Harris Constellation, System Application Manual

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Harris Corporation Constellation®
GLOSSARY
G
LOSSARY
A
ACU.
Antenna Coupling Unit.
AGC.
Automatic Gain Control; automatic gain adjustment of a varying input
signal level to produce a constant output signal level.
AIS.
Alarm Indication Signal.
AMI.
Alternate Mark Inversion.
AMSL.
Above Mean Sea Level.
ANSI.
American National Standards Institute.
ATDE.
Adaptive Time Domain Equalizer.
ATPC.
Automatic Transmitter Power Control.
AUX.
Auxiliary port.
B
B8ZS.
Bipolar with Eight Zero Substitution.
baseband.
A frequency band occupied by a modulating information signal.
Bellcore.
Bell Communications Research, Inc. (source of telephony standards
in the U.S.A.).
BER.
Bit Error Ratio.
BERT.
Bit Error Ratio Tester.
C
CAN.
Controller Area Network. An interface standard (ISO 11898) for
interconnecting microcontrollers.
CFM.
Composite Fade Margin.
CGA.
Carrier Group Alarm.
CPE.
Customer Premises Equipment.
CW.
Continuous Wave.
D
DACS.
Digital Access and Cross-connect System.