This is a List of telecommunications terminology and acronyms which relate to telecommunications.
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Coded set
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Customer office terminal
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Data forwarder
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Digital multiplex hierarchy In telecommunications, a digital multiplex hierarchy is a hierarchy consisting of an ordered repetition of tandem digital multiplexers that produce signals of successively higher data rates at each level of the hierarchy.
Digital multiplexing hiera ...
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Duplex
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Exempted addressee
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Frame synchronization
In telecommunications, frame synchronization or framing is the process by which, while receiving a stream of fixed-length frames, the receiver identifies the frame boundaries, permitting the data bits within the frame to be extracted for decodin ...
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Free-space optical communication
Free-space optical communication (FSO) is an optical communication technology that uses light propagating in free space to wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications or computer networking over long distances. "Free space" means air, oute ...
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Functional profile
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Group alerting and dispatching system
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Hop
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Horn
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Hybrid routing
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Mechanically induced modulation
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Micro-mainframe link
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Multiplexing
In telecommunications and computer networking, multiplexing (sometimes contracted to muxing) is a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium. The aim is to share a scarce resource†...
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Noise (signal processing)
In signal processing, noise is a general term for unwanted (and, in general, unknown) modifications that a signal may suffer during capture, storage, transmission, processing, or conversion.Vyacheslav Tuzlukov (2010), ''Signal Processing Noise'', ...
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Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
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Primary station
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Radio receiver
In radio communications, a radio receiver, also known as a receiver, a wireless, or simply a radio, is an electronic device that receives radio waves and converts the information carried by them to a usable form. It is used with an antenna. ...
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Ringaround
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Spatial application
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Transmission medium
A transmission medium is a system or substance that can mediate the propagation of signals for the purposes of telecommunication. Signals are typically imposed on a wave of some kind suitable for the chosen medium. For example, data can modula ...
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Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna (radio), antenna with the purpose of sig ...
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Wireless mobility management
See also
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Federal Standard 1037C
Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, ...
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List of telecommunications encryption terms
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Outline of telecommunication
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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 ...
External links
"http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/fs-1037c.htm"– Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
References
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