Acronyms & Abbreviations
|BC Broadcast Channel
BER Bit Error Rate
CLR Cell Loss Ratio
DAVIC Digital Audio Visual Council
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
ES Elementary Stream
ESC End Service consumer
ESCS End-Service Consumer System
ESP End Service Provider
ESPS End-Service Provider System
FEC Forward Error Correction
FIFO First In First Out
HFC Hybrid Fibre Coaxial
IB In Band
IC Interaction Channel
INA Interactive Network Adapter
ISP Intermediate Service Provider
MAC Media Access Control
MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group
NIU Network Interface Unit
NNI Network Node Interface
NRC Network Related Control
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NT Network Termination
OAM Operation, Administration, and Maintenance information
OOB Out Of Band
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PES Packetized Elementary Stream
PS Program Stream
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
STB Set Top Box
STU Set Top Unit
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TS Transport Stream
UNI User-Network Interface