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Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
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.
With respect to data entry via a keyboard, determination of the accuracy of data entry by the re-entry of the same data through the same (or another) keyboard.
Industry:Telecommunications
Traffic that has not been route-advanced at any switching system.
Industry:Telecommunications
This is a combination of (a) exchange cable and wire facilities (b) exchange central office circuit equipment, including associated land and buildings and (c) information origination/termination equipment which forms a complete channel.
Industry:Telecommunications
Transmission in which a special-purpose modulator is used to convert digital signals into an analog form suitable for transmission over an analog voice-grade circuit. Note: A complementary demodulator is used to recover the digital signal at the other end of the circuit. See modem.
Industry:Telecommunications
The total corrective maintenance time divided by the total number of corrective maintenance actions during a given period of time.
Industry:Telecommunications
tap
To draw energy from a circuit. 2. To monitor, with or without authorization, the information that is being transmitted via a communications circuit. 3. To extract a portion of the signal from an optical fiber or communications link. Note: One method of tapping an optical fiber is to bend it to a relatively short radius, thus promoting radiation of a portion of the optical signal.
Industry:Telecommunications
The use of photonic devices rather than electronic devices to make or break connections within integrated circuits.
Industry:Telecommunications
The use on signal lines of voltage levels that are between the limits of positive and negative 6 volts. Synonym low-level keying.
Industry:Telecommunications
The use of interoperable systems, units, or forces.
Industry:Telecommunications
The uniform lengthening of all spacing signal pulses at the expense of the pulse width of all marking signal pulses.
Industry:Telecommunications