Glossary

Capacitance

Carrier to Noise Ratio

Conditional Access; Commercial Announcement

Carrier Access Code

Conditional Access Control System

Computer-Aided Design

Computer-Aided Engineering

Common Air Interface: Confederation of Aerial Industries

Computer Aided Manufacturing

Carrier-less Amplitude and Phase technology

Competitive Access Providers

Community Antenna Relay Station

Channel Associated Signaling

Conditional Access Table (multiplex) (part of SI)

Computer-Aided Test Generator

Computer Aided Transmitter Simulation

Cable (Community) Aerial Television System

Citizens Band

Chrominance, equivalent to U,(-Y) and V, (R-Y)

Connectionless Broadband data Service

Constant Bit Rate

Control Bus Telephony Extension

Central Battery Working

Closed Caption

Circuit Card Assembly

Computer Control Center

Charge Coupled Device

Center Common d'Etudes de Telediffusion et Telecommunications

Custom Calling Features

Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

Comite Consultatif International des Radio Communications (France)

Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephone

Companding Conversion Module

Configuration and Control Network

Compression Control System, Computer Control System

Communications Channel Signalling System

Closed Circuit Television

Camera Control Unit

Carrier Detect; Compact Disc

Compact-Disc Interactive (Phillips)

Copper Distributed Data Interface

Code Division Multiplex

Code Division Multiple Access (Qualcomm)

Cellular Digital Packet Data

Common Data Rate

Cell Delay Variation

Consumer Electronics Bus

Consumer Electronics Control

Commission Electronique International

Code Excited Linear Predictive Coding

Comite Europeen de Nornalisation

Comite Europeen de Nornalisation Electrotechnique

Conference European des Administrations des Postes et Telecommunications

Cell Error Rate

Controlled Environmental Vault

Coherent Frequency Shift Keying

Cable Headend

Challenge handshae Authentication Protocol

Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System

Craft Interface, Control Information

Carrier Identification Code; Cable In Conduit

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Commission International de L'Eclairage

Common Intermediate Format: Common Image Format

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Committed Information Rate

Cross-Interleaved Reed-solomon Code.

Complex Instruction Set Computer

Common Image Structure Data Rate

Comite International des Perturbations Radiotechniques

Customer Interface Unit

Category Key

Custom Local Area Signaling Services

Cumulative Leakage Index

Calling Line Identification

ConnectionLess Network Protocol

ConnectionLess Network Service

Cell Loss Priority

Cell Loss Ratio

Colour Look Up Table

Controller/Multiplexer; Cable Modem

Control Module Idle

Common Management Information Protocol

Common-Mode Rejection Ratio

Cable Modem Termination System

French National Center for Scientific Research

C/N, Carrier to Noise Ratio

Central Office

Chip On Board

Common Business Oriented Language

Code/Decode

Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

Communications Satellite Corporation

Central Office-based Local Area Network

Common Request Object Broker Architecture

Corporation for Open Systems

Control Of Substances hazardous to Health

Cooperation on Science and Technology

Customer Originated Trace

Common path Distortion