Terms and Abbreviations: S
S
S/PDIF
Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
note IEC 958 type II, part of IEC-60958
SaaS
1) software as a service
2) storage as a service
SACD
Super Audio CD
SAIT, Super AIT
Super Advanced Intelligent Tape
note developed by Sony
SAN
storage area network
SAP
Session Announcement Protocol
SAS
Serial Attached SCSI
SATA
serial ATA
SATA II
serial ATA II
SAV
start of active video
SBE
Society of Broadcast Engineers
SBTVD-T
Brazilian System of Terrestrial Digital Television
SCCC
serial concatenated convolutional code
SCMS
Serial Copy Management System
SCSI
small computer system interface
SCTE
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
SD
standard definition
SDH
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDI
serial digital interface
SDIF-2
Sony digital interface
S-DMB
digital multimedia broadcasting using a direct satellite feed
SDP
Session Description Protocol
SDTI
serial data transport interface
SDV
switched digital video
SECAM
séquentiel couleur à mémoire, or sequential color with memory
SED
surface-conduction electron-emitter display
SFN
single-frequency network
SHDSL
symmetric high-speed digital subscriber line
SI
service information
SI-frames
switching intraframes
SIF
source input format
SLA
service level agreement
SLD
service location descriptor
SMATV
satellite master antenna television
SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMPTE
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMS
short message service
SNG
satellite newsgathering
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR
signal-to-noise ratio
SOA
1) service-oriented architecture
2) systems-oriented architecture
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
SoC
system on chip
variant system on a chip
SONET
Synchronous Optical Network
SP-frames
switching predicated frames
SPG
1) sync pulse generator
common abbrev sync gen, pulse gen or sync generator
2) service provider gateway
SPI
1) stateful packet inspection
2) Serial Peripheral Interface
SPL
sound pressure level
SPTS
single-program transport stream
SQCIF
sub-quarter common interchange format
SRL
structural return loss
SRS
supplementary reference signal
SSD
solid-state drive
SSE
streaming SIMD extensions
SSL
1) Solid State Logic (company name)
2) Secured Sockets Layer
stat mux
statistical multiplexer
STB
set-top box
STL
studio-to-transmitter links
STP
Spanning-Tree Protocol
STT
system time table
SVC
1) switched virtual circuit
2) scalable video codec
S-video
separate video
