A continuación os proponemos un glosario de terminos sobre comunicaciones que creemos que os puede resultar de interés, sobre todo a la hora de entrar en conversaciones, en temas de comunicaciones, ADSL, SDSL, IDSL, ISDN, HDSL, etc.

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ADSL – Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line
ANSI – American National Standards Institute
ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATU-C – ADSL Termination Unit – Central Office
ATU-R – ADSL Termination Unit – Remote
AWG – American Wire Gauge
BERT – Bit Error Rate Test
bps – Bits Per Second
BRI – Basic Rate Interface
CAP – Carrierless Amplitude and Phase
CATV – Cable TV
CBR – Constant Bit Rate
CCITT – Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone
CLEC – Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CO – Central Office
CODEC – Coder/Decoder
CPE – Customer Premise (or Provided) Equipment
CSU – Channel Service Unit
DCE – Data Communication (or Circuit-Terminating) Equipment
DLC – Digital Loop Carrier
DMT – Discrete Multi-tone
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM – Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSP – Digital Signal Processor
DSU – Data Service Unit
DTE – Data Terminal (or Termination) Equipment
EMI – Electromagnetic Induction
ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FCC – Federal Communications Commission
FDM – Frequency Division Multiplexing
FEXT – Far-end cross-talk
FTTC – Fiber To The Curb
FTTH – Fiber To The Home
HDSL – High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HFC – Hybrid Fiber-Coax
IEC – Inter-Exchange Carrier
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force
ILEC – Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
IP – Internet Protocol
ISDL – ISDN Digital Subscriber Line
ISDN – Intergrated Services Digital Network
ISO – International Organization for Standards
ISP – Internet Service Provider
ITU – International Telecommunications Union
IXC – Inter-exchange Carrier
Kbps – Kilobits Per Second
LADC – Local Area Data Circuit
LADS – Local Area Data Service
LAN – Local Area Network
LATA – Local Access and Transport Area
LEC – Local Exchange Carrier
Mbps – Megabits Per Second
MDF – Main Distribution Frame
MUX – Multiplexer
MVL – Multiple Virtual Line
NAP – Network Access Provider
NEBS – Network Equipment Building Standards
NEXT – Near-end Crosstalk
NIC – Network Interface Card
NID – Network Interface Device
PBX – Public Branch Exchange
PCM – Pulse Code Modulation
POP – Point of Presence
POTS – Plain Old Telephone Service
PPP – Point to Point Protocol
PRI – Primary Rate Interface
PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network
PTT – Postal, Telegraph and Telephone
PVC – Permanant Virtual Circuit
QAM – Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS – Quality of Service
RADSL – Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
RBOC – Regional Bell Operating Company
SDSL – Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SNR – Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SOHO – Small Office/Home Office
SVC – Switched Virtual Circuit
TCP – Transport Control Protocol
TELCO – Telephone Company
TDM – Time Division Multiplexing
UBR – Unspecified Bit Rate
UDSL – Unidirectional Digital Subscriber Line
UTP – Unshielded Twisted Pair
VBR – Variable Bit Rate
VDSL – Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN – Virtual Private Network
WAN – Wide Area Network
xDSL – (generic) Digital Subscriber Line