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Satcos - Service Providing Satellite Companies
SBCA - Satellite Broadcasters Association - national trade organization
representing the satellite industry. www.sbca.org
SCMS - Serial Copyright Management System - a system that prevents
unlimited digital copying of CD's and other prerecorded media.
SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - the European counterpart to
SONET (SONET defined below)
SDMI - Secure Digital Music Initiative - an intiative from the recording
industry proposing to make music available for download from the
Internet
SET - Secure Electronic Transactions - Mastercard and Visa security
standard that makes use of technology from Netscape's SSL, Microsoft's
STT, and Terisa Systems' S-HTTP
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc. - company that provides hard/software.
www.sgi.com
SIG - Special Interest Group
SIM - Subscriber Identity Module - synonymous with smart card
SIMD - Single Instruction-stream Multiple data-stream - one model
of parallel computation
6DOF - Six Degrees of Freedom - The amount of motion supported in
a robotics or virtual reality system. Six degrees provides x, y
and z (horizontal, vertical and depth) and pitch, yaw and roll.
SMEs - Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMP - Symmetric Multiprocessing - computer architecture that provides
fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete processes
simultaneously
SMS - Short Message Service - the electronic messages on a wireless
network, such as those used in a two-way paging system
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - protocol used to send/receive
mail over the Internet
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol - protocol used for managing
SNMP-compliant network devices, such as hubs and routers
SOC - System-On-a-Chip
SONET - Synchronous Optical NETwork - a fiber-optic transmission
system for high-speed digital traffic. SONET is an intelligent system
that provides advanced network management and a standard optical
interface, it uses a self healing ring architecture that is able
to reroute traffic is a line goes down. Speeds range from 51 Mbps
to several gigabits per second.
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory - memory that is faster/more
reliable than DRAM (dynamic RAM) - it is called static because it
does not need to be refreshed like DRAM
SS7 - Signaling System 7 - an international high-speed backbone
for the public-switched telephone network
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer - a protocol developed by Netscape for
transmitting private documents via the Internet. It works by using
a private key to encrypt data that's tranferred over the SSL connection.
STB - Set-Top Box - cable TV box that sits on top of the TV set.
A variety of new set-top boxes are emerging for Internet TV and
other interactive services
SURA - Southern University Research Association - consortium of
46 universities that serves as an entity through which colleges,
universities and other organizations can cooperate with one another
and with the government in acquiring, developing and using laboratories,
machines, and other research facilities to further knowledge in
the physical, biological and other natural sciences and engineering.
www.sura.org
SWAP - Shared Wireless Access Protocol - a standard developed by
the HomeRF group for wireless home networking - a wireless local-area
network that supports data as well as voice by adopting part of
the European standard for the cordless phone, DECT
More to come!
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