Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Appendix A
Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
Term
Description
3G
3G is a short for 3
rd
Generation.
This is a term used to represent the 3rd generation of mobile telecommunications
technology. Also called Tri-Band 3G.
This is a set of standards used for mobile devices and mobile telecommunication services and
networks that comply with the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000)
specifications issued and maintained by the International Telecommunication Union.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard.
A specification for the encryption of electronic data in a symmetric-key encryption format
based on a design principle known as a substitution-permutation network, and is fast in both
software and hardware.
API
Application Programming Interface.
A specification which determines how some software components should interact with each
other.
In practice in most of the cases an API is a library that usually includes specification for
routines, data structures, object classes, and variables.
APN
Access Point Name.
The name of a gateway between a
GPRS
(or
3G
, etc.) mobile network and another computer
network, frequently the public Internet.
APNS
Apple Push Notification Service.
A service created by Apple Inc.
It uses push technology through a constantly open
IP
connection to forward notifications
from the servers of third party applications to the Apple devices; such notifications may
include badges, sounds or custom text alerts.
ASMX
ASP.NET Web-services’ Source file for web application framework.
ASP
Active Server Pages.
Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
Association
A Z-Wave® Term.
Linking together two nodes (units) so that one of them will send information to the other
automatically when a value or level changes.
The sending node is the source node and the node receiving the information is the target
node.
ATP
Automatic Test Plan
C2DM
Android Cloud to Device Messaging.
C2DM, which is now deprecated (
GCM
replaces the beta version of Android C2DM), is a push
notification service that helps developers send data from servers to their applications on
Android devices and launched together with Android 2.2 by Google.
