General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Optical fibre transfer function

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mathematical statement that describes the transfer characteristics of a system, subsystem, or equipment. 2. The relationship between the input and the output of a system, subsystem, or equipment in ...

Rayleigh distribution

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mathematical statement, usually applied to frequency distributions of random variables, for the case in which two orthogonal variables are independent and normally distributed with unit variance.

Cryptographic key

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mathematical value that is used (a) in an algorithm to generate cypher text from plain text or vice versa, and (b) to determine the operation of a cryptographic function (e.g., the synchronised ...

Routing table

Telecommunications; General telecom

A matrix associated with a network control protocol, which gives the hierarchy of link routing at each node.

Routing directory

Telecommunications; General telecom

A matrix associated with a network control protocol, which gives the hierarchy of link routing at each node.

Acoustic wave

Telecommunications; General telecom

A longitudinal wave that (a) consists of a sequence of pressure pulses or elastic displacements of the material, whether gas, liquid, or solid, in which the wave propagates, (b) in gases, consists of ...