- Industry: Telecommunications
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Lack of direct proportionality of phase shift to frequency over the frequency range of interest.
Industry:Telecommunications
Local communications service provided by GSA to all Federal agencies located in a building, complex, or geographical area.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loop signaling in which battery and ground are reversed on the tip and ring of the loop to give an "off-hook" signal when the call receiver answers. Note: Reverse-battery signaling may be used either for a short period, or for the duration of a call, to indicate that it is a toll call.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, a prefix referring to anything related to computers or networking. Note 1: For example, a "cyber cafe" is a coffee shop that offers computer terminals for customers to browse the Internet while sipping coffee, and a "cybersleuth" is an investigator who researches and attempts to solve or find the cause of, unusual Internet occurrences. Note 2: While "cyber" is listed herein as colloquial, its use has become ubiquitous and it is rapidly becoming accepted as formal language.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength from 1 mm to 0. 1 mm (300 GHz to 3000 GHz. ) Note: Millimeter waves exhibit many of the properties usually associated with waves in the optical regime, e.g., they are easily concentrated into a beam.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength from 300 mm to 10 mm (1 GHz to 30 GHz. ) Note: Microwaves exhibit many of the properties usually associated with waves in the optical regime, e.g., they are easily concentrated into a beam.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, in the sense of a trunk between public and private switches, a synonym for central office connecting facility. See trunk.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, in the sense of a trunk between public and private switches, a synonym for central office trunk. See trunk.
Industry:Telecommunications
Loosely, the group of microwave frequencies from 4 GHz to 6 GHz used in satellite communications. 2. The band of satellite downlink frequencies between 3. 7 and 4. 2 GHz. Note 1: For federal procurement purposes, the radio frequency band (s) must be specified using the upper and lower limits of the band, per 47 CFR 300. Note 2: Letter designators of radio frequency bands are imprecise, and in the international community are deprecated and obsolete.
Industry:Telecommunications
