Category:Telecommunications terms

A

• Absolute gain (physics)
• Adaptive communications
• ADSL loop extender
• AIDR
• Anisochronous
• Articulation score
• Asynchronous communication
• Asynchronous operation
• Attack time
• Attenuation to crosstalk ratio
• Audit (telecommunication)
• Audit trail
• Autonomous telepresence
• Availability
• Available Revenue Time
• Average call duration

B

• Back-channel
• Back-to-back connection
• Balance return loss
• Bearer service
• Bill shock
• Bipolar signal
• Black facsimile transmission
• Black recording
• Blind transmission
• BORSCHT
• Building Integrated Timing Supply
• Business internal dialing
• Busy hour
• Busy hour call attempts

C

• Call shop
• Call detail record
• Call-second
• Called subscriber identification
• Called party
• Calling party
• Carrier Ethernet
• Carrier frequency
• Carrier grade
• Carson bandwidth rule
• Channel reliability
• Clock domain crossing
• Combined distribution frame
• Communications jamming
• Communications survivability
• Communications, Media and Entertainment
• Complementary code keying
• Contention (telecommunications)
• Continuous transmission mode
• Conventional radio
• Crosstalk (electronics)
• Customer proprietary network information

D

• Data compaction
• Data link
• Data rate units
• Degree of start-stop distortion
• Demand load
• Demarc extension
• Design layout record
• Dial peer
• Dialer
• Dialer Management Platform
• Directive gain
• Distortion-limited operation
• Distribution frame
• Disturbance voltage
• Diversity combining

D cont.

• Drop (telecommunication)

E

• Effective Earth radius
• Effective data transfer rate
• Effective transmission rate
• End instrument
• Erlang (unit)
• Error vector magnitude
• Extinction ratio

F

• Facility (telecommunications)
• Falsing
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• Wikipedia:Federal Standard 1037C terms/telecommunication service terms
• Feeder line (network)
• Five by five
• Fixed Dialing Number
• Flow (computer networking)
• Four-wire terminating set
• Full width at half maximum

G

• Gating (telecommunication)
• Global Title
• Ground constants

H

• Hagelbarger code
• Halftone characteristic
• Hard copy
• Harvard sentences
• Hierarchical cell structure
• High Speed Link
• Hop count
• Hybrid balance

I

• IDTV
• Idf closet
• Independent clocks
• Index of cooperation
• Information transfer
• Information-bearer channel
• Information-transfer transaction
• Intelligent Network Interface Device
• Interchange circuit
• Intercharacter interval
• Intermediate distribution frame
• International gateway
• Interposition trunk

K

• K-factor (telecommunications)
• Kendall effect
• Keying (telecommunications)
• Krone LSA-PLUS

L

• Layered system
• Link (telecommunications)
• Link margin
• List of telephony terminology
• Loading
• Local Dialing Disparity
• Location Area Identity
• Logic Trunked Radio
• Longitudinal voltage
• Loop gain
• Loop start

M

• Main distribution frame
• Maximal-ratio combining
• Media gateway
• Mediation function
• Meet-me-room
• Mesochronous network
• Message format
• Misdialed call
• Mobile Internet growth
• Mobile phone penetration rate

M cont.

• Mobile phone signal
• Mobile switching centre server
• Modulation error ratio
• Multipoint Control Unit

N

• NGOSS
• Naked DSL
• Narrowcast
• Net gain
• NetExpert
• Network interface device
• Noise temperature
• Non-line-of-sight propagation

O

• Objective Systems Integrators
• On-hook
• Operations support system
• Operator logo
• Optical modulation amplitude
• Optical power budget
• Optical power margin
• Out-of-band infrastructure
• Overmodulation

P

• Personal numbering
• Phantom circuit
• Phase noise
• Phase perturbation
• Pilot signal
• Plesiochronous
• Plesiochronous difference
• Post over IP
• Power budget
• Power ramp
• Priority call
• Proceed-to-select
• Processing delay
• Propagation constant
• Protective distribution system
• Psophometric voltage
• Public call office
• Public data transmission service
• Pulse duration

Q

• Qualdir
• Quantization error
• Quasi-analog signal
• Queuing delay

R

• Radio silence
• Rayleigh fading
• Received noise power
• Receiver attack-time delay
• Recovery procedure
• Reference noise
• Reflection coefficient
• Release time (telecommunication)
• Remote call forwarding
• Round-trip delay time
• Route reestablishment notification
• Routing and wavelength assignment (RWA)
• Rural radio service

S

• Serial access
• Service Control Point
• Signal reflection
• Signal compression
• Signal regeneration
• Signal transition
• Simplex circuit
• Slave station
• Spectral width