A device that imposes hard limiting on a signal and contains a filter that suppresses the unwanted products (harmonics) of the limiting process.

1. The difference between the limiting frequencies within which performance of a device, in respect to some characteristic, falls within specified limits.
2. The difference between the limiting frequencies of a continuous frequency band.
3. A characteristic of a communication channel that is the amount of information that can be passed through it in a given amount of time, usually… (Read More →)

1. The lowest modulation frequency at which the RMS peak-to-valley amplitude (optical power) difference of an intensity-modulated monochromatic signal decreases, at the output of the fiber, to a specified fraction (usually one-half) of the RMS peak-to-valley amplitude (optical power) difference of a nearly-zero (arbitrarily low) modulation frequency, both modulation frequencies having the same RMS peak-to-valley amplitude (optical power) difference at… (Read More →)

In a distributed-queue dual-bus network, a procedure in which a node occasionally skips the use of empty queued arbitrated slots, and which procedure effects sharing of the bandwidth mechanisms.

1. The reduction of the bandwidth needed to transmit a given amount of data in a given time.
2. The reduction of the time needed to transmit a given amount of data in a given bandwidth.
Note: Bandwidth compression implies a reduction in normal bandwidth of an information-carrying signal without reducing the information content of the signal.

The condition prevailing when the system bandwidth limits performance.
Note: Bandwidth-limited operation occurs when the system distorts the signal waveform beyond specified limits. For linear systems, bandwidth-limited operation is equivalent to distortion-limited operation.

Of an optical fiber, under specified launching and cabling conditions, at a specified wavelength, a figure of merit equal to the product of the fiber's length and the 3-dB bandwidth of the optical signal.
Note 1: The bandwidth•distance product is usually stated in megahertz•kilometer (MHz•km) or gigahertz•kilometer (GHz•km).
Note 2: The bandwidth•distance product, which is normalized to 1 km, is… (Read More →)

Synonym for bandwidth•distance product.

The exclamation point character (!) used in early addressing schemes to separate the names of individual machines.
Note: Bang-style addressing is no longer common. Synonym scream.

1. An HTML tag that creates scrolling text on a Web page. [Bahorsky]
2. Scrolling or fixed text used as an advertisement on a Web page, e.g., banner advertising. [Bahorsky]
3. In computer networking, a page that is automatically prefixed to, and printed out as part of, a printing job , as a means of identifying uniquely the output belonging… (Read More →)