SMD 989– User Manual
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Abbreviations
16 APSK – 16 Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying
32 APSK – 32 Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying
64 APSK -- 64 Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying
ASI – Asynchronous Serial Interface
BCH - Bose and Ray Chaudhuri code
BISS – Basic Interoperable Scrambling System
BNC – British Naval Connector
BPS – Bits per second
CAM – Conditional Access Module
CAT – Conditional Access Table
CI – Common Interface
CID – Carrier Identification
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting
FCC – Federal Communications Commission
HD – High Definition
IF – Intermediate Frequency
I/O – Input/Output
IP – Internet Protocol
ISI – Intersymbol Interference
LED – Light Emitting Diode
MAC – Media Access Control
Mbps – 1,000,000 bits per second
MER – Modulation Error Ratio
MPEG – Refers to standards developed by the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29
WG11 MPEG-2 – Refers to ISO/IEC standards 13818-1 (Systems), 13818-2
(Video), 13818-3 (Audio), 13818-4 (Conformance)
MPTS – Multiple Program Transport Stream
NTP – Network Time Protocol
PAT – Program Association Table
PCR – Program Clock Reference
PID – Packet Identifier
PMT – Program Map Table
QAM – Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QPSK – Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RF – Radio Frequency
RU – Rack Unit
RW – Read/Write
SD – Standard Definition
SI – Service Information
SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol
SPTS – Single Program Transport Stream
TS – Transport Stream
Turbo PSK - Advanced Modulation Coding Phase Shift Keying