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BSA Blanket Service Agreement Oracle
BSN

Board Serial Number

Technology
BSN Box Serial Number Oracle
BU Business Unit Oracle
BUA Global Eagle site code for Buenos Aires, Argentina Global Eagle
CAGR

Compound Annual Growth Rate is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods. It can be thought of as the growth rate that gets you from the initial investment value to the ending investment value if you assume that the investment has been compounding over the time period.

General
C-band satellite

C-band is the original frequency allocation for communications satellites. C-Band uses 3.7-4.2GHz for downlink and 5.925-6.425Ghz for uplink. The lower frequencies that C Band uses perform better under adverse weather conditions than the Ku band or Ka-band frequencies.

See also: C-band

Satellite
CBT Computer Based Training Technology
CC Cost Center Oracle
CCB Change Control Board. In software development, a Change Control Board (CCB) or Software Change Control Board (SCCB) is a committee that makes decisions regarding whether or not proposed changes to a software project should be implemented. The change control board is constituted of project stakeholders or their representatives. Technology
CDNs

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to distribute service spatially relative to end-users to provide high availability and high performance.

See also: CDN

Technology
CFR - Cost and Freight

This term means the seller delivers when the goods pass the ship's rail in the port of shipment. Seller must pay the costs & freight necessary to bring the goods to the named port of destination, BUT the risk of loss or damage, as well as any additional costs due to events occurring after the time of delivery are transferred from seller to buyer. Seller must clear goods for export. This term can only be used for ocean transport.

General
CH3 Global Eagle site code for the Chicago Datacenter Global Eagle
CIO

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) oversees the people, processes and technologies within a company’s IT organization to ensure they deliver outcomes that support the goals of the business.

As digital becomes a core competency, the CIO plays a key leadership role in the critical strategic, technical and management initiatives — from information security and algorithms to customer experience and leveraging data — that mitigate threats and drive business growth.
 

Technology
CIP

This term is the same as CPT with the exception that the seller also has to procure insurance against the buyer's risk of loss or damage to the goods during the carriage. This term may be used for any mode of transportation.

General
Carriage and Insurance Paid

This term is the same as CPT with the exception that the seller also has to procure insurance against the buyer's risk of loss or damage to the goods during the carriage. This term may be used for any mode of transportation.

General
CISMS

Corporate Information Security Management System

General
CISO Chief Information Security Officer General
CLT

Commercial Leadership Team

General
CM Change Management General