- Industry: Telecommunications
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A mechanism by which a program can manipulate data structures of any format, without knowing what that format might be.
Industry:Telecommunications
A mechanism incorporated into a terminal or into equipment in the network whereby a duplex communication path may be connected back upon itself so that the digits sent on the transmit path are returned on the receive path. Note: Loopback tests should be used only to check for circuit continuity and not for more subtle performance problems.
Industry:Telecommunications
A mechanism within a Target of Evaluation whose failure would create a security weakness.
Industry:Telecommunications
A medium capable of storing data in a form that can be accessed by an automated sensing device. Note: Examples of machine-readable media include (a) magnetic disks, cards, tapes, and drums, (b) punched cards and paper tapes, (c) optical disks, and (d) magnetic ink characters. Synonym automated data medium.
Industry:Telecommunications
A medium in which a significant amount of the energy of a propagating electromagnetic wave is absorbed per unit distance traveled by the wave.
Industry:Telecommunications
A member of the general class of microwave oscillators based on molecular interaction with electromagnetic radiation.
Industry:Telecommunications
A member of the set of network management signals used to establish, maintain, or release a call.
Industry:Telecommunications
A menu-based information searching tool that allows users to access various types of databases, such as FTP archives and white pages databases. Note 1: Gopher is most often used as an Internet browser. Note 2: Gopher software uses the client-server model.
Industry:Telecommunications
A message generated by the network and sent to the user terminal to indicate a congestion condition.
Industry:Telecommunications
A message generated following the occurrence of an auditable security-related event.
Industry:Telecommunications
