Synonym dispersion-unshifted fiber.

Synonym dispersion-shifted fiber.

Any of a number of equipment interfaces compliant with voluntary industry standards developed by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) to define interface parameters.
Note 1: Some of the EIA interface standards have been adopted by the Federal Government as Federal Standards or Federal Information Processing Standards.
Note 2: The telecommunication-standards-developing bodies of the EIA are now part of the Telecommunications… (Read More →)

European Installation Bias

A systematic and comprehensive framework that a) consists of the ingredients that make up communications infrastructure, b) includes all of these ingredients, c) specifies the 8 ingredients of environment, power, hardware, software, network, payload, ASPR (Agreements, Standards Policy and Regulations; abbreviated as Policy) and human. This framework is used for understanding and mastering vulnerabilities, identifying disciplines, decomposing attributes, preparing for… (Read More →)

A service that allows call originators to place toll telephone calls to Toll-Free Subscribers, from within specified rate areas, without a charge to the call originator. 
Note: The Toll-Free series denotes the service access codes currently of 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, and 833 (As of June 3, 2017).

Excess Information Rate

Abbreviation for Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit bus standard that supports the features of microchannel architecture and that requires a special card for 32-bit operations, while maintaining compatibility with the older ISA (Industry Standard Architecture).

Emergency Information Services Interface

Event Information Table