General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Direct call

Telecommunications; General telecom

A facility-handled call in which the network interprets the call request signal as an instruction to establish a connexion based on previously designated user information.

Service-provider portability

Telecommunications; General telecom

A faculty that allows an end user to retain the same directory number after changing from one service provider to another.

Network Impacting Event

Telecommunications; General telecom

A failure (hardware, software, human, or process) of a telecommunications network component that prevents call completion.

A family of television systems that is intended to be improvements over current commercial-quality television. Note: The ATV family includes improved-definition television (IDTV,) extended-definition ...

Remote linked registration

Telecommunications; General telecom

A feature by which a linked registration for one specified terminal address can be carried out from another terminal address.

Open dual bus

Telecommunications; General telecom

A dual bus in which the head-of-bus functions for both buses are at different locations.

DX signalling unit

Telecommunications; General telecom

A duplex signalling unit that repeats "E" and "M" lead signals into a cable pair (s) via "A" and "B" leads. These signals are transmitted on the same cable pair (s) that transmit (s) the message.