Home Area Networks and IPTV

Glossary

A

AAC: audio compression in MPEG4

ACL: Access Control List

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ANSI: American Network Standard Institute; standardization institute for telecommunications networks in the United States

API: Application Programming Interface

ARCEP: Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste (“Regulatory authority for electronic communications and postal service”; the French regulator for telecommunications)

ARPU: Average Revenue Per User

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B

Beacon: a device providing important information (e.g. signaling). In the telecommunications field, a beacon is almost always a radio device.

BPL: Broadband on Power Lines

BT : Basse Tension (French); (low voltage (LV))

BAT: Bouquet Association Table

C

CAC: Connection Admission Control

CAD: Computer-Aided Design

CAO: Conception Assistée par Ordinateur (French); see CAD

CAT: Control Access Criteria

CBR: Constant Bit Rate

CCETT: Center for the Study of Television Broadcasting and Telecommunication (in Rennes, France)

CDVT: Cell Delay Variation Tolerance; a QoS parameter in ATM networks

CLP: Cell Loss Priority

CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System

CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture; enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together

CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check; sometimes wrongly called “checksum”

CRT: television screen using cathode ray ...