Teledatacom Glossary

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Teledatacom™ Glossary

This telecommunications dictionary provides definitions for telecom terms that appear frequently on the Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing Products Website.

Adjunct
ADSL
AdvancedMC
AdvancedTCA
Analog
Application Layer
Application Server
ATM
BISDN
Bandwidth
Bit
BSC
BTS
Byte
Cable Headend
Cable Modem
CDMA
Central Office
CFG
Circuit-switched
CLEC
Coaxial Cable
Digital
DLC
DSL

DSLAM
DWDM
E1/T1
Enterprise Gateway
Ethernet
FDDI
Frame Relay
G.Lite
Gateway
GGSN
GSM
HDLC
HDSL
HLR
IEC
IMS
Infrastructure
Internet
IP
IP Phone
IP PBX
ISDN
ISP
Kbps
LAN

LATA
LEC
Linux
Mbps
Media Gateway
MEGACO
MGCP
MicroTCA
MSC
MSPP
MTSO
MUX
Optical Fiber
OSI
Packet
Packet-Switched
ProcessorPMC
Protocol
PSTN
QoS
RBOC
Residential Gateway
RNC
Router

SCP
Signaling Gateway
SIGTRAN
SIP
SIP Client
SONET
SS7
SSP
STP
Switch
T1
T-Carrier
TCP/IP
TDM
TDMA
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Teledatacom™
Twisted Pair
VoIP
WAN
WDM
Wi-Fi
WIMax/WiBro Base Station
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