Zhone Technologies IMACS-200 - Manual (Page 276)

-2 Glossary
Model No. Running Head
AIS
Alarm Indication Signal
AIS/ALM
Alarm Indication Signal/Alarm
AIM
ATM Inverse Multiplexer
a-law
E1 companding standard used in the conversion between analog and digital signals in PCM
ALIS
Analogue Line Interface Solution systems.
AMI
Alternate Mark Inversion, a line coding format for T1 lines.
ANI
Automatic Number Identification
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASK
Amplitude Shift Keying
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AWG
American Wire Gauge (the size of an electrical wire)