Telecommunications abbreviations and acronyms

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10 GbE
10 Gigabit Ethernet

10 GFC
10 Gigabit Fibre Channel

1000BaseT
1000 Megabits per Second, twisted-pair cable version of an IEEE 802.3 network

100BaseT
100 Megabits per Second, twisted-pair cable version of an IEEE 802.3 network

100g
100 Gigabits

10G-EPON
10 Gbits Ethernet Passive Optical Network

3G
Third-Generation wireless

4G
Fourth-Generation wireless

ADM
Add/drop multiplexing

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

APC
Angled physical contact

APD
Avalanche Photodiode

ASOF
Application specific optical fiber

ATM
Asynchronous transfer mode

AWG
Arrayed waveguide gratings

BER
Bit error rate

BERT
Bit error rate tester

CATV
Community antenna television

CD
Chromatic dispersion

CFP
100G Form-Factor Pluggables

CLEC
Competitive local exchange carrier

CSFP
Compact Small Form-Factor Pluggable

CVR
Converter Module

CWDM
Coarse wavelength division multiplexing

dB
Decibel

dBm
Decibels relative to one milliwatt

DCF
Dispersion-compensating fiber

DFB
Distributed feedback

DGD
Differential group delay

DMD
Differential mode delay

DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

DPOE
Docsis Provisioning Over Ethernet

DSF
Dispersion-shifted fiber

DUT
Device Under Test

DWDM
Dense wavelength division multiplexing

EDFA
Erbium-doped fiber amplifier

EIA
Electronic Industries Alliance

EPON
Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

ER
Extinction Ratio

FBG
Fiber Bragg grating

FBT
Fused biconical taper

FEC
Forward Error Correction

FDDI
Fiber distributed data interface

FOTP
Fiber optic test procedure

FOTS
Fiber optic transmission system

FP
Fabry-Perot laser

FSWDM
Full spectrum wavelength division multiplexing

FTTB
Fiber to the business or building

FTTC
Fiber to the curb or customer

FTTD
Fiber to the desk

FTTH
Fiber to the home

FTTN
Fiber to the neighborhood

FTTO
Fiber to the office

FTTP
Fiber to the pedestal or pedestal

FTTx
Fiber to the user

FWM
Four wave mixing

GFF
Gain flattening filter

GHz
Gigahertz

GEPON
Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network

GPON
Gigabit Passive Optical Network

GR
General recommendation

GRIN
Graded index

HDCM
High dispersion compensating module

HFC
Hybrid Fiber Coax

IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IP
Internet protocol

ISO
International Standards Organization

ITU
International Telecommunications Union

IXC
Integra Cross Connect

LAN
Local area network

LASER
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation

LED
Light-emitting diode

LGX
Light Guide Cross Connect

LOC
Latched optical coupling

LWP
Low water peak

MCPC
Mode-conditioning patchcord

MEMS
Microelectromechanical systems

MFD
Mode field diameter

MMF
Multimode fiber

MPO
Mult

MSA
Multi Source Agreement

NA
Numerical aperture

NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology

NM
NanoMeter

NZDS
Nonzero dispersion shifted fiber

OADM
Optical add/drop multiplexer

OAM&P
Operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning

OEO
Optical electrical optical

OFL
Overfilled launch

OFSTP
Optical fiber system test procedures

OI
Optical isolator

OLT
Optical line terminal

OM2/3/4
Optical Multimode

ONT
Optical network terminal

ONU
Optical network unit

OSA
Optical spectrum analyzer, optical sub-assembly or Optical Society of America.

OSNR
Optical Signal to Noise Ratio

OTDM
Optical time division multiplexing

OTDR
Optical time domain reflectometer

OTN
Optical transport network

PDL
Polarization dependent loss

PIN
Positive intrinsic negative

PING
Packet InterNet Grouper

PLC
Planar lightwave circuit

PMD
Polarization mode dispersion

PON
Passive optical network

PRBS
Pseudo Random Binary Sequence

QSFP+
Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable

RIN
Relative intensity noise

RML
Restricted mode launch

ROADM
Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer

RoHS
Restriction of Hazardous Substances

SAN
Storage area network

SDH
Synchronous digital hierarchy

SFF
Small Form Factor

SFP
Small Form-Factor Pluggable

SMF
Singlemode fiber

SNR
Signal-to-noise ratio

SONET
Synchronous optical network

SWDM
Selective wavelength division multiplexing

THz
Terra Hertz

TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association

TXM
1000baseT Cross-Connect Multirate

UPC
Ultra physical contact

VCSEL
Vertical cavity surface emitting laser

VOA
Variable optical attenuator

VP
Virtual path

WAN
Wide area network

WDM
Wavelength division multiplexing

WSS
Wavelength selectable switch

XPM
Cross-phase modulation

ZWP
Zero water peak