- Industry: Telecommunications
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The portion of a private line circuit which is included in the exchange transmission plant. However, common usage of this term usually excludes information origination/termination equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a payload that completely occupies one or more channels.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a message that contains the source-user address and the destination-user addresses. Note: In a communications network, the address field is usually contained within the message header portion of the message. A message usually consists of the message header, the user data, and a trailer.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a message that contains information used to guide the message to the correct destination. Note: Examples of items that may be in a header are the addresses of the sender and receiver, precedence level, routing instructions, and synchronizing bits.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a facility grounding system that (a) provides reference planes, such as ground-return circuits, for all of the signal paths in the facility and (b) is isolated from other circuits, especially isolated from circuits that carry fault, lightning discharge, and power distribution currents.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a device that is directly connected to facilities internal to a station, such as the data terminal equipment (DTE) side of the DTE/data-circuit-terminating (DCE) interface, switches, and user end instruments.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a device that is connected to internal facilities, such as switches, patch panels, test bays and supervisory equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
The portion of a device that is connected to external, i.e., outside plant, facilities such as trunks, local loops, and channels.
Industry:Telecommunications
The pointer which is used to address one record in an extended frame (EF. )
Industry:Telecommunications
The pointer that indicates the location of the beginning of the synchronous payload envelope.
Industry:Telecommunications