- Industria: Telecommunications
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
A communications net that is used for international distress calling, including international lifeboat, lifecraft, and survival-craft high-frequency (HF); aeronautical emergency very high-frequency (VHF); survival ultra high-frequency (UHF); international calling and safety very high-frequency (VHF); combined scene-of-search-and-rescue; and other similar and related purposes. Note: Basic international distress calling is performed at either medium frequency (MF) or at high frequency (HF. )
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications network that uses a combination of line facilities, i.e., trunks, loops, or links, some of which use only analog or quasi-analog signals and some of which use only digital signals. Synonyms hybrid network, hybrid system.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications network that uses a combination of line facilities, i.e., trunks, loops, or links, some of which use only analog or quasi-analog signals and some of which use only digital signals. Synonyms hybrid network, hybrid system.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications network which connects an echelon of command with some or all of its subordinate echelons for the purpose of command and control.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications network, such as the public switched telephone network, in which any user may be connected to any other user through the use of message, circuit, or packet switching and control devices. 2. Any network providing switched communications service.
Industry:Telecommunications
A Communications path within a computer system or network designed for the authorized transfer of data.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications protocol that is purely one-way, and where acknowledgments are not part of any application protocol. Error control is either not provided, or is accomplished via forward error correction.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications switch capable of interconnecting channels having bandwidths greater than voice bandwidth.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications system consisting of switching centers and their interconnecting media. 2. Part of a communication system organized to temporarily associate functional units, transmission channels or telecommunication circuits for the purpose of providing a desired telecommunication facility. Note: Examples of NATO-owned switching systems are IVSN and TARE.
Industry:Telecommunications
A communications system that (a) is used within, or in direct support of, tactical forces, (b) is designed to meet the requirements of changing tactical situations and varying environmental conditions, (c) provides securable communications, such as voice, data, and video, among mobile users to facilitate command and control within, and in support of, tactical forces, and (d) usually requires extremely short installation times, usually on the order of hours, in order to meet the requirements of frequent relocation.
Industry:Telecommunications
