- Branche: Telecommunications
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1. A carrier authorized to provide telecommunication services within one or more access service areas. 2. A company that provides telecommunications within a LATA (United States) or province (Canada. ) In Canada, ECs also provide telecommunications among Canadian carriers.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. A buffer that has an adjustable capacity for data. 2. A buffer that introduces an adjustable delay of signals.
Industry:Telecommunications
A descriptive designation for a form of visual display or graphical user interface (GUI) that shows (on the screen) the actual appearance of a document being processed.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. A filename extension identifying executable code. 2. An identifying extension for a form of self-extracting archive.
Industry:Telecommunications
A file-name extension indicating a certain digital image file format suitable for efficiently importing image data into computer files or for transmitting or displaying the formatted image on a computer monitor or printing it out.
Industry:Telecommunications
1. A communications common carrier authorized to provide interexchange telecommunications services within world zone 1 using the North American numbering plan. 2. A telecommunications common carrier authorized to provide telecommunications services between LATAs. Note: The term "interexchange carrier" is also used to refer to any other entity that connects to the exchange access network at a point of termination (POT. ) 3. A carrier that provides connections between LATAs, where the calling or called customer is located in the United States. Note: This definition has no Canadian equivalent. However, the term "interexchange carrier" is used in the context of a carrier that provides connections extending across borders to carriers in the United States. Synonyms carrier, common carrier, commercial carrier, communications carrier.
Industry:Telecommunications
The interception, alteration, and retransmission of a cipher signal or data in such a way as to mislead the recipient. 2. (AIS) An attempt to gain access to an AIS by posing as an authorized user. 3. Unauthorized use of legitimate Identification and Authentication (I&A) data, however it was obtained, to mimic a subject different from the attacker. Impersonating, masquerading, piggybacking, and mimicking are forms of spoofing.
Industry:Telecommunications
A call control signal transmitted by the called data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE) to the calling data terminal equipment (DTE) to report (a) the progress of a call by using a positive call progress signal or (b) the reason why a connection could not be established by using a negative call progress signal. 2. A voiceband tone that is applied to the network interface (NI) by the customer installation (CI) to indicate the status of CI handling of a call attempt.
Industry:Telecommunications
A call control signal transmitted by the data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE) to the data terminal equipment (DTE) indicating that a request signal, originated by a distant DTE, has been received from a distant DCE to exchange data with the station.
Industry:Telecommunications
A call control signal transmitted over a circuit to indicate that a connection is desired.
Industry:Telecommunications
