| Abkürzungen Nachrichtentechnik Englisch |
| AN = Access Node |
| APC = angled physical contact |
| ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| BER = Bit Error Rate |
| B-PON = Broadband PON |
| CDM = Code Division Multiplexing |
| CO = Central Office |
| COT = Central Office Terminal |
| CPE = Customer Premises Equipment |
| CSA = Carrier Serving Area |
| CTS = Common Technical Specification |
| DBA = Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment |
| DP-QPSK = Dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying |
| DSL = Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSLAM = Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
| DWDM = Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| EF = encircled flux |
| EFM = Ethernet in the First Mile (IEEE 802.3ah) |
| EMI = Electromagnetic Interference |
| EMS = Element Management System |
| EOC = Embedded Operations Channel |
| E-PON = Ethernet PON |
| FDF = Fiber Distribution Frame |
| FDH = Fiber Distribution Hub |
| FDI = Feeder-Distribution Interface |
| FEC = Forward Error Correction |
| FER = Frame Error Rate |
| FITL = Fiber In The Loop |
| FOT = Fiber Optic Terminal |
| FSAN = Full Service Access Network |
| FTTB = Fiber-to-the-Business |
| FTTC = Fiber-to-the-Curb |
| FTTCab = Fiber-to-the-Cabinet |
| FTTH = Fiber-to-the-Home |
| FTTN = Fiber-to-the-Node (or Neighborhood) |
| FTTP = Fiber-to-the-Premises (includes FTTH and FTTB) |
| GEM = G-PON Encapsulation Mode |
| GE-PON = a commercialized E-PON |
| GFP = Generic Framing Procedure |
| G-PON = Giga-bit PON (G.984.x series) |
| HCS = Hard clad silica fiber |
| ILEC = Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier |
| IOR = index of refraction |
| LAN = Local Area Networks |
| LMD = launched modal distribution |
| LSA = least squares average |
| LSPM = light source and power meter |
| LU = Living Unit |
| MAC = Media Access Control |
| MAN = Metropolitian Area Networks |
| MDF = Main Distribution Frame |
| MMF = multimode optical fibre |
| MOCA = Multimedia Over Coax |
| NID = Network Interface Device |
| NT = Network Termination |
| OAM = Operations, Administration and Maintenance |
| ODN = Optical Distribution Network |
| OLT = Optical Line Termination |
| OMCC = ONT Management and Control Channel |
| OMCI = ONT Management and Control Interface |
| ONT = Optical Network Termination |
| ONU = Optical Network Unit |
| OOK = On-Off-Keying |
| OSP = Outside Plant |
| OSS = Operations Support System |
| OTDR = optical time domain reflectometer |
| P2MP = Point to Multi-Point |
| P2P = Point to Point |
| PCS = Plastic clad silica fiber |
| PFOC = Passive Fiber Optic Component |
| PLOAM = Physical Layer Operations, Administration, and Maintenance |
| PMD = Polarization Mode Dispersion |
| POF = Polymer optical fibre |
| PON = Passive Optical Network |
| POTS = Plain Old Telephone Service |
| PSK = Phase-shift keying |
| QoS = Quality of Service |
| QPSK = Quadrature phase-shift keying |
| RX = Receiver |
| SAC = Serving Area Concept |
| SAI = Serving Area Interface |
| SAN = Storage Area Networks |
| SDH = Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
| SMF = singlemode optical fibre |
| SONET = Synchronous Optical Network |
| STB = Set-Top Box |
| TA = Terminal Adapter |
| TDM = Time Division Multiplexing |
| TDMA = Time Division Multiple Access |
| TE = Terminal Equipment |
| TX = Transmitter |
| TXR = Transceiver (Transmitter and Receiver) |
| VF = Voice Frequency |
| VoIP = Voice over IP |
| WAN = Wide Area Networks |
| WDM = Wavelength Division Multiplexing |