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General telecom
Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.
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General telecom
station message-detail recording (SMDR)
Telecommunications; General telecom
A record of all calls originated or received by a switching system. Note: SMDRs are usually generated by a computer.
history list
Telecommunications; General telecom
A record of the documents visited during a Web session, which list allows users to access previously visited pages more quickly or to generate a record of a user's progress. Synonym bookmark list, go ...
resource record
Telecommunications; General telecom
A record, within a domain name server, that describes an Internet resource. Note: A resource record consists mainly of a domain name, its type, and a value.
deregulation
Telecommunications; General telecom
A reduction in regulation of (a) tariffs, (b) market entry and exit, and/or (c) facilities in public telecommunication services.
run-length encoding
Telecommunications; General telecom
A redundancy-reduction technique for facsimile in which a run of consecutive picture elements having the same state (gray scale or color) is encoded into a single code word.
standard optical source
Telecommunications; General telecom
A reference optical source to which emitting and detecting devices are compared for calibration purposes. Note: In the United States, recognized standard optical sources must be traceable to the ...
time marker
Telecommunications; General telecom
A reference signal, often repeated periodically, enabling the correlation of specific events with a time scale, such as for establishing synchronization.
