The Connected Home Glossary

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6LoWPAN - Means IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks.

A

APM - Automatic Phase Matching

C

CE - Consumer equipment
CEDIA - Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association
CPE - Customer premises equipment

D

DCAC - Digital Cinema Auto Calibration
DiiVA - Digital Interactive Interface for Video & Audio
DLNA - Digital Living Network Alliance
DMC - Digital media controller
DMR - DLNA media renderer
DMS - DLNA media server
DOCSIS - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DTT - digital Terrestrial Television
DVR - Digital video recorder

E

ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute

 

F

FTTB - Fibre To The Building
FTTH - Fibre To The Home
FTTx - A short for refering to either FTTH/FTTB or both

H

HDMI - High Definition Multimedia Interface
HGI - Home Gateway Initiative
HIGA - Home IMS gateway

I

IGD - Internet gateway device
IMPU - IMS public user identity
IMS IP - Multimedia Subsystem
ISIM - IMS subscriber identity module

L

LAN - Local area network

M

MIMO - The abreviation refers to wireless transmitter and receiver that are built with Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output(MIMO)
MoCA - Multimedia over Coax Alliance

N

NAS - Network-attached storage
NAT - Network address translation

O

OIF - Open IPTV Forum

Q

QoS - Quality of service

P

PCEF - Policy control and enforcement function
P-CSCF - Proxy call session control function

R

RAA - Remote access application
RAC - Remote access client
RADA - Remote access discovery agent
RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Discs
RAS - Remote access server
RATA - Remote access transport agent
RCEF - Resource control and enforcement function
RGW - Residential gateway
RTP - Real-time transport protocol
RUI - Remote User Interface

S

SDP - Session description protocol
SIP - Session initiation protocol
SoC - System-on-Chip

U

UE - User equipment
UPnP - Universal plug-and-play

V

VoIP - Voice over IP
UI - User Interface. The part of the application that the user sees.
VPN - Virtual private network

W

WAN - Wide area network
WiFi - Wireless LAN