Terms and Abbreviations: C
C
C
center speaker
CA
conditional access
CABAC
context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding
CAN bus
Controller Area Network, a serial bus standard
CAP
Common Alerting Protocol
CAPEX
capital expenditure
CARS
cable TV relay service
CAS
conditional-access systems
Cat 5
Category 5 cable
Cat 5e
Category 5 enhanced cable
Cat 6
Category 6 cable
CATV
community antenna television
CAVLC
context-adaptive variable-length coding
CBA
Community Broadcasters Association
CBR
constant bit rate
CBTE
Certified Broadcast Television Engineer
CCD
charge-coupled device
CCIR
Consultative Committee on International Radio or International Radio Consultative Committee (Comité consultatif international pour la radio)
note now part of the ITU
CCM
constant coding and modulation
CCTV
1) closed-circuit television
2) China Central Television, Chinese state broadcaster
CCU
camera control unit
cd/m2
candelas per square meter
CDMA
code division multiple access
CDN
content delivery network
variant content distribution network
CDS
correlated double sampling
CE
consumer electronics
CEA
Consumer Electronics Association
CER central equipment room
CES
Consumer Electronics Show
CF CompactFlash
CG
character generator
CGMS-A
Copy Generation Management System for Analog
CI Common Interface CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIF
1) common intermediate format
2) common image format
CIFS
Common Internet File System (protocol)
CLEC
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CM
complete main (audio service)
CMOS
complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CMRS
commercial mobile radio service
CMTS
Cable Modem Termination System
note a Cisco technology
C/N,CNR carrier-to-noise ratio
CO
central office
codec
coder/decoder or compression/decompression algorithm
COFDM
coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
COTS
commercial off-the-shelf
CP
construction permit
CPE
customer premises equipment
CRC
cyclic redundancy check
CRCC
cyclic redundancy check character
CRID content reference ID
CRM
centralized resource management
CSM
content storage management
CSS
cascading style sheets
CSS
Content Scrambling System
CSTE
1) Certified Senior Television Engineer (credentials)
2) Certified Software Test Engineer (credentials)
CTAM
Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing
CVBS 1) composite video blanking and sync
2) color, video, blank and sync
3) composite video baseband signal
4) composite video with burst and sync
CW
continuous wave
CWDM
coarse wavelength division multiplexing
CXFS
Clustered XFS
note designed by SGI to be used with SANs
