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BYE packet
18 Apr 2002
WORD - A BYE (or Goodbye) packet is a type of Real-Time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) packet that is sent when a participant in a multicast event leaves the session. Along with the media data transmitted, RTCP packets are ...
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device relationship management
25 Feb 2002
WORD - Device relationship management (DRM) is enterprise software that enables the monitoring, managing, and servicing of intelligent devices over the Internet. An intelligent device might be almost any type of equipment, ...
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carrier-to-noise ratio
11 Feb 2002
WORD - In communications, the carrier-to-noise ratio, often written CNR or C/N, is a measure of the received carrier strength relative to the strength of the received noise. High C/N ratios provide better quality of reception, and ...
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FECN/BECN
19 Dec 2001
WORD - In a frame relay network, FECN (forward explicit congestion notification) is a header bit transmitted by the source (sending) terminal requesting that the destination (receiving) terminal slow down its requests for data. BECN ...
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Logical Link Control layer
18 Sep 2001
WORD - The Logical Link Control (LCL) layer is one of two sublayers of the Data-Link layer in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model of communication. The LCL layer is concerned with managing traffic (flow and error control) ...
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FCAPS
28 Jun 2001
WORD - FCAPS (fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security) is an acronym for a categorical model of the working objectives of network management. There are five levels, called the fault-management level ...
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bottleneck
12 Apr 2001
WORD - A bottleneck, in a communications context, is a point in the enterprise where the flow of data is impaired or stopped entirely. Effectively, there isn't enough data handling capacity to handle the current volume of traffic. A ...
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Kbps
26 Feb 2003
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Note: In international English outside the U.S., the equivalent usage is "kbps" or "kbits s-1."
In the U.S., Kbps stands for kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second) and is a measure of bandwidth (the amount of ...
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Mbps
26 Feb 2003
WORD - Mbps is not to be confused with MBps (megabytes per second). Also see Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, and all that.
Mbps stands for millions of bits per second or megabits per second and is a measure of bandwidth (the total ...
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jabber (in networks)
21 Dec 2000
WORD - Also see Jabber, an open source program for instant messaging.
In networks, a jabber is any device that is handling electrical signals improperly, usually affecting the rest of the network. In an Ethernet network, devices ...
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