- Industry: Telecommunications
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A transmission line composed of a twisted 2-wire metallic transmission line surrounded by a sheath of conductive material that protects it from the effects of external fields and confines fields produced within the line.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission line consisting of two conductors in the presence of ground, capable of being operated in such a way that when the voltages of the two conductors at all transverse planes are equal in magnitude and opposite in polarity with respect to ground, the currents in the two conductors are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Note: A balanced line may be operated in an unbalanced condition. Synonym balanced signal pair.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission line in a long-distance communications network. Note: Examples of long lines are TDM and FDM carrier systems, microwave radio links, geosynchronous satellite links, underground cables, aerial cables and open wire, and submarine cables.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission line that has distributed electrical properties, i.e., resistance, inductance, and capacitance per unit length, that are constant along the line, and in which the voltage-to-current ratio does not vary with distance along the line, if the line is terminated in its characteristic impedance. Note 1: Examples of uniform transmission lines are coaxial cables, twisted pairs, and single wires at constant height above ground, all of which have no changes in geometry, materials, or construction along their length. Note 2: In a uniform transmission line, signal attenuation is a function of the length of the line and the frequency of the signal.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission line, or equivalent device, used to delay a signal. 2. A single-input-channel device, such as a single-input sequential logic element, in which the output channel state at a given instant, t, is the same as the input channel state at the instant t-n, where n is a number of time units, i.e., the input sequence undergoes a delay of n time units, such as n femtoseconds, nanoseconds, or microseconds. Note: The delay line may have additional taps yielding output channels with values less than n.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission line, such as a coaxial cable, in which the magnitudes of the voltages on the two conductors are not equal with respect to ground.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission path between end user terminal equipment and a switching center. 2. A channel between an end user's network interface and local end office. Synonym loop. 3. A communications facility extending from a customer's premises to a serving central office comprising a subscriber line and, if necessary, a trunk facility, e.g., a WATS access line, TWX access line.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission system in which (a) all circuits carry digital signals and (b) the signals are combined into one or more serial bit streams that include all framing and supervisory signals. Note: A-D/D-A conversion, if required, is accomplished external to the system.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission system that uses concentrators or multiplexers so that fewer wire pairs may be used than would otherwise be required to provide service to a given number of subscribers.
Industry:Telecommunications
A transmission-control character used for (a) switching on an answer-back unit in the station with which the connection has been established, (b) triggering the receiving unit to transmit an answer-back code to the terminal that transmitted the WRU signal, and (c) initiating a response that might include station identification, an indication of the type of equipment that is in service, and the status of the station. Note 1: The WRU signal corresponds to the 7-bit code assigned to the WRU. Note 2: The receiving unit may be a telegraph unit, data terminal equipment (DTE,) or other unit. Synonym WRU.
Industry:Telecommunications
