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EVC

Ethernet Virtual Connection

EVDO

Evolution Data Optimized

event

1. An occurrence or happening, usually significant to the performance of a function, operation, or task.
2. In Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), an instantaneous occurrence that changes at least one of the attributes of the global status of a managed object.
Note: An event (a) may be persistent or temporary, thus allowing for functions, such as surveillance, monitoring, and… (Read More →)

EVRC

Enhanced Variable Rate Codec

EW

Abbreviation for electronic warfare.

exalted-carrier reception

A method of receiving either amplitude- or phase-modulated signals in which method the carrier is separated from the sidebands, filtered and amplified, and then combined with the sidebands again at a higher level prior to demodulation. Synonym reconditioned carrier reception.

exception condition

In data transmission, the condition assumed by a device when it receives a command that it cannot execute.

excess insertion loss

Deprecated term. See insertion loss.
Note: Excess insertion loss was used to indicate that, in an optical-fiber coupler, the loss occasioned by dividing the input power among the ports is not the total insertion loss.

exchange

1. A room or building equipped so that telephone lines terminating there may be interconnected as required.
Note: The equipment may include manual or automatic switching equipment.
2. In the telephone industry, a geographic area (such as a city and its environs) established by a regulated telephone company for the provision of local telephone services.
3. In the Modification of… (Read More →)

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