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... Overview
Phase
II
Satellites
-
developmental,
low-orbit,
operational,
longer
lifespan.
See
OSCAR.
Phase
III
Satellites
-
operational,
high
elliptical
orbit,
longer
lifespan.
Phase
IV
Satellites
-
operational,
high
geostationary
or
drifting
geostationary
orbit,
long
lifespan.
Satellite
Launch
Notes
AMSAT-OSCAR
1
12
Dec.
1 961
Phase-4A.
10
lb.,
beacon,
22-day
orbit.
Initiated
by
a...
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... Appropriate
Tools
Required
to
Intercept
and
Obstruct
Terrorism
bill
(Pa-
triot
bill)
as
an
alternative
to
the
Anti-Terrorism
Act
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Angstrom,
angstrom
(symb.
-
AAU,
A)
A
unit
of
measurement
of
length ... particular
di-
rection,
as
compared
to
a
reference
standard.
See
iso-
tropic
antenna.
Galileo
High-Gain Parabolic Anten...
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... High
Layer
Information
BHLI.
An
ATM
infonnation
element
that
uniquely
identifies
an
application
(or
session
layer
protocol
of
an
applica-
tion).
BHLI
is
implemented
in
various
ways,
depend-
ing
upon
whether
the
codepoint
is
user-specific,
ven-
dor-specific,
or
ISO.
broadband integrated gateway
BIG.
A
component
ofHFC
(Hybrid
Fiber
Coax)
networks
that
converts
136
an
ATM
transmission
into
a
s...
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... that
is
housed
in
a
shell
that
resembles
the
letter
D.
The
elon-
gated
D-shape
is
a
naturally
keyed
shape
as
the
curved
edges
on
one
side
provide
a
guide
to
the
correct
ori-
entation
for
connecting
the
cable.
D
connectors,
es-
pecially
9-,
1 5-,
and
25-pin
are
commonly
used
to
interconnect
computers
and
peripheral
devices
such
as
printers,
monitors,
and
modems.
Most
AlB
switch-
boxes
f...
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... networks.
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In
the
late
1970s
and
early
1980s,
desktop
comput-
ers
were
equipped
with
8"
disk
drives,
and
the
ac-
companying
diskettes
were
flexible
and
highly
sub-
ject
to
damage.
By
the
mid-I980s,
3.5"
disk
drives
were
becoming
popular,
even
though
the
diskettes
were
expensive
at
$6.00
each,
because
they
had
a
h...
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... StandardsA
collection
of
standards
describing
configurations,
signals,
and
other
commu-
nications
parameters
for
various
electronic
connect-
ing
interfaces.
These
are
often
used
in
conjunction
with
ITU-
T
specifications
for
protocols
and
functions.
Probably
most
familiar
of
the
Interface
Standards
are
EIA- 23 2- D
and
EIAffIA- 23 2- E,
which
are
1987
and
1991
updates
to
the
decades-old
RS- 23...
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... number of
frequen-
cies,
including
S-band
and
L-band (radar)
commu-
nications.
H channel An lTU-T-defined transmission channel
on
packet-switched networks consisting
of
aggre-
gated B channels ... data
of
finer
precision and higher
den-
sities.
Thin
films
were
introduced
in
the
late
I
970s,
along
with
the
run-length-limited
(RLL)
data-encod-
ing
scheme.
In
the
early
1990s,
ffiM
introduced
mag...
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... of
keys
pressed
simultaneously
to
perform
a
specific
operating
sys-
tem
function.
For
example,
on
anAmiga,Amiga-Am-
iga-Ctrl
reboots
the
machine.
On
an
mM-compat-
ible
running
MS-DOS,
Ctrl-Alt-Del
perfonns a
simi-
lar
function.
3.
A
combination
of
keys
to
access
text
style
attributes
and
search
and
replace
functions
in
older
word
processing
programs
developed
before
graphical
user
interfaces...
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... 1
for
ISDN andB-ISDN
customer accesses
B-ISON
-
Physical.
Layer Specification
1.432>1993
B-ISDN
user-network interface-
physical layer specification
1.432.1
1996
B-ISDN user-network
interface~
physicallay;er ... Association
of
Malay-
sia.
Information
about
this
standards-setting organi-
zation
is
available
on
the
Web.
http://wwwl.jaring.my/cornerstone/ima/about.htm
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B-ISDN (Broadband-ISDN)
T1.63 7-1 999
Tl.62 9-1 999
T1.64 0-1 996
Tl.63 8-1 999
Tl.64 5-1 995
T1.66 5-1 997
T
1.
66 4-1 997
T1.65 4-1 996
Tl.64 6-1 995
T1.65 7-1 996 (R2000) B-ISDN Interworking ... Codes.
ISDNANSI
Standards
No.Near
Revised
Title
520
T1.11 3-1 995
Tl.23 6-2 000
Tl.60 4-1 990
(R2000)
T1.60 3-1 990
(R2000)
TRNo.7
TRNo.15
TRNo.47...
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... circuit,
the
algebraic
sum
of
the
voltage
drops
equals
the
algebraic
sum
of
the
eleclromotive
forces
in
that
path.
KIS
See
Knowbot
Information
Service.
KISS
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid.
Atongue-in-cheek,
but
all-too-relevant
design
and
management
philosophy.
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freely between the coils. Afinely incremented ruler-
like ... publicly an-...
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... for
Lempel-Ziv
compression
exhibiting
a
scalable,
regu-
lar
structure
suitable
for
VLSI
array
implementation.
This
has
practical
applications
for
data
compression
in
portable
digital
data
communications
and
wireless
local
area
networks
(LAN
s)
where
effective
compres-
sion/decompression
schemes
can
significantly
im-
prove
throughput
and
reduce
connection
time
costs.
See
Ardire-Stratigakis-Hay...
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... Associated
Audio
ISOIIEC
13818,
presented
in
draft
form
in
1993.
ITU-T
recommendation H.262.
Similar
in
structure
to
MPEG-1,
the
documentation includes
four
parts in addition
to
the
categories discussed
in
MPEG-1.
MPEG-2
can
address very low bit-rate
applications ... both
DVD
and
HDTV
and
MPEG-3
was
never developed.
MP3
is
sometimes mistaken
for
MPEG-3
but
MP3
actually refers
to
either MPEG-l...
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... of
general
cat-
egories
is
listed
in
Appendix
C
and
specific
series
topics
are
listed
under
individual
entries
in
this
dic-
tionary,
e.g.,
K
Series
Recommendations.
See
N
Se-
ries
Recommendations
chart.
N-l,
N-minus-one
The
second-to-Iast
or
penultimate
665
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parameter (temperature, pressure,
force,
etc.)
is
ex-
pected
to
chang...
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... below
the
primary.
rate
0.161 In-service code violation monitors
for
digital systems
0.162 Equipment
to perform in-service
monitoring on 204 8-, 844 8-, 34,36 8-
and
139,264-Kbps
signals
0.163 Equipment
to
perform in-service
monitoring ... descriptive
name
for a
25-pair cable
common
in
multiple phone
system
in-
stallations.
At
the
far
end,
the
25-pair
wire
is
organized
697
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