Glossary of Acronyms
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AC-3 Dolby AC-3 audio coding
ACPR Adjacent Channel Power Ratio
AEC Audio Engineering Society
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ATDMA Advanced Time Division Multiple Access
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee
AVG Average
BAT Bouquet Association Table
BER Bit Error Rate
BPCP Bidirectional Coded Picture
CAT Conditional Access Table
CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee
CCN Carrier-to-Composite Noise Ratio
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSO Composite Second Order Beat
CTB Composite Triple Beat
CM Cable Modem
CLDI Chrominance-Luminance Delay Inequality
CLGI Chrominance-Luminance Gain Inequality
CMTS Cable Modem Terminal System
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
CVBS Composite Video Broadcast Signal
Color Video Blanking and Sync
Composite Video, Blanking, Synchronization
Composite Video Bar Signal
CW Continuous Wave
DAVIC Digital Audio Video Council
DCT Discrete Cosine Transform
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DG Differential Gain
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIT Discontinuity Information Table
DOM Depth of Modulation
DNS Domain Name System
DOCSIS Data-Over-Cable Service Interface
Specifications
DP Differential Phase
DTS Decoding Time Stamp
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVB-C Digital Video Broadcasting-Cable
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EBU European Broadcasting Union
ECM Entitlement Control Meassage
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EIT Event Information Table
EMM Entitlement Management Message
eMTA Embedded multimedia terminal adapter
EPG Electronic Program Guide
ES Elementary Stream
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards
Institute
ETT Extended Text Table
EVM Error Vector Magnitude
EVS Error Vector Spectrum
ES Errored second
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDD Frequency division duplex
FEC Forward Error Correction
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FIP Fiber Inspection Probe
FM Frequency Modulation
FSK Frequency-Shift Keying
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GCR Ghost Cancellation Reference
GOP Group of Pictures
GPS Global Positioning System
HD High Definition (video)
HFC Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial
ICP Intra Coded Picture
ICR In Channel Frequency Response
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
IMD Intermodulation Distortion
IP Internet Protocol
IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ITU International Telecommunications Union
JCTEA Japan Cable Television Engineering
Association
LAN Local Area Network
LSB Least Significant Bit
LTE Long term evolution
MAC Media Access Control layer
MER Modulation Error Ratio
MGT Master Guide Table
MPE MultiProtocol Encapsulation
MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSD Minimum Signal Duration
NCTA National Cable Television Association
NEG Negative peak
NIT Network Information Table
NTSC National Television Standards Committee