AAL

ATM Adaptation Layer

ABR

Available Bit Rate

ACATS

Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ADC

Analog to Digital Converter

A/D

Analog to Digital Converter

ADO

Ampex Digital Optics (model number)

ADH

Asynchronous Digital Hierarchy

ADSL

Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line/Loop

AES

Audio Engineers Society

AGC

Automatic Gain Control

AMS

Array Management Software

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

APM

Advanced Power Management

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATSC

Advanced Television Systems Committee

ATVEF

Advanced Television Enhancement Forum

ATA

AT Attachment

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATRC

Advanced Television Research Consortium

ATTC

Advanced Television Test Center

ATV

Advanced Television

AVI

Audio-Video Interleave (compression file format)

AVR

Ampex Video Recorder (model number)

AUI

Attachment Unit Interface

BER

Bit Error Rate

BISDN

Broadband - Integrated Services Network

BNC

British Naval Connector

bps or b/s

bits per second

BVS

Broadcast Video Server

BW

Bandwidth

CAD

Computer Aided/Assisted Design

CAM

Constant Access Method

CATV

Community Antenna Television

CBR

Constant Bit Rate

CCD

Charge Coupled Device

CCIR

Comite Consultatif International de Radio-communications

CCITT

Consultative Committee on International Telephone & Telegraph

CCS

Common Command Set

CD

Compact Disc

CDDI

Copper Data Distributed Interface

CDMA

Code Division Multiplex Access

CDR

Clock and Data Recovery circuitry

CDTV

Conventional Definition Television

CDV

Compressed Digital Video

CES

Consumer Electronics Show (exhibition and conference)

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computing

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMX

CBS-MemoreX

CODFM

Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

COMDEX

Computer Dealers Expo (exhibition...