- Industry: Telecommunications
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
The U. S. Government board of five presidential appointees that has the authority to regulate all non-Federal Government interstate telecommunications (including radio and television broadcasting) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States. Note: Similar authority for regulation of Federal Government telecommunications is vested in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA. )
Industry:Telecommunications
To convert data by reversing the effect of previous encoding. 2. To interpret a code. 3. Convert encoded text into plain text by means of a code. Note: Decoding does not include deriving plain text by cryptanalysis.
Industry:Telecommunications
The simultaneous transmission of the signal elements of a character or other data item. 2. In digital communications, the simultaneous transmission of related signal elements over two or more separate paths. Note: Protocols for parallel transmission, such as those used for computer ports, have been standardized by ANSI.
Industry:Telecommunications
The syntactic representation for a 32-bit integer that consists of four 8-bit numbers written in base 10 with periods (dots) separating them. Note: The dotted decimal notation is used to represent IP addresses in the Internet.
Industry:Telecommunications
Unintentional signals that, if intercepted and analyzed, would disclose the information transmitted, received, handled, or otherwise processed by information systems equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
To move around (a) within a series of Web pages, or (b) among different Web pages, by following hyperlinked paths within each document. Synonyms browsing, surfing.
Industry:Telecommunications
The steps required to obtain the use of a system or device. Note: Examples of access paths are (a) the operations required of a database management system to obtain access to a database and (b) the sequence of steps required to reach a file.
Industry:Telecommunications
Within a laser, the material that emits coherent radiation or exhibits gain as the result of electronic or molecular transitions to a lower energy state or states, from a higher energy state or states to which it had been previously stimulated. Note: Examples of active laser media include certain crystals, gases, glasses, liquids, and semiconductors. Synonym laser medium.
Industry:Telecommunications
The untimely occurrence of an event or a combination of events that, according to the protocol, should result in a disconnection. In addition, the occurrence of one or more of the following criteria generated between the portion boundaries is defined to be a premature disconnect stimulus: (a) bit error ratio worse than 10nb, for Xb number of consecutive observation periods of Nb duration; (b) block error ratio worse than 10nB, for XB number of consecutive observation periods of NB duration; (c) more than X number of consecutive severely errored units of time. Receipt of a premature disconnect stimulus may result in a connection being disconnected and then reestablished. Note: Only that subset of these criteria specified for a given service is considered.
Industry:Telecommunications
The use of a computer system to manipulate text. Note: Examples of word processing functions include entering, editing, rearranging, sorting, storing, retrieving, displaying, and printing text. Synonym text processing.
Industry:Telecommunications
