Broadband Communication
Voice, data, and/or video communication at greater than 2 Mbit/s rates.
Broadband Service Transport
STM-1 concatenation transport over the SLM for ATM applications.
BUSTR
BUS Transmitter and Receiver
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C
CAS
Channel Associated Signaling
CC
Cross-Connection, Cross-Connect
CCIR
See ITU-R.
CCITT
See ITU-T.
CCS
Common Channel Signaling
CEPT
Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications
Channel
A sub-unit of transmission capacity within a defined higher level of transmission
capacity, e.g. a CEPT-4 (140 Mbit/s) within a 565 Mbit/s fiber system.
CIR
Committed Information Rate
Circuit
A combination of two transmission channels that permits bidirectional transmission of
signals between two points to support a single communication.
CIT
Craft Interface Terminal
Clear Channel (Cl. Ch.)
A provisionable mode for the 34 and 140 Mbit/s tributary outputs that causes parity
violations not to be monitored or corrected before the 34 and 140 Mbit/s outputs are
encoded.
Client
Computer in a computer network that generally offers a user interface to a server. See
also Server.
Glossary
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