COMUNICATII PRIN SATELIT - ABREVIERI

ACM – Adaptive Coding and Modulation

ACS - Attitude Control System

ADPCM – Addaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

APSK – Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying

ATC - Ancillary Terrestrial Component

ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BB – BaseBand

BEM – Bandwidth Efficient Modulation

BER – Bit-Error Ratio

BPF – Band-Pass Filter

BR – Bit Ratio

BSS – Broadcast Satellite Services

C/N - Carrier to Noise Ratio

CATV – Community Antenna Television

CDMA – Code Division Multiple Acces

CDMA – Code Division Multiple Acces.

CDN – Content Distribution Networks

CP – Circular Polarization

DBS - Direct Broadcast Satellite

DES - Digital Encryption Standard

DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

DSP – Digital Signal Processing

DSSS - Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DTH – TV – Direct to Home Television

DVB-S - Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite

EHF – Extremely High Frequency

EIRP - Effective Isotropic Radiated Power

ELF – Extremely Low Frequency

ES – Earth Station

ESA - European Space Agency

FDM – Frequency Division Multiplexing

FDMA – Frequency Division Multiple Acces

FDMA – Frequency Division Multiple Acces

FEC – Forward Error Correction

FFT – Fast Fourier Transform

FHSS - Frequency Hoping Spread Spectrum

FSK – Frequency Shift Keying

FSS – Fixed Satellite Services

G/T – Gain to Noise Temperature Ratio

GaAsFET – GaAs Field Effect Transistor

GEO – Geostationary Earth Orbit

GPS – Global Positioning Satellite

HD – High Definition

HEO – Highly Elyptical Orbit

HF – High Frequency

HPA – High Power Amplifier

IF – Intermediate Frequency

IMUX – Input Multiplexer

INTELSAT - International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium.

IRD – Integrated Receiver Decoder.

ISI – Inter-Symbol Interference

ISS – International Space Station

ITU - International Telecommunication Union

KPA – Klystron Power Amplifier

LCP – Left-Hand Circular Polarization

LEO – Low Earth Orbit

LF - Low Frequency

LIM - Line Interface Moduls

LNA – Low Noise Amplifier

LNB - Low-noise Block Converter

LO – Local Oscillator

LOS – Line of Sight

LP – Linear Polarization

LPF – Low-Pass Filter

MCPC – Multiple Channels per Carrier

MEO - Medium Earth Orbit

MF – Medium Frequency

MSS – Mobile Satellite Services

NASA – North-American Space Agency

NFC – Near Field Communication

NOC - Network Operating Center

OMUX - Output Multiplexer

OQPSK - Offset QPSK

OSI - Open Systems Interconnection

PCM – Pulse Code Modulation

PDH – Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy

PN - Pseudo-random Noise

POS – Point of Sale

PPW – Pay-Per-View

PSK – Phase Shift Keying

PSTN – Public Switch Telephone Network

QAM – Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QPSK – Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying

RCP – Right-Hand Circular Polarization

RF - Radio Frequency

RFI – Radio-Frequency Interference

RF-IMD – Radio-Frequency Inter-Modulation Distorsion

RR – Radio Relay

SCC - Satellite Control Center

SCPC – Single Channel per Carrier

SD – Standard Definition

S-DARS - Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service

SDH – Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SHF – Super High Frequency

SNG - Satellite News Gathering

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SONET - Sinchronous Optical NETwork

SS/TDMA – Spread Spectrum TDMA

SSPA – Solid State Power Amplifier

TDM – Time Division Multiplexing

TDMA – Time Division Multiple Acces

TDMA – Time Division Multiple Acces

TDRS - Tracking and data relay satellite

TRANSPONDER – TRANSmitter - resPONDER

TT&C - Tracking, Telemetry & Command

TVRO - Receive Only

TWTA – Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier

UHF – Ultra High Frequency

UPC - Uplink power control

USAT - Ultrasmall aperture terminal

UT – User Terminal

VHF – Very High Frequency

VLF – Very Low Frequency

VoIP - Voice over IP

VoIP – Voice over IP

VSAT - Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSWR – Voltage Standing Wave Ratio

WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy

WRC - World Radiocommunication Conference