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11.0 Glossary
11.1 Acronym Definitions
• ANSI: American National Standards Institute
• BER: Basic Encoding Rules [Bit error Rate]
• CM: Cable Modem
• CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
• CPE: Customer Premises Equipment
• DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DOCSIS: Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
• EMS: Element Management System
• EVM: Error Vector Magnitude
• HMS: Hybrid Management Sublayer
• IT: Information Technology
• MAC: Media Access Control
• MER: Modulation Error Ratio
• MIB: Management Information Base
• NMS: Network Management System
• QoS: Quality of Service
• RTS: Remote Temperature Sensor
• SCTE: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
• SI: Serial Interface
• SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
• SNTP: Simple Network Time Protocol
• TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
• TOD: Time of Day
• UDP: User Datagram Protocol
• VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol