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| ANSI (American National Standards Institute) |
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| Organization composed of over 1,000 representatives from industry and government who together determine standards for the electronics industry. |
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| ATIS (Association for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) |
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| North American trade association made of thousands of companies that provide communications equipment and services |
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| automatic call distributor (ACD) |
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| System that uses computerized devices attached to the phone lines to automatically route calls to specific extensions. |
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| Type of communication in which 1 source simultaneously sends a message to multiple destinations |
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| Facility dedicated to fielding customer calls. |
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| Sharing of information/messages between 2 or more entities. |
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| Means of carrying a signal that contains data from the source to the destination. |
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| Combination of voice or video plus data signals traveling over the same networks and using the same connectivity equipment. |
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| Discreet pieces of information/formatted information between devices across a distance. |
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| Sharing of info/messages between electronic devices |
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| Use of electrical signals to exchange encoded info between computerized devices across a distance |
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| Person/machine to whom a message is directed. |
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| Use of telecommunications technology to inform, educate, or train students across distances |
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| Use of data telecommunications to conduct business transactions. |
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| EIA (Electronic Industries Alliance) |
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| Trade organization composed of representatives from electronics manufacturing firms across the USA that helps establish standards for electronic equipment and services |
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| A company that provides telecommunications devices |
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| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
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| Primary national regulatory agency involved in telecommunications in the USA |
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| Transmission media that contains thin strands of fiber in its core and uses pulses of light to convey signals. |
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| Form of communication in which message can travel over a channel in 2 directions at the same time. |
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| Form of communication in which message can travel over a channel in 2 directions, but only one at a time. |
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| IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) |
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| International society composed of engineering professionals. |
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| Foundation for a network or system. |
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| interactive voice response (IVR) |
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| Automated method of sending and accepting information along a telephone line by pressing buttons in response to recorded voice prompts |
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| ISO (International Organization for Standardization) |
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| Collection of standards organizations representing 130 countries with its headquarters located in Geneva |
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| ITU (International Telecommunications Union) |
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| Specialized UN agency that regulates international telecomm usage, including radio and TV frequencies, satellite and telephony specs, networking infrastructure, and tariffs. |
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| Type of communication in which multiple sources simultaneously send messages to multiple destinations |
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| Group of computers and other devices that are connected by a communications channel |
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| Type of communication in which one source simultaneously sends a message to many destinations. |
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| Type of communication in which one source sends a message to only one destination |
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| Sharing of info between humans |
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| Communication on a network that involves one source and one destination |
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| Public Service Commission (PSC) |
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| State regulatory agency responsible for setting intrastate telecomm policy |
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| Device that captures a message from the communications channel and converts it into a form that the destination can understand |
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| Company that provides communication channel for voice, video or data transmissions |
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| Form of communications in which messages can only travel in 1 direction |
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| Originator of a communication process |
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| Documented agreements containing technical specifications or other precise criteria |
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| Communication that spans a distance |
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| Electromechanical device that uses a wire to convey electrical pulses that represent letters or numbers over a distance |
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| Use of voice, video, and data telecommunications to enable patients and doctors to talk |
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| Study of telephone technology |
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| TIA (Telephone Industry Association) |
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| Standards organization established in 1988 from a subgroup of the EIA and USTSA. Helps establish standards |
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| Communication channel used to exchange info between electronic devices |
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| Equipment that modifies a message into a form that can be transmitted |
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| Any means of electrically transmitting moving pictures and sound across a distance |
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| Feature of computers that enables them to recognize a user's voice and respond to spoken commands |
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| Any means of electrically transmitting human voices across a distance |
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| Electronic device capable of controlling voltages or currents it receives |
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| Charge flowing in one direction, then the opposite, then back in the first direction, then the opposite, in as oscillating fashion. |
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| Encoding scheme used for simple text messages that represents letters, numbers, special characters and punctuation as numbers from 0-127 |
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| Instrument used to measure the current flowing thru a circuit |
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| Measure of amount of current flowing through a conductor |
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| Electronic devices that increase the voltage of a signal |
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| Height of a current's wave; Measured in V |
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| Signals that use variable voltage to create continuous waves |
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| Loss of a signal's strength as it travels farther away |
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| Measure of difference between highest and lowest frequencies a media can transmit |
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| One cycle of an analog wave |
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| System that uses only 1s and 0s to encode info |
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| binary coded decimal (BCD) |
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| One of the first code sets that represented a complete English alphabet as binary numbers |
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| Pulse in digital signal which has a value of either 1 or 0 |
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| Ability for a circuit to store a charge |
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| Device that stores a charge |
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