B
 | B2B Business to Business Term used to describe electronic commerce between one business and another |
| B2C |
Business to Consumer
Term used to describe electronic commerce between a business and the SoHo / Consumer
| B2E |
Business to Employee
Used to describe electronic trading / supply of information within an organisation
| BA Business Availability Used to describe the service provided to enable all aspects of a company to continue to function at all times.
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| BAP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
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| BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code One of the earliest and simplest programming languages.
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| BAT
Batch file A file containing a series of commands which run sequentially
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| BBBase Band
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| BBS Bulletin Board System Electronic library used to display common information
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| BBTH Broad Band To the Home
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| BC Business Continuity A term used to describe the service provided to enable an organisation to function in the event of a disaster.
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| BCC Binary Coded Character
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| BCD Binary Coded Decimal |
| BCP |
Bridging Control Protocol
| BD_ADDR |
Bluetooth Device ADDRess
| BECN |
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
| BER |
Basic Encoding Rule
| BER |
Bit Error Rate
| BERT |
Bit Error Rate Test
| BETRS |
Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol
| BHCC Busy Hour Call Completion
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| BHLI Broadband High Layer Information
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| BI Business Intelligence A term used to describe the gathering and analysis of customer and competitor information.
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| BIA Business Integration Applications
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| BICI Broadband Inter Carrier Interface
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| BIM Business Impact Management The impact on business due to IT or IT related processes.
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| BIOS Basic Input Output System The initial load programme, generally held in PROM ( programmable memory ). Used to instruct PCs of the start-up, load routes.
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| BIP Bit Interleaved Parity Used in ATM
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| BIPV Bit Interleaved Parity Violation
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| BIS Boarder Intermediate System
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| BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
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| BISSI Broadband Inter Switching System Interface
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| BIT Binary digit Commonly 8 bits per byte
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| BLLI Broadband Low Layer Information
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| BML Business Manager Layer
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| BNI Broadband Network Interface
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| BNM Broadband Network Module
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| BOM Beginning Of Message
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| BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
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| BPR Business Process Re-engineering A method of streamlining a company and its processes to match current requirements.
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| BPS Bits Per Second Standard measure of data transmission speeds.
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| BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
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| BRI Basic Rate Interface Used in ISDN, two 64Kbps B channels and one 16 Kbps D channel
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| BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
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| BSLBF Bit String Leftmost Bit First
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| BSP Binary Space Partitioning
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| BSS |
Business Support System
| BSS |
Broadband Switching System
| BT |
Bandwidth Time
| BT |
BlueTooth
| BTA |
Basic Trade Area
| BTSC |
Broadcast Television Systems Committe
| BWA |
Broadband Wireless Access
| BYTE |
8 bits