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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

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