Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a

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Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. This document provides federal departments and agencies a comprehensive source of definitions of terms used in

telecommunications Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...

and directly related fields by international and U.S. government telecommunications specialists. As a publication of the U.S. government, prepared by an agency of the U.S. government, it appears to be mostly available as a

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resource, but a few items are derived from copyrighted sources: where this is the case, there is an attribution to the source. This standard was superseded in 2001 by American National Standard T1.523-2001, Telecom Glossary 2000, which is published by ATIS. The old standard is still frequently used, because the new standard is protected by copyright, as usual for

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standards. A newer proposed standard is the "ATIS Telecom Glossary 2011", ATIS-0100523.2011.

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ATIS Telecom Glossary 2000 T1.523-2001
(successor)
Download of the standard

Development Site for proposed Revisions to American National Standard T1.523-2001
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