Terms and Abbreviations: S

S

S/PDIF

Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
note  IEC 958 type II, part of IEC-60958

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

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

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

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

SVC

1) switched virtual circuit
2) scalable video codec

S-video

separate video