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General telecom
Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.
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Backup
Telecommunications; General telecom
A copy of files and programmes made to facilitate recovery, if necessary. 2. See backup file.
Sector alignment
Telecommunications; General telecom
A copy-protection technique for copy protection that determines whether a diskette is an unauthorised copy by checking whether sectors are positioned properly from track to track.
Delay equaliser
Telecommunications; General telecom
A corrective network designed to make the phase delay or envelope delay of a circuit or system substantially constant over a desired frequency range.
Phase equaliser
Telecommunications; General telecom
A corrective network designed to make the phase delay or envelope delay of a circuit or system substantially constant over a desired frequency range.
Amplitude equaliser
Telecommunications; General telecom
A corrective network that is designed to modify the amplitude characteristics of a circuit or system over a desired frequency range. Note: Such devices may be fixed, manually adjustable, or ...
Leaky bucket counter
Telecommunications; General telecom
A counter that is incremented by one each time an event occurs and is decremented by a fixed value periodically.
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Telecommunications; General telecom
A cryptographic algorithm for the protection of unclassified computer data and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ...
