ProVision Communications
The Wireless Video Company
Glossary
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- 3G
- Third-Generation mobile telephony
- 802.11 a/g
- IEEE wireless LAN standards operating at 5.2 & 2.4GHz respectively
- 802.11n
- IEEE wireless LAN standard soon to be ratified (incorporates MIMO)
- BS
- Base Station
- CIF
- Common Intermediate Format (progressive video format having 360 x 288 samples)
- CODEC
- Coder- Decoder
- COFDM
- Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(multi-carrier system used in DVB-T, 802.11a/g and 802.16 stds)
- CPE
- Customer Premises Equipment
- DRM
- Digital Rights Management
- DSP
- Digital Signal Processor
- DVB
- Digital Video Broadcasting (Geneva-based industry body developing compatible standards for digital broadcasting)
- DVB-H
- Variant of the terrestrial DVB standard for Hand-held television
- DVB-T
- DVB standard for digital Terrestrial television broadcasting
- DVD
- Digital Versatile Disc
- ECMS
- Enhanced error Concealment Mode Selection
- ENG
- Electronic News Gathering
- EREC
- Error Resilient Entropy Coding
- FMO
- Flexible Macroblock Ordering
- FPGA
- Field-Programmable Gate Array
- GIS
- Geographic Information System
- HD
- High Definition (format normally regarded as having >1000 lines)
- H.263
- ITU standard for video compression
- H.264
- New ITU standard for video compression (also known as AVC or MPEG-4 part 10)
- IP TV
- Internet Protocol Television
- LIDAR
- LIght Detection And Ranging
- MAC
- Medium Access Control
- MIMO
- Multiple In Multiple Out (multiple antenna technology)
- MPEG-2
- Moving Picture Experts’ Group (most widely used standard for broadcast video compression, now over 10 years old)
- MRC
- Maximum Ratio Combining
- NAL
- Network Abstraction Layer
- OB
- Outside Broadcast
- PC
- Personal Computer
- PCB
- Printed Circuit Board
- PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant
- PER
- Packet Error Rate/Ratio
- PHY
- Physical layer
- PMSE
- Programme Making and Special Events market sector
- PVR
- Personal Video Recorder
- QCIF
- Quarter-CIF (progressive video format having 180x144 samples)
- SD
- Standard Definition(video format having 720x576 samples with 2:1 interlace)
- SNR
- Signal to Noise Ratio
- STB
- Set-top Box
- UAV
- Unattached Autonomous Vehicle
- WiFi
- Another name for IEEE 802.11b/g, high rate 2.4 GHz WLAN
- WiMax
- Another name for IEEE 802.16-2004
- WLAN
- Wireless Local Area Network