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Lexicon of Acronyms

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A
ACL -- Access Control List
ADC -- Analog-to-Digital Converter
AE -- Applications Engineer
ALU -- Arithmetic Logic Unit OR Alcatel-Lucent
APC -- Automatic Power Control
ASCII -- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC -- Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ATE -- Automated Test Equipment
ATM -- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI -- Attachment Unit Interface


B
BEOL -- Back End of Line
BER -- Bit Error Ratio
BGA -- Ball Grid Array Package
BiCMOS -- Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor


C
CAD -- Computer-aided Design
CAE -- Computer-aided Engineering
CAGR -- Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAM -- Computer-aided Manufacturing
CapEx -- Capital Expense
CBR -- Constant Bit Rate
CC -- Contiguous Concatenation
CCIS -- Common Channel Inter-office Signaling
CDR -- Clock and Data Recovery -or- Critical Design Review
CE -- Characterization Engineer -or- Carrier Ethernet
CERDIP -- Ceramic Dual In-line Package
CFI -- Canonical Format Indicator
CID -- Consecutive Identical Digit
CLEC -- Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CLI -- Command Line Interface
CML -- Current Mode Logic
CMOS -- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMP -- Chemical Mechanical Polishing
CO -- Central Office
COB -- Chip-on-Board
CPE -- Customer Premise Equipment
CPLD -- Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPU -- Central Processing Unit
CRC -- Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRD -- Customer Request Date
CRU -- Clock Recovery Unit
CSRS -- Comprehensive Stressed Receiver Sensitivity
CTE -- Coefficient of Thermal Expansion
Cu PHY -- 10/100/1000M Copper PHY
CVD -- Chemical Vapor Deposition


D
DAC -- Digital-to-Analog Converter
dB -- Decibel
dBm -- Decibel Relative to One Milliwatt
DCA -- Direct Chip Attach
DCC -- Duty Cycle Control
DDPWS -- Data Dependent Pulse Width Shrinkage
DE -- Design Engineer
DFB -- Distributed Feedback Laser
DFM -- Design for Manufacturability
DFT -- Design for Testability
DHCP -- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIP -- Dual In-line Package
DJ -- Deterministic Jitter
DLL -- Delay Lock Loop
DML -- Directly Modulated Laser
DOCSIS -- Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications
DQPSK -- Differential Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying
DS0 -- Digital Signal 0 (64 Kbps)
DS1 -- Digital Signal 1 (up to 1.544 Mbps)
DS3 -- Digital Signal 3 (up to 44.736 Mbps)
DSL -- Digital Subscriber Line
DSP -- Digital Signal Processing
DUT -- Device Under Test
DWDM -- Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
DWRR -- Deficit Weighted Round Robin


E
EAM -- Electro-Absorption Modulator
EBITDA -- Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
ECL -- Emitter-coupled Logic
EDC -- Electronic Dispersion Compensation
EEPROM -- Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-only Memory
EM -- Enclosure Management
EMI -- Electromagnetic Interference
EML -- Externally Modulated Laser
EOL -- End of Life
EoS -- Ethernet over SONET/SDH
EQ -- Equalization
ERC -- Extinction Ratio Control
ESD -- Electrostatic Discharge
EVC -- Ethernet Virtual Circuit


F
FAE -- Field Applications Engineer
FC -- Fibre Channel
FEC -- Forward Error Correction
FEOL -- Front End of Line
FET -- Field Effect Transistor
FiOS -- Fiber Optic Service (Verizon)
FPGA -- Field Progammable Gate Array
FPR -- Full/Final Production Release
FTTx -- Fiber to the Premises, Fiber to the Home
FY -- Fiscal Year


G
GaAs -- Gallium-Arsenide
GAM -- Global Account Manager
Gbps -- Gigabits per Second
GFP -- Generic Framing Protocol
GLOM -- Gigabit LAN on Motherboard
GMII -- Gigabit MII (1000 Mbps)
GPON -- Gigbit Passive Optical Network
GSI -- Giant Scale -or- Giga-Scale Integration


H
HDLC -- High-level Data Link Control Protocol
HDTV -- High Definition Television
HSSG -- Higher Speed Study Group


I
I/O -- Input/Output
IC -- Integrated Circuit
ICMP -- Internet Control Message Protocol
IDR -- Initial Design Review
IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF -- Internet Ethernet Task Force
IGBT -- Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
IGMP -- Internet Group Management Protocol
IGP -- Interior Gateway Protocol (routing Protocol)
InP -- Indium-Phosphide
IP -- Internet Protocol -or- Intellectual Property
IPR -- Initial Production Release
IPS -- Intrusion Prevention System
IPTV -- Internet Protocol Television
ISIS -- Intermediate System to Intermediate System (is an IGP)
ISP -- Internet Service Provider -or- In-system Programming
ITU -- International Telecommunications Union


J
JBOD -- Just a Bunch of Disks


K
KAM -- Key Account Manager


L
LAN -- Local Area Network
LCAS -- Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
LCC -- Leadless Chip Carrier
LED -- Light-emitting Diode
LSB -- Least Significant Bit
LSI -- Large Scale Integration


M
MAC -- Media Access Controller
MAN -- Metropolitan Area Network
MBOD -- Managed Bunch of Disks
Mbps -- Megabits per Second
MCM -- Multi-chip Module
MDIO -- Management Data Input/Output
MEF -- Metro Ethernet Forum
MEMS -- Micro-electro-mechanical Systems
MII -- Media Independent Interface (Ethernet MAC interface for 10/100 Mbps)
MIPS -- Million Instructions per Second
MMF -- Multi-mode Fiber
MMIC -- Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
MOSFET -- Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MPE -- Manufacturing Product Engineering
MPLS -- Multi Protocol Label Switching
MPW -- Multi-Project Wafer
MRB -- Material Review Board
MSA -- Multi-source Agreement
MSB -- Most Significant Bit
MSI -- Medium Scale Integration
MSPP -- Multi-service Provisioning Platform
MSTP -- Multi-service Transport Platform
MUX -- Multiplexer


N
NAT -- Nework Address Translation
NDA -- Non-disclosure Agreement
NICs -- Network Interface Cards
NMOS -- N-channel MOS
NNI -- Network-to-network Interface
NRE -- Non-recurring Engineering


O
OAM -- Operations, Administration and Maintenance
OC-12 -- Optical Carrier Level 12 (622.08 Mbps)
OC-192 -- Optical Carrier Level 192 (9.952 Gbps)
OC-3 -- Optical Carrier Level 3 (155.52 Mbps)
OC-48 -- Optical Carrier Level 48 (2.488 Gbps)
OIF -- Optical Internetworking Forum
OLT -- Optical Line Termination
OMA -- Optical Modulation Amplitude
ONU -- Optical Network Unit
OOF -- Out of Frame
OOK -- On/Off Keying
OTN -- Optical Transport Network


P
P2P -- Peer-to-Peer
PBB -- Provider Backbone Bridges
PBB-TE -- Provider Backbone Bridges Traffic Engineering
PBT -- Provider Backbone Transport
PBX -- Private Branch Exchange
PCI-E -- PCI Express
PCN -- Product Change Notification
PCS -- Physical Coding Sublayer
PDP -- Product Development Process
PDR -- Product Design Release -or- Preliminary Design Review
PDU -- Packet Data Unit
PE -- Product Engineer
PGA -- Pin Grid Array
PHY -- Physical Layer Device
PLCC -- Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLD -- Programmable Logic Device
PLL -- Phase Lock Loop
PLM -- Product Line Manager
PMD -- Physical Media Dependent Sublayer
PMM -- Product Marketing Manager
PMOS -- P-channel MOS
PoE -- Power over Ethernet
POP -- Point of Presence
POTS -- Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP -- Point-to-Point Protocol
PQFP -- Plastic Quad Flat Pack
PRBS -- Pseudo-Random Bit Sequence
PROM -- Programmable Read-Only Memory
PSTN -- Public Switched Telephone Network


Q
Q10101 -- Document number for the Vitesse Product Development Process
QCL -- QoS Control List
QML -- Qualified Manufacturer's List
QoS -- Quality of Service


R
RAID -- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM -- Random Access Memory
RBOC -- Regional Bell Operating Company
RCDR -- Revision Critical Design Review
RFP -- Request for Proposal
RGMII -- Reduced GMII (10/100/1000 Mbps)
RISC -- Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RJ -- Random Jitter
RMA -- Returned Material Authorization
RMS -- Root Mean Square
ROADM -- Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer
ROC -- RAID on Chip
RoHS -- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
ROI -- Return on Investment
ROM -- Read Only Memory
ROSA -- Receiver Optical Subassembly
RTL -- Register Transfer Language
Rx -- Receive


S
SAM -- Served Available Market
SAS -- Serial Attached SCSI
SATA -- Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SBOD -- Switched Bunch of Disks
SCR -- Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SD -- Signal Detect
SDH -- Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDK -- Software Development Kit
SEM -- Scanning Electron Microscope
SerDes -- Serializer / Deserializer
SFP -- Small Form Factor Pluggable Module (1-4Gbps)
SFP+ -- Small Form Factor Pluggable Module (8-10Gbps)
SGMII -- Serial Gigabit MII
SI -- Signal Integrity
SiGe -- Silicon-Germanium
SIP -- Single In-line Package
SLA -- Software License Agreement
SLIC -- Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
SMB -- Small and Medium Business
SME -- Small and Medium Enterprise
SMF -- Single Mode Fiber
SMT -- Surface-mount Technology
SOI -- Silicon-on-Insulator
SOIC -- Small-outline Integrated Circuit
SOM -- Share of Market
SONET -- Synchronous Optical Networking
SOP -- Small Outline Package
SPAUI -- Interface that combines SPI4.2 features on top of the XAUI standard
SPC -- Statistical Process Control
SPICE -- Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis
SPOM -- Single Point Of Management
SRAM -- Static Random Access Memory
SRS -- Stressed Receiver Sensitivity
SSI -- Small Scale Integration
STO -- Strategy and Technology Office
STS-1 -- Synchronous Transport Signal Level 1 (51.84 Mbps)
STS-12 -- Synchronous Transport Signal Level 12 (622.08 Mbps)
STS-192 -- Synchronous Transport Signal Level 192 (9.952 Gbps)
STS-3 -- Synchronous Transport Signal Level 3 (155.52 Mbps)
STS-48 -- Synchronous Transport Signal Level 48 (2.488 Gbps)


T
TAM -- Total Available Market
Tbps -- Terabits per Second
TCP/IP -- Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDM -- Time Division Multiplexing
TDR -- Tape Out Design Review -or- Time Domain Reflectometry
TE -- Test Engineer
TIA -- Transimpedance Amplifier
TJ -- Total Jitter
TMC -- Too Much Caffine
TO -- Tape Out
TOSA -- Transmitter Optical Subassembly
TTL -- Transistor-Transistor Logic
TVS -- Transient Voltage Supressor
Tx -- Transmit


U
UHF -- Ultra High Frequency
UI -- Unit Interval


V
VAUI -- Vitesse proprietary interface
VCAP -- Vitesse Content Aware Processing
VCAT -- Virtual Concatenation
VCO -- Voltage-controlled Oscillator
VCSEL -- Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser
VE -- Validation Engineer
VHF -- Very High Frequency
VLAN -- Virtual Local Area Network
VLSI -- Very Large Scale Integration
VoD -- Video on demand
VoIP -- Voice over IP
VPN -- Virtual Private Networking
VTSS -- Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation.


W
WAN -- Wide Area Network
WDM -- Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WIS -- WAN Interface Sublayer
WLAN -- Wireless LAN
WLP -- Wafer Level Packaging


X
XAUI -- 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface
XFP -- 10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable (Module)
XGMII -- 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface