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cutoff wavelength

1. The wavelength corresponding to the cutoff frequency.
2. In an uncabled single-mode optical fiber, the wavelength greater than which a particular waveguide mode ceases to be a bound mode.
Note 1: The cutoff wavelength is usually taken to be the wavelength at which the normalized frequency is equal to
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Note 2: The cabled cutoff wavelength is… (Read More →)

cutover

The physical changing of circuits or lines from one configuration to another.

CW

Control Word

CWM

Common Warehouse Metamodel

CWMP

CPE WAN Management Protocol

cyber

Loosely, a prefix referring to anything related to computers or networking.
Note 1: For example, a "cyber cafe" is a coffee shop that offers computer terminals for customers to browse the Internet while sipping coffee, and a "cybersleuth" is an investigator who researches and attempts to solve or find the cause of, unusual Internet occurrences.
Note 2: While "cyber" is… (Read More →)

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