- Industry: Telecommunications
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The set of functions used for setting up, maintaining, and releasing a communication path between two or more users or a user and a network entity, e.g., a dual-tone multifrequency receiver.
Industry:Telecommunications
The set of databases that performs the correspondence between an IP address and the fully qualified domain name. Note: The domain name system contains a kind of naming tree for IP addresses, hosts, and domains, identifying each Internet node unambiguously. 2. The online distributed database system that (a) is used to map human-readable addresses into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, (b) has servers throughout the Internet to implement hierarchical addressing that allows a site administrator to assign machine names and addresses, (c) supports separate mappings between mail destinations and IP addresses, and (d) uses domain names that (i) consist of a sequence of names, i.e., labels, separated by periods, i.e., dots, (ii) usually are used to name Internet host computers uniquely, (iii) are hierarchical, and (iv) are processed from right to left, such as the host nic. Ddn. Mil has a name (nic -- the Network Information Center,) a subdomain (ddn -- the Defense Data Network,) and a primary domain (mil -- the MILNET. )
Industry:Telecommunications
The set of conditions (e.g., voltage, temperature, humidity, and the like) over which the specified parameters maintain their stated performance rating.
Industry:Telecommunications
The set of characteristics of an emission, designated by standard symbols, e.g., type of modulation of the main carrier, modulating signal, type of information to be transmitted, and also, if appropriate, any additional signal characteristics.
Industry:Telecommunications
The set of attributes of an entity, described at a particular time, when that set is extended to every occurrence of that entity within a prescribed boundary. 2. The complete set of attributes necessary to describe an entity at a particular time.
Industry:Telecommunications
The Service Provider to which a thousands-block (NXX-X) has been assigned for use.
Industry:Telecommunications
The service area of a broadcast station served by the skywave and not subject to objectionable interference and in which the signal is subject to intermittent variations in strength.
Industry:Telecommunications
The service area of a broadcast station in which the groundwave is not subject to objectionable interference or objectionable fading.
Industry:Telecommunications
The server maintaining and distributing the correct date and time over a computer network. Note: There is usually a special time-distribution protocol.
Industry:Telecommunications
The sequential transmission of the signal elements of a group representing a character or other entity of data. Note: The characters are transmitted in a sequence over a single line, rather than simultaneously over two or more lines, as in parallel transmission. The sequential elements may be transmitted with or without interruption. Synonym sequential transmission.
Industry:Telecommunications
