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ALC

Asynchronous Layered Coding

Alert Identifier

A textual or numeric label unique to each alert event which may be used by receiving devices to identify a given alert message as a duplicate transmission of a previously-processed alert. This identifier may be provided by the Service Provider to consumer-domain devices to allow the ITF to avoid re-displaying previously displayed alert messages.

Alert Priority

An integer value that indicates the priority of the alert

alerting signal

A signal used by the network to indicate the presence of an incoming call. It consists of a ringing signal periodically interrupted by silent (no ringing signal) intervals. [T1.401-1988]

ALG

Application Layer Gateways

algorithm identifier

In encryption, a unique identifier or recognizer for a given encryption or hash algorithm, together with any required parameters. [After X9.31-1]

algorithmic language

An artificial language established for expressing a given class of algorithms.

ALI

Automatic Location Identification

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