- Industry: Telecommunications
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An automated PBX service feature that provides for outgoing calls to be dialed directly from the user terminal. Synonym network outward dialing.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic device that receives, amplifies, and retransmits a signal on a different frequency. 2. An automatic device that transmits a predetermined message in response to a predefined received signal. Note: An example of transponders is in identification-friend-or-foe systems and air-traffic-control secondary radar (beacon radar) systems. 3. A receiver-transmitter that will generate a reply signal upon proper interrogation.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic dial telephone system in which calls are switched by a succession of switches that move a step at a time, from stage to stage, each step being made in response to the dialing of a number.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic message accounting system that serves more than one switch from a central location. Note: When using CAMA, human intervention may be required.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic or manual cryptographic process that irreversibly modifies the state of a COMSEC key, equipment, device, or system.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic radio transmitter in the meteorological aids service usually carried on an aircraft, free balloon, kite, or parachute, and which transmits meteorological data.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic switching arrangement in which the control equipment necessary for the establishment of connections is shared by being associated with a given call only during the period required to accomplish the control function for the given call. Note: In common control, the channels that are used for signaling, whether frequency bands or time slots, are not used for message traffic.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic switching system that makes use of common equipment to establish a connection. Note: The common equipment then becomes available to establish other connections.
Industry:Telecommunications
An automatic, integrated and interconnected maritime communications system serving ship stations on specified inland and coastal waters of the United States.
Industry:Telecommunications
An early (ca. 1981) store-and-forward digital communications network interconnecting universities and research institutions worldwide. Note: BITNET, which is now obsolete, had a purpose akin to that of the present Internet, but was not nearly so robust, and at a speed of only 9600 b/s, it could not support the data rates presently attainable via the Internet.
Industry:Telecommunications
