General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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attribute certificate

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of attributes and a public key certificate identifier that are made unforgeable by use of the digital signature created with a private key.

alarm status

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of attributes that describes the alarms currently defined for an object, for example, perceived severity, alarm state, etc. The alarm status of an object is a subset of the global status of ...

Personal Communications Service (PCS)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of capabilities that allows some combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service profile management. Note 1: The flexibility offered by PCS can supplement existing ...

language

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of characters, conventions, and rules that is used for conveying information.

subroutine

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of computer instructions (or pieces of code) that run within a program (or are called within a program) to carry out a predefined function or computation. Note: "Open" subroutines are ...

reference model

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of conventions and concepts, mutually agreed upon between the information system user and provider communities.

data bank

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of data related to a given subject and organized in such a way that it can be consulted by users. 2. A data repository accessible by local and remote users. Note: A data bank may contain ...