ADSL

Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

CAP

Carrierless Amplitude Phase modulation

DAVIC

Digital Audio Visual Council

DMT

Discrete Multitone

DS

Distribution System

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DTAG

Deutsche Telekom AG

DWMT

Discrete Wavelet Multitone

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FEXT

Far End Crosstalk

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplex

FTTH

Fiber To The Home

FTTN

Fiber To The Node

FTTC

Fiber To The Curb

HDSL

High bitrate Digital Subscriber Line

HFC

Hybrid Fiber Coax

HFTP

Hybrid Fiber Twisted Pair

ICI

Inter Channel Interference

ISDN

Integrated Digital Services Network

ISI

Inter Symbol Interference

KVz

Kabelverzweiger

LT

Line Termination

MMSE

Minimum Mean Square Error

NEXT

Near End Crosstalk

NT

Network Termination

ONU

Optical Network Unit

O-QAM

Orthogonally multiplexed QAM

PAM

Pulse Amplitude Modulation

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

PLC

PowerLine Comunications

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

SDH

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SDH-VC

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - Virtual Container

TDM

Time Division Multiplex

VDSL

Very high bitrate Digital Subscriber Line

WLAN

Wireless LAN