- Industry: Telecommunications
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
An international distress and calling frequency for mobile radiotelephone stations, survival craft, and emergency position-indicating radio beacons. Note: An example of a radiotelephone distress frequency is 2180 kHz.
Industry:Telecommunications
An international organization that (a) consists of member bodies that are the national standards bodies of most of the countries of the world, (b) is responsible for the development and publication of international standards in various technical fields, after developing a suitable consensus, (c) is affiliated with the United Nations, and (d) has its headquarters at 1, rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland. Note: Member bodies of ISO include, among others, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI,) the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR,) the British Standards Institution (BSI,) and the Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN. )
Industry:Telecommunications
An international store-and-forward essentially error-free communications service that is defined by the CCITT (now the ITU-T,) has a data signaling rate (DSR) of 2400 b/s over switched telephone networks, and has a communications protocol that supports the CCITT Group 4 facsimile service.
Industry:Telecommunications
An Internet Protocol address that specifies "all hosts" on a specified network. Note: A single copy of a directed broadcast is routed to the specified network, where it is broadcast to all terminals on that network.
Industry:Telecommunications
An Internet protocol that reports datagram delivery errors. Note 1: ICMP is a key part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. Note 2: The packet internet gopher (ping) application is based on ICMP.
Industry:Telecommunications
An Internet relay chat (IRC) channel designated for the real-time exchange of text messages. Note: Chat rooms are usually named in such as way as to identify the subject matter of the conversation they are intended to promote.
Industry:Telecommunications
An internetwork administrative signaling mechanism in the call control procedure between packet switching public data networks.
Industry:Telecommunications
An interoperable collection of systems being developed by services and agencies of the U. S. Government to automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key, and management of other types of COMSEC material.
Industry:Telecommunications
An interval during which an entity performs the monitoring function at the direction of a service control function.
Industry:Telecommunications
An interval when the dc voltage applied between the tip and ring conductors of a line is removed, hence temporarily suspending line supervision and transmission.
Industry:Telecommunications
