- 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.
Within a facility, a separate battery power source that satisfies all significant requirements for dc input power associated with the facility. Note: Station batteries are usually centrally located. The batteries may power radio and telephone equipment as well as provide emergency lighting and controls for the equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
The term "communications common carrier" as used in this part means any person (individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, or other entity) engaged as a common carrier for hire, in interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or in interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy, including such carriers as are described in subsection 2 (b) (2) and (3) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and, in addition, for purposes of subpart H of this part, includes any individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, or other entity which owns or controls, directly or indirectly, or is under direct or indirect common control with, any such carrier. 2. Any person engaged in rendering communication service for hire to the public. Synonym common carrier.
Industry:Telecommunications
The U. S. Government board of five presidential appointees that has the authority to regulate all non-Federal Government interstate telecommunications (including radio and television broadcasting) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States. Note: Similar authority for regulation of Federal Government telecommunications is vested in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA. )
Industry:Telecommunications
The Trunk Gateway provides an access interface between traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) circuit-based networks and packet networks. Examples of the PSTN trunk interfaces are Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP,) Primary Rate Interface (PRI,) Multi Frequency (MF) and Digital Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF. ) The Trunk Gateway may also support an interface for line based Generic Requirement GR-303/TR-08 remote terminals. The Trunk Gateway may be connected to the network via various bit-rate and physical layer interfaces. A Call Agent provides the specific call control, call processing and other management functions for the trunks terminated on the Trunk Gateway.
Industry:Telecommunications
The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) standard protocol that (a) is used to manage and control IP gateways and the networks to which they are attached, (b) uses IP directly, bypassing the masking effects of TCP error correction, (c) has direct access to IP datagrams on a network that may be operating abnormally, thus requiring management, (d) defines a set of variables that the gateway must store, and (e) specifies that all control operations on the gateway are a side-effect of fetching or storing those data variables, i.e., operations that are analogous to writing commands and reading status.
Industry:Telecommunications
The time scale established by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM--International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, France) on the basis of atomic clock data supplied by cooperating institutions.
Industry:Telecommunications
The three digit code following the NPA code in a TN, i.e., digits D-E-F of a 10-digit NANP Area address.
Industry:Telecommunications
The term refers to the entity or entities responsible for administering a thousands-block number pool (FCC 00-104, § 52. 7 (g). )
Industry:Telecommunications
The term denotes the appropriate limits, e.g., acceptance and immediate action limits, of the Access Service transmission parameters.
Industry:Telecommunications
The term "Transmission Measuring (105 Type) Test Line/Responder" denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides far-end access to a responder and permits two-way loss and noise measurements to be made on trunks from a near end office.
Industry:Telecommunications
