Acronym |
Description |
|
B channel |
Bearer channel (circuit-switched channel of 64 kbps
for either voice or data) |
|
B/I |
Burn
In (MFG) |
|
b1 |
bit 1 |
|
B8ZS |
Binary with Eight Zero Suppression |
|
B8ZS |
Bipolar 8 Zero Substitution (or Bipolar with 8-Zero
Substitution) |
|
BA |
Basic Agreement |
|
BA |
Business
Area (IS) |
|
BAA |
Business
Area Analysis (IS) |
|
BAC |
Billing Account Code |
|
BAFO |
Best and Final Offer |
|
balun |
Balanced to Unbalanced |
|
BAS |
Basic System |
|
BASIC |
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
|
BB |
Billing
Block |
|
BBER |
Background Bit Error Ratio |
|
BBF |
Blue
Box Fraud |
|
Bc |
Committed Burst Size |
|
BCC |
Block Check Character |
|
BCD |
Binary Coded Decimal |
|
BCDR |
Billing
Call Detail Record |
|
BCI |
Bit-Count Integrity |
|
BCON |
Battery Connect |
|
BCPL |
Basic Combined Programming Language |
|
BCR |
Budget
Comparison Report |
|
BCS |
Batch
Change Supplement |
|
BCS |
Batch Change Supplement (Northern Telecom Inc.) |
|
BCS |
British Computer Society |
|
BCS |
Bulk
Change Supplement |
|
BCS |
Bulk Change Supplement (AT&T) |
|
BCS |
Business Communications System |
|
BCSA |
Business Communications System Architecture |
|
BCT |
Business Communications Terminal |
|
BDAM |
Basic Direct Access Method |
|
BDLC |
Burroughs Data Link Control |
|
BDM |
Badger
Meter |
|
BDP |
Business Data Processing |
|
BDS |
Bill
Delivery Systems |
|
BDT |
Billing Data Transmitter |
|
BE |
Board Enable |
|
Be |
Excess Burst Size |
|
BEA |
Bureau of Economic Analysis (Dept. of Commerce) |
|
BEARS |
Batch
Error Analysis Resolution System |
|
BECN |
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification |
|
BEL |
10 decibels/transmission units giving the ratio of
two powers |
|
Bellcore |
Bell Communications Research |
|
BERT |
Bit Error Rate Test(ing) |
|
BEST |
Building
Excellence in Supervisory Training |
|
BEST |
Building
Excellence in Supervisory Training |
|
BEX |
Broadband Exchange |
|
BFRP |
Business
Function Recovery Plan |
|
BFs |
Signaling framing bit sequence |
|
BFt |
Framing bit sequence |
|
BH |
Busy Hour |
|
BHCA |
Busy Hour Call Attempts |
|
BHCA |
Busy
Hour Call Attempts |
|
BIA |
Business
Impact Analysis |
|
BIAC |
Broadband
Integrated Access Controller |
|
BIC |
Building Industry Consultant |
|
BIC |
Bus Interface Controller |
|
BICT |
Business
Improvement Core Team |
|
BIG |
Billing
Improvement Group (IPS) |
|
BILLNUM |
Billing
Number Field in the CDR |
|
BINAC |
Binary Northrop Automatic Computer |
|
BIP |
Bit Interleaved Parity |
|
BIP |
Built
In Place |
|
BIS |
Business Information Systems |
|
BISAM |
Basic Indexed Sequential Access Method |
|
B-ISDN |
Broadband ISDN |
|
Bisync |
Binary synchronous (character-oriented protocol) |
|
Bit |
Binary digit |
|
BITS |
Billable
Traffic Study |
|
BIU |
Bus Interface Unit |
|
BLDN |
Blank Directory Number |
|
BLERT |
Block Error Rate Testing |
|
BLF |
Busy Lamp Field |
|
B-link |
The wired connection between the stage 1 switch in
a Line Switch frame and the stage 0 switch in a Line Junctor Switch
frame; the wired connection between the stage 1 switch in a Trunk Switch
frame and the stage 0 switch in a Trunk Junctor Switch frame. |
|
B-MAN |
Broadband Metropolitan Area
Network |
|
BMC |
Billing Media Converter |
|
BMD |
Biomedical (computer programs) |
|
BMDP |
Biomedical (computer programs-P series) |
|
BMG |
Business Marketing Group |
|
BMG |
Business
Marketing Group (S) |
|
BMIS |
Business Maintenance and Installation Services |
|
BMT |
Basic Modular Telephone |
|
BMU |
Bus Multiplexing Unit |
|
BN2 |
Broadband Network 2000 |
|
BNF |
Backus-Naur Form |
|
BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
BNR |
Bell-Northern Research |
|
BNS |
Basic
Network Services |
|
BNS |
Billed Number Screening |
|
BOA |
Basic Ordering Agreement |
|
BOC(s) |
Bell Operating Company (ies) |
|
BOCC |
Building Operation Control Center |
|
BOD |
Building
Occupancy Date |
|
BOLD |
Bit Oriented Link Discipline (NCR) |
|
BOM |
Bill
of Material (MFG) |
|
BOM |
Bill of Materials |
|
BOR |
Basic Output Report |
|
BOSS |
Billing and Order Support System |
|
BP |
Bipolar |
|
BPAD |
Bisynchronous Packet Assembler/Disassembler |
|
bpi |
bits per inch |
|
BPR |
Billing
Problem Referral |
|
bps |
bits per second |
|
BPS |
Bits
Per Second |
|
BPSS |
Basic Packet Switching |
|
BPV |
Bipolar Violation |
|
BRC |
Bus
Repeater Card |
|
BRCS |
Business and Residence Customer Services |
|
BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
|
BRITE |
Basic Rate Interface Transmission Extension |
|
BROOT |
Backup ROOT (UNIX file system) |
|
BS |
Banded Signaling |
|
BS |
Billing
Server |
|
BSA |
Basic Serving Arrangement |
|
BSA |
Bulk
Services Agreement |
|
BSA |
Business
Systems Architecture (IS) |
|
BSAM |
Basic Sequential Access Method |
|
BSC |
Billing
Server Client |
|
BSC |
Binary Synchronous Communication |
|
BSC |
Broadband Services Center *** |
|
BSC |
Business Service Center |
|
BSC/SO |
Business Service Center/Service Order |
|
BSD |
Business
Systems Development (IS) |
|
BSE |
Basic Service Element |
|
BSG |
Business
Services Group (S) |
|
BSP |
Bell System Practice |
|
BSP |
Burroughs Scientific Processor |
|
BSRF |
Basic Synchronization Reference Frequency |
|
BSRF |
Bell System Reference Frequency |
|
BSRS |
Bell System Repair Specification |
|
B-Tables |
Billing
Rate Tables |
|
BTAM |
Basic Telecommunications Access Method |
|
BTBA |
Battery
Termination Bus Assembly |
|
BTN |
Bell
Telephone Number |
|
BTN |
Billing
Telephone Number |
|
BTSR |
Bootstrapper |
|
BVC |
Billing Validation Center |
|
BWM |
Broadcast Warning Message |
|
BX.25 |
AT&T version of X.25 |