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