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- Cellular telephony [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Circuit switching [r]: Constituent electric circuit of a switching or digital processing system which receives, stores, or manipulates information in coded form to accomplish the specified objectives of the system. [e]
- Codec [r]: Device that converts analog signals to digital form for transmission and converts signals traveling in the opposite direction from digital to analog form. [e]
- Convergence of communications [r]: Technical specifications and infrastructure to allow all types of communications (e.g., telephone, web, television) to interface over a common set of information transfer technologies [e]
- Disruptive technology [r]: Innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different set of consumers. [e]
- Erlang's original domain [r]: Description of the original domain Erlang was created for. [e]
- Facsimile [r]: A means of sending copies of paper documents, over conventional telephone networks or over Internet protocol [e]
- Internet Service Provider [r]: A business, or possibly an internal support organization, that manages connectivity among end user workstations, local area networks, servers, and the public Internet using Internet Protocol version 4, Internet Protocol version 6, or both. [e]
- Packet switching [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pentagon Building [r]: Headquarters office building of the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as a symbol of the U.S. military [e]
- Plain Old Telephone Service [r]: A telephone with minimal or no electronics, and minimal services besides voice, either because it is an old installation, or as backup to a more complex system [e]
- Point of presence [r]: In telecommunications and computer networking, a location at which service providers can connect to one another, or where customers may connect to their service providers [e]
- Private branch exchange [r]: A telephone switch intended to interconnect the internal users of an organization as well as providing them with access to the Public Switched Telephone Network [e]
- Registered Jack [r]: The set of "RJ" series standard connectors needed to implement the Carterphone Decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which required the then telephone monopolies of the U.S. to allow third-party, customer-owned devices to connect to the Public Switched Telephone Network, over a restricted number of well-defined interfaces [e]
- Registered private operating agency [r]: An obsolescent term still used in international telecommunications standards, dominated by government bodies that often operated a telephone monopoly, a private company that operated a telephone service compatible with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), and was fully compliant with PSTN technology and regulation [e]
- Session Initiation Protocol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TELENET [r]: An early data communications network, operational in the 1970s but using a technology with substantial differences from the Internet. [e]
- TRI-TAC [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Telecommunications network [r]: A system of end user devices, transmission media, and intermediate relays, through which end users communicate using parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. [e]
- Telecommunications provider economics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Telephone [r]: Telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice, by converting the sound waves to pulses of electrical current, and then retranslating the current back to sound. [e]
- Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. [e]
- Voice Over IP [r]: A form of packetized, digital telephony that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) as its transport mechanism. [e]
- Voice over Internet Protocol [r]: Add brief definition or description