- Industry: Telecommunications
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A de facto standard for modem commands from an attached CPU, used in most 1,200 and 2,400 b/s modems.
Industry:Telecommunications
A decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter as a unit of length and the kilogram as a unit of mass. Note: The modern form of the metric system is the International System of Units (SI. ) See International System of Units.
Industry:Telecommunications
A decoder that yields an analog level of 0 dBm at its output when the input is the digital milliwatt signal. Note: The signal is a 1-kHz sine wave.
Industry:Telecommunications
A dedicated data link that connects only two stations.
Industry:Telecommunications
A dedicated facility between a network switch and a subscriber termination.
Industry:Telecommunications
A definition of Federal Government functional requirements for open systems computer network products, including a common set of Open System Interconnection (OSI) data communication protocols that enables systems developed by different vendors to interoperate and enable the users of different applications on these systems to exchange information. Note 1: The OSI protocols were developed primarily by ISO and CCITT (now, ITU-T. ) Note 2: The GOSIP is a subset of the OSI protocols and is based on agreements reached by vendors and users of computer networks participating in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Implementors Workshop. Note 3: The GOSIP is described in the latest version of FIPS PUB 146.
Industry:Telecommunications
A delivered frame when the value of one or more bits in the frame is in error, or when some, but not all, bits in the frame are lost bits or extra bits (i.e., bits that were not present in the original signal. )
Industry:Telecommunications
A delivered frame, Fi, that arrives at the destination user after any of the frames F (i+1,) F (i+2,). . . Fn, assuming that F1 is transmitted first, F2, second, etc.
Industry:Telecommunications
A demountable device for attaching a cabled or uncabled optical fiber to another, or to an active device such as a transmitter. Note 1: A connector is distinguished by the fact that it may be disconnected and reconnected, as opposed to a splice, which permanently joins two fibers. Note 2: Optical connectors are sometimes erroneously referred to as "couplers. " Such usage is incorrect and is to be avoided.
Industry:Telecommunications
