- Industry: Telecommunications
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A computer that provides e-mail management and storage space for messages pertaining to a group of subscribers.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computerized system that allows linked computers to conduct business transactions, such as invoicing and ordering, over a telecommunications network.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer-operating-system command for accessing limited network-user-account information. Note: Finger is limited to providing information such as the full name of the account holder and address information, intentionally made public by the account holder. Finger is also used to establish the existence of an address and to discover whether or not the account is currently logged on.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer-oriented language (a) in which instructions are symbolic and usually in one-to-one correspondence with sets of machine language instructions and (b) that may provide other facilities, such as the use of macro instructions. Synonym computer-dependent language.
Industry:Telecommunications
A COMSEC facility generating and distributing key in electrical form.
Industry:Telecommunications
A COMSEC item used to transfer or store key in electronic form or to insert key into a crypto-equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
A concatenation of VCLs (virtual channel links) that extends between the points where the ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) service users access the ATM Layer. The points at which the ATM cell payload is passed to, or received from, the user of the ATM Layer (i.e., a higher layer or ATM management entity) for processing, signifying the endpoints of a VCC. VCCs are unidirectional.
Industry:Telecommunications
A concealed microphone or listening device or other audiosurveillance device. 2. A mistake in a computer program. 3. To install means for audiosurveillance. 4. A semiautomatic telegraph key. 5. A mistake or malfunction.
Industry:Telecommunications
A concept, defined in ANSI standards, for an optical-fiber-based token-ring network, featuring (a) dual counter-rotating logical rings, each with a data transmission capacity of 100 Mb/s, (b) reliable data transfer, (c) active link monitoring, (d) station management, and (e) survivability features. Note 1: The four standards are (a) ANSI X3T9. 5, containing Physical Media Dependent (PMD) specifications, (b) ANSI X3T9. 5, containing the Physical (PHY) specifications, (c) ANSI X3. 139, containing Media Access Control (MAC) specifications, and (d) ANSI X39. 5, containing the Station Management (SMT) specifications. Note 2: The data rate of an FDDI ring may be doubled to 200 Mb/s, with loss of redundancy. Note 3: FDDI-2, a second-generation FDDI network standard, is under development.
Industry:Telecommunications
A condition existing when access control is applied to all users and components of an information system (IS. )
Industry:Telecommunications
