Data Industry Acronyms

ACA - Australian Communications Authority

ACIF - Australian Communications Industry Forum

ACR - Attenuation / Cross Talk Ratio

ACMA - Australian Communications and Media Authority

ADSL - Asymmetric digital subscriber line

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

AGC - Automatic Gain Control

AS - Australian Standard

A/V - Audio Visual

BAN - Base Area Network

BD – Building Distributor

bPS – Bits Per Second

CAT.6A - Category 6A (Class E)

CCTV - Closed Circuit Television

CD – Campus Distributor

CPR - Cable Provider Rules

dB – Decibel

DC - Direct Current

DNS - Domain Name System

DSLAM - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSL – Digital Subscriber Line

EIA - Electronic Industries Association

FD – Floor Distributor

FDP – Final Distribution Point

FEXT - Far End Cross Talk

FOBOT - Fibre Optic Break Out Tray

FSTP – Foil Shielded Twisted Pair

FTTH – Fibre To The Home

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language

LAN - Local Area Network

LTE – Long Term Evolution

IDC - Insulation Displacement Contact

IDF - Intermediate Distribution Frame

IP - Internet Protocol

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

MATV - Master Antenna Television

MDF – Main Distribution Frame

MCC - Main Cross Connect

MMOF - Multi Mode Optical fibre

MUTO - Multiple User Telecommunications Outlet

NEXT - Near End Cross Talk

NBN - National Broadband Network

NTD – Network Termination Device

PABX - Private Automatic Branch eXchange

POE – Power Over Ethernet

PSACR - Power Sum Attenuation / Cross Talk Ratio

PSNEXT - Power Sum Near End Cross Talk

PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network

RF - Radio Frequency

RU - Rack Unit

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SRL - Structural Return Loss

STP – Shielded Twisted Pair

TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association

TPF – Test Point Frame

UHF - Ultra High Frequency

UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair

VHF - Very High Frequency

VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol

WAN - Wide Area Network

WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network – (WI-FI)

WPA - Wireless Protected Access

2G - Second-generation mobile telephone system

3G - Third-generation mobile telephone system

4G - Fouth-generation mobile telephone system