5 acronym definitions – Comtech EF Data CMR-6000 Manual User Manual
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Digicast Media Router S2 Receiver CMR-6000
Revision 1
Introduction
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1.5
Acronym Definitions
ASI
Asynchronous Serial Interface
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
CEFD
Comtech EF Data
DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting
DVB-S
Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite
DVB-S2
Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite (Second Generation)
EBU
European Broadcasting Union
ETS
European Telecommunications Standard
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP
HyperText Transport Protocol
IANA
Internet Assigned Number Authority
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
IP
Internet Protocol
IRD
Integrated Receiver Decoder
LAN
Local Area Network
MAC
Media Access Control
Mbps
Mega bits per second
MIB
Management Information Base
MPE
Multi-Protocol Encapsulation
MPEG
Moving Pictures Expert Group
MPEGTS Moving Pictures Expert Group Transport System
MR
Media Router
Msps
Megasymbol per second. A symbol is equivalent to 1 Hz of occupied bandwidth on a satellite (i.e., 34
Msps would be a satellite carrier occupying 34 MHz of bandwidth).
MUX
Multiplexer
PAT
Program Association Table - the PAT lists PIDs for all PMTs in the stream.
PID
Program Identifier
PMT
Program Map Table - Program Map Tables contain information about programs. The PMTs describe
which PIDs contain data relevant to the program. PMTs also provide metadata about the streams in
their constituent PIDs.
PSI
Program Specific Information - Program Specific Information is comprised of four tables: Program
Association (PAT), Program Map (PMT), Conditional Access (CAT), and Network Information (NIT).
RS
Reed Solomon
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SYSLOG System Log
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TERM
Terminal
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TSD
Transport Stream Demultiplexer
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network