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ACRONYMS

ADM add-drop multiplexer
AM Amplitude Modulation
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASP Application Service Provider
ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUG Administrative Unit Group
BER Bit Error Rate
B-ISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BRA Basic Rate Access
BSC Bisynchronous Communications (protocol)
CAN campus area network
CATV Cable television
CBCU Centralized Broadband Control Unit
CCIS Common Channel Inter-office Signaling
CCR Customer Controlled Reconfiguration
CCS Common Channel Signaling
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CO Central Office
CODEC COder-DECoder
CPE Customer Premises Equipment

CPI Computer-PBX Interface
DCS Digital Cross-Connect System
DLC Digital Loop Carrier
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DWDM Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
ECSA Exchange Carriers Standards Association

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