Contraction of Internet Network Information Center. The association of providers of domain-name registration, information, and database services to the Internet.

A single direct transmission channel, e.g., voice-frequency circuit, between central offices.

1. The ability of systems, units or forces to provide services to and accept services from other systems, units, or forces and to use the services so exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together. [JP 1-02]
2. The condition achieved among communications-electronics systems or items of communications-electronics equipment when information or services can be exchanged directly and satisfactorily between… (Read More →)

A document that establishes engineering and technical requirements that are necessary to be employed in the design of systems, units, or forces and to use the services so exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together.

The use of interoperable systems, units, or forces. [JP 1-02]

The input trunk channel multiplication ratio that is achieved through DSI. The interpolation gain is the ratio of the number of input transmission trunks to the number of DCME bearer channels where the same signal encoding rate is used for both trunk and bearer channels. [T1.309-1990]

1. A single direct transmission channel, e.g., voice-frequency circuit, between two positions of a large switchboard to facilitate the interconnection of other circuits appearing at the respective switchboard positions.
2. Within a technical control facility, a single direct transmission circuit, between positions in a testboard or patch bay, which circuit facilitates testing or patching between the respective positions.

To translate and to execute each source language statement of a computer program before translating and executing the next statement.

1. The transmission of a signal or combination of signals intended to trigger a response.
2. The process whereby a station or device requests another station or device to identify itself or to give its status.

A suspension of a process, such as the execution of a computer program, caused by an event external to that process, and performed in such a way that the process can be resumed. Synonym interruption.