Synonym common carrier.

Evaluations conducted under UK Information Technology Evaluation and Certification Scheme may only take place in approved evaluation facilities. Commercial companies wishing to offer evaluation services may be licensed by the Certification Body of the Scheme as Commercial Licensed Evaluation Facilities [CESG].

In military communications systems, the processing of a message from (a) a given military network, such as a tape-relay network, a point-to-point telegraph network, a radio-telegraph network, or the DSN to (b) a commercial communications network.
Note: Commercial refiling of a message will usually require a reformatting of the message, particularly the heading.

The application, i.e., insertion, of information into any data repository of an integrated database management system in a distributed local communications network.

A single electrical power source used to energize more than one circuit, component, equipment, or system.
Note 1: A common battery is usually an electrolytic device and is usually centrally located to the equipment that it serves.
Note 2: In many telecommunications applications, the common battery is at a nominal -48 Vdc.
Note 3: A central office common battery supplies… (Read More →)

The set of metallic components that are intentionally or incidentally interconnected to provide the principal means for effecting bonding and grounding inside a telecommunications building. These components include: structural steel or reinforcing rods, metallic plumbing, ac power conduit, cable racks, and bonding conductors. The CBN is connected to the exterior grounding electrode system. Synonym integrated ground plane. [After T1.320-1994]

In a telecommunications context, a telecommunications company that holds itself out to the public for hire to provide communications transmission services.
Note: In the United States, such companies are usually subject to regulation by Federal and state regulatory commissions. Synonyms carrier, commercial carrier, communications common carrier, [and, loosely] interexchange carrier.

Channels between switching offices used to transmit signaling information independent of the subscribers' communication paths or transmission channels. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]

A network consisting of two or more signaling points and connecting common channel signaling links that are administered in common. [T1.110-1987]

An automatic switching arrangement in which the control equipment necessary for the establishment of connections is shared by being associated with a given call only during the period required to accomplish the control function for the given call.
Note: In common control, the channels that are used for signaling, whether frequency bands or time slots, are not used for message… (Read More →)