- Industry: Telecommunications
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The smallest convenient division of a media stream (defined by the measurement system) that conveys an independent, self-contained unit of content, from among the content hierarchy levels present in the stream.
Industry:Telecommunications
The time required for the access arm of a direct-access storage device to be positioned on the appropriate track. Synonym positioning time.
Industry:Telecommunications
The sum of all the outage durations divided by the time period of measurement.
Industry:Telecommunications
The transmission of pulses from two or more digital sources in time-division sequence over a single path.
Industry:Telecommunications
Written matter intended to be transmitted by telegraphy for delivery to the addressee. This term also includes radiotelegrams unless otherwise specified. In this definition the term telegraphy has the same general meaning as defined in the 1979 General Worldwide Administrative Radio Conference Convention.
Industry:Telecommunications
Transmission and reception in which the same information signal is transmitted and received simultaneously on two or more independently fading carrier frequencies.
Industry:Telecommunications
Those aspects of the rules used in the formal specification of data that embody a specific representation of those data.
Industry:Telecommunications
To convert data by the use of a code, frequently one consisting of binary numbers, in such a manner that reconversion to the original form is possible. 2. Convert plain text to cipher text by means of a code. 3. To append redundant check symbols to a message for the purpose of generating an error detection and correction code.
Industry:Telecommunications
Time-division multiplexing in which connections to communication circuits are made on a statistical basis.
Industry:Telecommunications
To change a MAC label or Information Label to a label that dominates the current label but is not equivalent to the current label.
Industry:Telecommunications
