  137. NT2               Network Termination 2
  138. NTN               Network Terminal Number
  139. ONA               Open Network Architecture
  140. OPX               Off-Premises Extension
  141. OSI               Open Systems Interconnect
  142. OSS               Operations Support System
  143. P/AR              Peak-to-Average Ratio
  144. PABX              Private Automatic Branch Exchange
  145. PAD               Packet Assembler/Disassembler
  146. PAM               Pulse Amplitude Modulation
  147. PASP              Public Service Answering Point
  148. PBX               Private Branch Exchange
  149. PCM               Pulse Code Modulation
  150. PIC               Primary Interexchange Carrier
  151. PIN               Personal Identification Number
  152. Pixel             Picture Element
  153. POP               Point of Presence
  154. PRI               Primary Rate Interface
  155. PSK               Phase Shift Keying
  156. PSTN              Public Switched Telephone Network
  157. QAM               Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
  158. RCF               Remote Call Forwarding
  159. RMATS             Remote Maintenance and Testing System
  160. rms               Root Mean Square
  161. rn                Reference Noise
  162. ROTL              Remote Office Test Line
  163. RSL               Received Signal Level
  164. SCC               Satellite Communications Control
  165. SDN               Software Defined Network
  166. SF                Single Frequency
  167. SMDR              Station Message Detail Recording
  168. SMDS              Switched Multimegabit Data Service
  169. SMSA              Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
  170. SNA               Systems Network Architecture
  171. SONET             Synchronous Optical Network
  172. SPC               Stored Program Control
  173. SRL               Singing Return Loss
  174. SSB               Single Sideband
  175. SSTDMA            Spacecraft Switched Time Division Multiple Access
  176. TCM               Trellis-Coded Modulation
  177. TDM               Time Division Multiplexing
  178. TDMA              Time Division Multiple Access
  179. TDR               Time Domain Reflectometer
  180. TE1               Terminal Equipment Type 1
  181. TE2               Terminal Equipment Type 2
  182. TLP               Transmission Level Point
  183. TUR               Traffic Usage Recorder
  184. UCD               Uniform Call Distribution
  185. UPS               Uninterruptable Power Supply
  186. VF                Voice Frequency
  187. VNL               Via Net Loss
  188. VPN               Virtual Private Network
  189. VRU               Voice Response Unit
  190. VU                Volumn Unit
  191. WATS              Wide Area Telephone Service
  192. WDM               Wavelength Division Multiplexing
  193. XPD               Cross Polarization Discrimination
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