Coherent Passive Optical Network

1. Abbreviation for characters per second.
Note: Formerly, abbreviation for cycles per second, the unit used to express frequency. However, the hertz (Hz),an SI unit, is now the internationally accepted unit of frequency.
2. Abbreviation for cellular priority service.

Abbreviation forcentral processor.
3. Abbreviation for communications processor unit. A computer embedded in a communications system, i.e., the portion of a digital communications switch that executes programmed instructions, performs arithmetic and logical operations on signals, and controls input/output functions.

Abbreviation for channel reliability, circuit reliability.

1. Hacker jargon to indicate "one who breaks security on a system. "
Note: The term cracker was coined ca.1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of the term hacker.
2. An individual who, with malicious intent, gains or tries to gain illegal access to computers or computer programs. [After Bahorsky] Synonym password cracker.

Synonyms droid, Web crawler, Web spider.

Abbreviation for cyclic redundancy check.

1. A subset of access permissions (developed with the use of media-independent data) attesting to, or establishing, the identity of an entity, such as a birth certificate, driver's license, mother's maiden name, social security number, fingerprint, voice print, or other biometric parameter(s). [After X9.69]
2. [In security], information, passed from one entity to another, used to establish the sending entity's… (Read More →)

Abbreviation forCorporation for Research and Educational Networking. The organization resulting from the merger of BITNET and the academic computer network CSNET. [Bahorsky]

The peak-to-rms voltage ratio of an alternating current (ac) signal. [T1.401-1988]