The Connected Home Glossary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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