SI

Systems Integrator in Industrial market. Install automation & control systems in factories, refineries, etc.

Shorts

Short put-up lengths. Example: 875 feet left over from a production run is a short below it’s 1000 feet.

Ship & Debit

Distributor buys inventory at normal price, debits Belden for reduced cost for meet comps or other special resale price quotes.

SFP+

Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) Plus. High-density/high-bandwidth interconnect system used between servers and switches in data centers.

SFDC

Salesforce dot com

SEWP

Pronounced “Soup”, this is a government term for Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SE

Systems Engineer

SDP

Strategic Deployment Process. Includes such things as X-Matrix, KPIs, TTIs, Dploy, etc.

SDN

Server Defined Networks. Removes hardware control of network design and instead uses software for management & control.

SCJ

Share Capture Journal

SATA

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SAM

Strategic Account Manager

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Served Available Market. The portion of the Total Available Market for which a company offers a product or services solution.

SA

Strategic Account

S/FTP

Overall shield over foil twisted pair (foil screen around each pair and overall shield over core). This designation refers to 10Gig cables.

Runway

The length of time a company has until it runs out of cash or money to spend. “We’re trying to get more runway with XXX for connectivity.”

RSVP-TE

An extension of Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), one of two standardized protocols for managing MPLS paths.

RSN

Real Soon Now

RSM

Regional Sales Manager

RSD

Regional Sales Director