Amplitude Shift Keying Application Service Provider Asynchronous Transfer Mode Arrayed Waveguide Grating Bit Error Rate Border Gateway Protocol Bit Interleave Parity BIP-8 Bit Interleave Parity-8 BIP-N Bit Interleave Parity-N Building Integrated Timing Source Building Local Exchange Carrier Bidirectional Line-Switched Ring Bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexing Customer Installation Common Interest Group Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Customer Network Management Central Office Class of Service Customer Premises Equipment Copyright 2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. Acronyms Carrier Serving Area Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Distributed Bragg Reflector (Laser) Dispersion Compensation Fiber Distributed Feedback (Laser) Data Local Exchange Carrier (or DSL Local Exchange Carrier) Data Link Layer Denial of Service Dispersion-Shifted Fiber Digital Subscriber Line DSU/CSU Data Service Unit/Channel Service Unit Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing External Cavity Diode Laser Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Ethernet in the First Mile Exterior Gateway Protocol E-IPS Enhanced-IPS Ethernet Local Exchange Carrier Ethernet over SONET ERDI-P Enhanced RDI-Path ESCON Enterprise System Connection Extended Wavelength Band Fiber Bragg Grating Fibre Channel FCAPS Fault-Management, Configuration, Accounting, Perfor- mance, and Security Fiber-Distributed Data Interface Frequency Division Multiplexing Fast Ethernet Forward Error Correction Forwarding Equivalence Class Acronyms Far-End Receive Failure FICON Fiber Connection Fiber Optic Transmission System Fabry-Perot Fiber-Switch Capable Free-Space Optics Fiber to the Building/Business Fiber to the Cabinet/Curb Fiber to the Home Fiber to the Node Fiber to the X (use one or more other letters in place of X, for example, FTTB) Gigabit Ethernet Gain Flattening Filter Genetic Framing Procedure GMPLS Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching Generic Routing Encapsulation Hybrid Sol-Gel Glass Institute of Electric