| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| ACLR | Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio |
| APC | Angled Physical Contact |
| CEN | European Committee for Standardization |
| CENELEC | European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization |
| CWDM | Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing |
| DAS | Distributed Antenna Systems |
| dB | Decibel |
| DF | Direction Finder |
| DM | Direct Modulation |
| DMS | Smallest Detectable Signa |
| DR | Dynamic Range |
| DUT | Device Under Test |
| DWDM | Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| EAM | Electro-Absorption Modulator |
| EDFA | Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier |
| EM | Electromagnetic |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
| EN | Europäische Norm (Eurpean Standard) |
| E/O | Optical-to-Electrical |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| EVM | Error Vector Magnitude |
| EW | Electronic Warfare |
| FO | Fiber Optic |
| Ft. | Feet |
| FTTA | Fiber to the Antenna |
| GHz | Gigahertz |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IF | Intermediate Frequency |
| IFoF | IF over Fiber |
| IMD3 | Third-Order Intermodulation Distortion |
| IP67 | Ingress Protection (standard) |
| LD | Laser Diode |
| LN | Low Noise |
| LNA | Low Noise Amplifier |
| LNB | Low Noise Block |
| MZM | Mach-Zehnder Modulator |
| NF | Noise Figure |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| O/E | Optical-to-Electrical |
| ODL | Optical Delay Line |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OPEX | Operational Expenditure |
| QAM | Quadrature Amplitude Modulation |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| RCS | Radar Cross Section |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RFoF | RF over Fiber |
| RIN | Relative Intensity Noise |
| SFDR | Spurious-Free Dynamic Range |
| SMF | Single-mode Fiber |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| VLB | Very Long Baseline |
| VNA | Vector Network Analyzer |
| W | Watt |
| WDM | Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
