A commercial service that can extend telephone service to rural areas by replacing the local loop with radio communications.
Note: In the BETRS, non-government ultra high frequency (UHF) and very high frequency (VHF) common carrier and the private radio service frequencies are shared.

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Control of data links by use of the control characters of the 7-bit character set for information processing interchange as given in ISO Standard 646-1983 and CCITT (ITU-T) Recommendation V.3-1972.

An ITU-T Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) multipurpose user interface standard that denotes the capability of simultaneous voice and data services provided over two clear 64-kb/s channels and one clear 16-kb/s channel (2B+D) access arrangement to each user location.

1. A pure transmission capability over a communication path that is virtually transparent in terms of its interaction with customer-supplied information.
2. The offering of transmission capacity between two or more points suitable for a user's transmission needs and subject only to the technical parameters of fidelity and distortion criteria, or other conditioning.

1. An optional unbundled feature, generally associated with the basic serving arrangement (BSA), that an enhanced-service provider (ESP) may require or find useful in configuring an enhanced service.
2. A fundamental (basic) communication network service; an optional network capability associated with a BSA.
Note: BSEs constitute optional capabilities to which the customer may subscribe or decline to subscribe.

1. The fundamental tariffed switching and transmission (and other) services that an operating company must provide to an enhanced service provider (ESP) to connect with its customers through the company network.
2. In an open-network-architecture context, the fundamental underlying connection of an enhanced service provider (ESP) to and through the operating company's network including an ESP access link, the features… (Read More →)

In data transmission, the status of the capability of a secondary station to send or receive a frame containing an information field.

1. A host computer that, in a screened subnetwork, performs the functions of a firewall. Synonym screened-host gateway. [2382-pt.35]
2. A computer system that must be highly secured because it is vulnerable to attack, usually because it is exposed to the Internet and is a main point of contact for users of internal networks. It gets its name from the… (Read More →)

1. The processing of data or the accomplishment of jobs accumulated in advance in such a manner that the user cannot further influence the processing while it is in progress.
2. The processing of data accumulated over a period of time.
3. Loosely, the execution of computer programs serially.
4. Pertaining to the technique of executing a set of computer… (Read More →)