ACRONYMS AND TERMS

ADK

Application Development Kit

 

 

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

 

 

API

Application Programming Interface

 

 

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

 

 

CSD

Circuit Switched Data

 

 

GIOP

General Inter-ORB Protocol

 

 

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

 

 

GW

Gateway

 

 

HSCSD

High Speed Circuit Switched Data

 

 

HW

Hardware

 

 

IDL

Interface Definition Language

 

 

IP

Internet Protocol

 

 

M2M

Machine-to-Machine

 

 

OMG

Object Management Group

 

 

ORB

Object Request Broker

 

 

OS

Operating System

 

 

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

 

 

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Server/Service

 

 

SMS

Short Message Service

 

 

SMSC

Short Message Service Centre

 

 

SW

Software

 

 

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

 

 

UDP

User Datagram Protocol (Internet)

 

 

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

 

 

WIOP

Wireless Inter-Object Protocol

 

 

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