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General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of notification information that consists of the documentation of the actual sequence of intermediate networks traversed by a signalling message. The documentation of the sequence of networks ...

Limited protection

Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of short-term communications security applied to the electromagnetic or acoustic transmission of unclassified information that warrants a degree of protection against simple analysis and easy ...

Television (TV)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of telecommunication for the transmission of transient images of fixed or moving objects. Note 1: The picture signal is usually accompanied by the sound signal. Note 2: In North America, TV ...

Telegraphy

Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of telecommunication which is concerned in any process providing transmission and reproduction at a distance of documentary matter, such as written or printed matter or fixed images, or the ...

Telegraph

Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of telecommunication which is concerned in any process providing transmission and reproduction at a distance of documentary matter, such as written or printed matter or fixed images, or the ...

Facsimile (FAX)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A form of telegraphy for the transmission of fixed images, with or without half-tones, with a view to their reproduction in a permanent form. In this definition the term telegraphy has the same ...

Process interface system

Telecommunications; General telecom

A functional unit that adapts process control equipment to the computer system in a process computer system.

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