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A device having at least one output channel and one or more input channels, all characterized by discrete states, such that at any instant the state of each output channel is completely determined by the states of the input channels at the same instant.
The common use of communications facilities by two or more military services, each belonging to a different nation.
Note: Such use might be specified by a combined communications-electronics agency.
A distribution frame that combines the functions of main and intermediate distribution frames and contains both vertical and horizontal terminating blocks.
Note 1: The vertical blocks are used to terminate the permanent outside lines entering the station. Horizontal blocks are used to terminate inside plant equipment. This arrangement permits the association of any outside line with any desired terminal equipment.… (Read More →)
A load-sharing collection of more than one link set to the same message destination. [T1.226-1992]
In high-level data-link control (HDLC) operation, the station that is usually responsible for performing balanced link-level operations and that generates commands, interprets responses, interprets received commands, and generates responses.
Acronym for communications intelligence.
Synonym communications center.
A code constructed so that any partial code word, beginning at the start of a code word but terminating prior to the end of that code word, is not a valid code word.
Note 1: The comma-free property permits the proper framing of transmitted code words when (a) external synchronization is provided to identify the start of the first code… (Read More →)
1. An order for an action to take place.
2. In data transmission, an instruction sent by the primary station instructing a secondary station to perform some specific function.
3. In signaling systems, a control signal.
4. In computer programming, that part of a computer instruction word that specifies the operation to be performed.
5. Loosely, a mathematical or logic… (Read More →)
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