In the Federal government, any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment (as defined in 41CFR) used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information.

In the Federal government, any organized combination of FIP equipment, software, services, support services, or related supplies.

Federal Information Processing Standard

[A] key management protocol based on public key cryptography. [INFOSEC-99]

1. A computer that (a) acts as an interface between two networks (e.g., the Internet and an private network, respectively), and (b) regulates traffic between those networks for the purpose of protecting the internal network from electronic attacks originating from the external network. The firewall is capable of handling the following tasks: (a) isolating internal and external traffic (a bridge… (Read More →)

1. Software that is embedded in a hardware device that allows reading and executing the software, but does not allow modification, e.g., writing or deleting data by an end user.
Note 1: An example of firmware is a computer program in a read-only memory (ROM) integrated circuit chip. A hardware configuration is usually used to represent the software.
Note 2:… (Read More →)

Of silica-based optical fibers, the transmission window at approximately 830 to 850 nm. [FAA]

A queuing discipline in which entities in a queue leave the queue in the same order in which they arrive.
Note 1: Service, when available, is offered to the entity that has been in the FIFO queue the longest.
Note 2: FIFO techniques are used in message switching.

A queuing discipline in which entities in a queue leave the queue in the reverse order from that in which they arrived.
Note: An understanding of FILO techniques is important in the understanding of store-and-forward capabilities in packing switching.

Traffic that has not been route-advanced at any switching system. [T
1. Rpt 11-1991]