ADC Soneplex Broadband System - Manual (Page 12)

ADCP-61-471 • Issue 4 • June 2000 • Preface
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 2000, ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
TA-NWT-001210 Generic Requirements for High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Lines
(HDSL), Issue 1, October 1991.
TR-TSY-000827 OTGR: Generic Operations Interfaces: Non-OSI Communications
Architecture, Sections 11.1 and 11.3 (Issue 1).
LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
The acronyms and abbreviations used in this manual are detailed in the following list:
ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer
AIS Alarm Indication Signal
ALM Alarm
AMI Alternate Mark Inversion
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APS Automatic Protection Switching
APU Alarm Processor Unit
ATAG Autonomously Generated Correlation Tag
AWG American Wire Gauge
B3ZS Bipolar Three-Zero Substitution
B8ZS Bipolar Eight-Zero Substitution
BB Broadband
BBC Broadband Chassis
BER Bit Error Rate
BIP Bit Interleaved Parity
BPS Bits Per Second
BPV Bipolar Violation
CAM Communications Access Module
CCAS Communication Channel Access System
CEV Controlled Environmental Vault
CGA Carrier Group Alarm
CI Customer Interface
CIF Craft Interface
CKT Circuit
CLEI Common Language Equipment Identifier
CO Central Office
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPM Craft Performance Monitor module (used in a Remote Terminal cabinet)
CR Critical
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Code
CRP Repeater - Central Office (network) side (MPU version 5.2 and 5.3)
CSA Carrier Serving Area
CSU Channel Service Unit
CTAG Correlation Tag
CV Code Violation
DCE Data Communication Equipment