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Glossary – Comtech EF Data IPSat GW1000 User Manual

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Glossary

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A

AC Alternating

Current

AGC

Automatic Gain Control

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AO Acquisition

Offset

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATE

Automatic Test Equipment

B

BER

Bit Error Rate

BERT

Bit Error Rate Test

Bit/BIT

Binary Digit or Built-In Test

bps

Bits Per Second

BPSK

Binary Phase Shift Keying

Bridge

Interconnects LAN segments at the network interface layer level

BUC Block

Upconverter

Byte

8 Binary Digits