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ATIS Telecom Glossary

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undesired signal

Any signal that tends to produce degradation in the operation of equipment or systems.

undetected error ratio

The ratio of the number of bits, unit elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received and undetected, to the total number of bits, unit elements, characters, or blocks sent. Synonyms residual error rate, undetected error rate [deprecated].

undisturbed day

A day during which neither sunspot activity nor ionospheric disturbance causes detectable interfere with radio communications.

unequipped indication

A code placed in unequipped channels by originating equipment to indicate to path terminating equipment that the channel is intentionally unoccupied so that alarms can be inhibited. [T1.105-1988]

unexpected frame

A valid frame that cannot be processed. The frame itself is perfectly legitimate. Its unexpected character is defined by two conditions: the specific type of frame and the state of the receiver. [T1.218-1991] The layer-2 protocol states define the proper sequence in which frames are expected to occur. The receiver will compare received frames with its own protocol state to… (Read More →)

UNI

User-to-Network Interface

UNICORE

Uniform Interface to Computing Resources

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