Data processing in which some input/output functions are performed by devices that are connected to a computer system by means of data communication.

An access line (e.g., for WATS or TWX service) between a subscriber's premises in one toll rate center and a serving central office located in a different toll rate center. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]

In a PVP (packetized voice protocol) node, an indication that the far-end PVP node is experiencing an alarm condition. This occurs because of either the loss of keep-alive signaling packets, or the receipt of signaling packets with the normal/alarm (N/A) bit set to
1. [T1.312-1991]

A signal transmitted in the outgoing direction when a terminal determines that it has lost the incoming signal. RAI is commonly called the yellow alarm signal. For superframe (SF) operation, an RAI is transmitted by setting the bit-2 position of every channel time slot to zero. For extended superframe (ESF) operation, an RAI is transmitted by introducing a priority message… (Read More →)

A feature that enables the UPT user to make a remote Incall registration and a remote OutCall registration to the same terminal address using one single procedure. The effect of a remote AllCall registration is as if remote Incall and remote OutCall registration had been carried out separately. [T1.701-1994]

Submission of batches of data through an input unit that has access to a computer through a data link.

Batch processing in which input-output units have access to a computer through a data link.

Of a computer, its start or restart from a remote location.
Note: A remote boot may be accomplished by a hardware or software trigger.

A service feature that allows calls coming to a remote call-forwarding number to be automatically forwarded to any answering location designated by the call receiver.
Note: Customers may have a remote-forwarding telephone number in a central switching office without having any other local telephone service in that office.

1. A clock that is remote from a particular facility, such as a communications station or node, with which it is associated.
2. A clock that is remote from another clock to which it is to be compared.