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

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Federal Standard issued by the

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pursuant to the

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, as amended. This document provides federal departments and agencies a comprehensive source of definitions of terms used in

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that ...

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 This standard was superseded in 2001 by American National Standard T1.523-2001, Telecom Glossary 2000, which is published by ATIS.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 ANSI 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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