Abbreviations

ACMA Australian Communications and Media Authority
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
CB Citizen Band
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
DSL Digital Subscriber Loop
GHz Gigahertz
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE 802.16d Fixed WiMAX, also referred to as 802.16-2004
IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX, also referred to as 802.16-2005
IEEE 802.1q Virtual LAN (VLAN) Tagging standard
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP Internet Service Provider
IPSec Internet Protocol security
ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical
Mbps Megabit per second
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS Quality of Service
SCDMA Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SHDSL Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network using IEEE 802.1q standard
VPN Virtual Private Network
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
X.509 ITU-T standard for a public key infrastructure (PKI) 
3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
4G 4th Generation technology – eg. WiMAX, LTE