| Acronym |
Meaning / Link |
| CABS |
Carrier Access Billing System |
| CACP |
Central Arbitration Control Point |
| CAD |
Computer-aided design |
| CAM |
Common Access Method or Computer Aided Manufacturing or Content Addressable Memory |
| CAN |
Campus Area Network |
| CAP |
Communications Alternative Provider/Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation |
| CAPTCHA |
Completely Automated Public turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
| CAS |
Column-Address Strobe |
| CASE |
Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| CATANET |
Concatanated Network |
| CATV |
Cable Television |
| CAV |
Constant Angular Velocity |
| CB |
Citizens Band OR Component Broker |
| CBR |
Constant Bit Rate |
| CBT |
Computer Based Training |
| CBX |
Common Branch eXtender |
| CC |
Carbon Copy |
| CCB |
Command Control Block |
| CCD |
Charge-coupled device |
| CCITT |
Comite Consulatif Internationale de Telegraphie et Telephonie (communications standards
organization based in Switzerland) |
| CCCP0 |
3CP0 - Robot from movie "Star Wars" |
| CCS |
Common Channel Signaling or Common Command Set |
| CCTV |
Closed Circuit Television |
| CD |
Compact Disc or Carrier Detect |
| CD-DA |
Compact Disc - Digital Audio |
| CDDI |
Copper Distributed Data Interface |
| CDFS |
CD-ROM File System |
| CDI |
Compact Disc Interactive |
| CDIA |
Certified Document Imaging Architect |
| CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDPD |
Cellular Digital Packet Data wireless format |
| CD-R |
CD-Recorder or Compact Disc - Recordable |
| CDR |
Copy Density Range or Call Detail Record |
| CD-ROM |
Compact disc read-only memory |
| CD-RW |
Compact Disc Re-Writable or Read-Write |
| CDSA |
Common Data Security Architecture |
| CEPS |
Color Electronic Prepress System |
| CERT |
Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CF |
Carry Flag |
| CFs |
Critical Fixpacks (software) |
| CFP |
Computers, Freedom and Privacy or Call For Papers |
| CGA |
Color graphics adapter (video display standard) |
| CGI |
Computer Graphics Interface or Common Gateway Interface |
| CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile (file format) |
| CHAP |
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CHS |
Cylinders / Heads / Sectors |
| CIC |
Cable In the Classroom or Computing, Information and Communications |
| CICS |
Customer Information Control System |
| CID |
Caller IDentification |
| CIDR |
Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CIE |
Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage |
| CIF |
Common Intermediate Format |
| CIM |
Common Information Model or Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
| CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| CKI |
Chair Keyboard Interface (tech jargon for user is the problem) |
| CLA |
Carry Look-ahead Adder |
| CLE |
Customer Located Equipment |
| CLEC |
Competing Local Exchange Carrier |
| CLI |
Command Line Interface |
| CLID |
Caller Line IDentification for CID (Caller ID) |
| CLS |
Circuit Location Addresses or Close a Loop circuit (fiber) |
| CLV |
Constant Linear Velocity |
| CMI |
Cable Microcell Integrator |
| CMI/HIC |
Cable Microcell Integrator / Headend Interface Converter |
| CMIP |
Common Management Information Protocol |
| CMOS |
Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMP |
Communications Plenum Cable |
| CMR |
Communications Riser Cable |
| CMS |
Code Management System or Color Management System |
| CMTS |
Cable Modem Termination System |
| CMYK |
Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black (ink colors for printing) |
| CN |
Common Name or Canonical Name |
| CNA |
Certified Network Administrator |
| CNC |
Computer Numeric Control or Collaborative Networked Communication |
| CNE |
Certified Network Engineer |
| CNPS |
Computer Noise Prevention System |
| CNR |
Communications and Network Riser |
| CO |
Central Office |
| COA |
Certificate Of Authenticity |
| COAST |
Cache On A Stick |
| COBOL |
Common Business Oriented Language |
| CODEC |
Coder / Decoder Compression / Decompression |
| COLD |
Computer Output to Laser Disc |
| COM |
Component Object Model, .COM - COMmercial web site
(See our list of TLDs here) |
| COMDEX |
Communications Development Exposition |
| COOP |
As in .coop - COOPerative web site
(See our list of TLDs here) |
| COPS |
Concept Oriented Programming System |
| CORA |
Computer Oriented Reproducer Assembly (Linotype-Hell proprietary typesetting language, also, the name of the principle programmer's wife) |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CoS |
Class Of Service |
| COSMOS |
Computer System for Mainframe Operations |
| CoSysOp |
Co-Systems Operator |
| COW |
Character-Oriented Windows Interface |
| CPC |
Cost-Per-Click (banner ad jargon) |
| CPE |
Customer Premises Equipment |
| CP/M |
Control Program / Microcomputer |
| CPI |
Clocks Per Instruction |
| CPM |
Cost-Per-iMpression (banner ad jargon) |
| CPS |
Characters Per Second or Conversational Programming System |
| CPSS |
CP SoftSwitch |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CQFP |
Ceramic Quad Flat Pack |
| CR |
Carriage Return |
| CRC |
Cyclical Redundancy Checking |
| CRIMM |
Continuity
Rambus Inline Memory Module |
| CRIS |
Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer, Construction Risk and
Insurance Specialist, Current Research Information System, Community Refugee and
Immigration Services |
| CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
| CRQ |
Command Response Queue |
| CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube |
| CS |
Chip Select |
| C-SCANS |
Client-Systems Computer Access NetworkS |
| CSD |
Corrective Service Diskettes |
| CSID |
Calling Station IDentification or character set identifier |
| CSLIP |
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| CSMA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
| CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access - Collision Detection |
| CSNET |
Computer Science NETwork |
| CSP |
CompuCom Speed Protocolor or Communicating Sequential Processes |
| CSR |
Command Status Register |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
|
CSTA |
Computer Supported Telephony Application (CSTA) is a standard for Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) put forth by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) |
| CSU |
Channel Service Unit as in
CSU
/ DSU
in modems and routers |
| CT |
Continuous tone |
| CT2T |
Continuous tone to tape |
| CTI |
Computer-Telephony Integration |
| CTS |
Clear To Send Signal |
| CTTC |
Copper To The Curb |
| CTTH |
Copper To The Home |
| CTTY |
Console TeleTYpe |
| CUI |
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique |
| CUT |
Control Unit Terminal |
| CVF |
Compressed Volume File |
| CW |
Continuous Wave or Call Waiting |
| CWCID |
Call Waiting Caller IDentification |
| CWT |
Call WaiTing |
| CYBORG |
CYBernetic ORGanism |
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