Acronym  's
C or CL
or CP
CAD - Computer Aided Design - Using computers
to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop
computers with CAD software
CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate -
the year over year growth rate applied to an investment or other
aspect of a firm using a base amount
CAP - Competitive Access Provider - organization
that competes with the established telecommunications provider in
an area
CATV - Community Antenna Television -
The original name for cable TV, which used a single antenna at the
highest location in the community
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
- one of three wireless telephone transmission technologies. It
is a radio multiple access system which uses spread spectrum technology.
The system transmits digitized data by assigning a code to each
signal on a per-call basis. The signals are then spread over a wide
frequency band of several MHz
cdma2000 - 3G technology that increases
data transmission rates for existing CDMA (cdmaOne) network operators.
cdma2000 Phase 1 provides 144 Kbps of data integrated with voice
and is known by several names: IS-2000, MC-1X, IMT-CDMA MultiCarrier
1X and 1XRTT. Phase 2 increases the data rate to 2 Mbps and is based
on QUALCOMM's HDR technology. 1XEv-Data Voice (DV) integrates voice
and data. 1XEv-Data Only, which is sometimes called Phase 1+, provides
2 Mbps for data only
cdmaOne - Also known as IS-95, the CDMA
standard for digital cellular in the U.S. that operates in the 800MHz
band and the 1.9GHz PCS band
CDN - Content Delivery Network - system
of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet
in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout
the network. When content is replicated throughout the country,
or throughout the world, users have quicker access to it than if
it resides on one Web site
CDPD - Cellular Digital Packet Data -
a packet data protocol standard for sending wireless data
CEBus - Consumer Electronic Bus - An
EIA standard for a control network for the home using a variety
of media, including AC power lines, telephone wire, coaxial cable
or wireless. CEBus uses the Common Application Language (CAL) to
communicate commands over the lines, and the Home Plug & Play specification
provides a uniform implementation for using CAL with household objects.
The CEbus Industry Council (CIC) supports this effort, and information
can be obtained at www.cebus.org.
CEMA - Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
Association
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CFML - ColdFusion Markup Language - An
extension of HTML that provides a set of tags for dynamically including
data from databases within a set of Web pages without extensive
programming
CGI - Common Gateway Interface - A standard
way for Web servers to pass a Web user's request to an application
program and to receive data back to forward to the user
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computers
- processors that can handle numerous instructions
CLECs - Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
- an organization offering local telephone services. Most fall into
the telecommunications service organization category, but this could
also apply to any company, university or city government that supplies
its own dial tone capabilities. Examples are Rythms, Covad and Qwest.
CMOS - Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
- a type of integrated circuit for digital processors and memories.
CMOS uses PMOS (Positive channel MOS)and NMOS (N-channel MOS) transistors
wired together to in a way that uses less power than PMOS-only or
NMOS-only circuits.
CMRS - Commercial Mobile Radio Service
- an FCC designation for any carrier or licensee whose wireless
network is connected to the public switched telephone network and/or
is operated for profit.
COCC - Constellation Operations Control
Center
COFDM - Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing - The Eureka 147 DAB specification consists of multiple
carriers assembled using a COFDM within a 1.536 MHz channel bandwidth
.com - indicates that a company (nike.com)
is a commercial organization on the Internet
CO - Central Office - local telephone
company switching center
COM - Component Object Model - Microsoft's
framework for developing and supporting program component objects.
Aimed at providing similar capabilities to those defined in CORBA,
the framework for interoperation of distributed objects in a network.
COM provides the underlying services of interface negotation, life
cycle management, licensing and event services
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker
Architecture - enables pieces of programs, called objects, to communication
with eachother regardless of what programming language they were
written in or what operating system they are running on
CPE - Customer Premise Equipment - Communications
equipment that resides on the customer's premises
CPNI - Customer Proprietary Network Information
- the carrier's data about a specific customer's service and usage.
The FCC restricts CPNI usage in some marketing cases
CPS - Cable Programming Service
CPU - Central Processing Unit - brains
of the computer - the processor where most of the calculations take
place
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube - technology used
in most TVs and computer display screens - works by moving an electron
beam back/forth across the back of a screen, which lights up phosphor
dots on the inside of the glass tube - illuminating the active portions
of the screen
CTC - Competitive Telecommunications
Carrier
CTIA - Cellular Telecommunications Industry
Association - a trade group that represents cellular, PCS, and enhanced
specialized mobile radio carriers. www.wow-com.com
CU - Control Unit
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