PowerLink 50/100 Equipment Manual

Appendix: List of Abbreviations

For PowerSys Versions P3.4.xxx

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Table of contents:

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Q ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6
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Abbreviations:
Subsequently you find a list with abbreviations which are used in the PowerLink 50/100 equip-
ment manual:

Abbreviation Signification

A
AAA AXC Automatic Activation
ACE Automatic Channel Equalization
ACN Allocated Channel Number
ADC Analog Digital Converter
ADJ Adjacent
AFC Automatic Frequency Control
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AL Alarm wire
AL-1HB Adjustable coil of tx-filter 1st order high band 500 kHz up to 1000 kHz
AL-1LB Adjustable coil of tx-filter 1st order low band 24 kHz up to 500 kHz
AL-1XB Adjustable coil of tx-filter 1st order high or low band
ALA Alarm output
ALR Alarm Module PowerLink with binary input for IRIG-B synchronization
ALRS Alarm module PowerLink
AMP Tele protection mode: Alternate Multi Purpose operation
AMP50-HB Amplifier 50 Watt (module) High Band for the frequency range 500 kHz to 1000 kHz
AMP50-LB Amplifier 50 Watt (module) Low Band for the frequency range 24 kHz to 500 kHz
AMP50-XB Amplifier 50 Watt (module) Low or High frequency band
aPLC Analog PLC
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
aSWT Stand Alone SWT
ATT Attenuator
AXC Automatic Crosstalk Canceller

B
BI Binary Input
BER Bit Error Rate
BL Board Link (connection between vMUX and CSPi)
BP Backplane
bps bit per second

C
CB-1 Capacitor bank
CC Control Center
CDB Configuration Data Base
CF Carrier Frequency
CFG Configuration alarm in the PowerSys service program
CFS-2 Carrier Frequency Section for connection with PLPA and vMUX
CI Command Input
CO Command Output
CSP Central Signal Processing unit
CT Coded tripping (transmission mode in SWT 3000)
CTS Clear to send
CV Compressed Voice

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Abbreviation Signification

D
D/A Digital Analog Converter
DCE Data Communication Equipment
DDFC Data Driven Frequency Control
DDS Direct Digital Synthesizer
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIAG Diagnostic
DLE Digital Line Equipment
DP Data Pump
dPLC Digital PLC
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (signaling) telephone dialing procedure
DTR Data Terminal Ready
DTT Direct Transfer Trip
DV Digital Voice

E
E&M Ear and Mouth
EALR Receive alarm of the iSWT from version P3.2.216: RXALR-iSWTx is used
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
ETC External Transmit Clock
ETH Ethernet
EOW Engineering Order Wire (Service Telephone)

F
F2 Speech signal at PLC terminals resp. service speech
F3/F4 Data signal at PLC terminals resp. service data
F6 Protection signal at PLC terminals resp. service protection signaling
F6SV F6 supervisory from PowerSys version P3.2.216 (former F6UE)
FE1 Fractional E1 interface for connecting a digital exchange
FGND Frame Ground
FIFO First in First out
FM Frequency Modulation
FO Fiber Optic
FOBox Fiber Optic Modem Box
FOL Fiber Optic Modem Long distance
FOM Fiber Optic Modem
FOS Fiber Optic Modem Short distance
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FW Firmware
FXO Telephone interface Foreign exchange office
FXS Telephone interface Foreign exchange station

G
GAL Guard Alarm (i)SWT 3000
GENALR General Alarm
GND Ground
GOOSE Generic Object Oriented
GSE Generic Substation Events
G703.1 Interface 64 Kbps of the iSWT digital line equipment
G703.6 Interface 2 Mbps of the iSWT digital line equipment

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Abbreviation Signification

H
HDB3 High Density Bipolar of order 3 code
HF High Frequency
HVL High Voltage Line
HW Hardware

I
ICC Internal Communication Control
IFC-D Interface module for protection signaling system SWT 3000 (Direct tripping)
IFC-MCM Interface module for protection signaling system SWT 3000 with MCM function
IFC-P Interface module for protection signaling system SWT 3000 (Permissive tripping)
IFC-S Interface module for protection signaling system SWT 3000 (Signaling only)
IFC-24 Interface module for protection signaling system SWT 3000 with MCM function
iFSK integrated FSK-channel
iLAN internal Local Area Network
iMUX integrated Multiplexer for asynchronous data transmission
INC Impulse Noise Compression
IRIG Inter Range Instrumentation Group
IRIG-B00x Message for clock synchronization of the CSPi, iSWT
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
iSWT integrated protection signaling system
iSWT3 integrated protection signaling system SWT 3000

K
Kbps Kilobit per second

L
LAN Local Area Network
LCT Service interface at the front cover of CSPi (Local Craft Terminal)
LEC Line Echo Canceller, processing echo cancellation of the incoming data (vMUX voice).
LED Light Emitting Diode
LIA Line Interface Analog analog line interface from (i)SWT
LID Line Interface Digital digital line interface from (i)SWT
LT100-HB Line Transformer module 100 Watt high frequency band 500 kHz up to 1000 kHz
LT100-LB Line Transformer module 100 Watt low frequency band 24 kHz up to 500 kHz
LT100-XB Line Transformer module 100 Watt low or high frequency band

M
Mbps Megabit per second
MCM Multi Command Mode
MFC Multi Frequency Code (multi frequency signaling)
MIB Management Information Base
MLFB Siemens ordering number
MMI Man-machine interface
MMU Memory Management Unit
MP Tele protection mode: Multi Purpose operation
MUX Multiplexer

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Abbreviation Signification

N
NADJ Non Adjacent
NAT Network Address Translation
NC Normally Closed contact, brake contact (alarm relay)
NE Network Element
NMS Network Management System
NO Normally Open contact, make contact (alarm relay)
NTP Network Time Protocol (clock synchronization of the iSWT resp. PowerLink via internet in
case of SNMP)
NU Non-Urgent alarm, pre-alarm

O
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OID Object Identifier
OSA Optimized Sub channel Allocation

P
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAL Pilot Alarm / Receive level alarm
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PD Present Detect
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PEP Peak Envelope Power
PLC Power Line Carrier
PLE PLC line equipment
PLL Phase Locked Loop
PLPA 50 PowerLink Power amplifier 50 Watt
PLPA 100 PowerLink Power amplifier 100 Watt
PLPAStraps Program for determining the jumper and straps in the PowerLink PLPA part
PowerSys Service program for PowerLink and SWT 3000
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPPOE PPP Over Ethernet
PS Power supply
PSCF2 Power Supply Carrier Frequency Section
PS E&M Power Supply E&M interface (for signaling) on the PowerLink connector panel
PSCFS-2 Power Supply CFS-2
PSE Protection Signaling Equipment
PSPLE Power Supply PLE
PSPA2 Power Supply Power-Amplifier
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PU3e Processing Unit SWT 3000 enhanced necessary for integration in PowerLink
PU3f Processing Unit SWT 3000 enhanced for operation with FOM
PU3g Processing Unit SWT 3000 enhanced for operation with FOM
PWL PowerLink

Q
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS Quality of Service

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Abbreviation Signification

R
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS Remote Access Server
REM Alarm from the remote station displayed in the PowerSys if RM function activated
RF Radio Frequency (High Frequency)
rFSK reversed FSK channel
RM Remote Monitoring
RM-1 Serial interface Programming (CSPi), used for flash programming with MemTool
RM-2 Remote access interface on the PowerLink connector panel for route communication
RS232 Asynchronous digital interface
RTC Real Time Clock (on iSWT)
RTS/CTS HW handshake signals Request To Send / Clear To Send
RTU Remote Terminal Unit
RX Receiver
RXALR Receiver Alarm
RxC Receive Clock
RxD Receive Data signal
RXF-HB Receive Filter high frequency band 500 kHz up to 1000 kHz
RXF-LB Receive Filter low frequency band 24 kHz up to 500 kHz
RXF-XB Receive Filter low or high frequency band

S
S/N, SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
S2 Signaling wire from telephone exchange E&M interface
S6 Control wire for AMP, switch over to protection signal transmission
SC Service Channel SWT 3000 via digital communication links
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (Opt module from the fiber optic modem FOM)
SL StationLink
SMI Structure of Management Information
SMUX Synchronous Multiplexer
SNALR Signal/Noise Alarm
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SP Tele protection mode: Single Purpose operation
SSB Service interface Backplane SWT 3000 for RM connection of 2 links
SSF Service interface front panel PU3 module
SSI Serial Synchronous Interface on the PU3e module
SSP Serial interface Programming (vMUX), used for flash programming with MemTool
SSR Service interface Remote Access on the backplane SWT 3000
SSTN Substation
STEL Service Telephone
SV Sampled Values
SWT Protection voice frequency transmission
SysPil System Pilot in the PowerLink

T
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TPS Teleprotection Signal (trip frequency)
Tunbl Duration of the unblocking impulse of the (i)SWT 3000
TXALR Transmitter Alarm
TxC Transmit Clock
TxD Transmit Data signal
TXF-1HB Transmit filter 1st order high frequency band 500 kHz up to 1000 kHz
TXF-1LB Transmit filter 1st order low frequency band 24 kHz up to 500 kHz
TXF-1XB Transmit filter 1st order low or high frequency band
TXF-2HB Transmit filter 2nd order high frequency band 500 kHz up to 1000 kHz

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Abbreviation Signification
TXF-2LB Transmit filter 2nd order low frequency band 24 kHz up to 500 kHz
TXF-2XB Transmit filter 2nd order low or high frequency band

U
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (RS232 chip)
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UNBL Unblocking
Usync Clock synchronization for CSPi resp. integrated SWT 3000

V
VAD Voice Activity Detection
VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
VF Voice Frequency
VFM Voice Frequency interface module with E&M interface
VFO Voice Frequency interface module with FXO interface
VFS Voice Frequency interface module with FXS interface
VFx VF interface module (VFM, VFS, VFO)
VFx-y VF interface module (VFM, VFS, VFO) in slot position y
VL vMUX link
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VoIP Voice over IP
vMUX Versatile Multiplexer in PowerLink 50/100

X
X.21-DP Synchronous digital interface for connection of external MUX to the DP
X.21-x Synchronous user interface x for connection of synchr. data channels to the vMUX
xMUX Collective term for iMUX or vMUX

2
2plus2 Operation Mode 3b for the iSWT3 transmission of 2 uncoded and 2 coded commands

3
3iC Operation Mode M5A for the iSWT3 transmission of 3 independent commands

4
4iC Operation Mode 3a for the iSWT3 transmission of 4 independent commands

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