General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Single point of control

Telecommunications; General telecom

A control relationship where the same phase or aspect of a call/service attempt is influenced by one and only one service control function.

Asynchronous communications system

Telecommunications; General telecom

A data communications system that uses asynchronous operation. Note: The time spacing between successive data characters or blocks may be of arbitrary duration. Synonym start-stop system.

Start-stop system

Telecommunications; General telecom

A data communications system that uses asynchronous operation. Note: The time spacing between successive data characters or blocks may be of arbitrary duration. Synonym start-stop system.

A data compression technique that requires more processing capability to compress than to decompress. Note: Asymmetric compression is typically used for the mass distribution of programmes on media ...

Synchronous data network

Telecommunications; General telecom

A data network in which synchronism is achieved and maintained between data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE) and the data switching exchange (DSE,) and between DSEs. Note: The data signalling ...

Transmission frame

Telecommunications; General telecom

A data structure, beginning and ending with delimiters, that consists of fields predetermined by a protocol for the transmission of user data and control data.

Nonsynchronous data transmission channel

Telecommunications; General telecom

A data transmission channel in which separate timing information is not transferred between the data terminal equipment (DTE) and the data circuit terminating equipment (DCE. )