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EMTEL

Emergency Telecommunications

emulate

To duplicate the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second system appears to behave like the first system.
Note: For example, a computer emulates another, different computer by accepting the same data, executing the same programs, and achieving the same results.

EN

Enterprise Network

en-bloc signaling

Signaling in which address digits are transmitted in one or more blocks, each block containing sufficient address information to enable switching centers to carry out progressive onward routing.

Enabled

When applied to privilege: a privilege that is active, i.e., has its effective flag set [POSIX.6].

encapsulation

In open systems, the technique used by layered protocols in which a lower layer protocol accepts a message from a higher layer protocol and places it in the data portion of a frame in the lower layer.

encipher

1. [To] Convert plain text into an unintelligible form by means of a cipher. [NIS]
2. [To] convert plain text to cipher text by means of a cryptographic system. [INFOSEC-99]

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