C

C-MOS

Complementary Metal-Oxide Silicon

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAI

Computer Aided Instruction

CAM

Computer Aided Manufacturing

CAM

Content Addressable memory

CAMAC

Computer Automated Measurement And Control

CAN

Controller Area Network (Bosch Intel)

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering

CAST

Computer Aided Software Testing

CAT

Computerized Axial Tomography

CATV

Community Antenna (CAble?) TeleVision

CB

Citizens Band

CBDS

Connectionless Broadband Data Service

CBR

Constant Bit Rate

CCD

Charge-Coupled Device

CCIR

Comit‰ Consultif International des Radiocomunications œ (ITU - Genˆve)

CCITT

Comit‰ Consultif International T‰l‰graphique et T‰l‰phonique œ (ITU - Genˆve)

CCS

Common Channel Signalling (SS7) (tel)

CCTV

Closed Circuit TeleVision

CD

Carrier Detect (V24)

CD

Compact Disc

CD-A

Compound Document Architecture

CD-R

Compact Disc Rewriteable

CD-ROM

Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDDI

Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDE

Common Desktop Environment

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access (Cellular, IS-95)

CDPD

Cellular Digital Packet Data

CEBus

Consumer Electronic Bus

CEPT

Conference Europ‰enne de Postes et T‰l‰communications

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team (cert@cert.org - 412 268 7090)

cfm

Cubic Feet by Minute

CGI

Computer Generated Images

CGM

Computer Graphics Metafile

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHRL

Common Hardware R Platform (Power PC)

CIDR

Classless InterDomain Routing

CIE

Commission International de l'Eclairage (Paris)

CIF

Cargo, Insurance & Freight

CIGRE

Conference Internationale des Grandes Reseaux El‰ctriques (Paris)

CIM

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIPM

Comit‰ Internationale des Poids et Mesures (Paris)

CIR

Committed Information Rate

CIRC

Cross Interleaved Reed-salomon Code

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

CITEL

Comision Interamericana de TELecomunicaciones

CLNP

ConnectionLess Network Protocol (ISO)

CLNS

Connection Less Network Service (ISO 8473)

CMIP

Common Management Information Protocol (ISO)

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMRR

Common Mode Rejection Rate

CMYK

Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK

CNR

Carrier to Noise Ratio

COBOL

COmmon Business Oriented Language

CORBA

Common Request Object Broker Architecture

COS

Corporation of Open Systems (International)

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

cpi

Characters Per Inch

cps

Characters Per Second

CPU

Central Processor Unit

CR

Carriage Return (char 13 - 0DH)

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRCC

Cyclic Redundancy Check Character

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CSA

Canadian Standards Association (Rexdale)

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense with Multiple Access/Collision Detection (Ethernet IEEE 802.3)

CSU

Channel Service Unit

CT

Cordless Telephony

CTD

Charge Transfer Device

CTI

Computer-Telephony Integration

CTIA

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association

CTM

Centralized Technical Management

CTR

Common Technical Requirement (Europe)

CTS

Clear To Send

CW

Continuous Wave