- Industry: Telecommunications
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
A waveguide that consists of a dielectric material surrounded by another dielectric material, such as air, glass, or plastic, with a lower refractive index. Note 1: An example of a dielectric waveguide is an optical fiber. Note 2: A metallic waveguide filled with a dielectric material is not a dielectric waveguide.
Industry:Telecommunications
A waveguide, of adjustable length, which varies the attenuation of signals passing through it.
Industry:Telecommunications
A way of doing real-time business transactions via telecommunications networks, when the customer and the merchant are in different geographical places. Note: Electronic commerce is a broad concept that includes virtual browsing of goods on sale, selection of goods to buy, and payment methods. Electronic commerce operates on a bona fide basis, without prior arrangements between customers and merchants. E-commerce operates via the Internet using all or any combination of technologies designed to exchange data (such as EDI or e-mail,) to access data (such as shared databases or electronic bulletin boards,) and to capture data (through the use of bar coding and magnetic or optical character readers. )
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web page designed to deliver content to users based on information obtained from users, from cookies, or from choices made by users as they access and click through a particular site.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web page feature in which hyperlinks are assigned ("mapped") to different portions of a graphic image, thereby allowing users to access links by clicking with a mouse on the mapped areas. Note: Image map requests are processed by CGI scripts on the server.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web page feature in which hyperlinks are assigned or "mapped" to different portions of a graphic image. Note: Users access links by using a mouse to click on mapped areas. ISMAP requests are processed by common gateway interface (CGI) scripts on the server.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web page that serves as a point of entry for surfers of the World Wide Web. Note: Most of the popular portals are designed to optimize their compatibility with one or more Web search engines. Many portals also offer value-added services such as e-mail accounts, Web page hosting, or filtered information flow, with the costs of these services being underwritten by advertising. Loosely synonymous with Web-page search engine.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web search engine that locates very precisely a few Web pages of particular interest according to the character strings or subject entered as the search topic.
Industry:Telecommunications
A web site intended for information sharing by the Federal Response Plan (FRP) community.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Web-browser plug-in that handles and stores a user's credit card and payment information.
Industry:Telecommunications
