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  • The process of connecting to a LAN from an external location through a telecommunications link.
  • A company, such as a telephone company, that provides a circuit path between a service provider and the client user. An access provider can also be the service provider.
  • A voice/data/video channel currently in use.
  • A secondary communications path used to reach a destination.
  • ANSI Federation is a private, non-profit membership organization focused on meeting the standards and conformity assessment requirements of its diverse constituency. It provides a neutral forum for the development of consensus ...
  • A signal that uses continuous physical variables such as voltage amplitude or frequency variations to transmit information.
  • After Receipt of Order
  • Documentation that indicates cable routing, connections, systems, and blueprint attributes upon job completion that reflects changes from the planned to the finished state.
  • A digital service designed to provide high bandwidth (speeds of up to 1.544 Mb/s) to the end user (downstream) with a limited bandwidth (speeds of up to 128 Kb/s) going back ...
  • A high-speed transmission technology featuring high bandwidth, low delay, packet-like switching and multiplexing. Utilizes fixed-size cells with header and information fields.
  • The decrease in magnitude of transmission signal strength between points, expressed as the ratio of output to input. Measured in dB, usually at a specific frequency for copper or wavelength for ...
  • System records used to track access to network resources. They log all access to specific devices and files and assist in researching alleged security violations.
  • The process of establishing and enforcing the network activities that are permitted for a given user. Various users who have been authenticated may each be granted authorization for different types of ...