General telecom

General telecom

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Data service unit (DSU)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device used for interfacing data terminal equipment (DTE) to the public telephone network. 2. A type of short-haul, synchronous-data line driver, usually installed at a user location, that connects ...

Permuter

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device used in crypto-equipment to change the order in which the contents of a shift register are used in various nonlinear combining circuits.

Data scrambler

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device used in digital transmission systems to convert digital signals into a pseudorandom sequence that is free from long strings of simple patterns, such as marks and spaces. Note: The data ...

Wave trap

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device used to exclude unwanted frequency components, such as noise or other interference, of a wave. Note: Traps are usually tunable to permit selection of unwanted or interfering signals.

Randomizer

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device used to invert the sense of pseudorandomly selected bits of a bit stream to avoid long sequences of bits of the same sense. Note: The same selection pattern must be used on the receive ...