| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| TIA |
Telecommunications Industry Association |
| EIA |
Electronic Industries Alliance |
| ICEA |
Insulated Cable Engineers Association |
| IEC |
International Electro Technical Commission |
| IEE |
Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK) |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA) |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization |
| ITU |
International Telecommunications Union |
| EN, CEN |
European Committee for Standardization |
| FOA |
Fiber Optic Association |
| FIA |
Fibre Optic Industry Association
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| ABF |
Air Blown Fibre |
| APC |
Angled Physical Contact |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BER |
Bit Error Rate |
| CATV |
Community Antenna Television (cable TV) |
| CCI |
Core Cladding Interface |
| COA |
Centralized Optical Architecture |
| CPD |
Construction Products Directive |
| CWDM |
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| DFB |
Distributed Feedback (laser) |
| DMD |
Differential Modal Delay |
| DSF |
Dispersion Shifted Fibre |
| DWDM |
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| dB |
decibel |
| EDFA |
Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier |
| EF |
Encircled Flux |
| EMB |
Effective Modal Bandwidth |
| EMC |
Electro Magnetic Compatibility |
| EMI |
Electro Magnetic Immunity (or sometimes ‘EM Interference’) |
| ESD |
Electro Static Discharge |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FDDI |
Fibre Distributed Data Interface |
| FP |
Fabry Perot (laser) |
| FDM |
Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| FOCIS |
Fiber Optic Connector Intermateability Standard |
| GHz |
Gigahertz |
| GI |
Graded Index |
| GPa |
Giga Pascal |
| HCS |
Hard Clad Silica |
| HPPI |
High Performance Parallel Interface |
| ICEA |
Insulated Cable Engineers Association |
| IVD |
Inside Vapour Deposition |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LEAF |
Large Effective Area Fiber |
| LED |
Light Emitting Diode |
| LFH |
Low Fire Hazard |
| LSZH |
Low Smoke Zero Halogen |
| MAN |
Metropolitan Area Network |
| Mb/s |
Megabits per second |
| MCVD |
Modified Chemical Vapour Deposition |
| MEMS |
Micro Eectro Mechanical Systems |
| MHz |
Megahertz |
| NA |
Numerical Aperture |
| nm |
Nanometres |
| NEC |
National Electrical Code (USA) |
| NEMA |
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (USA) |
| NRZ |
Non-Return to Zero |
| NTT |
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph |
| NZDS |
Non Zero Dispersion Shifted (fiber) |
| OFL |
Overfilled Launch |
| OVD |
Outside Vapour Deposition |
| PAM |
Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
| PC |
Physical Contact |
| PCOF |
Primary Coated Optical Fiber |
| PCS |
Plastic Clad Silica |
| PCVD |
Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition |
| PMD |
Polarization Mode Dispersion |
| PMMA |
Poly Methyl Methcrylate |
| POF |
Plastic Optical Fiber |
| PTFE |
Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene |
| PTT |
Public Telephone and Telegraph (operator) |
| PVC |
Poly Vinyl Chloride |
| OCDMA |
Optical Code Division Multiple Access |
| RML |
Restricted Mode Launch |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network |
| SC |
Subscriber Connector |
| SCOF |
Secondary Coated Optical Fiber |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface |
| SFF |
Small Form Factor (optical connectors) |
| SMA |
Sub Miniature Assembly |
| SMF |
Single Mode Fiber |
| SNR |
Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SoHo |
Small Office Home Office |
| SONET |
Synchronous Optical Network |
| SROFC |
Single Ruggedized Optical Fiber Cable |
| TDM |
Time Division Multiplexing |
| TIA |
Telecommunications Industry Association |
| TIR |
Total Internal Reflection |
| TO |
Telecommunications Outlet |
| TSB |
Telecommunications Systems Bulletin |
| UL |
Underwriters Laboratory |
| VAD |
Vapour Axial Deposition |
| VCSEL |
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WDM |
Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| WWDM |
Wide Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
