Appendix A
Abbreviations and Acronyms
A
ACO ..................................................... Alarm Cutoff
ACT...................................................... Active
AID ...................................................... Access Identifier
AIS ....................................................... Alarm Indication Signal
ALM ..................................................... Alarm
AMI ...................................................... Alternate Mark Inversion
amp ..................................................... amphenol
ANSI..................................................... American National Standards Institute
ASYNC ................................................. Asynchronous
AUX ..................................................... Auxiliary
AWG..................................................... Average Wire Gauge
B
BERT ................................................... Bit Error Rate Testing
bps....................................................... bits per second
C
CAIS..................................................... Carrier Side Alarm Indication Signal
CCV ..................................................... C-bit Coding Violation
CD ....................................................... Carrier Detect
CES...................................................... C-bit Errored Seconds
CO ....................................................... Central Office
CRC ..................................................... Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS........................................................ Clear-to-Send
CSU ..................................................... Channel Service Unit
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