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ATIS Telecom Glossary

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end-of-transmission character (EOT)

A transmission control character used to indicate the conclusion of a transmission that may have included one or more texts and any associated message headings.
Note: An EOT is often used to initiate other functions, such as releasing circuits, disconnecting terminals, or placing receive terminals in a standby condition.

end-to-end communication

A direct peer to peer communication of terminal equipment (TE) to TE, or TE to a network gateway supporting, for example, PSPDN interworking (public switched packet data network interworking). [T1.606-1990]

end-to-end confidentiality/integrity

1. A characteristic of preserving the privacy and/or unadulterated nature of communicated data across networks which may include, e.g., application relays in store-and-forward or chained applications.
2. The capability that the application relay should be able to forward data (or parts thereof) as received at the relay without needing to completely decode/decrypt that data. (See also ISO/IEC
1074
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end-to-end encipherment

Encipherment of data within or at the source end system, with the corresponding decipherment occurring only within or at the destination end system. (See also link-by-link encipherment. ) [7498-2]

end-to-end encryption

[The] encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without intermediate decryption. [INFOSEC-99]

end-to-end security

1. Safeguarding information in a secure telecommunication system by cryptographic or protected distribution system means from point of origin to point of destination. [NIS]
2. Safeguarding information in an information system (IS) from point of origin to point of destination. [INFOSEC-99]

end-to-end signaling

The capability changeover procedure to be used whenever the normal one cannot be accomplished (i.e., in case of some failure in the signaling terminal equipment or in case of inaccessibility between the two involved signaling points). [T1.110-1987]

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