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WiMAX -Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Systems

ACI - Adjacent Channel Interference

ACU - Air Cooling Unit

ARQ - Automatic Repeat reQuest

ASK - Amplitude-Shift Keying

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATPC - Automatic Transmit Power Control

AU - Access Unit

BE - Best effort

BFSK - Binary Frequency-Shift Keying

BS - Base Station

BWA - Broadband Wireless Access

CB - Committed Burst

CBR - Constant Bit Rate

CG - Continuous Grant

CID - Connection ID

cPCI - Compact Peripheral Component Interface

CPE - Customer Premise Equipment

CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CT - Committed Time

DES - Data Encryption Standard

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DL - Down Link

DOCSIS - Data Over cable Service Interface Specification

DSCP - Differentiated Service Code Point

EB - Excess Burst

ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FEC - Forward Error Correction

FFT - Fast Fourier Transform

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

GPC - Grant Per Connection

GPS - Global Positioning System

IB - In Band

IDU - Indoor Unit

IF - Intermediate Frequency

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IP - Internet Protocol

IPSec - IP Security protocol

KEK - Key Encryption Key

LAN - Local Area Network

MAC - Media Access Control

MAN - Metropolitan Area Network

MDU - Multi Dwelling Unit

MIB - Management Information Base

MTU - Multi Tennant Unit

MUX - MUltipleXer

NAT - Network Address Translation

NIU - Network Interface Unit

NOC - Network Operations Center

NPU - Network Processing Unit

NRTPS - Non-Real-Time Polling Service

NRT-VBR - Non-Real-Time Variable-Bit-Rate

OA&M - Operations, Administration & Maintenance

ODU - Outdoor Unit

OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OFDMA - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

OOB - Out Of Band

OSS - Operations Support Systems

PBX - Private Brunch eXchange

PER - Packet Error Rate

PHY - PHYsical layer

PICMG PCI - Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group

PIU - Power Interface Unit

POTS - Plain Old Telephone System

PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network

PSU - Power Supply Unit

PtMP - Point to Multi Point

QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QPSK - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

RC4 - Rivest Cipher # 4

REN - Ringer Equivalency Number

RLC - Radio Link Control

Rx - Receive

RFU Radio Frequency Unit

RT-VBR Non-Real-time Variable-Bit-Rate

RTPS - Non-Real-Time Polling Service

SAP - Service Access Point

SLA - Service Level Agreement

SME - Small Medium enterprise

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SOHO - Small Office Home office

SU - Subscriber Unit

TDM - Time Division Multiplexing

T E K - Traffic Encryption Key

TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol

ToS - Type of Service

Tx - Transmit

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

UGS - Unsolicited Grant Service

UL - Up Link

VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration

VPL - Virtual Private Link

VPN - Virtual Private Network

VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol

 

 
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