Acronym |
Description |
|
C&I |
Construction
& Installation |
|
C&P |
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (ies) |
|
C&R |
Code and Routing |
|
C.mmp |
Carnegie Multi-Mini Processor |
|
C2 |
Command and Control |
|
C3 |
Communications Control Center (Suntel Computer) |
|
C3I |
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence |
|
CA |
Cabling Assignments |
|
CA |
Collision Avoidance |
|
CAC |
Calling-card
Authorization Computer |
|
CACM |
Communications of the Association for Computing
Machinery |
|
CACS |
Centralized Alarm Control System |
|
CACS |
Computer
Assisted Collection System |
|
CACS |
Customer Account Collection System |
|
CACS |
Customer Administration Center System |
|
CAD |
Calling
Area Database |
|
CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
|
CADS |
Code
Abuse Detection System (also known as ACD) |
|
CAE |
Cable
Acceptance Engineer |
|
CAE |
Computer-Aided Education |
|
CAE |
Computer-Aided Engineering |
|
CAI |
Computer-Assisted Instruction (also Computer-Aided
Instruction) |
|
CAL |
Computer-Aided Learning |
|
CALC |
Customer Access Line Charges |
|
CALRS |
Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System |
|
CAM |
Computer-Aided Manufacturing |
|
CAMA |
Centralized Automatic Message Accounting |
|
CAMP |
Control
Administration and Maintenance Position |
|
CAMS |
Customer
Account Maintenance System |
|
CAN |
Cancel Character |
|
CAN |
Computer Architecture News |
|
CanF |
Cancel From |
|
CANN |
Customer Announcement |
|
CanT |
Cancel To |
|
CAP |
Competive Access Provider |
|
CAP |
Customer Administration Panel |
|
CAPS |
Code
Abuse Prevention System |
|
CAR |
Computer Access Restriction |
|
CARE |
Computer-Aided Reliability Estimation |
|
CARE |
Customer
Account Reconciliation |
|
CAROT |
Centralized Automatic Reporting On Trunks |
|
CARS |
Community Antenna Relay Service |
|
CARTS |
Corporate
Access Rates and Tariff System |
|
CAS |
Centralized Attendant Service |
|
CAS |
Commission
Accounting System |
|
CAS |
Craft Access System |
|
CAS |
Customer Administration System |
|
CASE |
Computer-Assisted Software Engineering |
|
CAT |
Call
Area Tables |
|
CAT |
Centrex Access Treatment |
|
CAT |
Computer-Assisted Tomography |
|
CAT |
Customer Access Treatment |
|
CAT |
Customer Administration Terminal |
|
CATP |
Conditional All Tests Pass |
|
CATRS |
Compressed
Analysis Total Requirements Statement (IS) |
|
CATS |
Customer
Accounts Transition System |
|
CATS |
Customer
Activation Tracking System |
|
CATTS |
Centralized
Automatic Trunk Testing System |
|
CATV |
Cable Television |
|
CAUSE |
College and University System Exchange |
|
CB |
Channel Bank |
|
CB |
Corporate
Billing System |
|
C-band |
3.9 GHz to 6.2 GHz |
|
CBCT |
Customer-Bank Communication Terminal |
|
CBD |
Commerce Business Daily |
|
CBE |
Computer-Based Education |
|
CBEMA |
Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers
Association |
|
CBIC |
Complimentary Bipolar Integrated Circuit |
|
CBMG |
Central
Business Marketing Group |
|
CBMS |
Computer Based Message Systems |
|
CBQ |
Call-back Queuing |
|
CBQMP |
Call-back Queuing Maximum Priority |
|
CBQPPT |
Call-back Queuing Priority Promotion Timer |
|
CBQRA |
Call-back Queuing Route Advance |
|
CBQRAT |
Call-back Queuing Route Advance Timer |
|
CBQSP |
Call-back Queuing Start Priority |
|
CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
|
CBS |
Carrier
Billing System |
|
CBS |
Conceptual
Business System (IS) |
|
CBT |
Computer
Based Training |
|
CBX |
Computerized Branch Exchange (Rolm) |
|
CBYD |
Call
Before You Dig (NOCC) |
|
CC |
Central Controller |
|
CC |
Coin Collect |
|
CC |
Conference Coordinator |
|
CC |
Cost
Center |
|
CCB |
Change
of Control Board (MFG) |
|
CCB |
Configuration Control Board |
|
CCBs |
Call Condensed Blocks |
|
CCC |
Central Control Complex |
|
CCC |
Clear Channel Capability |
|
CCC |
Country Code |
|
CCD |
Customer Commit Date *** |
|
CCD |
Charge Coupled Device |
|
CCD |
Cross-connect Device (telephony) |
|
CCER |
Customer
Circuit Equipment Request |
|
CCH |
Connections per Circuit Hour |
|
CCI |
Controlled Cryptographic Item |
|
CCIA |
Computer and Communications Industry Association |
|
CCIR |
International Radio Consultative Committee |
|
CCIS |
Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (network) |
|
CCIS-BS |
Common Channel Interoffice Signaling - Banded
Signaling |
|
CCIS-DS |
Common Channel Interoffice Signaling - Direct
Signaling |
|
CCITT |
International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative
Committee |
|
CCM |
Common
Channel Manager |
|
CCM |
Communication Control Module |
|
CCM |
Computer
Controlled Manager |
|
CCMC |
Customer
Control Management Center |
|
C-conditioning |
A type of conditioning that controls attenuation,
distortion, and delay distortion to specific limits. |
|
CCR |
Capitol
Commitment Requisition |
|
CCR |
Customer
Control Reconfiguration |
|
CCS |
Call
Completion Seconds |
|
CCS |
Centi (Hundred) Call Seconds |
|
CCS |
Common Carrier Systems |
|
CCS |
Common Channel Signaling (AT&T) |
|
CCS7 |
Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 |
|
CCSA |
Common Channel Signaling Arrangement |
|
CCSA |
Common Circuit Switching Access |
|
CCSA |
Common Control Switching Arrangement |
|
CCSR |
Centrex Customer Station Rearrangement |
|
CCSS |
Common Channel Signaling System |
|
CCT |
Central Control Terminal |
|
CCTV |
Closed Circuit Television |
|
CCU |
Communications Control Unit |
|
CCV |
Calling Card Validation |
|
CD |
Call
Detail |
|
CD |
Circle Digit (CD0-CD9) |
|
CD |
Circuit Description Document |
|
CD |
Collision Detection |
|
CD |
Connectivity
Date |
|
CD |
Control and Display Circuit |
|
CD |
Country
Direct |
|
CD ROM |
Compact Disk Read-Only Memory |
|
CDA |
Conceptual
Design Area (IS) |
|
CDAL |
Control and Diagnostic Access Link |
|
CDAL |
Control Diagnostics Access Lead (AT&T) |
|
CDAR |
Customer Dialed Account Recording |
|
CDB |
Circuit Descriptor Block |
|
CDC |
Control Data Corporation |
|
CDCCP |
Control Data Communications Control Program
(Control Data Corp.) |
|
CDF |
Customer Distribution Frame |
|
CDFI |
Communication Link Digital Facility Interface |
|
CDFI |
Inter-Remote Switching Module Communication Link
Digital Facilities Interface |
|
CDI |
Code Index |
|
CDI |
Control and Data Interface |
|
CDL |
Computer Description Language |
|
CDL |
Computer Design Language |
|
CDMA |
Call Division Multiple Access |
|
CDO |
Community Dial Office |
|
CDP |
Certificate in Data Processing |
|
CDR |
Call Data Record(ing) |
|
CDR |
Call
Detail Record |
|
CDR |
Call Detail Record(ing) |
|
CDR |
Call Detail Reporting |
|
CDRID |
Call
Detail Record Identification |
|
CDRL |
Contract Data Requirements List |
|
CDRL |
Contract
Data Requirements List |
|
CDS |
Conceptual
Data Store (IS) |
|
CDT |
Call Data Transmitter |
|
CE |
Coaxial Eliminator |
|
CEAS |
Corporate
Exchange Architecture System |
|
CEC |
Corporate Education Center |
|
CEF |
Cable Entrance Facility |
|
CEI |
Comparably Efficient Interconnection |
|
Centrex |
Central Exchange |
|
CEO |
Carrier End Office |
|
CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
|
CEPA |
Civil Engineering Programming Applications |
|
CEPT |
Conference of European Postal and
Telecommunications Administration |
|
CERT |
Character Error Rate Testing |
|
CES |
Coaxial Elimination System |
|
CES |
Conceptual
Environmental Statement (IS) |
|
CES |
Customer
Evaluation Survey |
|
CESS |
Coaxial Elimination and Switching System |
|
CF |
Call Forwarding |
|
CF |
Coin First |
|
CFA |
Carrier
Facility Alarm |
|
CFAC |
Call Forwarding All Calls |
|
CFB |
Call Forwarding Busy |
|
CFBL |
Call Forwarding Busy Line |
|
CFDA |
Call Forwarding Don't Answer |
|
CFE |
Contractor-Furnished Equipment |
|
CFI |
Call Forwarding Intragroup |
|
CFMS |
Construction Force Measurement System |
|
CFNA |
Call Forwarding No Answer |
|
CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
|
CFU |
Call Forwarding Universal |
|
CFW |
Call Forwarding |
|
CG |
Computer Graphics |
|
CGA |
Carrier Group Alarm |
|
CGA |
Color Graphics Adaptor |
|
CHARS |
Customer Heirarchy and Reporting System |
|
CHARS |
Customer
Hierarchy and Reporting System (IPS) |
|
CHG |
Charging |
|
CHIPS |
Call
History Information Processing System |
|
CI |
Carrier Interconnect |
|
CI |
Command Interpreter |
|
CI |
Command
Interpreter |
|
CI |
Control Interface |
|
CI |
Customer(-approved) Information |
|
CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
|
CIA |
Competitive
Intelligence Association |
|
CIAS |
Circuit Inventory and Analysis System |
|
CIB |
Centralized Intercept Bureau |
|
CIC |
Carrier Identification Code |
|
CIC |
Circuit
Identification Code |
|
CICA |
Competition In Contracting Act |
|
CICS |
Customer Information Control System |
|
CID |
Critical Indicator Display |
|
CID |
Customer Interactive Dialing |
|
CIF |
Carrier Interconnection Feature |
|
CIF |
Common Intermediate Format |
|
CII |
Compagnie Internationale pour Informatique |
|
CI-II |
Computer Inquiry II |
|
CI-III |
Computer Inquiry III |
|
CIM |
Computer Input from Microfilm |
|
CIM |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing |
|
CINCC |
Customer
Information Network Communication and Control |
|
CIPS |
Canadian Information Processing Society |
|
CIR |
Circuit
Interruption Report |
|
CIR |
Commited Information Rate |
|
CIS |
Critical Indicator Screen |
|
CIS |
Customer Information System |
|
CIS |
Customer
Information System (CS) |
|
CIS |
Customized Intercept System |
|
CISI |
Compagnie Internationale de Services et
Informatique |
|
CISR |
Customer Installation and Service Results |
|
CIT |
Contract
Invoice Transmittal |
|
CIT |
Craft
Interface Terminal |
|
CIU |
Control Interface Unit |
|
CKT |
Circuit |
|
CL |
Customer Location |
|
CLAS |
Customer
Loop Assignment |
|
CLASS |
Customer Local Area Signaling Service |
|
CLC |
Circuit
Line Card |
|
CLC |
Communications
Line Controller |
|
CLDN |
Calling Line Directory Number |
|
CLEI |
Common Language Equipment Identification (or
Information) |
|
CLFI |
Common
Language Facility Identifier |
|
CLI |
Calling Line Identification |
|
CLI |
Change Level Indicator |
|
CLI |
Compression Labs, Inc. |
|
CLIN |
Contract Line Identification Number |
|
CLIN |
Contract Line Item Number |
|
CLIN |
Contract
Line Item Number |
|
C-link |
The wired connection between the stage 0 switch and
the stage 1 switch in a Line Junctor Switch frame or Trunk Junctor
Switch frame. |
|
CLLI |
Common Language Location Identifier |
|
CLM |
Corporate
Logical Model (IS) |
|
CLNAP |
Connectionless Network Access Protocol |
|
CLNS |
Connectionless Network Service |
|
CLP |
Cell Loss Priority |
|
CLP |
Communications Line Processor |
|
CLR |
Circuit Layout Record |
|
CLR |
Circuit
Layout Record |
|
CLS |
Combined
Link Set |
|
CLSF |
Connectionless Server Function |
|
CLSR |
Computer Law Service Reporter |
|
CM |
Communications Manager |
|
CM |
Communications Module |
|
CM |
Computing
Module |
|
CM |
Configuration Management |
|
CM |
Connection Memory |
|
CM1 |
Communications Module Model 1 |
|
CM2 |
Communications Module Model 2 |
|
CMC |
Central Message Controller |
|
CMC |
Central
Message Controller |
|
CMC |
Change
Management & Control (NOCC) |
|
CMC |
Communications Module Control |
|
CMC |
Construction Management Center |
|
CMCC |
Central Management and Control Center |
|
CMCS |
Customer Message Center System |
|
CMCU |
Communications Module Control Unit |
|
CMD |
Credit
Management Department |
|
CMDR |
Command
Reject |
|
CMI |
Coded Mark Inversion |
|
CMI |
Computer-Managed Instruction |
|
CMIP |
Current
Month Invoicing Process |
|
CMM |
Corporate
Market Management |
|
CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
|
CMP |
Communications Module Processor |
|
CMS |
Central
Message System |
|
CMS |
Centralized Message Service |
|
CMS |
Compliance Monitoring System |
|
CMS |
Control
Monitor System |
|
CMS |
Conversational Monitor System |
|
CMSS |
Customer Management Support Services |
|
CMU |
Channel Monitoring Unit |
|
CN |
Change Notice |
|
CND |
Customer
Number Development |
|
CNDC |
Customer Network Design Center |
|
CNDC |
Customer
Network Design Center (CN) |
|
CNI |
Common Network Interface |
|
CNI/IMS |
Common Network Interface/Interprocessor Message
Switch |
|
CNM |
Customer
Network Management |
|
CNMC |
Client Network Management Center |
|
CNO |
Chief of Naval Operations |
|
CNQD |
Corporate
Network Quality Department |
|
CNR |
Carrier-to-Noise Ratio |
|
CNS |
Complementary Network Services
|
|
CNS |
Corporate
Network Services |
|
CO |
Central Office |
|
CO LAN |
Central Office Local Area Network |
|
COAM |
Customer Owned and Maintained |
|
COB |
Close of Business |
|
COBOL |
Common Business Oriented Language |
|
COC |
Central Office Connection |
|
COD |
Cutoff on Disconnect |
|
CODASYL |
Conference on Data Systems Languages |
|
Codec |
Coder-decoder (analog-to-digital and
digital-to-analog) |
|
COEES |
Central Office Equipment Engineering System |
|
COER |
Central Office Equipment Report |
|
COESS |
Central Office Equipment Estimation System |
|
COG |
Centralized Operations Group |
|
COIC |
Central Office Installation Coordination |
|
COM |
Computer Output Microform |
|
COM |
Computer Output on Microfilm |
|
COMP |
Continuity of Management Plan |
|
Compandor |
Compressor-expandor |
|
COMPAS |
Customer
Order Maintenance Processing Accounts System |
|
Compool |
Communications pool |
|
COMSAT |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
|
COMSEC |
Communications Security |
|
COMSYS |
Communications System |
|
CONTU |
Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrights |
|
CONUS |
Continental United States |
|
COOP |
Continuity of Operations Plan |
|
COP |
Cutover Plan |
|
COPE |
Construction
Operations Property and Engineering |
|
COR |
Class of Restriction |
|
COR |
Contracting Officer's Representative |
|
CORC |
Customer-Originated Recent Change |
|
COS |
Class of Service |
|
COS |
Class
of Service |
|
COS |
Corporation for Open Systems |
|
COSATI |
Committee on Scientific and Technical Information |
|
COSI |
Class
of Service Index |
|
COSINE |
Cooperative
Service in Education |
|
COSMIC |
Common Systems Main InterConnecting (frame) |
|
COSMIC |
Computer Software Management and Information Center |
|
COSO |
Class
of Service Override |
|
COSS |
Class of Service Screening |
|
COSS |
Class
of Service Screening |
|
COT |
Central Office Technician |
|
COT |
Central Office Terminal |
|
COT |
Customer Originated Trace |
|
COTR |
Contracting Officer's Technical Representative |
|
CP |
Circuit Pack |
|
CP/M |
A proprietary applications software |
|
CPA |
Coordinated
Purchase Agreement |
|
CPA |
Customer-Provided Access |
|
CPAM |
Competitive
Provisioning and Maintenance |
|
CPB |
Code Point Blocking |
|
CPC |
Card Programmed Calculator |
|
CPD |
Central Pulse Distributor |
|
CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
|
CPH |
Cost per Hour |
|
CPI |
Calling
Party Identification |
|
CPI |
Central Processor Intervention |
|
cpi |
Characters per Inch |
|
CPI |
Computer-to-PBX Interface |
|
CPI-W |
Consumer Price Index |
|
CPM |
Control Program for Microcomputers |
|
CPM |
Cost per Minute |
|
CPM |
Cost
Per Minute |
|
CPM |
Critical Path Method |
|
CPMC |
Circuit Pack Microcode |
|
CPP |
Call Processing Programs |
|
CPR |
Continuing
Property Records System |
|
CPS |
Call
Processing Software |
|
cps |
characters per second |
|
CPS |
Customer Premises System |
|
CPSC |
Consumer Product Safety Commission |
|
CPSK |
Coherent Phase-Shift Keying |
|
CPTD |
Call
Progress Tone Detector |
|
CPU |
Central Processing (or Processor) Unit |
|
CQS |
Contractor
Qualification Statement |
|
CR |
Call Reference |
|
CR |
Circuit Reliability |
|
CR |
Coin Return |
|
CR |
Communications Representative |
|
CR |
Corporate
Repository (IS) |
|
CR |
Customer
Requirements (IS) |
|
CRA |
Call Record Assembler |
|
CRAB |
Circuit
Repair and Analysis Bureau (NOCC) |
|
CRAM |
Card Random Access Memory |
|
CRB |
Customer
Records and Billing |
|
CRC |
Corporate
Records Center |
|
CRC |
Cyclical Redundancy Check(ing) |
|
CRDB |
Corporate
Reporting Database |
|
CRI |
Call
Reconnect Identifier |
|
CRI |
Criterion Reference Instruction |
|
CRI |
Criterion
Referenced Instruction |
|
CRIS |
Customer Record/Inventory System (Suntel C3
computer system) |
|
CRIS |
Customer Records Information System |
|
CRKS |
Circuit
Record Keeping System |
|
CRL |
Cable
Running List |
|
CRQ |
Call Request |
|
CRS |
Centralized Results System |
|
CRSAB |
Centralized Repair Service Answering (or Attendant)
Bureau |
|
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube |
|
CRUD |
Create,
Read, Update and Delete |
|
CS |
Call Seconds |
|
CS |
Call Store |
|
CS |
Circuit Schematic |
|
CS |
Convergence Sublayer |
|
CSC |
Cell Site Controller |
|
CSC |
Circuit-Switching Center |
|
CSC |
Computer Security Center |
|
CSC |
Customer Service Center |
|
CSC |
Customer Support Center |
|
CSD |
Circuit-Switched Data |
|
CSD |
Communications Systems Division |
|
CSDC |
Circuit-Switched Digital Capability |
|
CSDDS |
Circuit-Switched Digital Data Service |
|
CSDT |
Circuit-Switched Digital Transmission |
|
CSE |
Computer Science and Engineering |
|
CSES |
Consecutive Severely Errored Seconds |
|
CSF |
Critical
Success Factor |
|
CSG |
Consumer
Services Group |
|
CSIS |
Corporate
Security Information Security |
|
CSM |
Channel
Supervision Message |
|
CSM |
Channel Supervision Messages |
|
CSMA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
|
CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection |
|
CSMDR |
Centralized Station Message Detail Recording |
|
CSMS |
Customer Service Management System |
|
CSO |
Customer
Service Office |
|
CSR |
Customer Service Representative |
|
CSR |
Customer
Service Representative |
|
CSR |
Customer Station Rearrangement |
|
CSR |
Series Completion Remove/Replace (messages) |
|
CSSO |
Class
of Service Screening Override |
|
CST |
Call Set-up Time |
|
CSTL |
Coin Station Test Line |
|
CSU |
Channel Service Unit |
|
CSU |
Customer Service Unit |
|
CT |
Computed Tomography |
|
CTAC |
Customer
Technical Assistance Center |
|
CTDB |
Corporate
Tariff Data Base |
|
CTIU |
Coaxial-to-Terminal Interface Unit |
|
CTP |
Consolidation
Test Plan |
|
CTRAP |
Customer Trouble Report Analysis Plan |
|
CTS |
Carrier Transit Switch |
|
CTS |
Clear to Send |
|
CTS |
Control Time Slot |
|
CTSS |
Compatible Time-Sharing System |
|
CTTU |
Centralized Trunk Test(ing) Unit |
|
CTX |
Centrex |
|
CU |
Control Unit |
|
CU |
Controller Unit |
|
CU |
Customer Unit |
|
CUG |
Closed User Group |
|
CUIF |
Control Unit Interface |
|
CUM |
Cumulative |
|
CUMREC |
College and University Machine Record Conference |
|
CUT |
Code/Unit
Test |