Abbreviation Index

Abbreviation Index

A

ADM: Add/Drop Multiplexer
ADMF: Administration Function
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AF: Application Function
Ajax: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
A-MGF: Access Media Gateway Function
ANI: Access Network Interface
API: Application Programming Interface
APP: Service Application
A-RACF: Access Resource and Admission Control Function
ARPU: Average Revenue Per User
AS: Application Server 
ASF: Advanced Systems Format
ASON: Automatically Switched Optical Network
ATM: Asynchronous Transport Mode
AVI: Audio Video Interleave

B
BGCF: Border Gateway Control Function
BGF: Border Gateway Function
B-ISDN: Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BoD: Bandwidth on Demand
BS: Base Station
BSC: Base Station Controller
BSS: Base Station Subsystem
BSS: Business Support System
BT: BitTorrent
BTF: Basic Transport Function
BTS: Base Transceiver Station

C
CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAMEL: Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic
CAP: CAMEL Application Part
CAPEX: Capital Expenditure
CC: Content of Communication
CCI: Connection Control Interface
CDN: Content Delivery Network
CGPE-FE: Customer Premises Network Gateway Policy Enforcement Functional Entity
CM: Cable Modem
CP: Content Provider
CPE: Customer Premises Equipment
CPN: Customer Premises Network
CRBT: Coloring Ring Back Tone
CSCF: Call Session Control Function
CSN: Converged Service Network
CTD: Click-to-Dial

D
DCIA: Distributed Computing Industry Association
DDP: Domain Detecting Protocol
DF: Delivery Function
DHT: Dynamic Hash Table
DNS: Domain Name System
DOM: Document Object Model
DSF: Directory Service Function
DVD: Digital Video Disc
DXC: Digital Cross-Connect

E
ECF: Elementary Control Function
ECP: Enterprise Communications Portal
EFF: Elementary Forwarding Function

F
FDD: Frequency Division Duplex
FLV: Flash Video
FSC: Fiber Switch Capable
FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G
GGSN: Gateway GPRS Support Node
GIS: Geographic Information System
GM: Group Management
GMLC: Gateway Mobile Location Center
GMPLS: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
GMSC: Gateway Mobile Switching Center
GPS: Global Positioning Service
GW: Gateway

H
HSS: Home Subscriber Server
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I
ICT: Information and Communication Technology
iFC: Initial Filter Criteria
IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol
IM SSF: IP Multimedia Service Switching Function
IM: Instant Messaging
IMS: IP Multimedia Subsystem
IN: Intelligent Network
IRI: Interception Related Information
ISC: IMS Service Control
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ISUP: Integrated Services Digital Network User Part
ITU-T: International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector

L
LAN: Local Area Network
LEMF: Law Enforcement Monitoring Facility
LI: Lawful Interception
LICF: Lawful Interception Collection Facility
LOS: Line of Sight
LSC: Lambda Switch Capable

M
MAC: Media Access Control
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MAP: Mobile Application Part
MGCF: Multimedia Gateway Control Function
MGW: Media Gateway
MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MMR: Mobile Multi-hop Relay
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MMS-C: Multimedia Messaging Service Center
MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group
MPLS: Multi-Protocol Label Switching
MPM: Management of Performance Measurement
MS: Mobile Station
MSC: Mobile Switching Center
MSTP: Multi-Service Transport Platform

N
NACF: Network Attachment Control Function
NAPT: Network Address and Port Translation
NASS: Network Attachment Subsystem
NCP: New Commerce Platform
NGI: Next Generation Internet
NGSE: Next Generation Service Environment
NLOS: Non-Line of Sight
NMI-C: Network Management Interface Control Plane
NMI-T: Network Management Interface Transport Plane
NNI: Network Node Interface

O
OAM: Operation, Administration and Maintenance
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OFDMA: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
OMA: Open Mobile Alliance
OPEX: Operational Expenditure
OSA: Open Service Access
OSS: Operations Support System
OVPN: Optical Virtual Private Network
OXC: Optical Cross Connect

P
P2MP: Point-to-Multipoint
P2P: Peer-to-Peer
PCC: Policy Control and Charging
P-CSCF: Proxy Call Session Control Function
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PD-FE: Policy Decision Functional Entity
PDG: Packet Data Gateway
PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PE-FE: Policy Enforcement Functional Entity
PHS: Personal Handheld System
PME-FE: Performance Measurement Enforcement Functional Entity
PMP-FE: Performance Measurement Processing Functional Entity
PMR-FE: Performance Measurement Reporting Functional Entity
POS: Packet over SONET/SDH
PPC: P2P Cache
PPR: P2P Redirector
PSC: Packet Switch Capable
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

Q
QoE: Quality of Experience
QoS: Quality of Service

R
RACF: Resource and Admission Control Function
RACS: Resource and Admission Control Subsystem
RCEF: Resource Control Enforcement Function
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
RIA: Rich Internet Application
RMVB: RealMedia Variable Bitrate
RNC: Radio Network Controller
RP: Reference Point
RPC: Remote Procedure Call
RS: Relay Station
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
RTCP: Real-Time Control Protocol

S
SCF: Service Control Function
S-CSCF: Serving Call Session Control Function
SDE: Service Delivery Environment
SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDK: Software Development Kit
SDP: Service Delivery Platform
SDP: Session Description Protocol
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGSN: Serving GPRS Support Node
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
SMS: Short Message Service
SMS-C: Short Message Service Center
SNS: Social Network Service
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA-RM: SOA Reference Model
SOC: System on Chip
SP: Service Provider
SPDF: Service-Based Policy Decision Function
SS: Subscriber Station
STM: Synchronous Transport Module

T
TDD: Time Division Duplex
TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
TD-SCDMA: Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
TINA: Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture
TISPAN: Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking
T-MPLS: Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switching
TRC-FE: Transport Resource Control Functional Entity
TRE-FE: Transport Resource Enforcement Functional Entity

U
UCC: User-Created Content
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UGC: User Generated Content
UNI: User-to-Network Interface
UPnP: Universal Plug and Play
USSD: Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
UTRAN: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Terrestrial (UMTS) Radio Access Network

V
VAS: Value-Added Service
VC: Virtual Concatenation
VCD: Video Compact Disc
VoD: Video on Demand
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
VP: Virtual Path

W
WAN: Wide Area Network
WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WDM: Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
WMV: Windows Media Video

X
xDSL: Digital Subscriber Lines
XML: Extensible Markup Language