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General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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colour decoder

Telecommunications; General telecom

In color television technology, of a receiver, the circuitry that separates the chroma information from the video (gray-scale) information and processes the former into its constituent signal ...

colour phase

Telecommunications; General telecom

In color television technology, the instantaneous phase of the chroma signal with respect to that of the color burst signal. Note: The phase of the chroma signal at any given instant determines the ...

phone booth

Telecommunications; General telecom

A payphone, surrounded by a small structure for protection and privacy.

Application protocol

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of rules and formats (semantic and syntactic) that determines the communication behaviour of application entities in the performance of application functions.

Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A high-speed multiplexing and switching method utilising fixed-length cells of 53 octets to support multiple types of traffic. Note: ATM, specified in international standards, is asynchronous in the ...

Circuit switching

Telecommunications; General telecom

A method of routing traffic through a switching center, from local users or from other switching centers, whereby a connexion is established between the calling and called stations until the ...

Extranet

Telecommunications; General telecom

An intranet that has been extended to include access to or from selected external organisations such as customers or suppliers, but not the general public. Note: connexions may be via leased lines, ...

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