- Industry: Telecommunications
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The changing from listening to transmissions intended for one broadcast area to listening to transmissions intended for another broadcast area. Note 1: An area broadcast shift may occur when a ship or aircraft crosses the boundary between listening areas. Note 2: Shift times, on the date a ship or aircraft is expected to pass into another area, must be strictly observed or the ship or aircraft will miss messages intended for it. Synonym radio watch shift.
Industry:Telecommunications
The circumvention or disablement of some element of computer security, with or without detection, which could result in a penetration of (a) the affected computer's software or data base (s,) or (b) another device or network to which the affected computer may also be connected.
Industry:Telecommunications
The chrominance vectors carrying the color information in a composite format. Note: The color-difference signals have been defined by the ITU-R for existing television systems.
Industry:Telecommunications
The characteristics of a system that cause it to suffer a definite degradation (incapability to perform the designated mission) as a result of having been subjected to a certain level of electromagnetic environmental effects.
Industry:Telecommunications
The character that indicates the end of the selection signal.
Industry:Telecommunications
The channels over which working traffic is normally transported.
Industry:Telecommunications
The channel that is designated as a prime transmission channel and is used as the first choice in restoring priority circuits. 2. In a communications network, the channel that has the highest data rate of all the channels sharing a common interface. Note: A primary channel may support the transfer of information in one direction only, either direction alternately, or both directions simultaneously.
Industry:Telecommunications
The channel of a data circuit that transmits data from the originating user to the destination user. Note: The forward channel carries message traffic and some control information.
Industry:Telecommunications
The channel allocated to transport the working traffic during diversity routing. When diversity routing is invoked, traffic on the affected working channels is bridged onto the protection channels.
Industry:Telecommunications
The changing of the state of a bit to the opposite state. 2. The changing of the state that represents a given bit, i.e., a 0 or a 1, to the opposite state. Note: For example, if a 1 is represented by a given polarity or phase at one stage in a circuit, the 1 is represented by the opposite polarity or phase at the next stage.
Industry:Telecommunications
