ABBREVIATIONS

ISP INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER

PSTN PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK

ISDN INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK

BRI BASIC RATE INTERFACE

PRI PRIMARY RATE INTERFACE

CCITT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND

TELEGRAPH

ITU INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

SVC SWITCH VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

PVC PERMANENT VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

DLCI DATA LINK CONNECTION IDENTIFIER

FECN FORWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION

BECN BACKWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION

DE DISCARD ELIGIBILITY

CRC CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK

MUX MULTIPLEXER

FCS FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE

IP INTERNET PROTOCOL

PAD PACKET ASSEMBLER/ DISASSEMBLER

ATM ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE

AMPS ADVANCED MOBILE PHONE SERVICE

GSM GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION

TDMA TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS

SIM SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE

TDM TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

FDM FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

WDM WAVE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

PCM PULSE CODE MODULATION

VLF VERY LOW FREQUENCY

UHF ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY

EHF EXTREMELY HIGH FREQUENCY

RG RADIO GOVERNMENT

RJ REGISTERED JACK

BNC BARREL NETWORK CONNECTOR

UTP UNSHIELDED TWISTED PAIR

STP SHIELDED TWISTED PAIR

SDH SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY

PDH PLESIOCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY

DWDM DENSE WAVE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

WWW WORLD WIDE WEB

ASCII AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHAGE

ISO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION

IEEE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS

TCP/IP TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/ INTERNET PROTOCOL

DSL DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE

DSLAM DIGITAL SUBCRIBER LINE ACCESS MULTIPLEXER

DLL DATA LINK LAYER

DNS DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM

HTTP HYPER TEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

HZ HERTZ