General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Semi-permanent connexion

Telecommunications; General telecom

A connexion established via a service order or via network management.

Switched multimegabit data services (SMDS)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A connectionless, broadband, packet-switched data service that provides LAN-like performance and features in metropolitan or wide areas. Note: Currently SMDS operates at 1. 544 Mb/s (megabits per ...

A connector that contains contacts for more than one type of service. Note: Examples of hybrid connectors are those that have contacts for both optical fibres and twisted pairs, electric power and ...

Binary element

Telecommunications; General telecom

A constituent element of data that takes either of two values or states. Note: Binary element should not be confused with binary digit.

Digital audio tape (DAT)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A consumer audio-recording and playback medium/format that maintains a signal quality equal to that of the CD-ROM medium/format.

Authentication element

Telecommunications; General telecom

A contiguous group of characters or bits that are corruption-protected by being processed by the authentication algorithm.

Distortion

Telecommunications; General telecom

In a system or device, any departure of the output signal waveform from that which should result from the input signal waveform's being operated on by the system's specified, i.e., ideal, transfer ...