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General telecom
Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.
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breakout cable
Telecommunications; General telecom
A multifiber fiber-optic cable design in which individual fibers, usually tight-buffered, are surrounded by separate strength members and jackets, which are in turn enveloped by a common jacket. Note ...
circulator
Telecommunications; General telecom
A passive junction of three or more ports in which the ports can be accessed in such an order that when power is fed into any port it is transferred to the next port, the first port being counted as ...
pulse broadening
Telecommunications; General telecom
An increase in pulse duration. Note: Pulse broadening may be specified by the impulse response, the root-mean-square pulse broadening, or the full-duration-at-half-maximum pulse broadening.
line speed
Telecommunications; General telecom
The rate at which a carrier is varied to represent the information in a digital signal. Note: Modulation rate and information transfer rate are not necessarily the same. 2. For modulated digital ...
expansion
Telecommunications; General telecom
The restoration of the dynamic range of a compressed signal to its original dynamic range.
space-division switching
Telecommunications; General telecom
In telephony, switching in which single transmission-path routing determination is accomplished in a switch by using a physically separated set of matrix contacts or cross-points.
