- Industry: Telecommunications
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A six-bit field that defines message length and that is used to differentiate between message signal units, link status signal units, and fill-in signal units.
Industry:Telecommunications
A slab-dielectric waveguide that consists of multilayered films of material of different optical characteristics, is capable of guiding an optical signal, and may be used as a component in integrated optical circuits.
Industry:Telecommunications
A slang term for The Internet or NII. See National Information Infrastructure.
Industry:Telecommunications
A slot dedicated by the head-of-bus function for transferring isochronous service octets.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small (pocket-size or smaller,) specialized, portable computing device, with a self-contained power source, designed to (a) accept as inputs; (b) store; and (c) read out, user-designated information, usually appointments, telephone numbers, etc.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small (pocket-size,) hand-held computer, often including network-access software, personal-schedule software, and a basic word processor.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small application-program component that typically executes in a client's Web browser, but can execute in a variety of other simple applications or devices; Java applets support the applet programming model and may be downloaded through the Internet via a Web site and run directly on a remote computer; Java applets are often used to create Web page effects.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small piece of information that is automatically stored on a client computer by a Web browser and referenced to identify repeat visitors to a Web site and to tailor information in anticipation of the visitor's interests. Note: Some privacy advocates have objected to the use of cookies without a user's consent. 2. A general mechanism that server side connections (such as CGI scripts) can use both to store and to retrieve information on the client side of the connection. Note 1: A server, when returning an HTTP object to a client, may also send a piece of state information that the client will store. Included in that state object is a description of the range of URLs for which that state is valid. Any future HTTP requests made by the client that fall in that range will include a transmittal of the current value of the state object from the client back to the server. The state object is called a cookie. This simple mechanism provides a tool that enables new types of applications to be written for Web-based environments. Shopping applications can now store information about the currently selected items, for-fee services can send back registration information and free the client from retyping a user ID on subsequent connections, sites can store per-user preferences on the client, and have the client supply those preferences every time that site is accessed. Note 2: Session cookies are volatile in that they disappear at the end of a session, whereas persistent cookies are retained from one session to the next. Synonym magic cookie.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small radio receiver designed to be carried by a person and to give an aural, visual, or tactile indication when activated by the reception of a radio signal containing its specific code. It may also reproduce sounds and/or display messages that were also transmitted. Some pagers also transmit a radio signal acknowledging that a message has been received. Synonym beeper.
Industry:Telecommunications
A small radio receiver designed to be carried by a person and to give an aural, visual, or tactile indication when activated by the reception of a radio signal containing its specific code. It may also reproduce sounds and/or display messages that were also transmitted. Some pagers also transmit a radio signal acknowledging that a message has been received. Synonym beeper.
Industry:Telecommunications
