The unauthorized use, copying, or distribution of software products. [2382-pt.8]

Software, such as a computer program, routine, subroutine, program block, or program module, that can be used to develop, test, analyze, or maintain a computer program or its documentation.
Note: Examples of software tools are automated software verification routines, compilers, program maintenance routines, bootstraps, program analyzers, and software monitors. [From Weik '89]

Abbreviation for start-of-heading character.

Small Office/Home Office

Service Oriented Infrastructure

In facsimile, scanning in which all or a part of the scanning process is performed by electronic commutation of an array of solid-state photosensitive elements.

An optical pulse having a shape, spectral content, and power level designed to take advantage of nonlinear effects in an optical fiber waveguide, for the purpose of essentially negating dispersion over long distances.

Service Oriented Networks

Acronym for sound navigation and ranging. A device that is used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects by reflecting acoustic waves from them, or by the interception of acoustic waves from an underwater, surface, or above-surface acoustic source.
Note: Sonar operates with acoustic waves in the same way that radar and radio direction-finding equipment operate with electromagnetic… (Read More →)

Acronym for synchronous optical network. An interface standard for synchronous optical-fiber transmission, applicable to the Physical Layer of the OSI Reference Model.
Note: SONET uses a basic bit rate of
5
1. 840 Mb/s, called OC-1 (optical carrier 1). The SONET hierarchy consists of preset integral multiples of OC-1, i.e., OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, etc. [T
1. X1]